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by throwaway1979 14y ago
Someone mentioned on CNBC that he had placed an order (and seem to have gotten) 100 shares of FB via e-trade. Can retail investors (aka ... unsophisticated Joes like me) get in on the IPO allocation? I thought the initial shares were only o
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by throwaway1979 14y ago
A lot of these jobs seem to require security clearance/ US citizenship. Is there a way of navigating this?
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by throwaway1979 14y ago
I think you might be referring to the Bacterial Growth Curve ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterial_growth
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by throwaway1979 14y ago
This series seems to be saying ... get legal advice or else you'll pay later. I just read the first article in the series and it adds more FUD than clarity on the matter. Just horrible :(
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by throwaway1979 14y ago
How does vesting work with two or three founders? Is there a commonly used period? Any links would be appreciated. I recall hearing a while back that there are some good books on how to set this stuff correctly. Didn't pay attention at the
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by throwaway1979 14y ago
It does feel that way. I started interviewing recently (I'm an experienced dev) and it feels like the interview process is screwed up across the board. Back in the day, Microsoft used to have the most grilling process. A full day with 5 int
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by throwaway1979 14y ago
I really wanted to attend ... but couldn't justify flying out the Bay area for a 3 hour event. If you could post your impressions of the event to this thread, I'd appreciate that! To do in the Bay Area: Food: In-N-Out, Patxi's Chicago Style
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by throwaway1979 14y ago
I don't see exploding demand in this. However, the experience will likely translate over to other domains and make you better for it. I'm not a sys admin but setup a small hadoop cluster ... but wow ... talk about learning experiences!
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by throwaway1979 14y ago
I haven't used Google's software. Hadoop is in Java. If Google's implementation is in C or C++, that could explain a bit of the performance overhead. 4-6 times is crazy though. You sure it just wasn't due to data access latencies?
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by throwaway1979 14y ago
In the US, you are responsible for your own retirement (in most of the private sector). If you lose your job for a prolonged period of time, you also need to have funds saved up (generally, the safety net is thin). You're comparing apples a
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by throwaway1979 14y ago
Sir ... I tip my hat to you. Can you elaborate on #3? Are you in the US? Did you move to a cheaper location? I don't understand how the future's going to play out with respect to retirement. I'm in my early 30s if that helps. I looked for a
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by throwaway1979 14y ago
I'm really glad you mentioned "cute little puzzles". I am sick of them. I'm not really sure who has sufficient time to spend blazing the employer with feats of their programming prowess (I was going to say only undergrads would do that - ho
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by throwaway1979 14y ago
Why do you cringe? Do you know what the average price of a house is in MV/Palo Alto/Sunnyvale? Cheapest housing I could find that was decent (not fancy but descent by my personal definition) was just over 2K/month in rent. 6 figures in Sili
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by throwaway1979 14y ago
You're absolutely right. That said, I don't buy that big-data is as revolutionary as the Internet. While in theory, every single business can collect data and optimize based on what they see, this is way too complex for most businesses to d
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by throwaway1979 14y ago
You're probably right ... it was likely a good-natured joke. However, I see the elite school bias happen a lot in tech. When you're a young person trying to get that first job, etc., it really stabs you in the heart. The idea of signaling i
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by throwaway1979 15y ago
I have a question about avg ticket costs. My first (and so far, only) ticket was in LA for crossing a solid HOV line. The ticket itself was 80-100. However, they added a ton of fees to it (the best one I remember was a fee for courthouse i
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Ask HN: Coder morale in the face of layoffs, crappy management, etc.
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by throwaway1979 15y ago
The only CS conference/journal I saw on the list was "IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR". That's not the top CS venue I know of.
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by throwaway1979 15y ago
Congrats on being almost done with the student loan payments! Was the debt in the six figure range? Curious if you have any strategies to share. My fiance has a boatload of student debt that keeps me awake at night :(
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by throwaway1979 15y ago
You would think this is an obvious fix ... but you wouldn't get the hype, now would you? I didn't get a ticket this year on purpose. 900 is a bit too much for my blood (I pay for it out of pocket and don't want to resell the swag). I went l
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by throwaway1979 15y ago
Are average developers really getting paid 150K in the valley these days? (figure mentioned in the article)
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by throwaway1979 15y ago
NYC subways decent??? It blows my mind away how people put up with it. Has any New Yorker taken public transit in Europe? If I have 2-3 people in my group, I have stopped taking the subway entirely. Btw ... Uber is still cars. On a typical
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by throwaway1979 15y ago
Now that YC has gotten bigger (=more competitive), does an application without a prototype still have a shot? I'm incredibly paranoid about getting exposed to IP-related problems (working for a large corp and not in California). I suspect a
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by throwaway1979 15y ago
Dude ... I've said it before (under my real HN account) and will say it again ... you-are-the-man! I can't believe how stupid I've been all these years :( I'll admit that when recruiters have asked me this question, I've behaved almost like
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by throwaway1979 15y ago
This isn't as easy to dodge though, right? Or do people do this routinely?
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by throwaway1979 15y ago
So here's an issue I've faced. Instead of being asked ... what's my number? I've gotten asked .. "what's your salary?" How do you deal with this one?
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by throwaway1979 15y ago
I don't "get" Google's interview process. I've gotten to the final interview twice. Both times I felt I had nearly flawless interviews. I've heard that Google's recruitment philosophy is that they would rather sacrifice many good candidates