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by e1g 6y ago
In Postgres, there is a data type ltree[0] which can materialize the full path in a DAG and help do relatively complex searches. Tree coordinates are typically stable, so it's easier and faster to recalculate the path on writes vs read
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by e1g 6y ago
"Sales fix everything" is a shortcut for "There are many experienced people who can help fix most problems your company is currently struggling with, and if you give them lots of money they will help you win.". You can t
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by e1g 6y ago
I was curious too, so quickly checked on Zillow. In this neighborhood, the land is up for sale at ~$1/sqft[0] which is what the bank estimated. Many homes in the range of $30-50k, but the article says his properties are 100 years old a
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by e1g 6y ago
Just FYI this story originally was about photography as clarified by the author at https://jamesclear.com/repetitions In photography, you can get lucky. When I come back from holidays and review a thousand of random snapsho
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by e1g 6y ago
https://www.journalofaccountancy.com/news/2020/may/sba-safe-...
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by e1g 6y ago
Also telling - there are 17 “Remote” listings out of 270 job ads in total. For a new normal, I would expect a share higher than 6%.
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by e1g 7y ago
Buffer and Basecamp come to mind, plus they are more efficient: they pay significantly more while managing to turn impressive revenue/profit vs the headcount.
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by e1g 7y ago
"People who want to be rich and famous should try being rich first." Tim Ferris recently had an excellent essay[1] on the downside of fame, including issues with dating, friendships, travel, death threats, family impact, and quest
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by e1g 7y ago
We like to see ourselves as good people doing good deeds. Nazis were bad, I would never do what they did - even if they won, and ruled the world. I am ethical and do what is right. Same with office politics, religion, donations etc - I will
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by e1g 7y ago
I think we instinctively recognize the outsized levels of certain pros: a 10x leader that is a different creature from a typical manager, or a captivating writer that is 10x better than the average novelist, or a 10x actor vs a standard-iss
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by e1g 7y ago
Manhattan is usually at 50% all-cash. Recently it softened to 40%+, but still much higher than intuition based on everyday-folks might suggest.
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by e1g 7y ago
These codebases will meet your requirements - Zeit: https://github.com/zeit Facebook: https://github.com/graphql/graphql-js , https://github.com/graphql/dataloader Misc: https:&#
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by e1g 7y ago
You spent a decade developing this knowledge and techniques while on the company's payroll, under the company's direction, and for the company's purpose. This is their IP, and this ownership is almost certainly cemented in yo
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by e1g 7y ago
It’s the same cost in NY. The “$900” figure given elsewhere is either outdated by a decade, or the plan is heavily subsidized by the employer. $1,600/mo is the minimum a self employed family would pay.
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by e1g 7y ago
$20k p.a. is a low-end estimate for minimal cover and high deductible. Here are the actual plans from Oscar for NYC -> https://assets.ctfassets.net/plyq12u1bv8a/1ffUyjqSleteGxYkSq... Likewise, for a single, min cost
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by e1g 7y ago
FYI: SOC 2 Type 1 has no weight for corporate/data privacy/infosec because anyone get it with a dozen .docx templates from the internet. Type II report is substantial because it requires the auditor to observe your actual operatio
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by e1g 7y ago
Distributed startups often use a 3rd party to do the actual employment/compliance of people across N countries. Those providers are called Professional Employer Organization (PEO) and serve as Employers of Record (EOR) - handling emplo
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by e1g 7y ago
"Criminally responsible". To clarify, my comparison is firmly connected to the request that the CEO is jailed for crimes of employees. Even a mid-sized company is a complex interconnected system with thousands of actors. The CEO c
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by e1g 7y ago
That's a great discount from "criminally responsible". Also, that is the current practice - managers and executives are judged and disciplined for failures of their staff (fraud, theft, CSR failures etc). These actions are no
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by e1g 7y ago
We also should hold parents criminally responsible for their children's illegal behavior, at least until the kids move out. I think teachers must be fired if any of their students cheat or get disciplined. I also vote that every genera
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by e1g 7y ago
Like this novelty Twitter account https://mobile.twitter.com/justsaysinmice which points out hilarity of sensational headlines that are based on distant experiments on mice.
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by e1g 7y ago
There is a free (but polished) online app to do in-depth forecasting - https://startuprunway.io It's part of a suite of other related apps for financial planning of your next startup https://ltse.com/tools
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by e1g 7y ago
Can you confirm if GitLab increased revenue 10x in 2018? A previous profile stated the revenue was $10M in 2017 ( https://www.forbes.com/sites/alejandrocremades/2019/07/21/he... ) and this article say
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by e1g 7y ago
Re "Wealthy kids skew male"? Starting references are http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20161014-why-billionaires-ha... https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/3
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by e1g 7y ago
It’s an interesting question. For example, gender-at-birth should be evenly distributed, but in wealthy families kids skew towards male much more frequently than expected. As another factor, some social structures and norms will make it mor
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by e1g 7y ago
All of the anxiety and stress of a startup, but only a fraction of the camaraderie. In this thread we have people discussing how it totally worked when they were a remote member, or how it can help companies with dozens or hundreds of peopl
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by e1g 7y ago
"With infinite money, would you rather create a team that works in-person or remote-only?". I bootstrapped my SaaS to $600k ARR with a remote team before switching to "in-person core + satellite", and I'd never star
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by e1g 7y ago
The ability to work remotely/from home should be table stakes at a young business. If a company does not offer this, they probably have some questionable ideas about people's work ethic etc. But this discussion is not about that -
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by e1g 7y ago
"We hire only the best, wherever they are" is just a longer way of saying "We hire only the best" which is just a longer way of saying nothing. Every business has been chanting this forever, along with some variation of
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by e1g 7y ago
Indeed. For a while we focused on the happy path/MVP, and I was amazed how quickly edge-cases start piling up and sinking the ship with endless fixing/debugging/rework tasks. Now, we start with failure-cases first, engineer f

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