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by econner 10y ago
This is a good point. So I looked up some Twitter financials. In 2015 they posted a Net Income of -$521.03M and EBITDA of -$137.21M. I don't exactly understand how those two numbers can differ so much, but either way they're pret
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by econner 10y ago
but, but, this is the internet where everything is free and the money comes from advertising
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by econner 10y ago
How is Twitter not a good business? It's still worth $11 billion.
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by econner 10y ago
What a sweeping generalization. Can you provide any justification that the valley has "lost the ability to push the needle?"
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by econner 10y ago
This is a good point, but in my mind all of these changes come about because of the app. Suddenly you have a medium that allows you to do these things you couldn't before.
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by econner 10y ago
There will continue to be many app-based solutions that are successful. It's now just another business medium and less like a gold rush. There is still lots of value to be created in making apps.
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by econner 10y ago
Uhhh? Let me point you to http://fortune.com/unicorns/ .
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by econner 10y ago
> From Google description, "Bored Panda is a leading art, design and photography community for creative people. Our submission platform helps artists and creators turn their stories into." into what? :-)
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by econner 10y ago
Average is such a misleading metric to use here.
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by econner 10y ago
It's probably in the privacy policy / terms of service that you don't read when signing up (no one does...). It's actually nice of Reddit to announce these sorts of changes and not just say "we updated our privacy
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by econner 10y ago
A clarification on your point: specifically socialist economic policies (gov control of enterprise) are to blame. It's not as if the government decided to tax the rich to provide social welfare and then the country went into a downwar
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by econner 10y ago
The Google Python style guide might be a good start: https://google.github.io/styleguide/pyguide.html I've also heard that at Google they require assert isinstance for every parameter of every function. New Relic
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by econner 10y ago
I don't understand why you're calling out "people who think they aren't sexist". Why is that point important? (Besides to belittle me?) I'm not claiming to be free from bias here. Everyone has biases both co
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by econner 10y ago
I have no sympathy for the "boys will be boys" side of this argument. I am a male in my early 20's so am familiar with the mindset. Sure maybe zero tolerance is a bit far, but every woman I know has a story like this. Ever
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by econner 10y ago
This is a fair point. Thanks.
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by econner 10y ago
Not sure where you're getting the "think they are not sexist" from. Everyone has unconscious biases (men and women). Some are more aware of them than others. This problem is not sexist in and of itself. It would be equally
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by econner 10y ago
Why will firing him worsen the problem? I would fire this guy immediately. > Men and women need to learn to interact at work. Men should not need sensitivity training to interact with women at work.
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by econner 10y ago
> The Valley has yet to prove that it can build sustainable companies. I was with you until this line. The valley has been producing sustainable companies for decades. Some companies fail. This is the way things go.
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by econner 10y ago
> Other interesting proposal by Eliezer Yudkowsky made in "Three Worlds Collide" novella was legalising rape. Ohhh. It is satire. You had me ಠ_ಠ for a moment.
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by econner 11y ago
Success anxiety is a great way to put it. As I've started my career in tech I've noticed that everyone seems to be looking somewhere else. Mid stage engineers look at early engineers thinking if only. Early engineers look at fou
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by econner 11y ago
Why 36?
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by econner 11y ago
CS109: Introduction to Probability for Computer Scientists http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs109/ also a great resource.
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by econner 11y ago
Fwiw I grew up in Colorado and love it so much but live in Bay Area now. I too am trying to get to back to Denver. If you want to start a company there let me know! :-)
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by econner 11y ago
Journalists continue to inflate it. I actually think folks are coming around more and more to work with tech vs. categorically fighting against it. I think people have begun to see the systemic problems and work together on those. Then ag
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Larry and Sergey's CS349 (1998)(infolab.stanford.edu)
65 points by econner 11y ago|8 comments
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by econner 11y ago
Correct. It is a landing page test. I won't deny that, but I'm also not going to build a product before I know whether it's something people want. Good feedback on the value prop. I will make that clearer.
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by econner 11y ago
Really? Do you remember any of the names of the previous attempts? Or what went wrong?
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by econner 11y ago
Thanks for the feedback! Right now I am just hoping to see if there's any kind of desire for a product like this.
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by econner 11y ago
Shhhhhh. Don't let the secret get out.
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by econner 11y ago
I just like the last point: "There's still going to be major entrepreneurship going. Google itself was counter to the trend of the original dotcom bust."

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