#bc one of my...rivals? already was a software engineer
Explore tagged Tumblr posts
Text
Well didn't get the job I was w/ a few days ago but I'm not even mad bc I just had a good time hanging out in another city+the people there were nice and chill and I left behind a positive enough impression that they invited me to try again post training if I ever wanted to
#txts#I kinda expected that#bc one of my...rivals? already was a software engineer#just in the ukraine so ofc he'd have waaaaay more background knowledge than I do#especially w/ backend stuff#i am still not doing the one next week bc i am so sorry but i am still not spending like near 200bucks on a test....get to know me first#this however means i need to catch up on sending applications#i havent in a bit bc tbh i am exhausted#+i wanna play more dragon age :/#next interview in 40mins#thats only like half an hour in estimated time so i'll either game afterwards or do applications#i probably should game first bc i DO actually get tired eventually and need a break#and THEN i can make some applications even if its only copy pasted ones#so far it hasnt mattered whether i've made a personalized one vs a copy paste-yes i've checked
0 notes
Text
AND SO HACKERS, LIKE PAINTERS, MUST HAVE EMPATHY TO DO REALLY GREAT WORK
And that's why startups thrive in startup hubs like Silicon Valley? Instead of thinking of most places as being sprayed with the antidote. Instead it does y.1 When my IBM Thinkpad's hard disk died soon after, it became my only laptop.2 Measured by traffic, Reddit is much more successful than Hacker News. Quite small, but important out of proportion to its size. What a disaster that would be, to attract thousands of smart people to a site that kills submissions provide a way for users to see what got killed if they want to do it more. Usually a startup is that you get less dilution. A string of rich neighborhoods runs along the crest of the Santa Cruz mountains.
The main reason I don't like it is that there's no such thing.3 No, it turns out, we're not even the center of things is difficult to discard.4 They'll all lose their jobs eventually, along with all the time they expended on this doomed company. That, it turned out, was no coincidence.5 It falls between what and how: architects decide what to do, and engineers figure out how to do it more. The influence of fashion is not nearly so great in hacking as it is in painting.6 This was a mistake.7 A round to a startup we'd seed funded. This of course gave empathy a bad name, and I still occasionally get lost. The reason was that we discovered we were using an n² algorithm, and we haven't yet evolved ways to protect ourselves from them.
It's hard to say exactly what it is about face to face contact that makes deals happen, but whatever it is, it hasn't yet been duplicated by technology. Not because they contribute more to the startup, but simply because they're least willing to move. Mean people are more likely to know they're being mean than stupid people are to know they're being stupid.8 They're about as hardcore OS hackers as you can imagine, produces wild oscillations in the stock price of a startup hub, you need a lot of people interested in the startup if the rival VC didn't end up making an offer, and they tend to be short. It's very much worth seeing inside if you can, try to avoid the worst pitfalls of consulting. Over and over we see the same pattern.9 They learn to hack by taking college courses in programming. They'll invest in you if you're a hacker, here's a thought experiment you can run to understand why there are basically no hacker VCs: How would you like a job where you never got to make anything, but instead spent all your time listening to other people pitch mostly terrible projects, deciding whether to fund them, and above all, be malleable. But hacking can certainly be more than just deciding how to implement some spec.10 Both components of the antidote—an environment that encourages startups, and most of the initial sales of the Apple II came from people who bought one to run VisiCalc. Control of a company is doing well, investors will want founders to turn down most acquisition offers. If one top-tier VC firm started to do series A rounds for as much equity as founders want to sell and with no option pool that comes only from the founders' shares stands to reap huge benefits.
Google looked a lot like a charity in the beginning. And practically all startups, even the most successful startups got started. Silicon Valley proper is mostly suburban sprawl.11 Bad comments seem to be a deal; everyone acts like they have a significant amount of money, and another for love. Then dumb threads would grow slower. What makes Google so valuable is that their users have money. It's that death is the default for startups, and chance meetings with people who help you—are driven by the same underlying cause: the number of startup people around you care about what you're doing. I was working on spam filters I thought it would be a fine idea if people actually did write programs the way they taught me to in college.12 It will work not just as a statement of values, but as a guide to strategy, and even a design spec for software.13 These companies may be far from failures by ordinary standards.
Notes
Seneca Ep. That companies will naturally wonder, how little autonomy one would have seemed shocking for a couple years.
In every other respect they're constantly being told that Microsoft discourages employees from contributing to open-source browser would cause HTTP and HTML to continue to maltreat people who lost were us. The US News list?
Whereas when you're starting a startup to become more stratified. N teaspoons freshly ground black pepper 3n teaspoons ground cumin n cups dry rice, preferably brown Robert Morris wrote the editor written in C, and you need to get the bugs out of a silver mine. I realize revenue and not least, the only result is that Steve Wozniak started out by a central authority according to some abstract notion of fairness or randomly, in the US in 2002 was 35,560. We didn't let him off, either as an adult.
It's one of the word programmers care about, like hedge funds, are better college candidates. You could also degenerate from uppercase to any-case, 20th century cohesion would have started to give their associates the title partner, not you. For example, would probably find it was worth 8,000 or a blog on the critical question is to seem big that they will come at an academic talk might appreciate a joke, they have to find someone else to lend to, the world, and there didn't seem to understand about startups. Enterprise software sold through traditional channels is very high, and the restrictions on what interests you most.
The main one was nothing special.
Eratosthenes 276—195 BC used shadow lengths in different cities to estimate the Earth's circumference. But it's a departure from the DMV. According to the principle that declarations except those of popular Web browsers, including that Florence was then the richest country in the mid 1980s. There are still expensive to start a startup enough to turn into them.
With the good ones, it could become a function of the money, in the process of selling things to the problem, but this disappointment is mostly evidence that the overall prior ratio seemed worthless as a cause.
Success here is that you can control.
You can just start from the truth to say yet how much you get an intro to a bunch of actual adults suddenly found themselves trapped in high school.
A rolling close usually prevents this. This has already happened once in China, Yale University Press, 2005.
As I explained in How to Make Wealth in Hackers Painters, what that means service companies are up-front capital intensive to founders would actually increase the size of a cent per spam.
I have no way to find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, the airplane, the average employee.
Not surprisingly, these are even worth thinking about for the correction. In Jessica Livingston's Founders at Work. If you want to impress are not written by the Corporate Library, the space of careers does. The image shows us, they are at least one beneficial feature: it might be a hot startup.
#automatically generated text#Markov chains#Paul Graham#Python#Patrick Mooney#VC#News#II#channels#startups#meetings#money#college#default#question#associates
0 notes