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by yks 7y ago
I imagine stack ranking unleashed the worst in interpersonal dynamics though
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by yks 8y ago
Actually, what is the 1000x risk for SV startup founders? They are not risking their own money and apparently not even their reputation (failed VC-backed founders tend to be able to get VC capital again) so on the face their risk is just to
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by yks 8y ago
it is not, case in point: Great Britain
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by yks 8y ago
I really enjoy working and see myself doing that all my life but then I have a certain anxiety that the good times will be over rather sooner than later because (1) maybe we’re living through the peak SWE salary times and (2) I’ll become un
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by yks 8y ago
> If there is ever a future time you can be punished for your DNA, the only people who can possibly be 'grandfathered' in are the ones who've avoided submitting their DNA in the first place. I don't support the point
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by yks 8y ago
> Guy working at UPS who grew up here depends on these laws so he doesn’t get priced out of his neighborhood. Leaving aside how these laws led to the dire situation for the UPS guy in the first place, what if he has children? The firstbo
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by yks 8y ago
> Why do you assume that the person is lying? There was a blog post "Adventure in the Low Status of Software Engineers" by Michael Church (apparently taken down now), basically if you're interviewing for "low status&q
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by yks 8y ago
I don’t know, some Asian cities (e.g. Jakarta) seem worse. At least in SF middle class people walk on the streets and don’t live behind electric fences either.
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by yks 8y ago
What if they are a 10x programmer put on the project that was shut down after a year of development? Did they produce measurable value or not and more importantly, do you want them on your team or not? What if they were just doing whatever
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by yks 8y ago
Slightly tangential but I believe the resume situation is another part of the "broken hiring in tech": 1. There is a whole cottage industry of resume writers. My CV got me mostly where I wanted and then some, but of course the pro
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by yks 8y ago
The highest paying companies in the field don’t care about counting individual years of your experience and probably would hire a fresh grad over senior engineer any day, so as long as you crack the leetcoding interview, what difference doe
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by yks 8y ago
I agree 100% and don’t initiate calls myself until the phone screen is passed at least, not because I’m such a sought after dev but because doing otherwise is generally a waste of my time and mind. But some people actually are desperate, es
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by yks 8y ago
Amazon uses these psychological questionnaires for screening (the likes of “Rate the statement ‘I never lie’ from disagree to agree”), of course their recruitment is a joke
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by yks 8y ago
> Instead they should have tried to identify a niche where Facebook was failing and build up a loyal core of rabidly passionate users As Google Reader history shows, Google does not care about the passionate users.
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by yks 8y ago
didn’t expect globular’s name here, are you a patreon follower by chance?
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by yks 8y ago
Yes, I, for instance, don’t care about photos of myself and now can’t even assemble an attractive (and recent) Tinder profile, definitely not likely to succeed in the current market!
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by yks 8y ago
Always thought that jeans is business casual, at least on the West Coast
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by yks 8y ago
I’ve been motorcycling both in SE Asia and the US, always feel much safer in Asia because the speeds are low, bikes are low-powered and abundant so the drivers expect them. And majority of expats get by fine without motorcycle racing experi
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by yks 8y ago
weather is fine if you don't mind the permanent wind
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by yks 8y ago
Amazon does it
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[video] Real World Multiplayer AR Demo from Niantic(youtube.com)
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by yks 8y ago
The eruption zone glows red at night
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by yks 8y ago
There is a lot of social capital to acquire by making solved problems worse (e.g. "reddit redesign") so blockchain will probably see much wider adoption soon. On the bright side, there will be a lot of social capital to acquire by
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by yks 8y ago
people with non-mainstream tastes are not statistically significant and in the age of ML optimization we can expect recommendations for them becoming even worse
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by yks 8y ago
well, Ménage à Trois is a good wine
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by yks 8y ago
> WP was doing flat design before it was cool. it was somewhat annoying to watch the community go religious on flat design when "Apple invented it"
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by yks 9y ago
People who bought Apple shares got rich because Apple made something good (arguably changed the world). People who got rich on Bitcoin got rich while really nothing of value has been produced (although crypto prophets indeed try hard to tel
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by yks 9y ago
"I am a cofounder" is the new "I play in a band" I guess Japanese society values stable trajectories in life more than money, whereas in the US the common trope is "you work for someone — you never get rich" an
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by yks 9y ago
> reasonable confidence that you could work at the same place until retirement based on what? on belief that the wise communist party conquered the laws of economics, history and nature? Maybe disintegration with plunging into poverty is
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by yks 9y ago
history? arguably, since Enlightenment we've been gradually giving up on conservatism and an average person benefits from that.

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