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by lrobb 15y ago
It's one thing to say there's no set hours, it's another thing entirely to be in a place where you're surrounded by workaholics and your performance is measured on what you produce -- think about it: if you don't burn yourself at both ends,
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by lrobb 15y ago
Ok... with correlation vs. causation out of the way, and a ridiculously small sample size to boot, it appears the average age of Forbes 400 tech company founders was almost 32 at the time of the founding their companies ( http://goo.gl/iHAE
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by lrobb 15y ago
Originally that was true, but the author mentions NT4 and I believe MS rewrote the engine specifically for NT...
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by lrobb 15y ago
"Dropbox... It's a feature, not a company"! (Steve Jobs) Not only that... but I thought Dropbox was a feature built on top of S3? Not true?
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by lrobb 15y ago
>> Most hackers who start startups wish they could do it by just writing some clever software I wonder if the word "hackers" ought to be replaced with "young hackers of the type to apply to YC"? If you're fresh out of school, or hav
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by lrobb 15y ago
>> The first order engineering of making that happen, assuming you disable some Windows-specific functionality, was rather small (on the order of a few manweeks). I have a hard time believing that. I used to write to the Windows int
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by lrobb 15y ago
Yeah, I read it as 30k requests in a matter of seconds.
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by lrobb 15y ago
The reaction to this piece is interesting... I was sort of "ho-hum" about it, but I've written many a "web-app" in c/c++ - cgic on linux, isapi on windows... not to mention socket servers with thread pools implementing custom protocols... I
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by lrobb 15y ago
My favorites were bugs filed where numerous people would post about it, fb would never respond, then after a few months they would just "close" it due to inactivity! Mind-boggling.
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by lrobb 15y ago
I solved a test problem for a company once (gt 500 LOC), but it was after a pre-screen and the stated salary was 130-140k base, not including generous bonuses, in the Midwest. It was also when I had a lot of downtime, so I didn't mind. Now,
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Resume advice when company receives 200K resumes/year(youtube.com)
1 points by lrobb 15y ago|0 comments
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by lrobb 15y ago
"... nobody seems to think that I'm anything more than a code monkey" Are you talking to the wrong people? I realized something similar when going through tech interviews with a company (in a field I knew well) and none of the dev managers
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by lrobb 15y ago
hehe... I interviewed at a hedge fund once, 6 technical interviews in a row. One of the interviewers summed it up well when he said: "Brace yourself... The next guy is fresh out of CMU and is going to ask you questions you haven't thought a
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by lrobb 15y ago
Correct... and that rule of thumb factors that into account.
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by lrobb 15y ago
I'm surprised at some of the low points on here... The general rule is to take your desired annual income and divide by 1000 to get your hourly rate. So if you want to make $120,000 year, your hourly rate would be $120. I think a lot of "fr
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by lrobb 15y ago
Your take on the whiteboard is interesting, and I can definitely see value in that. Of all the interviews I've been on however, it wasn't about brainstorming at all. It was a test to see how well you knew your data structures / algorithms.
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by lrobb 15y ago
I've asked this of recruiters before... Instead of flying me in to do a full day of white-board technical interviews, why not just give me a short project and see what I produce? It's mind-boggling how broken our hiring practices are, yet h
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by lrobb 15y ago
I've telecommuted for over 10 years now... Last year I was given the "opportunity" to look for a new gig, and was horrified to find that the vast, vast majority of software companies are still stuck in a manufacturing mindset: show up at th
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by lrobb 15y ago
interesting original article >> "This manifests itself by a very singular phenomena: programmers hate each other. They usually bash other programmers" your reply >> "Then I realized, oh, (s)he's clueless."
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by lrobb 15y ago
From the article: "...look around for a profitable business... and build up a product that you can give away for free" I don't understand why techies are so quick to flip the "Race to the Bottom" switch as the defacto product marketing stra
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by lrobb 15y ago
"Well, with practically no increase in salary, I just don't see how this equity component makes it worth the risk to change jobs. Why should I take this offer? If we get bought or go public, I make about 50k for the next 3-4 years. That doe
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Pay engineers less by offering them shiny trinkets(markcunningham91.blogspot.com)
2 points by lrobb 15y ago|1 comments