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I liked How to Be Miserable: 40 Strategies You Already Use. Which also helped with showing underrated strategies for upping happiness.

https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Miserable-Strategies-Already/d...
Of course, the (much) larger version of this project is converting the Digital Mars C/C++ compiler entirely to D. It's much easier to see how the process works by looking at a smaller conversion. For more complex programs, I convert the file(s) one function at a time instead of a file at a time. After each function I then run the complete test suite. If/when the test suite breaks, I have only one function to look at to find the mistake, which makes it fairly easy.
Even with that being the case finding a new job is a hassle and means you have an interruption in pay and insurance. Gives me a lot of incentive to just work at BigCo and not worry about it until -I- want to worry about it.
This. L5-L6 is not really that hard to get into if you have a few years of experience.
I am not sure why you are downvoted. The article even touched on this, marriage was viewed as some type of pseudo-slavery with the man having ownership over the woman in the 1700-1800s.

Divorce laws reflect women traditionally not having any means of financing their own lives and being dependent on men especially since the article notes they could not gain higher education even after some jobs opened up to women so would they divorce they would be stuck with very slim financial options (i.e. low paying non-career positions viewed as feminine)

It did note however that men used to get ownership of the children in the event of a divorce. I do not know when that changed because I have seen stats that show women are more likely to get the children today.
A lot of people have offered great advice, so I'll keep my comment short.

You are not your company, your company is not you. Believe it or not, most (as in 99%) of businesses fail eventually. By trying your hardest you've gained an experience that will hopefully stay with you your entire lifetime. If/when you choose to start a second company, you'll have an entirely new respect for the process and have much higher chance of success.

I've been there myself. Financial/business stress is incredibly toxic, but remember that your bank account is not you. You are not your financial mistakes. These are just 'things' dictating areas of your life at the moment. You will get through this.

Listen to some of these suggestions, as I imagine most of the people who felt compelled to reach out see themselves in this post, like I did.

The only technical advice I'd like to suggest is creating structure for your day and ruthlessly sticking to it. When I was closing down my first business - that's what I had to do. I had to lock down all my hours in a day and focus on moving in the right direction.

Good luck to you. And remember - this business isn't your identity. It's just a piece of context.
It really seems like the hiring process ought to be a good indicator of how the internals of the company works. However, inexplicably but empirically, I can see no correlation (in my own experience).
A saner equivalent to 'unlimited' is 'minimum required'. That way, folks know for sure you're supposed to take at least 3 weeks (or 2 or 4 or whatever) and can do so without worry.

In fact, to call it unlimited and not have a minimum is probably always a scam - its so easy to post a minimum, to not do so must be deliberate.
Yeah. The number 7 has always seems to me like an oversimplification. Applicable to specific cases.
Oh man.

You should read Heidegger's The Thing.

[0] http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~ryanshaw/nmwg/the.thing-...
>Exercise: Sit in a comfortable chair, close your eyes, and, for 15 minutes, meditate on all the things you could lose: your job, your house, your savings, and so forth. Then brood about living in a homeless shelter.

really roughly this is what stoics do, yet somehow they come to the conclusion "actually, what was i fearing? Proceed with adventure"...
Ding ding ding!

Here's a random credit card from American Express. Cash advances have a drastically higher interest rate, PLUS a 3% (minimum $5) transaction fee.

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Same pattern for Chase Sapphire Preferred. Higher APR and this time a 5% (minimum $10) transaction fee.

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Cows and sheeps do the same when the doors of the truck are opened.
What is a Thing [pdf]
Why have I been told to begin your career at a startup, before you work at a big corp in order to "level up" your work environment? I took that advice and it has just left me starving for better compensation and, and am pretty lacking skills-wise. And now I'm still unfit to get an offer at the big tech corps, or even a chance for an interview.
Thanks for sharing your experience! Sometimes I feel like I get the most insights from people simply sharing their stories, just like you did.
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And unfortunately programming is a tool.
> The FCC actually changed the definition of an ISP so that cellular and satellite providers are included.

Wireless providers are competition for home internet service the same way the gas station down the street selling water bottles for $3/each is an alternative to running water.

You aren't going to get a $300 water bill just because some company in another state spent several days secretly filling your in-ground pool with the garden hose without permission, nor would anyone tolerate having that happen repeatedly while being told they can only brush their teeth but not flush the toilet for the rest of the month.

A while back, the DSL here was not working for a few days, so I connected my iPhone to my Macbook. Normally that's not an issue while away from home or in a car for an hour or two, as there are limits to how much data anything could use in that amount of time.

Apple's Photos app proactively downloaded something like 25GB of old stuff from iCloud Photo Library that I didn't ask to download, didn't browse through, or even remember having, simply because the local drive had free space and Apple decided that both the space and the bandwidth were freely available for it to waste.

If wireless providers were forbidden from imposing ridiculous data caps I would be fine with calling them competition, because we do have multiple high speed providers here, they're just not usable because they'd rather be selling water bottles.
Be careful about assuming that how the company looks when the early employees are hired is how the company always looked.

It usually takes 2-3 years before a typical founder can get seed funding and even think about hiring employees. During that time period, they are funding the company themselves, and doing all the work themselves. Yes, they usually draw a small salary once the company is VC-funded. By that point, ~95% of founders have been flushed out of the market and failed.

There are a small minority of people who can raise VC on just an idea because they're white, wealthy, and went to Stanford or because they're roommates with a VC's daughter or because they're an unusually slick salesman who can swindle lots of people. I would highly recommend not working for these people - or really, any founding team who did not build and sell the initial version of the product themself - because they generally do not know what they're doing, and these startups become a miserable experience for the employees. But they are, I'll reiterate, a very small minority of founders. They are a somewhat larger minority of the founders who can hire employees, because getting VC investment automatically puts you in the pool of startups that is looking to hire. That's an information distortion between the viewpoint of employees (who only see the startups who have gotten at least to the first funding round) and founders (who see all startups, including the ones that struggle for years to get their first revenue).
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Duo, where I work, has an unlimited PTO policy. If you take less than 15 days a year, they try hard to encourage you to take more time. It's common to take more than that.

I think this policy really depends on the culture where you work.
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I'd rather people be held accountable for what they create, especially when it involves me, my stuff, or my data.

I'd rather firms like Equifax be regulated into the ground than get a free pass due to scaremongering. (coincidentally, Equifax is in an industry that will NEVER be forced overseas.)
Any kind of fraud can be blamed on "lazy and inattentive shoppers", so it's just a question of where do we draw the line.
I just went through the startup job hunting process as a new-grad.

I think many startups have their expectations set too high for the work requirements & compensation they're offering.

Many startups want Senior Engineers with several years of experience, and they want people who live in SF.

This makes it difficult for new-grads and those who don't live in the Bay Area to get into the startup scene. Many people want to work remotely or live in other startup hubs (eg. Seattle) where the cost-of-living is less expensive.

New-grads, you could argue, are the most willing, flexible, and risk-taking to work at startups since the lure is more about experience than $ compensation. However, most startups ignore new-grads because they don't have the processes/ability to mentor them (even if the candidate could already be qualified for the position).

There is room here for:

1. A company which offers services for helping startups foster remote teams

2. A company which offers services for helping startups mentor new-grads

3. A YC apprenticeship program that takes new-grads and places them in a YC startup w/ a mentor (who may or may not be at that company) for a few months to see if there's a match and hopefully transitions that person into a full-time role there

4. YC satellites in other cities or encouragement for some YC companies to relocate out of the Bay Area
You seem to be mostly right. In the past, VCs funded crazy moonshots and local banks funded sensible old-school companies with 10% per year growth and 15% profit/revenue ratios.

Small community banks don't really exist anymore, and large banks don't really seem to be funding anything under $10 million nowadays, except mortgages.
Because founders take at least 100x the risk of an early employee, and 100x the personal risk and commitment.

Absolute rubbish. Considering the opportunity cost, lost benefits and so on compared to a BigCo an early stage employee is easily going to be 6-figures in, and probably working 80+ hours a week. All so the founders can toss them a few scraps from the feast.

Meaningful equity participation or big-company pay and benefits. Anything else is pure exploitation and the founders and VCs know it.
Daimler didn't fail to pass tests, and they didn't cheat on the tests.

They are (apparently) entering a (high emission) engine protection mode at a time that is not allowed.

It isn't impossible that their excuse, they read the requirements differently, really was in good faith.
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They should have went with blockchain.
You seem to be comparing a well-written, large for-loop (that has complexities dictated by true constraints, rather than programmer skill) with a poorly written functional chain. This isn't quite fair.

The functional style nudges the programmer to think in the smallest semantic steps of transformation, in a way that the for-loop doesn't. Of course the programmer can ignore the nugde and write the same messy for-loop using functional constructs, and a good programmer can equally well write a big for-loop in a very manageable and easy to read style.

But for an unexperienced programmer seeking general advice, I feel that recommending the functional style (with an additional urge to "listen" to what the style is trying to get you to do) is a pretty safe bet.
One interesting thing about Milgram's experiment was that it was actually intended to detect a difference between the German and American psyche. This is a case of science working to falsify an incorrect belief.

The argument being that there was something wrong in the German character that made it easier for someone like Hitler to get "good people" to do bad things. Experiments were run in the US as a test and control, and the results were well-established long before Zimbardo's ridiculous non-experiment.

We only need to look at the behavior of ICE agents to see real world confirmation of Milgram's experiments.
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I prefer keeping the headphone jack, but am not against a second USB-C port. If you make the device thick enough for a headphone jack to work properly then you've got room for a reasonably large battery and the extra ports without any issues.

Mobile phones are thermally constrained these days anyway.
Ask HN: How Do I Become as Proficient with Art as I Am with Computing?
I want to preface this by saying that like most artists, most programmers tend to have learned their craft through a combination of curiosity, experimentation, and eventually focused study, hence "Hackers and Painters".

My dive into the world of computers was much the same, where my desire to understand the technology around me lead to experimenting with code and components, eventually finding resources for problems along the way. I compounded this with formal study in University.

If I want to be at a level where I can sketch photorealistically in __X__ amount of years, as if I'm drawing a field manual, where should I begin?

What are the optimal ways to practice? What are the best books and reference materials to go off of? How do I learn to self-critique? What other questions should I be asking?

Thanks in advance.
The second part is something I think we can easily fix. Transparency about how much of the company you own needs to be a given with any good startup.
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I am currently using Google Analytics Experiments. It's okayish, I don't like having to JS redirect half of the traffic to another page.

What are you guys using?
Every communist nation had a much larger high technology sector than similarly developed capitalist nations.

Unless you want to talk to me about the fabs in Portugal and Mexico in 1990 when compared to the ones in Bulgaria and the USSR you're making my point for me.
I agree. And isn't that exactly the solution the Serverless framework implemented?
> Apple would probably rather have the shelf space for higher-margin in-house products than use the space for SKUs from another company.

Are you for real? The margins on their dongles are astronomical!
That's the whole point of the article... don't do any of these things!
If you've been fined for failing to obtain a business license, is the gist of what they're doing, not paying for the license.
Three thoughts just based on my own personal experience working at startups for ~20 years:

Many, many people are committed to jobs for reasons other than money, across all walks of life. This is often true for engineers, too.

Few experienced engineers in SF (who are also US citizens or have green cards) are locked into any job. If you're making $750k/year at Google, the Apple or LinkedIn or Salesforce or Facebook will pay you $750k/year and make up the value of the RSUs that you're leaving on the table. The exception to this is if you're at a growth-stage company and have a lot of vested stock with a current valuation much higher than the strike price but no liquidity. Leaving that situation means paying a big purchase+tax bill now, without any guarantee of when you will have an asset you can sell. That's a tough decision.

It's a good thing to have employees who aren't locked into the job by a sense of financial need. I'm not saying that it's not also great to have young or otherwise early-career employees who, just situationally, aren't as financially lucky. But lots of terrible dynamics come from power imbalances between companies and employees. You only need to spend a little bit of time at a company that employs a lot of people with restrictive work visas to see this play out in soul-crushing ways.
> If they don't want it, or don't believe in the startup, what are they doing there?!

It's a job. Early employees working 12-14 hour days are not doing themselves or the startup any favors.

If the market were rational, compensation would be more in cash and less in kool-aid, the importance of work-life balance would be understood even at the early stages, and the idea that a startup has some special kind of magic--where people sleep under their desks and believe in the dream--would be replaced by professionalism and the sober assessment of probable outcomes.

The reasons that startups have yet to learn lessons that other industries learned decades and centuries ago are easy to see in the startup culture if you look for them.
> I don’t believe for a second that someone who would torture or abuse or kill someone on the orders of someone else was ever a ‘good person’.

Fair enough. How about "not a monster"?
When the founder starts with a million bucks in his personal bank account, and is pretty confident that even if the thing fails _someone else_ is still gonna pay him six figures for _something_... yeah.
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Pros:

* More choice in terms of technologies you get to work with
* Less bureaucracy
* Once you've launched, typically a very fast life-cycle in terms of conception to production
* Early on, you can fit the entire company in your brain
* Investors are less likely to bring in stodgy "babysitters" and just let the founders do their thing

With the exception of the last point, the "Pros" really haven't changed much in the last few decades.

Cons:

* Limited transparency from founders
* Weak technical leadership in many "technical cofounders" or CTOs
* Widening compensation gap versus established companies
* Equity offers are often poor (related to above point)

For "Cons", the first two have been with us a while. The last two are a recent phenomena as our industry has matured.
In theory, and at least in my area, you can/should get a temporary permit. My fire department had to do so in order to sell hotdogs at a fundraising bazaar.
I’m not sure why I was downvoted either, but perhaps it’s because people believe women really are more disadvantaged after a divorce. The modern woman is more than capable of taking care of herself, even if salaries are not totally equal for both genders yet in all industries.

Yet from what I’ve seen in most cases, if there are any children involved in a marriage, the woman will get them AND the house in a divorce. The man will be on his own, possibly paying a hefty child support.
Even if we study: I can only devote X hours per product while your average company has one or several full time company that know the market much better than I do and are also probably working on way to trick me, one way or another.

It’s not a fair fight.
If you need cash to pay the bill and/or Amex sues you, liquidity is a positive. Liquidity means those assets can be easily converted to cash so that Amex gets paid.

Liquidity isn't the problem; price stability is. And gold and silver are not generally problematic as far as price stability goes. The gold and silver can be liquidated for something close enough to the original purchase price that Amex doesn't seem to care.
Yeah, I know. I hit a wall on it and have been taking a break before starting it back up. The cert expired, and when I say "I'm not doing anything with this", I need to mean it.

It'll get fixed in about a month; I'm planning on firing the machine back up with a fresh perspective after the 4th of July.
My thought on the "if the business works" case is that such employees should have a clean path to either transition to the company they helped make a success, or get reassigned by YC. Either one is a win for YC in this scenario: An employee which helped a startup succeed is a hot commodity they'd love to reuse, but they also own a portion of the successful startup, so having it continue to succeed is also a big win.

The idea here would not be for YC to have a constantly growing outsourcing team, but to ensure they didn't lose the good employees because a startup failed. In a given failed startup, there are likely some rockstar employees that definitely weren't why it failed, and it's in YC's best interest, presumably, to hang onto those great employees and get them placed with other investments of theirs, should the opportunity arise.
I don't think your argument is very strong. Calling something 'free range' when it isn't would be akin to calling something purple when its orange. It has a particular meaning. However, 'milk', 'meat', etc already have expanded meanings as shown by how people use them colloquially. They are often used in adjective form to describe something with a particular quality (milky, meaty) because they are such broad words.

I completely agree 'Real meat' was confusing. We don't disagree there. Seems like a deceptive advertising compliant is more appropriate there.

> I have never heard anyone refer to a patty of soy and pea protein (or beets or heme or what have you) as 'beef' or 'meat.' In my experience they call it a 'veggie burger.'

You just disproved yourself - they call it a veggie burger if it looks like a burger, veggie sausage if it looks like sausage, almond milk if it looks like milk, nut cheese if it looks like cheese etc. Also you just need to hang around vegetarians more to hear 'veggie beef'. In fact, vegetarians just call it 'meat', 'beef' etc to their friends as long as they all know what they're talking about.
NeoVim is not quiet Vim which isn't vi either and all are terminal editors first so GUIs may never be as good for them. When I started with Emacs I thought I might use it in the terminal after Vim vs GVim but it's GUI is worth it.

I wasn't long enough using Vim to depend on C-h but if you've the time for all the config it's great to have the options. That reminds me I must still make so changes to Vim Vixen to be more like Vimperator was. It's great having the basic vim commands in Emacs as well, maybe not in org-agenda.
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I think if done right and spec'd out correctly this could be a reasonable way to federate git over the web.
Yes, exactly. Imagine trying to explain to people that you participated in something where you did horrible things for structural reasons. To really pull that off, you need to convince every interlocutor that they too would be prone to this. When it's much easier for your audience to believe that it's just you that's horrible, and they are fine and decent people who wouldn't do as you did.

Especially decades later, I'd be very reluctant to naively credit people's explanations here.
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