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by kzhahou 11y ago
No. Slack has innovated literally every advancement in chat for the last 20 years.
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So reaction!
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There's an unfair implication there, as YC does want to improve the world (while making great wealth along the way). It'd be more to the point to say that it's a reminder than YC is part of an institution where a small class
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by kzhahou 11y ago
Ya, or even "is able to relate to the day-to-day experience of most people who read Hacker News." Sam's startup --like for many here-- was not a roaring success. Few of the entrepreneurs and engineers here on HN have an extr
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by kzhahou 11y ago
So modern! Isn't any library released today, which improves on libraries from yesterday, by definition "modern"? Whenever I hear "modern" I just picture the developer thumbing his nose at the old fuddy-duddies who d
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by kzhahou 11y ago
The "cool kids" explanation also points to why from Sunnyvale/Santa Clara southward you find a lot of big enterprise companies. You know, the ones that sell from $3bn or go public but you've never heard of them.
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by kzhahou 11y ago
Sprint is jargon and jargon alienates newcomers. One of the goals of this team is to teach the government a new way of working. The article title would be much better as: > "How a two-day cross-functional team moved an agency twent
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by kzhahou 11y ago
Does anyone see value in the huge emphasis on the "sprint" term? Advocates promote the word as a new way of working, but I see it as just adding confusion for the audience it's trying to reach. That is, if I'm a person
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by kzhahou 11y ago
Correlate the comment corpus against LinkedIn DB and other public data sources, and one could create an auto-dox system.
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> Wow... how... how do you fix a place like this? Electric cars and alternative fuels?
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by kzhahou 11y ago
Those are all fine questions, but your original was just "what happened to ST?", which begged for an lmgtfy :-) Myself, I wouldn't suspect any particularly interesting backstory here. ST was founded thirteen years ago (!), a
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by kzhahou 11y ago
After extensive research, I uncovered key details about SocialText at the following website http://www.socialtext.com/
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Sergey and Larry had 30 BILLION dollars in stock on the day of IPO. Google made a lot of multi-millionaires, but the wild discrepancy between founder and non-founder equity was present there as well.
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The old Factory Owner's Defense.
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Your startup has fewer than ten people, and the grants are .1-.25%. Let's say it sells in three years for $50m, with no further dilution because you never hired more or took more investment. He gets $50-$125K. How much equity do you
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by kzhahou 11y ago
The company takes a risk on the employee. The employee takes a risk on the company. When the company IS finally successful, it's due to EVERYONE's work. Not in equal amounts, certainly, but not at a ratio of 50-5000x from founde
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Under this "canonical" answer, ONE of those layers owns as much as the rest of the company combined. By some curious phenomenon, this outsized layer belongs to... the person who invented the scheme. What a twist! Founders should
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The article title tries to put a good spin on it, but the revolution is behind us.
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by kzhahou 11y ago
For those that didn't get the title reference, it borrows from the jazz standard Bye Bye Blackbird. Here is Miles Davis on the great 1957 album, 'Round About Midnight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV2lNHfSXBQ
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by kzhahou 11y ago
I'm not a clojure developer, but I'm intrigued. I was gonna post the question "Why should I learn clojure?" but that's easy to google for and get good articles. I was then gonna post "What's a good book fo
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by kzhahou 11y ago
There are always going to be similar ideas across different languages, frameworks, and platforms. Your comment implies... some sort of equivalence between React's announcement and Reagent? I'm not sure. Maybe you're saying
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by kzhahou 11y ago
For e certain class of problem, yes. But as complexity and ambition increases in the UI and backend logic, the necessary skillsets will quickly diverge.
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by kzhahou 11y ago
> good luck finding an article predicting that podcasts would change everything Wait... are you saying podcasts changed everything? I don't see any large impact on content consumption.
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> Apple does the things nobody else has the stones to even try Well now, Microsoft's been aggressively pushing the latency limits for a while now. We don't yet know if Apple surpassed them. Regardless, it wouldn't be bec
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by kzhahou 11y ago
Surprised to not see mention of golang. Does anyone know if that's because even at Google scale, the simple "go build" command suffices?
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Looks very nice. I'd shrink the left-right margins and padding on mobile, though. About 25% of horizontal real estate is lost, which could be used for more detail in the content.
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I can believe that the growth was significantly helped by third-party clients, but I wouldn't believe that the more creative twitter integrations had a major effect. That would be a dev/techy-centric view of the world, similar to
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by kzhahou 11y ago
The story in the intro doesnt match the well-publicized video of the accident, which is on YouTube. The driver does NOT switch into reverse, and the grandmother does not scream for the driver to stop. So unless there was another toddler r
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by kzhahou 11y ago
TLDR: Zenefits is an awesome company to work for and is growing like crazy. Also, do something to stand out during the phone screen.
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It's a CPU+GPU hog.

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