maaku

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by maaku 12y ago
I am a founder of a company; I know what is involved. I've also been there on the employee side -- I know how much they contribute. And with that context, I can say with certainty that terms are almost universally biased in favor of fo
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by maaku 12y ago
I am ;)
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by maaku 12y ago
> Yes and they get a salary for this like they would at any other company. You've obviously never worked as an early employee at a startup. Pay is never equal or even close to what you'd get at typical big company. Typically th
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by maaku 12y ago
The reason why founders hold the majority of the company even years after their role -- important though it remains -- is nothing more than managerial, custodian, or public face, is because of the non-perishable, non-inflationary nature of
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by maaku 12y ago
Many of the mechanisms which aggravate the situation (e.g. aggressive company-favored retention clauses in options) where pioneered here.
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by maaku 12y ago
Very misleading.
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by maaku 12y ago
No, founders hold the majority of the stock because the standard unequal terms of silicon valley favor founders over employees (and investors over everyone). Founders got the ball rolling, but it is the employees that took the company from
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by maaku 12y ago
What happens when you ask it to do something entirely novel, that it has never seen before?
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by maaku 12y ago
Except that doesn't make sense. The complexity of changes that can be carried over is very, very small compared to the changes which go on in a single lifetime. And the mechanism is totally different.
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by maaku 12y ago
You'd expect it to average out. But since my job involves bitcoin, I'm often clued into the price and can time my conversions on an upswing.
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by maaku 12y ago
About $14.50 per wire on average.
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by maaku 12y ago
> There is still no incentive to get paid in BTC I get paid by clients in bitcoin. It saves me significant wire transfer fees.
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by maaku 12y ago
Interesting, thank you!
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by maaku 12y ago
that's when the last black hole evaporates due to the hawking radiation. the moment when all usable sources of thermodynamics potential are used up is much earlier.
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by maaku 12y ago
"Considerably longer than the anticipated heat death of the universe." Better?
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by maaku 12y ago
What are the stories of Mount Chimaera?
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by maaku 12y ago
You should expect code that breaks out of the safe environment the language tries to build for you to be ugly. To be unworkable even. If it is not, then that means that the language has been optimized for unsafe usage, and whatever clean sy
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by maaku 12y ago
Consistency of single updates is vastly different than multi-write atomic transactions. The former precludes, for example, financial applications which require atomic updates of multiple balances.
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by maaku 12y ago
Fully ACID transactions is a big deal.
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by maaku 12y ago
How is the name problematic? I knew exactly what they were saying and why when I saw it. If it were me I would have shortened it to RoachDB, but that's just marketing.
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by maaku 12y ago
You're webserver is broken. Anyone have a cached link?
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by maaku 12y ago
Maybe in mass media, or in the just-passed-one-on-the-street-and-didn't-know-it sense. Here's a pointer to learn about real ninjutsu, as it survives today: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bujinkan
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by maaku 12y ago
I am a ninja, or was for a number of years, and I chuckle then sigh everytime I hear that. These people wouldn't know a ninja if they met one.
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by maaku 12y ago
Don't live in gentrified, high-rent neighborhoods in the city. I rent in San Jose, have private health insurance, and am sole provider for a family of four. Our necessary expenses to maintain our standard of living for last year totale
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by maaku 12y ago
I would have preferred George W. Bush over my commencement speaker. Hell, who'd say no to a former president?
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by maaku 12y ago
Please show me where I can get Android installed on my iOS device.
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by maaku 12y ago
if you live frugally in Silicon Valley your savings can be larger than your annual salary in Montreal.
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by maaku 12y ago
I'm not aware of any single real benefit of a US passport over a Canadian passport.
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by maaku 12y ago
Why the downvotes? Seriously that's why the incentive exists. Not enough skilled people wanting to live in Canada.
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by maaku 12y ago
`pip freeze`

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