diego

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Poll: did you sell your startup in 2011?
2 points by diego 15y ago|2 comments
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by diego 15y ago
yes
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by diego 15y ago
no
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by diego 15y ago
It integrates anything that can be represented as a number. Prices, number of badges, importance of titles, it doesn't matter. You can combine any of those inputs into a relevance formula that is evaluated at query time. Of course IndexTank
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IndexTank is now open source(engineering.linkedin.com)
27 points by diego 15y ago|2 comments
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by diego 15y ago
"Company insiders say the old guard is being wiped out by Twitter's new leadership team. They also say that's probably a good move." What's not said in the article is that those insiders (even those who left) must still have company stock.
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by diego 15y ago
All great engineering managers I know were also great engineers. It's possible to use your geek focus to improve your social skills, I've done it :)
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Cleo: Flexible, partial, out-of-order and real-time typeahead search.(sna-projects.com)
5 points by diego 15y ago|0 comments
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by diego 15y ago
Just because Steve Jobs said it, it shouldn't scare you. Steve Jobs himself did his best work in his 40s and 50s. If it's true that it's rare that older people produce "less amazing stuff" (big if), then it's probably because they simply lo
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Think Like a VC(dbasch.posterous.com)
47 points by diego 15y ago|5 comments
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by diego 15y ago
It's not rare in the Silicon Valley. Most managers in successful companies here are what you'd consider rare. Managers without real management ability don't last long here.
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by diego 15y ago
You are working at the wrong company. Quit. EDIT: "I find that managers have come from no background to instruct people on a technological level and are taken on for simply their management ability." If true, that is a sign of a very unhe
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by diego 15y ago
That's survivor bias. The set of already successful entrepreneurs is much smaller than the set of first-time entrepreneurs. To answer your question you want the distribution of outcomes for both sets. VCs have to have good estimates of that
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by diego 15y ago
VCs are more likely to give money to entrepreneurs who are already rich. There's a good reason for it: VCs (unlike angels) need home runs. Over the course of 10 years, a VC must catch a Facebook, a Google or at least a Twitter in order to b
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Companies With the Happiest Employees(finance.yahoo.com)
2 points by diego 15y ago|1 comments
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Tom DeMarco on dealing with the vast complexity of today's projects(youtube.com)
1 points by diego 15y ago|0 comments
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Ask: HN what's your work environment like? (survey)
17 points by diego 15y ago|3 comments
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by diego 15y ago
This is very useful to me. I've been at LinkedIn for a few weeks and just yesterday I had some time to play with pig and our Hadoop cluster. Ruby is my preferred language for quick hacks, so I'll follow this series.
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by diego 15y ago
Short answer: Silicon Valley is about doing, not about seeing. Given that it's your first time in the US, enjoy San Francisco instead.
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by diego 15y ago
Retirement doesn't exist. What happens is that your values change. Money is not the main driver of your daily work. I work to: - make an impact in other people's lives. - earn respect and recognition. - do something interesting and challeng
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Search Engines Cannot Be Objective(dbasch.posterous.com)
6 points by diego 15y ago|0 comments
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Things that motivate employees more than money.(inc.com)
12 points by diego 15y ago|0 comments
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by diego 15y ago
I asked him, here's his response. http://twitter.com/#!/jwz/status/141017942639902720
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by diego 15y ago
Sorry for stating the obvious. If you come to SV and have zero connections, then make connections. It's really easy, there are events, meetups, talks, hackathons, you-name-it pretty much every day. The culture is so pervasive that sometimes
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by diego 15y ago
In the Bay Area, high tech jobs hunt you (at least right now). Fill in your LinkedIn profile like the first comment suggests, build your reputation (GitHub, StackOverflow) and you'll start getting approached by recruiters.
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Should your startup do remote development?(dbasch.posterous.com)
1 points by diego 15y ago|0 comments
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by diego 15y ago
You are. The worst possible thing you can do at a startup is plow ahead and put in hours like crazy. Just like Steve Jobs killed product lines, or an engineer removes thousands of lines of code, you can remove 100 hours from the next month
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by diego 15y ago
Been there, done that. Being a developer is a small fraction of what you need in order to create a successful product. If you are the kind of person who can do it, you don't need to read posts like these. I don't know about this guy, but it
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by diego 15y ago
Email support at indextank dot com, happy to help you out.
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by diego 15y ago
I am honestly and seriously committed to help our customers as much as time permits. I don't want this to be another "cloud provider gets acquired, users unhappy." Part of our team will be dedicated to personally helping out each and ever

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