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by nhashem 16y ago
Very interesting read, although that's probably because my cofounder and I had nearly the same exact experience you did. We got an interview for this round of Y Combinator with an idea that could be summed up as, "it's pretty much an impro
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by nhashem 16y ago
So I tried signing this up and throwing it up on my site, and I got some reward for a free coupon to UserTesting.com. I am mostly confident my customers will have zero interest in this reward. The $5 gift card at Amazon though would be gr
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by nhashem 16y ago
In my opinion Chrome OS is going to bomb. - Tablets are going to eat up whatever market share netbooks have. I bought my girlfriend a netbook about a year and a half ago and it's a nice device for taking to a coffee shop or sit around in b
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by nhashem 16y ago
To use a baseball analogy, you're looking for a catcher that hits .300 and 30 HR. Catcher is one of the most defensively demanding positions in baseball. Finding a player with all those defensive tools AND that can hit at an All-Star leve
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by nhashem 16y ago
Almost every interview I've ever been on that consisted of these kinds of questions, I've gotten an offer. I agree it's a mostly useless exercise in trying to determine someone's technical skill, but as an interviewee, ultimately it makes
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by nhashem 16y ago
I feel like most engineers rarely have to try too hard to get a decent job, but I wonder if it's because of stories like this. I've been on the interview circuit a handful of times so far in my life, and aside from the first time when I wa
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by nhashem 16y ago
This post talks a lot about stance and how to throw a punch, and it does mention grappling but if you're talking about your standard bar fight then I think grappling is where everything happens. How often have you seen a bar fight where tw
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by nhashem 16y ago
I liked this post until he started talking about fighting the Chinese mafia and jump kicking criminals. At that point I wasn't sure whether his point was, "take your own bullying into your own hands" or "watch me brag about how badass I am
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by nhashem 16y ago
I have a theory that the dot-com bust in 2000 and the outsourcing/offshoring hype in 2004ish basically wiped out two generations of computer science students. I graduated in 2004 and I remember the number of students in my major decreased
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by nhashem 16y ago
I saw a lot of this at two of the web companies I worked in the mid-2000s. Outsourcing/offshoring was all the rage and it was tempting for a mid-sized web company to think, "you know, our processes are starting to break down now that relea
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by nhashem 16y ago
An amusing read, but there's been 15 years between this essay and the Social Network, and the stereotype of hackers as socially maladjusted, unshowered nerds hasn't changed much in 15 years (except maybe we're considered maladjusted, unshow
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by nhashem 16y ago
For what it's worth, Expedia actually uses its own fare search and pricing engine, called Best Fare Search. http://www.tnooz.com/2010/05/10/news/if-google-reins-in-ita-... If anything if Google acquires ITA and exercises tyrannical contro
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by nhashem 16y ago
If you have a startup idea and you don't know how to code, learning how to code enough to implement the idea all on your own is probably not cost-effective from a time standpoint and you're more likely to end up with a mess of non-functioni
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by nhashem 16y ago
Sorry, I'm not buying this because utility can't be measured in pure dollars. If Mary does nothing, she does get socked with $100 and loses her license, but she still keeps the $130 that she uses for groceries et al. If she gambles and lo
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by nhashem 16y ago
Oh, Tucker Max. Of all the bullet points the author listed, I failed to see "produce quality content" as one of them, which is pretty much why Tucker Max began a slow slide into irrelevancy years ago. At this point he's a relic of an earli
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by nhashem 16y ago
At this point in Perl's history, there is no such thing as a mid-level Perl developer. I'm actually a Los Angeles Perl developer and I keep telling my HR department to either look for college kids with basically no professional programming
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by nhashem 16y ago
I honestly think it doesn't matter. I have about 10 years of professional experience, and while I used to write thank-you e-mails and even snail mail letters on every job interview I went on when I was younger, I stopped doing it a long ti
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by nhashem 16y ago
I blame John Romero. John Romero, for those who don't know (or used to know, before his name faded into obscurity over a decade ago), was at one point best known for his work on idSoftware and his creation of several milestone games such as
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by nhashem 16y ago
I wonder if engineers are more susceptible to this situation, often because our occupation doesn't require us to frontload with student debt and it's easy for your salary to escalate within a couple years. In other words, it's very easy to
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by nhashem 16y ago
My thoughts... coming from someone who has been working with Perl for basically a decade at various companies, and have had the pleasure of working with Perl experts like Tim Bunce (author of DBI) and Randall Schwartz (author of various Per
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by nhashem 16y ago
I've worked for several "mid-sized" web companies (between 75-200 employees) and this has always been an issue. Here's why: 1) The development team interacts directly with a single business unit but the administrators serve the whole compa
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by nhashem 16y ago
This sums up my feelings exactly. Ariely says at one point during the interview: "I mean, imagine that you basically had to drive six hours, three hours each way to have coffee with somebody, and, you know, coffee usually ends up with just
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by nhashem 16y ago
"Frankly, what a lot of startups should do is spend the money not on another developer to build more stuff, but on a kick ass product manager to eliminate features (especially the ones that get requested after you launch) and focus the offe
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by nhashem 17y ago
I said it before and I'll say it again -- charging people looking for jobs is ridiculous. I don't know who the kid in Houston looking for an OCaml internship is, but how the heck does he have $100 to spend on this?
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by nhashem 17y ago
I worked at comparison shopping engines for a few years (like Shopping.com) and I can assure you that Cyber Monday is NOT myth. Our traffic always exploded the Monday after Thanksgiving.
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by nhashem 17y ago
Here's a link to a blog post by Mark Suster a few weeks ago, which I think was listed on HN: http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2009/11/04/is-it-time-for... It sounds like you had some pretty negative experiences at your previous position
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by nhashem 17y ago
I was one of those engineers that hated their job a month ago, so my job search commenced just around the time Joel and Jeff announced SO Careers. At first the idea is intriguing. SO has a customer base of engineers, some of whom are very