job-dilemma

Re:The Cult of the Toto Toilet on Friday November 20, 2015 @08:39PM (#10605085)

Proud member of the cult of toto. Joined in Taiwan in 1998.

Re:Why was this secret? on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @07:57PM (#6892072)

Well said, there may be legitimate reasons to keep secrets but secrets for their own sake are bullshit and make the world worse.

Re:Ask HN: How to evaluate job offers? on Wednesday December 04, 2013 @10:06PM (#6852433)

I have no illusions about the startup life, I'm not excited to drink beer with the ceo.

I'm excited by the prospect of owning a technology platform and running with it. The existing tech stack is one outside of my comfort zone (i.e. jumping from windows -> linux), but the architectural & dev principals are very familiar to me.

Solving bigger problems to me means that the company's mission is a good one - working towards a societal good as opposed to building intranets or perosonalizable web portals.

Ask HN: How to evaluate job offers?

Posted by job-dilemma on Wednesday December 04, 2013 @08:50PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm a computer programmer and I've found myself in the enviable position of having to choose between 2 nice job offers. It's a classic dilemma of high risk v. high reward or corporate work for higher pay (~15%).I am married with a child and my wife does not work. If I choose to work for the startup I will essentially be unable to save for the next 4 or 5 yrs (or until we learn to...

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