moocow01

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by moocow01 14y ago
Id imagine that you are attempting to move cars down every street in "waves". It almost might be more helpful to think of it as a series of trains on each street. You likely can stagger the trains going north to south as well as the train
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by moocow01 14y ago
Perhaps you should interpret it as feedback that its not a hirer's market. In a market where most people have many opportunities the incentive to respond with a high effort response is very low. The better thing to do would be to consider
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by moocow01 14y ago
Sign yourself up for an MBSR (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction) class. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindfulness-based_stress_reduct... If you live near a major city you should likely be able to find a certified instructor who conducts
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by moocow01 14y ago
Every company I have ever worked at has had these "perks" of a discount store that has a mixed bag of "deals" from a bunch of random consumer companies - I can assure you that no employee is being retained because they get 15% off of movie
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by moocow01 14y ago
IMHO barring OOP from CS curriculum is just as ridiculous as basing your entire curriculum on OOP. I can understand certain people's hatred of OOP but it is certainly appropriate in certain circumstances. The most well educated will be th
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by moocow01 14y ago
It seems pretty obvious that Twitter is trying to become a business and these alienating changes are part of the strategy but the unfortunate part is that they seemingly have picked the completely wrong strategy around what their business s
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by moocow01 14y ago
I'm a little sad that Marissa seemingly doesn't seem to get incentives. Your people are probably not coming in likely because the company is not providing a positive environment. To speculate after a number of set of layoffs, getting medi
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by moocow01 14y ago
I have had the opposite problem - I've had people on my team that I wish would work remotely because they are frustrating to be in the same room with.
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by moocow01 14y ago
You need to start a C corp and roll it into a corporate retirement account under your new corporation. Your average financial advisor should be able to do this pretty cleanly for you. That being said I think its a really really bad idea bu
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by moocow01 14y ago
To me its more clear that these companies have pretty clueless managers that have no idea if their people are working or not.
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by moocow01 14y ago
Just to break this down a bit for you at 400k/year, your take home after taxes and extras will be somewhere in the ballpark of 18k/mo. Your nanny will be around 2500/mo - down to 15.5k Your 600k house will be around 4300/mo - down to 11k Ma
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by moocow01 14y ago
Largely agree with everything here but in my opinion many times there can be a very strong current that forces you to do it the fast, stupid way. In my opinion if you dont have any of these problems, you work in a unique place... - Agile
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by moocow01 14y ago
The cost of living is the real kicker in SF that makes you have to closely evaluate an offer if coming from another place. For single people its a lot easier to live in SF on around 70-100k. Having kids and family makes it harder in SF and
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by moocow01 14y ago
"That's 5.000 people" But its not 5000 people because they aren't graduating - they are just passing one class. If 5000 people pass that one class and then they have to stay motivated to pass 20 more... its not going to be 5000 people that
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by moocow01 14y ago
"According to the article, an average MOOC enrollment is 50.000. Let's assume 10% completion rate. That's 5.000 people. It would take my university 33 years to graduate that many people (assuming 100% completion rate)." You are comparing a
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by moocow01 14y ago
I can only speak from my own experience but I found myself largely nodding my head (I've recently joined the early thirties crowd). I worked in SV right out of college - Facebook was basically a blip on the radar and the coolest mobile phon
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by moocow01 14y ago
You never would have thought by their office space that anything was wrong... http://www.businessinsider.com/living-social-office-tour-201...
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by moocow01 14y ago
Eh Id say its somewhat of a minor point - I think the only business that will recognize an MS in any real way (salary/title/etc) is perhaps a big company like Google. I believe some positions within Google require an advanced degree (if co
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by moocow01 14y ago
Dont do it unless you want to make inroads into academia or better your chances for working at Google/Microsoft/BigCorp. I have a BS with about 5-6 years of experience and I lead/manage a couple people with MS degrees. In other words Ive
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by moocow01 14y ago
I have to respectfully disagree although I hear your what you are saying. If you are a lone coder you have the potential to create something pretty valuable but small with not too many constraints. The game changes when you start to have t
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by moocow01 14y ago
"But optimizing for external validation is a dangerous trap" You dont think this is strongly present in the startup world as well? In a number of ways I think many in the current form of the startup world are even more hungry for external
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by moocow01 14y ago
There seems to be a gaggle of people who have popped up somewhere within the intersection of entrepreneurship, online startups and lately education that seem to effectively be self-help "experts" in disguise. In some ways it feels like the
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by moocow01 14y ago
I have to point out that this is incorrect. The simplified version is that if the workers are paid more a smaller piece of the megacorp's pie goes to the big whigs whether they are the shareholders or executives. In essence you have more d
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by moocow01 14y ago
None because I am smart enough to know that I personally am too dumb to fully understand them in any truly strategic manner. I do invest in index funds but generally just spread it around.
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by moocow01 14y ago
Precisely and your children will also likely turn out to be the types that make predictions and fail like generations of the past
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by moocow01 14y ago
The market is worth trillions... not Google's solution. One thing tech reporters seem to have failed at recognizing is that this research has been taking place at every major car company out there - many many others are legitimately in the
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by moocow01 14y ago
This is a very difficult question to answer for the "generic person" - you cant assume they have any one skill or advantage and you also cant assume they have any certain risk profile or goal besides hopefully increasing their money by X do
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by moocow01 14y ago
There is quite a lot of black and white thinking here which is the primary problem. Look, consumer technology is always a mess - apps vs web vs native vs desktop vs mobile vs ... etc etc. The truth of it is that we have so many choices bec
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by moocow01 14y ago
Take an MBSR class (mindfulness based stress reduction). There usually is at least one certified active practitioner in most major cities. The class lasts about 6-8 weeks and is in my opinion much more effective than anything you can do
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by moocow01 14y ago
Your point is correct in many scenarios. If an engineering major who genuinely wants to be an engineer said should I take time off school to pay for the next year - Id likely point him/her to exactly what you just said. Very much agree The

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