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by kornish 9y ago
Out of interest, what was your first open source project and what's your current?
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He's saying that they made a decision, then explained the reason for their decision. That's the best possible way to receive a No as a founder.
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There's a button which does that: "past", up right under the post link.
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by kornish 9y ago
Out of interest, to what degree do you think the improvement in comprehensibility is from the new ecosystem vs performing a rewrite with learnings from the original write?
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> “The effectiveness of social interaction is determined by our capacity to synchronize our activity with that of the individual with whom we are dealing,” Droit-Volet writes. “In other words, individuals adopt other people’s rhythms and
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by kornish 9y ago
A friend of mine who graduated with honors from an Ivy econ program moved to Palo Alto and went into PE. I asked him why he didn't go into VC in the heart of venture capital. He replied that PE was as close as you could get to formulai
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by kornish 9y ago
Hey - when the median return of an investment in a VC portfolio is 0, that alpha has to come from somewhere. And you know what? It's a valid strategy for those with the skill (or luck) to execute repeatedly. Sequoia earns their 3 and 3
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Institutions whose portfolio economics demand 1000x returns or bust. And also some of the individuals (angels) investing alongside the above institutions.
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by kornish 9y ago
Just want to point out that there's also the fact that if they want good unit economics, only a fraction of the $50 you pay the is going to paying for the hardware.
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by kornish 9y ago
Out of interest, roughly what percentage of candidates agreed to take on the project?
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> As it stands, the post feels more like "please don't fire me" than "where's my promotion?". Couldn't help but notice that sentiment in the passive wording of the title: "don't regret moving&
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by kornish 9y ago
What are some of the factors that contribute to OCaml being your language of choice / do you feel limited by the poor multicore parallelism story?
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Not sure why this comment saw a couple downvotes earlier. mbesto is correct: for most startups, most of the time, competitive advantage doesn't come from the underlying tech stack. To make a general statement, most things could be done
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by kornish 9y ago
Curious about your thoughts on Ecto: https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto . Seems to be the most popular solution for database access.
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And that's only equity funding - including debt, they're up past $980M.
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Why I hate Slack and you should too(bitquabit.com)
38 points by kornish 9y ago|30 comments
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by kornish 9y ago
What are some of your favorite "non-sexy" startups that you've casually observed?
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by kornish 9y ago
Are you thinking of Redux, the library commonly used with React which enforces unidirectional state management?
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A Data-Driven Exploration of Tech IPOs from 1997 to Present (2014)(mattermark.com)
2 points by kornish 9y ago|0 comments
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The target audience for this is college kids, who these days frequently use GitHub for consuming course material (e.g. boilerplate for class assignments). Doesn't seem like a bad move on their part to avoid rolling their own account sy
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Inside Travis Kalanick’s Resignation as Uber’s C.E.O(nytimes.com)
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by kornish 9y ago
Buzzfeed is actually growing a pretty legitimate and respectable journalism brand, subsidized by the clickbait ad-heavy content for which they're best known.
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by kornish 9y ago
Agreed. Go works for Google's use case (hiring thousands of fresh grads with low average tenure - need to minimize ramp-up time) but most companies should hire to the language, not bring the language to the hires.
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by kornish 9y ago
I think I lean the same way as you: the option for complexity, and counting on static analysis/linters/discipline to bound that complexity. That said, for all its theoretical flaws, Go is certainly a productive language (and has g
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by kornish 9y ago
Don't get me wrong, Go's simplicity comes with considerable tradeoffs and I'm not sure I'd use it in most cases again (started a greenfield codebase with it 3 years ago which is now around 200kloc). Just pointing out tha
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by kornish 9y ago
Ah, good to know. Great observation! I suppose that map does only show unit price, not $/sq ft.
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by kornish 9y ago
I don't think the problem with a large syntax is for writing - it's for reading . What happens when those same beginners are thrust into a professional production codebase and struggle to figure out what's going on? It&#x2
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Why chatbots fail(chatbot.fail)
2 points by kornish 9y ago|0 comments
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by kornish 9y ago
Haven't followed its development for a long while but Light Table might be what you're looking for: http://lighttable.com/
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by kornish 9y ago
While you're right that people sometimes value operations that take time, that's certainly an edge case - in general, snappiness leads to a better user experience. Also: if an operation is fast, you always have the option to make

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