MetalGuru

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by MetalGuru 6y ago
I like that analogy. But it falls apart in the catastrophic cases where having to pay your own medical bills can bankrupt you, no?
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by MetalGuru 6y ago
I didn’t find any valuable insight in this. Get help and build for the future... ok? Also, I felt his anecdotes barely got whatever point he was trying to make across. And half the post consisted of name drops of people I’d never heard of.
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by MetalGuru 6y ago
Did you have trouble hiring Scala devs? And if so, do you think the language benefits outweighed that. This is my main concern choosing to build new ventures with Scala.
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
What are you even trying to say here? So many words for so little coherent meaning.
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
While I think the widespread negative reaction to bailouts is generally uninformed, the interest rates on bank bailouts was ridiculously low. And from what I understand, banks spent it in self-serving ways like stock buybacks and fat execut
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
Yeah, I’ve never understood why companies aren’t doing this. Not commingling inventory seems like an easy fix to the increasingly widespread fraud issue.
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
It gets hospital-level serious for 20% of cases? I thought the lethality rate wasn’t even that high for the most at-risk demographics (something like 14%).
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
Instant deployment and obsolescence is the same sentence. Do you not see the contradiction? Also, how on earth does the web not have a separation of concerns between business logic and UI?
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
Can you give some examples of said stupid ideas?
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
Some of my favorites from the first article: “Gravity’s 2014 profit was $2.2 million, Price adds. At private companies with sales like Gravity’s total revenue, salary and bonus for the top quartile of CEOs is $710,000, according to Chief Ex
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
You specifically reference funding, so I would assume he's referring to VC capital allocation.
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
How do you become that data provider? You need some scalable way to get all that data, right?
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
Absolutely loved this (and the second part)
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
The grass is always greener. It can be pretty frustrating to be at a job you’re not very satisfied at because the expected value of leaving just doesn’t make sense. Sounds silly to complain about having golden handcuffs, but it does change
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
I don’t know why you’ve been downvoted. I’ve observed pretty much every point you listed.
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Ask HN: Why are foreign funds investing in startups at ridiculous valuations?
5 points by MetalGuru 7y ago|3 comments
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
There are other, more efficient ways of handling dependency version conflicts than having an isolated env where each module is downloaded specifically for that env. For example, it doesn't make sense that if I have two virtual env&#x27
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
It’s also incredibly hard to sell to enterprises as a startup. Building a better mousetrap is not all it takes, which explains why these solutions are still widely used despite their deficiencies. People are building better solutions all th
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
I wish taking a sabbatical was this thing you could just up and decide to do. A lot of times you’re needed to much by management. I guess you could give them an ultimatum if you’re absolutely ready to follow through and leave.
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
Way more assuming you’re generating interest (assuming you’re not a financial idiot who’s keeping $3MM in cash)
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
And this is intentional. Google definitely doesn’t want to be regulated as a bank. It just wants your financial data, so it can send better targeted ads.
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
L6. That’d be a high L5. I think the median total comp for L5 is around $350k.
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
Seriously. That guy is a stoned idiot who massively overestimates the insight of his high ramblings.
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
The alignment problem?
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
Seems they are selling it to enterprises. Can you buy one pair as a regular consumer?
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
The biggest issue with the article is clearly correlation vs. causation. He admits to it. I think this advice can be dangerous for someone sacrificing a great deal for a startup that has a extremely low probability of success because “PG sa
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
> So the group of people who leverage capital to sustain themselves and don't have to work have lower net income than the group of people who have to work to have a roof over their head? He’s talking about the aggregate income earne
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
Yeah, that’s a helluva badass parent.
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
Yeah, these strategies are really only critical to client-server architectures where newly deployed code is immediately used by customers.
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by MetalGuru 7y ago
Oh, interesting. I thought they just provided secure authentication to an app’s end users’ bank accounts for things like payments (an alternative to someone like PayPal doing two microtransactions, then having you confirm the amounts as a w

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