rsweeney21

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by rsweeney21 6y ago
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Raised money from VCs for my last startup. Series A investor made all sorts of overtures about how founder friendly they were and how supportive they would be. The week after we closed our series A they told me I had to hire a COO. I asked,
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by rsweeney21 6y ago
Yes, all us Native Americans are poor and need special help. The ones that don't are the exception. This is literally the definition of racism.
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The systemic bias I faced was that people assumed I was poor, didn't have resources, wealth or contacts because I am a Native American.
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I'm a light skinned male. I'm also a Choctaw Native American. In my senior year of college in 2004 I applied to dozens of companies. I never got a single response. I decided to try an experiment - I applied to IBM and, for the fir
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by rsweeney21 6y ago
If you are selling to SMB you need to put your pricing on the website. I'm your target, but lost interest because not disclosing pricing usually means it's expensive. Hope this helps!
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by rsweeney21 6y ago
Or maybe the people that live in low density neighborhoods don't want to live in high density neighborhoods. So they stop developers from changing the density of their town.
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Poll: Have you disabled LinkedIn notifications?
1 points by rsweeney21 6y ago|6 comments
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by rsweeney21 6y ago
I'm reachable via LinkedIn
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I'm NOT reachable via LinkedIn or don't have a LinkedIn account
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We've made a bunch of new hires since transitioning to remote. We tried many things to help new employees feel a part of the team. A few months ago we started playing Among Us twice a week for 30 minutes in an optional happy hour. It h
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by rsweeney21 6y ago
The US Government, specifically the SBA, defines a small business as any business with fewer than 1,500 employees and less than $38.5 million in average annual receipts. I was surprised by this definition too.
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A lot of people saying you own 40% of this startup so you need to fight for it are giving you bad advice. Based on what you said, you don't own anything yet because you haven't vested any shares. If you are a Corporation, and your
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by rsweeney21 6y ago
Requiring a computer science degree to apply for a programming job has always been bizarre to me and this blog post is a great example of why. "The bulk of the effort was memorizing things that I normally would have Googled." And
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by rsweeney21 6y ago
I've been struggling with this. Should a company be expected to obey the local government and local laws, even if they seem unjust? Or should they uphold the values of their country of origin in foreign countries where they operate? Wh
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Ask HN: What websites do you use when searching for a programming job?
16 points by rsweeney21 6y ago|7 comments
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I just finished re-writing all the copy for www.facet.net, so copy writing is fresh on my mind. Here's some feedback: - It wasn't clear to me what your company does after reading your home page. - When I saw the "Courses&quot
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I'm fighting every day to keep the depression at bay. I've been through the same thing as every one else this year, plus my sister took her on life in March and my startup that was flying in February, has been hammered by the pand
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by rsweeney21 6y ago
Marriage is correlated with economic security, but economic security does not necessarily cause more marriage. I think it's more likely the reverse. Those who get married have a better shot at earning more. There are a lot of benefits
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I don't understand the motivation for making this change now. Why not keep the universally accepted root certificate as the default chain? Why does Let's Encrypt need to switch to their own root certificate now, and cause thousand
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by rsweeney21 6y ago
Kind of a random question: why wait so long to do your launch HN? It looks like you've had a working product for quite a while now. When I see a launch HN from over a YC batch over a year ago I assume there was a pivot or they had trou
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They forgot Step 0: Have a successful business. None of the other steps will do you any good if you don't have a successful business. There are many metrics that would indicate a "successful business" (users, revenue, growth
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The sample size in that study was pretty small.
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I would argue that a GitHub account with open source contributions qualifies as a work sample test. It's just work that was done in the past.
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Work sample tests have been proven repeatedly to be the best predictor of future job success.[1] The next best predictor is general mental ability. It's not unreasonable to ask someone to demonstrate their capabilities. Just make it in
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Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" and "The American Crisis" would have been considered "misinformation", "propaganda" or "harmful content". These are considered "the two most influenti
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PAYING game developers for exclusivity is much different than CHARGING game developers 30% of their revenue. Also, the PC is an open platform. Game developers don't have to use Epic's or anyone else' store to distribute games
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This is an ad for sourcehut, a GitHub/Microsoft competitor.
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Please don't do this if you have kids. No amount of money is worth giving up these irreplaceable years with your children. You cannot get these moments back. You can't "make it up to them later" when you are filthy rich.
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The board of directors has a fiduciary duty to act in the best interest of ALL stock holder EQUALLY. The case law that established this was the Trados[1] case. If your company issues a huge bonus to executives for completing a sale of the c

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