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by jklein11 3y ago
This is super helpful, thank you! Is this coming from a strategic perspective or have you been the hirer or hiree in this situation?
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by jklein11 3y ago
Thanks so much for sharing your experience. If you don't mind me asking, what is your job today?
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by jklein11 3y ago
Eh I think that was just a way of asking "How do we know you are serious about this"
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by jklein11 3y ago
You bring up whether I would be okay on my deathbed, and honestly I do think that if I don't do it I will regret it, but there are other things in life that I would regret not doing as well. I'm trying to gauge if it would mean an
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Ask HN: How hard is it to find a job after trying to start your own thing
55 points by jklein11 3y ago|87 comments
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by jklein11 3y ago
Bret Taylor
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by jklein11 3y ago
> Billing departments are "secretly" using it to "refine" coding. What does this mean exactly?
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by jklein11 3y ago
oh you mean like hacker news?
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by jklein11 3y ago
This is an excellent landing page. It has a clear call to action and a simple way to capture leads. You may want to change this text "Hi, I'm Aziz Berkay Yesilyurt. I transform tedious workflows into streamlined software." to
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by jklein11 3y ago
Am I the only one that made the change from dev to SE and hates it?
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by jklein11 3y ago
Won't the water get cold fast? Having it run all the time without adding heat seems like the quickest way to get the water to be room temp
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by jklein11 3y ago
I'd highly recommend reading "Write Useful Books: A modern approach to designing and refining recommendable nonfiction" by Rob Fitzpatrick. Its a super pragmatic tutorial on writing non fiction that folks will actually use
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by jklein11 3y ago
I'm a little bit confused, are you saying that the IRS would have some sort of beef with employees of Microsoft serving on the board of a 501(c)(3)?
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by jklein11 3y ago
I just finished reading "The Mom Test" by Rob Fitzpatrick and immediately bought 2 other books by him. If you have ever had a customer conversation and left with a slightly empty feeling this is the pill you are looking for
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by jklein11 3y ago
To be fair to the CEO, the layoffs were probably happening either way and the tropical team building activity probably didn't have an impact on the size/scale of layoffs. The acquiring company was going to cut head count and neede
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by jklein11 3y ago
Not an answer to your question but why are you offering sentimentscanner for free?
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by jklein11 3y ago
What about Google workspace is costing you clients?
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by jklein11 3y ago
I know this is completely unrelated to you post but I'm surprised that COVID impacted you so hard. I would have thought that the trend toward hybrid work would have boosted demand. Any insight as to what didn't work?
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by jklein11 3y ago
I'm a fan of Shaan Puri's template. https://shaan.beehiiv.com/p/pitch-deck-template
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by jklein11 3y ago
Yeah - if you didn't have a lawyer take a look at the policy, what was the point of even putting the policy up there? and if you did have a lawyer look at it and they didn't catch it - get rid of that lawyer lol
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by jklein11 3y ago
I would say there are two ends of the spectrum. On the idealistic side: The market for equities is enormous. Making it work requires some blunt instrumentation. This creates inefficiencies that hedge funds exploit. These exploitations make
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by jklein11 3y ago
Why do you care if the end user is AI or human?
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by jklein11 3y ago
Would the lock have prevented someone from breaking open the case?
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by jklein11 3y ago
My dude - I think you have mistaken this website with www.reddit.com
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by jklein11 3y ago
Not if Amazon isn’t paying for the delivery drivers time
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by jklein11 3y ago
Github's SLA is only for 3 9s of availability. For enterprises there is likely much more visibility for applications who's downtime had direct impact to revenue. If a system that processes orders or claims or shipments go down the
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by jklein11 3y ago
I don't have a course but this sounds like a good idea. I would try researching content creators and then offering to do their courses for free. I will note that this is probably not going to help you become a software engineer but cou
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by jklein11 3y ago
If you are doing content creation part time you are going to have more income than the 2k. the 50% is likely the marginal rate though and not the effective rate.
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by jklein11 3y ago
Usually BAAs are required for IT vendors from healthcare companies before they start getting paid. It doesn't mean that they are claiming that their systems are HIPAA compliant
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by jklein11 3y ago
I made this change a year ago for similar reasons to you - I didn't want to be coding for the rest of my career. I can say this is one of the decisions in my career that I truly regret. For me at least, it felt like I was completely st

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