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   by gregdoesit 4y ago

   When I took my kid to Disneyland for the first time, I got the question on the way “dad, can we go to Netflixland as well?” This question from a kid made me realize how much of an entertainment empire and revenue generator Disney is versus
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   by gregdoesit 4y ago

   Seven years ago, I started a blog called The Pragmatic Engineer. For three months, I wrote a post every two-three weeks. But no one really read them. So I took a short break, which break turned into a month, then another, another… and I did
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   by gregdoesit 4y ago

   > “ Despite cease-and-desist actions against Forsage for operating as a fraud in September 2020 by the Securities and Exchange Commission of the Philippines and in March 2021 by the Montana Commissioner of Securities and Insurance, the d
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   by gregdoesit 4y ago

   Yes, how can we take it off? I’ve sent an email to dang.
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   by gregdoesit 4y ago

   I had no idea. Always assumed it was limited to these countries listed here: https://www.levels.fyi/locations/ The point stands that I’m building an Europe-focused site, being a former hiring manager based here. Eg in
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   by gregdoesit 4y ago

   Working on more generic anonymized names! The goal is not to guess which ones these companies are.
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   by gregdoesit 4y ago

   Thanks for the suggestion! I do want to do a better job visualising things in the overview. I’ll think about how to do it, without being too confusing.
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   by gregdoesit 4y ago

   Thanks! This is a tricky one as you already pointed it out. I’m voting for simplicity: capturing the number in the point of time, and also capturing whether the equity component has appreciated or depreciated. My bet is that having the date
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   by gregdoesit 4y ago

   An interesting question here, on Hacker News. Why did Paul Graham build Hacker News rather than encourage the use of Digg? It already had submissions of similar types that Hacker News started with. I assume it was because things were missin
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    by gregdoesit 4y ago

    Thanks! Another reason this is still in alpha - I was not ready for someone to submit this to HN just yet. Wow, how the world changed from using Google's CDNs to having to host it yourself. I just pushed a fix to move the script to the
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    by gregdoesit 4y ago

    I'm building the site (but I didn't submit this Show HN). The private part of the shares are clearly marked as private in details, and there's an explainer eg at [1]. I do think it's important to include private equity
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    by gregdoesit 4y ago

    Hi! I'm building this website, but I did not submit this show HN here. I don't think the site is ready for such a submission, it's currently in alpha - very clearly marked. It's not even beta-ready yet! The data set so f
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    by gregdoesit 4y ago

    Thanks. The book ended up as 61,000 words - which is not that much compared to all-text books - but lots of pages of resume examples. A "normal" 200 page book could have up to double the number of words (100-120K words). Just want
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    by gregdoesit 4y ago

    Just want to push back on the note that my newsletter "basically summarizes and quotes from a different paid newsletter as a primary source". The last issue had the most number of The Information quotes [1] plus a bunch of origina
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    by gregdoesit 4y ago

    Thanks - I keep evolving the publication; The Scoop is barely a few months old and was (still is) a bonus addition to the long-form weekly articles. To quote or not to quote from other publications is an good question. Re-reading the last t
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    by gregdoesit 4y ago

    Thanks for elaborating. You're right: the title is misleading. I changed the title to reflect what I meant to write about: "Want to learn about entrepreneurship, as a software engineer? Sell something online". And yes, your p
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    by gregdoesit 4y ago

    The Pragmatic Engineer here :) And here is the list of side projects and their status I posted about you might have referred to [1]. I never posted about failed startup ideas. As I wrote in another comment, this post is from late 2020, when
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    by gregdoesit 4y ago

    I'm the author of this article. Please note that 2020 should be added to the title, as I wrote it late 2020, after I left Uber and my plan back then was to start a startup some months later. I had recently left Uber, and launched this
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    by gregdoesit 4y ago

    Author of the article here and just came across this comment. Here's how I did it. By working at Uber in Amsterdam for 4 years where I made more than twice as much as a senior engineer as I did before when I was at Skyscanner, in Londo
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    by gregdoesit 4y ago

    Congratulations! There's something special about the feeling of you "earning" your first revenue that comes from an online customer you've never met, and not from an employment contract, consulting, or similar "trad
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    Oracle Cloud data center down in London due to heatwave(ocistatus.oraclecloud.com)

    2 points by gregdoesit 4y ago|0 comments
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    The Perfect Storm Causing an Insane Tech Hiring Market (2021)(newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)

    3 points by gregdoesit 4y ago|0 comments
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    Bitpanda threatens to sue former employee for LinkedIn post about layoffs(twitter.com)

    4 points by gregdoesit 4y ago|0 comments
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    The slow recovery of the Ukraine tech market(djinni.substack.com)

    1 points by gregdoesit 4y ago|0 comments
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    by gregdoesit 4y ago

    > “The sad truth is that the path of an architect or principal / staff engineer is closed for a pure android developer” When I worked at Uber as an engineering manager, this was partially the case: at Uber’s scale, there was a path
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    Companies Using RFCs or Design Docs and Examples of These(blog.pragmaticengineer.com)

    1 points by gregdoesit 4y ago|0 comments
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    by gregdoesit 4y ago

    Wow, I never knew of dial.uber.com!! m.uber.com was built by an engineering team in India, but for global usage.
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    by gregdoesit 4y ago

    I formerly worked at Uber. I’m surprised that Bolt blocks the web app from working. Uber also built a web app which is incredibly lightweight - here’s a summary on how it was built [1]. It’s a life saver especially if e.g. at an airport and
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    by gregdoesit 4y ago

    Here is a screenshot [1] of the page served, which indicates there's a DNS misconfiguration issue. [1] https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1533825620148469760?...
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    by gregdoesit 4y ago

    Additional context on the waste: gas fees are not only charged to those who have successfully minted an NFT - so those paying ~$5,500 worth of ApeCoin for the NFT plus ~$2,000 - $6,000 worth of ETH for the gas fee. If a mint is failed becau