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Something that really bugs me about this is the lack of examples where this succeeds. In my mind, a good one is Intel. To that end, how many microprocessor startups actually ended up succeeding at the same working on some fundamental and ch
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The stats I remember reading about dating apps show that conventionally unattractive men fail miserably at using them and conventionally attractive men tend to reap tall the spoils. I think this was a study done by okCupid based on their da
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First and foremost, have you asked yourself and your team the ever important question: What is the REAL "level" of programming required to be successful at this job? Please don't keep the trend going of asking whiteboard ques
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There's a subjective term if I've ever heard one. Who decided I'm truly competent? What happens if I'm truly competent but I outshine someone who's influential enough that doesn't want me around? What if I&#x27
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Mostly course work with a capstone project.
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The important question...why do I need to master the material to get a promotion? Is that truly what the next level role requires? Well...unfortunately, many times that's not the case, but someone at company X decided to use it as a fi
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That is their whole business model. Their growth is entirely predicated on more members joining/renewing this year than they had in total in previous year. And frankly, it's absolutely worth it. You pay for something like Prime, a
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Canada has always had something similar, called the Interac network and many banks now just offer electronic funds transfer directly. I think the OP was more talking about payment networks to merchants.
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It always comes down to "can you do something better than they can?". For all intents and purposes, the oligopoly is doing ok, is not egregiously expensive for the service they offer, and has first market mover advantage. They are
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To set the record straight, I have not ever nor do I currently work for microsoft. If you have IP tracking skills you can probably figure out where I work from these posts. As a matter of a fact, I don't like a lot of things about msft
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Has anyone here actually looked at the "anti-Firefox" ad in question? It's literally a tile that says "Still using Firefox? Edge is here!". I'm not really sure what we expected here. This is about the same as a
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I've been in this space long enough to give you one very important piece of advice: - language and frameworks get you interviews, accomplishments get you jobs Note: that advice isn't relevant to FAANG style companies that do algor
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I think the approach here is a bit backwards from what the rest of the world has always done to a degree. Software Development is a specialized skillset, not unlike a trade. If we are solving a problem for someone with software, we are esse
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This is only true if your employment contract doesn't specify a certain number of hours a week, or if there's no standard. A simple test to see what the standard for a day is is the hours a company considers a vacation day. As muc
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Ask HN: Successful transition from a software engineer to a data scientist?
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There are so many avenues to lead generation that Mint can take that would also benefit the consumer that they just choose not to take. A simple one could be helping me optimize which credit card products I have to maximize my rewards. Anot
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China has a major public health and pollution issue they are actively and constantly trying to remedy. The thing is everyone is making environmental investing out to be some "moral" approach, when in reality there are real and exp
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I've never understood why a wikipedia or github style publishing platform doesn't exist for research papers yet. Why do we ascribe reputation to the journals themselves? Is it the journals or is it the academics who participate in
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you go get your cash from the teller at the bank
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I think the key difference is HN doesn't need to make money
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While I really can't argue with the "get the highest paying job you can as early as you can", there are also many market dynamics at play and quite frankly your own ability to navigate and bluff and take risks are a major par
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Correct, this is why we still test senior developers with algo interviews. The reality is no one knows what the hell a senior developer is.
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In one word, leadership. A senior anything is someone with enough experience to be able to lead a development effort. They should have a proper understanding of what it takes to build a reliable and robust system end to end. "How quick
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IBM makes most of their revenue from their global technology services division, followed by their software division and then global business services division. A small fraction of their revenue comes from their mainframe/hardware busin
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Same principle applies here as with any software development effort. There are some natural bottlenecks that can't be avoided/parallelized (for e.g. waiting for a layer of asphalt to dry). Further, more people doing a thing doesn&
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> Significantly more arbitrary middlemen making their way into the process because of "let the market figure it out" does, in fact, create some process inefficiencies in supply chains and contract pipelines. Few countries are a
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But to the article's original point, the people conducting the research to prepare these reports are non-experts. So they wouldn't even know where to look for these figures.
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Hmm, that leads to a really interesting business idea (if it doesn't already exist). The reason a building can have a super is because there's scale. You only really need 1 super to deal with multiple units and overall building is
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I will agree with the author that FB isn't invulnerable, but IMO Google+ simply wasn't compelling or different enough by that point for people to move over from FB. The problem was the Google+ tried to be a better FB than FB. Ther
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FB is going up against governments. I'm not sure they will win. Currency is one of a few key tools a government needs to control it's economy in many different ways. What I am loving about this though is that all of these experime

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