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by dreyfan 5y ago
This is irrelevant. The delivery companies will just increase the prices of the items, or charge Service Fees, or charge Temporary Local Fees, or charge Taxes. UberEats does exactly this in each of those transactional labels already. And le
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by dreyfan 5y ago
props to Elon and Kimball for running the ultimate long con
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Spark is this weird ecosystem of people who take absolutely trivial concepts in SQL, bury their heads in the sand and ignore the past 50 years of RDBMS evolution, and then write extremely complicated (or broken) and expensive to run code. B
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by dreyfan 5y ago
This is the US, anyone can sue anyone for anything. That said, California has very favorable employee-protection laws around non-compete, non-solicit, notice periods, at-will employment status, and ownership of work. It's very unlikely
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Approach management and discuss a comp increase? Tell them you constantly have tech recruiters hitting you up with far loftier packages but you love the current firm and just want to have a more equitable compensation package. If not, start
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Uhh, I'm a real person with a clean record? There's no way for a company to ask the IRS if a person has multiple employers.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Yes writing code, I provide enough actual progress that people must assume I'm either extremely methodical or woefully incompetent. I put in about an hour per job per day. I'm logged-in on slack/teams/etc and disable idl
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by dreyfan 5y ago
> still running your own company? No, I sold my company in 2019 and exited last summer. It took up far too much time to pull off anything like this. The new venture is purely in fundraising and research mode until I stop this little expe
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Not interested in employee monitoring but otherwise spot-on.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
It's not very satisfying so definitely not retire early. However, it's a good way to raise the equivalent of a seed round without having to give up any equity and simultaneously execute on practical customer discovery regarding th
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by dreyfan 5y ago
I currently have 10 fully remote engineering jobs. The bar is so low, oversight is non-existent, and everyone is so forgiving for under performance I can coast about 4-8 weeks before a given job fires me. Currently on a $1.5M run-rate for c
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by dreyfan 5y ago
I absolutely think that qualifies as malware, yes. Apps and browser extensions harvest PII all day and the owners of those platforms (apple, google, microsoft, mozilla) do absolutely nothing to prevent it.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
You mean like HolaVPN or Geosurf the “free VPN” applications that quite literally install a backdoor proxy on your phone or PC? The parent companies then sell access to the proxies running on your devices as “residential proxies” and also s
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Can we also ditch the infatuation microservices while we’re at it? They primarily serve as a revenue generation scheme for cloud providers.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Assuming those traits come alongside the ability to get shit done, that’s patently false.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
If they're suddenly asking you to log your hours, they're looking for a reason to terminate/replace you.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Yeah, but it's still a rather awesome product offering. I wish the US government would put as much effort into mass transit as they have with project Cloudflare.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Yes in Clickhouse you’d generally take a denormalized approach.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
https://www.levels.fyi/2020/ -- Many of these firms are fully remote since the pandemic and the extremely high cost of living no longer applies.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Yep. How is a startup supposed to compete when today's economy has resulted in fresh grads commanding $200k total-comp? Of course the answer is "you raise money!" so you can pay them "market-rates" at which point yo
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Take a look at Kimball/Star-Schema. It's worked extremely well as a data warehouse technique for decades. That said, I think modern offerings (e.g. Clickhouse) are superior in most use cases, but it's definitely not impossibl
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by dreyfan 5y ago
> SQL syntax sucks for doing non-trivial data analysis. I've tried it. Verbose, no composability or code reuse, not really portable across different databases, no easy interoperability with other tools, limited editor/IDE suppo
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by dreyfan 9y ago
[1] We actually closed 2017 at $1.9M but we're already at $2.3M ARR heavily due to those recent inbound. It's been a fairly consistent and frustrating ebb and flow. We'll often get a new product launched and see uptake just a
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by dreyfan 9y ago
I run a small company of 4 people and we're currently at a $2.3M annualized run-rate. Fully remote keeps our opex very low: only about $125k excluding salaries. I do feel we've hit a wall though, as our revenue has been ~$2M/
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by dreyfan 10y ago
It's listed in his public HN profile, it's not like I'm doxxing him. It's also relevant to the discussion at hand: a non-democratic vote in the state of Washington, due to the electoral college winner-take-all allotment,
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by dreyfan 10y ago
I'd try to intellectually point out why you're completely wrong and Trump is an imminent danger to our country (see: Turkey the past two years), but I see that you live in Washington, which means your vote for Trump is irrelevant.
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by dreyfan 10y ago
Tech
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by dreyfan 10y ago
Developers get commissions on top of above-market salary. We don't directly track nor care about hours, just output and results. We actually do pay very close attention to revenue-per-employee, that's ultimately what drives the fi
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by dreyfan 10y ago
We don't actually pay ourselves anything absurd in salary and we have a lot of retained earnings sitting in the bank. We did try hiring and investing the finances last year (physical office, 6 people) but the inability to find the righ
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by dreyfan 10y ago
Yep. Exactly the issue. I want people with similar traits as myself and all I find are people who just want a job with a steady paycheck.

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