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by arohner 9y ago
The VCs aren't the investors here. There are 3 parties, the startup, the VCs and the LPs. The LPs are generally pension funds, college endowments, and sovereign wealth funds, i.e. institutions who can write $10M-$100M checks. The VCs a
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by arohner 9y ago
At the end of the day, this is all the LP's money, and this comes down to how much the LPs pay the VCs for their service. Leaving aside bloat in lawyer rates because the VC doesn't care about price, the total cost to do the deal i
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by arohner 9y ago
> why is it even the case in the first place? 1) Because VCs were working on 'fixed income' 2) because they could. The standard deal historically is "2 and 20", i.e. the VCs get paid 2% of the fund raised per year, an
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by arohner 9y ago
Medicine and vaccines are science, socialism is ideology.
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by arohner 9y ago
I type at least that fast, and the keyboard is still a bottleneck for me sometimes. When using emacs/vim and primarily using the keyboard, there are extra gains to be had by typing faster, because you can use keyboard shortcuts to navi
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by arohner 9y ago
In a quiz with multiple security questions, I'd give bonus points to an applicant who found security problems.
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by arohner 9y ago
The quiz wouldn't pass security review, FWIW. The answers are shipped with the javascript, and validation is done client side, so they're just an 'inspect element' away.
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by arohner 9y ago
Agreed. I've been a professional developer for nearly 20 years. I've shipped kernel C, windows C++, java,python, ruby, clojure to production, but the last time I wrote python was nearly a decade ago. Since then, I've been fir
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by arohner 10y ago
Yes, but that doesn't deal with authentication. My problem was getting the JWT stuff working. The solution ended up being: https://gist.github.com/arohner/8d94ee5704b1c0c1b206186525d9...
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by arohner 10y ago
Step 1) document the endpoints enough that outside developers can write their own clients. It took quite a bit of work for me to get a native Clojure client working to connect to the google cloud SDK. That was after wrestling with jar-hell
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by arohner 10y ago
Agreed, I was just showing my work.
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by arohner 10y ago
That analysis makes sense, if you leave out the VCs. They would also like a return on their investment, and if they thought going public would be profitable, you can be sure it would have already happened.
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by arohner 10y ago
Most of the blame for this can be placed on Sarbox ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarbanes%E2%80%93Oxley_Act ), and other regulations imposed by the SEC. Believe me, if you're a founder, you want to exit as well. T
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by arohner 10y ago
Quick back of the envelope: let's define angel as someone who can write 10, $25k checks a year. Let's say they have a yearly lifestyle expense of $250k, so they need to make $500k/year off their wealth. Then, assume they make
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by arohner 10y ago
> If the increased cost is due to government inefficiency, there is opportunity for for-profit businesses to provide the same service at lower cost, and either capture the difference as profit or compete on cost for more business. Howev
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by arohner 10y ago
> how will stuff even remotely work when we are a interplanetary species IPFS or similar. Basically, make all public content content-addressed (give me the article with SHA 0xabcdef) rather than connection oriented (give me the bytestrea
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by arohner 10y ago
Yes, but Mars is easier to live on than the moon, because it has an atmosphere, it's a lot warmer and terraform-able.
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by arohner 10y ago
> There are so, so many reasons for space migration that have nothing to do with earth's environmental problems. Asteroid. Super volcano. Gamma ray burst. Magnetic field reversal. Pandemic. Super fungus. Artificial super intelligenc
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by arohner 10y ago
You are literally creating a monopoly (one hospital) to justify that will produce lower prices. Please give me one other example in an unregulated market where your MRI machine example makes sense. It sounds good on paper, but that doesn&#x
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by arohner 10y ago
I see the /snark, but I'll answer seriously. Most JS code assumes it's targeting either a browser or node.js. Nashorn is very barebones, and can't pass for either. trying to run core.async on Nashorn didn't work for
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by arohner 10y ago
One counter argument to the author's point is that there were many not-very-popular 2WB frameworks, until React and Angular came along. 1-way, top down clearly outcompeted 2WB. In my own experience, I worked on an app that migrated fro
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by arohner 10y ago
> static types can enforce things that contracts cannot Example, please?
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by arohner 10y ago
Clojure programmers use it everywhere. I suspect almost nobody else does though.
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by arohner 10y ago
I'm aware of that legally the distinction is relevant, but in the realm of public discourse, it isn't. YC could also e.g. cut ties with Thiel because he's gay, but of course HN would crucify them.
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by arohner 10y ago
Based on reading your comments for several years, I presume you are very much in favor of protecting employees from various kinds of discrimination(as you should!). Advocating firing Thiel seems to be counter to that. - If YC severed ties w
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by arohner 10y ago
"In a 1982 congressional hearing, legislators asked [US Admiral Hyman Rickover] how long American carriers would survive in an actual war." his response? “Forty-eight hours”. https://warisboring.com/the-u-s-navy-s-
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by arohner 10y ago
What you've described looks more like Amazon's strategy. It's probably more correct to say Google & Facebook are copying Amazon rather than BH. The core of BH has ~20 employees. Warren Buffet always calls out his subsidia
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by arohner 10y ago
Great article. I really appreciate that the OP describes a more closed-form solution to what makes a senior engineer, rather than platitudes like "learn 5 languages". One nit I'd pick with it though is that many large and bur
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Senior Engineers Reduce Risk(medium.com)
175 points by arohner 10y ago|86 comments
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How Becoming a Pilot Made Me a Better Programmer(nathanmarz.com)
15 points by arohner 10y ago|0 comments

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