engmgrmgr

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by engmgrmgr 5y ago
Which subset of the notoriously transient tech population are you referring to?
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by engmgrmgr 5y ago
people are easily influenced by others who they admire, even if they have no idea what they’re talking about. athletes, politicians, investors, artists, etc.
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by engmgrmgr 5y ago
Evolution isn’t programmed, it’s a function of survival. If there’s a highly infectious virus with a huge lead time to develop deadly symptoms, that’s more than enough to spread “optimally”
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by engmgrmgr 5y ago
Are you in the US? The patent process usually takes a long time (potentially many years) and potentially a lot of money. Your details about not being able to form a company are suspicious — why not? It’s really cheap and fast.
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by engmgrmgr 5y ago
Mmm, agree with parent; can get faster. Unfortunately lots of perf critical code is created out of necessity and defaults to proprietary. You could profile this lib and figure out where it’s spending most of its time and figure out if there
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by engmgrmgr 5y ago
1. Take the top n=10% of net worths 2. Shave off the most extreme outliers at the top 3. Give this group a catchy name and attribute values to them 4. Make enough money off of pop-sociology to be included in this group 5. Repeat with n=n&#x
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by engmgrmgr 5y ago
Curriculum isn’t standardized, and while a noisy signal, difficultly of admission to a school can be valuable in lieu of other signals, or otherwise knowing the details of a particular school’s curriculum — top 50 vs. top 500. Interview 100
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by engmgrmgr 5y ago
I’m not agreeing one way or another about needing cap table in detail, but if the company isn’t giving you the information you need to evaluate an offer after you request it, then don’t work there. As for luck, of course there’s some risk c
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by engmgrmgr 5y ago
You should do your due diligence on the business and financing to avoid this situation, and unless you have a ton of equity, you should hedge your bet on multiple companies if you’re trying to make high ROI and you aren’t feeling confident
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by engmgrmgr 5y ago
It’s a small sample size, but highly motivated self taught folks who come from tough blue collar careers that I’ve seen have been pretty reliable and committed. I presume it’s a lot easier to appreciate the working conditions and compensati
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by engmgrmgr 5y ago
You are taking a very active role in discourse in a public medium. This isn’t your personal blog, so you’re intentionally broadcasting your experiences to anyone and everyone.
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by engmgrmgr 5y ago
Sorry, need to call BS for all the impressionable young readers. The job of ‘programmer’ takes on many shapes and sizes. Businesses evolve and are different from one another. You may be very successful in some clusters of business, but how
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by engmgrmgr 5y ago
Your entire post is an admonishment. I don’t think it’s a bad thing to post at all, but I also don’t agree with it. Why not reach out to them directly and ask them?
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by engmgrmgr 5y ago
I’m not pretending to know the intent of the company, but what the company ought to do from a technical ideology perspective, and why they ought to do in a practical tech business context aren’t necessarily equivalent. Admonishing a company
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by engmgrmgr 5y ago
Yeah, but why would they —- tons of people just got liquid, and they are essentially realizing relatively large compensations over the next several years. At the same time, there’s an influx of new cheaper hires (WRT equity), and a lot of d
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by engmgrmgr 5y ago
If you have either high performance real time needs, and it’s impactful to do so, or tight deliverables where performance is some component, the code is often written for a computer over a human. The more specialized or niche certain projec