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   by gkoberger 3y ago

   I don't think I really understand the takeaway of this article... the case wasn't really made ever that Eddie, let alone most grifters, are particularly nice. If anything, I think the takeaway is that grifters will always grift, b
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   by gkoberger 3y ago

   Whoops, I was a bit off, it's actually $125M https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/09/technology/beeper-messagi... (Obviously a lot of that is likely stock, but that's true about most acquisitions)
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   by gkoberger 3y ago

   Sure, but Automattic also bought Texts.com... this seems to be part of a bigger strategy on their part. Even friends don't spend $150M on friends for no reason. Automattic is doing well, but they don't have $150M to drop (plus fut
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   by gkoberger 3y ago

   Very cool. Here's another style! https://getavataaars.com/
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   by gkoberger 3y ago

   This is ours! https://readme.com/test
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   by gkoberger 3y ago

   This feels like the exact opposite of the takeaway you should have. Old software isn't inherently more secure; you're missing thousands of security and bug fixes. Yes, this was bad, but look how quickly the community came together
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   by gkoberger 3y ago

   I hire people a lot, and it’s a green flag. People who try their own thing understand what it takes to build a company, and tend to have an elevated ability to make things happen. If it doesn’t work out, you may lose out on some jobs… but t
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   by gkoberger 3y ago

   Agreed, but Canva isn't really for us. Canva is for the types of people who "want a poster/t-shirt/etc that's pretty enough and have no skills with Photoshop." Canva is buying Affinity to expand their market in
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   by gkoberger 3y ago

   With taxes, office space, laptops, offsites, insurance, etc a rough rule of thumb is $250k for an engineer. $250k * 3 = $750k, and over 3 years that's $2.25M (doesn't include software, hosting, lawyers, contractors, marketing, etc
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    by gkoberger 3y ago

    At $2.2M in funding, they are (likely) on a SAFE. There's no board, meaning no real VC pressure. They used that money to build... it's not like they were a beloved, widely used developer tool ruined by VC money. It sucks, but to b
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    by gkoberger 3y ago

    You're right; I almost used the phrases "woke"/"non-woke" since those are the words Elon uses [1], but given how much I hate that vague phrasing ("woke" has become a catch-all for things Elon/etc
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    by gkoberger 3y ago

    From the article you posted: "Elon Musk has been pitching xAI’s “Grok” as a funny, vulgar alternative to traditional AI that can do things like converse casually and swear at you." Silly me for taking Elon at his word
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    by gkoberger 3y ago

    What things do you think a conservative board member would bring that's currently missing? A distaste for big government? Interest in trickle-down economics? Or is this just a weird way of saying OpenAI should be more comfortable indul
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    by gkoberger 3y ago

    Eh, a lot of people on Upwork can't speak English well. Maybe you could make the argument that you don't want to work with them if they're not fluent in your language, but there's a difference between a bot and a person
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    by gkoberger 3y ago

    They’re much safer, and tech has already stolen from drivers (via 50% cuts). Yes, we do want safer transportation. Evolving as a society is important.
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    by gkoberger 3y ago

    If we take this story at face value, this was a recap. It’s basically the same as shutting the company down and starting over. It’s not ideal, but this only happens if everyone agrees the company is basically worth $0. Remember, the other i
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    by gkoberger 3y ago

    https://www.bybubbly.com/en
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    by gkoberger 3y ago

    He's currently trying to be an indie hacker influencer (and his products are sold to other indie hackers), so he just posts threads like this on Reddit/Twitter/etc. It's meant to gin up anger for the sake of engagement.
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    by gkoberger 3y ago

    I'm a bit curious here, since it feels like some information is missing. You left this company in 2016, so by now, you know the outcome. You were there for under 2 years, so you only vested half. Based on my Googling, nothing physical
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    by gkoberger 3y ago

    I... think I made it very very clear I'm not a fan of her as CEO, nor am I a fan of Mozilla's decisions the past 11 years. But that doesn't change the fact that early on she was instrumental in getting Mozilla off the ground
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    by gkoberger 3y ago

    I worked at Mozilla because I saw John Lilly (CEO at the time) speak in 2009. Someone snarkily asked him about Chrome, and he responded that Chrome was a victory for Mozilla – the mission was an open web, and choice was what Mozilla was fig
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    by gkoberger 3y ago

    Back when I worked there (2010-2012), a lot of people thought Google wouldn't renew the deal. So there was a scramble to figure out how to make enough money to avoid layoffs. Basically, how do you make another ~$100M/yr in case Go
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    by gkoberger 3y ago

    No, I'm not happy. I was gobsmacked by how smart the people working on it were (you included), and was so proud to work a few desks away from such amazing engineers. My thoughts that FirefoxOS was mismanaged from an executive level are
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    by gkoberger 3y ago

    Hey, I agree. I was very against the layoffs (I built this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24135032 ), and at my own company I have a very strict layoffs-are-the-absolute-worst-case-scenario rule (which I got from worki
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    by gkoberger 3y ago

    https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2018/08/07/in-memoriam-gerva...
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    by gkoberger 3y ago

    Imagine running a company. That's hard enough. Now imagine your market share is down a ton (and decreasing), and there's no clear way to change that trajectory. Then imagine that despite being CEO, you're owned by a non-profi
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    by gkoberger 3y ago

    Based on this thread, I think... everyone would question such an arrangement.
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    by gkoberger 3y ago

    Yes, that's a lot of money. But if you're a CEO good enough to turn Mozilla around given the constraints... you could make a lot more elsewhere. If nothing else, you'd get stock, which would correlate with your performance.
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    by gkoberger 3y ago

    I don't, because it was on my corp email. I remember the gist being that we were trying to compete against the two biggest companies on the planet, and (outside of some concerns about security) nobody seemed to really be complaining ab
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    by gkoberger 3y ago

    Oh my god, Google her. I also disagree with her salary while layoffs were happening, however recent raises don't negate the fact that she also built Mozilla from the start. She's not a member of the parasitic upper class. She was