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by dkrich 11y ago
Yeah, I actually prefer a lack of transparency. I fully recognize the right of others to discuss salaries openly and support their ability to do so. However, I think aside from benefiting companies, a lack of transparency around salaries be
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by dkrich 11y ago
Most important takeaway about salary negotiation, by the way: disclosing a previous salary is almost always against your interests because it pegs your new salary to that plus 5% rather than your value to the new firm minus a discount, whi
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by dkrich 11y ago
No, it's not insider trading if the information is publicly-available, which it was at the time.
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by dkrich 11y ago
It would've been completely legal (and very smart) to do so.
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by dkrich 12y ago
I think the key difference (having done both) is that when you are consulting, a company is paying you (usually out of a pretty large budget) for a business outcome that they really, really want. When you are selling something that somebody
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by dkrich 12y ago
The fact that Instagram is now valued at $35 billion suggests the 2012 doomsayers were just a bit off. Is that really a fact? Clicking through to that article and reading it (which I don't recommend) shows that that valuation is base
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by dkrich 12y ago
Just to clarify- if you are incorporating as an S-Corp or C-Corp you do pay taxes off the top, but if you file as an LLC you have pass-through taxation, meaning that you only pay tax on your income, the business doesn't have to pay tax
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by dkrich 12y ago
There are a couple of distinctions to make here, both practical and probable. First, forming an LLC does not protect you from liability in and of itself. The idea of creating an LLC is to create a legal entity that is separate from yours
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by dkrich 12y ago
I don't think you can really make that claim considering that Walmart has been profitable since its beginnings and Amazon hasn't been profitable in about ten years. What makes you think that now is the time for a change in consume
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by dkrich 12y ago
It's $200 and if it only performs a small fraction of the functionality at what is almost certainly an inferior implementation that's a tough sale to make.
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by dkrich 12y ago
I'll add one more to the list- whatever happened to that ridiculous device that sits in your living room and listens to your every word, responding when it happens to hear something it recognizes? I think it was called Echo? Basically
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by dkrich 12y ago
What would be better? I would have rather seen a third party come out with these little buttons, with an open API such that they could be connected to things like: - Todo/grocery list apps that adds the item as a reminder the next tim
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by dkrich 12y ago
There is no such thing as a $200B private market valuation. For a company to have that large of a valuation, it pretty much has to be a publicly-traded company by definition. If the argument is that somebody bought 0.001% of the company for
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by dkrich 12y ago
My point isn't really to take anything away from those companies. They're all very impressive. It's more that I am surprised that people don't seem to think that $200B is an incredibly large amount of money. It's mo
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by dkrich 12y ago
Seriously? As I write this, Microsoft, the largest purveyor of enterprise software in the world, is worth roughly $340 billion. Oracle? Less than $200 billion. Hell, Amazon, the company that Dropbox runs on isn't worth $200 billion. Yo
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by dkrich 12y ago
I respect putting in writing for all to see your predictions for the future on a controversial topic. Not easy to do. However there are a large number of companies lumped in together which sort makes this a hard metric to measure definitive
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by dkrich 12y ago
I disagree. Myself as well as many people I know like the experience on Southwest. To me the best thing about them is their no-fee cancellation/change policy, right up to 15 minutes before take-off. To change a non-refundable flight on
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by dkrich 12y ago
I think Lyft is making a major tactical mistake by using surge-pricing, and in my experience, in many cases at rates that are higher than those of Uber. While this may ensure that their drivers make a comparable amount to Uber drivers, its
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by dkrich 12y ago
It's not even so much about it being affordable but rather how much it costs relative to other devices on the market. $1300 is a pretty high price point for a laptop and in that range you're competing with high-end notebooks like
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by dkrich 12y ago
I tried it and to me the main problem with going whole-hog to a Google Calendar app is that I don't think a platform-specific calendar app can ever be as effective as a platform-agnostic one like Sunrise. All things social belong to Fa
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by dkrich 12y ago
I don't think having readable tests and DRY are necessarily mutually-exclusive. If you name methods and variables with lengthy but very descriptive names your tests can still be readable. In fact the more you modularize your setup meth
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by dkrich 12y ago
I have to say that the trade-off argument brought up between DRY and readability is pretty lame. If you have a junior developer who can't make sense of the test because you put the test data in a separate class or are using a setup met
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by dkrich 12y ago
The problem I've seen with estimates is a mix of an inconsistency of ability mixed with a lack of experience in what is being done. For example, I know that I can build a basic CMS system in Rails in a day because I've done it 100
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by dkrich 12y ago
I disagree from a practical, as well as financial standpoint. It's very difficult to patent a software interface design as you have to prove a lack of existence of prior art and the patent must describe the specifics of what you are
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by dkrich 12y ago
This article reads like a transcript of a drunk guy at a bar explaining his political point of view. Lots of stated assumptions about what other people don't know, backed up with zero facts to substantiate any claims made therein. He c
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by dkrich 12y ago
I think there's a very real truth to what he's saying. I find myself wholly skeptical whenever I hear about the results of any scientific discovery such as a breakthrough in cancer research or diet/health issues. Partly to bl
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by dkrich 12y ago
I was thinking the same thing. I've built manys a website in pretty much every front-end language imaginable and I would struggle to answer many of these. Yet I feel little shame in saying that I believe myself to be a very competent p
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by dkrich 12y ago
I think a lot of what makes something that seems like it is work to one person actually enjoyable to another is purely environmental. For example- I knew from an early age that I liked tinkering around on computers. However when I got to co
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by dkrich 12y ago
With all due respect, I think this is a poorly-conceived point by Thiel. Airlines create hundreds of billions of dollars of value each year precisely because they make 17 cents per passenger. If it cost a traveler $900 to fly from Dallas
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by dkrich 12y ago
Waiting tables and other tip-based compensatory jobs are specifically granted an exception to the minimum wage, so I don't think raising the minimum wage would change anything. Depending on where you work and how experienced you are, w

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