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901.
by mason55 11y ago
> I've been in this situation before and I returned the equity because I felt like there was still a lot of work to do Generally vested equity represents work done and unvested equity represents work still left to do. Did you guy
902.
by mason55 11y ago
That's kind of the point though. Options are (at least intended to be) compensation for a lower than market salary and a risk that the company might go bust. At the point that you're raising a Series E round you are going to be
903.
by mason55 11y ago
At least in NYC the ads are everywhere and have been for almost six months
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by mason55 11y ago
I was a fan of Simmons's writing but there were still plenty of good writers left (Zach Lowe & Bill Barnwell being two). Hopefully Bill can just bring everyone over to his new thing and continue producing the same kind of content.
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by mason55 11y ago
> It is also very common for company events (perhaps twice/month on average?) to be held at bars immediately after work. I mean, I don't think that is necessarily rare in the US either. We have weekly happy hours that get ex
906.
by mason55 11y ago
> especially in France. What software worth mentioning have they ever built over there? BusinessObjects, Mandriva, Dailymotion, Archos, Ubisoft is French, so Assassain's Creed, Drive, Far Cry, Tom Clancy series Alcatel and Orange
907.
by mason55 11y ago
If you want to get pissed about a lack of competition in the pharmacy market then look at the two large PBMs. They set the prices of drugs that every drug store pays. If they choose to raise prices and the insurers don't move in loc
908.
by mason55 11y ago
And this is the exact reason I left T-Mobile. AT&T have 4G coverage on pretty much the entire interstate system. When I had T-Mobile I'd drive from NYC to Columbus, OH and have no signal for the 8+ hours between the two cities.
909.
by mason55 11y ago
- Instead of giving away supplies, raise the percentage of the fee that you pay out. Then buy bulk supplies and sell them to the cleaners at a discount. - Partner with P&G and Unilever to get access to trial products that you can give
910.
by mason55 11y ago
IMO they focused on the wrong parts of the chain. Like you said, anyone can start a cleaning service and if all Homejoy does is match you with a cleaner who might or might not show up then there's no reason for them to exist. But ther
911.
by mason55 11y ago
Right, I think there is plenty of space for value-add in this market, it's just that Homejoy wasn't doing it. They thought they could act an uninterested intermediary whose focus was on scheduling and on demand cleaning but that&
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by mason55 11y ago
The idea is to prevent free riders in a commodified market and allow for collective action. It's actually very similar to a union in that each individual member (or farm) is small and can't have much effect on their own. By organ
913.
by mason55 11y ago
IMO it depends on the employee. I have some where I'd for sure go to bat to keep them around. I have some who slack off, put in minimal hours, and do a terrible job checking their work. They're a net positive, but barely, and i
914.
by mason55 11y ago
> They have no credit limit at all To be fair, none of AmEx's charge cards have a limit. But even the Centurion Card will get declined if you try to spend too much, they just don't tell you what "too much" is. I w
915.
by mason55 11y ago
I help people all the time when they get stuck and still give them offers. But it depends on how you get stuck. If you're struggling in refactoring from O(n^2) to O(n) but are able to get back on track after we talk through some idea
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by mason55 11y ago
Just be careful with FDWs. They run outside of many of the normal checks within the PG server and so a badly written FDW can actually cause the whole server to crash. We've experienced a number of issues with the MongoDB FDW from Cit
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by mason55 11y ago
> Honestly...160k salaries for some sw roles are silly When you think about the value that a single SWE can create it's not that crazy
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by mason55 11y ago
I don't think it's necessary to know the formal definition of big O (or big Theta or big Omega) but there's a spectrum there. If all you can say is "nested for loops are bad" and you can't explain why hash tab
919.
by mason55 11y ago
> I didn't like how they artificially segment the market by owning Audi/VW/Skoda/etc anyway How is this different from Honda/Acura, GM/Cadillac, or Toyota/Lexus?
920.
by mason55 11y ago
> Plus, no ads Well, except for the constant posts about YC classes & post postings for YC companies. Getting first crack at pretty much any startup and getting employees for those startups is worth way more than any ads that woul
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by mason55 11y ago
And if this happens then I won't upgrade or I will stop buying Macs. Until then I find them to be the best laptops on the market.
922.
by mason55 11y ago
You can almost always swap that in the BIOS or the OS
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by mason55 11y ago
This is actually a really good example of the CAP theorem. Because of the way Docs merges updates to a single document they had to either tie an editable document to a single machine or risk inconsistent updates. The choice was made to en
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by mason55 11y ago
> I suspect that the cops had access to illegally obtained evidence, and the bee thing was the only way they had to legitimize what they already knew. It's quite common and is called parallel construction[1] [1] https:/&#x2F
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by mason55 11y ago
The distinction is that once the author dies the work falls into the public domain. For as long as they are alive they can license it to a company, and the company can defend it or do whatever, but when the owner dies the copyright dies wi
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by mason55 11y ago
Do you realize that their lack of profit is not because they can't profitably sell things at current price points? The lack of profit is due to reinvestment in the business. It would be more like if you were mowing lawns at a very sma
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by mason55 11y ago
I'm curious what they are telling investors about possible liquidity events. It's not like there are many companies out there that can do a $20B acquisition and if they're not planning to go public I wonder how the investors
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by mason55 11y ago
Yes I came here looking for discussion on that. A good store does $200 a day after COGS? Say 8 hours/day and you're looking at $25/hour, which I guess is pretty far above minimum wage, but is someone for whom $25/hour i
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by mason55 11y ago
> Reducing the surface area of roads does not magically remove cars from the roads, it just creates congestion and traffic. Most traffic theory maintains that this actually does magically reduce traffic. People who would have driven n
930.
by mason55 11y ago
You can make payout tables similar to what they are now but instead of having a 1% house edge there's actually a small player edge. The house then covers the player edge and makes money by the stock investment. The issues would be 1)

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