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by ritchiea 13y ago
This kind of comment makes me wonder what percentage of HN has zero idea of what's it's like to be legitimately broke/poor. Even if you're joking, since you include the winky face, what about actual poor uneducated people who will never hav
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by ritchiea 13y ago
You go to Yale? As an undergrad? I am no old man, but it's pretty smug of you as a very young person to be so sure your cohort is top 1% when you have such little life experience and have likely met and interacted with a very small percenta
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by ritchiea 13y ago
The title is deceptive because shortly after asking that question in the article, the author comes to a resounding "no" and goes on to talk about why it is our impression that SV only works on the problems of 20-somethings. The core of the
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Earn Your Place, You'll be Better for it(medium.com)
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by ritchiea 13y ago
I love that these types of comments are at the top of Hacker News. They add valuable information to the discussion. I don't understand how you expressing your admiration for Tesla is at odds with the interesting factual background of the co
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Did you read the thread the OP is responding to? The top comment is a personal insult that doesn't respond to the content posted and basically says "the feature you had a meeting with Google about is unimportant, so get over it" [1]. The co
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Well the article didn't exactly say that. It said Google's most innovative employees aren't necessarily the Ivy, perfect SAT score types. At a company as large as Google not everyone is going to be an innovator. There are definitely tedious
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by ritchiea 13y ago
I know the Simpsons has been on forever and there is about a decade of it I haven't seen but it was not always a low brow show (assuming it is one now). The Simpsons was brilliant comedic social commentary for 5-8 years starting around seas
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Point well taken but don't we also communicate with our facial expressions something greater than our genes? You are born with the color of your skin but you are not born with the ability to listen to others, and listening is a state of bei
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Indeed. People generally understand when you tell them "I can't afford to live without a paycheck." Ignore the rest of the things you're worried about, don't say anything about serious doubts or that you think they are idiots, just let them
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by ritchiea 13y ago
When will this support bitcoin?
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Agreed. I can't imagine not checking the byline. It's even more valuable now than ever before because we can check the byline and Google the author if it's an unfamiliar name.
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by ritchiea 13y ago
How profitable is the typical acquihire for founders? This article cites $5-15 million exits but I've also read about circumstances where the purpose of the acquihire is largely to get the VCs something greater than zero for their investmen
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Previous discussion of this article one year ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3642570
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Ha. I would say a better question is, how does someone who grows up poor do this? And/or someone with parents who do not give them access to excellent schooling. And/or currently feels excluded from the industry despite being talented.
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by ritchiea 13y ago
Google doesn't even feel like the future anymore, it feels like the present and we don't have a clue what the future is yet.
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by ritchiea 14y ago
SEEKING WORK - Brooklyn - Remote or Local - Part Time Ideally I am a full stack Ruby and Javascript developer. The majority of my experience is in Rails but I've played around with or done small projects in other frameworks such as Sinatra,
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by ritchiea 14y ago
It is not at all the case that 5k doesn't do much. If you live somewhere relatively inexpensive in Brooklyn (or even Queens) & live reasonably you can cover most of your expenses for 3 months with 5k. If you are good at being frugal you
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by ritchiea 14y ago
There is definitely a unique mindset to each role and it can be a tremendous challenge to switch between the two productively at work.
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by ritchiea 14y ago
Thanks. That kind of answer is what I'm most curious about. What exactly is the A-level work that is not "normal stuff" that you want your candidates to be prepared for.
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by ritchiea 14y ago
Finding the time to keep up with the best practices and literature of both fields at once, despite their overlap, is still a monster.
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by ritchiea 14y ago
I think that raises another question. You assume that they don't want the process to be hackable, what if they just want someone to see the patterns in those solutions because they believe those patterns arise in the work they will be doing
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by ritchiea 14y ago
That baffles me as well. I made another comment in this thread [1], but what really dwells on my mind is: do companies that interview like Facebook really believe that my day-to-day as a programmer has so little to do with the work I would
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by ritchiea 14y ago
I hope this doesn't sound facetious, but what I hear over and over again is that places like Facebook have difficult technical interviews that are algorithm focused to create more false negatives than false positives because they work on ha
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by ritchiea 14y ago
It seems like you have been legitimately burned and have some valid criticisms but your recent HN posts are a sign you should be concerned about your own well being more than getting across your criticisms of the startup world. I agree with
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by ritchiea 14y ago
This reminds me of one of my favorite odd Yelp finds, reviews for Occupy Wall Street http://www.yelp.com/biz/occupy-wall-street-manhattan-4 I love the photo of the fat cat sleeping in a pile of money.
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by ritchiea 14y ago
How old is the young woman the author spoke with? Don't most smart, geeky people in HS feel a bit out of place? There's a whole PG essay on that [1]. [1] http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html
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by ritchiea 14y ago
I see where you're coming from but let's put this another way: If a service simply pulled a list of tweets from users that you might be interested in there's nothing wrong with that, correct? It's just curating a list of tweets for you. The
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by ritchiea 14y ago
How about the opposite question, at the beginning of your career how do you find mentors?
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by ritchiea 14y ago
Twitter is big brother

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