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by pauleastlund 12y ago
I get what you're saying, but your tone here is pretty hostile here and you don't seem to acknowledge that the point you're making is in perfect agreement with the post you're responding to. You quoted him just before he
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by pauleastlund 12y ago
I can't tell if you're just trolling or if this is actually your sincere interpretation. Did we read the same article, at all? The takeaway from the one I read is, "if all you do is present information in a way that's ac
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by pauleastlund 12y ago
But... you've got no experience with any other accelerators on which to base that opinion. Uninformed and unrepentantly incendiary is not a great combination. I'm not saying you're wrong for feeling this way about YC. You are
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by pauleastlund 12y ago
Yeah, I agree with this. I worked at a big software company with big open office spaces. I really didn't experience the constant frustration with interruptions -- I didn't feel it much and I didn't hear other people grumble a
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by pauleastlund 12y ago
> Second, no "hostile environment." That is, you should steer clear of even the appearance that you are making the workplace uncomfortable for people who are sexually attractive to you. Decorating your desk with a calendar feat
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by pauleastlund 12y ago
Spot on. The big concern I had before we decided to homeschool was the lack of social development, but when I really thought through all of my "social development" in grade school it was learning to survive in a really nasty Lord-
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by pauleastlund 12y ago
First, I do think some of it is not just teacher demographics; I think the learning style promoted in American schools serves girls, in the aggregate, better than it serves boys. But more directly addressing your post, I don't think th
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by pauleastlund 12y ago
I didn't mean to assume that you weren't applying for jobs. You said you'd been on a "few interviews," and I was trying to stress that what you're looking for -- a company that both wants the skill you have now
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by pauleastlund 12y ago
This is exactly what good managers are for. Go get _some_ job doing what you know how to do -- hunting down bugs in embedded C++ code is a skill the right employers will pay good money for. Don't apply for full software engineering job
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by pauleastlund 12y ago
This was my experience at Google as well. I was there a little over five years. There were times when I was completely in love with my team and my project and I was working until 3AM and feeling great about what I was getting done. There we
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by pauleastlund 12y ago
In my experience at Google, far, far more than 1-5% were offered full time jobs. Maybe my group just had above-average interns? But I don't think so. The intern hiring bar was fairly high.
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by pauleastlund 12y ago
I get where you're coming from, but are you really going to base policy on that? That would be bizarrely condescending: "Sorry, it would be advantageous for our economy and for your personal well-being for you to enter our country
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by pauleastlund 12y ago
Really? You think Facebook is a totally utilitarian joyless tool like a shopping bag? People need to use shopping bags because they need to carry groceries. No one needs to use Facebook. If you decide tomorrow that you absolutely hate shopp
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by pauleastlund 12y ago
Man, you folks are cynical. Having done a stint in a people management role at a tech company I can attest that things aren't always this straightforward. - PIPs are definitely the tool you use when you want to fire someone, but they&#
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by pauleastlund 12y ago
The really baffling part is how he possibly thinks he could be helping himself by giving this interview.
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by pauleastlund 12y ago
OK, nevermind -- your information is newer than mine. I escaped Yahoo late last year, so I wouldn't've heard about this.
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by pauleastlund 12y ago
> Yahoo employees have to use Yahoo Mail for all of their work e-mail. The web interface only, with ads. I don't know where you got this from, if it was true but no longer isn't, or if it's only true in parts of the compan
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by pauleastlund 12y ago
For us, it's that we're extremely close friends (we were friends for some time before dating), we both have a tremendous respect for one another, we have the same (fairly dark) sense of humor, and when we found each other we both
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by pauleastlund 12y ago
#1 is my wife, by literally an order of magnitude. That's about right; we have a truly extraordinary relationship. After that, unfortunately, this ranking is nonsense. #2 is someone I met once and have never communicated with since. We
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by pauleastlund 12y ago
"Corporations no longer are loyal to employees." I don't find this to be universally true. I was at Google for five years. When my first daughter was born, they gave me 2 weeks of paid paternity leave. When they upped the pol
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by pauleastlund 12y ago
Not to pile on, since you've already been downvoted, but have you actually read the abusive texts that started this whole shitstorm? Nothing in this article speaks well to Justin's character, but I don't think any of it would
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by pauleastlund 12y ago
Playing weekly or semi-weekly is the way to go for Diplomacy. Setting aside a full day for it and getting a full complement is too tough. We played a game of this in the Google NY office this way. It was glorious for a bit -- intrigue upon
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by pauleastlund 12y ago
I clicked on this thinking it was going to tell me what substitute I should be using for /usr/dict/words. The payoff I got was much better.
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by pauleastlund 13y ago
> No one is proposing laws about who can hold given positions. There is no free speech angle here. This is a total straw man. The comment you are responding to does not mention "free speech" once. The point is: you are part of
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by pauleastlund 13y ago
I enjoyed clicking through the "more about me" link at the bottom of the article and seeing a big picture of Gabriel next to the text: "We're always hiring!" A couple people have started picking at the blanket state
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by pauleastlund 13y ago
I get this "it was money in exchange for goods" point of view, and I certainly find this article stupid and misleading. But I'm still a little uneasy about what happened with Oculus, and the trouble that I have is, if you loo
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by pauleastlund 13y ago
Also, just to tie back to original post -- the poster's complaint was not, "I'm really giving this job my best but I just can't be productive for longer hours than I'm working right now." It was, "I'm
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by pauleastlund 13y ago
The sentence in question was: "You can't run a startup at crunch time with devs putting in 7.5 hour days." The "at crunch time" was meant to qualify the rest of it -- to suggest that standard hours might work some o
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by pauleastlund 13y ago
I didn't properly understand this until I was a hiring manager working with a recruiter, but recruiters often send these e-mails without making any effort to verify that the hiring manager is interested in the candidate. If you don&#x2
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by pauleastlund 13y ago
We're both speculating a bit; neither of us knows what the contract said or how the conversation went during the courtship process. But regardless of whose fault the miscommunication is when it happens, both sides would be better off i

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