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by DelaneyM 5y ago
I have mixed opinions about all the MBA hate on HN. On the one hand, as an engineer who has reported to and worked with many MBAs, I totally get it. In no way does an MBA give someone any ability to effectively work with or support teams t
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by DelaneyM 5y ago
Speaking as a former "gifted" kid, acceleration is a horrible idea. I skipped a bunch of grades, got into MIT but went to a local college at 13 (who lets their 13-year-old live in a college dorm?), ended up working for a bit then
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Scale Stats at Shopify over BFCM(twitter.com)
3 points by DelaneyM 5y ago|0 comments
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by DelaneyM 5y ago
The obvious question not answered (but asked) in the article is: "Who put it there and why?" Surely this should be easily knowable?
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by DelaneyM 6y ago
When I was young, must've been under ten, I used to play a card game in my guide group in where the deck was continually recycled and if played "wrong" you had to add a facedown card from the top of the deck, which replaced t
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by DelaneyM 6y ago
Along other reasons, with such a massive percentage of their income (and income variability) in Q4, it really helps their accountants to close out a tax year in the (relatively) predictable and stable Sept after three quarters of normalizin
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by DelaneyM 6y ago
I'm Canadian, and based on my social circle at least I don't think anyone wants to see the border open to non-essential travel until either the US has things under control or (more likely) there's a vaccine. We're finall
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by DelaneyM 6y ago
Independent of age, there are a number of areas in tech which are heavily biased towards experience and perspective (usually correlated with age), particularly in SRE/DevOps. I know we're struggling to find folks in EU with that k
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by DelaneyM 6y ago
https://www.shopify.ca/careers
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by DelaneyM 7y ago
Don't offer. Do it. Start making ventilators by the thousand. Screw patents, screw official sanction - when things get dire, the world will take every one we can get.
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Techniques for modeling pandemic spread in large offices(academia.edu)
12 points by DelaneyM 7y ago|0 comments
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by DelaneyM 8y ago
This is the only "him" on the page and her new name is the only reference, so you can't argue ignorance... This is just blatant bigotry and has no place in Hacker News.
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by DelaneyM 8y ago
At its current rate of growth it will by the time Amazon would have.
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by DelaneyM 8y ago
I think it's been said elsewhere, but it's the difference between something being seen as premium (Jura coffee maker or 15" MacBook) vs ludicrous (Juicero). This is decidedly the former. For top-heavy women, especially the m
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by DelaneyM 8y ago
It is definitely a premium price for a premium product, and absolutely out of reach of many. But that's the case for a great many custom and/or early adopter products. It's not crazy. I regularly spend 80$+ for bras I don&
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by DelaneyM 8y ago
The many concerns in this thread (and their upvotes) about price (350$) are one of the best examples of the risks of gender imbalance in venture funding I've yet seen. I suspect pretty much any woman in North America, regardless of abi
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by DelaneyM 8y ago
I once handled gobs of web tracking data in Cassandra, using Hadoop over Cassandra to build queryable rollups in MySQL and Pig for on the fly analysis Neither tech works on its own, but together (substituting Cassandra columns for hdfs) was
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by DelaneyM 8y ago
So does Vancouver. https://vancouver.ca/home-property-development/empty-homes-t...
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Alphabet Shareholders and Employees Want Executive Pay Linked to Diversity Goals(gizmodo.com)
2 points by DelaneyM 8y ago|1 comments
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by DelaneyM 9y ago
The only plausible near-term renewable-energy flight option I can see is hydrogen fuel cells powering electric planes. The equipment is heavy, but compressed liquid hydrogen is both producible from renewable sources and has a significantly
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by DelaneyM 9y ago
Please allow signup verification by LinkedIn, many people do not have Facebook accounts. (I am one such person.)
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by DelaneyM 9y ago
Also "For us, at the seed stage, 90%+ of the decision is based on the pedigree and track record of the core team." I have that network and pedigree, and I still think this (common) approach is disgusting. Not because it reduces di
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by DelaneyM 9y ago
I believe 25% is the smallest discount I've seen thrown around, 40%-50% is rather common. As was mentioned elsewhere, smaller discounts tend to apply to shorter horizons, such as when bridging immediately into a round. In those cases,
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by DelaneyM 9y ago
Does your assessment change at all if your horizon extends beyond the next round?
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by DelaneyM 9y ago
So far everyone's been happy with an MFN, so it hasn't been much of an issue. (They seem happy to let someone else be "the bad guy" who forces terms.) If I secure enough commitment on MFN agreements alone, I plan to def
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by DelaneyM 9y ago
Doing a seed round now. Ultimately the terms are going to depend on investor consensus, but my strong preference is to go uncapped w/ discount. Having a cap is an incentive for me to "grow until I'm 6 months away from X, then
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by DelaneyM 9y ago
You can read that disaster in two ways... I consider the fact that a stupid-simple package was depended-upon by so many mature libraries as an indication it should be a language feature. Working with network protocols I find myself needing
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by DelaneyM 9y ago
My stock interview question: > Tell me about the project you are most proud of, which best demonstrates what you're capable of. It could be academic, it could be professional, but be careful to not share any proprietary information
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by DelaneyM 9y ago
Honestly, it wouldn't make a difference. Some VCs are sleazy, but their money's still green. I know with certainty of at least two firms with predatory/creepy partners, but that wouldn't stop me from including them in a
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by DelaneyM 9y ago
Sounds like one heck of an AI training set. DeepTrump?

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