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by jordo37 13y ago
I want to echo what tptacek is saying here, though I didn't write much here on HN about the issue. I have been talking with colleagues and friends and the comments in the article seemed well intentioned but a little tone deaf. I am rel
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by jordo37 13y ago
This seems naive. There are those with power, who not only make decisions based on their own work but also by setting precedent. If you look at other accelerators and how many of them follow the practicies and forms put down first by YC the
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by jordo37 13y ago
There are things in the edited version of the interview that are problematic - not offensive, and PG also points this out. The very first incorrect quote - "We can't make women look at the world through hacker eyes and start Faceb
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by jordo37 13y ago
Great refinement mike. I did speech (forensics) throughout all of high school and the trick is exactly what he says at the bottom - you work through the speech as is, with full sentences because it allows you to take advantage of excellent
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by jordo37 13y ago
> 1. Any good interview process should try and see through the interview skills and look more at the job candidate's actual skills that they're being hired for. A company's inability to do so isn't a referendum on the
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by jordo37 13y ago
This is interesting and I always love urban planning discussions, but I feel there is something a little off about this. It seems to be suggesting that that reason people in non-urban areas are overweight / drive is because of dendriti
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by jordo37 13y ago
Man, what the hell. This is despicable but also just dumb - someone already got in trouble for this exact same stuff last year and there was media coverage. At least when lame-o's come up with new forms of misogyny it advances the conv
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by jordo37 13y ago
Honest question: Why are laptops not productive for you?
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by jordo37 13y ago
This doesn't make sense or I am missing something. If you find a floorplan and it has enough light, and then repeat it upwards, won't every floor have similar amounts of light? In that way high-rises are a GREAT way to have many p
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by jordo37 13y ago
Even then I think you are chasing the wrong horse. My wife has worked in non-profits and social good startups for several years now and getting to know her friends it's obvious that sometimes they may make decisions based around financ
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by jordo37 13y ago
Perfect Audience - San Francisco, Chicago, Remote Hi. We're Perfect Audience. We help companies get more sales and customers so they can hire more folks and ship better products. We do this through what's know as ad retargeting
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by jordo37 13y ago
Perfect Audience - SF, CA - Dev Ops About the Position: One of the most important roles in the build-out and maintenance of this system to fill is the dev-ops / automation engineer role. We need someone to help us assemble the airplane
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Automation Engineer at Perfect Audience – High Volume, 100% uptime
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Dev Ops at Perfect Audience – 100% uptime, high volume, continuously deployed
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by jordo37 13y ago
I would also highly encourage you to look at Balanced or Stripe for checkout - the integration isn't too bad, the pricing is great and you have full control over the look and feel of your checkout pages. Also, great tip on the CVV2 inf
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by jordo37 13y ago
I would like to seem a fact supporting this, I have never been to a country where comparing objects in ads was outlawed, but to be honest I have spent most of my life in the US and travled only to Western Europe.
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Java hacker? Perfect Audience is hiring a full-stack dev
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by jordo37 13y ago
That also suggests there is a natural ratio, something I for one don't believe. I do agree with part of what you are saying though - the work done in colleges and in the hiring space needs to reflect some sort of existing ratio of people wh
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by jordo37 13y ago
I've joined a YC company as a founder after the actual YC sprint and I would definitely echo much of what garry is saying here even for myself. Our other investors are good people, but none of them offer the accessibility and information ev
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by jordo37 14y ago
Stories like this make me feel so LUCKY to have gone to both a high school and a university with excellent, nationally recognized publications. I learned more about writing, design, inter-office politics, management issues and how to balanc
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Ads / RTB Hacker? Perfect Audience is hiring a full-stack dev
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by jordo37 14y ago
I completely agree with the gist of this article - taking a risk right now as an engineer is in no way dangerous. Not saying it won't be 12 months or even 6 months from now and taking a risky job can set you up for a bad time later. That be
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by jordo37 14y ago
I'm fairly sure that's not how sleep debt works and part of the reason its a faulty name. The idea of sleep debt more refers to the long-term effects of a lack of sleep on your overall health. So if you skimp on hours of sleep during the we
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by jordo37 14y ago
It could very easily be seen as a monopolistic move on their part if they were to move in that direction oddly enough.
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by jordo37 14y ago
Not sure what subset of women you are talking with, but there seem to be plenty of women (and men! myself included)[1] who are definitely not furious with Adria over this, and instead are standing up with her. I feel bad the guy got fired,
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by jordo37 14y ago
Uber is mentioned because as one of the other commenters mentions licensing processes that existing cab companies use offer real benefit in terms of knowing about your driver population, screening them and controlling them. The craiglist co
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by jordo37 14y ago
Fantastic comment. I care a lot about diversity in tech because I fully believe it will make tech better, but ultimately for me in my company I am always going to hire the best person for the specific job being considered - that's never a q
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by jordo37 14y ago
I am very curious about this. Does anyone have personal or even second-hand stories of a mental health professional for startups? I know of plenty of companies who do things to make employees "happy" - massages, free food, high salary - but
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by jordo37 14y ago
I don't know if I am blinded by my environs or by the 7 years since this, but how did the idea of selling his idea and then building it ever sound good?
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by jordo37 14y ago
I have built a couple enterprise one-off tools on Access and at the time (6 years ago) it was fantastic - easy to get access to remote databases, sync to local stores, run complicated data reports or structure entries using forms so that an

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