rezashirazian

"Girls and Boys do get the almost exactly same education, they have great opportunity to be a successful scholar in any branch of science they want", "yes, It is like USA" or "Paris of the middle east" is completely untrue.

Women are continuously harassed in university's for how they dress and many professors treat them with contempt. The notion that they get the same education or experience in college is simply not true.

And even after they graduate most job postings for roles beyond secretaries literally say "Women need not to apply"

Now I know Iran is much better than many other countries in the region and I know it's frustrating to see it represented unfairly in the media. But it's important to have a realistic perspective on the country and understand that it still has a LONG way to go. If what you're saying was true people like Maryam and thousands of other Sharif graduates wouldn't leave the country for European and American universities.

I would take what I've learned along with the connections I've made and start a business in a country that's more immigrant friendly, has universal healthcare and is very close to the US.

However I'd refuse to do it for free if it's obviously something they're going to use in their product or if it's something that takes 20 hours to complete.

This goes against Apple's terms and conditions. Because of this alone, you can have your app removed at anytime.

I've been a happy engineer with a YC company for close to three years now. I have led various teams and contributed to many aspect of the overall product during my tenure. I have also interviewed more than twenty people and I can assure you, there is no one size fit all when it comes to finding candidates that succeed.

I also tried TripleByte a year ago, I figured it would be fun to see how they do things.

I got to the interview section after doing well on the online quizz however failed to go beyond that.

From my experience I can assure you that TripleByte has its own set of standards and values that may not match with you or the company you want to work with. They are overly interested in putting labels and pigeon holing candidates into specific categories that overlooks the fact that every individual is different.

YC is a big family with varied products, teams, and problems. There are no one size fit all formula or set of labels for ideal candidates or ideal company.

Your best route for success is to do the work yourself, find the company that interests you, directly connect with them and see how it goes.

Also if someone can explain to me what is trial and error programmer, or a child prodigy I would be grateful? Can a child prodigy be also an enterprise programmer? Is there any overlap between product programmers, pragmatic programmers?

How insecure and in need of validation someone needs to be to seek career advice from a chatbot four times a month?

"If you invest 100 million in this company we backed two years ago, we'll give you a good deal on this other thing we know you're interested"

"If you back our cloud computing company, we'll get our other unicorns to use your CRM technologies"

Then the GI Bill can pick up the tab for such programs.

Any technology that needs to mount on the user's face will have to propose a huge value proposition.

The satisfaction you get from these side projects will come from being able to finish them as opposed to try and make money from them. When you try to take on a side project with the goal of making money, you'll end up sinking way too much time in marketing and reaching out to possible customers as opposed to building something (which I find to be more fun and rewarding).

And the time you spend on trying to get people to sign up or even try your product doesn't have the same returns in satisfaction as building it. (my opinion of course)

Even though in US a computer scientist can have "Software Engineer" as her title, it's not so easy in Canada. The word 'Engineer' has a very specific definition.

In fact if you get a Software Engineer degree from a Canadian university you'd have to a take a somewhat different set of courses than someone who get a Computer Science degree.

It's over the top bureaucratic semantics in my opinion. Any individual with a CS degree is qualified for anything labeled as Software Engineering in the US or Canada.

I'm not in need of that much money, so the 1 million guarantee is not valuable enough to me to offset the fact that I would have 50%+ chance of getting something more than 2.5 million.

high end of $2,100,000 on the second case is enough for me to switch to the second one.