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by gregshap 9y ago
Boston Marathon: you can qualify by time or by raising money for a charity. Qualifying by time is out of reach for most recreational runners, and there are only a few thousand charity spots, so people regularly raise 5 figures in order to r
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by gregshap 9y ago
Can't say whether he is over/under/fairly rated, but I like reading patio11's business and career posts because 1) he is good at communicating pitfalls and rules of thumb that I wouldn't otherwise think of 2)it&#x27
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by gregshap 9y ago
For basic gestures, an apple magic mouse is pretty good (also works in windows). Almost the identical use case - I sometimes sit back and use gestures to scroll, swipe browser back, swipe between desktops. An external trackpad would also do
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by gregshap 9y ago
Perhaps the country is better served by someone disliked by both sides than by someone handpicked for their loyalty to Trump.
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by gregshap 9y ago
I haven't listened to the podcast, but according to the backchannel article linked above, the money came from the funds themselves > The $5 million that went into launching River Studios came from Rothenberg Ventures’ second and thi
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by gregshap 9y ago
Thanks, my bad with the greater/less than reference, I mixed up mi2 and km2 even though I thought I was watching out for that. Call it the same order of magnitude as California. Nothing like Hong Kong densities (6000+/km2). Yosem
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by gregshap 9y ago
California is more dense than NK. South Korea is denser than Cali, but only about as dense as New York State Either way, the DMZ is 400 sq miles largely forested, with about 0 human population density. Maybe its got some leopards, maybe
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by gregshap 9y ago
100% Uber/Lyft propaganda? There's a difference between saying taxi drivers are evil, and saying that the taxi system is a corrupt special interest. The 'system' is not just drivers, in most large US Cities it's a
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by gregshap 9y ago
I see TODO's in production code as only somewhat better than commenting out 'almost working' code. It helps me understand the original intent of the developer, but I don't trust that it's actually the right thing to
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by gregshap 10y ago
The patriots stadium construction was owner funded. "After the Hartford proposal fell through, Robert Kraft paid for 100% of the construction costs, a rare instance of an NFL owner privately financing the construction of a stadium.&quo
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by gregshap 10y ago
In addition to what's been mentioned: Did they respect your time in the interview process? -Good: schedule a full day of interviews and make the offer within a day or so. -Bad: ask you to come into their office several times, or make y
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by gregshap 10y ago
I've never had someone ask this, but I would offer to let them browse some code and recent PRs on my laptop while I sit alongside.
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by gregshap 10y ago
Got it thanks, that makes sense. I guess I was expecting this proposal to somehow be more complicated, and didn't realize that the bar is this high for listing a company thats a bucket of X holdings.
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by gregshap 10y ago
So what are the expected benefits of a bitcoin ETF? Many of the traditional benefits of ETFs are obsolete when you can just buy and hold an equivalent amount of bitcoin The biggest benefit I can think of is that some institutional investors
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by gregshap 10y ago
My current employer uses hipchat, and I've used Slack at previous jobs, social/professional groups, and with some of our contractors now. Features: Slack wins. Slack is usually a little ahead. Hipchat was catching up and then I j
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by gregshap 10y ago
There are ways but "I named my company after a common English word, someone already owns the domain for that word and it would benefit me to own it instead" is not a legitimate reason.
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by gregshap 10y ago
that spinner...
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by gregshap 10y ago
1) Are you discussing in the interview that you HATE your current job? That is likely somewhere between a 'yellow' and a big red alert, depending on how you describe it and what prior beliefs the interviewer has about your compan
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by gregshap 10y ago
Yup i think 'earnings vs user growth numbers' is a great way to put it My thinking was that 'People worried about money losing companies with huge valuations' is a popular cause of consternation and 'People worried
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by gregshap 10y ago
GAAP vs non GAAP accounting refers to how you calculate PnL, not whether you use things unrelated to accounting to hint that you are growing and might make money in the future. You can definitely use strict GAAP accounting and also brag tha
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by gregshap 10y ago
It was arlington that blocked the expansion because they didn't want the wrong people coming from the wrong areas, not the other way around. [I lived in Arlington in the 90s-2000s]
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by gregshap 10y ago
> and those sizes are not available or are a special order for the shirt/jacket they've chosen? you get the special order, or get some other style and get the embroidering or whatever, or pick a different thing to get
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by gregshap 10y ago
network effects and product vision are pretty valuable, maybe not 24B, but certainly way more than 20m Facebook also IPOd with minimal profits, 300 million users who would never be willing to pay for the service, and hordes of VCs ready to
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by gregshap 10y ago
good ones! as an english speaker, some things that gave me difficulty in a second language (see if you can guess it): - some digits are pronounced differently for counting than as part of a larger number - some digits are pronounced differe
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by gregshap 10y ago
Does Franco-American mean you are a US Citizen? * If so then say it, or just take the Franco out of your bio Are you committed to working in NYC? * Move now. Worst case save up a couple thousand dollars so you can make it a month. Live som
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by gregshap 10y ago
I think it's more like if you pay someone FU money to stay for a fixed term or milestone, you'll need to pay them exponentially more FU money to stay for the next milestone. Many top executives are on this track as well, which exp
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by gregshap 10y ago
As usual it sounds like the story is more nuanced than the headline. A more accurate phrasing might be "One reason staffers quit google's car project? The company structured their pay so that an intermediate project milestone was
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by gregshap 10y ago
i agree there's an angle they are missing that is basically peace of mind in case someone hacks your iCloud account
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by gregshap 10y ago
sorry. they sound like crappy people so you probably would have had some falling out eventually anyway
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maybe they wrote them

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