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by hkarthik 7y ago
Stripe is trying to capitalize for a capital intensive endeavor: Stripe Capital. An IPO would have been one way to fund it, but likely would have involved a lot of financial scrutiny along the way, which would probably distract them from th
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by hkarthik 7y ago
Late stage funding options are drying up big time. See Uber, Lyft, WeWork, and Softbank. These companies are still burning cash at high rates, so going to the public markets is the only option to raise that much capital.
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by hkarthik 7y ago
What is old is new again. This is just Apple’s version of Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish.
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Lyft wins preliminary ruling to be exclusive bike share partner in SF(sfchronicle.com)
3 points by hkarthik 7y ago|0 comments
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by hkarthik 7y ago
This isn't entirely surprising. On-premise infrastructure is getting extremely hard to scale for high scale services like gaming. Google, Amazon, and Microsoft have completely bent the market for data centers and hardware due to their
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by hkarthik 7y ago
Neither. If it's an option, I would suggest a late stage startup (Series C or later). Such companies give you the advantage of being less risky, and having enough structure to support folks that are new to the industry. They can also s
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Los Angeles DOT’s Ride Tracking Pilot Is Out of Control(eff.org)
7 points by hkarthik 8y ago|0 comments
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by hkarthik 8y ago
For actually solving issues live, Python makes the most sense. But be prepared to read a lot of solutions to problems written with for loops, do-while loops, and other constructs that are not pythonic and don't translate as well to py
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by hkarthik 8y ago
Not a book, but this is an excellent resource on how top engineering talent in FANG approaches System Design. https://www.educative.io/collection/5668639101419520/5649050... Even after interviewing, I found it use
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by hkarthik 8y ago
Couple of things I can rattle off: It takes a lot of work to make a technology production-ready. I've seen MySQL go from being derided as a toy database, to powering some of the largest, highest scale consumer apps out there. It took y
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by hkarthik 8y ago
Previous discussion was all about whether what he did was illegal or whether he was complicit. I'm actually most saddened by this part. When he was 8 years old, Alfred Anaya destroyed his mother’s vacuum cleaner in the pursuit of know
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by hkarthik 8y ago
The picture in the article is from the I-580 exit in Dublin/Pleasanton about 5 minutes from my house. The real estate here is booming as many people have settled here due to BART proximity and the fact that it's one of the few com
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by hkarthik 9y ago
It feels like a straw man argument. Food is a basic necessity, and there is a threshold where you grumble but still open your wallet to pay up, rather than walk away. Overtime you get de-sensitized to the higher price and the fact that the
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by hkarthik 9y ago
Seems like they should just raise prices on the food to control demand and provide additional capital for paying workers. Basic economics 101. What am I missing here?
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by hkarthik 9y ago
I assume the "central server" is actually an HA cluster of servers with consistency checking of the token data. Otherwise it sounds like a pretty bad SPOF. Any lessons you learned along the way with setting this up?
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by hkarthik 9y ago
I'm surprised we haven't seen more consolidation of companies whose primary product is related to developer experience. I always thought either Github or Microsoft would start snatching up all these small companies to integrate th
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by hkarthik 9y ago
> Incompetence is fiercely gregarious while knowledge is often fractious; the reason for this is that raw ideas transfer more easily through untrained minds than refined ideas transfer through trained minds. This resonated with me and de
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by hkarthik 9y ago
> Everyone wants their devs to take ownership, but very few create the right business structure to make it possible. Totally agree on this point. In most companies, this work is not glorified and ends up being done on "stolen time&q
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by hkarthik 9y ago
The sentiment they are trying to get across is that they want someone who won't let problems lie and who will proactively execute on fixes without waiting for permission or being assigned the work by a tech lead or manager. Couple of e
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by hkarthik 9y ago
Yes, the internal tool is called uChat and it's based on Mattermost but Uber heavily contributed to Mattermost to make it scale. More details here: https://eng.uber.com/uchat/
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by hkarthik 9y ago
With this kind of spending, they must be planning to monetize beyond the subscription fees. Get ready for the ads. Cable was ad-free in the early days too.
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by hkarthik 9y ago
QoL in California is pretty poor, considering the cost required as compared to the rest of the US. Only immigrants are willing to pay the price since for many of them, it's still an upgrade from what they can get back home.
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by hkarthik 9y ago
This is one of the many reasons Pittsburgh is becoming a hotbed for self driving tech for many companies testing there. It has a lot of bridges, plus all the environmental factors you described above.
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by hkarthik 9y ago
Based on things that I've heard at work from our mobile engineers, iOS apps written in Swift compile to larger binary sizes than what they saw with Obj-C. Anyone have any numbers they can share for comparison?
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by hkarthik 9y ago
Based on estimates that I have heard, the cost of a single car can be upwards of $300K. This limits putting large fleets of cars on the road only to the well funded (Google/Waymo, GM, Ford, Uber, etc) for only testing purposes. Smaller
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by hkarthik 9y ago
If you have entrenched native mobile programmers, they will likely resist moving to React Native. It won't be worth the effort to convert an existing, large native iOS or Android (or both) app to React Native. However if you're ju
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by hkarthik 9y ago
It's payments. Miss a single row and customers will balk and scream at the missing $.45 that they think they are owed. Better to buffer with a longer SLA until you feel very confident that your pipeline is bulletproof before you try to
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by hkarthik 9y ago
The fastest that I've seen infrastructure put up in the US is where there are toll roads being built. I suspect this is because there is a high incentivize to get a toll road up quickly and start generating revenue to pay back the init
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by hkarthik 9y ago
As an eng manager in SF, I'll form the dissenting opinion here. Get out now. Products need to ship and go somewhere. You only now what works in terms of your tech stack by dealing with the fires of actual production traffic. Lots of te
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by hkarthik 9y ago
Network and data infrastructure is also a challenge for self driving cars and has a ways to go. The data produced by a single self driving car can be pretty staggering (I've heard estimates as high as 5 TB/minute). Now think about

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