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by avarun 7y ago
It's a positive term....
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by avarun 7y ago
Yes, and the standard among VCs is to follow social and industry norms. Silicon Valley is an iterated game, and very few players are willing to play in a way that destroys future payoffs.
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by avarun 7y ago
Yes, 100%. Nobody wants to risk their business on empty promises from a VC with a poor track record, even if they're offering inflated valuations.
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by avarun 7y ago
>> Mobile phones won't replace computers, but increasing penetration amongst the poorest in developing countries, and increasingly capable handsets in developed countries (and developing countries) will make them a colossal jugge
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by avarun 7y ago
It's a function on `console`. It's meant to be human-readable, not machine-readable.
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by avarun 7y ago
Conde Nast sold the company back to the founders years ago. Reddit is now once again a VC-backed "startup".
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by avarun 7y ago
I'm not saying you've ever labelled yourself as a leaker, but the person I was replying to definitely tried to label your work as "leaks". I don't think companies really care that you discover their features ahead o
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by avarun 7y ago
> You should connect with her to figure out how to help teams be intentional about where and how these tests leak to end-users -- it's highly connected to this internal review cycle. Uh, no it's not. Her "leaks" all c
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by avarun 7y ago
Hey Tejas, this looks awesome! Congrats on the launch, I'm looking forward to trying it out! I'm curious if you've looked into the "guest travel" space, allowing non-employees to book corporate travel. Pana(pana.com
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by avarun 7y ago
Yes, that's exactly what he's saying. It's mostly all collected because it's easier for them to collect it than not to collect it, and nobody is stopping them from collecting it.
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by avarun 7y ago
> Facebook doesn't pay $5/month for every discussion group they run. Yeah, because they run their own highly efficient servers optimized for their own usecases. Of course your average joe can't run a forum for that cheap
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by avarun 7y ago
> They do a lot of things to stay as unbiased as possible, like avoiding attaching a single name to a byline for a story. I don't actually understand this. I personally find that following specific authors whose journalism I find of
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by avarun 8y ago
Precheck alone is $15 cheaper.
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by avarun 8y ago
Seems to be down.
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by avarun 8y ago
Is there any way to do that on Chrome macOS?
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by avarun 8y ago
I use the Spacefish prompt plugin[0], which does that as well, and comes with a whole lot of other goodness! [0] https://github.com/matchai/spacefish
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by avarun 8y ago
There are no "scientists" at Google debating whether things are right or wrong. As with all companies, it is the product and business leaders of the company that make this decision, and they make it based on what attracts the most
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by avarun 8y ago
It's not being used for ad targeting. It's being used to track ad conversions, which is a completely different thing and can be done without PII.
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by avarun 8y ago
It seems like splitting off small repos for everything is a solution looking for a problem. Some of the most successful software companies out there have monolithic repos, but not monolithic services. The real solution is microservices in m
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by avarun 8y ago
>I jumped on the JavaScript hater train and left the station. As does most of Hacker News with every technology they hate on.
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by avarun 8y ago
I'm not personally super invested in this, but you might want to check to see if that violates GDPR.
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by avarun 8y ago
That's... basically the opposite of true.
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by avarun 8y ago
That may be the situation in Silicon Valley, but try going to somewhere like London, where you're in the minority if you're not paying with a contactless credit card (let alone Apple Pay). A table of 4 splitting their bill at a re
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by avarun 8y ago
Facebook has been using it internally for a long time. It would make no sense for them to rename the tool for open-source release just because a naming conflict exists, unless you'd prefer they just not release it at all?
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by avarun 9y ago
Flow does this very well. https://flow.org/
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by avarun 9y ago
Seems like there would be demand for a font format that allows character modifiers to dynamically be applied to characters. This would allow the language to be represented digitally similarly to how it's taught in the real world, rathe
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by avarun 9y ago
This is one category of bug that's always intrigued me - I can understand unintentional triggers of Alexa occurring (as they did with the Home mini at launch), but why are those triggers resulting in a "creepy laugh"? Is it
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by avarun 9y ago
Check out how much of their $100bn vision fund they've already spent: https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/07/softbank-vision-fund-over-...
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by avarun 9y ago
Now when did this come out?
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by avarun 9y ago
...no? Google and Algolia aren't competitors.

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