mpdehaan2

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by mpdehaan2 10y ago
Don't appreciate being called delusional. That being said, you underscore the point that many CEOs are not great -- which is exactly the point about overcompensation. Also, see my profile. It's not wrong to tell everyone they may
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by mpdehaan2 10y ago
I'd suggest rather than look at it as you being overpaid, look at it as everyone else being underpaid - in other words, corporate profit sharing is not what it should be.
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by mpdehaan2 10y ago
Sure, that's what share holders do. It's however not EQUITABLE. To slowly change this over time, we have to work at it, by ensuring fair compensation at companies we start and for our employees. This can change - it's not a
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by mpdehaan2 10y ago
Again, see profile :)
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by mpdehaan2 10y ago
Missing lots of context. (A) See profile. These are a lot of skills I HAVE picked up (B) I'm pretty non-technical these days. (C) when I'm suggesting hard work is hard work, I include everyone putting in hard effort - not just
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by mpdehaan2 10y ago
I wish this were true. A lot of software developers put in this much time due to abusive working conditions and still net poorly. Even if it were true, there would be no valid argument for $1M/year vs $60M/year differentials. In s
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by mpdehaan2 10y ago
There can be a lot of spin in CEO exits. Connections made in even a failed position can be used to gain ability to acquire investment or useful position in other companies. Extreme networking value. Again, the obscene compensation exceeds
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by mpdehaan2 10y ago
I'll disagree with this. If you are in a position where you make $10M a year, you could effectively not work for 20 years and be completely fine. By the time they've done this for a few years, they have obscene levels of wealth
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by mpdehaan2 10y ago
With a few exceptions, a "10x" programmer is in most companies making maybe 1.5x than other people his age, possibly quite less. This may be an extra $50k in some places. I have not met a 100x programmer, but there are many people
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by mpdehaan2 10y ago
Why should we be past it? Because new employees are generally ok with this perception, we do not IMPROVE the perception, and we allow things to continue. I've seen quite a few CEOs of companies I've worked at where most of the
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by mpdehaan2 10y ago
While that is true, they often suck too. Goes both ways. Think about how much better, say, Cisco could be, than what Cisco is. And then what their execs get paid. There's a club at the top and they value weird things. One employee&#x2
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by mpdehaan2 10y ago
In my case, I CAN do their job. They have a lot of support structures to delegate between. You may think you can't do their job, but you could, if you wanted - though getting there is a game of thrones of sorts, and you may not wish
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by mpdehaan2 10y ago
Exercise++ My take-away from exercises was more of that it builds awareness that makes it easier to stay in flow states for longer over time, which in turn allows (like he says) kind of not making thoughts go away but getting less attached
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by mpdehaan2 10y ago
Clearly it does not. However, it should. I could probably do a better job - many people here could. However one of the perks of getting out of the corporate game is getting out of the corporate game.
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by mpdehaan2 10y ago
Excellent points in this article - another factor is they are often paid outrageous base salaries (plus options) for the success of a company, when the success of that company can often be in spite of the CEO, coming from within, and embodi
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by mpdehaan2 10y ago
Somewhat off topic, but if you are having anxiety issues, I strongly recommend the Headspace mobile app. While a lot of mindfulness apps have a lot of fluffy new-age tone to them, this one did not, and it also tends to introduce concepts a
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by mpdehaan2 10y ago
Programming architecture/problems in SC, yes. I think Pokemon scaled remarkably better than any app many of us have ever dealt with, seeing the crazy demand spikes. You would run into a lot of app issues, data choices, a lot of things
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by mpdehaan2 10y ago
I've done this (and successfully exited a startup) and I think you should wait. A bit. Startups generally take a lot of capital, and you do want to make sure you are building up to some level of savings. If you can do something as a s
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by mpdehaan2 10y ago
Hmm, IDK. Stuff like @attr.ib is kind of cute looking. (This not being a good thing). Though in reality, I'd probably want more explicit methods. If you are using something like Django REST framework, you can validate with the seriali
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by mpdehaan2 10y ago
Yeah I don't think there's a reason to perpetuate what is in the article. (I also recall another study that found startup founders from broken homes were more successful? yikes? I'm also calling B.S. Freudian analysis here.)
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by mpdehaan2 10y ago
One of the bigger problems with serverless architecture (beyond catastrophic lack of good debugging and development tools) is the idea of managing multiple users, working on multiple code branches, and all needing environments that somewhat
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by mpdehaan2 10y ago
Hmm, I have yet to explore any of the skills, but need to. I tell it to control my Hue lights, and ask it jokes, and occasionally ask it for the weather - though Dark Sky is a lot better for weather data. So it's not used a ton really.
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by mpdehaan2 10y ago
I'm pretty happy with just :set nu :20 # go to line 20
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by mpdehaan2 10y ago
Good post. Random thoughts from me on reducing layoff potential: When hiring people, hire people that can work in many different roles/projects, think about hiring a person that will improve the business, not just someone to do a part
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by mpdehaan2 10y ago
Again, performance isn't everything. Go has specialized a bit towards low-level operations, and I tend to strongly dislike what it does with exceptions and the way those involved veto language features. As for libraries, I'm talki
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by mpdehaan2 10y ago
Perhaps a strange choice of the word "synchronized" when coming from Java, this typically implies a critical section. Here it seems to initialize a multiprocessing pool for use in the function labelled concurrent (perhaps)?
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by mpdehaan2 10y ago
In the original article, he indicates Swift, Rust, and Go are tomorrow's languages. The issue really is that the level of support in the various frameworks, the eons of bug-crushing and feature additions, and the libraries available,
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by mpdehaan2 10y ago
You are welcome! Thanks!
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by mpdehaan2 10y ago
Yeah it's kind of pixelizing an existing song. What I really want to do is teach a program to jam and know what sounds good - which is a lot harder. But there's a part of music where human soul needs to be, and that is interesting
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by mpdehaan2 10y ago
Always good to see more computer music projects. I started on recently - and need to do more work on it - to do some things in a bit more of an object-oriented way trying to model more music theory concepts (like scales) as objects, not so

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