[HN Gopher] Hiring tech lead to help solve major historical puzzle
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Hiring tech lead to help solve major historical puzzle
Author : ealexhudson
Score : 39 points
Date : 2022-11-24 19:52 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| ldx1024 wrote:
| Kind of reminds me of the apocryphal Shackleton newspaper ad:
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| "Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long
| hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and
| recognition in event of success."
| wpasc wrote:
| Would I be reading into the timing too much, if I noted the
| timing of this post and how recently Ancient Apocalypse aired
| (and subsequent Rogan appearance)?
| carlmr wrote:
| That was my first thought as qell, especially with the
| rewriting history part. It is a fascinating topic in any case.
| LarsDu88 wrote:
| What is this? Mississipi Mound builders? Lost Mayan Temples? The
| lost source code of Half-Life 3? Nicholas Cage's National
| Treasure 4?
|
| Whatever it is, its silly enough that Nat Friedman feels like
| people will ridicule him if he actually says it out loud. That,
| or JJ Abrams style mystery box storytelling is a skill mastered
| by tech founders.
| aerovistae wrote:
| > Pay range is $120-250k/yr. Think of this as an adventurous
| interlude between your more lucrative commercial gigs.
|
| Is that not already pretty excellent pay? I'm aware FAANG
| engineers and high level technical leaders make $300k+ or double
| that or more when you include their stock value, but for at least
| 90% of engineers even in the US "$120-250k" is a pretty top tier
| rate.
| AlotOfReading wrote:
| Hah, this would be a fun marriage between my archaeologist past
| and robotics present.
|
| The qualifications unfortunately make it sound like yet another
| one of those "do CV to find relationships between probably
| unrelated objects" projects that have been so problematic in the
| past though.
| Gunax wrote:
| This sounds like a dream job.
|
| Why not advertise the puzzle too? Isn't the point to get it
| solved?
| scarface74 wrote:
| A dream job? In the US, an entry level return offer for an
| intern is at least $160K at most major tech companies. Your
| average enterprise CRUD developer can get $120K after 3 years
| and one job hop (no insult that's what I spent most of my
| career doing).
|
| If I have the technical skills to solve the types of problems
| that he wants solved, he needs to offer a lot more money and
| stability than 6 months.
| bjornsing wrote:
| Really bright people rarely value this kind of "stability".
| Their inboxes are always full of offers. That's their
| stability.
| [deleted]
| carlmr wrote:
| I mean to me part of the dream job aspect would be doing a
| archeological puzzle, which sounds way less boring than
| programming CRUD apps day to day. And the remuneration seems
| fair to me.
| kolbe wrote:
| You apparently don't understand that jobs that are actually
| desirable come at a huge wage discount. Sure, if you want to
| use your ML skills to push self-destructive ads or play in
| the stock market, you get a lot more money. But if you use
| the skills to do something fun/respectable, you get less.
| Gunax wrote:
| It's not the best paying job, but I would take this in a
| millisecond if I was qualified.
| brailsafe wrote:
| The more interesting work in the world is often the least
| paid and most volatile. The hard part of CRUD work is the
| mental infrastructure you have to develop to accept how
| uninteresting it is.
|
| People don't become paramedics or archaeologists for the
| paycheque, because often there's not that much monetary
| outcome from doing the work.
| secondcoming wrote:
| US tech people are so spoiled.
| p0pcult wrote:
| Point is likely to solve it first, and get the treasure before
| other people.
| booleandilemma wrote:
| And hope Nat Friedman doesn't betray you after your
| services...are no longer required.
| johnnyo wrote:
| What is the puzzle?
| ProjectArcturis wrote:
| Any guesses on the puzzle? I'm not familiar with this guy at all.
| I hope it's not something dumb like finding Atlantis.
| ffssffss wrote:
| He founded Xamarin and ran Github after the acquisition. So he
| has the money and is clearly competent as a manager. The lack
| of detail makes me think it's probably something dumb though,
| or something that domain experts have already told him is
| unlikely to succeed. I wish he'd post more info!
| johnnyo wrote:
| Fountain of youth?
|
| Lost City of Gold?
| faxywaxy wrote:
| It will be dumb, he's an alt-right "hardcore work" guy:
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| https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1589051044369420288
| faxywaxy wrote:
| Ah Nat Friedman the guy who was fired from GitHub for being a
| terrible manager and has been doubling down all over Twitter to
| circle the wagons with Paul Graham and Elon Musk:
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| https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1589051044369420288
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| Avoid this guy like the plague.
| tomjohnneill wrote:
| Maybe decoding Herculaneum scrolls?
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herculaneum_papyri#Virtual_unr...
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