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Too Clever By Half(epsilontheory.com)
3 points by kornish 8y ago|0 comments
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Product Runt(productrunt.com)
1 points by kornish 8y ago|0 comments
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by kornish 8y ago
I'm curious why you say Slack was undifferentiated. When you use a product many, many times per day in small bursts, small increases in ergonomics and decreases in friction start to add up fast.
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by kornish 8y ago
Kind of like rap, too. It's bizarre (and kind of awesome) how many rap and hip-hop lyrics are about being the best at rap and hip-hop.
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by kornish 8y ago
Second this tip. For Emacs users, remapping Caps Lock to Control is a godsend.
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by kornish 8y ago
Favorite comment from previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13919274 > Kind of an out of left field question: Lamport appears in a little square of video occasionally overlaid on the slides and somet
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by kornish 8y ago
Absolutely stellar talk by principal engineer Rick Reed about scaling their Erlang setup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c12cYAUTXXs .
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by kornish 8y ago
If the items were valuable, maybe the activity could be called "geocashing". :)
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by kornish 8y ago
Interesting note: the S&P 500 with dividend reinvestment returned 21.14% in 2017 [1]. [1]: https://dqydj.com/2017-sp-500-return/
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The Case for the Fat Startup (2010)(allthingsd.com)
1 points by kornish 9y ago|0 comments
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by kornish 9y ago
Exactly right. I'm not referring to which line the braces go on, but rather how domains get modeled, how errors are handled, how functional or imperative the code is, etc.
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by kornish 9y ago
Totally. I'm also curious about consistency: if you get reviewers who prefer different idioms and stylistic points between review, what does that do for codebase style over time? I wonder how their quality control operates on the revie
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Surprise Congress failed to address Facebook’s fundamental flaw(bobsullivan.net)
1 points by kornish 9y ago|0 comments
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An-Arrgh-chy: The Law and Economics of Pirate Organization [pdf](peterleeson.com)
3 points by kornish 9y ago|0 comments
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by kornish 9y ago
For those confused about the terminology in the title... > The devices, which are also known as stingrays or IMSI catchers, are commonly used by domestic law enforcement nationwide to locate a particular phone. Sometimes, they can also b
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by kornish 9y ago
And apparently the past?
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The AZ Problem(azproblem.info)
5 points by kornish 9y ago|1 comments
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by kornish 9y ago
Yes.
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by kornish 9y ago
> Nevertheless, my time in GMO research creating virus-resistant plants has meant dealing with the overwhelming negative responses the topic evokes in so many people. These range from daily conversations halting into awkward silence when
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by kornish 9y ago
Very true! I suspect involuntary founder replacement is much more common in venture-funded companies. While your, my, and the founder's definitions of success may not be synonymous with "financial success", many VCs and their
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by kornish 9y ago
Noam Wasserman (Harvard, USC) studies exactly this in a paper called "Rich vs King". As you can guess from the name, the conclusion is that bringing in outside generally management maximizes the expected value of equity. https:&#
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by kornish 9y ago
Was that how much you were charging? One would naively assume that you could probably have charged a lot more given the amount at stake for the fund.
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by kornish 9y ago
Sounds like an instance of Jevons' Paradox. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
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Writing System Software Episode 3: Random Testing(youtube.com)
1 points by kornish 9y ago|0 comments
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by kornish 9y ago
I think the better question is: during a life-and-death fire rescue effort, is it a better use of time to use Airtable as a backend or to write, deploy, and operate a concurrent editing backend yourself? There's a clear answer here.
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by kornish 9y ago
Yep. Such as .03% vs 3%.
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The New Super Investors(valuewalk.com)
2 points by kornish 9y ago|0 comments
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by kornish 9y ago
Out of interest, how many times did you faux-offer an RFP, knowing that you would win?
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by kornish 9y ago
Looks like last year, 160 companies IPO'd in the US and it seems that 2018 is predicted to be an IPO-heavy year [0]. Given that Carta seems to be one of the more mature and heavily capitalized cap table SaaS solutions, ~10% market shar
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Technology Due Diligence, or Lack Thereof (2017)(medium.com)
2 points by kornish 9y ago|0 comments

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