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by hacknat 11y ago
I actually do right now, and it is part of the reason I'm looking to leave. I got promoted into management too fast, IMO, and I've been told by my CTO I'm being groomed for leadership. I'm not interested. How did I get h
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by hacknat 11y ago
He's not saying that. He's saying it seems like the only type of tech company that is being penetrated, for the worse, by cheap money is late stage unicorns. His argument about the way cheap money is penetrating them is that the t
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by hacknat 11y ago
I agree, but when there's a cap it's just a loan. And a pretty cheap one to, in that the terms of the loan give you unlimited time to repay.
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by hacknat 11y ago
It would be very cool if you could sort by percentage differential between the over/under and expected earnings. I think sorting by that parameter would produce some really interesting results.
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by hacknat 11y ago
It may seem like splitting hairs, but the Chancery court's decision makes sense. Corporate governance sounds boring and technical, but it is an important sounding board for valuation and consent. Imagine a company where two people coll
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by hacknat 11y ago
This is so true. I live in Seattle, and the diverse set of answers I hear from Amazon employees on what it's like to work there are profound. Ranging from a guy I know at AWS, who literally said, "I don't know anyone who work
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by hacknat 11y ago
Why do they have to know that he's working part-time? He can still show up to the office, but focus on other things.
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by hacknat 11y ago
While I don't have any advice for an exit. A strategy you could employ to buy yourself more time is to offload all your non-leadership/administrative work onto another employee at the company (possibly hiring someone extra, and mo
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by hacknat 11y ago
To piggy-back of off this. The hidden problems aren't just extensions of old-age experience vs young-age experience (i.e. social-network vs hospice placement). It's often domain expertise vs none. There are so many older folks out
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by hacknat 11y ago
I think I provided some decent caveats to my answer, I would hardly call my answer "definitive" or "strong", and I cited other credentialed peoples' answers, which I was pretty much summarizing anyways. I'm not
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by hacknat 11y ago
I've never worked at Google, so if anyone at Google responds with an answer, feel free to ignore what I've written. However, I know a bit about how Google works from research and talking to people that have worked there. It's
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by hacknat 11y ago
tldr; Get sucked in by image creation, stay for the API. The documentation could be better. Getting my brain around what a Docker commit actually is and when the cache breaks for a RUN command vs a COPY command took some digging. They are d
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by hacknat 11y ago
This article is rather thin on numbers or tangible benefits that actually developed because of joining YC as a "later stage" company. I'm not saying there isn't an argument to be made that joining YC late is a good thing
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by hacknat 11y ago
In this case I meant that something of a runtime or additional code could be tacked on to programs when the compiler and/or run time sees that a program only computes in response to input, for example. In the case of unikernels, distin
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by hacknat 11y ago
Well done! It'll be interesting to see what space unikernels take up in the coming years. I think there is still a lot of fruitful territory to be explored in this space as traditional multi-user, multi-tenant assumptions can be thrown
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by hacknat 11y ago
I'm reiterating what's already been said by others, but as more explicit instructions: 1. Download the code and figure out how to build it. 2. Figure out how to run it. 3. Figure out how to attach a debugger to it. 4. Figure out w
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Ask HN: How to give away a popular(ish) codebase?
4 points by hacknat 11y ago|3 comments
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by hacknat 11y ago
I translated some of the Amarna texts in College. One of them was a loan with 70% interest. I kept thinking I had mistranslated, but I was correct.
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by hacknat 11y ago
Geese, I was joking about the scraper.
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by hacknat 11y ago
Ugh, the entitlement about paywalls on this thread is obnoxious. Pay for the publication/article, don't pay for it, but why should anyone's opinion about paywall's dictate link etiquette/form, etc. If you run into a
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by hacknat 11y ago
To extend the irony further, it's products like the Economist that are consistently of a better quality (than non paywalled publications), it seems. I'm no libertarian, but I have yet to find a news publication better than the Eco
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Why It's Safe for Founders to Be Nice(paulgraham.com)
1 points by hacknat 11y ago|0 comments
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Intent out, Reality In(blog.izs.me)
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by hacknat 11y ago
I wish, wish, wish, wish, that the Fed would respond in kind. Inflation just hasn't been an issue in this country. Everyone is so terrified of 4-5% inflation, but they forget that we lived through a decade (the 70s) averaged over 5%. W
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by hacknat 11y ago
I think that if someone really should be fired and it is only obvious to their direct report then something seriously wrong has happened. Firing should never be a surprise to anyone. Good tech cultures are good at making expectations clear.
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by hacknat 11y ago
It's not surprising at all. There have been reports of construction companies rebranding themselves as tech companies and doing a public offerings at P/E ratios that would make the hucksters of Silicon Valley circa 1999 blush. It
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by hacknat 11y ago
Your sentiment, while admirable, is a libertarian pipe dream. Even the most liberal countries in the world still get involved in marriage. While I am by no means a social conservative, I do agree with conservatives that the family is the fo
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by hacknat 11y ago
I'll be interested to see what he actually says, but if he's not including politicians and the education system in his appeals for more diversity in tech then he really isn't addressing the heart of the issue. Very few politi
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Jesse Jackson to press for more inclusion in Amazon workplace(seattletimes.com)
1 points by hacknat 11y ago|2 comments
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by hacknat 11y ago
>>How are we to determine whether a theory is true if it cannot be validated experimentally? A theory without experimental falsifiability is not a theory, but a hypothesis. I understand that Physicists might be frustrated by the lack

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