optimusclimb

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by optimusclimb 11y ago
Do you work on Wall Street? When I watched this video, I definitely wasn't thinking about stretch goals and what they DIDN'T yet manage to do :P
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by optimusclimb 11y ago
Doesn't the YC application process ask you about clever times you've hacked the system or painted a little outside the lines?
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by optimusclimb 11y ago
Did you contact support or email someone responsible for SWF in some way, or just write the blog post?
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by optimusclimb 11y ago
> I'm not seeing a great hiring market right now for engineers in the Bay Area, at least as a high demand JS engineer. Can you explain this further? If by "high demand JS engineer" you mean "front end" and not ju
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by optimusclimb 11y ago
What an amazing email from ESR. I feel like I've had the issue he describes happen to me in multiple facets of life, at different points. College? Check - There definitely was a point where I couldn't cruise and catch up by crammi
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by optimusclimb 11y ago
Definitely NOT the answer you're looking for, but I think the point of the question lies in the thought process/discussion of possible solutions, more so than there being one definitively "smart" solution. In fact, the s
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by optimusclimb 11y ago
I don't get why people have this mentality. While it's true that there is always more to learn, and there are always those that are better than us - people don't get to be successful, rich, and/or have a high title in th
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by optimusclimb 11y ago
Every time I see things like this a part of my brain wonders, "How would these people describe what they're doing in sprint tasks and give estimates in points."
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by optimusclimb 11y ago
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/05/28/cuba-lung-cancer-vac... http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/19/cuba.cancer.vaccine/ind... > A Phase II trial from 2008 showed
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by optimusclimb 11y ago
You could probably read this decade old book: http://www.amazon.com/Java-Concurrency-Practice-Brian-Goetz/... and it'd be a good start. It's in "boring" old Java, but it goes over a lot of the meat
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by optimusclimb 11y ago
If you joined Uber a year ago, it was pretty obvious they were a rocket ship, and you'd easily be set up to make 200-300k a year with bonuses and equity. Hardly chump change, and definitely more than joining the latest YC winter __ &q
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by optimusclimb 11y ago
Just worked 3 years at a gig, from the "sharing a tiny office with another company" phase to significantly larger. Moved on, and had to let a lot of vested options go because it just didn't make financial sense at the time t
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by optimusclimb 11y ago
You're misinformed about how much equity employees have been getting then (be it in RSUs or ISOs).
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by optimusclimb 11y ago
If you had a chunk of savings and you invested in a business - would you optimize on needing to hire more people as the business grows? Or prefer that the growth of your business doesn't scale linearly with employee head count? Every t
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by optimusclimb 11y ago
This always comes up with Martin Kleppman diagrams. See this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9613118 The bottom comments seem to agree it was done using Paper.
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by optimusclimb 11y ago
While I certainly wouldn't let it be the thing I judge the project on, to your point, why is step 3 here: http://spinnaker.io/documentation/getting_started.html install the thing that's going to manage your w
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by optimusclimb 11y ago
Either more tools like this are going to pop up, or the existing ones will mature, as more people adopt Lambda style architectures, I'd imagine. While building one out, we looked at VoldemortDB, SploutSQL, and ElephantDB to serve bulk
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by optimusclimb 11y ago
Like you said, skilled graphic designers are in high demand. As a software engineer, I made over 70k base my first job out of school in 2006, with similar perks. And this wasn't even at Google/Microsoft/etc. So I don't t
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by optimusclimb 11y ago
Twice the median for "the city" overall? Including waitresses, garbage men, bank tellers, etc? If a skilled surgeon (or someone 5+ years into their career at Goldman, etc) makes 4 times the median of your city, what does the media
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by optimusclimb 11y ago
Months at a time? Try paying more.
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by optimusclimb 11y ago
FWIW, in that situation, a company should be using their own npm repo, not hitting the public NPM. Artifactory provides one such solution. It blows me away that so many companies so late in the game still do things like deploy from github,
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by optimusclimb 11y ago
Apologies for delayed response, I'm guessing you won't see it, but...without Camus in place...did you do anything to ensure exactly-once semantics in moving the data to the Batch Layer? For the real time layer I see it as not bein
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by optimusclimb 11y ago
Did you use Camus for ETL, and if so, did you have to modify it to work with S3?
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by optimusclimb 11y ago
Or maybe it just means try harder to follow the momentum and go for those upstarts? Years ago, I thought, "Why would I want to bust my butt to join Goog or similar and be a cog in a giant machine?" It seemed to me like you try har
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by optimusclimb 11y ago
So basically founder minus the shares?
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by optimusclimb 11y ago
Woah what am I doing wrong? Incoming 5 years ago (at age 24) was 45k a year, and at 29: $330k liquid split over checking and savings. 400k in "retirement accounts" - bearing in mind that 18k (current max 401k contribution in 2015,
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by optimusclimb 11y ago
What is a "founding engineer"? It must not mean founder, since then one would just say "founder". It's clearly not Director of Engineering, CTO, or VP o E. I had just assumed this was new phrasing used by recruiters
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by optimusclimb 11y ago
FYI, your links in the footer on shittylistings.com point to localhost:3000 :P
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by optimusclimb 11y ago
What's unspoken is that their list is probably all startups. If you work at established companies, or late stage startups, the total equity package is going to be higher. That is, I'm pretty sure that if you work for Uber, Twitter
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by optimusclimb 11y ago
> "If you can just avoid dying, you get rich." Where "you" == "the founders." Certainly hard as an employee to hang in there for all the ups and downs and near death experiences after years when "avoidi

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