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by MCRed 11y ago
This alone tells me that they don't know what they are doing. I interviewed for a job using Hacker Rank about 6 months ago. They insisted that I complete their problems. The problems were trivially easy (that's ok, there was a t
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by MCRed 11y ago
I don't know about Canada, but in the USA precedent is only applicable if it's brought up and the judge decides its relevant. In non-contested situations (eg: only the government is before the court, there is no opposition attorne
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by MCRed 11y ago
Take 100 random people from your mall on a saturday-- so just regular people-- how many of them do you think are using gold and silver on a daily basis? IF you answered anything less than 100 you're wrong. First off, how many of them h
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by MCRed 11y ago
And answered.... the answer is that there was no gold, that we had sold germany's gold, and repayment schedule was designed to allow us to print the dollars and buy the gold to send it "back" to germany.
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by MCRed 11y ago
There's a big difference between the two. Gold's price (in a free market, which unfortunately we don't have anymore) is an agreement of market forces-- supply and demand. The Dollar's price comes from government use of f
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by MCRed 11y ago
Because you can't counterfeit gold. The US Dollar, on the other hand, has been counterfeited by the federal government to the point where it has lost %99.99999999 of its value. Making it a depreciating asset. Historically, gold and s
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by MCRed 11y ago
Why pay 5-10X as much to host on AWS? It's not for free. Hosts have a really nice markup, compared to hosting yourself. Hosts make a lot of sense for small companies who can benefit from the aggregated demand and capital costs being
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by MCRed 11y ago
No, they wouldn't. Look at the current state of Mackintoshes. People are having kernel panics and struggling to keep their machines running with current software. OS X moves pretty fast, possibly faster than Linux, and Apple builds
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by MCRed 11y ago
Is there legal backing to enforce obeying robots.txt, or is it a guideline?
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by MCRed 11y ago
Sigh, don't presume I "don't understand", and then feed me self-serving VC rationalizations that are essentially propaganda. > " Immediately after taking the investment founders could sell the company for the val
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by MCRed 11y ago
Sure, I'm not generalizing to all military people, one of the people on the team was also ex military, and I've worked with ex military in the past. This was just a bad hiring decision. IT's sad that you have to start your o
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by MCRed 11y ago
You forgot to include inflation. This gives you %6 per year. That's great compared to CDs and Bonds but it's not a great return compared to stocks historically. (I think since WWII it was %10 for broader indexes?)
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by MCRed 11y ago
Your statement about salary is right. In early funding the founders and employees should get salary bumps that bring them closer to market rates, depending on the stage of funding. So maybe A&B rounds result in salary bumps. When the co
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by MCRed 11y ago
They're also the ones who understand how things work! As we've gotten more open source software out there and faster computers, programmers are naturally moving up the stack using higher and higher level languages. Where before yo
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by MCRed 11y ago
Boys can be found at any age. The difference between a man and a boy is whether you have a beard. Ok, I'm kidding. Seriously, though, my boss, the CEO of the company I'm a co-founder on, is 25 years younger than me. He's n
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by MCRed 11y ago
It's getting to the point where, when I see a post mortem like this, I am just waiting for the AWS problems. Between this and the downtime that AWS has, I'm kind of amazed that people use it-- you pay too much and you get less. (
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by MCRed 11y ago
Good point. My feeling isn't so much that it exists, but that it's all new and dockery-- and doesn't feel like it's gelled into something really useable yet. And by usable, I mean "usable for non-ops people".
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by MCRed 11y ago
Excellent abstract, but unable to view slides on a Mac. (ODP format not supported by keynote?)
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by MCRed 11y ago
Mirage supports Ocaml the video shows people making Python Unikernels. This slide deck supports Elixir and Erlang languages. (just adding details for people)
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by MCRed 11y ago
For those who are confused: Hit the down arrow to go thru the slides, when you get to the end of one, hit the right arrow to go to the next section, then rinse and repeat. Just hitting right will show the you the headers for each section.
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by MCRed 11y ago
What's to roll yourselves? (Serious question, I might have missed it.) The erlang platform provides a great deal of everything you need. And if it doesn't, there's a library out there to do it. Elixir is extremely active, gr
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by MCRed 11y ago
I have to say, this is one of the most exciting technologies I've seen in awhile. It predates docker by a fair bit, and I would have hoped it would have gotten more traction. So I'm very happy to see slides from a user group. Al
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by MCRed 11y ago
Right arrow will until you see the chipmunk, then down. (I Think.)
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by MCRed 11y ago
Well, MG Sigler and Kevin Rose are/were there. MG is the vindictive type, and to be honest, I see it as one of the Four Horseman of The Bubblepocaplypse that reports (and terrible ones at that) are becoming VCs.
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by MCRed 11y ago
How does it feel unfair to sell stock to investors? In the current scheme new shares are issued and everybody gets diluted, so the founders have less economic interest (as does every other employee). If the founders take some money off of
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by MCRed 11y ago
I think founders should take some money off of the table in every investment round, beyond the seed/incubator stage. (In fact probably every employee should be able to do this, maybe to a max of %10 or %20 of vested shares.) The first
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by MCRed 11y ago
In all of the examples you mention it was understood by people paying attention the level of risk. I knew there would be a housing bubble and crisis in 2001 because I read an article on mises.org that pointed out the two factors: (Clinton
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by MCRed 11y ago
This article is very insightful. One of the interesting things about jobs, and a source of frustration and the reason I'm much more interested in being a founder than an employee-- is that so many companies are run by people who don
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by MCRed 11y ago
The relevance of that site is not immediately obvious.
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by MCRed 11y ago
I've experienced this also with slower selling products like the MacBook Pro. I think Apple has simply built up a logistics infrastructure based on Air Freight and built it in as a cost. This is kinda smart because the AirFreight is go

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