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by vellum 11y ago
They're too risk-averse. In SV, it's ok to fail. In Europe, it's not.
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by vellum 11y ago
According to this Bloomberg article, companies have $2.1 trillion sitting offshore for tax reasons [1]. They're probably waiting for Congress to let them bring home the cash, tax-free. However, the last time that happened (2004), it
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by vellum 11y ago
He made a snarky comment about Andrew Bartbeit's death, so conservatives gave him a slew of one star reviews. If you filter by "verified purchases", it's not as polarized.
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by vellum 11y ago
This is true. The Django admin works out of the box. Getting the activeadmin gem to work for Rails 4? Not so much: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16426398/active-admin-in...
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by vellum 11y ago
I think it will work if they make the long tweet into a native card, like a screenshot, instead of "read more." Having too many truncated tweets + "read more" would kill the experience. Twitter works because it's
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by vellum 11y ago
The real problem is the design. They're too conspicuous. The state of art in electronics (or design) isn't quite there yet. When they make a version that's less Borg-like, more people will want to wear one.
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by vellum 11y ago
Their interview process seems to take multiple passes to filter for people who are willing to get lowballed. In a previous thread, Matt claimed not disclosing one's salary history demonstrated "we probably don't have the lev
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Very Soon Human Computation Could Solve World’s Most Intractable Problems(insightticker.com)
2 points by vellum 11y ago|0 comments
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by vellum 11y ago
Think of it from another perspective. If you were just an investor, would you take pay 40% of your salary, per year, for those options?
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by vellum 11y ago
Information startups have the highest failure rate, but the capital requirements are lower than, say, mining.
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by vellum 11y ago
So the Taylorization of journalism begins. I wonder if Bezos will start monitoring bathroom breaks as well. https://research.gigaom.com/2013/02/if-amazon-is-the-future-... > ...temp workers scramble like rats
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by vellum 11y ago
It's easier to have the actor redub a scene, than to have him nail a take.
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Working Memory and Fluid Reasoning: Same or Different? (2014)(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
1 points by vellum 11y ago|0 comments
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by vellum 11y ago
http://www.stackoverflowcareers.com/blog/2014/05/20/getting-... Try segmenting potential hires into different categories and using different strategies for each group. You should also clearly communicat
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by vellum 11y ago
This also depends on how clear the company is about the hiring process. A lot of companies have started using the coding projects before the resume screen, and then also throwing in an all-day whiteboard session. So when someone's
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by vellum 11y ago
The PDF is here: http://cep.lse.ac.uk/seminarpapers/19-03-15-DL2.pdf
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by vellum 11y ago
>What went wrong all those years ago? It's always been there. Except now, they have the power of social media. Do you find a view "problematic"? No problem. Just round up a few thousand like-minded cohorts and burn the
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by vellum 11y ago
>I had it badly with 50-100 of "PSI". Before I was there it was around 300! Kalimantan, where the fires are burning, hit 3300 PSI. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Southeast_Asian_haze
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by vellum 11y ago
Power tripping carries over into their personal lives. Their families have a much higher rate of domestic violence than the general population. http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/09/police-
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by vellum 11y ago
A lot of companies ask what salary range you're expecting. The standard advice is not to be the first one to give out a number, but here you can specify a lower range.
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by vellum 11y ago
>Isn't a more experienced person going to cost more? Sure. But everyone's looking for senior developers. And salary tends to top out for senior devs, so it's not like salary scales linearly with age.
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by vellum 11y ago
> Funny how the discussion is never to simplify the code Intuit would lobby against it. http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/27/turbotax-maker-funnels-mill...
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by vellum 11y ago
Does this work on Digital Ocean droplets? Vagrant doesn't.
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by vellum 11y ago
Only do a code challenge if it takes a <=4 hrs. If it takes longer than that, then make sure it's a substitute for the onsite whiteboard portion. If they're using a code challenge, in addition to the whiteboard interview, and
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by vellum 11y ago
Try registering an account in the name of your business.
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by vellum 11y ago
Also: > So when employers complain about not being able to find workers, what they really mean is that they can’t find workers who meet their specific requirements at the wage they are willing to offer. e.g. Onsite work, "culture fi
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by vellum 11y ago
In addition to Glassdoor, try data.jobsintech.io (H1B) or angel.co (startups) for salary information. Go on indeed.com, and look for companies around your area to see if any are in those dbs. After a while, you should start seeing some com
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by vellum 11y ago
>Every parent knows that raising local taxes to throw more money at their local schools will not solve anything. Richer neighborhoods will have to subsidize the schools in poorer neighborhoods in order to provide equal access to educatio
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by vellum 11y ago
> no politician (from either side of the aisle) sends their kids to a government school. At least, no politician at the national level (president, congress, etc.). About half of Congress sends their kids to public school. http:/&#x
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by vellum 11y ago
> They looked up to me for leadership and that also meant defining what was and what was not allowed. Of course, this is easy when somebody makes a remark that couldn’t pass or does wildly inappropriate acts such as coming in late and&#

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