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by diego 14y ago
By the same token, why bother discouraging people? It's the same as saying "stay in school, don't do drugs. Don't try to be a rockstar like me." There's only so much need for startups and so much money to go around. To me, the original arti
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by diego 14y ago
About it tell me. Unless rugby you're playing.
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Should You Do A Startup? I Have No Idea(diegobasch.com)
62 points by diego 14y ago|37 comments
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by diego 15y ago
Being a horrible boss and being a successful executive are different things. Steve Jobs was a horrible boss by all accounts. The first chapter of Managing Humans addresses exactly this point.
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by diego 15y ago
Peopleware and Slack by Tom DeMarco are must-reads. I re-read Peopleware once every few years. I also liked Delivering Happiness (by @zappos) and Tribal Leadership, although they are more about organizations than management per se.
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How To Be A Horrible Boss(diegobasch.com)
135 points by diego 15y ago|77 comments
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by diego 15y ago
That is insane. Anything that you do on your own time, outside the company premises, and using your own resources (e.g. weekend or late-night hacking at home using your own computer, and not going through the company's VPN) SHOULD NEVER bel
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by diego 15y ago
They can have one advantage over AWS: customer service. That's what made IndexTank, we would have never made it as user-friendly without our close relationship with our users.
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by diego 15y ago
I'm biased, but I believe it's a fascinating topic. Many people would love to know the "magic" behind Google. When I studied Electrical Engineering (late 80s) the two most interesting topics to me were TV and microprocessors. Both concepts
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by diego 15y ago
Nothing went wrong. It was a good deal for everyone involved. The opportunity for Search as a Service is still there.
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by diego 15y ago
I have a pair of Shure SE535 earphones and they are fantastic. Perhaps the ergonomics could be improved, but I cannot imagine how the audio quality could be better.
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by diego 15y ago
LinkedIn, Mountain View, CA. Local only. Our search back-end team is growing, and we are looking for an experienced manager for it. Job description pasted below. Email dbasch AND iperisic at linkedin dot com Responsibilities: · You wi
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Idea: Driving Time Predictor(diegobasch.com)
2 points by diego 15y ago|0 comments
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by diego 15y ago
That test only compares the result links. It's missing a significant chunk of the experience: autocomplete, instant results, highlighting, social results, best-guess results, calculator functions, etc. It would have been a decent blind test
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A Hack Day for Women at LinkedIn - 6/30(hackday.linkedin.com)
9 points by diego 15y ago|0 comments
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by diego 15y ago
If you can tell that a bad interviewee is a good engineer, you've cracked the elusive interview code that everyone has been trying to figure out for decades. A teacher has an ongoing relationship with a student, so time is on their side. An
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by diego 15y ago
Yeah, it's all idle speculation based on personal life experiences. No hard science to back it up.
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by diego 15y ago
Would you pay for computer support, or extended warranties? I wouldn't, but millions of people do. It really depends on the context. When thinking about something for the masses , you are one very particular data point. You want evidence t
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by diego 15y ago
One thing I noticed is that email is a problem for "important" people who receive tons of messages per day. They must read/answer that one vital email right away. Kevin Rose talked about this a few years ago, and I've heard many high-profil
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by diego 15y ago
"GMail is slow because Google can't afford to spend a lot on it. But people will pay for this. I'd have no problem paying $50 a month." Ok. Number of Paul Grahams in the world times $600/year = ? Most people on the web are ridiculously stin
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PyCon video streams(streamti.me)
2 points by diego 15y ago|0 comments
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by diego 15y ago
The point is that "authority" or "influence" without context doesn't mean much. Your friend is Vice-President at Google. So, how influential/authoritative is he in the world of sports? How influential is Roger Federer in the tech world? Wou
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by diego 15y ago
The cloud worked great for IndexTank, thank you. We launched fast and our costs grew quickly, but our customers paid for the growth. If your costs grow and your revenue doesn't, THAT is your problem. All the optimization in the world won't
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by diego 15y ago
I started at 13. It was 29 years ago :)
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by diego 15y ago
You could run a full search engine with nothing but Cleo. If you're indexing entities and the choices are narrow enough after a relatively small number of keystrokes, you never need to hit "search" and go to a Lucene index.
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Privacy Is a Continuum(diegobasch.com)
3 points by diego 15y ago|0 comments
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by diego 15y ago
My team at LinkedIn (Search) is hiring engineers and engineering managers. We are in Mountain View, CA. Full-time only, and we can sponsor H1B. We are building reusable infrastructure, some of which we'll probably release as open source acc
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Handshakes, Term Sheets and Trust(diegobasch.com)
2 points by diego 15y ago|0 comments
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by diego 15y ago
Welcome to LinkedIn guys! Looking forward to meeting in person.
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Why Do Alumni Donate to Their Alma Mater?(diegobasch.com)
2 points by diego 15y ago|0 comments

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