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by brentm 6y ago
That seems excessively prohibitive to personal growth.
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by brentm 6y ago
Hooks do draw you in the direction of a wholesale replacement just because of their incompatibility with classes. I wouldn't consider that to be a bad thing but it does take some time to adjust to the change at first.
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by brentm 6y ago
I wonder if this is hack in the sense that the account passwords were compromised or that the system itself was compromised in a way that would allow the attacker to tweet from any account.
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by brentm 6y ago
Does anyone have any best practices for onboarding new engineers to a situation like described?
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by brentm 6y ago
I do recall Basecamp from day one allowed you to export your data which not many other people did. What you do with that and how you get it into something else is another story but also not really their problem.
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by brentm 6y ago
Not a popular opinion but considering the effort involved, should they not have earned fees? Should they have donated their time and resources? I'm sure it took a monumental effort to pull it together with the lack of clarity being han
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by brentm 7y ago
They really should have been doing temperature checks a month ago. Amazon is pretty critical infrastructure right now. Many people would be up a creek if Amazon had to shut down.
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by brentm 7y ago
"Most"? I don't know about that. Maybe some do but I'd say most are the same software companies used to buy once every three years or some new thing companies need to do (like live chat). I don't think most saas is
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by brentm 7y ago
Dark! And isn't there a Netflix show about that concept?
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by brentm 7y ago
I heard they were also working on a teleportation prototype at the time Instagram took off.
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by brentm 7y ago
Merchbro | Stamford, CT | Full time + benefits | Open to remote We help people Express What Matters through custom printed products. We've bootstrapped the company from nothing to a couple thousand customer orders per month. We're
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by brentm 7y ago
Using "copy" as the description of what Amazon did in the opening paragraph sets the tone of what they are trying to do here. Open Source is not even mentioned until most people have stopped reading.
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by brentm 7y ago
HN clickbait
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by brentm 7y ago
A majority of that 700M was a line of credit tied to his shares of the company. Good chance he will face a margin call on that (since the shares are now worth a lot less) and either have to come up with the cash (maybe why he wants this 200
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by brentm 7y ago
We Work leases the vast majority of their space so SoftBank isn't buying up a bunch of real estate.
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by brentm 7y ago
They are so far in the whole on this company it wouldn't be wise to let it die. I doubt they want someone else in charge of what they funded. After they clean the company up it will be a good business. It's just not a tech company
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by brentm 7y ago
For Neumann this whole thing must be such a nightmare. On one hand you did it. You built a huge company and become super rich at the end. But on the other hand the IPO blew up, the company is losing billions, employee options are fucked, &q
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by brentm 7y ago
This is a space that could use a good SAAS product. Like a Rap Genius for software with documentation tied to specific Git versions and tied into flow charts, etc. You could add a VSCode extensions on top to easily add new documentation &am
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by brentm 7y ago
Federal prosecutors love a good dramatic press conference.
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by brentm 7y ago
Unless they were just acting completely reckless, which is hard to believe considering their previous safety record and the downside of failure, it's probably more complex than that.
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by brentm 7y ago
He has, to me, always seemed like Satoshi hiding in plain sight.
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by brentm 7y ago
I think overall we should consider this process a very positive thing, FAA and Boeing (and Airbus as well) are all going to learn a lot from this process which will make air travel safer in the future. It's unfortunate that it took two
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by brentm 7y ago
I have for a long time believe that the entertainment value provided by the internet and connected devices should not be overlooked when considering factors that contributed to this decline in crime during this period. Just having something
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by brentm 7y ago
Though without advertising don't we have less jobs and seamingly greater dissatisfaction with lack of income?
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by brentm 7y ago
Nasdaq site has information every 15 days or so: https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/lyft/short-interest
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by brentm 7y ago
Of course, they might be totally off base and completely wrong and the company might go to $10 or $0. But when compared to the media who live and die by the dramatic story that garners the most interest and the markets which are amplified b
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by brentm 7y ago
Most analysts are positive on company, media and market not so much. I think I'd bet on the analysts being right. I think eventually for Lyft & Uber prices will creep up, discounts & marketing decrease and plenty of money will
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by brentm 7y ago
Contributing in a big way to the short interest (according to Bloomberg[0]) is a single trade meant to hedge Soros $550m position purchased off of Ichan just before the IPO. [0] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/article
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by brentm 8y ago
When considering 2018 you really need to ignore the 4.9B in other income. The vast majority of that was a one time event, and then the next largest line item is unrealized gains. Not sure what the gains were on but likely something not very
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by brentm 8y ago
Rails with Webpacker is the best of both worlds IMO. Ruby is a pleasure to write and Rails saves a ton of time. There are just so many things that Rails does that you forget about until you start putting together a Node app.

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