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by ylhert 10y ago
Peopleware advocates the 3-5 person office, and has some great research to back it up
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The Selfless Leader(shift.newco.co)
5 points by ylhert 10y ago|0 comments
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by ylhert 10y ago
My mom moved from Los Angeles to Switzerland about 5 years ago. She is very happy, makes good money, and plans on retiring there. I visit regularly and while it's a bit boring for young people, it's a beautiful, civilized country
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Succeeding Remotely(medium.com)
3 points by ylhert 10y ago|0 comments
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by ylhert 10y ago
author here: totally agree with flexibility, that's really what I'm advocating. That being said, I'm speaking (publicly) about a change I've decided to make in my career (only working remotely) and the reasons I came to
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by ylhert 10y ago
RIP all the "Uber for freight" and "Uber for trucking" startups
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by ylhert 10y ago
5 years is a long time, I'm sure you've got some great experience on the subject, would love to read more about your experiences! I really agree with your caveat, and I've seen a number of places that have some pretty unmotiv
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by ylhert 10y ago
Such a great point, and I regret not touching on this!
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by ylhert 10y ago
IMO this is a great tradeoff and in some ways an ideal work environment!
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by ylhert 10y ago
I've heard people with families kids can struggle with this. The people I know who've been successful at it seem to always have some kind of office work space where they can close the door and get a bit of isolation, or, they inv
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by ylhert 10y ago
I love the teams I work with, but that doesn't mean I want them to interrupt me all day long while I'm trying to do meaningful work. I think it's important to be flexible with work hours, but that goes both ways. My concern
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Why I Only Work Remotely(medium.com)
316 points by ylhert 10y ago|182 comments
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by ylhert 10y ago
The US is not a mature market for Uber, it still includes a huge amount of cities where Uber is still relatively new and has yet to reach profitability. My understanding is that the profitable markets are places like SF or LA where Uber has
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by ylhert 10y ago
Background checks are definitely imperfect, but that is not Ubers fault. The issue is usually not the background check providers, but rather the upstream data sources (read: local governments, courthouses, DMV, etc) Disclaimer: I work at a
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by ylhert 10y ago
Austin was requiring fingerprinting background checks, which have been shown to be much less accurate than the background check process that Uber currently uses. It's really a step backwards in every respect (speed, accuracy, cost).
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by ylhert 10y ago
Correct
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by ylhert 10y ago
My understanding is that in mature markets, Uber is profitable. The issue is that it takes a few years to become profitable in a market and so it's extreme growth pushes out profitability on the whole for a few years
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by ylhert 10y ago
Uber does background checks, not sure where the idea that they are skipping them comes from
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MongoDB cluster migration with zero downtime(medium.com)
5 points by ylhert 10y ago|0 comments
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by ylhert 10y ago
Checkr | http://www.checkr.com | San Francisco | Full-stack Engineer, Back end Engineer, Product design lead About Checkr: Checkr provides modern and compliant background checks for global enterprises and startups. Since graduat
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by ylhert 10y ago
Razer's Blade Stealth is on Kaby Lake now, and it's basically a macbook air form factor with excellent battery life http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-systems/razer-blade-stealth
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by ylhert 10y ago
I stopped. I kept going back to it because I love hacking on things and I love mac os and hate apple's markup on hardware, but I've learned my lesson at this point and will not attempt another hackintosh build.
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by ylhert 10y ago
hackintoshs are a giant, giant pain in the ass. I've been building hackintoshs since the close to the beginning of that scene (2009 or so) and have built around 5-6 hackintoshs, as recently as 3 months ago. It always has been and alwa
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Startups need to work smarter, not harder(medium.com)
9 points by ylhert 10y ago|0 comments
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by ylhert 10y ago
What about when you join a company that is promising, but then starts going downhill and you want to leave. That's the time you'll need to write the check, and it's hard to feel good gambling on a company you are leaving
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by ylhert 10y ago
yep! it's single sided. the box is also filled/packed with the side tearoff stuff (not sure the name for it) which you can sort of see in the gif. Must have been terrible to have to rip it all off for this many pages!
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by ylhert 10y ago
Correct, in fact there is probably no one better for a startup's first bank account (it was my first startup's bank account)! But be careful, if your transaction volume gets too high you might need to invest in a sizable mailbox
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by ylhert 10y ago
I can only speak to my experience and those of my friends who have started companies. This is the kind of experience we had
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by ylhert 10y ago
SVB is a great bank and I don't mean to say anything too negative but it doesn't mean that they don't do some silly things sometimes. It gives me a laugh that they do this so I thought I'd share. I hope my tone was &quot
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by ylhert 10y ago
DMV appointments as a service

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