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by eldavido 7y ago
I'll offer two pieces of advice, having done this. First, get clear on what you're doing. Are you offering actual "consulting" services, where you're coming in and solving business problems? Watch Burn Notice -- you
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by eldavido 8y ago
No CEO can or will answer this. Don't even bother asking.
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by eldavido 8y ago
Best answer here by far. Also judge based both on the content of the answer and the other party's ability to reason about the question. In general it's important to be mindful of the fact that hiring is a business transaction. The
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by eldavido 8y ago
> That's more in cash AND benefits than a doctor. No it isn't. You're comparing top-of-the-line tech comp to Joe Random Doctor. Surgeons make thousands of dollars per surgery. Busy surgeons do 5+ each day. That's 50-7
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by eldavido 8y ago
I'm curious what language and data stack they're using? Asking because I've seen real scale (billions of devices running our software) and the real leverage is in how you architect your application (software and how the data
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by eldavido 8y ago
Great article that adds a lot to a nuanced and controversial topic. I'm surprised they don't consider time as a dimension of market segmentation, i.e. what is "luxury" today might become "standard" or even &quo
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by eldavido 8y ago
This whole thread is misguided. You're starting from a position of what do I have (software dev skill) and trying to backfit a need onto it. The right mentality is to think hard about your buyer : What are you selling, why would som
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by eldavido 8y ago
HOAs (in neighborhoods with houses) do a lot of things local governments do in other parts of the country, like south suburban chicago, where I grew up -- operate pools, common lawn care, etc. I'm on a condo board currently and those a
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by eldavido 8y ago
In general I agree that regulation should be narrowly crafted. The problem is that any law or rule is only as good as its enforcement. People forget this too often when writing regulations, ending up with rules that are too costly, or invol
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by eldavido 8y ago
I live in Oakland and I see more tech activity there every day. LaunchDarkly, VSCO, etc. It's an interesting discussion because the city is huge and has many good and bad parts. West Oakland along Broadway is basically SF west. Go east
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by eldavido 8y ago
It's because the industry perspective and the business/wsj perspective are different. I think the industry perspective tends to be ahead of the business/wsj perspective but sometimes incorrect. Tech people are the folks who b
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by eldavido 8y ago
Don't generalize. Are you interviewing graduates from the top 10-15 programs or lesser-tier? I think this is a big error people make. Some colleges are great. Others are horrible. It's very hard to say, "College is a waste&qu
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by eldavido 8y ago
That's perhaps true in some cases. But I think patients need to have a little more skin in the game. Take knee surgery. My surgeon friend does 7 of these each day at $30K/surgery (he "only" gets about 10% of the charged
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by eldavido 8y ago
Here's what would happen in reality: Doctors need insurance against medical malpractice and other forms of liability. So the insurance companies would develop their own form of standardization/credentialing, much like what happens
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by eldavido 8y ago
The whole problem is that the industry views this as a cost center. It is something doctors don't want, nobody wants to spend money on it, and the EMR vendors know this, so they try to use legal mechanisms (ACA) to require doctors to b
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by eldavido 8y ago
And yet, software (as an industry) mostly works. Something to consider.
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by eldavido 8y ago
It is a well-known fact that the entire industry under-invests in tech infrastructure. Congress literally paid them to do it using "meaningful use" incentives as part of the ACA, and still can't get them to invest more. Ask
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by eldavido 8y ago
Superstar effects are a much bigger deal. Before you were the best artist / programmer / chef in your small town. Today you or your company sells to the world. #1 / #2 takes most/all, everyone else loses. Sorry but that&
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by eldavido 8y ago
Microsoft alumnus here...it's so obvious you work there. "End-to-end", "workflow", "across X, Y, Z, A", "scenarios". I'd just started to forget that language, but there it is. (The "loc
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by eldavido 8y ago
It's actually pretty easy to understand. Affordability is not and never was the priority in San Francisco. What are the priorities are things like environmental issues, keeping the police in check (making it politically impossible to e
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by eldavido 8y ago
Discussed at length in Putnam's "Bowling Alone" under the heading "professionalization of politics".
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by eldavido 8y ago
Bogle's book "Investment vs Speculation" discusses this point at length. He calls the world today the "double-agent society" in that there are two levels of intermediation (corporate management and investment manage
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by eldavido 8y ago
I think there's something to this. A lot of these changes are driven by economies of scale. It's much more efficient to live in a huge apartment building than hundreds of small houses. You use less energy, the overall maintenance
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by eldavido 8y ago
What I meant was, if you look at the state of non-expert users' PCs, they're unusable by power user standards. There's so much malware, anti-virus that slows down all I/O, browser toolbars, etc. Just open Internet Explor
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by eldavido 8y ago
I completely agree and I used to work at Microsoft. Microsoft lost because they didn't have the users or the apps. It's an instructive story of how an inferior product can win. I'm not saying that happens all the time or that
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by eldavido 8y ago
> As a broader concept, a return to prevailing use of on-device processing and computation I don't think anyone ever liked developing for the web. It solved three problems pretty well: - Data portability: log in from anywhere, have
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by eldavido 8y ago
I went to China a few months ago and had similar thoughts: United States There's a lot more to say, but overall, the trip made me very optimistic about the future of the United States. China's cost advantage is disappearing. A 1.5
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by eldavido 8y ago
Corollary: work at/for people/places that reward this. You will do yourself no good if you optimize for the company but in ways that management doesn't care about. For better or worse, companies are little command economies a
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by eldavido 8y ago
This is one of the few cases where the words are very useful precisely because they're the originals. Many of these (e.g. techne) are verbatim latin/greek terms and are probably used just as they are, in other languages. You&#x2
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by eldavido 8y ago
Bay Area resident here from south suburbs. Chicago has some of the best commutes there are. If the Bay Area was more like Chicago (regional rail, roads), we wouldn't have as much hand-wringing as on this thread.

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