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I'd be interested in knowing more about the limits you hit in Singapore, if you're willing to share! Singapore is a really interesting city and as someone who moved to Hong Kong a few years ago, I've always wondered what life in Singapore is like.

I'm always interested in reading about the inner workings of gangs. It seems like these biker gangs are not particularly sophisticated nor well organized, though. The main one in the story immediately lost cohesion when their leader fled the country and were absorbed by the Yakuza. In many ways, they seem less robust and effective than biker/street gangs in America.

You can! And usually with only a slight pay cut. There are a lot more remote-ok and remote-only companies now.

Let's say I make $60k a year now in an unrelated field and I join your school, but after graduating, I was unable to find a job in software.

Would I still be on the hook to pay you 17% of my income despite not landing a programming job?

This is what I don't understand about offshoring. People keep going to India and China to find devs when they can get very high quality English speaking devs from the UK, Australia, and Canada for about the same price (factoring in all costs).

What constitutes a startup?

Because they did have customers and revenue for the service that they offered. They had everything that is part of a business (albeit, a very slow and unprofitable one). They're missing the ability to scale since they had no tech stack to speak of, but their MVP did not really need one.

It says in the article that she has >50% equity.

4sq has struggled mightily with traction/retention since the big change. Yelp is ubiquitous in the US and they are making strides into other countries.

They said Groupon is one of the "examples of successful Chicago based startups". So it's no longer a startup. And it IPOed recently whereas Orbitz IPO'ed in 2003 so it's not a recent startup.

I disagree on this. Casual poker players will just play his hand as he's not that experienced with reading people.

While you are right that there is no DFS analogy to 'playing the player,' advanced DFS players build complex models, hedge their bets, and write (or hire people to write) scripts that update their bets as their beliefs about that day's games changes. Different kinds of skills than poker, but not less skill.

I love how he ignores the top response to his question: "If knowledge of a candidate's previous salary doesn't influence your offer, why do you ask for it and what do you do with it?"

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Five years experience in Silicon Valley at both Zynga and as engineering hire #1 at a startup working on point of sales. I lead development for our website component, which is a dashboard for our merchants, showing them their sales data, business analytics, inventory management, email marketing, and much more. I am happy to give you a demo of all the features I worked on over Skype or gChat.

I have extensive experience with both scaling problems and building and shipping a product from scratch. I can help you ruthlessly prioritize your features and build your product!

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