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by kornish 8y ago
"We have incurred significant losses since inception and may never achieve profitability" is pretty standard in S-1s. Nothing particularly interesting in these sentences.
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The Ninety-Ninety Rule(en.wikipedia.org)
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by kornish 8y ago
The valuation for the Series D is 1.5B. Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-02/startup-s...
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by kornish 8y ago
You can run Lua natively in Redis.
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by kornish 8y ago
Isn’t this a reskin of Stephen Diehl’s earlier set of blog posts? Or is this a common PL example? http://dev.stephendiehl.com/fun/004_type_systems.html
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by kornish 8y ago
Those total comp bumps from 2015-2019 were probably due to massive stock appreciation more than salary increase.
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by kornish 8y ago
Wouldn't the incentives go the other way? I'd imagine Google wants people to get to sites that serve ads from Google so they can collect fees.
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by kornish 8y ago
Denver is getting slammed right now — power surges everywhere.
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Alchian-Allen and Agglomeration(medium.com)
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by kornish 8y ago
> Of the $11.4 billion in net revenue the company generated in 2018, $3 billion came in the last three months of the year, up only 2 percent from the previous quarter. To what degree does Uber's main business have seasonality? Are p
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What is the appeal of dynamically-typed languages?(gist.github.com)
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by kornish 8y ago
Sounds wonderful. Where did you go to med school?
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A Fireside Chat with Benchmark's Bill Gurley (2013)(youtube.com)
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by kornish 8y ago
Looks like shares dropped a bit in after-hours. Likely related to the CFO planning to leave during 2019, which was not in the earnings letter. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/30/musk-says-tesla-cfo-deepak-a...
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by kornish 8y ago
To play devil's advocate: It's not worth the time. People don't want to make decisions about quantifying if something was worth $0.10 of enjoyment. They'll just go elsewhere to slightly worse but totally (guilt-)free con
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On Being a Principal Engineer(blog.dbsmasher.com)
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by kornish 8y ago
Congrats on the launch! Why did you decide to tackle event-driven workflows with humans in the loop over human-initiated workflows, e.g. making a new staging env? Did customer research suggest that event-drive workflows were more valuable?
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by kornish 8y ago
How qualified are the leads you get from the opaque landing page? Seems like subscribers would be unlikely to read a newsletter having signed up for it while not knowing what it was about. I would imagine you’d want to optimize for opens ov
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Robo-Taxi Startup Zoox Hires Intel Exec Aicha Evans as New CEO(forbes.com)
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Jeff Bezos, Jack Ma, and the Quest to Kill EBay(medium.com)
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My interview kickoff script, annotated (from the founder of Django)(jacobian.org)
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TabNine's first month in review(jacobjackson.com)
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by kornish 8y ago
> that serve no benefit to the institution What makes you think such an affiliation serves no benefit to the institution? Exclusivity can be enticing unto itself. People want to have a shot of being elite.
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by kornish 8y ago
> I will probably use Mongo in production. Just curious: if one of the product differentiators is that its semantics more closely resemble a relational database, then why not power it with a relational database?
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by kornish 8y ago
Did you read the entire article? The whole point was that "delay loading" a particular DLL prevents a static analysis in the compiler from inserting hooks to perform expensive operations.
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by kornish 8y ago
Exactly. In theory, if the investors can get equity they want at a discount, and employees can get long-awaited cash they want — even not at "full price", because who knows what or when that might be - then everybody wins.
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by kornish 8y ago
If you can get capital for cheap (i.e. minimal dilution), then having a bit of cushion for any macroeconomic rollercoasters ain't such a bad idea. They can also use it for M&A, early employee liquidity, and a whole host of other us
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by kornish 8y ago
Another list of reads worth mentioning is the Architecture of Open Source Applications book [1]. Each application is small (< 500LOC) and contains design rationale in an approachable literate programming style. [1]: http://aos
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Counter Culture: Towards a History of Greek Numeracy (2002) [pdf](worrydream.com)
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by kornish 8y ago
Right on. In many ways, makes a lot of sense: UI automation is a quick-to-implement fix which addresses symptoms, with maintainability being the tradeoff. API integration (a la Mulesoft) can require an overhaul in a whole philosophy of orga

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