auganov

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901.
by auganov 12y ago
Ephemerality of a phenomenon does not mean ephemerality of it's effects. Just because LINE might be gone 5 years from now, does not mean all cultural change it might have brought around will just revert.
902.
by auganov 12y ago
Do you indeed have good rote learning skills tho? In my experience the people that do well at TopCoder etc. tend to be good rote learners. Sounds to me like you actually got accepted for the smartness, not the other way around. Most of the
903.
by auganov 12y ago
If you don't know how important it is to you, then you're probably doing it for your own enjoyment. Or more likely avoidance of more important stuff.
904.
by auganov 12y ago
This is exactly what 1x non-participating liquidation preference is. The 1x is 1x of the invested amount, not a profit multiplier. https://vcexperts.com/buzz_articles/185
905.
by auganov 12y ago
The most common argument for VC 1x liquidation preference is to avoid the situation where the VC looses while the founder gets rich. Say the VC puts in 5M, gets 20% equity. The founder sells for 5M, gets 4M, big success for the founder, tot
906.
by auganov 12y ago
What I hope for is not US coexisting with China, EU or any other state. I hope that more freedom-leaning countries open up to immigration and blur or erase the concept of being a citizen. In fact I hope everyone sees the current status quo
907.
by auganov 12y ago
I think it's just that there were more communist countries in the last century. It's easier to dissociate communism from Stalin than Nazism (and Fascism) from Hitler. Also it's harder to link communism with genocide on an ide
908.
by auganov 12y ago
The drone in this stunt is operated by YuanTong, a parcel delivery company, not Alibaba. Also Alibaba does not (generally?) maintain distribution centers or hold inventory. So from a strategic perspective drones don't mean to Alibaba w
909.
by auganov 12y ago
Am I a bad person for thinking it was going to be a post about a techie fed up with working at a software consultancy?
910.
by auganov 12y ago
Hmmmm, maybe. I assumed the "right to privacy" part was the actual point. Or the next paragraph saying that you might not want to hide stuff now but maybe in the future. Such a spray and pray approach.
911.
by auganov 12y ago
Lost me at the "I have nothing to hide" section. The first few paragraphs are trying to convince you that you actually do have stuff to hide.
912.
by auganov 12y ago
I don't think it's strictly bad. Having said that there's nothing more blissful than spitting out 100-500+ lines of code that work (or makes sense as an outline) without looking anything up.
913.
by auganov 12y ago
I fail to understand it? Are messages one to one/many just like email? Or public like twitter? So far it sound like email with categorization and a task management. I think you need to describe what we can do with it that's fundam
914.
by auganov 12y ago
Just for web browsing or even a lightweight VPN-like experience I'd go with an SSH tunnel and the socks5 built into openssh. Much more flexible. Actually in countries (PRC et al) that do DPI it could be the only thing that reliably wo
915.
by auganov 12y ago
Digital Ocean will likely ban you for bitcoin mining (and other software that constantly stresses any resources.) A quick search reveals tat a Tor exit node is likely to get you banned on there too. Cut-rate cloud providers like Digital Oce
916.
by auganov 12y ago
brendangregg is one of The People in performance analysis. Netflix would be foolish to pass on him. So the experience is most likely not representative of the average hire. The description sounds like it's still the honeymoon phase. O
917.
by auganov 12y ago
Even assuming that the govt fund behaves just like private Chinese VCs you'll see the bulk of the money going towards startups that try to replicate US/International innovation success stories domestically. Xiaomi is not a threat
918.
by auganov 12y ago
TLDR 3.6% of households headed by adults younger than 30 owned stakes in private companies, 10.6% in 1989, 6.1% in 2010. Private company != startup. The article is irrelevant to the startups we talk about here.
919.
by auganov 12y ago
As long as Snapchat has a good case for maintaining the monopoly on ephemeral messaging the valuation is pretty reasonable. It's the best thing since IM and nobody else seems to get it. FB messenger could shake things up, but they seem
920.
by auganov 12y ago
Just sounds like radically heightened synaesthesia and sensory sensitivity. With a bit of focus you can start seeing the colors floating in the air she's talking about. Stare at a wall. Focus only on the vision itself, the image render
921.
by auganov 12y ago
Hybrid is hard. Remote works best if the whole culture is built around it. I'd avoid companies that are not remote-only. Or at least remote-first (say 70% employees remote). If they're like "remote is okay too" - avoid.
922.
by auganov 12y ago
Ironically though, if there was to be no GFW in China, at least half of the web tech sector would disappear. Startups are in a weird place of suffering the most but also benefiting the most from the GFW.
923.
by auganov 12y ago
Finasteride? Probably too late anyhow. High quality wigs tend to look better than real hair. So that's an option too.
924.
by auganov 12y ago
So unlimited processing is your core strategic advantage? Is it just the psychological effect of "unlimited" that's important? If so you could have a soft-limit (think bandwidth-throttling). Or describe the actual limit in la
925.
by auganov 12y ago
Would be so much more valuable if they'd show the difference between the most and least calorie-dense choices at the same restaurant. That way you'd actually help people make better choices. It comes across as poor propaganda (and
926.
by auganov 12y ago
Hence seeking to hire females/women "cause diversity" is pretty demeaning. And sex/gender is a pretty poor way to introduce diversity in the first place. You want to seek out people that have vastly different experiences
927.
by auganov 12y ago
Oh no :-( Was always wondering what "Starbucks lovers" meant....
928.
by auganov 12y ago
I can second that. https://www.mapbox.com is a particularly notable technology on top of OSM. Initially I wanted to use Google maps with some customs styles but found their styling options pretty limited. Even worse it's t
929.
by auganov 12y ago
The point is some people will provide an order of magnitude more business value in the long run. Most of that value will be outside of "implementation skill". The 10x programmer isn't really just a programmer. The more decisi
930.
by auganov 12y ago
Not Emacs specific - https://github.com/webpack/docs/wiki/hot-module-replacement-... Emacs- wise there's several plugins that build on top of http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MozRepl

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