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by ditonal 12y ago
Billionaire tech execs should also invest in training themselves instead of preaching about the low cost of false negatives right before they say they can't find people. But at least they make fair offers and invest in peoples' ca
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by ditonal 12y ago
Yes! Which is what I've done. But can I stop my taxpayer money being used to subsidize flooding the labor market with my supply skills because "startups can't afford to train people" and those poor VCs need highly skille
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by ditonal 12y ago
I know I harp on the same topics over and over again, but they're relevant because the VCs are in bed with the Democrats. Just look at the Ellen Pao case - who was she not invited to dinner with? Al Gore. Who did the CEO of my last com
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by ditonal 12y ago
Its a good idea but its a huge time waster if they don't ban the multiple companies that ran bait-and-switch games on me. Also their fee is very high, which employers claim not to care about but definitely do.
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by ditonal 12y ago
I agree there's some grey zone, and I was definitely a young brogrammer who it appealed to, but I'm now seeing the errors of my ways and I hope younger engineers listen to what I'm saying and avoid those cultures.
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by ditonal 12y ago
You are misunderstanding my point. I am fine with ping-pong tables and beer on tap, if they come with professionalism, where professionalism includes things like not sexually harassing women. Alcohol especially needs to be handled with care
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by ditonal 12y ago
You know, I'm all about being laid back and rejecting traditional corporate culture, because you can be serious without a suit. But you still need the "be serious" part, which somehow got lost between all the ping pong tables
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by ditonal 12y ago
You don't need to explain to me why the current 'standard' arrangement is designed to please and protect VCs at the expense of engineers. But that's exactly why we have a proliferation of VCs and startups and a 'sho
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by ditonal 12y ago
I assure you I do, and if I didn't you would be able to elaborate.
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by ditonal 12y ago
Preferred shares and invitations to board meetings. If I'm taking a pay cut, I'm an investor and want to be treated like one. If you're so big that you can't offer real equity, you're not a startup, youre an establi
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by ditonal 12y ago
I think they're worthless because of the nature of liquidation preference. There are a select few elite startups like Dropbox that I would value common options at, but those companies will obviously IPO. Clearly the person who I respon
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by ditonal 12y ago
Are you invited to board meetings? If not, considering yourself a "potential owner" when you're not invited to the meetings where owners decide things means you are very confused about things. There's a reason why when a
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by ditonal 12y ago
It's really unfortunate, because there are many engineers like me who would gladly take a pay cut if we were brought in as collaborators and offered real equity deals. Instead we are brought in as serfs to build their 'vision&#x27
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by ditonal 12y ago
I think declarative programming is real programming. The most obvious use case is when you have some sort of list of rules or constraint satisfaction problem. Gerrit uses its for that use case: https://gerrit-review.googlesource.
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by ditonal 12y ago
I don't care about trophies, certificate, gift cards, etc. What sounds most positive to me about your internal hack days is your effort to productionize the efforts. That means you actually realize that all those smart, ambitious peopl
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by ditonal 12y ago
I find the self in the method call parameters slightly awkward, but other than that I like writing a lot of 'self'. One of the biggest reasons I prefer Python to Ruby or Perl is that I really agree "Explicit is better than im
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by ditonal 13y ago
He kept several years of tax returns hidden, had shady offshore accounts in the Cayman Islands and Switzerland, and while I don't expect him to pay more taxes than legally required, it would be nice if he acknowledged or addressed as a
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by ditonal 13y ago
It's actually not zero-sum unless their marketing is misleading customers into buying products they actually would want less given perfect information. If their marketing introduces new customers who prefer their product, then it'
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by ditonal 13y ago
Saying it's a pay issue could also imply it's a macro issue, meaning that if salaries went up higher, the field would be more attractive and would attract more talent from other better compensated fields (i.e. medicine, big law), creating m
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by ditonal 14y ago
No, this is totally wrong. Doctors create wealth too, contributing more healthcare to society is in no way zero sum. There are already plenty of sick patients left over, not everybody gets world class healthcare at affordable costs. If you
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by ditonal 14y ago
I think there's actually a lot of caveats, all jobs are not equal, there isn't perfect information about all available jobs (hence the need for recruiting), etc. But on the other hand, this 'shortage' is being used as a political tool to de
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by ditonal 14y ago
*Shortage of talent at the price you are willing to pay. There are all sorts of legal work and questions I would love to have done if I could get a top-notch lawyer for $10/hr. That doesn't mean there is a shortage of top-notch lawyers, it
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by ditonal 14y ago
As always, it depends on the person and their specific goals, but I think diving in before learning the fundamentals is a better strategy for the reasons he's getting at in the blog. The biggest decider in whether you will be successful at
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by ditonal 14y ago
With exceptions, salaries aren't advertised in job openings. However you can look at average software engineering salaries to learn that most salaries are south of 100k, and it seems unlikely that on average higher salaries are getting turn
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by ditonal 14y ago
You are totally missing my point. Yes, I realize MIT programmers make more and you need to pay them well to hire them. However, if you look at average software engineering salaries, you will realize most people do not pay as well as prestig
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by ditonal 14y ago
That's why it's a job 'opening'. My point was that it doesn't get filled but people classify it as an opening, but if someone wanted a Harvard lawyer for $60k it wouldn't even get listed.
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by ditonal 14y ago
Your two data points don't mean much because we're talking about macro trends and whether a 'shortage' actually exists. Specifically I'm asking someone to justify the assertion that there is a shortage of good programmers with some numbers,
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by ditonal 14y ago
Can you explain to me what actual evidence there is that there's a shortage of good programmers? Good programmers still make less money than a good doctor or lawyer, indicating that those are even shorter in supply. Surely addressing that s
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by ditonal 14y ago
There are big differences between a language being derived from another language, having it's interpreter written in another language, and actually being a framework written in the same language. Your "Don't learn Latin before French" analo
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by ditonal 14y ago
Well, I'm a nerd but I do agree with the bully. I don't think that the severity of a crime should be judged by a victim's reaction to it. While I see how a suicide might bring notoriety to a problem, I don't think it changes the nature of w

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