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by hkarthik 13y ago
My friends who have become doctors here in the US say the same thing. 1st and 2nd year residents (the low paid gigs they get right after med school) often work 24 hour shifts pretty regularly with only 6-8 hours between shifts. I think the
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Are a few firms overvalued right now? Of course. But that's nothing new. Healthy markets have a mix of overvalued and undervalued stocks. The main difference today is that most rational investors understand the diversity of software fi
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I think every large team using Git has experienced the Git Force Push Master clusterfuck at least once. It's usually right after this that a mandatory gitconfig gets passed around.
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This is awesome and I plan to use it in the future. I'm curious how you deal with possible fraud or how you insulate yourself? From an infrastructure perspective, how long did it take you to break even on your costs with Heroku? What k
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Talent is only one small part of the startup pie. The other parts are ideas and investment. This is where both research universities and VC come in. I think doing a Bootcamp to increase the skills and level up the talent in your city is a g
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I think you're missing a key ingredient which SF, Austin, Boston, etc have: established technical universities bringing and growing talent in from across the globe. University towns can be a hotbed of startup talent if they are combine
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That makes a lot of sense. I know Yammer does something similar, albeit with Puppet instead of Chef. Sounds like this could be a whole blog post on its own. Over-complicating the local developer story is a big reason that us and many other
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yeah we've used stubs in the past and it's often awkward and creates silos within the team. I'm not a huge fan of this approach.
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Great post. This is interesting due to similar discussions we're having at work about moving from a monolithic Rails app architecture to an SOA. I'm curious though, what does the local developer environment look like when you run
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If you're interested in learning to solve it, I highly recommend this talk: http://confreaks.com/videos/2670-gogaruco2013-solving-the-ru... The accompanying Ruby Gem is pretty useful for learning the two-cycle sol
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I know, right? BTW this was in 1999.
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I had the same reaction, but when he got to the point about the Hard Yes (+2) and Hard No (-4), I assumed the number of interviewers was closely tied to having enough of a sample size to using this scoring system effectively. But yes, I agr
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Yeah, a payment plan would be key to making this work. Another option may be more of a subscription model where there is a monthly service fee associated with this, much like an Accountant would charge someone to do their books.
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My parents and I came to the US in 1981 and landed in Philadelphia. Over the next 32 years, my parents moved roughly every 9 years across state lines. The mobility which my parents enjoyed was really tied to a reasonable cost of housing acr
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by hkarthik 13y ago
Sandeep: Sorry little late in seeing these comments. Check out startups like StormPulse, Parse, and Stackmob to see what I mean about Backend-as-a-service.
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> Collapse would slow and chaotic Unless a comet or asteroid hit the earth. Here's some good sci-fi reading for you: http://www.amazon.com/Lucifers-Hammer-Jerry-Pournelle/dp/044...
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As a 20 year old coming out of school, you are going to get a very standard offer that will only fluctuate slightly with the current market. Unless you're the world's expert in some very valuable algorithm that you developed in sc
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If you could deliver on all of those things, I would be willing to pay 10%-20% of my annual salary for it. However, much like executive search, this is the kind of service that would need to essentially pay for itself. E.g. If I could get a
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I also haven't smoked it in over a decade, and even if it was legal for recreational use in my state, I wouldn't go out and get it. However, I think there is one very legitimate use of medical marijuana that you are glossing over:
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Congrats Sandeep! I think your application is well written. One thing I think you guys should consider in your target market is mobile app developers. Also consider looking at Backend-as-a-service providers like StackMob/Pars in your m
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by hkarthik 13y ago
A co-worker of mine from 10 years ago recently lost her battle with cancer. I hadn't talked to her in nearly decade, but we would Like each other's posts on FB occasionally. Thankfully on the Monday after she passed, one of her fa
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See that's where I want to dig deeper with those that really believe in this style of interviewing. Clearly it must have some value other than the weed-out factor. Are there engineers who actually keep the algorithms/data structur
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To share my experience, the kinds of "make you cry" interviews which test a lot of CS knowledge seem relegated to the Bay Area companies which I interviewed with. All my interviews with companies in Texas (where I live) would inte
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I've used the Jetbrains products for a few years, and in general they all work well when your codebase is small and manageable. Unfortunately, if you have a monolithic code base, you'll see the memory consumption climb and it will
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I live in the US, and I have had both FTTP (via Verizon FIOS) and FTTN (via AT&T U-verse). FTTP was by far, the best internet service I ever experienced. The latency was super low, download times were always fast, uploads were synchron
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It can definitely work, but it has to be done right. 1) Don't go through the big firms with a flashy list of clients. The businesses practices many of these firms use are designed to extract value from you rather than provide value to
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by hkarthik 13y ago
I don't use it, but I came across Base CRM today. Looks useful. https://getbase.com/
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Ask HN: Performance of backend-as-a-service providers?
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Right but the question was how did he get to be a CTO? Not necessarily "How did he get to be a great CTO with an excellent track record?".
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Okay maybe massive isn't appropriate here, but they had an exit. Compared to the hundreds of startups that just go out of business that's still a good resume booster.

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