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by klochner 13y ago
Disclaimer: I'm not trying to find fault either way, I was just curious. Here's her ride log from Strava over the same segment a week ago (you'll need to log in to see details on the segment): http://www.strava.co
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by klochner 13y ago
Ways this could be biased: - higher skilled workers are in closed offices more often * and satisfaction varies by skill level - p(open office) varies by industry * and satisfaction varies by industry - people feel more co
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by klochner 13y ago
Is it really secure if everyone has the key?
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by klochner 13y ago
Not to mention that the author admitted he was guilty of the same faults, so it should really be "pitfalls to avoid when starting a company".
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by klochner 13y ago
It's not a canard, it's the ostensible reason for the current (high) state of rental and home prices. That said, it's great news that so many rental units will be made available in the next few years.
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by klochner 13y ago
I believe this was posted fairly recently: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2012/05/face... "San Francisco—one of the most expensive cities in the United States—added just 418 ne
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by klochner 13y ago
It should be an easy negotiation - the money just goes back into the company, less the taxes you would have to pay on the additional compensation. In practice, you need to be a fairly significant employee to drive this kind of abnormal tr
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by klochner 13y ago
The potential downside here is that you have to pay to exercise, which is lost money if the company folds. As long as the strike is low this makes total sense.
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by klochner 13y ago
An important distinction is between mature (or matur-ish) library code and your consuming code base: - library code publishes an interface and can do what it wants - your client/application code should be greppable There isn&#
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Trading Faster Than The Speed Of Reality(techcrunch.com)
1 points by klochner 13y ago|0 comments
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Airbnb gears up for big legal and legislative battles in New York(skift.com)
1 points by klochner 13y ago|0 comments
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by klochner 13y ago
> There is a 1x liquidation preference, but I’m willing to forgo even that and buy common shares (and sometimes do, although it has implications on the strike price for employee options so most founders don’t want it). +1 for that - com
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The Triumph of the Working Mother(nytimes.com)
1 points by klochner 13y ago|0 comments
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by klochner 13y ago
they're in pounds - multiply by 1.5
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by klochner 13y ago
non-managing software engineer - you write code.
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by klochner 13y ago
He referenced "growth phase" which presumably means after having raised a venture round in the tens of millions or higher. Certainly no one should be paying themselves this much after a $2MM series A.
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by klochner 13y ago
Let's consider his conclusions: ruby is slow: sound ruby's slowness is his main problem: not-sound He's not going to win programming contests with brute-force solutions. Even his brute-force method mak
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by klochner 14y ago
It depends on the product - few people seeing lucidchart in their facebook feed have any use for it (or at least don't recognize said use). Lucidchart is a product where you only need it under fairly special circumstances (small niche). Th
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by klochner 14y ago
You wouldn't hold bitcoin if you're not interested in currency speculation. I'm arguing that despite likely wide swings in the value of bitcoin, it's value as an anonymous transaction currency will prevent it from going extinct. People hoar
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by klochner 14y ago
The deflationary aspect is only important for currencies backing an economy - if you just use bitcoin for quick anonymous transactions, say dollar-->bitcoin-->purchase, then you don't care what the value is doing over time. It is in
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by klochner 14y ago
A computer science Ph.D. is nothing like what is described in this article. For various reasons (other opportunities, generous industry grants, minimal financial overhead to run a lab), students in computer science are comparatively well
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by klochner 14y ago
It just felt to me like retribution for this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5491293 Where I'm guessing that refer.ly is trying to raise their own series a and possibly getting frustrated. That said - entrepreneurs should be more co
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by klochner 14y ago
Publishing the list feels unprofessional and manipulative, especially considering: > When I make these posts suddenly people start returning my emails requesting data. Even as a causal observer of the VC market, I was able to spot a lo
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by klochner 14y ago
probably because most activity is currently speculation/hoarding rather than actual use.
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by klochner 14y ago
Is he putting his personal finances behind that personal guarantee?
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by klochner 14y ago
It's a bit confusing that splat is being used in an atypical manner - I've usually seen it used to designate an argument aggregator. [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6201657/what-does-splats-mean-in-the-coffeescript-tutorial
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by klochner 14y ago
related: https://twitter.com/notpolice
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Private Sector Parasites(salon.com)
1 points by klochner 14y ago|0 comments
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It’s time to tax financial transactions(washingtonpost.com)
25 points by klochner 14y ago|15 comments
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by klochner 14y ago
I've had a good one of these, even went for help from StackOverflow (subsequently deleted) [1] I couldn't figure out why my '%' key was exiting insert mode in vim. It turned out to be bad keying - I had remapped caps-lock to escape, and wa

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