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901.
by patio11 10y ago
Just a generic piece of life advice here: you can call up your credit card company and get the annual fee waved, for degrees of difficulty generally south of e.g. getting a bank to waive an overdraft fee. They want their plastic in your wa
902.
by patio11 10y ago
Discourse is a really solid codebase with some nice patterns (their auth/auth checking, for example); probably the best OSS Rails app I know. I routinely answer questions about how the product or API works with 30 seconds of examinati
903.
by patio11 10y ago
This is de rigeur in payments; the brand guidelines for the big three credit card companies have similar things IIRC. They don't want you to say "Visa accepted here THOSE BASTARDS we prefer Amex" or otherwise interfere with
904.
by patio11 10y ago
Pay packages are structured as base salary, bonus, and RSU grant. The RSU grants can be almost arbitrarily generous. Google paid out ~$6.7 billion in them last year. You're welcome to your own estimate as to the percentage -- I suppo
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by patio11 10y ago
Most of the more straightforward answers to this question end up with you making the majority of that million from your entrepreneurial skills rather than software development skills. (For example, "Found a software development consul
906.
by patio11 10y ago
Explained here so I will link rather than repeating it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10505251
907.
by patio11 10y ago
I'll miss my opportunity to join the industry as I feel it will be fairly saturated by that point. I'd take the other side of that bet. AppAmaGooFaceSoft have not found a number of developers X such that having X,000 of them ar
908.
by patio11 10y ago
If you like the business of running software companies, these are probably my two favorite business-oriented talks ever: Long Slow SaaS Ramp of Death (Gail Goodman): http://businessofsoftware.org/2013/02/gail-goodm
909.
by patio11 10y ago
See also: clean water, warm food, cold food, air conditioning, heating, books (cost of duplication now lower than ~$100k per volume), music (especially when measured per second of other-than-ambient sound supplied), ability to move heavy th
910.
by patio11 10y ago
Happy to do so. Longer thoughts here: https://stripe.com/atlas/guide#incorporation Short thoughts: in my official capacity I have to tell you that this is a legal question and you should talk to your qualified professi
911.
by patio11 10y ago
Doesn't sound like the way I would phrase the thought, so I checked: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/09/17/ramit-sethi-and-patrick-... <-- Ramit said it here, although I suspect it might be older.
912.
by patio11 10y ago
I ran two SaaS companies through sale (small-scale both times), consulted in ~20, and spend way too much time talking to other SaaSy folks. Know that you're asking a how-long-is-a-piece-of-string question, because the answers here var
913.
by patio11 10y ago
A slight misnomer; the relevant question is whether you're a full employee (正社員) or contract employee (契約社員).
914.
by patio11 10y ago
In practice the way to do things is to take a large firm and reconstruct it as a supply chain. Think like, say, a hypothetical car company. Instead of making your own engines, you source them from Engines R' Us. You might be ERU&#x2
915.
by patio11 10y ago
Your accountant gives advice very similar to the advice of my accountant and the accountants of my friends. Japan has, essentially, a bifurcated employment market [+]. There exist people that accept contract positions; contract positions a
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by patio11 10y ago
Run that one by a lawyer, but my understanding is that the bar is approximately "If we do not let them go, we will -- with night-follows-day-certainty -- go under." If it's simply a matter that you hired a plumber and don&#x2
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by patio11 10y ago
So what's your theory of the mind as to why they would ask this question. I have two scenarios: a) They don't want to hire you. b) They do want to hire you, but are incompetent at interviewing. A key realization from poker is th
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by patio11 10y ago
This is not irrelevant to startups in Japan, either. If you attempt to fire someone who you (unwisely) brought on as a full-time employee, and they contest the firing, you will be brought before a local government functionary to make your
919.
by patio11 10y ago
Oh no worries at all; I just like continuing to beat my "Japan is a big country with a diversity of practices and attitudes in it" drum. (It is under-beaten both inside and outside of Japan.)
920.
by patio11 10y ago
(Only mentioning since I wrote the above quote: I agree with the general thrust of this comment.)
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by patio11 10y ago
Copyright is owned by the writers; HN has implied license to display. (This has come up before; fairly sure I am quoting a lawyer.) [Edit to add: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3641312 <-- Grellas is, indeed, a la
922.
by patio11 10y ago
That likely isn't ever going to be possible as a single atomic transaction. After you're paid actual money you can do many things with actual money, including sending it to a counterparty who might give you cryptocurrency, but it
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by patio11 10y ago
They probably have as little influence over the agenda tomorrow as they did yesterday, but in the minds of people who don't understand how government works that does not feel true, which is perhaps dangerous, because it moves the bal
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by patio11 10y ago
Take an actual problem that your team solved. Distill it down to essential elements. Wargame out plausible solutions to it if one didn't have your team's context on your particular situation, particularly plausible solutions whi
925.
by patio11 10y ago
Deliver what you agreed to; this is not coextensive with "anything the client wants." Do not do work again for this client. If it gets truly untenable, give the client their money and the code then write this off. [+] Focus in t
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by patio11 10y ago
Another good comeback is "I guess that puts your band below my desired salary, then." and then say nothing else .
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by patio11 10y ago
This use case (use by people who are not literate) is one of those few circumstances where worse-is-better, because public toilets (like one might find in a train station or department store) are typically either mechanically operated (triv
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by patio11 10y ago
If you want an illustration of the problem, here's one sourced by the very scientific method of finding the closest men's restroom: https://www.dropbox.com/s/0iripy6m7fu5f3o/2017-01-19%2016.57... There a
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by patio11 10y ago
The new analysis shows that at more than 1,000 colleges and trade schools, or about a quarter of the total, at least half the students had defaulted or failed to pay down at least $1 on their debt within seven years. I think this might be
930.
by patio11 10y ago
Suppose you are in the United States and your last name is Tanaka. You interview an accountant and ask for a proposal for bookkeeping and accounting for your software company. Suppose the accountant comes back with a proposal which quotes

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