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by warcher 7y ago
Not really, although there is a proven model for apps that don't bill through the respective stores. Netflix and Spotify don't share their revenue with the platform providers. But I think you probably need an app in the store(s)
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by warcher 8y ago
The only real rot I see in the PhD track is the dangerous imbalance of degrees to jobs in certain areas (not STEM usually, although STEM is pretty uncompromising for tenure track). IMHO in the humanities the PhD is some kind of sick ponzi
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by warcher 8y ago
The critical issue there is where you are on the totem pole. 100 engineers as an engineer? Probably not gonna make a big dent unless you’re really good and on the right project (tricky, uncertain). But, a fresh exec or management track engi
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by warcher 8y ago
People think they want the equity but they absolutely do not. They may want something for nothing, certainly plenty of folks are interested in that, but you don’t really understand the devils bargain until you’ve made it. I know what I’m do
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by warcher 8y ago
I disagree- I’m really good. They just have a very large hammer they swing. Anybody can get good results with the resources they bring to bear. Getting good results with jack shit takes talent, haha. The answer is not and will never be wr
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by warcher 8y ago
The only reason that makes sense is to break into an industry without experience, or to move up the career ladder faster. Startups are hungry and will take folks who couldn’t even get interviews at big tech. And if you make your bones, boom
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by warcher 8y ago
Respectfully, if you don’t like the split, the clear answer is to be a founder. The option is available to all, but very few take it. For really good reasons.
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by warcher 8y ago
Yo, you gotta tell me when you’re working. You must. You’re on a team that is depending on you and somebody has to know where the fuck your are and when you’re going to fix whatever is broken today. “Where’s will?” “I don’t know, our manife
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by warcher 8y ago
Hey uh, I don’t do a lot of mobile gaming, but what’s a loot box and why should I care if it’s gambling or not?
100.
by warcher 8y ago
You might be jumping from the frying pan into the fire there. Be careful. All the consultants I know want to make a product.
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by warcher 9y ago
Cause this stuff is illegal and high profile. And Uber has been skating if not nakedly flaunting the law for a long time now. If the DA starts sniffing, people are going to start talking. Furthermore, the odds of the leaks continuing appr
102.
by warcher 9y ago
White collar tech bros will not hold up under investigation . A ivy-league mba has way too much to lose to risk going to jail over some stock options. Doing this kind of dirt can only survive via staying under the radar-- somebody is gon
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by warcher 9y ago
Man, pro tip- always go with a PA over an actual doctor for most general purpose visits. Doctors are waaaaaaaaay harried and checked out of the process. PA all the way. Honestly, even for hard problems I'm half inclined to go with a
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by warcher 9y ago
It's funny- I was an unlicensed grey market house painter for a while in college. I booked most of my jobs while standing on top of a ladder, where somebody would stroll up asking me if I'd do their house next.
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by warcher 9y ago
You can also deny workman's comp claims if somebody blows a drug test. They are powerfully financially incentivized to fish for a hot sample in the case of an accident.
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by warcher 9y ago
Couple things briefly. The only time to do something important is right now. If you found the person you want to spend the rest of your life with, marry them. Today. Life won’t wait. Secondly, the culture of startup Uber alles is real dubio
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by warcher 9y ago
I'm kind of a slacker responding to HN stuff, but here's what I'll say: Yeah, you're right, if shit isn't shipping, it's my fault. But. There are a variety of psychological profiles in computing, and they have
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by warcher 9y ago
This will sound flippant, but you can’t win them all. There are hordes of false negatives in any hiring process, anyplace. My process is more accurate IMHO but it’s indisputably more work and it does not scale at all. Ultimately everybody i
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by warcher 9y ago
Most assuredly. But what are we talking about on a whiteboard? Not the things that I personally am interested in, or the things in my opinion most important to the success of a project. Honestly the code review isn’t for the obvious rock st
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by warcher 9y ago
A lot of programming is real grimy and there’s a lot of skeletons in every closet. Par for the course. I’ve seen it all. The code isn’t the code, it’s a conversation we have about how you think. So many people dragging me in this thread thi
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by warcher 9y ago
I don’t know their arrangment with their old employer and I don’t ask. Very often folks will have an ongoing maintenance consulting relationship and retain some IP just in case. More often folks will just have some stuff lying around, and t
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by warcher 9y ago
“How much time is the interviewer willing to invest” is a super legit question to be asking. It tells you a lot about how many shits they give about you in particular and is a good proxy for the quality of the team in general.
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by warcher 9y ago
On boarding. Training. Professional development. Pair programming. It’s much more cost effective to invest in your existing people. That’s one thing I never skimp on.
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by warcher 9y ago
I am technical and we will sit down and go line by line, haha. And I know where alllllllll the fun code is hiding, not just the boilerplate. I get real deep in there. I’m sure my methods probably weed out some folks who don’t or can’t drop
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by warcher 9y ago
I guess I see that as disrespectful of their time, but I could probably work something like that out. I run a small shop. I am allowed to use my good judgment.
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by warcher 9y ago
Sure, sure. And if you followed the letter of the law I’m sure you deleted it all from your laptop promptly and is unavailable to you no matter what. But if you didn’t, for whatever reason, and you happen to have an illegal copy of some pro
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by warcher 9y ago
Computing is really noisy and chaotic. There are a lot of dudes out there that just can’t cut it, for whatever reason, and there’s no good way to figure out who’s who. Whiteboard stuff selects for a particular algorithmic dexterity that I j
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by warcher 9y ago
I’m not mad at you, but as the dude on the other side of the desk, I have to decide whether you can cut it and I’m fine saying no. I could make you do some whiteboard problems, but I think whiteboard problems are pretty far removed from you
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by warcher 9y ago
I feel like.... maybe some of these guys are feeling the hangover from other people's money, and trying to have it both ways. It's far from easy to bootstrap, but you basically solve all the problems these guys are talking about i
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by warcher 9y ago
Food safety is a great way to backdoor agricultural import restrictions. Europe has been doing it for decades on GMO's.

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