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by jmcgough 9y ago
Really glad to see people like this getting called out. Dealing with sexual harassment/assault from someone in power is the last thing you want as a female founder - you have a million other things you need to do to keep your startup a
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by jmcgough 9y ago
found your reddit AMA after reading this story, super cool. Just ordered a hot sauce sampler <3
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by jmcgough 9y ago
As a rubyist, I found Elixir was a great entrypoint - from there you can learn OTP behaviors like GenServer, and slowly start to learn Erlang syntax from using stuff like its data structures or ETS. Haven't found anything as great as w
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by jmcgough 9y ago
If you want tours of tech companies, go to a meetup (through meetup.com) and ask for a tour from one of the employees after the talks finish.
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by jmcgough 9y ago
you start hiding money in shell companies overseas
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by jmcgough 9y ago
I wonder how much of the 0.25% is recouped by wealthfront's tax loss harvesting.
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by jmcgough 9y ago
Non-binary queer woman here. I can usually get a vibe at interviews about the company culture, from the people I talk to (my questions and their general personalities). The only team I've ever felt "normal" at was one where o
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by jmcgough 9y ago
I know people who're 100k in debt who wouldn't agree with that.
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by jmcgough 9y ago
Reddit took off within months of its launch. ~30 days to download data is pretty standard.
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by jmcgough 9y ago
That would be a benefit to your CV for a number of positions. Entry-level undergrad science internships tend to be extremely competitive, I was never able to land one. One of the best things you can do is, assuming you're at a univer
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by jmcgough 9y ago
Wow, your music is great!
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by jmcgough 9y ago
AR callbacks can also make it harder to write tests.
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by jmcgough 9y ago
http://slatestarcodex.com https://www.gwern.net/ https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/
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by jmcgough 9y ago
I was interviewing for PhD programs after working in an neurosci lab all through undergrad. I skipped the 6 years of 20k/year poverty and joined a tech startup instead. Several of my friends are in PhD programs, work far harder than
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by jmcgough 9y ago
(Not at 10 years, but...) Take care of yourself. You are not a robot. Showering, skin care, hair care and sleep are important. It's worth it to go to a good stylist regularly. If you're happy, you're doing better work, and mo
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by jmcgough 10y ago
https://www.indivisibleguide.com/act-locally/
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by jmcgough 10y ago
It sounds like you haven't really been pushing yourself out of your comfort zone, and instead have plateau'd in terms of growth. Pick something that you find interesting, and go really deep in it (read books on the topic, develop
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by jmcgough 10y ago
> Presumably this blood draining procedure has gone through a medical ethics review? There's no IRB because it's not funded research, just harvesting resources from animals. When it comes to farming, there are no federal laws g
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by jmcgough 10y ago
This isn't a viable option for a 40 year old man with limited computer skills (and maybe not even a high school education) and is spending all their free time doing uber to feed and house a family. We can't simply dismiss people f
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by jmcgough 10y ago
I see homeless people eating them all the time in the mission (and the plaid-colored boxes littering the streets). My guess is they're being given to shelters and food kitchens.
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by jmcgough 10y ago
Totally agree. The distinction I'm trying to make is that it's easy to let these things happen when you're focused on building and selling a product. I'm positive that no CEO wants their business to be a place where wome
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by jmcgough 10y ago
This is the mentality that leads to drama explosions like at Uber. They were all focused on making money and building a big company. Because of this, they ignored the "little things" like building a HR department that could suppor
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by jmcgough 10y ago
Sadly, the post has no meaningful information beyond that he's resigning.
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by jmcgough 10y ago
The 3rd party is whoever sells amazon the inventory, which may not even be the company that produced the product. There's a lot of opportunities for counterfeits to get introduced into the pool of real products, and there's a lot
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by jmcgough 10y ago
I've stopped using amazon for products that are easy to counterfeit. Beauty products are especially bad. It's really hard to know that a shampoo is real just by looking at it, and if you can sell a bottle of colored foam for $40,
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by jmcgough 10y ago
There's also Yume Nikki, which is surreal and fascinating, about a hikikomori girl who travels through her dreams. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yume_Nikki
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by jmcgough 10y ago
The entire article body could have been deleted and replaced with "I'm taking on technical debt for a higher initial velocity"
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by jmcgough 10y ago
For anyone who finds this interesting, I strongly recommend "Masters of Doom" by David Kushner, which focuses on the history of iD software, John Carmack and John Romero.
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by jmcgough 10y ago
wow, better roguelike than I could make in a month
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by jmcgough 10y ago
I'm a woman in tech, and situations like this never seemed real to me until similar things like this happened to my female friends (and, to a lesser degree, to me).

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