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by whoisnnamdi 6y ago
Leo - as other folks have noted it is a major assumption to think that VCs are good at calculating the expected values of companies in which they make investments. The fundamental randomness is so high here that any ranking a VC made would
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Why Don't VCs Index Invest?(whoisnnamdi.com)
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by whoisnnamdi 6y ago
Love this, thanks for sharing!!
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Why Zoom doesn’t have product/market fit(usefyi.com)
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A non-linearity that works much better than ReLUs [video](youtube.com)
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by whoisnnamdi 6y ago
Thanks for checking out the code. Confirming that, yes, I am using this methodology for the results reported in this post.
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by whoisnnamdi 6y ago
Author here I agree with everything in your comment except the first line. I don't think software developer pay follows a power law, or at least not in this dataset. Ignoring equity (which can cause power law type behavior if enough fo
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by whoisnnamdi 6y ago
Totally. The "etc" I used in my quote is doing a lot of work here - I control for a fairly extensive list of observed factors from the dataset. I just listed out a few because otherwise the list gets absurdly long. I control for d
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by whoisnnamdi 6y ago
Thank you! Yes this is an important point. I don't mention it there, but I do control for full-time vs part-time vs. self-employed in my analysis. I'll cover this in a coming post, but full-time and self-employed developers make v
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by whoisnnamdi 6y ago
Author here I think this is a quite common story, or at least I've heard it a few times now so it feels that way: (1) Senior, important developer decides they want to change locations. (2) Boss can't afford to lose them. (3) So bo
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by whoisnnamdi 6y ago
Author here Thanks, yes this is an important point which I cover later in the analysis: "Even once I control for various observable factors (including age, experience, hours worked, size of employer, programming languages, and more),
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by whoisnnamdi 6y ago
Author here Yes the results include only the U.S. but do not include more granular controls for regions within the U.S. So it's possible that this is biasing the results. That said, I do control for size of company, which often correla
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by whoisnnamdi 6y ago
Author here Agreed, which is why I didn't say,"working remote causes developers to earn 22% more", only that developers who work remote earn 22% more, which is an interesting fact in itself. Early in the article I adjust this
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Remote Software Developers Earn 22% More Than Non-Remote Developers(whoisnnamdi.com)
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Low-Code Tool for Managing SaaS Pricing(manifold.co)
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Margin considered harmful(mxstbr.com)
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by whoisnnamdi 7y ago
Author here An important distinction! I cover this and the overall methodology here [1] [1] https://whoisnnamdi.com/highest-paid-software-engineers-2020...
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by whoisnnamdi 7y ago
As someone who is also sometimes underestimated, I sympathize with your situation. Good on you though for being self-aware and perceptive enough to realize it is they who have the incorrect view and having the patience to let that view corr
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by whoisnnamdi 7y ago
Really like this piece of advice. Thanks for sharing!
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Microsoft Style Guide(docs.microsoft.com)
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by whoisnnamdi 7y ago
The re-focus on SaaS as the only class of investment that can reliably generate returns and avoid zeros or capital loss is a very real trend. Would emphasize your point around services - SaaS investors are generally allergic to this stuff a
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by whoisnnamdi 7y ago
Great guide - though unless I missed it I think this is missing the latest advancements around Transformers, BERT, ELMo, etc. This stuff is pretty fresh, so it's understandable, but the NLP chapter would be greatly enhanced by covering
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by whoisnnamdi 7y ago
Great summary - thank you
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by whoisnnamdi 7y ago
Just as an FYI - the statsmodels python package just released numerous new time series tools in version 0.11 rc1 [1] and also has functions for quantile regression [2] [1] https://github.com/statsmodels/statsmodels&#x2F
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I think waitlists are a vanity metric(whoisnnamdi.com)
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by whoisnnamdi 7y ago
Another point - a version of "do things that don't scale", sign up your first 100 customers door-to-door I'm guessing this advice shouldn't be taken completely literally, but rather, the point is that one shouldn&#x
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Building a Developer Tools Business(manifold.co)
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by whoisnnamdi 7y ago
So interesting to see something like this right after vscode added jupyter notebook support this past month, which I was excited to see given how poor the editing experience is in standard notebooks, especially around intelligent autocomple
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In Defense of Screen Time(bjornjeffery.com)
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Death of Star Researchers Increases Citations of Other Scientists(insidehighered.com)
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