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by colmvp 11y ago
I've personally never worked with an engineer who thought that I as a person who would do UI/UX/front-end code deserved equal amount of equity as him as the other co-founder (backend engineer). And in all fairness, you can ex
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by colmvp 11y ago
It's interesting how he says videos are important. I find videos to be much slower to parse than reading features or reviews from notable people within the industry the app is part of. For example, in the case of Sketch, I didn't
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by colmvp 11y ago
I've been to the open office at Pivotal in SF and it's ridiculously loud. It amazes me paired programmers can consistently focus on work with that much noise.
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by colmvp 11y ago
There are a lot of stories implying that she's lost a lot of confidence. C-levels/VPs, including those she brought on, leaving for reasons that include lack of direction. Low morale amongst employees which has resulted in outcries
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by colmvp 11y ago
> Activist investor Starboard Value LP last month called on the company to halt its Alibaba spinoff and instead find a buyer for its Internet business. In a letter to Yahoo, Starboard said its position changed following the federal gover
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by colmvp 11y ago
I feel only on HN and Reddit can people find reason to criticize a guy who is giving away billions of dollars for humanity. Talk about not seeing the forest for the trees.
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Janky is putting it kindly
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by colmvp 11y ago
Someone once told me that he joined Facebook before it surpassed MySpace. Had he stayed and waited for his stocks to vest, he would make serious bank. Like, life changing amount of money. Instead, he joined another company before any of it
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by colmvp 11y ago
Not a surprise. Trends show that women in the U.S. and Canada are also having fewer children than in generations past and trending towards having children at a later age. Canada http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/11-630-x&#x2
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by colmvp 11y ago
On the flipside, sometimes it seems like we rely on hindsight bias. Would we still be talking about Apple in 2015 if Jobs hadn't come back? Or Tesla if Musk hadn't taken over as CEO in 2007? Both companies had significant uphill b
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by colmvp 11y ago
I would recommend anyone interested in this story to also read the Forbes article about Mayer's problems and potential exit at Yahoo ( http://www.forbes.com/sites/miguelhelft/2015/11/19/the-last-
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by colmvp 11y ago
Exactly. It's like some of my female Asian friends who say they don't actively exclude Asian guys, yet their dating history pretty much is exclusively white guys (even in cities with plenty of Asian guys). Yet if I said that my sm
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by colmvp 11y ago
> But when it comes to letting someone crash on your couch in exchange for a few bucks, suddenly there are calls for a full-scale invasion of privacy and limitation of what one can do in their own home, in order to protect one's nei
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by colmvp 11y ago
I can't recall the last compliment I received over the last month, but I can tell you with vivid detail the racist words that have been thrown at me over the last ten years for being non-white. One of my friends who is black can recall
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by colmvp 11y ago
But it's not like there aren't ways around this. There are some exes who I don't have any feelings for whom I'm still friends on Facebook with. They posts happy pictures. I'm happy for them. I have no qualms about t
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by colmvp 11y ago
Of all the things I want on a plane, WiFi ranks a lot lower than having a consistent power outlet at my seat. There's nothing worse than having Wifi but a laptop that can only last a % of the flight.
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by colmvp 11y ago
The site took ripped all the images from original source without including the Japanese translation of the crest and just presented on their own blog in a list. Sure, they credited the source, but the idea of ripping all content from anothe
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by colmvp 11y ago
> "...News emerging from Paris — as well as evidence from a Belgian ISIS raid in January — suggests that the ISIS terror networks involved were communicating in the clear, and that the data on their smartphones was not encrypted.&qu
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The reams of fluff bring in the dollars and views, whereby they can afford to pay people to write substantive pieces. Furthermore, sometimes the biggest 'cost' is not the piece itself but making sure you have a legal team to defen
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I work remotely for a SV startup. And no one on the team works stupidly crazy hours. That's why anecdata is so misleading.
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by colmvp 11y ago
Strange. I was the biggest Rdio advocate until it just flat out didn't work on my MacBook. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling with no luck. Support couldn't do much for me. I ended up moving to Spotify and while I agree that Rdio
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Did they develop this in-house or acquire a technology for this?
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Fossil acquires Misfit(arstechnica.com)
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Some important points from that article: > Current and former Safeway executives said Theranos missed deadlines for the blood-testing rollout. They also said several Safeway executives questioned the accuracy of results Theranos gave to
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VW sees 800,000 more cars affected by 'inconsistencies'(reuters.com)
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A retweet means the tweet being retweeted will show up on the feed of people who are following you. Star/Favoriting is just like a personal bookmark. It won't automatically show up on followers feeds.
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by colmvp 11y ago
As a person who often had to deal with Manhattan cabbies who would lock me out if I dare mention Brooklyn: Good. Fuck those assholes.
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by colmvp 11y ago
Unfortunately, I've had some pretty bad experiences. I used to love Lyft more than Uber but then the lack of professionalism over my last three times using it in SF have made me hesitant to ever recommend them again. First time around,
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by colmvp 11y ago
One reason why table-top games are booming amongst my friends circle is that a lot of us aren't into drinking, yet we still want to socialize with an activity anyone can jump into.
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by colmvp 11y ago
Serious question: How can someone find the time to be CEO of two companies? I can't imagine even being a full-time engineer at two companies.

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