rajacombinator

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by rajacombinator 5y ago
Leads to a massively inflated estimation of one’s intelligence from solving basic logic problems.
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by rajacombinator 5y ago
There’s no substitute for incentivizing smart people and getting the fuck out of their way. Everything else is either friction or window dressing.
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by rajacombinator 5y ago
No. It’s a waste of money and time.
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by rajacombinator 5y ago
Probably trying to pre-lowball you.
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by rajacombinator 5y ago
Agile is a jobs program for managers.
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by rajacombinator 5y ago
Yep they’ll just quietly backdoor it in next time.
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by rajacombinator 5y ago
They flipped the revenue switch too early.
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by rajacombinator 5y ago
Just take the easy street finance money and find other ways to entertain yourself. FAANG gotta work harder for less pay and the work isn’t any more interesting.
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by rajacombinator 5y ago
Don’t use notebooks. Don’t write garbage code.
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by rajacombinator 5y ago
Subtly educate your friends about the corrupt imperial West. If you convince 2, and they convince 2 …
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by rajacombinator 5y ago
No. Corporate drones don’t understand startups. (They don’t understand much of anything.) If you want to play their game, learn and follow their rules.
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by rajacombinator 5y ago
Pour infinite money into AI-magic engineering projects.
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by rajacombinator 5y ago
The non-tech stuff seems to be most important at this level. One thing I notice some senior SWEs lacking is instinctive understanding of how prioritize and which tradeoffs to make to maximize their value. Beyond that it seems to be almost e
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by rajacombinator 5y ago
Thanks for these insightful posts. I’m in a role that is exactly what you described above. (Perhaps prior to the “initial success” phase, due to political challenges.) It feels like I’m tilting at windmills in a management vacuum. Any gener
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by rajacombinator 5y ago
It’s probably more “moral” for the hacker to keep the funds in this situation. However, he probably fears for his safety.
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by rajacombinator 5y ago
>dude you need to power the Google botnet. it’s for security . Yea that’s depressing.
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by rajacombinator 5y ago
Stripe is pretty well known for this behavior at this point. But yea, it sucks. Is the intersection of scammers and legit businesses who message CS frantically protesting that their business is legit really that high? Who cares when your fr
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by rajacombinator 5y ago
Do you know how hard it is for a non-elite developer to make sense of this massive range of technologies? Now imagine a non-elite business dude who can barely figure out how to use email. Those dudes control 99.99%+ of world capital. No one
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by rajacombinator 5y ago
> How do we know Apple or the FBI don’t do this? You can almost certainly know that they will do this. Or just text the target a bad photo.
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by rajacombinator 5y ago
Yea don’t bother just start looking.
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by rajacombinator 5y ago
Privacy, except for thoughtcrimals.
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by rajacombinator 5y ago
Engineers are socially inept and oppressed. Until that changes, they will continue to be exploited.
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by rajacombinator 5y ago
I appreciate the cold game theory of your approach. Quite hilarious if others are following it too, although I don’t think so from what I’ve seen. (Edit: I was also reading it from the perspective of forcing companies to raise comp.)
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by rajacombinator 5y ago
Unfortunately not true. The top of funnel at these companies is not very good at filtering.
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by rajacombinator 5y ago
“Listen, I’m paying for these code monkeys, I want to **ing see them.” - every tech CEO
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by rajacombinator 5y ago
At first it’s rough but it grows on you. Way more reliable than Hangouts.
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by rajacombinator 5y ago
That’s some expensive wokewashing.
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by rajacombinator 5y ago
If you’re trying to get hired by a human, and you’re proud of them, then it can’t hurt. If you’re trying to get hired my a machine, then they don’t care and it can’t help.
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by rajacombinator 5y ago
No. If you can’t convince others to pay for or fund it, you shouldn’t be convinced either.
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by rajacombinator 5y ago
Unfortunately, they have no serious competition.

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