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by scottru 16y ago
Separating the detailed comment from the pedantic comment: the word is flair. You put a flare in the road. You do things with flair. (And in Office Space, you wear pieces of flair. And if you're in the ring with the master of the figure fou
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by scottru 16y ago
If you're in a male-dominated profession, where both the "employees" (VC's) and the "clients" (startups) are 90+% male, and the way people are to apply for your roles (primarily) is through an introduction, you should not possibly believe y
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by scottru 16y ago
I hire engineers all the time, and one of the most common failure cases in hiring is someone who's smart but doesn't get things done - i.e. they whiteboard/interview/code sample well, but when push comes to shove, don't actually end up deli
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by scottru 16y ago
+1 for the key message here. Lawyers aren't negotiators, and you have to remember _all the time_ that they work for you in this negotiation, not the other way around. They will give you lots of advice, and you should think of it as such, an
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by scottru 16y ago
I created the original sheet (and have hired and attempted to hire from it). As I said then, I don't love the bifurcation of data - I don't think that this author is updating the data back, or even when it was updated - but I'm not sure if
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by scottru 16y ago
I do a _lot_ of recruiting - either direct for clients (i.e. wearing a recruiter hat and filling their positions) or indirect for my consulting firm (i.e. people who will help us meet our client's needs). In doing so, I place a lot of ads o
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A/B Testing iPhone App Names + Icons(markj.net)
1 points by scottru 16y ago|0 comments
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by scottru 16y ago
We did. :)
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by scottru 16y ago
For anybody who's tracking, we're up to 140+ folks, and the spreadsheet has moved into high-traffic mode. Thanks all - this will be great and I'm happy for it to be linked from a more permanent location.
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by scottru 16y ago
BTW, I will clean up some disorganization once the editing slows down.
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by scottru 16y ago
Right, thanks to the anonymous person who fixed it. I'm trying to keep an eye on it.
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by scottru 16y ago
Thanks. I thought about that, I just thought we'd get more participation (and more consistency) if people saw what others were saying, and I trusted the group (which seems to have mostly worked).
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HN Contractors: Add Yourself
222 points by scottru 16y ago|65 comments
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by scottru 17y ago
I'm a very active GWO user. I haven't tested A/Bingo yet, but based on the description, there's one other advantage you have: I don't have to rewrite erb as javascript in order to execute various tests. If a lot of your view layer is writte