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That would only make sense if he was significantly increasing his work force (25%, 50%, etc.) to "out save" the ~20% standard fee's on first year salaries for contingent staffing firms. Though I get your point on the "weight in gold," howev
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Many times retained search occurs (up-front payments) for C level recruiting, E.G. ~33% up-front, ~33% for candidate identification / interviews, ~33% on hire. Or 50% retained fee up-front, and 50% on-hire. C-level recruiting (from my chats
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The creative process of writing, which trends to anything creative which needs "shipping." The difference between an "amateur" who dabbles at writing, and a professional, the power of pushing through and consistency to complete projects (sh
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I guess it is part tone or intent, I'll reply often "I'm good, how are you today (or doing, etc.) and get, "I'm ok (or I'm good, or "you know") and many times, "thanks for asking" in a sincere tone. A sarcastic tone would throw off the cash
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Highly amusing to be honest.
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Much different circumstance (more collusion) if you are thinking of the Google/Apple/Intel lawsuit: "Apple, Google, Intel fail to dismiss staff-poaching lawsuit | Reuters" http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/19/us-apple-poaching-... Or
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Where was this geographically (San Fran? In the US at all?) I was a Contingent (third-party) Technical Recruiter for 2.5 years (and hopefully never again, sans a cool company such as the above) and would love to work in that model. I only h
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Multi-billion $ industry ripe for disruption. I have (will and continue too) take much shit with my current and past firm(s) (leaving out current employment as I must take a "this is my own opinion etc." stance), on posting to corp Yammer o
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Silly names become brands, wherein the name becomes irrelevant IMHO. I've always thought so thinking about 'Tool' as a band, and how the word itself, is silly. But you wouldn't notice it (symbolism etc. aside)
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very limited money B) Hack on existing open source projects to increase my knowledge of working on large & complex code bases (significant time cost buy little money cost). C) Work on my own projects in the hope that I can build some
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Lighter: Nootropcis, which may be interesting to the hackers aboard. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nootropic Focus XT has been nice for me (like a steady pot of coffee (which is inefficient with tolerance building) at a steady rate withou
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/business/luck-is-just-the-... From Gates himself: http://creating-luck.com/2012/01/30/bill-gates-on-pure-luck/ “I was lucky in many ways: I was lucky to be born with certain skills. I was lucky to hav
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No Pi? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138704/
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salary fee % n fee total 65000 0.2 3 39000 80000 0.2 2 32000 90000 0.2 1 18000 120000 0.2 1 24000 Simplistic EG (and a 2x 80,000 vs 120,000 is realistic), but, like a real estate agent, the cost of NOT closing the sale is greater then pushi
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And JigSaw for $1 per contact (typically pretty updated), then cold call. Attend some sponsored events, work your way up the chain, "who can I connect with." Email the guys who were recently acquired by LinkedIn: Rapportive, which frequent
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You could post up your LN / resume link in your HN profile. Indeed trawls contract jobs well: http://www.indeed.com/q-Software-Engineer-Contract-l-Denver,... There is a supposed lack of developers in Denver. Good advice in this thread, wi
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Doing will always (or lets say, "on the majority") be more effective then studying, or reading, etc. I ran a painting franchise during school (such as College Works Painting, Student Works and the like), and basically learned hard sales (wa
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Twosigma has an office out of Houston (I recruited a bit for them (no placements) a few years ago). You sound like a good fit. http://www.twosigma.com/ Honestly more of a technologist HFT company vs financial (stuffy) firm (details in ema
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Amazon self-publishing space: bots go wild on self-pubbing kickstarter(good.is)
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Sometimes "normal health/coping" is not possible, or inexorably difficult. PTSD example: http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&#3... So, you could argue that in some cases it is "shortened," and in many cases for sever
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I got through 20% of Learn Python the Hard Way, stopped for a number of months, and have now delved into a few of the linked lectures. Learn Python the Hard Way is already much more intuitive and simple to pick up (in a good way). http://l
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Be wary of trying to further "lucidate" the lucid dream into another lucid state. I've woken up going a few tiers into such very dissasociative from reality for several (4+ hours) over weekends :) EG: building in my dream a "jump pad" stand
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When all else fails, VLC always works. Media Player Classic (on windows) does a fair job, but breaks a lot as well. VLC doesn't break for pretty much any medium :) Love it.
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I believe he means a negative correlation (not a negative personality); as in, the more famed celebristatus the less "success" which, was not supported in his original post. Edit: OP edited with the Quora post, which links more successes (o
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Are you validating any of these ideas with even 10x random strangers of your target demo? I mean with potential users vs pitching the plans to schools or potential investors. 5x different ideas x10 targets = 50x engagements, not out of the
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1143601 better: Edison is notably overrated. While he does deserve some credit, his approach to R&D was infamously brute-force. Tesla noted, “If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would
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Also the "end" of war to be the utter connectedness of humanity via free communication :) Its a great book, if somewhat dry in writing (constant referalls to "I did _ and _," etc.) He had strange from-childhood debilitating migraines and wh
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Direct competitor? John T Reed self publishes. He lacks $16,000+ "seminars" that tour the country. Kiyosaki puts on, a horrendous Yahoo! run of financial advice, etc. Reed educates by noting the falseness of other guru's: http://www.johntr
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Endemic in the field, even as a Technical Recruiter (companies unwilling to go above any sort of range of salary, yet bemoaning the "lack" of talent.) I recently had a manager stating "they think they are worth so much money... we have been
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What is caffeine then?

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