If there were some inside knowledge from people who have taken these offers and lived to regret doing so, then maybe this would have some substance. To me, without more info and being willing to give people the benefit of the doubt, it just seems like speculation and pessisism.
A note I sent to YCombinator
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#22It's kind of ridiculous that some mod or admin must've hidden this post because it's now missing from the front page.
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#23I paid charity for my atheist years.
God says... C:\Text\WALDEN.TXT
thy victory, then? Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it. We need the tonic of wildness -- to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground. At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require th
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You DO go to church, right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7spyhVBrA4
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So, I did a driver for HD Audio. It has a bunch of "widgets" that you connect with wires in software. So, I did my best to make sound come-out all the speakers. :-) The fuck you think I'm gonna do?
It worked on bare metal hardware on two machines, but not in VMWare.
I guess only2-3 people on the planet have to deal with it and once it gets done, it's done. Still, I was wishing for my Commodore 64 SID chip. Actually I just wanted two buffered D2A convertors.
I blissfully remember C64 days. Everybody made waveforms. Now, it's WAV files. I did waveforms in Windows -- had to handle 8 different datatypes. Not fun.
Part of the entertainment value of computers used to be programming them. It's a shame programmers don't get PCs and everybody else gets game consoles. Naa.
God says... C:\Text\DARWIN.TXT
ds. I freely admit the former existence of many islands, now buried beneath the sea, which may have served as halting places for plants and for many animals during their migration. In the coral-producing oceans such sunken islands are now marked by rings of coral or atolls standing over them. Whenever it is fully admitted, as it will some day be, that each species has proceeded from a single birthplace, and when in the course of time we know something definite about the means of distribution, we
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http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/standards/high-defini...
Sometimes, those guys need to grow a pair of balls and say. "It's gonna be 44KHz and 24Bit".
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#24I also think you're being far too presumptuous about the comp packages these startups are offering. You seem to imply that they're being too stingy. Do you have any evidence for this?
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#25Tim McClarren
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#26I always found job postings by YC companies surreal. The ideology espoused by YC is to be a founder of a startup. If you are a talented engineer, why would you work for 1-2%(if your lucky) equity and less salary than google/facebook/etc.
If you are a talented engineer, why would you work for 1-2%(if your lucky) equity and less salary than google/facebook/etc. If you are a sufficiently young engineer (I am neither young nor an engineer, but I know people who are both), you might want to work at a startup before launching your own because a) the startup might hit it big enough to make you rich enough to have a lot of runway for your own project, and b)…
Mark Zuckerberg controls 28% of Facebook's voting equity.
Think about it. You're getting totally fucked, kids.
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#28Who says they don't have programmers? I would wager that almost every YC company has at least 1 and generally more than one programmer on the founding team. I also think you're being far too presumptuous about the comp packages these startups are offering. You seem to imply that they're being too stingy. Do you have any evidence for this?
The implication being that the salaries offered are low. If they were confident that what they were offering was competitive then maybe they wouldn't be afraid to be up front about it? I've never had to hire someone so I don't know what the reasons are for not stating a salary range are.
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#29These are some great insights, and well worth the read. I think that at a core level, many of us -- especially in the managerial world -- understand that working people to death, especially technical people, never works out well. The adage of "work smarter, not harder" is absolutely correct. Just like it's better to write five lines of algorithmically beautiful code than a hundred lines of obfuscated spaghetti, it's…
What you call crunch time is what I call poor project management. I started out as the managing editor of a daily newspaper. We shipped an entire product every day. We never slipped, we never missed a daily deadline… Just like every other daily newspaper. And there was never a OMG OMG crunch time as the daily deadline neared. If you manage a project correctly, when the deadline arrives you'll be sitting around tellin…
Re: A note I sent to YCombinator
#30I always found job postings by YC companies surreal. The ideology espoused by YC is to be a founder of a startup. If you are a talented engineer, why would you work for 1-2%(if your lucky) equity and less salary than google/facebook/etc.
If you are a talented engineer, why would you work for 1-2%(if your lucky) equity and less salary than google/facebook/etc. If you are a sufficiently young engineer (I am neither young nor an engineer, but I know people who are both), you might want to work at a startup before launching your own because a) the startup might hit it big enough to make you rich enough to have a lot of runway for your own project, and b)…
Do you also buy weekly lotto tickets and make wishes on falling stars?
> b) you might learn something about the process of founding and running a startup if you get enough personal interaction with the founders.
There are a lot of ifs and maybes in these statements. If you're lucky, you might get blessed with information, and that information may be meaningful for you. There's a fairly high chance that at the end of the day neither of these things will be true for most individuals.