Johnie

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by Johnie 9y ago
Traditionally, Rider and Driver payment systems were two separate systems. This caused a lot of complications as the business became more complicated. Traditionally, Riders paid Uber and Uber paid out to Drivers. However, with Cash payme
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by Johnie 9y ago
They don't invest in each other. They buy low risk securities, like Treasuries.
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This is basic financial engineering and treasury management. What's unique about AirBnB's business is that they collect money at the time of booking and don't pay out until after the stay. So basically, they are holding onto
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by Johnie 9y ago
Take a look at the website for the study: https://mountainviewagtfeasibility.com/ At the bottom, there are a couple mock ups of different types of transportation considered. They include: Rubber-Tired Automated People Move
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Mt View studying automated transit to Googleplex. (Community meeting on 9/25)(mercurynews.com)
36 points by Johnie 9y ago|4 comments
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by Johnie 9y ago
I bought my house in Mountain View right after Larry Page announced that hey intends to bring another 10-20K employees to the Mountain View campus. It's just a pure numbers game. You can't have a single employer bring in that man
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by Johnie 9y ago
Usually, if you don't checkin or board a flight, the airline will pull your bag off of the flight.
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by Johnie 9y ago
Don't forget about employees. Much of early employee compensation is in the form of equity. After 4 years, people expect to monetize and reap some of the rewards. If there is no exit in sight, the senior employees start making for t
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by Johnie 9y ago
This post is very simplistic. A company is defined by its culture. There are many different models for building the culture of a company. Different cultures prioritize different things. For example, Netflix prioritizes the individual Sta
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by Johnie 9y ago
Here's the deck: https://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664/24-Were_...
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by Johnie 10y ago
At Google, the team that I worked on required the format `// TODO(name): [Tracking Bug#] comment ` In other places, I've seen just blanket `// TODO: comment` is pretty bad. There's no accountability and also y
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by Johnie 10y ago
The failure of articles like this is that they take a snapshot of a company at a point in time and assume that the company's business model and reach doesn't change. This is the same mistake that many analyst make on early stage
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by Johnie 10y ago
>I've been using Amazon Fresh for a few months. This is an artifact of living in Silicon Valley bubble. The rest of the country don't live this way.
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by Johnie 10y ago
Amazon's business model is all about winning on razor thin margins. They do this by making the cost side more efficient.
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by Johnie 10y ago
This is still early in the process. It will take some time before we know what the final regulation is. The comment period is between now and January of next year.
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by Johnie 10y ago
> With a chip transaction, I need to leave the card in until the very end. Visa announced Quick Chip EMV that enable you to dip your card at any time of the transaction for it to generate and capture a cryptogram before the end of the tr
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by Johnie 10y ago
Are you asking about payments specifically or general "how things work" series? When Apple Pay launched, Clover had a detailed post on tokenization. http://clover-developers.blogspot.com/2014/09/apple-pay
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Mastercard: Unintended consequence of running out of CC#s(paymentssource.com)
1 points by Johnie 10y ago|0 comments
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by Johnie 10y ago
If you were to do it over again, would you have done it the same way? What would you have changed?
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by Johnie 10y ago
Have you considered using the resource identifier as an idempotency key? Basically, have the client generate the ID (UUID, but namespaced on the server side [client+date]). This eliminates the need for the client to generate the idempoten
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by Johnie 10y ago
Ruth mentioned this on the call: "Porat replied, “In terms of, you noted the one-time item, there are really two I’m actually going to call out. One was in the cost of revenues. I noted that as equipment costs were elevated by some one
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by Johnie 10y ago
Err. Googleusercontent is owned by Google. It's used to host user content so that it's not under the Google domain and avoid XSS vulnerability.
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by Johnie 10y ago
You joke, but when I was in Beijing a couple of months ago, the juice vendor wouldn't take cash from me. She only accepted AliPay and WeChat.
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AT&T will lower the quality of most video on its network by default next year(finance.yahoo.com)
1 points by Johnie 10y ago|0 comments
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by Johnie 10y ago
I remember a comic strip with two highways: one pointing to road deprecated and other sign says "not ready yet"
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by Johnie 10y ago
Technically, NSA would also be a "state sponsored actor"
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by Johnie 10y ago
Isn't this news old though? The original news was from Aug. Today, they are just confirming that it was accurate. Original news: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36952257 On that day, the stock dropped 1%
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by Johnie 10y ago
This is old news. Channel checks is one use of this data and it's nothing new. http://www.integrity-research.com/are-channel-checks-legit/
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by Johnie 10y ago
Also, someone like Mark Zuckerberg has almost 0 default risk. To the banks, this is free money. Remember, when the bank issues a mortgage for 3.5%, the spread between that and their cost of capital covers the risk of default. But if the d
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by Johnie 10y ago
"I honestly don't see any innovation here, the tech is dirt simple." Innovation isn't just about technology. There are also innovation in the business model, service delivery, user experience, and many more. It's

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