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by kzhahou 12y ago
I wonder if the non-founder employees that took cash off the table during that financing round, will get to keep it? ...oh, right, only founders get to do this. Everyone else (who had <1% equity to begin with) gets zilch.
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by kzhahou 12y ago
When the stock recovers, they'll be pleased as punch!
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by kzhahou 12y ago
I think he meant "life is suffering."
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by kzhahou 12y ago
Jacquesm indeed made a sweet joke. No, he wasn't the one who used the "my grandma" line. It was the person he was replying to, who wrote: > HN lately reads like newsclippings sent to me by my grandma which continues to p
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by kzhahou 12y ago
You should understand that "my mom" and "my grandmother" are commonly used to denote technical illiteracy/incompetence and inability to keep up with the latest technological advances. This usage remans an unchallen
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by kzhahou 12y ago
tldr please?
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by kzhahou 12y ago
Yeah, being a founder is higher risk. Correct. At each stage towards success, a company is de-risked. But founders' equity usually totals the equity of all employees combined. Did the founders' risk --and their contributions--
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by kzhahou 12y ago
The founders of google landed on approximately $30 BILLION split two ways. There was a lot of talk around IPO that Google was minting a thousand millionaires, but a million is still 1000x smaller than a billion. The lesson we can take from
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by kzhahou 12y ago
> Aaron Levie and Dylan Smith are worth more than $100 million combined after turning the cloud software firm they started in a Berkeley, Calif., garage into Box Inc., with 1,200 employees and expected revenue of $285 million this year.
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by kzhahou 12y ago
I wasn't kidding about Google and Facebook. Facebook has been "open plan" since forever, with rows of monitors on long tables, and Google has talked publicly about their research on optimal collaboration environments, which
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by kzhahou 12y ago
All the modern "People Operations" research by Google, Facebook, and others, has concluded that the garment industry a hundred years ago had it exactly right: http://ursulinemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads&#x2
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I edited to clarify my position, which is not based on cynicism but rather concern for the mental well-being of the community.
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I don't know man, I'm not a fan of inspiration by once-in-a-generation leaders. Not everyone's a Roosevelt waiting to emerge, and that's ok. I feel that HN tries to be very supportive, but inadvertently sets expectatio
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by kzhahou 12y ago
Yeah, 1M sounds super fishy. Is this like when websites publishes total number of accounts, but not DAU? > our systems have now seen more than 1 million apps integrated with Crashlytics! If you parse this, "have now seen" != &
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by kzhahou 12y ago
When e-books have completely taken over, and the last dead-tree is tossed in the trash, one will remain: "Gödel, Escher, Bach", with its spine thoroughly cracked (though almost entirely unread) sitting proudly on every techie&#x27
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by kzhahou 12y ago
On the contrary: Agile is embraced by people (often young) who see is as a defense against the boogeyman WATERFALL that they think people had been following until now. In fact, few places did true waterfall, and even then it was not waterf
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by kzhahou 12y ago
I was hoping for some article or wikipedia entry that would tie your comment with the parent's comment, and with the original article. Monomorphization is, to my understanding, taking a polymorphic function and instantiating it to the
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source?
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They serve a delicious false dichotomy pie at the cheesecake factory.
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> Police said an officer saw a “homeless subject” who was “eyeing the children.” We should focus on the real problem: nasty filthy homeless mens wanted to steal our precious children! Also, there's no possible way the cop just made
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by kzhahou 12y ago
This is a sad reminder that the current president, who we were all so hopeful of, has the power to end this B.S. today.
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I would fain give up my imaginary "soul" in return for the whole world.
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by kzhahou 12y ago
Wonderful to see this new idea. But Andrew: instead of inventing this new model, why not achieve the redistribution by changing the percentages of the well-understood system. So instead of, say: 50% founder, 35% investors, 15% option p
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by kzhahou 12y ago
For a fully-evaluated sequence, where would Haskell find any perf improvement?
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by kzhahou 12y ago
I'm interested in the spreadsheet in the background. Anyone got info on that?
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Best tip I ever got was to not mix wasabi into your soy sauce. Instead, dab a small amount of wasabi directly on the nigiri, then dip into clean soy sauce. You then enjoy the intense wasabi, and the flavor is separated from the soy.
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by kzhahou 12y ago
Does an unpowered clutch engage a spring in parallel with the Achilles tendon when the foot is on the ground, offloading the calf muscles and making walking easier?
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I don't think he was trying to be a dick with that quote. He expressed an honest and natural reaction: how does this monster problem get solved by someone unknown?
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Why the editorialized "lol" in the title?

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