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by Dwolb 7y ago
I’m super curious how the initial governance framework evolves over time. From the looks of it, it’s not anything completely new and relies on standard human voting and management structures. >A Founding Member that does not comply with
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by Dwolb 7y ago
SaaS needs to chill out for like two seconds. What we’re seeing here is a strategic maneuver by Dropbox to move up the UX stack from a single file syncing tool to a meta/coordination layer between SaaS products. The goal is to own the
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by Dwolb 7y ago
Compete how? Competition with the market leader will improve if this merger results in a more formidable opponent.
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by Dwolb 7y ago
I actually think this article is late and we’re already seeing the next evolution of this trend: flexible SaaS. Right now SaaS products are mostly single-purpose workflows and aren’t super customizable (until the start-up ages and enters a
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by Dwolb 8y ago
Two things jumped out to me: 1) The extent to which how Spotify organized as teams completely affected the technical architecture and user experience. This is a situation where being deliberate about culture really matters! 2) Spotify fee
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Why are we (still) sending so much web traffic unencrypted over the Internet?(hackernoon.com)
4 points by Dwolb 8y ago|0 comments
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A Hacker Intercepted Your Wi-Fi Traffic and Stole Your Data(hackernoon.com)
2 points by Dwolb 8y ago|0 comments
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by Dwolb 8y ago
It all factors in but realistically with SaaS there is little in terms of fixed assets. Most likely a lot of the additional factors for the valuation multiple calculation are going to be around efficient customer acquisition, sales cycle pa
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by Dwolb 8y ago
This already is happening with several autonomous vehicle companies. It helps with municipal adoption.
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by Dwolb 8y ago
The bandwidth isn't just for downloading maps to cars. It's also to enable autonomous vehicles to constantly stream data and video feeds back to humans who can take over in real time if the car doesn't know what to do.
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Google Photos and the unguessable URL (2015)(theverge.com)
2 points by Dwolb 8y ago|0 comments
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by Dwolb 8y ago
Off topic question: is there a word or phrase for this conversation? Something to describe arguing about the issue at hand completely through the metaphor and not directly referring to the issue at hand.
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by Dwolb 8y ago
Your first point lacks context of the next paragraph. Here’s the two paragraphs combined which changes the meaning. >The fact is, if we accept Marriott’s statement that the breach began in 2014, the system would already have been operati
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Ask HN: Has anyone used AirTable as a light weight applicant tracking system?
2 points by Dwolb 8y ago|0 comments
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by Dwolb 8y ago
Not sure the exact nuances that go into “generalizable” but please consider: To go from a radius to a circle, you can rotate a radius 360deg. To go from a circle to a sphere, you can rotate a circle on its axis 360deg. This sort of “take a
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by Dwolb 8y ago
How does your organization decide what the chip you’re designing does? Often for chips it’s a B2B transaction so you can probably mobilize some of your go-to salespeople or sales engineers and ask them what customers are saying about next g
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Why Most Blockchain Projects Are Bullshit(medium.com)
2 points by Dwolb 8y ago|1 comments
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by Dwolb 8y ago
Almost there but not out of the woods yet. Good: $1.3B cash from ops, $1B increase in receivables Bad: $2B current portion of debt coming due, $1.2B increase in payables Still need stellar numbers (and cash) in Q4.
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by Dwolb 8y ago
It’s tough to tell without guidance directly from the company. For sure internally they have some sort of calculation for “If we ceased all growth activities and maximized our pricing power and minimized our costs, how much cash could we br
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by Dwolb 8y ago
What’s the chip in the Apple Watch? Most of the new low power LTE devices have 2G fallback
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Show HN: Introducing Magic – Decentralized Internet Service from the Future(medium.com)
4 points by Dwolb 8y ago|1 comments
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by Dwolb 8y ago
The bright side here is humans need better ways to organize and build quickly. Brex and other process innovations help people do that instantly and without a lot of overhead. Selling to start-ups is a great way to build these products.
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by Dwolb 8y ago
As someone not in crypto, I was really surprised to learn how excited people still are about the space. Three podcasts that a) have me wondering if this is whole thing is real or fake and b) if it’s real, will it really be huge 1) Chris Dix
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How do you organize your company's Dropbox?
2 points by Dwolb 8y ago|1 comments
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by Dwolb 8y ago
Yikes this is a complex topic. There’s a couple of things at play: Google does control (unbiased or biased) a significant portion of what internet users see This control has the potential to sway public opinion, direct discourse, and econom
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by Dwolb 8y ago
>I heard back from many of the engineers I write to, and often, they were furious Bingo. I've opted to share specific team feedback via phone and although candidate feedback was generally positive and thankful, once in awhile the r
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by Dwolb 8y ago
The only other thing I’d do here as Fortnite’s Chief is to broadly make secure install infrastructure available to other indie developers. This would gain some goodwill and could turn into another revenue stream. +1 points for turning this
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by Dwolb 8y ago
Uber is way way far out of their league here. Imagine being a software and services company trying to build one of the most mechanically and electronically complex items that humans have ever built with a team that has only built prototypes
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by Dwolb 8y ago
That’s just insane. This is a great accomplishment for NYT but I’m worried about what it means for the rest of the industry. NYT switching its business model has to be one of the most public and well-executed digital transformations of an o
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by Dwolb 8y ago
A note on methodology: typically in experimental surveys you don’t want to prime your subjects with words or phrasing that could lead to positive or negative bias. Additionally, negatively-biased phrasing on a public survey could also attra

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