heyjamesknight

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by heyjamesknight 3y ago
Yeah, there have been so many times during gameplay I've said "man, this crazy scenario I somehow concocted by tossing a lazer cannon glued to a fan into the middle of a group of bad guys sure is fun—but if it were just running at
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by heyjamesknight 3y ago
I do, when I’m without a quality internet connection and a basic request to Siri to turn on a timer fails.
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by heyjamesknight 3y ago
Isn’t it Indicative, not Imperative?
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by heyjamesknight 3y ago
We've hired ~15 engineers in LATAM over the last year and a half, mostly in Argentina and Uruguay. If anyone has any questions about the process, I'm happy to answer them here. Or feel free to email me at the email in my bio.
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by heyjamesknight 3y ago
Yeah, I don't think we've had a bad hire yet from ARG. Most of our devs are absolutely world-class, but at a fraction of the cost of comparable US employees. And we pay them very well for the region; several have built homes not j
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by heyjamesknight 3y ago
We hire across LATAM. Mexico still lags behind Argentina and Uruguay in terms of skill level. Lots of low skill, boot-camp style grads. Few true engineers. Colombia is catching up but ARG and URU still reign supreme.
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by heyjamesknight 3y ago
It's pretty big now. Uruguay's entire tech labor pool has been consumed by nearshoring agencies. Competition in Argentina and Colombia is catching up. Disagree on skill level. The average US dev is pretty bad. Most of us on HN jus
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by heyjamesknight 3y ago
There are degrees of failure. WeWork has raised $23B and they’re currently worth $350M. Losing $22B is a pretty insane failure.
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by heyjamesknight 3y ago
SEEKING WORK NY, LA, or REMOTE 2023 is a rough year for founders. With VC funding down 53% YoY and the loss of SVB (and now FRB), the Era of Easy Money is over. Startups today have to move fast, stay flexible, and focus on what matters most
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by heyjamesknight 5y ago
As a former Democrat turned party-agnostic by the last few years, I disagree. I would call CHAZ/CHOP an armed insurrection. And it was the left that bombed the U.S. Senate in 1983. Most liberals are good people. Some aren't. The s