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by nhashem 14y ago
From what I've witnessed, it is typically an organizational issue. Let's say there's a site that has some sort of marketplace, and the company wants a better algorithm for searching the marketplace because the current algorithm is some cra
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by nhashem 14y ago
This is actually reads like a pretty good list of suggestions for any new leadership team, not just Yahoo. Fire all the "architects" who get paid $250,000 to make gigantic UML diagrams and can't actually code. Pay top dollar to retain and
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by nhashem 14y ago
I'm going to summarize the overall problem here as, "everyone has different goals for the same product," and the OP has some suggestions on how to unify them. While the the evolution of roles described in the OP are steps in the right direc
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by nhashem 14y ago
Yeah, I read Fight Club too, dude. We could have a much deeper discussion on the evolution of society and how the gradual reduction of physical survival difficulty has eroded a lot of the male bonding development that used to exist. But a
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by nhashem 14y ago
Just going to share a little anecdote here. I moved to Los Angeles in 2004. The next year I organized a softball team, mostly coworkers at the time. There are six of us that have been playing since we started, going on seven years now, ev
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You Can Get a Better Job If You Just Ask(hash-money.com)
105 points by nhashem 14y ago|31 comments
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by nhashem 14y ago
Unfortunately I don't have much to add to the OP, but I wanted to comment on this. Everyone I know that hates Perl had some sort of experience where they inherited some legacy Perl script that broke all the time and yet performed business
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Robert Horry and Software Teams(hash-money.com)
1 points by nhashem 14y ago|0 comments
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by nhashem 14y ago
We could debate whether this would "work" on a practical level as if this was a Powerpoint presentation for Steve Ballmer and we're supposed to predict how he'd react. But I'm really just finding myself appreciating the "space/science fict
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by nhashem 14y ago
I think the OP makes some excellent points, but unfortunately he uses the phrase "no risk" instead of, as I'd phrase it, "dramatically less risk." There is definitely opportunity cost. At the beginning you won't have an income. If you're
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by nhashem 14y ago
I feel this story demonstrates one of the "emotional vulnerabilities" of Lean Startup/MVP movement. You're going to crank a product out and then you expose it -- whether it's deliberately marketing it, pitching it to investors, showing it
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by nhashem 15y ago
This is actually a great mental exercise for determining if you're fundamentally unhappy at your current job. Just try and imagine your boss calling into a meeting like the one the OP describes and giving you some sort of, "your work has b
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by nhashem 15y ago
I find the "brogramming" thing fascinating because I've never actually met anyone that has called themselves "brogrammer" non-ironically or non-satirically. My best friend's cousin is from Long Island and he has cousins that call themselve
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by nhashem 15y ago
My understanding of YC is that applying with more than an idea was pretty much necessary to actually validate the idea. Having an actual live product, with some semblance of customers and/or revenue, made for a much stronger application an
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by nhashem 15y ago
I'm probably the wrong audience for this story, just like I'm sure doctors are the wrong audience for Grey's Anatomy. Just like a doctor would think, "this show makes it seem like doctors have sex constantly in storage closets," I'm thinki
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by nhashem 15y ago
When I was in high school (late 90s), they had kind of a weird curriculum for teaching programming. We had AP classes for Computer Science A/AB, which you had to be at least a sophomore to take. There was also a class called 'Computer Pro
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by nhashem 15y ago
Online dating is a sausagefest. It's the biggest sausagefest ever. I'm not basing this on any scientific or quantitative information at all, just my own personal experiences from online dating from 2004-2008, the end of which was when I m
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by nhashem 15y ago
I disagree. Hackathons are sprints, and just like have the occasional sprint workout can be a great way to augment your distance running routine, hackathons can be great for augmenting your software development routine. Here are some reaso
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by nhashem 15y ago
I liked the ladder analogy but I feel like this is basically every startup's experience. You climb up the ladders, invalidate assumptions when you realize what's too short, and identify traits that make some ladders better than others. An
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by nhashem 15y ago
Why You Should Hire More Developers: Because it's easier to convince the company's executives to do that than fix the systemic issues that are truly eating up software engineer bandwidth. Let's assume this company has nobody with a true tec
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by nhashem 15y ago
This article is mostly just lazy hypotheticals, but I was surprised that the author thought, "the sexual predator moral panic kicked in in 2005." I'm not LGBT, but I was pretty much 'not cool' for most of high school, and I spent a lot of
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by nhashem 15y ago
It's pretty hard to start a startup while you have full-time employment you're relatively happy with, both because of physical time constraints and reconciling the risk mentally. In the past I felt exactly like these guys did: apply for inc
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by nhashem 15y ago
A lot of commenters have talked about the pros of this routine, and there are many. Few interruptions, working while your mind is fresh, working within a regimen, etc. However, if you don't have an equivalent amount of discipline on at nig
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by nhashem 15y ago
You can't be a software engineer for long without working in some shitty environments filled with TPS reports, dysfunctional management, and clueless executives. It's especially discouraging when you're formerly thriving company starts dev
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by nhashem 15y ago
I turn 30 in 5 months and can completely identify with how you've felt. I too have the dozens of domain names for long-abandoned web applications for some idea that I thought was a radical spike of insight at the time. It's a vicious cycle
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by nhashem 15y ago
larrys -- I'm in a similar situation and the domain brokers I've talked to have all been really sleazy. I would love to an HNer experienced in this field. I'd reach out to you privately but unfortunately your HN profile and even some ligh
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by nhashem 15y ago
I think the reason why we want to be startup founders is because it offers optimal balance of "direct implementation" vs. "impact." At a certain scale, it's impossible to directly implement anything anymore. You can have tremendous impact
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by nhashem 15y ago
$144.00 $144.00 $14.14 $10.82 $60.00 Wow. This is such a great post, and sums up exactly why every implementation of "Agile" I've seen at previous employers have been completely dysfunctional. So there's an engineering team and they have a
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by nhashem 15y ago
A couple years ago, when I was at a previous employer, I was lamenting the typical corporate frustrations to a friend. The executives seemed to have a new "strategy" every quarter. All our projects had unrealistically given deadlines. Ev
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by nhashem 15y ago
These articles frustrate me because nobody asks why the engineers are 'willing' to get poached. It always boils down to a few reasons: - The company's prospects and projects are limited. Shopping comparison was cool in 2003, but it's 2011

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