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by davidu 12y ago
This is derivative of daemontools from DJB, one of the more elegant pieces of unix'isms I've ever used and a key piece of many large infrastructures in many startups. Anyways, it's a neat idea... Other derivative tools like r
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by davidu 12y ago
This is clever.
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by davidu 12y ago
But the reality is that this happens all the time, and people just fire the employee. He was trying to reconcile the "need" to fire the person for being compensated above their actual performance vs. wanting to simply renegotiate
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by davidu 12y ago
Simply, and absurdly untrue.
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by davidu 12y ago
I think "Suck it up" is certainly the easiest ethical path. I've always taken this path. But one could argue that it's unfair to other employees who are performing, to allow an under-performing employee to continue to ve
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by davidu 12y ago
Of course not. But I prevented sales from signing a 5-year contract last quarter because I didn't want to be committed to the terms of a specific deal for 5 years. The most we'll do is 3 years just so that I don't get put int
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by davidu 12y ago
This was probably one of the most misunderstood stories of recent memory. Anyone who has built a company of scale knows what Mark was dealing with: An employee who was given an outsized grant that far exceeded the contributions of the emplo
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by davidu 12y ago
Got it... and thank you Brendan!
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by davidu 12y ago
Wait, really? Why not? Storage is cheap. Do you use something else to get historical visibility into metrics?
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by davidu 12y ago
We just bought a /16. Shouldn't be any issues selling your /18. Perhaps a marketing or pricing issue?
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by davidu 12y ago
Basically, automated algorithms in Amazon's marketplace that price-matched every time he or another seller raised or lowered the price of a poster. Be careful out there, clever coders... you just might be breaking the law.
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Former Executive Charged with Price Fixing in Online Marketplace Prosecution(fbi.gov)
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by davidu 12y ago
SpaceX is still (though I expect their success will create new markets) relatively niche. It's a very high-priced product (though lower than predecessors), but it's not like you and I are sending things into space just yet. I&#x2
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by davidu 12y ago
The result of this small cottage industry is that employers will be tightening up their shareholder agreements and their stock transfer restriction clauses.
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by davidu 12y ago
There is no way Dropbox is paying stock S3 pricing.
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by davidu 12y ago
He is a startup lawyer.
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by davidu 12y ago
Perhaps english isn't your first language, but your grammar is so painful it's hard to know what you are asking. If you are seeking a mentor for programming, join an IRC channel dedicated to your current favorite language and star
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by davidu 12y ago
For those unaware: Jane Street is probably one of the largest OCaml houses around, and probably one of the most successful algorithmic or high-frequency trading houses in the market. The people who work there are very good at making money u
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by davidu 12y ago
Alternate headline: Very successful people seek out mentors to enhance their own capabilities. More seriously, I've always found two distinct types of mentors, and discovered it's crucial to separate the two types apart from each
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by davidu 12y ago
Yep. I tried to write my comment in a way that wasn't calling you out at all -- but really google for allowing this kind of unfettered or controlled access. :-) I've no doubt you would do great things and get much greater adoption
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by davidu 12y ago
Without the gmail API limiting inbox search access to a particular filter (eg, "any email from uber.com"), there's no way people should be building a business this way... opening your inbox up to random third parties is a dis
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by davidu 12y ago
That's the plan!
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by davidu 12y ago
My view is that you're better off adding this logic into your DNS server and using ECMP before adding yet another application into the stream of DNS packets. If you want your individual servers to coordinate their attack profile, you c
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by davidu 12y ago
DNSCurve and DNSCrypt are a strong combination.
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by davidu 12y ago
DNSSEC does nothing to prevent information leakage, the opposite in fact. People compare it to SSL but it's not like SSL. It does NO encryption of the commuications. It's only validation (argubaly the most broken part of SSL). A
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by davidu 12y ago
Correct.
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by davidu 12y ago
I had another paragraph explaining the mentor/lawyer comment that I deleted. Oops. :-) What I meant is that I have a really good lawyer who has seen a ton of situations before, and usually when something is new and unique to me, it&#x2
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by davidu 12y ago
Actually, and unfortunately, in the US, that's how it works. His paper gains are taxed. It's not quite "income" but it's taxed that way.
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by davidu 12y ago
Yes I think they would work for me again. And yes, I am saying I was not a capable manager. Not that I have nothing left to learn, but I think I am more or less at the point of being able to diplomatically handle and resolve 99% of the issu
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by davidu 12y ago
If you are terminating employment seemingly for minor things or if you are even sending that message when you fire someone you have no business being in a position to fire someone. If you work at a company where you believe this is the case

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