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by rdouble 13y ago
He got a 1200 on the SAT back when it was 1600 scale, and was a C average student at Yale. He released his own report card: http://2004.georgewbush.org/bios/yale-transcript.asp Test scores and grades aren't everything, but it's hard to be
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by rdouble 13y ago
I worked at a startup in NYC that had a $200K pay cap. It applied to everyone, including executives. However, I believe they abandoned the policy because it made it too hard to hire.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Ah yeah that's a good one. I've also heard it's possible in Austin and Portland.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Right, but where are these elusive low CoL places one can make $120K+ as a programmer? A $120K salary in NYC is equal to $40-60K in other parts of the country, sure. But in most other parts of the country, you will indeed be making $40-60K
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by rdouble 13y ago
Unlimited vacation policies are mainly a way for the employer to avoid the accounting and financial burden that occurs when providing defined vacation benefits. Vacation benefits are not required, but if a company offers them, most states r
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by rdouble 13y ago
Move to New York or the Bay Area.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Macarons.
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by rdouble 13y ago
The cupcake bubble is all too real. Ask anyone who lived in Manhattan during the 2000s as it finalized its transformation from "Escape from New York" to the NYU/Sex in The City cupcake fantasyland of today. The guys who used to have the che
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by rdouble 13y ago
Borrowing money against the endowment is how it's done everywhere, though.
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by rdouble 13y ago
If you've vested some of your options and don't want to stick around, but there's a good chance there will be a liquidity event at some point in the future.
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by rdouble 13y ago
I'm not sure what precedent there would be for either of those actions. All of the major universities "gamble" with their endowments in the various markets. There's the corny adage that Harvard is a hedge fund with a university attached.
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by rdouble 13y ago
I used to work at a big fashion e-commerce site, and this is the best advice in the thread. Don't rely on nerds for feedback on anything related to fashion. Try to get it in front of people who will actually be using it.
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by rdouble 13y ago
They have (had?) a $600 million dollar endowment. I also looked it up on wikipedia, and it looks like the endowment also owns the land underneath the Chrysler Building. A substantial portion of the annual budget, which supports the full-tu
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by rdouble 13y ago
Also, nshipster.com
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by rdouble 13y ago
For state schools, there are many websites where you can see where all the money goes. There are armies of administrators who make unbelievable salaries. My sister is an academic and her advisor went into administration which bumped his sal
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by rdouble 13y ago
Maybe in 1996. MBA and lawyers are now in oversupply, have high debt load, family unfriendly hours, flat salaries since 2007 and nobody is hiring.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Most of those resumes are ridiculous and amount to little more than spam. The candidates from the pool of people Google actually wants to hire definitely have multiple offers.
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by rdouble 13y ago
They just have one building, small staff and student body, and don't have to pay taxes. The main expense is salaries.
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by rdouble 13y ago
I guess I don't really know what "jumpstart" a career means. Does it just mean to start a career? If they are good programmers, sure, why not? It sounds like a typical story, actually. Wasn't that Marissa Meyer's story? (except Google was t
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by rdouble 13y ago
However, being an employee in an early stage startup is a great way to jumpstart your career, whether you have entrepreneurial aspirations or not. In an early stage startup you are going to be rubbing noses with investors, working on inter
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by rdouble 13y ago
One day when the technology is able to overlay an image on top of your vision The old crufty cyborg "eye tap" style rigs that the Media Lab guys had in 1995 did just that, but it was more like an emacs buffer floating in front of your fac
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by rdouble 13y ago
Apple's own tutorials and videos are quite good. They are available once you become a paid ADC member. Hillegass's book is what most people use, but it's slightly dated at the moment. I actually prefer Ray Wenderlich's material these days.
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by rdouble 13y ago
The road system is overloaded for a city of its size. There is one big connector type freeway going north and south, and then "The Perimeter" which is a circular freeway encircling the whole metro area. And that's about it for freeways, in
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by rdouble 13y ago
Maybe Google Glass will ultimately join the Segway as another mandatory piece of kit for mall security guards?
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by rdouble 13y ago
Austin isn't small, though. It's got more people than San Francisco.
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by rdouble 13y ago
iTunes movie rentals does do this.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Licensing for video and music is not the same. However, it is the same in that if you're ever wondering why a music or video content app doesn't do something, the answer is always "licensing."
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by rdouble 13y ago
Flash based electronic greeting cards.
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by rdouble 13y ago
TL;DR because they are too broke for gas, and don't have a job to drive to, anyway. And Facebook.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Portland has Galois, which may be up his alley.

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