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by avrionov 4y ago
The Weather App Comes to iPad Finally! 12 years after the first iPad, Apple released a native Weather app which doesn't point to a website with ads. Next year they should release a calculator.
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by avrionov 4y ago
I wonder if him coming out as a Republic was a similar tactic as the "return to office" memo? He came as Republican not as a Republic. Give it a few more years.
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by avrionov 4y ago
The value created fame, which increased the value.
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by avrionov 4y ago
Usually these numbers are given before tax. The sum after taxes will vary depending on the state and the family size. You can check here [1] for various options. [1] https://www.paycheckcity.com/calculator/salary
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by avrionov 4y ago
Not having an office makes the company much more flexible. - They can hire anywhere. - Adding / removing employees is much cheaper - Most business are already prepared for their employees to work from everywhere.
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by avrionov 4y ago
Zoom uses Media over DataChannels only for the browser version of their product. For the desktop and mobile clients they use their own implementation.
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by avrionov 4y ago
I don't think that this will work differently than you manually updating your databases. GCP claims that maintenance downtime is less than 60 seconds.
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by avrionov 4y ago
The vendor lock is real, but right now there are enough open source technologies to build an application which is 'portable': - PostgreSQL - Elastic Search - Kafka - Nginx
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by avrionov 4y ago
Do you think your approach can be applied to other problems?
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by avrionov 4y ago
I hope you are right. We still don't know the full extend of the current problems. The housing market, the crypto, the bad loans, the unicorns without profits.
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by avrionov 4y ago
This is a good course with examples which can be ran online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z9TRANg4c0
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by avrionov 4y ago
Coinbase revenue increased 514.76% from 2020 to 2021. They were also profitable in 2021. Adding 3x people probably made sense, if they think that that revenue will continue to increase. https://www.google.com/finance/qu
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by avrionov 5y ago
TaxCut is probably the biggest alternative. Owned by HRBlock. Not sure if the they are better.
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by avrionov 5y ago
If you click on configure, you can see the price of all upgrades.
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by avrionov 5y ago
Can you explain what is the difference? I suppose the flight search engines don't book the flights.
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by avrionov 5y ago
Perforce is owned by two private equity companies. The ownership is split 50-50 between Clearlake Capital and Francisco Partners. It looks like PEs invest in Perforce and use them to acquire smaller companies in the dev tools area. Perforce
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by avrionov 5y ago
The list of 100 most influential companies is strange at least, because is missing Tesla. (I'm not a Tesla owner).
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by avrionov 5y ago
It was posted before multiple times and generated 2 big discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25825917 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21947551
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by avrionov 5y ago
Here is a good explanation: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2021/07/15/what-does... The federal reserves buys bonds / treasures and mortgage backed securities. It has an effect on long
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by avrionov 5y ago
Not only that they increased the rate, but also they'll reduce the buying of securities: "In addition, the Committee expects to begin reducing its holdings of Treasury securities and agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securiti
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by avrionov 5y ago
I don't think that we always see 10-15% cuts before IPOs. Most companies continue to hire after successful IPO.
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Stephen Kotkin on Putin, Ukraine and Russia(newyorker.com)
5 points by avrionov 5y ago|0 comments
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by avrionov 5y ago
FireEye bought it for about $1B. The deal is great because they had to restructure and sell former FireEye business. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandiant
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The World Needs What Intel Makes. Can It Make a Comeback?(nytimes.com)
2 points by avrionov 5y ago|0 comments
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by avrionov 5y ago
Up-voted you because of the high quality comment. Thank you for the provided links.
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by avrionov 5y ago
There is a famous quote from Kenneth Clarke [1] that Charles Dickens did more for the poor people than Marx and Engels. Emile Zola was also very influential with his books. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn made millions aware of the Gulags. [1] http
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by avrionov 5y ago
Here is the most likely approach: https://xkcd.com/538/
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by avrionov 5y ago
It will be good to know how tenure is calculated. It is not sustainable to hire 30% more each year and most of them to leave in years.
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by avrionov 5y ago
The average tenure numbers are misleading when a company rapidly expands and hires many new people.
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by avrionov 5y ago
They should start studying him right now.

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