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by skewart 11y ago
> "Furrier Transform" Lol. I can't quite tell if you're mocking InclinedPlane's comment or the mentality it points out. Sad though it is, there is a lot of cargo culting around startup office management in SF the
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by skewart 11y ago
> This isn't a SaaS platform opportunity. This is a "You have to pay a CPA and a Non-Profit Tax Attorney" situation to make sure you are on the right side of the law with the entire process from end to end. For sure. It&#x
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by skewart 11y ago
From the second link you posted, why couldn't selling a license be considered "selling donated merchandise" (the code is the merchandise) and therefore exempt from being taxed as unrelated business income? Either way, you mak
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by skewart 11y ago
"Anyone has a right to block any content on their private property." A lot of people would argue that broadband infrastructure shouldn't be considered plain old private property. It's an essential component of a well-fun
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by skewart 11y ago
Facebook at Work is very different from LinkedIn. I doubt they will compete with each other at all - at least not any time soon. LinkedIn is focused on helping companies find and recruit employees, and also helping job-seekers find new jobs
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by skewart 11y ago
Wow, I've never seen that. I mean, people often like to see some kind of evidence of something you've worked on, and looking at someone's Github profile is an easy way to do that. But I've never heard of stars and forks
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by skewart 11y ago
The really sad thing is that there actually is sexism and racism towards women and minorities in various subtle ways at lots of tech companies. I've seen it first-hand myself. But this antagonistic line of thinking isn't helping.
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by skewart 11y ago
Hah, well, I can't say I know something you don't. I'm not sure where I got that from. I thought about double checking before writing but I didn't. Lesson learned.
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by skewart 11y ago
Also, I didn't get the impression that he was congratulating himself, just being a bit dramatic, and clearly pretty emotionally worked up over the fact the Clinton campaign was resorting to such an underhanded and dirty tactic. But, h
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by skewart 11y ago
The Google doc is an interesting idea. I think the stuff I line most on HN doesn't always correlate with what has the most upvotes, so I don't think I'd be happy with a best-of-HN summary either. Are there any email newslette
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by skewart 11y ago
Great question! I hope it gets traction and makes it to the front page. I'm curious to see what people come up with. I like Dave Pell's Next Draft, which is just interesting general news stories, and also Azeem Azhar's Expone
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by skewart 11y ago
The problem is that their business model is probably more sensitive to overall economic health than most. Premium services that are nice to have for recruiting might be some of the first things to get cut from customers' budgets in a d
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by skewart 11y ago
Exactly. There is never a reason to tell anyone your current salary, just what you're looking for now.
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by skewart 11y ago
"Say, ‘I’m open to a salary commensurate with the job,” recommended Blake Nations, a former recruiter who was laid off and then founded Over50JobBoard.com. “And if they keep going, ask: ‘What do you expect to pay someone with my experi
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by skewart 11y ago
To be fair, developing something like this is probably orthogonal to developing the kinds features they have been neglecting to develop recently. Scientist was probably entirely within engineering, and not a massive effort. Making the thi
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by skewart 11y ago
Maybe they do feel it's a reasonable business decision. In that case they shouldn't be surprised if a lot of their users make the equally reasonable business decision to reduce their exposure to Github. A lot of people have starte
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by skewart 11y ago
Except for the fact that those "high culuture" institutions tend to stick around a lot longer instead of bolting town as soon as the owners spot a more profitable deal. Also, I doubt there are as many concert halls where the publi
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by skewart 11y ago
Fair enough. That's a good point. At the same time though, we do subsidize a lot of potentially dangerous, and arguably luxurious amenities because a critical mass of people enjoyusing them responsibly. National parks, highways, even m
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by skewart 11y ago
Why? It's a luxury purchase like any other. There's nothing wrong with that. As long as people know what theyre signing up for let them do their thing! If I get a loan to buy a Ferrari I've made a very bad decision from a pur
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by skewart 11y ago
I know a lot of people who are in a similar situation to the Sociology major you described (well, not quite that bad a ratio, but not far off). They all have opted for the income-based repayment plan and are basically resigned to the fact t
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by skewart 11y ago
"The survey, conducted in January by Lendedu, a company that provides information about loan refinancing options..." Let's not forget that the company running the survey has skin in the game. It's not at all clear exactl
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by skewart 11y ago
This, 100%. I agree that complex tasks are generally better solved in an environment driven by intrinsic motivation - heck, probably all tasks and not just complex tasks. I'm not sure if Jira and other task tracking tools can be used
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by skewart 11y ago
Maybe. But, setting up the monolith locally is documented in one README, and you've probably already set it up. And, depending on how big your org is, the monolith probably has a lot fewer different databases and caches and queues tha
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by skewart 11y ago
That really depends on the IC and the organization. That's probably true at some places. At a 30 person startup you'd be amazed at how much individual engineers can change things.
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by skewart 11y ago
> The company is bigger than you are, its decisions weigh heavier than yours. Stop with the ego-belief that you know better than it. It's cold comfort to be right, so just get behind management and try to make the new direction work
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by skewart 11y ago
Haha, I'm not entirely surprised. The UI is pretty dated, and overall it can be kind of janky sometimes. I'm curious though, what aspects of it do you usually hear people complaining about?
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by skewart 11y ago
As others have pointed out, the number of lines of code that the typical 2016 webapp depends on isn't all that different from other ecosystems. The dependency footprint just looks a lot bigger because its broken up into lots and lots o
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by skewart 11y ago
I take it you've never used Yammer, which was created as "Facebook for work" seven years ago. The Yammer news feed is actually a great way to stay generally aware of what's going on in your company across lots of differ
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by skewart 11y ago
/propose girlfriend
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by skewart 11y ago
That fancy, exotic technology you're describing only works well if you actually have some place quieter to move to, or have music you can blast that you can listen to while working. Not everyone works in an office with spare rooms. And

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