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by johnrob 5y ago
Chilling thought: Deer:Underbrush::Humans:Earth
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by johnrob 5y ago
Sadly, I doubt the brokers have much concern about their data being inaccurate!
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by johnrob 5y ago
Worth noting that this is an exceptional track record - 4 of 5 startups with a paying acquisition. Great story, but it’s not likely the normal result of doing 5 startups :)
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Four gray whales have been found dead near San Francisco(cnn.com)
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by johnrob 6y ago
One big advantage of using string representations of dates is avoiding misunderstood timezone calculations that may or may not occur at various layers of the backend stack. The downside of course is storage space.
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by johnrob 6y ago
He’s basically suggesting the exact opposite of the social media news feed, which we’ve proved to be hazardous.
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by johnrob 6y ago
Important missing detail: are the non parents being asked to do more work per week specifically because parent coworkers are on leave?
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by johnrob 6y ago
For those seeking the office experience, it will feel a lot different when everyone is maintaining 6 feet of distance. Not going to be the same experience people were fond of, IMO.
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by johnrob 7y ago
Quick question (answer might be in docs somewhere): can you choose which tables to export?
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by johnrob 7y ago
1 is the only number for which 3n + 1 = 4n. So a number that didn’t reduce to 1 would have to get stuck in a loop of multiple repeated values. That seems unlikely.
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by johnrob 7y ago
As PG implies, the work environment at big companies consists of more hackable tests - so (ironically) that type of interview might be a proper test.
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by johnrob 7y ago
The Uber layoffs announced yesterday now seem to be strategically timed. If we assume the standard 3 month severance offered by big companies, the layoffs would free up cash at the end of 2019 - right when they’d need it for the increase i
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by johnrob 7y ago
Well, in the real world I find that you don’t understand the problem you want to solve until you’ve applied a working solution to it. Practically speaking I tend to deliver quickly to accelerate the process, then refactor once all the r
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by johnrob 7y ago
Spreadsheets could also be understood as just a fancy pen/paper for a manual business process. Looking at it this way, the competition isn’t excel but rather doing things by hand (i.e. a non-solution vs a competitor).
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by johnrob 7y ago
I just saw ads on that blog post. I thought that was odd given the context. I went back to see again, and they were not there anymore. Is one of the included script tags up to no good?
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by johnrob 8y ago
Any challenges raising the round given the team is distributed? Congrats for the raise!
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by johnrob 8y ago
Those investors bought in two days ago - is this really a problem? Let’s see where the price is in 6 months. You’re only down if you sell.
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by johnrob 8y ago
BTW - your link from above is great - thanks for posting.
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by johnrob 8y ago
But there are certainly ways a subset of the population could profit from increasing food prices too. The question is a moral one.
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by johnrob 8y ago
I’m still waiting to hear a good explanation for why expensive housing is desirable but expensive food/water is not.
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by johnrob 8y ago
The challenge of details is best solved via rigorous definition of “done” (i.e. acceptance criteria). If you don’t have consensus for that, there are a million ways someone else can re-define the problem and thus expose “incorrect details”
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by johnrob 8y ago
I suspect this might work better than expected. The fear is that employees will exercise some form of nepotism that would “lower the bar”. That might not happen in practice though. Would love to see an experiment.
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by johnrob 8y ago
For many consumer ideas, the younger people are the experts.
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by johnrob 8y ago
Fundamentally, are performance systems done objectively or "on a curve"? Meaning, if 100% of the engineers are operating at say Staff Engineer level, do they all end up with that title? Or does the Staff Engineer title really co
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by johnrob 8y ago
What about weekends?
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by johnrob 8y ago
Given that you were essentially learning management while in the role, did you ever end up hiring people with prior management experience to report to you? What was the mentoring like for these folks - were there cases where your reports a
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by johnrob 8y ago
Solution: create a surplus of homes. That will detach price from income. Nothing else will work. (Note: we did this with food and it successfully kept prices low)
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by johnrob 8y ago
Big question: where is the best talent getting sent to? http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/14179705/antonio-brown-ty... Below is the most relevant snippet, I don't think we see this as often fo
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by johnrob 8y ago
Wondering outloud: given what facebook did to snapchat, would one assume that you have to "beat" snapchat (and anyone else) without resorting to a legal defense? In other words, if you can't beat snapchat at your own idea (a
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by johnrob 8y ago
People used to summarize YC in a similar way. The devil is usually in the details though. I think this program could be valuable to a certain type of aspiring founder.

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