csmajorfive

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by csmajorfive 11y ago
They do not avoid capital gains taxes by doing this. Also, more broadly, when you see a "sweeping end run around the taxation system", it may be instructive to consider why everyone else doesn't just do the same. Legal tax av
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by csmajorfive 11y ago
You can't terminate or amend (or even start) a plan without a cooling off period. So any information you'd like to act on will likely be priced in by the time you can take any legal action. Also, you can't have two plans. A m
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by csmajorfive 11y ago
Anyone speculating on this should look into the mechanics of 10b51 plans. He made no active decision to sell or not sell. The sale may have been triggered by a price floor ($100?) that he must've established a very long time ago.
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by csmajorfive 11y ago
I found it to be consistent with most similar pieces. Also, the author has won a Pulitzer for investigative journalism.
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by csmajorfive 11y ago
Spending a lot on user acquisition does not mean your unit economics are bad. And your assertion about Facebook and Twitter is wrong.
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by csmajorfive 11y ago
The initial magic of Parse was in the tight coupling of native mobile SDKs with standard cloud services. We released our first barebones beta SDKs long before we had a publicly documented (not to mention properly versioned and stable) serve
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by csmajorfive 11y ago
> But these people aren't hackers, they don't sound like one of us and their field isn't this one. I was just wondering which "these people" you were referencing.
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by csmajorfive 11y ago
Who else do you put in this category?
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by csmajorfive 11y ago
I think your math is wrong.
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Move to iOS, an Android app from Apple(daringfireball.net)
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by csmajorfive 11y ago
Yes, this is typical. Recruiters pounce on folks who just went through an acquisition to see if they're thinking about making a move. One strategy is to make you feel like your acquisition package isn't all that great.
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by csmajorfive 12y ago
There's probably not much of a pay differential between Google and a big bank for people of his background.
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by csmajorfive 12y ago
Were you considered for these roles or entirely left out of the process? How much have you actually talked to your management about this?
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by csmajorfive 12y ago
When companies reach a certain size, the real partnerships stuff spins out into dedicated "Business Development" or "Partnerships" teams. It's really safe to assume that anyone with a "Corporate Development&quo
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by csmajorfive 12y ago
> Monster said the change-of-ownership clause triggered by the HTC deal required Monster to transfer all intellectual property to Beats, costing the company millions in lost revenue. Does anyone have more insight into this? Why would the
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Quickjack: a point-and-click tool for clickjacking and frame slicing attacks(samy.pl)
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Seattle’s unbelievable transportation megaproject fustercluck(grist.org)
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by csmajorfive 12y ago
I'll make sure to represent Ilyas well!
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by csmajorfive 12y ago
"FB could have acquired 20-30% of the company to provide them with liquidity" Not really. Most startups don't want to sell that much equity to a potential partner/acquirer unless they have to.
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by csmajorfive 12y ago
These were all developed on the Parse team. Naitik is a huge contributor :) I believe we're the only ones doing using Go in production at Facebook. Join us! https://parse.com/about#jobs
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by csmajorfive 12y ago
Thank you for your reasonable perspective. This open source criticism seems particularly endemic for developer tools that aren't backed by a cloud service. There are very, very few companies that have made money with open source tools
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by csmajorfive 12y ago
You can just watch it directly on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp1hpMOjk6c
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WireEdit – A Full Stack WYSIWYG Editor for Network Packets(wireedit.com)
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by csmajorfive 12y ago
If you could direct some improvements to our docs, where would they be?
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by csmajorfive 12y ago
That's a totally fair assessment. I just mean to say that we've prioritized it above all else and are really crunching to make it a non-issue for our developers. Our traffic has exploded in the last year so we need to rework some
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by csmajorfive 12y ago
Hey there, sorry to hear you're taking off. I'd love to hear more about why you think we're nonchalant about downtime. We definitely need to improve reliability and are working hard to do so but also spend a lot of effort on
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by csmajorfive 12y ago
Hey there, I work on Parse. This is good feedback. Improving reliability is our #1 priority right now. The bulk of our team is solely focused on it. We've made some good progress and hope to have things in a much better place by the en
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by csmajorfive 12y ago
It's awesome. I have a DK2 at home and this is so much better.
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by csmajorfive 12y ago
$10/gb is for our database offering. Our file storage is the exact same price as S3.
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CloudKit documentation(developer.apple.com)
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