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by rdouble 14y ago
Hacker News definitely attracts geniuses these days. You have to work more than 40 hours a week. Edit: What bills does he have? Food is free, because you work in food service. Rent in a place like Yakima is < $400/m. Summer starts in Ma
782.
by rdouble 14y ago
I worked 10am to midnight 6 days a week.
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by rdouble 14y ago
Yes, but one can save up $5000 in a summer working full time in food service. I did it as a prep cook when I was 19.
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by rdouble 14y ago
He's going to have to save up about that much to move pretty much anywhere that has better jobs, though.
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by rdouble 14y ago
Clearly, but that seemed to be the accepted HN Hater narrative about this topic so I went with it...
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by rdouble 14y ago
Work anywhere you can until you can save up about $5000. Then go to Australia on the working holiday visa. You can make $16/hr picking tomatoes or as a barista or $25 an hour shuffling stuff around at a building site. Save $20K while enjoyi
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by rdouble 14y ago
My anecdote from growing up in that area is that North Dakotans kept buying dumbphones until the iPhone was available.
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by rdouble 14y ago
yeah
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by rdouble 14y ago
Having to pay $10 million per person is how far behind Yahoo! is at the moment.
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by rdouble 14y ago
I remember when selling to Yahoo! was the exit plan.
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by rdouble 14y ago
There's been breakdowns of the cost to produce the iPhone. The BOM on the iPhone 5 is about $170, then throw in labor, marketing, distribution, etc. I think for iPhone 1, it was estimated Apple's cost was about $240 per device.
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by rdouble 14y ago
It's more like Yahoo! is overpaying for app development teams. They have to, as they are way behind in mobile and nobody good wants to work there.
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by rdouble 14y ago
That's a very narrow definition It's a very English definition.
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by rdouble 14y ago
All of Yahoo! is "bolt on engineering." It's clearly not an entirely losing strategy as Yahoo! is still around, somehow.
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by rdouble 14y ago
This approach worked at Google. However, as you point out, it does seem like there is a fundamental problem. Yahoo! is not pre-IPO Google. Or post IPO Google. It's not even pre-IPO Yahoo! What skilled programmer with good grades from a top
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by rdouble 14y ago
In addition to having a few key products, a company also needs hordes of smart, hardworking and reliable people to keep things running and add incremental improvements. Top grades from a good university is a pretty good filter for "smart, h
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by rdouble 14y ago
I have mailed 13 packages to myself over the past decade and USPS has lost or destroyed 5 of them. "Media Mail" is not recommended. Someone decides that they think the box contains an item that isn't a book and rip the box apart.
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by rdouble 14y ago
The Summly deal makes sense as much as any Yahoo! acquisition over the years has made sense. Yahoo! is a frankenstein of almost 2 decades of acquisitions. If the CEO of this particular acquisition wasn't a teenager, nobody would bat an eye
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by rdouble 14y ago
I was commenting on his desperate sounding emails when clearly he was not in personal financial peril. After reading more about the project and his background, he seems talented enough.
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by rdouble 14y ago
that's not really how it works
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by rdouble 14y ago
Yes, but it does combine its functionally inspired features seamlessly with its object-orientedness.
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by rdouble 14y ago
Why bother with a CS degree if you've already written software successfully and cashed out? Regarding philosophy: in the UK, graduates of the "Politics, Philosophy and Economics" course at Oxford are pretty much running the show. http://ww
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by rdouble 14y ago
Considering his dad is a VP at Morgan Stanley and his mother is a corporate attorney, he is a great actor.
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by rdouble 14y ago
Ruby
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by rdouble 14y ago
The dude who runs Reddit is just now noticing there's a huge crossover between geeks and creeps?
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by rdouble 14y ago
Except the discount for drop ship is far less than if the retailer actually bought the goods and is shipping out of their own warehouse.
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by rdouble 14y ago
The notion that you will get laid because you bought a $160 suit is about as dishonest as it gets.
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by rdouble 14y ago
Scala is fine to learn if you need it for work, but it is not very interesting if you already know functional and OO programming.
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by rdouble 14y ago
A 3 star chef in the USA probably only makes about 12 dollars an hour considering the amount of hours one works per day.
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by rdouble 14y ago
Outside of a small subset of companies, it's not a career known for stability or long term employment prospects.

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