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by eldavido 9y ago
I think it will be interesting, for sure (SV developer here) I think the class politics thing is a big deal, though. I just read fb interns are now getting paid 8k/month. You certainly can make the argument that they're creating e
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by eldavido 9y ago
I've thought about this a lot, and here's my .02 on the matter. If you look at politics now, there's a decidedly anti-elitist trend. This is why Trump got elected. I felt the movie "Hell or High Water" portrayed the
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by eldavido 9y ago
I have no reason to believe this is going to happen, but I wish Timex would buy Fitbit. FIT's market cap is right around a billion these days, which is affordable for a large, public company. Fitbit = good software, good product DNA, g
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by eldavido 9y ago
It's more standard than people realize. Offhand: x: "some real-valued variable" n: "a countable quantity, usually a total" i: "an index" k: "some kind of constant", often an integer, whose value
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by eldavido 9y ago
Yep, because we (US/Western Europe) have a good legal system that supports this. This is also why we don't have Nigerian pirates in the US. It's also why our math/science teachers suck. The good ones would rather work in
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by eldavido 10y ago
While the landlord theoretically has more "power", tenants have them over the barrel, in a weird sort of way. Tenants can decide not to pay, break stuff, make noise, waste tons of the landlord's time, etc. The worst the landl
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by eldavido 10y ago
Which market? I agree a lot of hot metros are looking expensive (SF, Seattle). Things are cheaper in places farther from growth and money, e.g. rural Indiana. I'm not sure whether they're better deals on balance, but quite differe
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by eldavido 10y ago
I think it's a question of Uber's role in the transaction, and whether they're considered an "Agent" of the seller (the driver), or the transaction's principal. I think this is a matter of accounting judgment.
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by eldavido 10y ago
Counterpoint: it's also worth considering the costs of breaking with tradition. I mean, sure, nobody has to get married. But then you might not get custody rights over your children. It might be more difficult to pick your kids up fr
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by eldavido 10y ago
I think the author is talking about a finance line-of-business application that deals with risk, not the technology itself.
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by eldavido 10y ago
This. facebook is like the cheetos of content. It tastes great but if you stop buying it, you'll feel so much better, and wonder why you thought you "needed" it all along. I've been off (deactivated) for 4-5 years, maybe
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by eldavido 10y ago
This seems to fit the narrative of a broader wave of consolidation hitting the old-school web. Like it or not, there are real advantages to walled gardens like facebook. To ad buyers, it's a single platform where one can target the ent
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by eldavido 10y ago
There's a limit to how much a company can raise pre-product/pre-traction. It hinges a lot on the team and whether they've had a big exit. Keep in mind, most early-stage funding is done by angels who "work for themselves&
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by eldavido 10y ago
Devs seem to be realizing this, at least the ones I know (new thing). Seems the endgame's going to be higher equity grants. If VCs won't fund something unproven at 350/head and devs won't work for peanuts, higher equity
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by eldavido 10y ago
What it really comes down to is societal priorities. The Chinese have been willing to do things over the past few decades that the US isn't, and it's given them an advantage in low-cost production. One of those things is trash the
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by eldavido 10y ago
I saw it. It was horrible.
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by eldavido 10y ago
I noticed you didn't launch to the web. Any comments there? This seems like a common line-of-business tool that would traditionally make sense for a simple web application. Did you do your desktop apps using electron?
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by eldavido 10y ago
Isn't all the trouble we have due to last-mile shenanigans? Until we can address that problem, this seems a bit moot. Perhaps what we need is something like this, but at the state/local level.
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by eldavido 10y ago
Unsolicited advice: remove the word "fair" from your understanding of economic transactions. Think in terms of incentives, bargaining power, and BATNA. My guess is that with all the whining CEOs in the Bay Area do about "how
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by eldavido 10y ago
I'm very interested in this question from an academic perspective -- where will the remote vs. local market clear, if more companies start doing this. Scenario A: More companies pay equally remote vs. local Scenario B: cost-of-living a
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by eldavido 10y ago
So, honest question (not trying to troll) - what jobs are available in Raleigh/Boulder/Austin/etc? Because where I'm sitting, facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple, which are 5 of the top 6 most valuable US comp
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by eldavido 10y ago
Not a chance. This is one of the richest areas in the US and the overwhelming sentiment is, "we need people to stop moving here". You can actually get votes here by making it harder for companies to hire, on the theory that traf
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by eldavido 10y ago
I agree 100%. Do you know of academic/scholarly articles or books on this topic? Net neutrality strikes me as a topic with a lot more scope for disagreement on both goals and policy than the hardcore pro net-neutrality crowd admits. It
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by eldavido 10y ago
I use Visual Studio every day these days. Honestly, I wish it would do less, but a lot better. Rather than adding new features, I would love to see the following addressed: - 64-bit by default. I am developing for Windows 10, make the entir
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by eldavido 10y ago
This sounds like seller financing, it's very common in real estate transactions and other large asset purchases.
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by eldavido 10y ago
I am rolling on the floor laughing at this. Thank you for writing it. "Choose the interviewer" is pretty much "choose a random developer working at a San Francisco tech company". There are so many true stereotypes in her
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by eldavido 10y ago
You're probably right. My fiancee is an architect and I invest in real estate so I probably have a broader view of this than most (if only due to the luck of my draw/circumstances). Plus my father worked his entire career in facto
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by eldavido 10y ago
Social networking is becoming the dominant form of media. Media controls what people think, including their politics, and what products they buy. You need to stop and see the big picture here. facebook is basically as powerful as the entire
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by eldavido 10y ago
I think there's a socioeconomic side of this that isn't discussed enough. I have a highly engaging, challenging job that pays well. I'm a holder of an advanced degree, regularly read long-form books, and am engaged and will b
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by eldavido 10y ago
Just don't. Seriously. Let it fall another 50% before you go even close.

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