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by tdumitrescu 8y ago
And if the article's author is aware of the joke, she really doesn't indicate it: "The company, which changed its name to Basecamp in 2014, has been valued at $100 billion dollars and has annual profits in the millions of dol
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by tdumitrescu 8y ago
My wife loves the crap out of her several Pebbles, and she didn't even get them until after the acquisition and shutdown plans were announced. She still gets speech-to-text thanks to rebble. If there were something comparable still bei
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by tdumitrescu 8y ago
> We just really be testing their ability to sort through a bunch of legacy OOP designed by people who are so board with the project domain that made of bunch of bad abstractions My preferred coding interview approach is indeed to let th
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by tdumitrescu 8y ago
Usually one of the unlabeled buttons on either side of the screen will also mute it. Just press them all until the sound stops.
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by tdumitrescu 8y ago
Oh man, I see so many resumes littered with these kinds of statements. I totally gloss over them as they generally read like BS, and are formulaic enough that they just represent another "how to sell yourself" job-hunting checkbox
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by tdumitrescu 8y ago
> There is a reason why University and Universe have the same root. Where did you get this idea? The term "university" (as an Anglicization of "universitas") refers to its guild-like corporate organization.
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by tdumitrescu 8y ago
HN crowd is more likely to know her from her acting role on _The OA_, but she was putting out great music long before that. Can't wait for the new album to arrive in a few days.
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by tdumitrescu 8y ago
FWIW I have never had my lack of Linkedin affect job prospects in any way that I can see, except presumably in reduced recruiter spam (though I still get plenty of that via GitHub and Angellist).
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by tdumitrescu 8y ago
To the point of the parent, IMO speed of project execution is often an absolutely terrible metric to optimize for, especially if the parallel teams know that that's the goal. If you can find a generalizable objective metric that works
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by tdumitrescu 8y ago
Whoa whoa there who says the Shaggs didn't produce great music?!!!
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by tdumitrescu 8y ago
Yowza, very targeted: "The injected code targets the Copay application. When a developer at Copay runs one of their release build scripts, the resulting code is modified before being bundled into the application. The code was designed
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by tdumitrescu 8y ago
3-5 years old with $100M revenue is deep into unicorn territory already. I'm sure you can count companies that currently fit those criteria on one hand.
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by tdumitrescu 8y ago
Another aspect of this is that if you join an early stage startup and work there 5-10 years without any new equity grants (such as the annual refreshers that many companies give) while the company grows and does new funding rounds, then you
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by tdumitrescu 8y ago
I joined a series A startup years ago for none of your "valid" reasons and have never regretted it. It was a company that I already knew of and admired their product, and they had enough traction at that point to offer at least se
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by tdumitrescu 8y ago
Just going by my memory of what they advertised. Here's a TSV with some public salary data from 2012: https://gist.github.com/shabbychef/5915640
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by tdumitrescu 8y ago
AFAIK bart police are actual peace officers: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_Area_Rapid_Transit_Polic... I remember i used to see ads of theirs years ago, prominently displaying their 150K starting salary. Anecdota
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by tdumitrescu 8y ago
Not my experience at all. I spent a lot of time in the 80s standing in bank lines with my mom for her to do things that anyone now does with an ATM or a banking app much much more quickly. And as an added benefit, when I do need to interact
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by tdumitrescu 8y ago
This is not likely to work out well for you. You disliked the guy when he was just your coworker, and now he's become your manager and you have this seething resentment ("I can't stand to report to him"), which I'm
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by tdumitrescu 8y ago
I think the browser dev tools (esp. Chrome's) show some promise in that regard. For instance with Workspaces you can mess around in dev tools and save changes directly to your source files; with a tighter integration between the elemen
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by tdumitrescu 8y ago
Yeah, the way we use web components at Mixpanel involves sticking to the vanilla APIs for lifecycle management, but we still need libraries to handle inter-component communication, state and rendering (see my discussion at https:/&#x2
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by tdumitrescu 8y ago
Cypress looks interesting as an all-in-one solution for test runner + paid remote executor service. Similar builtins to WCT (Mocha, Chai). WCT was attractive for us as an open-source runner in that it isn't tied into any company's
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by tdumitrescu 8y ago
> sometimes he had things to say that were really profound. “The one that I keep remembering is, he said, ‘If you seek to lose your life you’ll save it, if you seek to save your life, you’ll lose it.’” Profound and all but...that's
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by tdumitrescu 8y ago
Yeah I remember commenting here a few years ago with surprise that they were a "unicorn" with ~$30M ARR, and nobody seemed to find that valuation unrealistic...
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by tdumitrescu 8y ago
In my experience at several startups, and discussions with numerous friends and colleagues in similar positions, yes the eng comp at startups is much better than it was 5 years ago.
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by tdumitrescu 8y ago
> everyone is benefiting, from VCs to chief executives. Except engineers. I don't know what world you're living in, but engineering salaries _have_ absolutely shot up in recent years. 10 years ago no engineer was scoffing at ma
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by tdumitrescu 8y ago
> By 2016, it was telling hiring prospects that it was profitable, but also that, “We will not be selling the company unless some insane whatsapp like thing happened. We’re building a forever biz, not a flip.” So either Vidpresso lowered
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by tdumitrescu 8y ago
That is indeed how it was. "thou" was the familiar form in contrast to "you" which was the formal form (see for instance the discussion at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thou ). Modern English speak
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by tdumitrescu 8y ago
It's only about finding needles in haystacks if you don't have sufficient instrumentation and monitoring in place. For most production issues your tools should be able to guide you at least the first 75% of the way to your issue,
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by tdumitrescu 8y ago
I was saved unexpectedly by my second passport a few months ago when taking a trip from the US to Europe. My US passport was valid for another couple months, but at checkin they told me I couldn't use it for an international trip becau
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by tdumitrescu 8y ago
Regardless of rejection rate, that is just a brutal pace to keep up for engineers who are also supposed to be writing code. A lot of interrupts for prep + interview + scoring + team debrief. And for introverts like myself, an hour of talkin

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