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1. What are you basing this answer on? 2. If you don't want to meet their expectations, what can they actually do?

In practice, the main difference is the pay / relative "rank" within a company. Employer's perspective: Want to hire a software engineer but don't have the budget? Create a new rol…

This bolsters the point that the future of online dating is not a computer estimating compatibility with creepy accuracy, it's someone engineering an app to be addicting to get the…

Understood. But they have so far avoided asking the user for structured data that they could use to vastly improve their matches. Clearly it took a back-seat to usability. Perhaps …

Dating apps/sites that employ the strategy of "get as much data as possible and match intelligently" have failed to compete for users against Tinder, the dumbest, simplest dating a…

What is the HN type?

Do FB/GOOG distribute facts? They have some pretty good returns.

Javascript is not easy to learn. Many language quirks, and doing anything fancy with asynchronous code will require an understanding of closures, functional programming, and perhap…

I was so on-board at the beginning - yes, html and css skills are undervalued. And then the essay tried to generalize the lack of respect for HTML/CSS specialists as an example of …

For 1 and 3, it's the process that matters more than the tool. One process I found effective is maintaining a spreadsheet of tasks and a spreadsheet of larger milestones, updated i…

Thank you.

What is Ethereum _useful_ for? When would I need it? Why is AWS (et al) not sufficient?

Oh you're right. That's what I get for badly skimming the article. Thanks, I take back my comment.

Not bad, at least they're being proactive about fixing the dubious decisions that were made at some point.

As of June 2016 the average age was around 29. https://www.ycombinator.com/faq/

IIRC Google is very open to internal transfers and theyou also have a 6 month grace period for you to return if you decide to leave.

It sounds like you're bored, and you don't have a very good reason to start a company. Starting a company is hard. A less drastic move is to find a job you'll actually like. They e…

Disappointed - not much on why these life forms are "weird".

Oh, oops. Missed that.

How is this legal? It's just one step away from prostitution. The payment here is not $ but a penny saved is a penny earned. Maybe this is technically legal but it seems against th…

Strong rec for stratechery. It doesn't cost much, the writing is excellent, it's insightful and enjoyable.