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by fsk 12y ago
I see, they give evidence for both factors. 1. Better programmers are more likely to have negotiating leverage. 2. Taking a poor programmer and moving him to a quieter space improves his productivity. I'd still like to see a proper mod
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by fsk 12y ago
Most of the western states have totally messed up "water rights" laws.
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by fsk 12y ago
I thought that the mindset of a boss paying equity instead of salary is "Haha! Sucker!"
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by fsk 12y ago
Maybe the better programmers have more leverage to negotiate better work conditions, so it isn't a causal effect.
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by fsk 12y ago
You can run Windows 3.1/95/98 in DosBox.
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by fsk 12y ago
I don't know why equity would be a dealbreaker for you. There is some $X where getting $X extra would make up for no equity (considering equity is usually worth $0). Instead of equity, you could ask to be paid $20k more, go to a casin
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by fsk 12y ago
Don't insult Costco like that.
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by fsk 12y ago
The problem is that cuts out 99%+ of all employers. When was the last time you interviewed someplace that gave all programmers their own office?
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by fsk 12y ago
The offensive part is the people who say that open offices are MORE EFFICIENT than a traditional office. I have a hard time believing that one. Given how high programmer salaries are, the productivity loss due to open offices is almost def
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by fsk 12y ago
Working for only a minority equity share seems foolish. I could instead work on my own ideas and keep 100%, and my ideas are better than those of people expecting me to work for equity/revenue share/free. Other red flags: Meeting
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by fsk 12y ago
Summarizing - Building a business on someone else's platform is very risky, because they will cut you off to promote their own competing product instead. AWS doesn't do this, because the second they cut off a customer based on the
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by fsk 12y ago
There is another limitation. If you zoom in too much, you reach the limit of the accuracy of a double, and you have to switch to a bignum library.
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by fsk 12y ago
There are some differences between being a chattel slave and a wage slave. If you have a chattel slave, you won't waste money investing in teaching them new skills. If you have a wage slave, why would you invest in teaching someone a n
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by fsk 12y ago
The shortage of doctors is not due to market conditions. The government limits the supply of slots in medical schools and residencies, which then limits the number of new doctors.
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by fsk 12y ago
You mention equity? What percentage vested are you? How do you know it isn't worthless? If you haven't raised money yet, or have enough revenue to pay yourself a decent salary, leaving is a legitimate option. If the startup is s
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by fsk 12y ago
The reason most scientists do routine safe work is that they need to publish a certain number of papers per year to get or keep their job. If you work on something important, spend a couple years on it, and go nowhere, your career may be ov
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by fsk 12y ago
Having inherited a bunch of products that were developed by outsourcing companies, at several different employers, I can safely say that outsourcing companies aren't going to replace the need for COMPETENT full-time employees. I even s
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by fsk 12y ago
I thought the way that sunspot counting works is that you point a magnifying telescope at the sun, and the image projects on the floor. You look at the image on the floor. He did have a valid point. For the data to be consistent across a
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by fsk 12y ago
Then how does Domino's get me a pizza within 30 minutes?
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by fsk 12y ago
See also: Asch Conformity Test
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by fsk 12y ago
Also compare Anime to American cartoons. In an American cartoon, main characters never die (or even minor recurring characters). In Japanese Anime, major characters do die. The story usually has a beginning, middle, and end, instead of B
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by fsk 12y ago
"What makes a good game" and "what makes a good story" are two different things. Doom didn't have a plot. Tetris didn't have a plot. Also, if you want the game to have a MEANINGFUL plot, then you have to prett
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by fsk 12y ago
Don't forget the effect of rent control. If your parents live in a rent controlled apartment, then you're probably going to a public school. If your parents can afford to pay market rents, then they probably can also afford a priv
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by fsk 12y ago
Yeah. If the options were worth $100k when the person was hired, and now they're worth $10M, is that really a negotiation mistake? Maybe the employee did a great job and that's the reason they are now worth $10M? Would the empl
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by fsk 12y ago
Oh thx, I thought my mousewheel had broken!
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by fsk 12y ago
Buy the longest term put and roll the position when it is near expiration. Don't fully hedge, just 1/2 to 1/6. Also, don't write covered calls, that gives up too much upside. Instead, sell outright.
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by fsk 12y ago
I think Google Analytics is misleading on purpose. I worked with one small business owner who thought that all Google Analytics website traffic = all Adwords traffic, causing him to overspend on AdWords. Multiply by 1M+ clueless small busi
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by fsk 12y ago
Don't sell the data. It isn't worth the risk of a lawsuit. Even if you are in the right, a lawsuit is horrible. Just find a new job and give 2 weeks' notice.
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by fsk 12y ago
99.9%+ of all papers published by Math professors are incomprehensible to all but a few experts. You know all those famous problems that were solved recently? How do you know they were actually solved? Maybe the Math professors are just p
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by fsk 12y ago
Firing people to weasel out of paying their unvested options is definitely shady. When those employees were hired, did they tell them "Oh, by the way, if your unvested options wind up being worth a lot more than your fair salary, we&#

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