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by ericb 4y ago
Thanks! * What are the most common gotchas? * What tools do you use to do the technical due diligence? * What would you suggest to prepare for it? * What would acing it look like?
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I agree. It seems like they are trying to be transparent and detailed, though, and I don't see that in their list, and the negotiations only appear around step 13?
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I think the reasoning is something like, when I buy a car, I don't base the price I'll pay on the cost of the raw materials. It also lets them craft a minimal price deal, and do things like split out different shareholders based o
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by ericb 4y ago
Pretty cool that they shared the process. A couple things that seem interesting to me: * Giving the acquirer the cap table early on seems to go against the advice I've seen. * This is a ton of time investment for a company that has n
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I've never seen those provide value anywhere that's anywhere close to matching the costs incurred. They get diluted by: - bugs that are actually free support - feature requests for things that some company needs, but won't pa
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by ericb 4y ago
I imagine readers who've never babysat open source projects think that you "get contributions" and "free OSS patches, workers" but those things, for 99.9% of projects are 1-illusory, 2-when and if they materialize,
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by ericb 4y ago
The real winners will be the next tier down in the hiring hierarchy. They are starved for talent. While not as high-paying, or glamorous, they've had jobs sitting open for a while. When developers are needed for growth initiatives that
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by ericb 4y ago
I mean, if all mechanics and car designers and the entire auto industry were Thanos-snapped, my car would keep running for probably 6 months. There wouldn't be any new cars, though?
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by ericb 4y ago
That's just not true! There are 10x programmers, and even higher. On certain tasks you won't see the difference at all. Are you John Carmack-good? I'm not. Let's be big enough to admit it! Think of it like Opera. The a
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by ericb 4y ago
Regarding one of the problems they cited--If anyone is interested in deploying a stand-alone ruby CLI executable using a modern Ruby (3.1), the fork here can do that, but you need to compile the rubyc for each platform first (not used the
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by ericb 4y ago
We've already been sent the world destroying bomb. It is an information bomb built on tragedy of the commons to ensure we overheat our planet before we become interplanetary. Its name is Bitcoin.
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Pets, lab rats, and wild animals have gained weight in this timeframe.
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That's a surprise for me. I find Perl pretty unreadable, but sometimes I have to squint to tell Ruby from Python--and I code in both!
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One thing that gets forgotten about jQuery is that there's a tremendous library of very evolved components in its ecosystem. Sure, "you don't need jQuery" is true, but when you go hunting for components you'd rather
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I have so much trouble squaring the "genius" narrative with the "alienating the core constituency that buys electric vehicles by making my personal brand into a MAGA hat" reality. Isn't moving humanity to mars the u
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Is it ever summarizing, though? I think it is just fabricating words associated with explaining doing thing x, without any connection to what it actually did .
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How can HenryMeds associated pharmacy get semaglutide? Someone has to be be making it for them, which is confusing. I'm tempted to sign up, but there's a really weird sense where it seems it can't be real because there's
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by ericb 4y ago
What would I need to get started on an open source genomics program? Where do they live? What do they do? Like, do you need a genome interpreter? Does one exist? Are there any open source products used by the field currently? I know the n
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by ericb 4y ago
The idea is cool. Not sure I get the cardigan with shorts thing, or see a giant market for cardigans for boys at the moment, though? Seems like since covid, kids only wear athletic clothes in my area. My kids think jeans are "dressy!&q
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Best wishes!
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If they under-expand, people will similarly complain when their stock languishes compared to other stocks and the board will replace them with someone telling a growth story. The only thing the stock market rewards is growth, so is it reall
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What did they screw up, though? Their psychic abilities failed? A coin flip came up tails but they bet on heads?
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Is the UDP work a precursor to HTTP/3 support? I don't see HTTP/3 mentioned in the announcement, so I assume that something else is needed to make it work still? Edit: I take that back, I see "Add HTTP/3 binary fram
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> Implying that software will somehow "not be made" without for-profit corporations employing programmers for peanuts is an old and tired argument, proven false by the very existence and triumph of the GNU system over most comm
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> Something for free? That had never been the point of FOSS. FOSS = Free Open Source Software
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> Innovation is not a goal by itself - the purpose of innovation is to benefit people in general. Which is already happening under permissive licenses. > Innovation is not a goal by itself I'm having trouble understanding this po
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How much more freedom than a permissive license does anyone need? The term rug-pull is wildly misleading. Let's describe the problem this is setting out to solve better--end users who have gotten something for free are upset that the
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"Our Mission" > We form companies centered around open source software projects with commercial applications. Rather than founders pitching us for investments, OCV identifies open source projects with traction and potential and
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* Ruby has static types (Sorbet) * Most of the alternatives still don't come close to Rails for web app productivity--that's more than a gee it feels fun * The pendulum of JS apps is swinging away from pointless SPA's and mor
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He referred to the company as "a Ruby shop" so maybe that's a bit overstated?

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