mildbow

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by mildbow 11y ago
Haha. Yeah, often times it does feel like the grass is greener on the other side. Which is why having an actual offer is great to bolster your asking number and your commitment to your current employer. Either way, it's win win :)
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by mildbow 11y ago
Lots of things here so my response is going to be a little jumbled :) Yeah, regression to mean definitely a thing. It can topple justifiably confident people and/or prop up frauds. In my experience, decision by committee has never work
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by mildbow 11y ago
I'm all for doing what you can to up your pay because, at the end of the day, that's the only concrete way a company can show that it values you. However, quaterly seems a bit extreme to the point of being nagging/needy. Cons
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by mildbow 11y ago
My personal experience has been different. I feel like that's just the risk averse part of you speaking. If you value a dev, would you really let him go over a bad quarter for ~20-40k vs another one who isn't "as good"?
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by mildbow 11y ago
5%? Guys, I hope you are asking for/getting more than that. The foolproof way to get a raise is to have another offer. Don't say: I have recruiters contacting me (everyone does). Just get a concrete offer. Then say you have an of
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by mildbow 11y ago
Sure about that ? :) Jokes aside, exuding confidence is different from being confident and orthogonal from the truthiness of you statement/position. Being a leader means that you can exude confidence regardless of how confident you a
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by mildbow 11y ago
They aren't mutually exclusive: being nice or not is a tool in your toolbox for all interactions. You can be nice all the time, but that doesn't mean you'll be effective all the time. It's crazy to me that we engineers a
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by mildbow 11y ago
Actually, you'd be surprised. I'm taking the "jerk" definition to mean a sense of self-entitlement and sense of power. You don't need to be a jerk and eat the last cookie but having a strong sense of "alpha&quo
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by mildbow 11y ago
Identifying the great people to hire is the problem. Note also that the definition of great is a function of (atleast) timing and domain knowledge as well as raw ability.
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Really cool idea. I guess that it might make you liable if you get a "confidentiality required/don't read if it's not sent to you" sort of emails?
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by mildbow 11y ago
Um. Yeah. That's what I address with "Assuming your point is "we need more women in panels""
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by mildbow 11y ago
And your point is? Assuming your point is "we need more women in panels", here's my take as a consumer: I want to listen to experts, not experts who are women, or experts who are black or experts who are gay or experts who ar
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by mildbow 11y ago
Life? Of course not. But maybe your dreams seem farther away or less realistic. After 35 you've probably got a kid or two, a mortgage and all that comes with it. You definitely don't have as much potential time to put towards wh
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by mildbow 11y ago
Based on your answers, I recommend offering to do the iphone app as a contractor. Exactly how much you charge depends on how much of the 3 areas you have to work on (design, iphone app dev, backend dev). Just off the cuff, I would say don&#
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by mildbow 11y ago
I gave atom a shot ~6months back (ooh pretty), but gave up due to just how slow it was. I just downloaded it and it's still much slower than sublime text3. SublimeText3 works great, so why are people willing to jump that ship onto this
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by mildbow 11y ago
It's not worth it for your stated reason. But, I know of lots of people who did it so they could leverage that to a job in the US.
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by mildbow 11y ago
Actually, I do feel like tech hasn't doesn't what it could to provide for greater transparency/accountability regarding our elected officials. Going off on a slight tangent here, but a thought I've had is that politician
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by mildbow 11y ago
Hahaha. And you think this is something google might reasonably do? Fuck. If you are around the NoVA/DC area let me know. I'll buy you a drink just so I can get a good laugh :)
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by mildbow 11y ago
Sure. But that requires atleast a subpoena. So there is atleast some expectation of due process. Which means Google or any other company can push back. Failing that, something like Snowden can happen. Contrast that with police collecting th
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by mildbow 11y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish
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by mildbow 11y ago
I had a whole reply typed up. But it basically boiled down to : hate the game, don't hate the player. So you give msft shit. Ok, some other corp will take its place. Change the way the government works, maybe you fix the cause rather t
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by mildbow 11y ago
again, my point wasn't so you could think of what Google "could do". But, rather contrast what Google might reasonably do and contrast with what the police might reasonably do. But hey, feel free to over-react on google
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by mildbow 11y ago
Can you give me some examples of what google might reasonably do with my data that can negatively affect my life to the same magnitude as what the police/government might reasonably do? Ideally, maybe no one should track my every move.
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by mildbow 11y ago
Microsoft isn't the problem (this coming from someone who didn't take an internship offer on ideological grounds). They already have that discount (aka government contracts they would get blacklisted for if they didn't agree)
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by mildbow 11y ago
Of course. The most google can do: send you ads for shovels. The most police can do: pull you in for murder because they correlated your car to where and when some body was buried.
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by mildbow 11y ago
It helps them recruit young/naive devs for their portfolio companies. That's it. But it also hurts YC. They are selling out the value of "we will look at your application regardless of your network" which will mean lots
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by mildbow 11y ago
How about: "Your network matters: work at a YC startup" We are mostly adults here, why so much equivocation?
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by mildbow 11y ago
Obviously it depends on the recommendation, but assuming both being equal, it's an interesting question. The former talks about getting a stamp of approval on the team while the latter talks about a stamp of approval on the execution&#
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by mildbow 11y ago
"hack"? That's supposed to be a way to get around the system. Even "trick" implies some form of short-circuiting. This, however, says "work a few years and we might look at your application a little more closel
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by mildbow 11y ago
Well. YC is elitist. At some point, just based on volume you have to be selective in a way that's perceived as being elitist. You have 5 applicants. They all look great/same. One of them has a reference you can trust. OF COURSE

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