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by crabasa 10y ago
Of course Capex isn't included, but its direct consequence (depreciation) is. Tesla incurred almost $1B of depreciation in 2016: http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/tsla/financials
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by crabasa 10y ago
> Over the last five years, Ford has posted net income totaling $26 billion, while Tesla has lost $2.3 billion. Ford: "We have no idea how to invest this money. I guess let's just put it in the bank." Tesla: "We have
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by crabasa 10y ago
As a shareholder, hopefully never. Building infrastructure and platforms has three wonderful benefits: * Good customers, where good is defined as smart and willing to spend money. Going up the stack means dealing making sacrifices on both o
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by crabasa 10y ago
That's funny, I could swear I saw some ads in the magazine that I subscribed to.
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How a Craigslist post landed me my first job at Tesla(medium.com)
1 points by crabasa 10y ago|0 comments
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by crabasa 10y ago
On the flipside, I, for one, view Uber’s regulatory maneuvering in a much more positive light. After all, thinking about the “spirit of the law” can lead to a very different conclusion: the purpose of taxi regulation, at least in theory, w
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by crabasa 10y ago
> Toyota's profits are real. GM's profits are real. BMW's profits are real. Tesla's profits might be great in the future - and that risk means the potential profits are worth less than actual profits. You have this ex
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by crabasa 10y ago
"If sexual harassment is this entrenched, what is the answer?" Well, one answer is to create stronger federal legislation that criminalizes this kind of behavior and protects plaintiffs. The ruling in the Ellen Pao case exposed th
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by crabasa 10y ago
Walmart is basically Amazon without AWS. Which, IMHO, means they're going to be hopelessly behind from a engineering and innovation perspective. Amazon is playing a completely different kind of game and I highly doubt Walmart will be a
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Single domain and multi domain' HTTPS certificates are the same thing(certsimple.com)
5 points by crabasa 10y ago|0 comments
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by crabasa 10y ago
...and it's back.
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by crabasa 10y ago
Separating the what from the how is the definition of delegation. Happens billions of times every day all over the world, to mostly good effect.
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by crabasa 10y ago
I won't pretend to know how they should have monetized, that's what @jack is compensated richly to figure out. My point is that the chance to be the messaging backbone of the Internet was more valuable and a better use of Twit
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by crabasa 10y ago
This is a sad outcome, but once upon a time Twitter had a choice: be the defacto messaging backbone for the Internet or compete with Facebook and be a destination website/app. They chose the latter and rewrote their TOS to effectively
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by crabasa 10y ago
Lawnmower Man?
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by crabasa 10y ago
This is an interesting theory, but the author never really explores how being a part of Microsoft will affect compensation, both for current employees (and holders of LinkedIn ISOs) and hires in the future. Has Microsoft had a track record
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by crabasa 10y ago
Microsoft was famous for its internal competitions between engineering orgs: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/opinion/04brass.html?pa...
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by crabasa 10y ago
echo "Tesla to offer $1.4 billion shares, remaining to be sold by Elon Musk. Musk is exercising options to buy 5.5m shares and will boost overall holdings on net basis. Developing... " | wc 1 30 176
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by crabasa 10y ago
Quote #1 - "They should focus on using capital as a way to take really big bets on things that seem totally audacious." Quote #2 - "Operating expenses and burn rates will come way down, and companies that didn't worry ab
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by crabasa 10y ago
It may have been on purpose, but it just felt very hollow. The author didn't even bother linking to the resource [1] for trying Kotlin that apo helpfully shared in a comment below. I think if you embed the famous "mind blown"
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by crabasa 10y ago
I can't believe someone wrote an entire post about falling in love with a programming language and didn't include a single line of code from that language.
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by crabasa 10y ago
It's amazing that in the age of Google Search that anyone places any value on the TLD for a domain. Browser vendors have run dozens of studies that indicate that most people do not enter fully qualified domains in the address bar, whic
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by crabasa 10y ago
+1 on Surge Is now the new Nodejitsu?
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by crabasa 11y ago
How Pelikan is used in Twitter's datacenter: http://twitter.github.io/pelikan/2016/04/03/caching-in-datac...
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The Legend of Zelda in JavaScript(zelda30tribute.com)
11 points by crabasa 11y ago|5 comments
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The Technology – Paul Buchheit (2014)(paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)
1 points by crabasa 11y ago|0 comments
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by crabasa 11y ago
> First, Apple sells hardware If you think that consumers are purchasing iPhones so that they can rock out on Safari and Mail, you are mistaken. A year ago over the App Store hit 100B cumulative app downloads: http://www.stati
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by crabasa 11y ago
> They mean whether Safari is as backwards and holding the web back as IE6 was for ages. Safari is holding back the mobile web the exact same way IE held back the desktop web for the exact same reason: native apps. > while Safari was.
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by crabasa 11y ago
Safari IS the new IE. Proof? IE executed a "developer preview" strategy leading up to IE9 6 years ago. I should know, I was a PM on that team. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2010/10/ie
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by crabasa 11y ago
tl;dr - Learn to code. - Meet people with real skills. - Have fun. - Take responsibility. - Be ready to hit the ground running. - Be your own career counselor. - It’s okay to ignore your parents. - Be careful with stud

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