msdos | 9 years ago | on: Tech workers think Silicon Valley and startups are losing their luster
msdos's comments
msdos | 9 years ago | on: Tech workers think Silicon Valley and startups are losing their luster
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.
msdos | 9 years ago | on: Tech workers think Silicon Valley and startups are losing their luster
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?
msdos | 9 years ago | on: What is Symbolic Computation?
Lisp is not a functional programming language.
?
msdos | 9 years ago | on: Terry Gross and the Art of Opening Up (2015)
real moment. Leave it in
msdos | 9 years ago | on: Detecting Money Laundering
When a bank loses money they pay for it. It happens often, for millions, says a friend who works in fraud analysis.
msdos | 9 years ago | on: Is your personality fixed, or can you change who you are?
Do you have a citation? The researcher in the article believes the opposite.
msdos | 9 years ago | on: The Lack of Options for Startup Employees’ Options
Why have a limit at 10 years?
msdos | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: As a programmer do you have ups and downs and periods of intense doubt?
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.
msdos | 9 years ago | on: Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today
How much impact have actual dreams had in your work? Have you ever gotten ideas or answers in dreams?
msdos | 9 years ago | on: How corrupt is your country?
One of the least corrupt countries was populated by prisoners: Australia.
How did Australia do it? Starting from a clean version 1?
msdos | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What programming language has you really excited lately, and why?
It'd be less cluttered if "in" wasn't in there.
msdos | 9 years ago | on: Why Online Voting Is a Danger to Democracy
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.
msdos | 9 years ago | on: How cancer was created by evolution
This explains it. Thanks.
msdos | 9 years ago | on: How cancer was created by evolution
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.
msdos | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Compiler frameworks for AST Transformations?
msdos | 9 years ago | on: No Venture Capital Needed, or Wanted
> 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.
msdos | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's the biggest risk you took in your career that paid off?
Also genuine question...
How does one get a job when they're completely unskilled?
msdos | 10 years ago | on: Vest in peace or leave?
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?
msdos | 10 years ago | on: Vest in peace or leave?
Everyday feeling like a burden for 3 years
is better than
everyday feeling like a burder for 30 years.
page 1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_I