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by tinktank 8y ago
I work, on average, 12 hours a day that ends up being structured as follows: 1. IC work - 6- 8 hours. 2. meetings/co-ordination/email - 2 hours. 3. Further learning/research - 1 hour 4. HN/Reddit/news - 1 hour.
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by tinktank 8y ago
Thank you for your response! I found it very useful.
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How hard do you think it would be for a software engineer who does a lot of low-level (kernel) programming to get into this? I really want to get into hardware but am unsure how to start. Do you have any tips/ideas? How long did thi
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by tinktank 8y ago
Yes, absolutely. Reach out to recruiters for specific niches. I would value you, staying in business for 18 years means you're doing something right.
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by tinktank 8y ago
Be gentle with yourself. Be gentle.
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by tinktank 8y ago
Assume things will be structured to favour the VC.
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by tinktank 8y ago
Jobs told the dropbox guys that their product was a feature... go figure.
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by tinktank 8y ago
distributed systems or distributed in time and space?
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by tinktank 8y ago
Publish an anonymous blog detailing everything and then send the details out to all the news sources you can find?
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by tinktank 8y ago
Yes, normal rules -- i.e. the law -- still apply.
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Ask HN: Discipline but no focus, how to fix?
32 points by tinktank 8y ago|20 comments
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by tinktank 8y ago
I wonder if the Israeli government will end up creating their own enemies? Surely at some point some of these spies will defect (money, blackmail, etc) and this creates a blind spot for them?
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by tinktank 8y ago
Without knowing anything about the particulars, I'd say $80/hour, so about $150K
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by tinktank 8y ago
Ah yes, glass heart syndrome strikes yet again.
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by tinktank 8y ago
> There is plenty to be legitimately angry about too. I just don't trust this generation to come up with solutions that aren't literally "let's try real communism. This time it will work!" What makes you feel thi
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by tinktank 8y ago
We'll have to agree to disagree. Millennial lives and issues are far removed from the current establishment to be completely alien to people in power at present. To be disingenuous enough to believe millennials don't have a clue
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by tinktank 8y ago
The people in power have to start representing the interests of the millennials. This will only happen when people of that generation are in power, or people in power are being influenced by them.
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by tinktank 8y ago
All these articles seem to assume a 5-7% return yoy. Has anyone been able to manage this? My investments have consistently shown -3..+2% over the last 5 years but granted they are spread over world equities and bonds.
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by tinktank 8y ago
I am constantly amazed at the clever ways people manage to extend, repurpose and rearchitect software. This is incredibly clever in my opinion.
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by tinktank 8y ago
why emacs?
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by tinktank 8y ago
Why? Who is the target market?
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by tinktank 8y ago
I didn't understand the bit of the refresher grant. If his grant is $50K a year on joining, wouldn't it be 50K a year on refresh? Or is he making the point that as you remain you get more refresher stock?
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by tinktank 8y ago
I suspect there's some projection going on
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by tinktank 8y ago
If you'd read it, he was using the term as a metaphor, not literally.
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by tinktank 8y ago
reverse vesting on a 36 month schedule is the way to do it IMPO
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by tinktank 8y ago
What is your definition of "a ton of money"?
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by tinktank 8y ago
Why was working for Google stressful?
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by tinktank 8y ago
It works both ways. If there is less incentive for me to stick with a single carrier, I'll always go for the one offering me the best price, regardless of my status on any given carrier.
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Ask HN: Tools/infrastructure for running tests on multiple hosts simultaneously?
5 points by tinktank 8y ago|1 comments
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by tinktank 8y ago
Did you learn it all as you went along or were you familiar with the ARM beforehand? It's very impressive in either case. Any hints on how I could write my own?

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