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by gms 7y ago
This is very interesting; thanks for sharing your experiments!
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by gms 7y ago
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1160446857270579200
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by gms 7y ago
What worked for me was writing business logic for a customer-facing app. The amount of unavoidable boilerplate made me understand what Paul Graham had been on about.
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by gms 7y ago
Yep, only if you're using Apollo though.
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by gms 7y ago
Interview the users and ask them why they abandoned your site.
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by gms 7y ago
I agree with the other comrade who commented. Avoid joining this employer if you can.
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by gms 7y ago
This is not common at all. What is common is to have such a clause apply to the period of employment but not after. Please feel comfortable telling your employer to remove it (many people don't know that every contract is negotiable).
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by gms 8y ago
Amazon made over $10b in profit in 2018.
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by gms 8y ago
https://www.cointracker.io .
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by gms 8y ago
Al Waleed’s investment fund is private, not public.
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by gms 8y ago
Where are the companies that reject you? In San Francisco many companies would never even ask. I certainly wouldn't mind. No one should be eternally damned for a mistake made in college.
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by gms 8y ago
Article commits a classic fallacy: one bad example leading to a general statement because the latter makes a better headline. Rather like going from ‘my friend’s house got robbed’ to ‘all houses get robbed’.
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by gms 8y ago
Netflix is not on par. They do pay more than the rest can match.
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by gms 8y ago
Cambridge, Massachusetts. People will say it’s expensive but it’s cheap relative to the Bay Area.
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by gms 8y ago
Indeed - you can jump to another big company.
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by gms 8y ago
Because you can’t get a raise - the big companies pay the most money.
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by gms 8y ago
I feel so old.
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by gms 8y ago
Thank you for your perspective; it's rarely shared.
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by gms 8y ago
Why not?
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by gms 8y ago
They nabbed one of mine too, lol.
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by gms 9y ago
It's been 14 years. That's enough time to change one's mind about a thing or two.
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by gms 9y ago
All a bit moot since companies aren't going public anymore, no? ;)
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by gms 10y ago
What if you were made CEO of Apple tomorrow? It's already well established and successful, so there is hardly any risk involved there?
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by gms 11y ago
Always decide based on the people, not the institution. This is similar to advice for those embarking on a PhD: pick an adviser, not a university. Go with Amazon. Both companies have enough internal variance that the situation could have ea
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by gms 11y ago
There is an open secret you may not be aware of: every startup is a shitshow on the inside.
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by gms 11y ago
It's not V1 - that one took a Firewire cable, not USB.
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by gms 12y ago
This is really great - thanks for contributing your perspective.
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by gms 12y ago
Be safe and wait till the transfer is approved. It took me 2-3 weeks.
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by gms 12y ago
I was in this exact situation two weeks ago. Because Mongo databases tend to have an implicit schema, I used variety.js ( https://github.com/variety/variety ) to first uncover it for a given collection. I then hand-creat
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by gms 12y ago
What are the disadvantages to using plain Git for your data?

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