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by johnrob 13y ago
There will always be scarcity; if not we'll keep making more humans until there is.
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At a high level this reads like a description of a real time media server (e.g. for streaming video). I suppose if you swap data for pixels, and avoid lossy compression, it's essentially the same problem.
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"Use pickle with caution" would be better advice. There are plenty of cases where your data is under control and pickle is a huge time saver. It takes work to translate most data structures to/from json.
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Should the mission slide go before or after the up-and-to-the-right graph? :) Joking aside, the last reason to have a mission is to get funding. The work is not worth the effort if it isn't meaningful. You are always optimizing for l
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Are we sure the fill rate would be 100%? There isn't an infinite supply of ads waiting to be displayed.
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Not sustainable for the small startups, that is.
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Inspiring story! The "path to success" picture is great.
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by johnrob 13y ago
In my experience, lack of clarity is caused by the executive team not making their true goals known to the whole company. A classic example is prioritizing seemingly arbitrary products/features in hope of pleasing a future partner or
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by johnrob 13y ago
OBL's impact wasn't that big in year one. It was huge over the next decade though. How many million man years have we spent in airport security lines because of him?
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Drivers for Uber, Lyft stuck in insurance limbo(sfgate.com)
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by johnrob 13y ago
You may have somehow responded to a comment that I deleted?
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I think health care and education should absorb the misplaced workers. The demand for those services is infinite and there should (in theory) always be incremental value created by additional workers (assume their salaries were 0; they wou
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Unless you think that list will the same in 100 years, new services will continue to enter the space.
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Scavengers is probably extreme, but they do tend to paint a half picture when it comes to the externalities of their services.
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by johnrob 13y ago
I wouldn't say "social local saas web", but rather "new product category". If you're building a new version of something that already exists, then the original question (do you use it?) is not really relevant.
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One benefit of removing regulations is that we get to relearn why we needed them in the first place.
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Merge lines 9 and 10, so that s\ in(... becomes sin(...
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Write code and talk to users.
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Key question: did Ironport succeed in spite of his family sacrifice, or because of it? It's not fair to recommend spending more time with the family without addressing what the consequences would have been.
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The true measure of a company is how much profit it produces. Why does revenue per employee matter?
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The first thing to check is whether your former employer has a need for part time. Both parties are validated, and there is little to no ramp up needed. The next I'd look at is mobile development. Now that there are multiple platform
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by johnrob 13y ago
Another thought - enabling referral payments to non employees (employees of other companies) could be an interesting business model. Friends looking for new opportunities don't always match your current company.
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Why will this work better than the usual 2-10k referral bonus that most companies pay to employees?
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The expected monetary return on a startup is positive, because the giant win at the end of the tail more than pays for the losses. However, the expected happiness is probably negative (unless people like failing). The guy at the end of the
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by johnrob 13y ago
Another explanation of why girls don't start companies: maybe they are smarter? The median outcome of a startup is a loss of time and money.
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It sounds like the amazon hiring process takes a long time, which probably also contributes to their goal: employees who stay long term. Filtering on quality gives you little guarantee as to how long someone will stay (in fact, I wouldn&#x
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What's the big deal? In the age of surveillance, all data is public.
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Ask users of your competitor's product why they prefer it.
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Americans on Wrong Side of Pay Gap Run Out of Means to Cope(money.msn.com)
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I've made similar mistakes (classifying a launch as failed). The key is to keep at it so long as you have some set of enthusiastic users. They will help you mature the product, and when that happens you can grow big quickly (Pinteres

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