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I have a hypothesis on this... what happens when a Rockstar enters a room?

* People recognize them

* A crowd forms around them

* People ask to take photos with them

* They get paid huge amounts of money just to show up somewhere

* They get standing ovations at conferences

So just apply that to software developers. I have known two or three software developers that fit that criteria in my life and a half dozen CEOs that fit that criteria.

What does that have to do with being good at your job? Nothing, except maybe that to get to Rockstar status you must be well known in the community and probably did something worthy of it.

On the other hand, I have known a lot of 10x developers. Very few of whom met the rockstar criteria.

Rockstars are called rockstars in the music world because they are famous and usually really talented. So that's the defnition I go by for developers.

I'm not sure people writing job description feel the same way.

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He qualifies as a rock star developer.
If only there was some way to quickly get told when production hiccups...
And if only there was some way to prove each feature works automatically...
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> The eco-system has not regained its trust and the mythos of worthless equity persists.

That would be because the ecosystem hasn't given any reason for developers to trust it and the equity is, in fact, largely worthless.
I used the term state capitalism very loosely. What I meant was that success in the economy was primarily a matter of getting the government to grant you privileges.
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You are of course being facetious, but as for any objection to working on extension of healthy life, you should ask yourself how exactly your speculative problem is worse than the real problem of 100,000 horrible deaths every day, as well as the ongoing pain and suffering of hundreds of millions of people trapped in failing bodies.
I don't see what makes Twitter worth preserving any more than everyday conversation, or packaging labels, or billboards, or whatever other junk information there is. Just because it would be somewhat easier to do preserve a digital thing doesn't make it more important to, does it?

I mean I'm sure it'll be helpful to a subset of researchers. But I don't see why it's Twitter's fault for not making it easy to preserve, as much as it is Microsoft's fault for not preserving WordArt bake sale announcements.
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But we won't need all the noise itself to learn that fact.
Mint is what I recommend to friends and aquaintences interested in this Linux thing. But #! is the distro that I enjoyed getting work done in. It hits that aesthetic sweet spot of sparse and functional perfectly for me. So I for one am thrilled to have a Jesse update (making time to hack an update together or fuss with the package update friction is a luxury I just don't have anymore...)
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I don't have as much personal experience (only one colossal flop, $4k invested + ~20% lower salary), but I've got enough experience in the industry to have come up with this hard and fast rule: If you didn't found the company and aren't getting 10%+, equity is meaningless. If they insist you take equity ("Don't you have faith that we'll be successful?"), you can offer to knock off 1% of what you would have expected in annual salary without it (even that is arguably too much). Otherwise it's absolutely not worth it.

Companies love trying to get you to take a 5-40% pay cut because "It's a startup" and "we'll give you equity". Total BS. You will be better off spending an hour every week minding your money in other ways, with your appropriate salary.
This is just a "wouldn't it be cool?" There are no meaningful deductions being made.
The risk is high for a very low return. A best case of $20k? That difference is very small for a very large risk, and the pay cut from an established company it obviously not worth it.
Single member LLC (disregarded entity) is the way to go, setup a separate bank account and bookkeeping so that you are treating as a legitimate business. In CA it cost me around $800 to form with a tax attorney, and the min state tax is also $800/yr. All worth it for the peace of mind that you have at least some protection if 10yr from now someone tries to sue you for whatever reason.
Hi Michael - my only add comes from my personal experience and may not be relevant as I didn't do CS or Engineering. I did however suffer curiosity overload and needed to find a way to focus, quick.

Know yourself - take a look at your past habits. Where did you feel you won? Focus your efforts there and build on that. Try to get a win every day.

Accountability - I learned I am only accountable when it impacts others. So I set all crucial goals to girlfriend, family, friends, co-founders, team, and customers. That way when it doesn't get done, it impacts me directly!

Diversify - I get most stuck when I think about my business for weeks on end. Help a fellow CEO noodle a problem, and I get focused. So MANAGED distraction could be the key to focus.

From what you wrote, time-blocking seems great by rewarding yourself curiosity blocks and productivity blocks.

For me, my strategy and planning is most productive before work, just after lunch and after 2100. So the day is all about my team and helping them out. In between, I allow myself to read industry pubs. Hacker News is my "diversification" time to immerse in other's challenges.

Hope this helps and keep up the curiosity, but take a breather, language lesson or play guitar to take your mind away so you can properly focus.

Cheers,

MC
But the doctor did not tell you how often that happens. So you have some unknown risk - how is anyone expected to make an informed choice?

Everything carries some risk. Female hormonal contraception carries some risk of death. (About 12 women per 10,000 taking the pill will experience a blood clot each year. This is potentially a life-changing or even life ending event.)

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2014/02February/Pages/Media-hype-bloo...
I don't know who the downvoter is but I think it's a silly claim to be proud of. Anything more complex than a simple template system can enforce referential integrity of internal links by making the programmer refer to other pages on the site with some kind of handle. It's not rocket science and doing it with the (elaborate) type system isn't necessarily a selling point, in my opinion.
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Corenominal's original post[1] I thought was entirely reasonable and measured: basically the crunchbang mission can be achieved entirely within a Debian stable install now. However, I suspected that someone would continue the project simply because of the branding and fun factor. And it has happened.

[1] http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=38916
This is for established companies rather than startups, right?

My experience here has been the same - as a good developer with several years experience, it wasn't hard finding offers at 65k from big tech firms (plus substantial but slow-vesting stock in one case). I spoke to a couple of startups, and they didn't want to pay that much, but I would guess that they could have done 55k. If I went contracting, I think I'd be looking for 550-600 a day.
> The number of compiler bugs is a bit scary.

This is actually one of the things that keeps turning me away each time I try Nim. All software has bugs, got it, but in my mind a language nearing 1.0 should squash some of that list (or remove/feature gate things causing them) before even thinking about a 1.0 IMO.
Have you read the following article?

https://gradha.github.io/articles/2015/02/goodbye-nim-and-go...

I'm curious about your thoughts on it being that the author speaks about some areas you're currently talking about.
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$60K seems low to you, but it's infinitely better than the deal those startups would have offered before getting into YC. Before YC, it's "please join us for equity, we have no cash to pay salary at all". 5% of equity with $0 is a deal that very few people can afford to take. With $60K, at least you are getting some protection. If it becomes intenable after 6 months, you can always quit.

There are multiple price points available for people to join the startup life, so it's a good thing. Of course startups would love to pay much more, but when all you have raised is $150K, you can't offer huge salaries to many people.
Dealerships are that hands off. In the same way that many smaller electronics could be fixed with a $0.15 capacitor swap, but the guy behind the counter at radioshack has no idea about the inner workings at such a fine level. The company can't afford to hire, train, and retain employees with such a high baseline level of competence.

Proprietary parts like this prevent the kind of general knowledge that previously made mechanics more useful.

Nowadays a code tells them what's broken, a piece of software tells them what part that is, and at what level to repair/replace it.

I had a similar experience when my Accord's speedometer broke. The dealership considers the entire dash cluster a single unit for manufacturing purposes, and wanted $700 for the bulk part.

The guy behind the counter showed me the software and explained the process when I asked about why it was such an arbitrarily rigid decision.

$20 on craigslist and an hour with a screwdriver, I replaced the individual component with a salvage part.
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"they're probably wasting more money because the codebase is terrible."

A terrible code base that serves customers is better than a beautiful codebase that goes unused.
I think your criteria is expressed poorly. Perhaps you meant that bad developers are unable to produce code that serves customers well? Add in, a terrible product. (Product != codebase)
Haven't they reached mostly everyone who cares, through makerspaces, etc ?
Sometimes people haven hidden agendas - they want to bring their friend in and want to show they had dozens of interviews and could not find anyone.

I was at a Fortune 1000 company and we interviewed one guy. He answered every technical question flawlessly. He was personable. The lead turned him down. I argued it since he was the best we had seen. He said "I don't think he'd appreciate it if we called him at 3AM to do some work". This was the reason to not hire him, since no other rational reason could be given. The position wound up being filled by his friend, whose skill set was way below the interviewed guy, and who ambled in at 10:30-11:00 AM every day.
I've been using Crunchbang as my base Debian starter for years now. It's a great distro to get some sensible defaults and then switch over to tracking Debian testing and go from there. Very excited to see a new update!
$60k and 0.5% for engineer ar employee #5 sounds low. But you're missing that YC companies are attractive employers and a lot of people are motivated as much or more on what they are working on and with who. And that a reasonable case can be made that YC equity is more highly valued than non-YC equity. Also, it's likely that $60-80k salaries are temporary reductions pending funding.
Ironically, low statistical power doesn’t only mean real effects can be missed. It also means false effects are more likely to be reported as real, or real effects exaggerated.

That is wrong, or at least misleading. If we fix statistical significance, then changing the power of the test won't change the number of false effects that get through. Low power only changes the situation by causing us to relax our standards for significance. While I'm sure this happens, the real problem is how we interpret significance, not the power of the tests.
It would be interesting to see a comparison of CO2 emission by banks and by Bitcoins, keeping in mind (1) the relative scale of what they provide and (2) that Bitcoin provides only a payment system, and one whose security features are not well suited for most people, while the banking system provides much more than a payment system.
> I suppose it doesn't get rid of callbacks, just makes them readable.

You are the one who stated generators were no solution to callback hell but async/await was, yet here's what your code looks like with generators:

app.get('/thing', function* (req, res) {
try {
let user = yield* db.get({user: req.user});
res.send({user: user});
} catch {
res.send(400);
}
});

...
Nice to see some people posting from Portugal! Can you provide more info about your setup?
A sub $10m exit is rare in YC portfolio.
In the City, good skills 5-10 years of experience yields you something around GBP 70-100k base + some bonus (0-60k depending on how good the year was).
I don't really know the market that well, but I've had trouble securing more than $85K as a full stack developer. It seems in Southern California that the max pay for that kind of position isn't much more than $100k.
But that's what makes it work. The energy is required. Just because it doesn't use the energy in some cool mechanical way doesn't mean it's being wasted. If you look at it as a black box, then it's a perfectly reasonable expense.

You could look at a space heater and say: wow, it just wastes all this electricity, deliberately causing resistive elements to heat up. Well, of course, the heat is intended. With bitcoins, the extra calculations are a part of what makes everything work.
As a university student who is soon going to graduate, how do I find out what I'm really worth?
There's a pretty good market for non-public equity these days.
At the risk of perpetuating the meme that hacker news is overly enamored of Golang, I'd like to say that providing "data structure streams" is exactly Go's sweet spot, and it's about as awesome as you would hope it would be.
That argument doesn't make sense.

I think about the wars of Alexander III of Macedon, the Mongolian wars, and the wars of Rome, and wonder how they could have existed without fiat money. Or is the argument that they would have been more successful with fiat money? For that matter, how would the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs and Incans been enabled by fiat money when the accumulated wealth of those empires effectively gave Spain the ability to mint its own commodity money?

In "Debt: The First 5, 000 Years", David Graeber makes a convincing argument that the introduction of commodity money helped the king raise larger armies. The king pays soldiers in gold or silver, then requires people to pay taxes in the same. Otherwise the soldiers, who are effectively strangers, don't have access to the credit economy of small communities.
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Can you explain this further? I'm not familiar with those terms?
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It only needs one hyphen. "Post-Series A Life" is the appropriate and correct hyphenation.
Is $125k decent in NYC for a vital position? It seems low after adjusting for living expenses. I'm guessing you are factoring in equity as well.
I think this calls for a planting trees as a service company. Ideally delivered via drones. Talk about efficiently planting the trees needed ;)
I don't have any offhand but let me give you one. The social construction of "men" is that men are made (this is in contrast to social construction of women as natural e.g. babymakers.) You have to work to be a man, you don't have innate value. To be a man you compete with other males for resources and reputation. This is the basis of hierarchy, part of male society, the so-called Patriarchy. In competition there are of course losers. They are not men, so much as they are failed men. This is a natural state, there are winners and losers in life. So the theory goes, feminism wants to free men from this destructive social order. This is a feminist theory that explains why there are men on the top and men on the bottom but masculinity is still the underlying principle.

That is one theory, there are other theories. You can poke holes in this theory, but it's not just a handwave that feminists haven't thought about this or recognized that men are disposable. I mean, feminism knows about this thing called "war." My major problem with feminism is that there is a large gap between theory and activism which results in time and energy being spent on CEO equality and ignoring feminism's own arguments about how mistreated many males are in the lower rungs of society. But that is a problem with practice, not theory.
It makes some sense.

Overhead of a permanent employee in UK is pretty high. I've heard estimates as high as 50% of base salary, maybe more. On top of that are the usual perks, 3 months notice, and an onerous process to get you fired. Once permie, you're basically guaranteed employment unless your company goes broke.

Compare that to the contractor. There is virtually no overhead for the company. They claim VAT, and expense your rate. And it's very easy to get rid of you, or hire you. A company can ramp up and ramp down as the need arises for new projects - which has a lot of appeal.

It's interesting for me coming from the U.S.. I think it's largely a result of the regulation. An at-will permanent employee system, like in the US, seems to benefit in-demand professions a lot more than the UK/EU regulated system.
I did not mean to say that it's an easy problem to solve, just that I don't see an overwhelming political or societal will to push for a solution here.

Flying to the moon was also a hard problem, but resources got allocated and things got done.

If I'd see that 5% GDP would go into the project with proper focus and aim, I have the feeling it'd be faster.

PS: and the money could be made with carbon taxation to push fossil fuel cost into perspective.
I'm excited to hear this! I've gone through a dozen distros and I always come back to #!
"Sit behind computer screen and type all day" is the worst thing I have heard about my job and "cut off their right arm if it meant they could work for a well-funded startup" the worst about my country.

It requires great skill to build a company or be the part of first 10 employees. You cant just pick up a person on the street who knows how to type and expect them to build a Google. And as far as the India/China situation is concerned, you get to brag only because of the currency conversion rates. Lookup the number of Indian and Chineese employees in top US copmanies and startups and also do some research about the startups in these countries, if you know how to type into a search engine.
This kind of project speaks to a major strength of Bitcoin. The transparency that is built in to the Bitcoin protocol allows us to actually understand (albeit through rough estimation at this point) the complete resource cost of the network.

This transparency allows us (humanity) to actually have discussions on how we can go about managing our resources in the 21st century.

What is the total CO2 cost of <Large Payment Processor X>? No one knows - the network is opaque since that kind of information is a competitive advantage. Which is fine, the core competency of the payment processor isn't understanding their CO2 footprint.

However, from a policy maker point of view, a system where total resource cost is verifiable by a third party audit makes for a compelling argument in favour of the open network.
My friendly advice as a former hiring manage for a startup, purely based on the details you posted here about your job search experience. Huge caveat: you know all the details and I only go by a post on the Internet, so I'm likely to be wrong.

The tone of your messages make you sound a little bit demanding, or difficult to work with. You may have voiced strong opinions during those interviews. When you say that a startup will make you come back several times, it's a sign that they like you, but have a concern that they are trying to figure out. My guess (again, just a wild guess), is that you were technically very strong, but had possibly a bit of an attitude. That would explain the startups behavior. The main two reasons a startup would hesitate to hire a good engineer is either they are asking for too much money, or the candidate seems inflexible.

Again, I'm likely to be completely off.
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I've had a few unsuccessful negotiations with series B startups who balk at paying market rate even though they have piles of cash. I believe it often comes down the the fact that they have grown headcount relatively slowly at the same time market rates for competent developers have risen quickly.

The veteran engineers from the company's earlier days are often true-believers in the company/product, and probably joined for below-market at a time when market rates were lower. As a result the comp structure at these companies gets into a really weird state where a new market-rate junior hire cost about as much or more than the seasoned technical staff they already have on payroll.

That's a tough pill for companies to swallow, and even if you do manage to hire you'll have a mutiny on your hands if you don't do something quickly to close the 40+% gap between the comp your existing employees are getting and the market.
It really says how inefficient that system was that communism was more effective than that.
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I remember years ago we had a problem with pfSense because the way FreeBSD had implemented carp wasn't quite correct (WRT failover and groups of interfaces, IIRC). We had been relying on specific documented behavior in OpenBSD as we deployed OpenBSD firewalls, and whenwe switched to pfSense this bit us. There were workarounds at least.
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I have conducted a few hundred of interviews for software engineers and DBAs in the last three years. I do want to see the passions of the candidates at the professions. It is a big plus in my eyes.

On the other hand, I am not impressed by "unequivocal statement". For seniors positions, I don't ask questions with a fixed answer. I prefer to listen to the candidates's opinions, to analyze the pros and cons of an approach, etc. I consider it low intelligence by any "unequivocal statement" for these questions.
Consensus can be achieved with much lower power consumption. Don't blindly accept a solution just because you agree with the outcome.
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Astute of you to mention Palantir - I spent some time there a few years ago. To their credit, they took stunningly good care of me as an intern. Fair rate, and every perk I've ever seen listed by any company ever.

However, I was very surprised to find that they were making hires at the intern pay rates with even fewer perks. Seems to be somewhat of a bait and switch. Then again, they're on the short list of places where I'd actually consider the equity worth more than the paper it's printed on.
>Founders shouldn't take on personal credit risk in order to do a startup.

Only in the Silicon Valley bubble, where everyone is all about "other people's money", would someone actually believe this. Back in the real world, entrepreneurship involves personal credit risk. You don't get anything for free.
Oh, even fission:-)

May be we will see shoe box sized fission reactors, if Lockheed succeeds.
The median salary for registered nurses in San Francisco is $127k[1], so no they aren't saying that.

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You're criticizing people for not gosh-darn inventing things fast enough when we don't even know that it's possible. There are things we know are possible, which people are doing, while other people are researching blue-sky technologies.
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