fizx

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   by fizx 13y ago

   My gym runs shuttle busses, Levi's runs shuttle busses, UCSF runs shuttle busses, and on and on... You want real disruption? Start with homemade wifi jammers.
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   by fizx 13y ago

   No one cares if you wear headphones. You're a jerk if you order coffee with earbuds/bluetooth in. I've never seen anyone flip up a Google Glass to the top of their head to have a conversation, but if that was standard beh
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   by fizx 13y ago

   Only shows the first paragraph. Flagged (the post, not this comment).
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   by fizx 13y ago

   You should write a blog post on lessons learned when we spent a year making ~this in 2008.
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   by fizx 13y ago

   IANAL, so ask one first if that's your thing, but what I've done is offer 20% off if paid within 15 days. Set your billing rate higher to compensate.
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   by fizx 13y ago

   Maybe https://flippa.com/ is better for this?
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   by fizx 13y ago

   It's a little out of normal, mostly because they were able to hire phenomenal people right away. And I don't think that 4 managers is a fair description. None of them fit the PHB mold, and all of them have different specialties
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   by fizx 13y ago

   There's something fishy about this story. Either you're not telling all of it, or... You joined before money was raised, and possibly got an oversized equity stake that is being clawed back. If you were supposed to have more tha
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   by fizx 13y ago

   While the present has bad spots, we've lived through the gilded age, japanese internment, slavery, trail of tears, etc. Good things and bad things are always happening.
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    by fizx 13y ago

    Scala: there aren't enough ways to do this yet. Go: Java is too bloated.
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    by fizx 13y ago

    I feel like the crazy decline in cost of solar will catch us in time, even if this is true. http://www.treehugger.com/slideshows/renewable-energy/import...
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    by fizx 13y ago

    Someone broke into the office of a consulting shop I was working for, passing up dozens of macbook pros and who knows what else for an old-school translucent aqua imac and a $100 Walmart bike.
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    by fizx 13y ago

    And is significantly bulgy around the equator due to rotation. Calling BS.
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    by fizx 13y ago

    Optionally
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    by fizx 13y ago

    I think Antirez is simply doing a master/slave system with async replication. This is what mysql, solr, elasticsearch, kafka, etc do. This is not an unusual model at all. In CAP theorem terms, Redis has picked zero (remember CAP theo
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    by fizx 13y ago

    > The fact that Upshot guys haven't spoken is also ridiculous. Or have they? Unlike most of us here, perhaps they've learned not to feed the trolls ;)
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    by fizx 13y ago

    To me, the most interesting part of this is buried. Whereas previously only the five finalists were showcased, now many (all?) of the losing entries are now published. http://salesforce1million.challengepost.com/submissions
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    by fizx 13y ago

    You might be better off using a pre-release snapshot of Java 8 as a better Java. You'll get closures, functional collections, and better type inference. I bet Eclipse and Intellij support it better too.
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    by fizx 13y ago

    I don't think its unreasonable to be able to pick 80% winner startups, as long as you're willing to wait long enough. As an employee, you only need one company every four years in your "portfolio." If you narrow to star
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    by fizx 13y ago

    Woah, those guys are in my office!
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    by fizx 13y ago

    Note that I'm talking about specific consumer startups with crazy growth before employee #50, not some entire class of startups. Rocketships only. The press estimates Snapchat's current employee count at 30. I think it's pr
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    by fizx 13y ago

    Those companies were >80% chance of success at employee 50. Any of them have/had more chance of being worth $10B than less than $500M. So you really have to integrate over the probability curve to get an expected value, but I don&
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    by fizx 13y ago

    0.07% seems around right for a high-growth company (twitter, pinterest, instagram, etc) in todays market multiples. All of those companies had the rocketship engines lit by employee #50. It took no effort to imagine any of those companies
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    by fizx 13y ago

    thanks!
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    by fizx 13y ago

    The client handling it is ideal from a systems perspective, because the app won't forget to be fault tolerant on its connection to the server. Its less ideal from a maintenance perspective, because there will need to be feature-rich cl
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    by fizx 13y ago

    Seems like a useful reworking of SQS, but all the hard work is being done in the client: "client library automatically handle complex issues like adapting to changes in stream volume, load-balancing streaming data, coordinating distrib
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    by fizx 13y ago

    You have a funny definition of "likely". Possible, sure, but likely?
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    by fizx 13y ago

    Congrats!
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    by fizx 13y ago

    c.f. http://blog.bonus.ly/post/33011276149/google-peer-bonus
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    by fizx 13y ago

    I want an independent write-up of Red October! Sounds really cool.