Where are they now of some of the early microsoft employees:
http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-1978-photo-2016-10#...
Counterpoint to the article very few stayed at Microsoft.
Don’t Know What to Do with Your Life? Seek Bargains (2012)
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Re: Don’t Know What to Do with Your Life? Seek Bargains (2012)
#22I couldn't understand how the title related to the advice until I finally looked up the definition of "bargain". "an agreement between two or more parties as to what each party will do for the other." I've never, ever heard anyone use the word "bargain" in the way that the author is doing. I can't deny that it technically fits the definition, but if you want to be understand, I think it's important to use language th…
> I've never, ever heard anyone use the word "bargain" in the way that the author is doing. I can't deny that it technically fits the definition, but if you want to be understand, I think it's important to use language the way other people use it.
This surprises me as much as the author's usage did not. Are phrases like "bargaining chip" or "more than they bargained for" not common enough that this sense of "bargain" is widely understood?
Re: Don’t Know What to Do with Your Life? Seek Bargains (2012)
#23What have I gained from reading this other than learn that the author is a high achieving person? I'm a software engineer in my late twenties in America. I would guess this blog is geared toward people like me, yet the author seems comedically unaware that very few, remarkably close to zero people, have opportunities like pursuing a PhD at MIT. So you chose MIT... I think most people would have. This is just a self c…
Yeah I was going to say he probably didn't have a big student loan and a kid to support.
This is the stuff we really need to fix together as a community. This article says next to nothing but name drops a couple prestigious companies and universities? I don't want to value things of little substanance simply because they feel elite.
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#24I couldn't understand how the title related to the advice until I finally looked up the definition of "bargain". "an agreement between two or more parties as to what each party will do for the other." I've never, ever heard anyone use the word "bargain" in the way that the author is doing. I can't deny that it technically fits the definition, but if you want to be understand, I think it's important to use language th…
> I've never, ever heard anyone use the word "bargain" in the way that the author is doing. I can't deny that it technically fits the definition, but if you want to be understand, I think it's important to use language the way other people use it. This surprises me as much as the author's usage did not. Are phrases like "bargaining chip" or "more than they bargained for" not common enough that this sense of "bargain"…
I too thought this was a common sense of the word.
Re: Don’t Know What to Do with Your Life? Seek Bargains (2012)
#25What have I gained from reading this other than learn that the author is a high achieving person? I'm a software engineer in my late twenties in America. I would guess this blog is geared toward people like me, yet the author seems comedically unaware that very few, remarkably close to zero people, have opportunities like pursuing a PhD at MIT. So you chose MIT... I think most people would have. This is just a self c…
This is similar to the "advice" you see in sports criticism that boils down to "Just recruit good players and have those players play consistently well! Easy!"
The part that's actually difficult is in the omitted details, privileges, and luck involved in getting the author to where they are now.
Re: Don’t Know What to Do with Your Life? Seek Bargains (2012)
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah I was going to say he probably didn't have a big student loan and a kid to support.
This is the stuff we really need to fix together as a community. This article says next to nothing but name drops a couple prestigious companies and universities? I don't want to value things of little substanance simply because they feel elite.
"I don't want to value things of little substanance simply because they feel elite."
You realize that you're posting this on a forum run by Ycombinator, right?
Re: Don’t Know What to Do with Your Life? Seek Bargains (2012)
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is the stuff we really need to fix together as a community. This article says next to nothing but name drops a couple prestigious companies and universities? I don't want to value things of little substanance simply because they feel elite.
"I don't want to value things of little substanance simply because they feel elite." You realize that you're posting this on a forum run by Ycombinator, right?
Lol. You're right.
Re: Don’t Know What to Do with Your Life? Seek Bargains (2012)
#28What have I gained from reading this other than learn that the author is a high achieving person? I'm a software engineer in my late twenties in America. I would guess this blog is geared toward people like me, yet the author seems comedically unaware that very few, remarkably close to zero people, have opportunities like pursuing a PhD at MIT. So you chose MIT... I think most people would have. This is just a self c…
"My career choices were amazing, it was hard to pick between all the fantastic options. I made a decision to pick the better option and am happy with what I chose. You should do all these things too"
Re: Don’t Know What to Do with Your Life? Seek Bargains (2012)
#29A question about "rare and valuable skills" - since many want to have valuable skills, and so they become common, is the only way to get rare skills is choosing to learn very difficult things?
I would says so. If it's a rare and valuable skill, but is relatively easy to acquire, then people will eventually do exactly that. Perhaps they haven't just yet because word has not gotten out, but it will.
The only way a skill remains rare and valuable, is if the skill is difficult to acquire and master at a high enough level to be useful. All the high paid professions fall under that category. Software engineering is definitely one of them.
Re: Don’t Know What to Do with Your Life? Seek Bargains (2012)
#30I couldn't understand how the title related to the advice until I finally looked up the definition of "bargain". "an agreement between two or more parties as to what each party will do for the other." I've never, ever heard anyone use the word "bargain" in the way that the author is doing. I can't deny that it technically fits the definition, but if you want to be understand, I think it's important to use language th…
> I've never, ever heard anyone use the word "bargain" in the way that the author is doing. I can't deny that it technically fits the definition, but if you want to be understand, I think it's important to use language the way other people use it. This surprises me as much as the author's usage did not. Are phrases like "bargaining chip" or "more than they bargained for" not common enough that this sense of "bargain"…
I think it is about the phrasing. "Seek Bargains" sounds very similar to me as "Bargain Hunting", which would lend to an object more than a negotiation.