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by sbisker 14y ago
Fair enough. Being a good boss who actually mentors their employees is a secret weapon anywhere. :)
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by sbisker 14y ago
The APM program is a time limited (2 year) program that is fairly "up or out", in the model of McKinsey-esque programs. If you're someone that Google has decided is an "up", I highly doubt Google is going to let these people go so easily. T
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by sbisker 14y ago
Could be a tech acquisition in addition to a talent acquisition - entire possibly that the services will magically reappear on Facebook someday. (Yes, Facebook could easily build this, but sometimes it's cheaper to buy.)
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by sbisker 14y ago
Good catch; you're right (well, it was misconfigured :) ). We've gone ahead and fixed it.
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by sbisker 14y ago
[These positions are for our new San Francisco office in Lower Nob Hill. We're also happy to announce a $4M Series A from the likes of General Catalyst, SV Angel, Lowercase Capital and Lightbank, to name a few. http://techcrunch.com/2012/0
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by sbisker 14y ago
[We've modified this posting from last month to put a focus on our new San Francisco office in Lower Nob Hill, where we'll be doing most of our hiring. We're also happy to announce a $4M Series A from the likes of General Catalyst, SV Ange
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by sbisker 14y ago
As people are starting to put their development servers and even their development environments entirely on the cloud, it makes less and less sense to tie your home OS so tightly to your work OS. Why struggle getting Ubuntu sound drivers to
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by sbisker 14y ago
Hi borski. Really? You did? How was it? And could you get a feel while doing it for how popular the option was?
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by sbisker 14y ago
The Curious George thing was confusing; it was hardly even a book store at that point. I'd argue it probably hurt them more than it helped them. But fair enough. A few bookstores have shut down around there, including ones with similarly le
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by sbisker 14y ago
Oh please. I go to that bookstore all the time, and I can assure you it's not the "digital printing press" that keeps them afloat. I've never seen a single person mention it or use it. What they are doing, and which the article really skims
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by sbisker 14y ago
Wait, you "closed an oversubscribed round shortly after the events of this story"? How on earth was that pulled off? Was the $15,000 the signal other investors needed to get on board? I feel like I'm only being told half of the story here.
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by sbisker 14y ago
Ok, strictly speaking, YC companies would just post the jobs as regular submissions, and the job posting category came in part to shut off commenting. The point remains the same though.
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by sbisker 14y ago
On that note, I really wish commenting was turned back on for HN job postings. I understand why they were turned off - people trying to expose anonymity for instance - but since they left, I feel like I see worse and worse postings, with li
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by sbisker 14y ago
Crap, accidentally downvoted. In too strong agreement to not apologize for the downvote and thank you for saying that.
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by sbisker 14y ago
"With great power comes great responsibility." No one is blaming your co-workers - but when your founders take investment money and insist on keeping themselves in charge, they also take on responsibility for the performance of the company
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by sbisker 14y ago
Huh? One of her gripes is that she says the speakers are bad, including herself . She says all this about a conference she spoke at, putting both her reputation and the conferences reputation at risk to help bring more strength to her argu
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by sbisker 14y ago
Cambridge, MA / San Francisco, CA - Full Time or Intern Web Developer at Locu ( http://www.locu.com ) # Exceptional software engineering talent # Exceptional cross-browser JavaScript/jQuery, HTML and CSS skills, or the ability to learn quic
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by sbisker 14y ago
If anything, that describes a bias in the other direction though - a case where your Google perk (the coffee cart) is overemphasizing the importance of technology in your life than that of the average person. Yes, it's silly to think that
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by sbisker 15y ago
Me too! It's like Mah Jong meets Dr Mario. My only qualm is that it's a little too easy to master - but that could be easily changed.
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by sbisker 15y ago
I'd be curious to hear what some of his "firing practices" were, if you wouldn't mind sharing. You seem reticent to get into details, perhaps not to add fuel to the fire - but these were practices he spoke publicly and proudly about, on
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by sbisker 15y ago
Cambridge, MA / San Francisco, CA - Full Time or Intern Web Developer at Locu ( http://www.locu.com ) # Exceptional software engineering talent # Exceptional cross-browser JavaScript/jQuery, HTML and CSS skills, or the ability to learn quic
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by sbisker 15y ago
Here's his dribbble; you can see his professional work there: http://dribbble.com/maxvoltar
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by sbisker 15y ago
Sounds good - just wanted to make sure someone asked. Now go out there and kick some ass. :)
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by sbisker 15y ago
Happy to see that in Boston, you can check out the MIT campus, its nearby Google office, the Hancock Building and Fanueil Hall.
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by sbisker 15y ago
I'm guessing you've been thinking about applying to Y Combinator for a while, if it was the first thing you did after you were laid off. That said, I have to ask....are you sure you want to apply to Y Combinator? There are startup jobs ou
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by sbisker 15y ago
Hopefully if it comes to that, he'll consider using a professional data recovery service or paying this guy for his time. It may not be worth a pile of cash to read the disks sitting in your drawer, but it's probably worth the cost for such
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by sbisker 15y ago
I see no reason to go so far as to call the actual students in question "clueless" - but there is definitely serious bias in where certain companies do and don't hire. Apple recruits heavily from Stanford for CS, but recruits from MIT for I
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by sbisker 15y ago
I'm impressed with Pinterest, don't get me wrong - but the article is painting over a much more normal, steady trajectory - a long, quiet bootstrap, followed by a steady rise amplified by the megaphone of VC funding. The article speaks of a
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by sbisker 15y ago
It's sort of a cultural thing amongst a lot of Microsoft employees, especially older ones (or in this case, ones that have returned), to run their blogs off of Microsoft's blogging platforms. In this regard, Microsoft's culture actually doe
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by sbisker 15y ago
Interesting - this article was titled "OkCupid Labs 'No Complaining Week'" a minute ago. Was that changed by the mods, or by the author in response to the negative response it seems to be getting here?

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