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by ksar 11y ago
Agreed. The Slack-esque hybrid command line is a bit of a bait and switch to get the tech community interested. The average user by no means is going to memorize more than 1-2 commands, if any at all. I barely use anything other than Giphy
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by ksar 11y ago
You could argue that the 'discipline of debt' imposed on the management of PE-bought companies improves operational efficiency - because they need to generate steady cash flow to delever the company. However, these guys lever to t
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by ksar 11y ago
Tax-deductible debt as it relates to financial engineering is what is tough to rationalize. For example, the primary function of a PE-fund is to buy ownership of a company by levering it up and then capturing tax shields (US debt subsidy in
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by ksar 11y ago
Crashlytics as part of Twitter's Fabric.io suite is awesome. It's our goto for simple things like monitoring crashes/errors, DAU/WAU/MAU and associated ratios across our apps. It also knocks TestFlight right out of
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by ksar 11y ago
Torontonian Raccoons are resilient but for the most part try and stay out of sight/out of the way of humans. However, I can't let my dog out into our backyard at night in Toronto. I'm pretty much guaranteed a trip to the vet.
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by ksar 12y ago
Oh man the feels. Being poor works against you in many ways - but one of the worst things that it does is blind you to what you can accomplish. If you don't have a view of that, it's hard to set out with the ambition to achieve an
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Sense-checking the viability of a hardware or wearables startup(medium.com)
3 points by ksar 12y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How to deal with a negative SEO campaign?
1 points by ksar 12y ago|2 comments
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by ksar 13y ago
For those of you looking for a quick fix - I've got a Furinno standing desk - sturdy, ultra compact, super light and inexpensive. http://www.amazon.com/Furinno-Adjustable-Laptop-Desk-Multifu...
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by ksar 13y ago
Congrats Cobi and team, this looks awesome!
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by ksar 13y ago
YC, with its clout, is probably the only entity that could push something like this through.
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by ksar 13y ago
Not necessarily. The 'caps' on these warrants are likely to be lower to compensate investors.
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Some fundamental business reading for startups(blog.stylekick.com)
2 points by ksar 13y ago|0 comments
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by ksar 13y ago
In hindsight everything is 20/20, but their survival hinged on their product strategy immediately following the original Storm device. Had they recognized that the original iPhone was being jail-broken to allow third-party developers t
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Building for a 2-sided market in fashion(blog.stylekick.com)
2 points by ksar 13y ago|0 comments
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by ksar 13y ago
I'm surprised that he'd still be making ideological bets like this at his age. Diversification could be his friend.
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by ksar 13y ago
People should hold money in an asset allocation (mix of equities, bonds etc.) that is appropriate for their risk profile - not necessarily in 100% index-tracking funds. You're suggesting that investors beat the market by taking on more
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by ksar 13y ago
Agreed on the above point that patronage/network access locks out most accredited investors from the hottest deals. PE/VC is a prime example of this, where the top decile make out like bandits. I'd like to add that speculatin
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by ksar 13y ago
Mid-high end brands build their clothes to an aspirational fit model. Most people are forced to make that fit work for them, either through tailoring, or optimizing around what attributes of their clothing are important to them. Fashion is
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by ksar 14y ago
The CMF is a big pot of money but to be in the running for funding you almost certainly have to hire a "consultant". There are many hoops, and they can be costly.