This kind of text reads like something that is going to end up in https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
So what? Don't you think starting and selling your own company is an incredible journey?
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#132> It has been a long and fun journey. Using the word "journey" is this context is rather... risky. https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com
TBH it has got to the point now where I just assume people writing these posts are in on the joke and doing it on purpose. At least, I hope that's whats happening.
Why? What's the problem with calling it what it is? That site smells jealousy.
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My guess is it was an attempt to avoid saying 'incredible journey'. https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
What's the point of that page? Starting and selling your own company is an incredible journey. I don't see the problem with that phrase.
I'm sure it is an incredible journey.
It's just become cliché for companies to put up a page thanking customers (that are mostly likely getting screwed by the deal) for partaking in their incredible journey.
It's not so incredible when a service you were relying on stops providing that service.
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IMO the pendulum swings both ways. I'd bet money many a PHD could not delete a file properly.
From what I've seen, people with PhDs in CS are less competent as devs than devs without PhDs.
What a PhD in CS teaches you is how to do research in CS. This skill may or may not be valuable for a specific company and may or may not intersect with raw dev chops. Production Dev is a distinct skill from CS research.
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TBH it has got to the point now where I just assume people writing these posts are in on the joke and doing it on purpose. At least, I hope that's whats happening.
Why? What's the problem with calling it what it is? That site smells jealousy.
Why are you so intent on telling everyone off for criticising what, at the very least, is a unimaginative, cliched, and clumsy way of describing a cash grab.
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I don't know about Google, but I've heard of this happening during other acquisitions. A friend of mine with a Ph.D. in CS worked at a startup that was just acquired. He was responsible for the a lot of the tech in the platform they were acquiring, yet since he didn't pass their algorithms heavy interview they didn't want to hire him. He ended up working for one of the other companies interested in buying the startup…
Lol wut? This can't be serious. Can you please name this company so everyone can avoid them?
Google does this too. There is exceptions but they are rare.
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Actually, I'm not so sure its a acquihire. Google has very recently announced a bunch of cloud machine learning products: https://cloud.google.com/products/machine-learning/ * Cloud Vision API - Upload an image, and it will tell you what is in it * Cloud Speech API - Upload a wav and it will transcribe it * Natural Language API - Parse sentences, extracts entities, sentiment and syntax * Cloud Translate API - Transla…
From what I know, Google's NLP service does not include intent extraction. Intent extraction is essential for voice command interfaces, such as those in Siri and Google Now. But I don't see why they would need to buy a startup for that, when they can do it themselves even better.
"Remind me ______ in two hours"
One day Siri kept hearing that as "into hours" and I almost lost it.
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> And does s/he actually, y'know, have to do any work after getting paid? Yes, they're called "golden handcuffs". You basically get a compensation package so good that it'd be stupid to leave. Usually they try to get you to stay 3-5 but YMMV.
And what of the ones that don't get brought on? Do they get anything for their equity typically? For key employees i can see them sticking around, but early hire support staff that may not be needed could still have considerable equity.
I was part of a fairly large acquisition by a big player. Support types got handcuffs of about $20k over 4 years. Engineers got anywhere from $150k/4 years to $600k/4 years. Some got even more.
This was all independent of equity. Any vested equity was cashed out. Unvested equity converted to equivalent shares in the new company, with the same vesting schedule as before.
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Why? What's the problem with calling it what it is? That site smells jealousy.
Why are you so intent on telling everyone off for criticising what, at the very least, is a unimaginative, cliched, and clumsy way of describing a cash grab.
Because it's ridiculous and I'm tired of seeing that site in every acquisition thread.
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not to troll or anything but I find it utterly stupid that this is done. Also is it a big deal to have 1000 stars on a github project you run? I am curious because I do not know what the general perception is of github projects, I mean how much do they matter? I do not have a formal training on algorithms and I am studying machine learning now. Also I have a project having 200 something stars and one having 1000+ sta…
1000+ stars is a pretty big deal! I imagine you could leverage this to gain software development job interviews if you were looking. Do they matter? It is just one of many metrics of how useful a repository is. I think it's one of the most public metrics that can be distilled to a single factoid on HN. There are absolutely better metrics to judge the quality of software.
Well, I am not sure I can use it, since it is a book :-)
https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo...
Also I am not in US.