Well yeah but yours is a killer popular game.

eh gets 200 players max at peak I mean thats awesome but its nothing I could make a living off of.

Paul Graham doesn't want to see young founders funded: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17893537

But I only posted comment seems pretty dumb:

Then 6 years later start over cause everything changed.

Why does everyone have to learn everything?

Yeah and it's not like you're gonna learn that stuff in college anyway. You learn it on the job.

Also AWS' whole sales pitch is - "Get up and running quick with us so you can focus on what differentiates you from your competitors" not "Spend 2.5 years learning AWS, then start differentiating".

So much dumb.

so every start up is just going to have one tech guy and he has to do everything from servers to front end?

Yes and he needs to stay in college all 4 years to learn kubernetes and ML.

I read the article as PG was hoping young founders don't get funded for their sake, so they can enjoy being young.

Personal projects. They're hiring a developer, not a professor.

This is assuming you can't put both obv.

Random question: Anyone know a good wifi router? It only needs to cover a 2 story ~2500 sq ft house. Currently using a pos router from Spectrum.

Or should I get wifi mesh (e.g. Google wifi)?

why is there so little talk about start ups and start up incubators in this thread and on 2+2 in general? that seems like a natural progression for this crowd post black friday etc.

It really is dependent on many factors, but a simple link extender might be sufficient, or you might need a mesh set up.

If you have the patience, a sweet spot app and lots of trial and error can help identify the best options. It can be counter intutitive at times, though. For example, I bought a small TP-Link extender to give me a better signal when I was outside on my deck. After much experimentation, it turned out it was most effective when plugged into a socket in the kitchen less than 8 inches from a 25 year old fridge/freezer.

Agree with suzzer here that this is exceptional.

Most of the time people put complete trash on github, and I don't ask them about it (which I'm sure contributes to the perception no one cares) because my only question is "Why do you think adding a github link to your resume is useful?" I'm sure it helps for places where people are just impressed you have an account...

In the rare cases where someone has something interesting there, they are invariably shocked if I ask a question of the project that shows that I made it past the name of the repo. So my sense is that it's not adding a ton of value to the rest of their job hunting.

(High-quality personal projects or working in a place where one can open source one's best work isn't something I expect, which is part of the reason why it gets less weight overall in a hiring process. If one has it, great, or are working on something for other reasons, enjoy -- but it's not an efficient way to bolster one's chances getting a job.)

In my current job I presented some of my projects in lieu of programming test or extensive whiteboard shenanigans. I finally got them to hire the guy I've wanted to hire for like a month now. My interest in him was largely based on his github. But let's be clear - his github was not tutorial-level stuff, it was good ****. There was a guy last year that I wanted to bring in for an interview, based on talking to him for 5 minutes and his github. But again - his github was a demo of taking an existing high throughput system and increasing it's throughput by another factor of 1000, which was basically his schtick (give me your data processing queue and I will make it orders of magnitude faster)

If you have professional grade stuff (by which I mean, things that are on-par with what you could do on the job), then yeah put it online and shop it around.

Oh I also once got a fun side contract job just based on a very short demo video I put on youtube.

We're all olds working at olds places.

Yes

Does anyone know any good community resources for AWS like the JS slack channel is for JS? I've joined the two AWS LA local meetups. But I haven't found anything else that seems useful.

I joined a start up, which was bought out soon after I joined. We are now up to around 60 people.


My equity stake is enough to appreciate having some skin in the game, but unlikely to become truly life changing.

Someone on here like Grue, it seems like he could leverage his game experience + an idea for a new game into $200k from an incubator if he really wanted to.

also, any advice for meeting non-technical co-founders? i just realized that my city has a startup incubator so i am going to get involved with that. but lots of these 5-10 employee companies, at least around here, aren't doing anything remotely complicated, they have just found a sweet spot to sell their SAAS. One company I interviewed at got the idea from his wife's friend who was like "We are still using pen and paper at our office to do x,y,z". They become profitable after 3 months of starting the company.

I met one of the founders of my company over a bridge game. He asked me if I knew any entrepreneurial life insurance actuaries, and I knew one...

I thought about pursuing actuary for a bit when I worked in the mail room at Wausau Insurance. Then I learned you had to study like 1000 hours just for the first test out of 8 (or something like that). Nopeittyy nope.

I feel like if technology ever settles down, software engineering will become the same. Existing programmers will circle the wagons to put up a huge gnarly certification barrier to getting into the industry. The modern tech quiz job interview might be a first baby step in that direction.

Don't ever see that happening imo. The biggest barrier to hiring is just trying to figure out if the candidate can do what the job requires. I don't GAF beyond that what school they went to if any.

I'm talking about something like passing the bar or whatever the actuarial certification is called.

Uncle Bob I think was the one talking about this. He says he feels it's pretty much a matter of time till software causes a catostrohic cost of lives and the government has to regulate the industry so we should do it first

I don’t imagine programming going the certification route. If anything it feels like it’ll go the other way where it’s a skill almost everyone needs to have to one degree or another. Maybe there’ll be a certification for specific things (working on aircraft software) but I still doubt it. It’s a lot easier to regulate the requirements for a specific class of software than for the people that work on it.