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by kohanz 11y ago
Congrats! This is a big accomplishment in and of itself. To throw in my 2 cents, without any expert knowledge or experience, I think your corporate price is too low by about an order of magnitude.
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by kohanz 11y ago
TLDR: Having kids will develop skills (time management) that will help you achieve your other career goals, in the long run I don't have specific advice, but can perhaps offer some hope to give you a long-term view on this. Our first
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I often hear the touting of project-based billing, but the reason I'm afraid to make the jump is that in my field (developing prototypes, often novel, for scientific applications), the requirements are just not well-defined enough to g
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by kohanz 11y ago
I think using a start/stop timer is selling yourself short. Almost every programmer has ebbs and flows between thoughts and output (e.g. writing code). When I take a brief break from coding to check my e-mail or something, it's no
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by kohanz 11y ago
The idea that everyone can and should work at a company where they really believe in the mission or culture of that company seems at least somewhat idealistic and naïve.
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This is a useful response not because I'll ask for the same terms as investors, but because I think that's a good negotiating tool to ask for more equity. I doubt they want to give me the same terms as their investors, nor do I wa
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by kohanz 11y ago
Are you saying that when early employees (e.g. Engineer #1 or CTO) are offered equity, that it is usually awarded as options and not true ownership shares in the company?
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by kohanz 11y ago
Thank you. This is a clear explanation of some of the considerations I need to be aware of (but was not).
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> If you're just doing a short term job as opposed to sticking with this company for the long term To expand, this is also being discussed. They have made overtures to bring me on as CTO, but we both agreed it would be best to try e
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In this scenario, the amount of equity being offered is in lieu of market-level compensation. I know typically you want to get full market compensation + equity, but the claim is the company can't afford it at this moment (common start
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by kohanz 11y ago
Regardless of how the absence is handled, having the returning leader managing 1 person instead of the team they previously managed and then putting them on a performance improvement plan sounds a lot like constructive dismissal [0]. This
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Ask HN: When compensation includes equity, can I ask proof of valuation?
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I'm as big of a Crichton fan as they come, but I don't understand how someone can discover that he put this passage in his book (likely to take an underhanded shot at the critic, but if not, to what end?) and not have a lower opin
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by kohanz 11y ago
Thanks for posting this. Crichton was my favourite author when I was a young boy (I still remember how engrossing Sphere was for me) and to this day I had no idea that he tried his hand at programming.
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If I'm understanding this correctly and it is just a package shipment being re-directed 7 times, I would say that the title is misleading. At first I thought that a (flying?) robot was actually crossing the ocean 7 times by itself, wit
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by kohanz 11y ago
Maybe this is a dumb question, but can you please define "client services"?
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by kohanz 11y ago
Thank you for the PAAS recommendations. I agree one hospital and then upward would be the way to start, but we've got a bit of a different scenario. We're coming into a project where the non-technical founders out-sourced the MVP
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Super helpful response. Thank you! > What data are you trying to store? A couple of fields could be imported by integrating with existing EMR/EHR through HL7, but at this early stage I don't envision any integration and these
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Thank you. This at least indicates that my gut feeling isn't too far off. Do you feel comfortable plugging your company? If not, feel free to ping me at the address in my profile.
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by kohanz 11y ago
Thanks for the helpful response. There are a bunch of great resources out there for achieving HIPAA compliance and given those, I'm confident that we can achieve it. What is unclear to me is, if we build such a solution, and then go in
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by kohanz 11y ago
I agree that things are moving in the right direction. The trouble is that when building a solution that should be expandable to more centers as the customer base grows, you almost have to build it for the lowest common denominator (in othe
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Ask HN: Working within constraints of hospital IT?
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If you believe that "everything is known" when playing the game of chess, I suggest you challenge Magnus Carlsen for the title of best player in the world right now! edit #2 Just thought of the perfect (pardon the pun) analogy. Ch
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Translatable skills? No. Improved brain function? Yes, I believe so. It has been shown in various studies that learning and excelling at chess changes the way that your brain is wired in a way that improves your analytical thinking and prob
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by kohanz 11y ago
Thank you for the kind words!
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by kohanz 11y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote or based in SW Ontario, Canada LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/zamkhan Web: www.rowmajor.com Recent client: "As an academic entrepreneur, I have engaged in a number of out-sourcing proces
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by kohanz 11y ago
Algorithmics [0] (acquired by IBM [1]) is one. [0] http://www-01.ibm.com/software/analytics/algorithmics/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmics_Inc .
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> 1. Anyone who can get an add-in pasted corporate software security can also use a better tool outside Excel. In other words: think carefully about the customer. What other tools are available? A lot of technical people don't cho
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by kohanz 11y ago
> But I wonder how much resistance you would get from the military, veterans, military families, and so on who make the argument that for every robot we make a human soldier doesn't have to be put at risk. Or it could go the other

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