naithemilkman

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   by naithemilkman 16y ago

   You mean it just takes a fixed amount of time to internalise yourself with a new field of study just like anything else? And for programming that lead time is about 6 months to get up to speed?
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   by naithemilkman 16y ago

   google is so going to buy twitter.
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   by naithemilkman 16y ago

   thanks for the list guys
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   by naithemilkman 16y ago

   I am currently one of these guys in transition. Using Gladwell's 10,000 hour as a proxy for mastery. I estimate getting between 100 - 250 hours of programming time is good enough to get a working MVP out. Does anyone think this is overly o
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   by naithemilkman 16y ago

   yeah thats a max figure for sure. scary isnt it? i was trying to be conservative :P
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   by naithemilkman 16y ago

   True that. But I suppose the lure of the city has always been in place for a student with a debt of £1k or £10k.
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   by naithemilkman 16y ago

   The problem is systemic. 1. Startups can't recruit overseas students or highly skilled workers anymore without applying for a tier 2 sponsorship license. Talking about lead time of 1 1/2 months and jumping through admin hoops for approval.
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   by naithemilkman 16y ago

   I've always felt academics and entrepreneurs are really cut from the same ilk. As entrepreneurs, we try to increase the overall wealth of the economy and if we are able to push it out by a little, we've succeeded. In the same way, academics
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   by naithemilkman 16y ago

   The first rule of working at Apple - No one talks about Apple.
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    by naithemilkman 16y ago

    thank you for confirming my suspicions
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    by naithemilkman 16y ago

    Broadly speaking, its hard to get a job at a VC straight out of school. This applies to PE/HF as well. If you look at the resume of the associates (the lowest position) at such firms, you would see that they would have had a few years of ex
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    by naithemilkman 16y ago

    sorry, catster beat you to it!
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    by naithemilkman 16y ago

    I've been thinking about this for a long time too. One of the questions Im sure other people in a similar boat would ask is: which programming language?