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by beager 9y ago
Methinks the fact that this letter has gone out to rank-and-file employees at Uber signals a very tumultuous cultural impasse that the board is having a huge amount of difficulty clearing.
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by beager 9y ago
I don't necessarily agree. I think a lot of writers probably read it in full and had a sense of its nuance, flaws, and intentions, and still elected to push the juicy and possibly inaccurate headline for their own, and their publicatio
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by beager 9y ago
From the article, they purport to be gunning to automate the function of most of the folks who will be cut, but whether the cuts are based on some dire condition of Blue Apron or are just part of getting more efficient is obfuscated by the
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by beager 9y ago
Flying cars, like hyperloop/boring company and the like, seem to me like flashy stabs at implementing an attractive but ultimately less useful solution to a real problem. Flying cars, unless they can compete on speed and distance with
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by beager 9y ago
"Time on site/in app" is a strong indicator of revenue per user for apps that monetize through ads, and a fairly well correlated to time spent across all active users. I think advertising is a misalignment of goals between us
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by beager 9y ago
I use Giphy daily, multiple times a day, on Slack. Unless Slack is paying a hefty SaaS fee to Giphy for use of their platform, I don't know how else they'd monetize it.
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by beager 9y ago
I think that number one, your assumption about search volume is very hard to ascertain: do they have 200mm DAU? MAU? Total users? What's the total search volume per day? Is it ~450mm? Are all of those searches monetizable? Is the reven
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by beager 9y ago
I liked a lot of what Giphy was doing with TV show parsing and captioning, I feel like that could be a huge vector for sponcon, but this announcement about sponsored GIFs and ad sales sounds go generalized on its face that I'm not sure
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by beager 9y ago
I have to strongly disagree that American football is a "lame game consisting of mostly low skilled athletes", I think the athleticism and skill involved is tremendously high across all positions. But I will agree with you otherwi
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by beager 9y ago
If this wild theory is to be admitted, you must also theorize that the service was honeypotted for a while, and the proprietor is only now permitted to shut it down. With no evidence for either, it's simply speculation.
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by beager 9y ago
There is no point to cryptocurrency beyond the mechanics of the technology that powers it, and the constraints imposed by it. To ascribe some nobler point or ideal—which is impossible to coerce through the technology alone—is to naively exp
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by beager 9y ago
Based on their current valuation, exercising pro rata could have turned out to be a lot of money, but certainly not 5-14BB. They may be looking to dump at a big discount to the current valuation though, which could put them near a wash or a
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by beager 9y ago
Very interesting! OP if you are the developer of this, I have a few questions: 1) Did you consult with any legal entities when creating this? Is there any risk of creating legal jeopardy for people by inferring that they could use a utilit
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by beager 9y ago
If I'm an enterprising bedroom producer (which I once was), I'd jump on this opportunity and go to Spotify with my music. Ten aliases, undercut the other filler artists, A/B test their performance, and see if I could use this
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by beager 9y ago
That's really cool, and seems like it would take a lot of the hassle of "understanding" PHP out of the equation. Nicely done!
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by beager 9y ago
I've generally found the behavior of builtin PHP methods to be less predictable and more involved than in JS, so I wonder if the best approach to writing a transpiler in this case would be to go to the C source and negotiate from there
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by beager 9y ago
I'm not familiar with what "built on top of" means in this case, as it pertains to overall cryptocurrency value. Is it additional, actual coin with tradable value? Is it a derivative? Can someone describe in comparison to tra
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by beager 9y ago
Facebook is an example of a company that continued user growth very well. Facebook was originally just for college students and had a very dating-site-ish feel (at least as I experienced it), but as Facebook grew, they transitioned the plat
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by beager 9y ago
I like to think I'm not totally underneath a rock, but I don't think I've ever seen their hardware in person. And if I have, I didn't know that it was their hardware. So they either don't do hardware well, or they d
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by beager 9y ago
And much has been written of that, and that's exactly the same way I feel about Uber. (And every time I mention that about Uber on HN, people point out that they can get Uber in any city in the world, so why would anyone who never tr
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by beager 9y ago
More to the point, this "killer feature" is easily cloned by a competitor and shows that the product creates no competitive barriers. Coupled with the fact that the cloner has a much better idea of their users and can target ads m
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by beager 9y ago
What does $SNAP need to do to deliver on the hype? Is there anything that can make $SNAP a good investment for anyone other than the parties involved in trading the IPO? I tend to be bearish on $SNAP in general, but I'm interested in t
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by beager 9y ago
The issue is that a normalized office environment will demand or imply that all workers work the same number of hours. The suggestion that you can consistently work 80 hours a week might be viable for you, but what about those who only get
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by beager 9y ago
Very neat, and gets me curious about PDFBox, but every time I see something that converts a consistent-layout PDF back to structured data, I just bemoan the fact that this would all be trivial with an API for these kinds of things.
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by beager 9y ago
I think it's more that they want consistency in rendering across devices and media.
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by beager 9y ago
This article casually dismisses the depth and unique utility of body language to ascribe a greater function to emoji than actually exists. It would have been more reasonable just to say "emoji is very widely used in digital communicati
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by beager 9y ago
This is an excellent justification for something like Patreon, and for all the speech that YouTube must know is a nonstarter for advertisers, they should integrate or replicate Patreon for their creators. Not as a replacement for ads, but a
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by beager 9y ago
This sounds like the same dynamic that institutional investors use on IPOs, where only privileged players get to buy in the IPO, and they sell through a pop fueled by hype or an underestimated target. Shares hit the general public and by th
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by beager 9y ago
The fact that cryptocurrency keeps showing up alongside scams certainly does not bode well for the legitimacy of cryptocurrency, and by extension it does not bode well for the stability or overall value. One of the biggest flaws with crypto
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by beager 9y ago
That's how I characterize my beanie baby collection!

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