Encryptor

Ask HN: What counter-offer should I make for the position of CTO at a startup?

Posted by Encryptor on Monday January 16, 2012 @03:45PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Dear HN,One of my friends offered me the position of the CTO at his small self-funded startup company in the real estate market. The offer revolves around the idea of building the company's website, which would handle listings, financial transactions, apartment bookings, etc. It's of decent complexity (we have to yet figure out all the functional requirements). I cannot commit full time and I...

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Re:Russians Desperately Try to Save Mars Moon Probe on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @09:41PM (#3218620)

Picture this: an 11 ton tank of gas falls into your house and burns it to the ground, and all you're told is: "There are too many factors, you have to remember we're basically talking [about] the air resistance of a possibly tumbling abstract shape that [was] tumbling rather chaotically [when] any appreciable atmospheric effects [were taking] place. And that's just the start".

Re:Russians Desperately Try to Save Mars Moon Probe on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @09:09PM (#3218543)

Why the hell is "falling stuff from the sky" the new "terror"? Can we please not launch shit into space without knowing where it'll fall? I know it's hard, but it's not impossibru!

Re:Regular Expression Engine in 14 lines of Python on Sunday November 06, 2011 @10:39AM (#3202882)

in 14 lines of ... python?? really? Ok, I can do better. A Regular Expression Engine in 1 line of Javascript: string.match();

Re:Don't use MongoDB on Sunday November 06, 2011 @10:34AM (#3202869)

This is textbook projecting. The team deployed an immature database and tried to push its limits, and now they're saying: "it sucks!". Sure, a 2 year-old database is the problem, not your ability to make architectural decisions. Sounds like someone is looking for a scapegoat. They took a risk and failed and this is just a poor way of coping with it. It's OK to publish your experiences on your blog (which they did a few days ago). It's NOT OK to go around the Internets publishing "anonymous" articles about how MongoDB sucked for you, as if no one will see what you did there. That's just defamation, folks.

On a side note, we also looked at MongoDB and, after running a few tests, we concluded that it is a glorified key-value pair storage. That said, we did use it in a few small-scale projects and it works great.

The bottom line: choose the right tool for the job and don't bitch about the tools when you fail.