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by GFischer 8y ago
Every company I've worked for wants an official WhatsApp business API. And apparently that's what they proposed to Sandberg, according to the article, but the financial projections were nowhere near what ads would bring.
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by GFischer 8y ago
You're right, I hadn't realized that. However, it's about 80% plug-in electrics and 20% plug-in hybrids according to Wikipedia. Anecdotally, the plug-in electrics sold here in Uruguay are mostly Chinese BYD e6s (there are som
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by GFischer 8y ago
15.000 electric cards sold in the U.S. in March, out of 1.6 million is an interesting number, closing in to 1% My country (Uruguay) is at about 0.5% electric cars. China is the world leader by quantity, about 2.1% of new cars are electric.
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by GFischer 8y ago
I actually googled that recently (in response to this announcement) and they seem to be break-even or possibly profitable. But yes, they were unprofitable for a long time. They don't disclose their separate financials so no-one not rel
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by GFischer 8y ago
I have been on the opposite side.. they'll give me pay raises, expanded responsibility but never a promotion. So if you do a LinkedIn search you'll think I'm a run of the mill programmer and they'll contact me for positi
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by GFischer 8y ago
Look at sports... I've seen both cases, players that are good within one system horribly underperforming in others, and players that don't look that great meshing with other castouts and creating a surprisingly good team. I suspec
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by GFischer 8y ago
I was going by these articles, I have no actual experience: https://www.forbes.com/feature/france-macron-station-f-entre... https://www.fastcompany.com/40482640/vive-la-france-female-e... and they
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by GFischer 8y ago
Facebook yes, Youtube not so much, they're famously unprofitable (although this might finally change or have changed the last couple of years). https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/6487324/youtube-
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by GFischer 8y ago
Obviously depends on location and stuff, but you can get overqualified people to stay due to life circumstances (for example due to their significant other doing a postgraduate degree which means they can't easily move cities or countr
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by GFischer 8y ago
A candidate that lasts under 6 months is a very bad candidate that has cost the company money (for a technical position, that is). It's in the interest of both the candidate and the company not to make such a match. If it was only the
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by GFischer 8y ago
Well, as jdoliner says, those companies might be started in other, more entrepreneur-friendly country like Chile or France or maybe China instead (no idea about the latter's entrepreneur-friendliness though, but I do know about Chile&#
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by GFischer 8y ago
Irish surnames with apostrophes are beloved by databases everywhere. Here in Uruguay there are countless examples of immigrants that had to change their first or last name due to them being hard to write for immigration officials. My grandp
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by GFischer 8y ago
I don't travel enough to be worth it, but it's a good tip!
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by GFischer 8y ago
I didn't know Global Entry was available for non-US citizens... oh, my country is not on the list: https://www.cbp.gov/travel/trusted-traveler-programs/global-...
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by GFischer 8y ago
I went to the U.S. recently, and apart from having to go endless times through the x-ray machine and removing shoes, belt, etc (which I haven't experienced in other countries), it wasn't too bad. They did do a thorough questioning
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by GFischer 8y ago
At least one Y-Combinator backed startup that I've read of (Iris Automation), and certainly a lot more. https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/18/iris-automation-raises-1-5... Iris Automation has raised money t
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by GFischer 8y ago
Ask any pilot for American Eagle how much they make... I now work for the travel industry and so get to see lots of articles on how the pilots are underpaid. I also saw an article here on HN about the seniority pyramid scheme (which I can&#
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by GFischer 8y ago
The bizarre thing is that Waze is owned by Google. People speculate they haven't merged information due to regulatory reasons.
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by GFischer 8y ago
Exactly, swatting DOESN'T exist outside the U.S. (save a rare counterexample). Cops in my country aren't great, but they don't do this, ever.
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by GFischer 8y ago
5k a month is ridiculously good in South America. Even if he's doing taxes like he should (which would bring him more in line with the averages for a senior software dev.) it's probably 30% to 50% more than he'd get as a sala
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by GFischer 8y ago
Maps currently does do what you're saying - Google knows the time I'm going home and displays current traffic information and estimated time to arrive, at least for me. Not yet preheating the oven though :)
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by GFischer 8y ago
Rear ends have basically no fatality rate though. They do have material costs but if optimizing for no loss of human life it sounds more appealing. These kind of tradeoffs were things every self-driving car software developer KNEW they were
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by GFischer 8y ago
How did you get your customers, through your network? Do you do mostly frontend or something else?
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by GFischer 8y ago
Which is a requirement for these conglomerates. Both Keiretsus and Chaebols have banks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiretsu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaebol https://en.wikipedia
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by GFischer 8y ago
There's been a bit of salary inflation here, but yes, it's a very good payout and probably a year's salary for a mid-level developer (I'm a developer in Uruguay). He'll have to pay taxes on it though (if he has no o
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by GFischer 8y ago
It will. Copyright protections do the same - I wanted to see an US-based SNL skit and it's blocked in my country. BBC stuff is likewise blocked. I find region-based blocks all the time :( , mostly related to IP and copyright.
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by GFischer 8y ago
In particular, I remember an outage a year ago that was very ill-timed for me (as we were hyping our project) and they were a little slow to respond, it was literally a perfect storm as their offices in Chennai were hit by a Cyclone: https
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by GFischer 8y ago
That's the thing, he might get rejected from the screening questions...
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by GFischer 8y ago
I'm using Zoho and have a good experience so far, they had some issues in the past but at least my experience with support is good. When I looked into it, there weren't many appealing options. I wanted to use Yahoo but they had ju
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by GFischer 8y ago
There's a regional Amazon support hub (for South America) a few floors down from where I'm sitting. Microsoft has stellar support in this region (I even interviewed once). As far as I know, Google has no equivalent. If I had to ra

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