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by htormey 9y ago
Isn’t the average tenure at amazon and most tech companies 2 years these days? http://www.businessinsider.com/employee-retention-rate-top-t... Not saying it’s a bad thing just that vesting schedule is Something to think abo
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by htormey 9y ago
Well you gotta factor in the cost of living. A 2 bedroom house in a decent area in SF is like 1.3 million. Having kids is also incredibly expensive so you really need to think about that when comparing salaries.
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by htormey 9y ago
Tangentialy I have heard that Amazon has a vesting schedule for stock where everything skews towards the last two years.
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by htormey 9y ago
I worked on the core audio team. It’s kind of hard to find another company that pays as well as Apple where you get to continue doing that kind of work. The only other companies I can think of are either lab126 (Amazon) or google. Lab126 do
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by htormey 9y ago
I meet a number of people at Apple in this category (i.e 20-30 years + experience). At a certain point salary tends to flatten out unless you go into management or do something incredibly specialized.
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by htormey 9y ago
Definitely true for Apple/Facebook/Linkedin/Google (I worked for 2 of these).
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by htormey 9y ago
I live in SF. Uber pool to Costco is ~$5. I have a Safeway around the corner and instacart isn’t that bad re price.
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by htormey 9y ago
Apparently an AG that Thiel gave money to is investigating google for antitrust stuff in Missouri: “But it’s not the first time Thiel has handed cash to an AG who went after Google over monopoly concerns. Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawl
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by htormey 9y ago
A lease or rental agreement can be valuable depending on the terms. An example: my mother managed to significantly negotiate down her commercial lease after a court case with her landlord. The price that she now pays is significantly below
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by htormey 9y ago
One big problem with using interface builder to build UI is code review & working on UI in parallel. This isn’t an issue in smaller apps but if you work on a larger team (5+) it becomes a real pain. I really wish that Apple had taken th
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by htormey 9y ago
Personally I’d go on fiverr.com & find someone to do a basic design for your project ($100-200 if you keep it simple). Then find another person to convert it to html/css ($15-$80) then wire that up. I’ve done the above before for m
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by htormey 9y ago
Here ya go: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-17/what-is-t...
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by htormey 9y ago
Not trying to take away from your point but I think the company that made TBH were trying to make a hit app since 2013 when they did their seed round: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tbh It took nearly 4 years
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Social capital to start investing in startups, sight unseen(techcrunch.com)
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by htormey 9y ago
FB thinks about apps like tv channels. If you look at the top 10 free apps all of them are owned by either Facebook, google or Snapchat (they own Bitmoji). TBH was the only app in the top 10 not owned by one of these 3 so the acquired it.
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Snap lays off employees and slows hiring(businessinsider.com)
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by htormey 9y ago
I think a better question would be are you built to run your own business? Assuming the answer to the preceding question is yes a good follow up question would be what kind of business do you want to run? I quit my well paying corporate Job
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by htormey 9y ago
Oh so how do you know that? Did they publish some article stating a change in control?
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by htormey 9y ago
This article is dated and I’ve never used Onavo myself but I think the pitch is it saves you money on your data plan: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.imore.com/onavo-app-claims-... Teenagers are pretty cheap
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by htormey 9y ago
This is a really good point. I don't think this is necessarily a bad acquisition at all. Onavo is basically Facebooks eye of sauron: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onavo TBH has been in the top 10 free apps for a f
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by htormey 9y ago
This plus rent control is very similar to my situation in San Francisco. The only thing which would change this is if I had kids.
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by htormey 9y ago
If you are in an apartment with rent control it really changes the rent/buy equation. I’ve lived in a two bedroom rent controlled apartment in San Francisco for the last 7 years. I pay significantly below market rate for rent. I also h
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by htormey 9y ago
Is this still the case with Swift 4? Swift had lots of issues as of the 2016 wwdc (language changes breaking third party libraries, barely working tools) however swift 4 seems to be not nearly as bad. I’d be interested in hearing your thoug
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by htormey 9y ago
I think the article would have been much better if the author had left out the section about RN. Failing that I would have liked to see him dig into why RN was slow for his use case and what he tried to do to fix theses issues. "While
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by htormey 9y ago
http://www.businessinsider.com/employee-retention-rate-top-t... Matches my experience at FB & Apple. I spent about 2 years at each.
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by htormey 9y ago
Sure, Stanford, Harvard & many top tier universities provide financial aid. I think that's awesome and to be encouraged. Getting into those institutions or being even aware of them is another matter. The disadvantages that many Ame
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by htormey 9y ago
For those not in the know, here is the definition of an O Visa is: "An O visa is a classification of non-immigrant temporary worker visa granted by the United States to an alien "who possesses extraordinary ability in the sciences
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by htormey 9y ago
" Someone living here starts off in a much better position than any foreign entrepreneur. " I don't think you can make a blanket statement like that. I come from Ireland where I received a 4 year degree in CS for free. Most o
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Walmart Labs Open Sources a Platform for Integrating React Native into Your Apps(medium.com)
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by htormey 9y ago
Thanks for this. I'm still relatively new to the Javascript world (mainly native developer) and I've only just started using flow. Could you tell me a bit more about the following points: * more definitions (This cannot be oversta

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