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vayeate | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is all of FAANG like this?

Also my impression. FAANG isn't necessarily about market cap, it's about the highest paying and sexiest jobs you can get for a large employer

vayeate | 5 years ago | on: Y Combinator has lost its soul: A YC founder's perspective

Possibly that these smart young people view everything like highschool. Everything is a formula driven contest to outshine your peers for the limited spots at prestigious schools. Get the perfect grades, study nonstop for the SAT, find the perfect volunteer experience, get dad to shmooze with his senator friend for that shiny recommendation letter, get into Harvard.

Same thing on loop. After the prestigious internships and summa cum laude, they graduate into a FANG job at 21.

I think the criticism is that these people are conformists. They're good at following an obvious system to the T but has never innovated or taken risks in their life.

vayeate | 5 years ago | on: Principles for great product managers

I'm a web developer with 5+ years direct professional experience (and probably closer to a decade with freelancing) and my past two roles have been senior level, though the title doesn't mean much other than that I do projects start to finish by myself.

I've been interested in moving into a PM role for the past couple years and it seems like a very difficult transition unless it's done internally at a company big enough to both need the role and for there to be reasonably frequent openings for the role. I've never worked at a company that large before, and I am so so sick of software development that I don't think I can stomach another couple years of it at a new, bigger employer to make that internal transition.

My strategy right now is to find a project management role and then transition from that to product management. But boy this is a difficult job market to find entry level project management roles. I advertise myself as being experienced with project management, which is true - it's been a part of my dev job for years and in freelancing. But after 20+ applications I haven't had a single response. I would have hoped so many years as an engineer would count for more on a resume but I guess not when applying to project or product management roles.

Any advice welcome.

vayeate | 9 years ago | on: Musk says SpaceX knows what caused the latest rocket failure

Seems to be caused by the too-cold liquid oxygen interacting with carbon elements. So either change how the tanks are pressurized with helium to prevent the oxygen getting too cold, and/or somehow insulate the carbon from the oxygen better. Neither seem like insurmountable problems.

vayeate | 9 years ago | on: How Does the Electoral College Work and Is It Fair

Very few people know what it is, even fewer understand why it's a problem, and fewer yet care about it. I've never seen someone run for an office I was voting for with "reduce or eliminate gerrymandering" as a position so there's no real opportunity to exercise your vote that way.

vayeate | 9 years ago | on: Chevy starts manufacturing the Bolt

From what I can tell, the Tesla is better by every metric aside from potentially not being available as soon. Cheaper, faster, better tech, nicer interior, better range, faster charging, better charging network, the list goes on. And let's not forget the huge bonus of not having to go through dealership bullshit.

vayeate | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Ever been hired through a “who's hiring” post?

>I also have a "no salary negotiation" rule since I do a lot of negotiating

From the other side of the table, this is a red flag for me. In 100% of my anecdotal cases of seeing this (admittedly only like 3), the pay was way under market rate, and there were people who worked there that did have negotiated salaries, and were paid a lot more. I think lots of other people have this connotation, too.

vayeate | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Ever been hired through a “who's hiring” post?

I have a similar experience. I do my homework, write a brief but specific and relevant intro letter, all together probably takes half an hour at least. Never hear back, not even a rejection email. This has been my experience with 10+ applications. I got a phone interview after one application and had the exact experience as your #2 - asked to do challenge, they hired someone immediately after giving me the challenge but didn't tell me. Wasted a weekend working on it.

vayeate | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Ever been hired through a “who's hiring” post?

I got an interview through one and wound up spending an entire weekend frantically working through their "assessment project" only to be told on Monday morning that they hired someone else, before even looking at my work. I don't blame HN for this, just sharing my experience. Not sure whether I'd be willing to do assessment projects in the future.

vayeate | 10 years ago | on: Bulma: Modern CSS framework based on Flexbox

There's nothing forcing you. The code is right there in the repo. You're welcome to download it via Github's download button, cloning via git, or NPM. NPM is a very helpful option because it's the fastest and easiest way to get it into my project and not have to copy and paste stuff around either from my OS UI or command line. Just `npm install` then possibly writing a line in a gulpfile to copy the css where I need it if using unaltered.

vayeate | 10 years ago | on: Pingendo – Free, simple app for Bootstrap prototyping

Also, some quick feedback: The HTML and CSS panel was hidden by default for me. It was a little hard to find. There's also no quick way to hide it again that I can see. I have to resize it to minimum. Might be worth exploring how double clicking works with PHPStorm (maximizes it) and adding a minimize option to right click context menu. Also undocking options for CSS/HTML would be nice for dual screen use.

vayeate | 10 years ago | on: Pingendo – Free, simple app for Bootstrap prototyping

As a web developer who works almost exclusively with Boostrap and finds the beginning stages of building a site with Bootstrap to be very tedious, I love this. My boss (does a lot of web design work but not coding) might find this interesting too. He's been wanting to be able to sit and make mockups but can't find the motivation or maybe time to do it.
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