kartickv

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by kartickv 11y ago
That reads like a rant, and I don't understand what the actual problem is — do you have an old Mac that can't be upgraded to the latest OS X? Do you have to pay money to upgrade OS X, and you don't want to? Or do you refuse t
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by kartickv 11y ago
Besides, how many fresh-faced twenty something employees at a startup understand the fine print — things like liquidation preferences (optional, participating, stacked and so on), ratchets, valuation caps, and so on? If people are signing u
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by kartickv 11y ago
We are in full agreement that risk and reward go together. In fact, my suggestion is a way to shift more risk and more reward onto investors. If I impose the condition that investors get paid only after employees get paid, I expect that I&#
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by kartickv 11y ago
Not only is the McD clerk less able to afford loss, she doesn't get the opportunity to diversify risks, as Warren Buffett does by investing in many companies.
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The incentive is more reward, like investing at a lower valuation. Or if each employee's upside is limited, that leaves more money for investors, if the company succeeds. More risk, more reward. Anything I'm missing?
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by kartickv 11y ago
If I were a founder who wanted to make sure employees and founders get a better deal, what are my options? Can I accept money from investors only on the condition that they get paid only after employees and founders get paid a minimum amoun
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But who's paying for the bits to be transferred? Neither the user nor the site. The ISP is paying for it themselves. And where do they get the money? From users paying for access to other sites. So, ISPs are taking the money from (user
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by kartickv 11y ago
Erring on the side of more restrictive works only if you can later relax the restriction without too much rework. In the author's regex example, if you use a regex subset and later realise that you need the full power of regexes, you c
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by kartickv 11y ago
What are some approaches one might take to consciously design a sub-turing-complex language? It should perhaps be driven from some concrete and critical use case. For example, I can imagine a language that you can analyse statically to dete