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by bcherry 11y ago
Even if you aspire to learn many different skills, technologies, disciplines, etc, you should spend time becoming an expert in at least one thing. You'll learn and develop many meta-skills through mastery of that one thing that will be
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by bcherry 11y ago
I kinda agree - Coffeescript in particular seems like putting extra weight/overhead into the process for very little other than cosmetic gains over JavaScript. Whatever problems JS may have - I don't really feel that CoffeeScript
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by bcherry 11y ago
they mean that the purchase price is discounted. a company with 5M shares outstanding might sell 1M shares for $5 each to Series A investor. Now they have 6M shares and a "30M valuation". But they're still giving common gran
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by bcherry 11y ago
Pushd | San Francisco / New York | Software Engineering http://angel.co/pushd Founded by the Summize founders, which was acquired by Twitter in 2008 - CEO was Chief Scientist at Twitter until 2012. We are building a sm
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by bcherry 11y ago
Absolutely. In fact it's somewhat better. If you join a big company like that, they're not going to be able to give you 1% of mythical future company value, but they CAN give you X shares now with very real value. If you join a 50
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by bcherry 11y ago
Well yeah, if you had options in a private company that has grown your equity from $20k to $2M over 7 years... you'd find a way to exercise. Surely that company would have demonstrated enough value that your could borrow the money safe
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by bcherry 11y ago
7 years is a long time for the company to IPO, get acquired, or at least demonstrate enough long-term value that convinces you to find a way to exercise those options.
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by bcherry 11y ago
tl;dr Swift could not be more Swift but could definitely be more swift.
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by bcherry 11y ago
Yeah, in fact the article said someone is more likely to take 17 payday loans in a year than just one.
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by bcherry 11y ago
iTunes is missing real-time release of TV, and timely release of movies. For instance, I have a season pass to Mad Men right now, which airs on sunday nights. I don't get the iTunes release until midnight, so I end up not watching it u
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by bcherry 12y ago
Golf courses account for probably not more than 0.5% of all human water usage in California annually. Human water usage in CA is about 80% agricultural, 20% "urban". "Urban" covers all residential, (non-agricultural) com
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by bcherry 12y ago
The patients know they're eating a pill - the administrators have to tell them something about this pill, even in a double blind study. Did they tell them "this pill contains gluten" (even though the placebo group did not rec
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by bcherry 12y ago
People love emoji! Also - we can send emoji in push notifications.
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by bcherry 12y ago
We would love to be on Android. We focused on iOS first because we've been exploring the space over the past two years with new products every few months to find something that sticks. This is the first app we've launched, and you
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by bcherry 12y ago
Every time this data gets pulled up, it's interpreted as a sort of deliberate DoS attack. Is it not possible that these "recruiters" are simply trying to canvas every driver, so they cancel rides that get picked up by drivers
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by bcherry 12y ago
I thought this was going to be about how it seems like half of all consumer tech companies use a hue near Egyptian Blue for their logos or other primary colors.
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by bcherry 12y ago
If you were committed to more equity though, this might make sense. Right now it's 25/25/25/25. An employer might want to offer above-market equity but backload the extra, so it's more like 25/50/75/
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by bcherry 13y ago
You had me at "The continuing adventures of Dr. Eval"
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by bcherry 13y ago
$ is used to represent dozens of local "dollars", not just USD. That's why you use "USD" when specificity matters. There's nothing wrong with "BTC" when you need to type something out about Bitcoin.
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by bcherry 13y ago
not true, since WASD move tiles in the 3rd/4th dimensions (try it out)
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by bcherry 13y ago
JuicyCampus for the mobile age. And this time administrators banning it from campus wi-fi won't do any good, with everyone on 3G and LTE. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JuicyCampus
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by bcherry 13y ago
RSU grants given to employees (including large grants given to new executives and key employees) are typically illiquid until 6 months following an IPO. The company has to IPO to make good on the compensation given to hire and retain their
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by bcherry 13y ago
I think you missed pdog's sarcasm.
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by bcherry 13y ago
This is the "Contributors" feature, which has been tested internally and with a few partners, but has never been widely enabled. It's in the public API, but still disabled for all but internal accounts and those few partners. https://dev.
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by bcherry 14y ago
The analysis of click and mouse traces location distribution vs humans at the end makes it pretty clear that these are not humans.
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by bcherry 14y ago
Two exit nodes near Washington DC. The NSA's headquarters are within the error tolerance of GeoIP. Coincidence?!
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by bcherry 14y ago
He also has been adding information on Wikipedia that Star Wars Episode VII will be based around Jar Jar Binks becoming a Jedi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/24.23.218... Something is _definitely_ not right here.
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by bcherry 14y ago
Carpool Lane: "2 or more persons per vehicle" CA Vehicle Code: '"Person" includes a natural person, firm, copartnership, association, limited liability company, or corporation.' ( http://dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d01/vc470.htm ) Pretty reasonab
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by bcherry 14y ago
this
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by bcherry 14y ago
This is simply a case of an out-of-date reference blog post (that 2010 #newtwitter article). Quick observation of Twitter.com today will reveal that it's no longer using the public API (at least from the client). It's fetching the Tweets

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