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by colbyh 9y ago
Twilio as well, two great investments but not accelerator companies.
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by colbyh 9y ago
I appreciate that and I'll ping my friend to see if she wants to reach out.
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by colbyh 9y ago
I think this is a great idea actually. They wouldn't be able to put together very much in the grand scheme of things (even 100 M raised from employees wouldn't even give them a point on the cap table) but it would be a strong sign
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by colbyh 9y ago
For better or worse I think there are quote a few Uber employees that will support this move if it happens. The number of employees publicly speaking out for Travis is just the tip of the iceberg. Case in point - a female friend just comple
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by colbyh 9y ago
IANAL but my understanding is that 1) it keeps your activities private when doing business as the LLC since no one has to disclose the owner of the LLC and 2) tax liabilities are not passed to the owner of the LLC, so if a business deal goe
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by colbyh 9y ago
I grew up in Houston - until the last decade or so there has always been one cold as hell month during the year. I remember Februaries where the high temp during the entire month was in the 30s. my point being that you have to condition you
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by colbyh 9y ago
they even make note of Texas fairing pretty middle of the pack on a per capita basis. if they normalized for some sort of temperature metric I'm sure Texas is very average - weather in the state is brutal at both ends of the year.
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by colbyh 9y ago
you are twisting his words. there are sound arguments against capitalism and wealth creation but "resources are spent when you do things with them" isn't on the list.
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by colbyh 9y ago
as much as I love Elixir (and Erlang/BEAM) I get uncomfortable when people say "I heard it was a magic bullet for scalability and concurrency[...]. the language provides primitives that can, in certain circumstances, make it easie
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by colbyh 9y ago
this is the difference between basic and applied research - Musk is doing great work in the applied research space. taking proven models and bringing them to market, bringing down costs, etc. anti-aging research is still in the basic phase
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by colbyh 9y ago
at this scale their digital marketing is not your traditional performance marketing. traditional performance marketing would absolutely be worthless to a brand this big, but large ad buys ensure they stay top of mind for consumers in a (com
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by colbyh 9y ago
yeah that's why I said at that scale, for this suite of brands, all marketing is brand (i.e. brand awareness) marketing.
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by colbyh 9y ago
Bingo. No one rushes to the store to get Downy because of a Facebook ad, but they might start buying something else a few months later if another brand has been consistently hitting them with ads.
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by colbyh 9y ago
A couple of things going on at once - it's hard for old guard companies to compete in digital marketing because consumers are being trained to buy based on reviews, price, and delivery times more than brand. And when you're spendi
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by colbyh 9y ago
this, pretty much. it's as declarative and surprise-free as you can get in CSS and it works super well when abstracted into components. I know it isn't the easiest to read and it seems counterintuitive at first, but in practice yo
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by colbyh 9y ago
hopefully in a millennia mathemeticians will have finally convinced the world that the golden ratio really isn't special.
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by colbyh 9y ago
Those places are all just as, if not more, expensive than SF and come with their own challenges as well. The school systems in the peninsula are fantastic though, and for most families that trade-off alone is probably worth it.
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by colbyh 9y ago
>It feels great. It's called culture, and being aware of it, not a blind consumer of what tastes good (McDonalds tastes good too). oh please, elitism isn't culture it's a perspective. you have a perspective about the thing
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by colbyh 9y ago
my (somewhat) unpopular take on this is that guitar heroes are made when new genres break into the mainstream. or at least it has been that way for the last 60 years or so. Delta blues, British invasion, white blues, hair metal, punk, grung
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by colbyh 9y ago
how does it feel up on that high horse? there are no absolutes in music (as an art form) so you really can't say that Diplo is less important than Dylan until long after both are dead. even then, Diplo is influencing a ton of kids and
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by colbyh 9y ago
huge difference. people will order clothes without paying, get them super fast, and feel free to return before they've even been charged. Amazon really is doing everything they can to remove purchasing barriers.
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by colbyh 9y ago
last ditch effort from JCrew to make money, as they are really hurting right now. JCrew Factory is also their "clearance" brand.
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by colbyh 9y ago
> House cats also show none of the typical signs of animal domestication, such as infantilization of facial features, decreased tooth size, and docility. this is probably false? your average house cat is obviously more docile than an act
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by colbyh 9y ago
I ignore stuff our CEO posts all the time. there isn't a pretense that everything he shares is a big deal, and if it is something important he'll send in an email or mark it as such. might just be our culture though, there's
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by colbyh 9y ago
totally! but the pure JS syntax is pretty rough (IMO) and I was simply comparing their "default" templating languages, since most people will probably start with them. I love react and have always been super impressed with the eco
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by colbyh 9y ago
for what it's worth I will say that writing components in Vue is enjoyable in the way that React was initially. the two are definitely more similar than either is to Angular, but I find Vue slightly more easy to get started with (no JS
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by colbyh 9y ago
but there are also so, so many concepts about programming that you, when you were a little kid, had no hope of grasping. QC is in such early stages that it is more like talking about a circuit diagram, which is something that would befuddle
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by colbyh 9y ago
> If you don't enjoy JS, it's because you haven't taken the time to learn what's great about it and have gotten hung up on the stupid things other people do with it or you're copying their mistakes. oh come on no
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by colbyh 9y ago
yeah I've read a few things about that, certainly seems reasonable. doesn't quite describe the situation where different countries have different allergy timelines though.
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by colbyh 9y ago
as someone who has been obsessed with clothing and its manufacture (especially denim) for more than a decade - Levis is far from that. they aren't the best quality for your dollar at full price, but they are by far the best quality at

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