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“Write Every Day” Is Bad Advice: Hacking the Psychology of Big Projects
Re:Tech workers think Silicon Valley and startups are losing their luster
on Sunday July 10, 2016 @02:34PM (#12066607)
Smaller hypothetical example. The Apple I wasn't designed and hand-built by a team.
Re:Tech workers think Silicon Valley and startups are losing their luster
on Saturday July 09, 2016 @10:32PM (#12064308)
That you have no idea how much revenue is attributable to you as an individual doesn't mean revenue in general can't be measured and attributed.
Hypothetical example. Your employer has 1 billion users. You create compression that cuts down storage costs by 4%. Run the math and you see how much you saved.
If you saved $0.01 per user, you saved $10m. If the average salary is 100K and you saved $10m, you performed at 100x.
I agree the potential for "X" performance is hard to spot or measure when one isn't in proximity to big problems.
Re:Tech workers think Silicon Valley and startups are losing their luster
on Saturday July 09, 2016 @06:56PM (#12063712)
You measure "X" with data.
Like revenue generated, or cost saved, or lines of code saved, or time needed to deliver work, based on current or previous work.
Is this bullshit for you?
Re:What is Symbolic Computation?
on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @10:37PM (#12006241)
Lisp is not a functional programming language.
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Re:Terry Gross and the Art of Opening Up (2015)
on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @10:32PM (#12006227)
real moment. Leave it in
By 2040, embryo selection could replace sex as the way most of us make babies
Re:Detecting Money Laundering
on Sunday June 26, 2016 @03:07PM (#11982138)
When a bank loses money they pay for it. It happens often, for millions, says a friend who works in fraud analysis.
Re:Is your personality fixed, or can you change who you are?
on Friday June 24, 2016 @10:42PM (#11974950)
Do you have a citation? The researcher in the article believes the opposite.
Quantum-safe crypto
Re:The Lack of Options for Startup Employees’ Options
on Thursday June 23, 2016 @10:24PM (#11965811)
Why have a limit at 10 years?
Re:Ask HN: As a programmer do you have ups and downs and periods of in...
on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @08:24PM (#11950637)
the HN community seems to shine at not making you feel embarrassed about what you've made.
Not in my experience. Several Show HN type of things I posted were highly criticized with harsh words. I'm not posting anything on HN ever again.
Re:Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today
on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @07:50AM (#11945000)
How much impact have actual dreams had in your work? Have you ever gotten ideas or answers in dreams?
Re:How corrupt is your country?
on Friday June 17, 2016 @11:55PM (#11927021)
One of the least corrupt countries was populated by prisoners: Australia.
How did Australia do it? Starting from a clean version 1?
How corrupt is your country?
Re:Ask HN: What programming language has you really excited lately, an...
on Thursday June 16, 2016 @11:12PM (#11920492)
It'd be less cluttered if "in" wasn't in there.
Re:Why Online Voting Is a Danger to Democracy
on Monday June 13, 2016 @08:42PM (#11898966)
The key claim is: there’s no way with any reasonable amount of resources that you can guarantee that the software and hardware are bug-free and that they haven’t been maliciously attacked
The same could be said about other electronic systems that already govern lives, like planes, cars, phones and medical equipment.
And yet life goes on.
Re:How cancer was created by evolution
on Monday June 06, 2016 @09:40PM (#11851848)
This explains it. Thanks.
Re:How cancer was created by evolution
on Sunday June 05, 2016 @10:01PM (#11844193)
In the US, the lifetime risk of developing cancer is 42% in men and 38% in women
Woah, this isn't far from saying living in the US isn't far from a coin toss for a death sentence.
Re:Ask HN: Compiler frameworks for AST Transformations?
on Saturday June 04, 2016 @06:38PM (#11838508)
Re:No Venture Capital Needed, or Wanted
on Thursday June 02, 2016 @10:11PM (#11827822)
> The math is a little fuzzy
The math is off, mathattack.
Growing by $5m a year on $100M (5%) doesn't mean you'll grow by $25m a year on $120M (20.8%).
You make the good point though that raising the growth rate from 5% to 6% would make a difference.
Re:Ask HN: What's the biggest risk you took in your career that paid off?
on Saturday May 28, 2016 @05:25PM (#11793605)
Also genuine question...
How does one get a job when they're completely unskilled?
Re:Vest in peace or leave?
on Saturday April 30, 2016 @11:31AM (#11602075)
This is also a GREAT opportunity to work on something you typically wouldn't, hacking at night and weekends.
If you were forbidden from launching something for 3 years, what's the biggest thing you could be working on?
Re:Vest in peace or leave?
on Saturday April 30, 2016 @11:23AM (#11602034)
Everyday feeling like a burden for 3 years
is better than
everyday feeling like a burder for 30 years.
Re:Claude Shannon's inventions
on Saturday April 30, 2016 @11:12AM (#11601980)
My favorite is the Rubik's cube manipulator for which Shannon wrote a four page song.
https://webmuseum.mit.edu/detail.php?module=objects&type=rel...
Claude Shannon's inventions
Re:Vest in peace or leave?
on Friday April 29, 2016 @10:38PM (#11600077)
Vest in peace.
In 3 years you'd have made a total of $2mil and can retire and do whatever you want.
It's not only ok but also healthy to post this question, because you're full of ideas and want to work on other things. It's not very ok to blow your earnings off. I'd stick it out if I were you and would be happy to trade places.
Re:Ask HN: Is Paul Graham still doing Y Combinator interviews?
on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @08:13PM (#11576900)
From http://paulgraham.com/int15.html
I'm not involved with selecting startups for Y Combinator anymore, but that is certainly what they are trying to find.