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by johnrob 10y ago
Depending on the org structure, pair programming can sometimes be a clearly superior version of a code review policy. Particularly when the review latency is high and, as a consequence, developers work on several branches in parallel.
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by johnrob 11y ago
As far as I can tell, law enforcement is not penalized for executing a search warrant that doesn't pan out. Same goes for the courts that approve them, often ignoring a lack of true probable cause and/or being misled by the agent
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by johnrob 11y ago
I think you mean "in an hour?", which is how long the meeting lasts.
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by johnrob 11y ago
All of these claims are true in any market, but we ignore them during booms because fundraising is easier (and de-risks our startup involvement). The only novelty in this article is a return to honesty.
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by johnrob 11y ago
Paul Graham actually has a blueprint for managing these kind of tradeoffs (speed vs quality) in his growth essay: http://paulgraham.com/growth.html . While the main point is that growth defines startups, there's anothe
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by johnrob 11y ago
Could Apple alter the icloud account in question such that a login succeeds with any password or session key? I wonder if there is some variant of that which would allow the remote backup strategy to work.
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by johnrob 11y ago
It's the difference between a sellers' and buyers' market (boom vs bust). To get a low entry point during a boom, you have to invest before there's hard evidence of success. Kind of like how a race car needs to turn be
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by johnrob 11y ago
VCs end up holding public shares when their portfolio companies IPO.
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by johnrob 11y ago
>> The first step was when Hugo Chávez's socialist government started spending more money on the poor, with everything from two-cent gasoline to free housing. That sounds exactly like the kind of thing we (HN crowd) have been dre
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by johnrob 11y ago
They're probably thinking that since so many people are familiar with facebook's UX, it can become the baseline for an office collaboration tool (one with a very small learning curve).
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by johnrob 11y ago
Inflation is the obvious issue here IMO. If basic income is X, then X really just becomes the new zero. We either need to provide products themselves (free food, housing, healthcare) or somehow lock the price of those things. I suspect b
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by johnrob 11y ago
There may be another link between QE and housing: I suspect a large motivator of QE was to avoid deflation, which could have caused a large number of foreclosures. So the notion of QE propping up home prices might have been the intended ef
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by johnrob 11y ago
It's happening! Those companies that serve the cushy urbanites (Uber et al) are also providing above-minimum-wage jobs to the unexotic underclass.
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by johnrob 11y ago
Instagram needs to switch that user's account to VIP - in that case (I'm guessing) you stop getting individual push notifications and instead get aggregate events sent to you ("your recent picture has higher than normal engag
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by johnrob 11y ago
But they'll interview for free? They don't need to be large contributions (and if small changes require too much time, that becomes a natural filter).
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by johnrob 11y ago
Why don't companies manage open source projects, and simply require a certain amount of contribution as a gateway to a final interview? This would allow candidates to prove their ability to write production ready code.
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by johnrob 11y ago
Spot on. Uber and Lyft made legality gambles that paid off (they weren't shut down), and were then able to reap the reward (apps were easy to use). I hope hindsight doesn't forget that it was indeed a gamble. Homejoy made a simi
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by johnrob 11y ago
The ride sharing industry is finally offering ride sharing! Seriously though, I never understood why we've been calling them 'ride sharing' apps, when they've essentially been drivers-for-hire.
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by johnrob 11y ago
When measuring the effectiveness via reduction of issues, how do you account the natural stability introduced by reducing the updates/week each developer ships? When devs are tasked with code reviews and/or QA, this is time that
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by johnrob 11y ago
The government should actively maintain an over supply of housing. This works for food; prices have been consistently low for a long time now. If you can reduce the amount people pay on housing, they'll spend it on items that actuall
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by johnrob 11y ago
Your question seems unexpected, and not necessarily in the charter of every programming gig. I happen to have a great answer to it, after making big improvements to build times, but that is pure chance. The comment at the top of this whol
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by johnrob 11y ago
Sadly, you don't normally get your 'real' offer until you announce intention to leave. This is partly because all hiring processes are flawed and you can't really evaluate an employee until after a few months at least.
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by johnrob 11y ago
Couldn't agree more. This is the consumer version of a business that focuses on revenue while ignoring profit margin.
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by johnrob 11y ago
The correct thing to do is build a shit ton of housing. But that will never happen politically. So I was simply offering a solution that might be attainable.
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by johnrob 11y ago
Companies aren't proactively encouraging employees to migrate though. The employee has to ask for a approval, and if granted it's generally considered a favor.
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by johnrob 11y ago
I think about this quite often. Perhaps a more effective argument for this effort is social impact (rather than financial savings). The tech industry is reeking havoc upon lower income earners by rapidly increasing the cost of living. Ir
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by johnrob 11y ago
I think this math also explains why equity disputes, often caused by someone wanting 10-50% more, are a waste of effort. Again, it's case of optimizing the weaker multiplier.
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by johnrob 11y ago
(A late reply here) Maybe you can think of this as 'earn their belief' instead of 'ask them to believe'. The end goal is believers - but how you get there matters too.
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by johnrob 11y ago
Possible downside to 10/20/30/40: does this make employees less mobile? From the company perspective, if we all start imposing this schedule, it might harm the recruiting pipeline. While startups all want committed employee
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by johnrob 11y ago
The best case for velocity over time is a line that slowly declines to the right. Even with the cleanest code, as a product adds features it takes longer and longer to properly add the next one. Part of this is simply the multitude of cas

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