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by rongenre 5y ago
Headcount absolutely does. In the 90's there was a joke that they'd take the engineering headcount and multiply it by 10M (or something), subtract a multiple of management and there's your valuation.
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by rongenre 5y ago
I took a class in cognitive psych decades ago, and one of the highlights was going over 'A Pattern Language' and 'A Timeless way of Building'.
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by rongenre 5y ago
This is something I'd be really interested in when I enter semi-retirement.
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by rongenre 5y ago
I have a decades-old math degree and ended up working in tech as an engineer. Are there options, like a "Math Camp for the Middle-aged" where I could get a chance to re-learn everything I've forgotten?
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by rongenre 5y ago
What this also seems to miss that most startups have a limited budget and thus a limited talent pool. While your existing team members might not be an "enthusiastic yes", to the superstar prospects the startup isn't either.
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by rongenre 5y ago
I learned to program in the 80's: BASIC on a Commodore PET and Apple, and C on an Amiga. In 1987 I took my first programming class in high school, and it was in Fortran which they told me was what "professionals used". Codi
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by rongenre 5y ago
Reading that too - it's quite good!
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by rongenre 5y ago
Archive link: https://archive.ph/pyh3j
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by rongenre 5y ago
Most of my gen-x friends from mid-2010's SF have moved to the East Bay. I much prefer going to Berkeley or Oakland to crossing the bridge.
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by rongenre 5y ago
I studied German in college, and was just terrible at it: And because it was a class, the further behind I got, the worse my experience was. Standing in front of a class and sounding just.. obviously bad really hit me hard. I'm about
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by rongenre 5y ago
and a time-traveller
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by rongenre 5y ago
Anybody who buys in an "affordable" neighborhood - at least in CA - is making a lot more than their neighbors who've lived there for decades. If you're polite, you don't flaunt it.
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by rongenre 5y ago
I got my dog last summer, I noticed my mood improve immediately.
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by rongenre 6y ago
After hearing Michael Pollan's interview about caffeine (specifically the parts about how long it's half-life is), I went from drinking 6-7 cups of [caffeinated] coffee daily for over 25 years to - decaffeinated tea. I was prepare
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by rongenre 6y ago
It would be great if a nonprofit decided to come up with its own internet index and duplicate the functionality of circa-2000 google. Imagine it could be done for under 10M?
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by rongenre 6y ago
Well that's reminiscent of old amiga hold-and-modify, but good point.
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by rongenre 6y ago
If it were cheap, it'd be amazing for displaying artwork
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by rongenre 6y ago
The other point here is that it's taking ~10 years to go from a company being started to going public. So most employees are going to have to make the decision to either cough up thousands to exercise their illiquid options and pay ta
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by rongenre 6y ago
Walking 30-60 minutes a day is basically "get a dog"
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by rongenre 6y ago
Living in a tech hub gives you access to a super-liquid job market. If you take the offer and move elsewhere, and you suddenly get a new boss you can't work with, you've got a lot less options. Probably a really good plan for the
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by rongenre 6y ago
Apple tried to own the software distribution channel back in the 70's (like they do with the app store). I didn't work out, but I don't think they were ever terribly happy with needing to produce general-purpose computers.
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by rongenre 6y ago
“If an important decision is to be made, they [the Persians] discuss the question when they are drunk, and the following day the master of the house where the discussion was held submits their decision for reconsideration when they are sobe
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by rongenre 6y ago
I went cold-turkey in February after 25 years of drinking really strong coffee in well... hacker-heroic amounts. Oddly, no headaches, and the quality of my middle-aged sleep has gone way up. I do like the routine of drinking a hot beverage
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by rongenre 6y ago
From Peggy McIntosh's list: "If my day, week or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether it had racial overtones."
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by rongenre 6y ago
It was pretty amazing going to JDK 1 and seeing names in the source code I remembered from doing VisualWorks Smalltalk.
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by rongenre 6y ago
They should pay more.
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by rongenre 6y ago
Working fully remote also means your hunt for your next job is really difficult. One of the upsides of working in a tech hub isn't just the job you have, but the next job you can find.
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by rongenre 7y ago
Compressed anything is high entropy
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by rongenre 7y ago
I used to be able to do this - take a double espresso, wait an hour, and sleep through the night. But as I've gone through my 40's, insomnia's been a problem. Further, Pollan's interview suggested that even if I could s
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by rongenre 7y ago
After hearing Michael Pollan's interview on NPR and hearing about caffeine's 6 hour half life, I stopped cold turkey. It really has done wonders for my middle-aged insomnia.

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