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by vellum 13y ago
He didn't say Tumblr was a bad deal. He was newbie when he started, David paid him decently, and he worked regular hours. I required, and was given, a great salary plus stock, a nice office environment, and a healthy work-life balance
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by vellum 13y ago
You should take Zed up on his offer. If you want to be entrepreneurial again, you can be, after you’ve built up your bankroll. When you’re broke with dependents, you don’t have the emotional ability to make good decisions.
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by vellum 13y ago
This is not, as far as I can tell, actually supported by the job posting itself. They literally tell you that you'll work far more than a regular job. http://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/9887522?trk=job_nov
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by vellum 13y ago
He said it was an insultingly horrible job in the context of the software world. And requiring someone to do the job of four and paying them for less than the fair market value of one is insulting. insulting to 99% of the world work popul
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by vellum 13y ago
Yeah, but unicorn ads usually have a “please, please, please” hopeful tone. This one specifies that you literally have to do the job of 4 people and are expected to be the technical epi-center. Also, my first impression, like Marco’s, was
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by vellum 13y ago
Stack Overflow? I contribute sometimes, but once again, it comes down to time. If you have the time, I applaud your contributions. As for me, I'll settle for answering maybe one question a month. According to this paper, 95% of the u
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by vellum 13y ago
Patent trolls like EDT because it's a "rocket docket". EDT judges speed up the process and it forces the defendants to play catch up. They can't spend as much time doing research on the patents. A shorter trial also l
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by vellum 13y ago
The problem with just looking at the completion rate is that it doesn’t really distinguish between the “just browsing” crowd and the “I really want to finish this course” crowd.
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by vellum 13y ago
That's the whole reason they're being sued, because the Beastie Boys don't want their stuff being used for advertisements. It's ironic that a corporation (mis)using their song helped them bootstrap their music careers.
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If you’re going that route, you need to block out certain days or weeks for travel and settling in. You can’t make any promises about communicating or working, unless you’ve already been to your destination. You’re not going to get anyth
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by vellum 13y ago
That's an interesting question, is there an institution or subculture in the world that is more meritocratic than Silicon Valley? Jobs where the individual’s numbers are everything, like sales and trading. If there isn't, then
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Washington State discovers it’s not so easy to create a legal marijuana economy(newyorker.com)
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Electrode recreates all four tastes on your tongue(newscientist.com)
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Research: Cubicles Are the Absolute Worst(blogs.hbr.org)
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by vellum 13y ago
That would be from the Good Shepherd. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwve70eeTqg
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by vellum 13y ago
Because people don't trust Facebook when it comes to privacy.
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Founder Q&A: Popular iOS app developer wants to sell, acquihire not an option(exitround.com)
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by vellum 13y ago
and (eventually) the estate tax This depends on how much money you're leaving behind. The estate tax only kicks in above $5,250,000.
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Ashton Kutcher Ditches His iPhone, iPad in New Role as Lenovo Product Engineer(abcnews.go.com)
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Is Marissa Mayer’s Employee Review System Finally Targeting Underperformers?(allthingsd.com)
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by vellum 13y ago
When sending us a CV, please include the candidate's salary expectations and availability This kind of thing is only fair if the company specifies a salary range in advance. At least OP's company is practicing what they preach.
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by vellum 13y ago
An English version of the actual course curriculum is here: http://pastebin.com/YjX1dgSD They actually cover a lot: C, Java, Functional Programming, Kernel Programming, Iphone/Android Development, etc. French version:
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by vellum 13y ago
SOPA was supported by money, not ideology. This bill is narrowly targeted towards NPEs, by making their business model unprofitable. It’s not going to stop Qualcomm from extracting rents or Apple from going after Google.
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by vellum 13y ago
According to the 2012 Pan-European Private Equity and Venture Capital Activity report[1], DACH (Austria, Germany, Switzerland) VC funds invested only €0.8 billion in late stage, startup, or seed money. The US[2] invested $26.7 billion t
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by vellum 13y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6595993
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by vellum 13y ago
This piece is just silly. No app on an OS with 7.5% market share is going to threaten the open web. Also, when did Google Maps become open? But if it pulls it off, it could lead to a rush of programs in the Mac App store from other devel
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Feuer told me that Zuck gave him some memorable advice on building out a strong team. The two golden rules? Only hire people you’d spend time with socially, and make sure you’d feel comfortable reporting to the person if roles were reverse
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by vellum 13y ago
It depends if they're full time or freelancers. If they were just freelancers on Odesk, then he's simply not using them in the future.
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Policing Village Moral Codes as Women Stream to India’s Cities(nytimes.com)
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by vellum 13y ago
There was one in 2004. Brought in $300+ billion, but didn't create a lot of jobs, so who knows when the next one will be.

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