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by hkarthik 6y ago
When I was a VPE at a mid stage startup, I tended to ignore 99.9% of these pitches. Except for one. It came through a trusted contact, and he specifically wanted to intro me to a founder who had built a data security solution that he truly
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by hkarthik 6y ago
There are three big challenges he has to overcome. 1. Make it work. This sounds easy with open source tech, but really hard if it includes effective content moderation from day one. That's a tough product problem to solve which only th
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by hkarthik 6y ago
The only way to avoid conflict is to constantly expand and adapt for (or adapt to) new environments, otherwise competition increases. Mobility also needs to increase to avoid conflicts which lead to physical harm.
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by hkarthik 6y ago
At L6+ you also need experience and war stories during the interview process. And a significant number of wins with broad impact that can only happen if you have the soft skills to make large change happen.
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by hkarthik 6y ago
Yes, I believe extra terrestrial life exists but there are significant known barriers that prevent our contact with interstellar species currently. I believe with enough time, we can get past these barriers through technological means. Howe
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by hkarthik 6y ago
The best thing the Cyberpunk team could have done to ensure success where they could avoid a myriad of technical issues is to have limited how many platforms they supported when they launched the game. Trying to simultaneously support high
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by hkarthik 6y ago
It’s the economics of it all. Industrial design costs a lot of money. Money requires margins. There is little margin to be had in building PCs after Intel/AMD, Nvidia, Realtek, etc all take their cut. And let’s not forget Microsoft get
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by hkarthik 6y ago
Just turned 40, and this year I have picked up Japanese sword martial art called Shinkendo, through a local dojo a few miles away. I have no previous martial arts experience. I have also started learning Unity and I am making my first 2D ga
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by hkarthik 6y ago
Yes, I started with a massive Windows 8 Media center PC in 2003 which evolved to an Xbox1 with XBMC, followed by a couple of all in one PCs which could load standalone XBMC Linux based kernels by 2010. Around 2015, I switched to having a Sy
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by hkarthik 6y ago
I am a big fan of Educative.io as I have realized I don’t learn concepts well through video, but I still need my hands on the keyboard while I am working through material to stay focused. The small quizzes also force me to pay close attenti
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by hkarthik 6y ago
Something no one explained to me that I had to figure out on my own. There are three basic levels of engineering management. Team level - Supporting individual engineers working collectively to solve a relatively narrow set of business and
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by hkarthik 6y ago
I read this as Chinese nationalistic policies are now being exported to other countries like the US. The pivotal moment here is that it may put the rest of the world on a path of being less connected to each other through trade and exchange
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by hkarthik 6y ago
Find an internal mentor at Google who has been there at least 3 years and came in at the same level as you (or maybe one level above). They will give you a wealth of tips and tricks to navigate it. It's usually easy to find an altruist
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by hkarthik 6y ago
Companies started in the last 10-15 years that started and ended on a mostly Java-based stack. The business should also be super stable, slow growth, but high revenue/margins. That's probably the most important thing you should lo
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by hkarthik 6y ago
I'm 16 years into using gmail, so the thought of converting to a new email address feels harder than trying to change my social security number right now. Anyone done this successfully?
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by hkarthik 6y ago
If you don’t like how Apple does business, stop using their products. If you don’t like how Google does business, stop using their products. If you don’t like how either one does business, stop using technology all together. I am being face
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by hkarthik 6y ago
This is the stack to run a startup with several engineers, not an MVP.
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by hkarthik 6y ago
Likely so. Also once there is a coronavirus vaccine, it will likely be considered discriminatory to require vaccination as a condition of employment in order to enter a company office.
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by hkarthik 6y ago
Just write engineering management and highlight it was a manager role. Most hiring managers and recruiters are aware that titles are often meaningless.
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by hkarthik 7y ago
Netflix is known for being speedy with hiring because they are also speedy with firing under performers. So they see hiring as a relatively low risk proposition and will make decisions faster since the long term effects are greatly lessened
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by hkarthik 7y ago
I can give you an ex-insiders view on this. Uber made an early strategic decision to invest in on-premise infrastructure due to fears that either Amazon or Google would enter the on-demand market as competitors and bring their cloud infrast
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by hkarthik 7y ago
the problem is the tech industry is run by tech execs with high priced Bay Area property. They have no incentive to be pro growth as long as cities like Austin, Seattle accept their “satellite offices” with open arms.
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by hkarthik 7y ago
These are both very different roles, so I'd take a step back and think about three things: 1. What excites you (Desire) 2. What you're good at (Talent) 3. What roles are available (Opportunity) The right approach is target two out
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by hkarthik 7y ago
Layoffs become a trend and there is a cascading effect. One company does it because they have to and others start doing it because they think they should too. The public companies start doing it to cull their ranks because they want to.
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by hkarthik 7y ago
A big part of the stigma around teen sex is rooted in thousands of years of religious taboo associated with it among the world’s major religions. This is likely because those belief systems were the original dominant form of birth control.
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by hkarthik 7y ago
Less unwanted pregnancies which result in less abortions, single mothers relying on taxpayer social safety nets, or extra state money spent on kids falling through the cracks of the foster care system.
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by hkarthik 7y ago
Similar experience for me and we are the same age. I don’t feel cheated per say but I agree we had less opportunity available to us and less ability to affect change. The thing to remember is that we are a small generation sandwiched betwee
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by hkarthik 7y ago
I benefited greatly from my EM mentor, who was a senior manager at my last company. Our meeting was arranged as part of an internal mentor match up, and then we just continued it over nearly 4 years of working there. I think we were the lon
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by hkarthik 7y ago
The way to progress as a manager is to develop the vision to grow the scope of your team, justify additional headcount, and groom some of your tech leads to become managers under you. If done well, the optics are that you have a strong upwa
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by hkarthik 7y ago
Custom fields on a key entity that can be added without additional code or refactoring.

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