Denzel

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by Denzel 10y ago
A company I cofounded back in 2013-2014 was trying to do this. Although our plan of attack showed promised, the company crashed and burned for "legal" reasons. For this to work, you need to do three things: (1) get the original ex
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by Denzel 10y ago
Yes, this is the book I read and was referencing. My apologies, I did not realize he released so many similar versions.
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by Denzel 10y ago
"The E-myth" by Michael Gerber is the single most helpful book I've ever read on transitioning your thinking from engineering-focused to business-minded. Specifically, the difference between the Technician, the Manager, and t
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by Denzel 10y ago
I've been trying to put my finger on what bothers me about Sam Altman ever since he was named President of YC in 2014. Now I know. It's less to do with him; more to do with this narrative of Sam Altman as some visionary, world-sav
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by Denzel 10y ago
Appreciate you taking the time to respond. It seems like you're targeting two different markets (developers & their clients/employers), and having to construct two different product stories. Of course, what appeals to the deve
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by Denzel 10y ago
At first I didn't understand the difference between Netlify vs. Jekyll / Hugo + s3_website [1] + S3/CloudFront + git. Admittedly, (1) the OP does a terrible job differentiating the two, and (2) there's significant overla
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by Denzel 10y ago
Have to love HN cynicism. This most certainly is not blogspam. Allow me to explain the "utterly disjoint and aimless essay" and "born-yesterday-lauditory" accounts (of which I may be lauditory, but hardly born-yesterday)
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by Denzel 10y ago
Personal note: I worked with Joanne a few years back at a startup in Manhattan. She helped to improve our product in a very short timeframe. A pleasure to work with; the very definition of a professional.
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by Denzel 10y ago
Of course, if the deal falls through they lose their payout. That's sad. We don't disagree there. Please explain how GM would renegotiate their equity stakes pro rata? I've never come across this.
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by Denzel 10y ago
The engineers will not be screwed over. They get the same amount -- whether Jeremy wins or not. Jeremy is seeking half of whatever Kyle is slated to receive, i.e., his diluted pre-seed 50% stake.
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by Denzel 10y ago
Thanks for the link! First time I've seen that marketplace. I'll look into it.
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by Denzel 10y ago
Absolutely! Postgres has amazing documentation. My comment was directed towards other projects. I wish they would follow Postgres's lead.
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by Denzel 10y ago
I'm the same way: take a question and answer with the source. But as my time gets more and more constrained, I wish more large open-source projects had design docs akin to CockroachDB. I read through the CDB design doc in one sitting,
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by Denzel 11y ago
At a previous company, we adopted a system similar to Google's early review process. Every repo would have two owners (for redudancy in case of sickness). We'd put the emails of both owners in an OWNERS file. Then, whenever a pull
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by Denzel 11y ago
I agree, if someone was claiming they could grow a business 10x/year, that sounds suspicious. However, I didn't hear him speak at the Commonwealth Club, so I can only go off his TED talk. He says the EV industry will grow 100x b
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by Denzel 11y ago
IANAL, but I absolutely believe there's the possibility to raise a copyright violation suit. There have been cases brought against Google in the past for caching webpages. This is why google/bing web crawlers abide by robots.txt.
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by Denzel 11y ago
Does he appear a snake oil salesman in light of the facts you know now? Or you're saying you would have thought the same thing back in 2009? Do you have any specifics on why you feel that way? Genuinely curious, as a person who likes t
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by Denzel 11y ago
Netscape, actually: http://shitelonsays.com/transcript/foundation-20-elon-musk-2... (few paragraphs in)
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by Denzel 11y ago
How are the textbooks better? Can you provide some examples?
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by Denzel 11y ago
The phenomenon you're describing is exhibited best by Amdahl's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law .
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by Denzel 11y ago
When you donate shares, you offset your tax by the amount you donated pre-tax. The charity pays the capital gains tax, once they sell the shares. You receive a write-off equal to the market value of your shares when you donated it. So, in t
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by Denzel 11y ago
What prevents a company from issuing vested stock options with an anti-dilution clause to early employees? Has any company set the precedent? Would it scare investors away? I'm very curious.
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by Denzel 11y ago
It's trying to sell itself as a better solution to Google's existing problems[1]. That's the keyword (no pun intended). Just so happens that some developers at-large perceive an overlap, correct or incorrect, between thei
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by Denzel 11y ago
Reads like a spiritual predecessor to Facebook's Haystack: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/osdi10/tech/full_papers/...
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by Denzel 11y ago
Would you mind expanding upon how he analyzes things in a clearer way? It's something I've felt when reading his blog posts.
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by Denzel 11y ago
That's interesting, I feel the same way about faces. It just feels natural to me. I got a 13/14 on the first test you posted. Then I decided to take the extended test: - 37/40 (top 5%) upright face recognition - 27/32 (t
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by Denzel 11y ago
Genuinely interested in where those figures come from. Do you have any sources I could read?
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by Denzel 11y ago
I work 14 hours, workout for 2 hours, and sleep 6 hours a day, 7 days a week. This is my company and I'm bringing it into existence. Not to mention that LOC count includes testing which I write in standard TDD fashion. Furthermore, a n
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by Denzel 11y ago
Off the top of my head, for Go, (1) the semantics around nil and closed channels resulting in deadlocks, and (2) failing to recover from an unexpected panic. I think error handling and documentation of the errors returned by methods could b
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by Denzel 11y ago
I wish I had the time to evaluate everything that is out there but I don't. There's simply more important things to focus on for my company than choice of language: sales, hiring, fundraising, etc. Therefore, I had to choose the b

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