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by venture_lol 9y ago
If you are paid according to time and material, you could be sailing in bad legal waters. Ask an attorney about fraudulent billing. If you are paid like an FTE, As long as your employer is satisfied with your level of productivity, then it
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by venture_lol 9y ago
If the candidate starts by drawing 2 lines, then marking start and end on the lines, you know you would be off to having a good chat
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by venture_lol 9y ago
I would try to keep the audience and context in mind and answer accordingly. It depends on whether you are interviewing the job or the job is interviewing you :)
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by venture_lol 9y ago
Staff your team with people who are articulate and resourceful. Then, relax :)
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by venture_lol 9y ago
When companies hoard profits, they really serve no purpose and no-one but to perpetuate their control and to reduce and eliminate the ability of others to compete. The massive access to capital is akin to a super power. Well, superpower can
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by venture_lol 9y ago
It's way too easy for anyone to pick up Node and CRUD a few pieces of data into a NOSQL store and voila, I am an architect :) Selecting the right framework, platform, model for current needs with reasonable forward looking support take
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by venture_lol 9y ago
General observations from experience: A well-run company will have proper procedures, processes in place to deal with work place issues. Management and all staff will also be required to take training on a continuous basis. Professionally m
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by venture_lol 9y ago
You need hard numbers and intelligence available to only you. Once you have the data, talk to people you trust, then make a decision. If you hold 5%, you have rights, rights to information. Obtain the information, then decide. As far as a r
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by venture_lol 9y ago
Rough words, but yeah, definitely better to cry in rolls royce that hunting food stamps in a corolla
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by venture_lol 9y ago
Friendliest advice: promote someone NOW! or hire someone -- NOW! It's just a load you are telling yourself your product is too complicated for anyone else to take over.
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by venture_lol 9y ago
Possibly. However, tooling and code generation can help. If the smarts is just a state machine, and the rules are abstracted at the right level, it would not be that hard to support. "Thick" smartpoints can save on operating cost
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by venture_lol 9y ago
app <-> agent <-> hub <-> agent <-> app OR app <-> agent <-> agent <-> app OR app|agent <-> ... <-> agent|app Fundamentally, it is the same problem space. Does the apple pie taste differ
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by venture_lol 9y ago
I architected and built a system based on MQ a number of years ago. The very same design / implementation went from supporting 0 messages to a billion messages a day quietly and silently with full message tracing, retries, multi langua
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by venture_lol 9y ago
There are good people and bad people. There are monsters and humans even if monsters may have human shape and form. There is good and there is evil. One evil act does not absolve another. Goodness lives forever and evil does not die either
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by venture_lol 9y ago
Ensure you have the leverage, take as much as you can, leave nothing on the table. It's a business :)
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by venture_lol 9y ago
You are making assumptions about both the premise and the conclusion :) Designing and building for scalability, flexibility, availability, etc does not mean going all out to boil the ocean and then find that you attempted to boil the wrong
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by venture_lol 9y ago
I frankly have no idea what you are talking about. You are making wild assumptions that monolith are better just because... It will all come down the the experience of the team, esp. the leadership - the managers, the leads. A strong, exper
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by venture_lol 9y ago
There is nothing wrong with planning for scale and for microservices or whatever appropriate architecture from the start. It does not take more time to design properly from the get go. That, of course, assumes you have a CTO and a team capa
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by venture_lol 9y ago
Yes, you will want to seek the advice of a lawyer before you start However, let's not make a mountain out of a molehill. The lawyer may be good with the use of the sledgehammer of the laws but they will probably not be good with helpin
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by venture_lol 9y ago
Dude, create several new SaaS apps and go another 5 years. You've got the skills. Just have to dust off the cobwebs on the drive and the skills :)
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by venture_lol 9y ago
Data Sanitation Engineering
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by venture_lol 9y ago
Er, what is the hacker ethic? :)
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by venture_lol 9y ago
With data science, do you mean data science as in learning the tools, the software behind data science? That's like learning any technologies or tools. Along this line, you would just be a "tech", not a "scientist"
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Ask HN: Ansible cloudformation for all clouds
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by venture_lol 9y ago
Live a restrictive life, careful, watching, planning and get life expectancy of 85yrs ? A bad turn of luck could be the end is right around the corner Live a wild debauched, taste everything, free for all, no care whatsoever and get a life
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by venture_lol 9y ago
Great work! Inspiring hack!
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by venture_lol 9y ago
IANTTE (That Type of Expert) - means, everything I say about the subject could be 100% incorrect and sound 100% accurate :)
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by venture_lol 9y ago
All large enough companies would consider this. Why pay someone else when you are the driver for economies of scale?
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by venture_lol 9y ago
What is the number one Twilio differentiation? The price or its APIs?
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by venture_lol 9y ago
He is good at "promotion" and "marketing". He will now get plenty of talent eyeballs for free rather than having to pay for ads with dubious return :)

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