khazhou

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by khazhou 10y ago
Sure it would. People would buy in, it would pop, etc. Because UBER.
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by khazhou 10y ago
So if you want to make big money at a startup, you have to found your own or gtfo?
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by khazhou 10y ago
Great perspective. It's not that equity itself is zero value. Otherwise, how would founders be able to afford MacLarens? It's employee equity that should be thought of as very low (or zero) value.
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by khazhou 10y ago
I'm always amused how employees are encouraged to think of their stock as zero-value, which founders and investors keep 85% of this "zero value" for themselves.
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by khazhou 10y ago
They == people in govt with access to this info.
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by khazhou 10y ago
You misunderstood. gnarbarian didn't thoroughly enjoy himself.
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by khazhou 10y ago
An open-source OS for devices, embeddable by third-parties for any phone, TVs, watches, etc? Not significant important for you? Sheesh, high standards.
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by khazhou 10y ago
Must be a different guy. This is the creator of the Android project, which (along with iPhone) ushered the modern mobile world.
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by khazhou 10y ago
I looked at the docs but it's unclear what "modern" refers to? Does it just mean it's new?
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by khazhou 10y ago
They've solved all the technical problems, so now it's time to write some games. (though seriously, I'm guessing this was not built by their core eng group -- ??)
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by khazhou 10y ago
That's consistent with DHH's message: the product is fantastic, but the business story was artificially propped up by VC $$$.
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by khazhou 10y ago
I tried to disable it altogether, but couldn't.
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by khazhou 10y ago
What's your editor? For me it's emacs (w/o X) so I"m inside iterm2 for the entirety of my Linux work.
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by khazhou 10y ago
Sure, except that OSX's iterm2+Karabiner is so much better than any terminal on Linux. Awesome full-screen switching (⌘-Enter), easy shortcuts to create subwindows, natural clipboard support, great keyboard compatibility with Emacs (a
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by khazhou 10y ago
Ha, I don't even have to read the deleted comment to know what it says!
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by khazhou 10y ago
I can honestly say that after spending the whole day worried about some presentations I have to do this week, reading this makes me believe I can do anything!
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by khazhou 10y ago
None of my friends' brother-in-laws are cofounders at Doordash, so I'm less attached :-) But this is a great example of the lack of customer lock-in. Even the slightest improvement over Doordash, and I'd easily switch to Ama
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by khazhou 10y ago
Sorry, I know my comment is negative in nature. And I'm not saying someone can't or shouldn't talk publicly outside their narrow band. Just pointing out that when the few public interviews a founder gets are outside their a
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by khazhou 10y ago
I always use the simple rule: Senior means you can finish a complex task on your own, without being told how to solve it. Of course, now we have to define "complex", but the salient part is being able to work independently.
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by khazhou 10y ago
I always consider it a bad sign for a startup whenever their founder is interviewed on topics completely irrelevant to the company. This article had nothing to do with Affirm, and is only generic hiring advice that purports to be about sta
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by khazhou 10y ago
> Not sure how you're in the industry without knowing who this guy is. Max is one of a handful of people who had successful startups of varying long-term influence ten years ago. Knowing his name is hardly a prerequisite for workin
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by khazhou 10y ago
> Perhaps the most revolutionary design change since HMS Dreadnought. Goddamnit, I had work to get done today. Sigh... wikipedia Dreadnought here we go.
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by khazhou 10y ago
What are you planning to do with the firebee?
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by khazhou 10y ago
> forerunners of agile What do you mean?
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by khazhou 10y ago
In fact, one of the major reasons for the $4B+ budget overage was the rewrite from plain Javascript to Backbone in 2012, again to Angular in 2014, and to React last year.
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by khazhou 10y ago
I believe the comment is intended to point out to HN readers that this algorithm was central to the game, and since the game made a large amount of money, then this algorithm served (at least in part) as a basis for Notch's monetary re