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by temphn 15y ago
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/committers/ Jacob, there look like about 20 or more programmers on that page. At even $100k per programmer, isn't that about $2.4 million? And isn't the number much more than that given that
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since PostgreSQL as an org wasn't going to be there and generally when PostgreSQL is going to be at a conference, we have tended to volunteer at their booth This is an interesting tactic. Normally I'd think the BDFL of each pr
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by temphn 15y ago
There are a lot of shady players in SEO. Any recommendations for good ones?
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by temphn 15y ago
There are bad managers, but there are also many bad employees. Peter Principle notwithstanding, within organizations that must post a profit to survive, those who found companies or rise to leadership roles are generally smarter, harder w
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Any plans for Salesforce integration? Can you use SF.com as a backend?
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by temphn 15y ago
> what is the current unfair advantage held by anyone competent I hate to say it given how much time we waste here, but it's probably reading Hacker News. People here know about node.js, about client-side MVC frameworks, about MongoDB/N
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by temphn 15y ago
> Vastly many more people get rich with 'lifestyle' companies than get rich with moonshots. Not being combative, but can you justify that statement with data? It just seems implausible to me, given that the moonshot companies tend to em
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by temphn 15y ago
Become a manager or CEO, and you will sing a different tune quite quickly. At that point you will realize that people want to get tons of money for flagrantly doing nothing, and some of them actually resent their peers who bust their humps
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by temphn 15y ago
If you aren't starting a company because you can't get private health insurance, you are probably not resourceful enough to be a successful entrepreneur. It is just not that hard.
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by temphn 15y ago
Private health insurance is really not that hard to buy. Just save up, buy it, and quit if you have better options. If you don't, if this is the best out there for someone with your talents, why exactly are you complaining? You chose to wor
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> costs of corporate capitalism But under non-capitalist systems such as in the USSR you were machine gunned or bayoneted for refusing to work (starting with the Kronstadt Rebellion and ending with Solidarity), and had no option to quit
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by temphn 15y ago
But what if you are better than everyone else at coming up with ideas, but slower at executing (say in the 90th rather than the 99th percentile)? Just as in mathematics, solving a problem vs. simply checking that the solution is right do no
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by temphn 15y ago
But the BBC gives preferential treatment to the BBC. It's not about to print all of its own internal emails. All news channels are "biased". You can only integrate and filter.
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by temphn 15y ago
Oh yeah, the NLRA. As opposed to just quitting and finding a better job? Getting the government (or unions) involved in variably makes a situation like this worse. Just walk away.
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by temphn 15y ago
The missing part here is that dhh is talented enough that he can date models and drive racecars while running both a multimillion dollar business and one of the world's most important open source projects. Many, perhaps most, aren't talente
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by temphn 15y ago
Well, if you are an international tax lawyer, obviously moves like the Double Irish show that the base of incorporation matters quite a bit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement The Double Irish arrangement is a tax
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by temphn 15y ago
According to many people in favor of higher taxes, quantitative easing has no ill effects. Why don't they just ease $5B into existence? And why don't people concerned with "unfair" taxes call for Gaga's rate to be lowered rather than Zuck's
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by temphn 15y ago
After Skype and Zynga, equity compensation is worthless. The Facebook IPO is creating more than 1000 millionaires. Early people didn't do so badly with LinkedIn, Zynga, or even Groupon either. There were a grand total of four (4) p
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by temphn 15y ago
Casual use of a racial slur is a way to load the dice in your favor. If a generalization is true, can it be "ageist"?
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I don't understand. Isn't it actually possible that Reid really was an "old fuddy duddy" with obsolete ideas? Don't such people exist in the world? Obviously Google was a pretty successful place, and became more successful. It's hard to arg
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by temphn 15y ago
You get 40 hours Then they shouldn't want to work at Google and Facebook. No one serious there works 40 hours per week. It's like Jamie Z said: the first wave at Netscape wanted to make the company great. The next wave, the one that
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by temphn 15y ago
Do contract work remotely. Never mention age. Have a killer website or github, and charge a lower fee, or a flat rate. Plenty of people do this.
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If the end result is failure, the company goes bankrupt and the hiring manager no longer has the ability to hire. Moreover, the guy who picked the job picked the wrong company, so he failed as well. Hard work is a necessary but not sufficie
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Older engineers tend to want more money and more seniority. Yet they have fewer skills and can't/don't want to work as hard as kids fresh out of college. This is a change from historical times, in which the technology stack didn't change mu
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Wait until the NY Times finds out how many loggers die each year to cut down the trees to make its paper. This is brilliant. How many millions of papers has the NYT moved in its history? How many barrels of ink and logs did that
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I seriously wonder what made the NYT start this drip-drip campaign against Apple. How many factories produce tens of millions of units without any industrial accidents? The New York Times is weird. Hundreds of thousands of people are dead i
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The thing is that Google is damned if it does and damned if it doesn't. It is obviously damned if it just allows Facebook to cruise to victory. That was the consensus about what was going to happen before the launch of Google+ last year. Bu
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by temphn 15y ago
patio11: just to play devil's advocate here, you have posted in the past that you have never made more than $60k per year[1]. This prompted a much attacked post [2] that is actually sort of structurally similar to this one (how to get more
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Has rachelbythebay ever written a post that is not about bashing Google as evil or all engineers as sexist? Notice what she does not mention: Google massively increased salaries during the same time period, including the 10% across the bo
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by temphn 15y ago
Communism and the French Revolution didn't solve poverty. Quite the opposite, China was far more brutal and unequal under communism than capitalism. And Salman Khan can do Khan Academy because he was able to become super rich from Wall Stre

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