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   by jnovek 8y ago

   :-( I am sorry. I don’t know you, but you did not deserve to be sexually assaulted.
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   by jnovek 8y ago

   YC advises founders on who they should raise money from. They also pick who to invite to demo day. It’s not all the leverage in the world, but the valley is small and, for a VC partner, deal flow is everything. For those women who do want
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   by jnovek 8y ago

   I’m also excited to see this progression. I remember being showered with downvotes only 5 years ago when I took the unpopular stance that the SV monoculture was poinsonous. But don’t forget — it’s about making a better world, not winning a
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   by jnovek 8y ago

   I see this as a rising tide. The amount or women sexually harassed appears to be much higher than the amount of men. By establishing policies that benefit the biggest victim group, you can pave the way to better policies for all the group
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   by jnovek 8y ago

   I think the idea is to get founders to report while minimizing exposure to retaliation for the founder. In the same way that a female founder should not be harassed, she should also not be required to martyr her company for the greater goo
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   by jnovek 8y ago

   I’m pretty much just trying to say, “Let’s talk about the science.” Of course here I am, with the top post at the moment being a non-accretive meta-discussion about gender politics. I guess I’ll go upvote all the people who are talking abo
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   by jnovek 8y ago

   Sorry if I wasn’t clear — “gender politics” is the discussion of the societal role of gender, it doesn’t imply politics in the sense of government and leadership. What I’m getting at is that there’s a perfectly interesting article which my
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   by jnovek 8y ago

   Why all the wasteful discussion about gender politics? Read the last sentence of the abstract — “Overall, these results show how sex differences can manifest unexpectedly, highlighting the importance of sex as a factor in the design and an
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   by jnovek 8y ago

   A similar situation has already played out with people who deal with chronic pain and opiods. Stricter laws may reduce abuse but they have a chilling effect on prescribing physicians.
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    by jnovek 8y ago

    The DEA drug schedule is a hot mess. https://www.dea.gov/drug-scheduling There's no planet where Ritalin has a higher potential for abuse and addiction than Xanax. Not to mention all the lower-risk drugs that have bee
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    by jnovek 8y ago

    I'm similar -- thankfully, when I panic I can frequently get through it without taking a benzo, but I do have clonazepam on hand for the situations where it might be very useful. There are times where I would've likely made poor d
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    by jnovek 8y ago

    Benzos generally treat acute anxiety where serotonin/norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors treat chronic anxiety. Further, some folks don't tolerate SS(N)RI's very well, they have wide-ranging and difficult side-effects.
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    by jnovek 8y ago

    For what it's worth, I have generalized anxiety and have used clonazepam as short-term treatment for panic attacks. I would love to see psychotherapy lose the taboo it carries because it's been the most effective treatment I&#x27
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    by jnovek 8y ago

    Cannabis derived treatments do seem promising... someday. Imagine that marijuana is (at a minimum) federally rescheduled to schedule 2 in the US. How long will it take to research canniboid-based painkillers once drug companies can legally
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    by jnovek 8y ago

    Serious question: as we make opiods and now bezos increasingly difficult to prescribe, what are the alternatives for people with chronic pain or chronic anxiety? I have friends and family members with chronic pain and, through them and thei
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    by jnovek 8y ago

    "How much effort do you want me to put into my work?" I would hope that a candidate with that sort of response when handed an olive branch would have been screened out of the hiring process at an earlier stage than salary negotiat
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    by jnovek 8y ago

    The variation of this that I usually ask is, "What salary do you need to maintain a comfortable cost of living and what do you consider a fair salary given your experience and the job requirements?" Depending on my flexibility in
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    by jnovek 9y ago

    I've long maintained a maxim that's something like "Look in the opposite direction of everyone else." So when everyone flocks to the bay area, get the heck out of there. When everyone says "I have no space for jun
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    by jnovek 9y ago

    I am philosophically similar, although I generally hire at a 2 to 1 ratio, senior to junior. I've found that I'm (as in, the boss guy) the most common blockade to ensuring that mentorship is productive and not disruptive. A 2 to
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    by jnovek 10y ago

    Software Engineer | Austin, TX | OwnLocal (YC W2010) Positions: Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Senior Front End Software Engineer TL;DR: Full-time, local only. RoR, Go, JavaScript, SQL, ElasticSearch but we think you can learn
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    by jnovek 11y ago

    Software Engineer | Austin, TX | OwnLocal (YC W2010) Positions: Senior Software Engineer, Junior Software Engineer TL;DR: Full-time, local only. RoR, Go, JavaScript, SQL, ElasticSearch but we think you can learn these things on the job if y
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    by jnovek 11y ago

    Software Engineer | Austin, TX | OwnLocal (YC W2010) Positions: Senior Software Engineer, Junior Software Engineer, Product Manager and Project Manager TL;DR: Full-time, local only. Contact hack@ownlocal.com. RoR, Go, ElasticSearch but we t
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    by jnovek 11y ago

    If you're going to post on HN that you're in search of a job, you should probably include a way for interested parties to contact you... because I'm an interested party. :-) We (OwnLocal; http://ownlocal.com ) work
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    by jnovek 12y ago

    I guess this matters to me because I've worked at places where they didn't :-/.
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    by jnovek 12y ago

    Senior Software Engineer | Austin, TX | OwnLocal (YC W2010) TL;DR: Full-time, local only. Contact hack@ownlocal.com. RoR, Go, ElasticSearch but we think you can learn these things on the job if you're competent. We treat employees like
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    by jnovek 12y ago

    Senior Software Engineer | Austin, TX | OwnLocal (YC W2010) TL;DR: Full-time, non-remote only. Contact jason@ownlocal.com. RoR, Go, ElasticSearch but we think you can learn these things on the job if you're competent. We treat emplo
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    by jnovek 12y ago

    Hey! So I'm not an expert, but I'm learning more every day. It sounds like you're conflating three (or more) problems -- knowing if your data is relational in its nature, understanding how to efficiently retrieve the data
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    by jnovek 13y ago

    I'm using an iPhone 5. I don't really have a problem with charging, it's just that it doesn't offer any advantages over a normal digital watch right now and it still has to be charged every few days. I've tried a lo
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    by jnovek 13y ago

    I wish I could say the same thing about my Pebble. It constantly disconnects from my phone and Pebble's support take 5+ days to respond with boilerplate. Right now it's an overpriced plastic non-smart watch that I have to charge
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    by jnovek 13y ago

    The thing the author is challenging here is not whether Silicon Valley is a meritocracy, but whether it is as much of a meritocracy as its participants believe. It doesn't matter much how it compares to other industries. In my (limite