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Re:Show HN: ~200 byte in-browser, no JS, private notepad on Saturday May 05, 2018 @09:58PM (#17004919)
They haven't.
Re:Fuck You Startup World (2016) on Saturday May 05, 2018 @03:03PM (#17003234)
Book reading can be like watching soap opera, mindless and you don't remember what you read after a few hours.

Good book reading requires introspection, time to digest, etc. Also, why are you reading it in particular? Is it just a story? What for?

> lede graf

Journalistic jargon for "lead paragraph"

https://underthecurve.github.io/jekyll/update/2016/12/29/hed...

> ceteris paribus

"all other things being equal"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceteris_paribus

Re:What are the odds of working at a FANG etc? on Thursday May 03, 2018 @10:00PM (#16991673)
For ivy league graduates, it's doable. All others will have to work much harder to impress (entering lottery odds).
Got direct feedback from one that I lacked skills in fast growing startups and two feedbacks that I wasn't a fit (even though I had all requirements in the job description). So that got me wondering what I could improve.

I think I'm competing with fresh graduates. I applied at startups with 20-200 employees initially. Really looking for that experience of taking something of the ground and scaling.

I know we shouldn't take rejections too seriously but reality is it was always easy for me to find a job. Maybe I've been too picky and overestimated my skills, maybe companies are being too picky now. I'm not sure but I'm thinking hard about this.

Ask HN: Startup to enterprise and back to startups – how?

I started my career 15 years ago in a startup. Worked there for 4 years and went from zero clients to over a 1k enterprise customers. I learned a lot and it's still the job experience I'm most proud of.Somehow I ended up getting seduced by a position at a big name IT enterprise, joined other enterprises and now working remotely for 3 years for a medium-sized company.I think companies look at my...

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