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by mindvirus 11y ago
Edit your resume. Get your friends to help you, professors, post it here and get hacker news to help (brave!), or even hire a professional service to do it. Find a nice template online and use that. I've seen an astonishing number of a
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by mindvirus 11y ago
I would recommend going for an A-list big company out of school (Google, Facebook, etc) for a couple of years. They will teach you a lot about infrastructure and software engineering, you'll find a mentor, and the name on your resume w
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by mindvirus 11y ago
One thing that I would add as a worker is to be cognizant of people on work visas. In America, H1Bs have very oppressive terms for being out of work, in that one is technically immediately out of status if laid off. This means that they wou
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by mindvirus 12y ago
The first thing to determine is what your culture is, and then define what it means for someone to fit or not fit that culture. It's not whether you like the person, which is a mistake that a lot of companies make. Write it down - your
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by mindvirus 12y ago
The variant works like this: A player picks a door, and Monty picks a door, and whoever gets the right door gets the prize. Monty knows what is behind every door, so the prize is either behind the player's door or Monty's. So now,
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by mindvirus 12y ago
Another way to think about it: Imagine instead of opening the door, Monty points to a door and says that the prize is either behind this door, or the one you chose, and the question is, who is right? This is equivalent, but seems easier to
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by mindvirus 12y ago
There are a few things going on here. I don't think the world has fully realized this yet, but there's huge divergence in skill of developers. I know a few developers who are worth $500k/year, if not more. And I know plenty o
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by mindvirus 12y ago
A little bit off topic: Setting goals is something that I'm pretty bad at - at work, I set obvious goals like "finish project X by Y.", but other than that, I have a hard time setting goals in my life. I have some higher leve
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by mindvirus 12y ago
Because they can take integral types, they can take function addresses. This is a really interesting article: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/11015/The-Impossibly-Fas... By passing the address of the function
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by mindvirus 12y ago
This raises the question: if the judge's option ends up being held, would any non-US based company buy services from a US company?
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by mindvirus 12y ago
<2 as well
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by mindvirus 13y ago
For software patents, I'm a fan of Richard Stallman's idea that software patents should require working, annotated source code be attached. I think that this would make it easier to compare ideas to those in previous patents. If p
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by mindvirus 13y ago
Does this make it illegal for someone on an H1B to mine bitcoins?
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by mindvirus 13y ago
I don't understand what you're saying. Decline which stock offering? Don't work for equity at all, you mean?
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by mindvirus 13y ago
His last clause is interesting: > Last, because two thirds of employees know squat about acquisition-based vesting acceleration triggers, they often sign offer letters that give them no protection against being demoted or fired before or
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by mindvirus 13y ago
Not only does this look great, but the code is really clean too - both the javascript and the generated HTML. Nice touch that things are clickable. Seriously awesome work.
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by mindvirus 13y ago
No, I don't think any of those things, but you're the second person to get that out of my post, so I apologize for being unclear. First, see my reply to winterswift above (below?). I think that by having a two tier system, you end
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by mindvirus 13y ago
You are making a reductio ad absurdum. I'm not proposing that private schools all close their doors tomorrow - of course there would be chaos - but that in long term planning of the education system, we should consider that that privat
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by mindvirus 13y ago
I feel like if we want to start addressing inequality in education, we have to start with private grade schools. In particular, I think that private high schools and grade schools should be stopped, and everyone should be forced to use the
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by mindvirus 13y ago
20 year olds are the ones that go to war though, aren't they? And yet they have the most life ahead of them. Of course, everything looks bad if you only look at the negative aspects of it. Certainly risks would change. Life does seem l
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by mindvirus 13y ago
That's not what I'm saying. If the cost of labor is increasing, the amount that funding gets you decreases, as I assume that most of what funding is used for is paying salaries. Equity is also a cost. If before you gave early hire
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by mindvirus 13y ago
A good senior engineer these days costs somewhere around $200k/year (if not more) in a major US tech hub, factoring in overhead costs of salary and benefits. This is something that most seed or series A companies can't really affo