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by yanilkr 10y ago
Peter Theil had a long term vision for the world where others failed to see such future. I see similar line of reasoning for Peter Theil's support. 1. If you think that business people can govern better than Politicians or want to achi
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by yanilkr 10y ago
No matter who you are or what you are trying to succeed in tech industry, How about you make news for accomplishments like Peter Theil?
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by yanilkr 10y ago
multiple data points that test for the same thing. Based on my own personal experience, this is my assessment of the interns who knew too much about interviewing questions They performed very badly compared to someone who did not pay enough
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by yanilkr 10y ago
One size fits all type of interviewing might be bad for your company or team. If you are hiring for short term, you might find someone who can crank the code appealing, but for long term hiring, you want to choose someone who is creative, w
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by yanilkr 10y ago
How did you manage to equate this simple act of kindness to Facebook's entire future strategy?
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by yanilkr 10y ago
Its a leadership position, Can't you deal with the situation? are you hoping to find a perfect team to lead? IMO, Its a negotiation. Ask for autonomy so you can shape the culture the way you want it to be.
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by yanilkr 10y ago
Everything you said needs to be judged based on the context. There is also a case of tallest tree grabbing all the sunlight and overshadowing other potential talent. If you want to build a strong resilient team you should allow your devs to
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by yanilkr 10y ago
When you work in a team with other people, certain collaboration skills are useful and necessary. I am god and have seen it all and i am going to reject other's ideas is not a productive attitude. Cost conscious managers are going to a
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by yanilkr 10y ago
Its usually not the age. But its common for people effected to think that they are being discriminated because of their age. There is a tendency for a lot of people to hang on to tools and ideas that worked for them in the past. e.g someone
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by yanilkr 10y ago
It's what these leaders are hiding that's more worrying to me. I think they made deals with the govt that would give away users privacy and are worried what if it falls into wrong hands.
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by yanilkr 10y ago
With a wife and a kid. Hmnn.. I think you should get a decent job.
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by yanilkr 10y ago
There is an amount of Social Engineering here embedded in the process. You have to be cool to be part of our club (Amazon|Google|<your startup>....). It's not the pay, its some other form of darwinian merit system. If you want to
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by yanilkr 10y ago
The cost of tuition for foreign students will probably go up by a lot.
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by yanilkr 10y ago
Sweet that some one is trying new things with ideas. But Oh boy, Life does not revolve around tech interviews. Make peace with it. An old school psychologist would observe us and say that the people obsessed with tech interviews faced an e
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by yanilkr 10y ago
Only one Mistake. Reading too much about startups and not actually doing anything of value.
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by yanilkr 10y ago
Rock stars are good at what they do and most of the time earn that label. Don't form a gang and hurt productivity of your team/company. If someone is working hard to earn a rockstar label don't penalize them. You will probabl
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by yanilkr 10y ago
Lets start with a very bad assumption that people mostly make rational choices and want good things to happen to themselves and their country fellows. In this assumption, people who support Trump do not see him the way his non-supporters se
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by yanilkr 10y ago
The compensation model also seems unfair. Many tech recruiters get a cut of engineer's hourly wage and even with that high price I found tech recruiting a very random selection process. Many good managers I know don't believe that
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by yanilkr 10y ago
Great design. Putting high achievers face on currency will quickly become a political issue. There are many cultures of people with almost no scientific achievement. Their people would never be on that currency. Bitcoin paper currency will
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by yanilkr 10y ago
If Guccifer 2.0 writes a blog about "My first 10 minutes on a server" It would be a great read and we would know he reads hacker news.
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by yanilkr 10y ago
Apple does things that are good for themselves and their users. The scope is narrow, they are not biased by existing ways of thinking and most of the time they deliver. Thats a very lean mindset. They are doing something right. I cant compl
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by yanilkr 10y ago
I had to prepare a developer improvement program recently. After doing a lot of research, I thought plural-sight was an invaluable resource. I don't get anything in return for promoting them. I think it is time and money well spent.
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by yanilkr 10y ago
It is not a progressive or non-progressive issue. People who have the power in this economic area do not want to give it up easily and their means of achieving this is via politics. Everyone knows its the future, they are just scared its to
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by yanilkr 10y ago
One of the popular self-help advice for aspiring entrepreneurs is to read obituaries and decide for yourself how your's should be. This guy deserves a great one. Nytimes, don't F this up.
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by yanilkr 10y ago
Redux is a cool idea but what is it doing in my browser? Javascript in browser is a single threaded environment. Immutability of data is a great concept in a context of concurrency but is an anti-pattern in browser code. Create a global var
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Did Google Pick a side this election?(youtube.com)
8 points by yanilkr 10y ago|1 comments
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by yanilkr 10y ago
I am not sure you are moderating this right. That comment was very insightful. People hiring product managers would now know how some others in the company think if they brought in friends or candidates with inflated titles. One of my very
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by yanilkr 10y ago
Your opinion on this is couple of standard deviations away from popular one. Is there a specific example where a program written in golang lacked compared to other statically typed languages?
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by yanilkr 10y ago
"insurmountable advantage" - I don't think so. the simplicity that javascript and python provides is an enormous advantage to many kinds of projects.
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by yanilkr 10y ago
javascript and python would disagree with you.

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