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by mikeryan 6y ago
I’m spitballing here but maybe a middle ground is to convert some percentage of shares to equivalent to the seed investor shares. Assume, for the sake of argument, he was at one year and due 10%. Convert those share to the same terms as the
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by mikeryan 6y ago
I know it doesn't really work this way anymore but the theoretical point of a public offering is raising capital for business operations. This represent billions in working capital that AirBNB missed out on.
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by mikeryan 6y ago
It’s going to be really difficult to not get a smart tv pretty soon. You can, of course not hook it up to the internet. But pretty much all of the current TVs (particularly the good ones with nice displays) are going to be “Smart”. One reas
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by mikeryan 6y ago
You can read Timnit's letter/POV here https://www.platformer.news/p/the-withering-email-that-got-a...
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by mikeryan 6y ago
No San Francisco is underfunded and they've been added to by Voter initiatives. They also suffer from issues where they've had to increase pension obligations as the Cost of Living has increased at a greater rate than elsewhere. A
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by mikeryan 6y ago
What in the hell are they spending money on? Salaries and Pension obligations. If SF was going to make one great budgetary fix it would be to move away from pensions for public employees and move to a more traditional 401k retirement fun
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by mikeryan 6y ago
I have a feeling that post covid any outflows from SF will be replaced by a pretty rapid inflow of new people trying to get in while its more "affordable" Get a new, rent-controlled place now - you'll never have a better oppo
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by mikeryan 6y ago
Performance Improvement Plan, they are not unique to Amazon, most places have them though the process may differ. Not to be too cynical but ultimately they’re a way to document that you’re not meeting expectations - before being fired. Sho
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by mikeryan 6y ago
File system access? Ability to Play a Video stream without a user click? Access to non-CORS enabled APIs if needed?
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by mikeryan 6y ago
Something is off with your transpiling set up if you’re not getting accurate stack traces. A “create react app” default setup will should have accurate stack traces out of the box. To your point about best practices React, at least at the
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by mikeryan 6y ago
I have to admit I kind of was confused on how this ties to React when the examples aren’t even in JavaScript. If it’s a useful concept for React but the examples can’t even be clearly expressed in JavaScript the whole point of the article i
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by mikeryan 6y ago
It’s not airgapping per se. The large studios want to ensure they can send out their content pre-release to the various third-party vendors working on a project. Ensuring the vendors meet MPAA guidelines is a mechanism they use to ensure
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by mikeryan 6y ago
No that's a string bet. It's generally explicitly not allowed so you can't fish for info after saying "I see your bet....." Some places may let you do it once, but by rule its not allowed in Casinos.
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by mikeryan 6y ago
Everything in the Hindenburg Report could have been exposed without the Company going public. Going public via a SPAC they didn’t have to go through all the rigor associated with a traditional IPO. I’m not sure this is the public markets d
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by mikeryan 6y ago
Seriously just watch any of the guys rants on YouTube, you don't have to be technically savvy to see through his bullshit. Watch any of his interviews on YouTube. I like this one with Jim Cramer trying to nail him down on his pre-sales
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by mikeryan 6y ago
and quickly become painful to write once you’re familiar with the function call JavaScript's more recent structuring/desctructuring arguments has made this pretty seamless as long as you name your variables well. For the most pa
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by mikeryan 6y ago
Wow - first dial-up in 1997-8. I grew up on the Peninsula, Back when Silicon Valley's northern edge was pretty much the Oracle buildings on Redwood Shores and was just starting my path in the tech industry. One of my first jobs in tech
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by mikeryan 6y ago
Then the “fix” would be to make the shuttle drivers employees right?
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by mikeryan 6y ago
it's stressful to be strapped into that chair, and even knowing the technician is probably lying when they say they're detecting deception on a particular question, it's stressful when they accuse you of lying This is a bug
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by mikeryan 6y ago
Just want to point out all CDNs support HLS for on-demand assets. It’s just static http files. With HLS you just encode your file into multiple different nitrate files which are then split into small 5-10 second chunks and then wrapped in
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by mikeryan 6y ago
Cloudflare does $1 per 1000 minutes viewed at that pricing they're only $12k. (plus storage - likely only a few bucks more)
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by mikeryan 6y ago
Yes but every network in existence does it and is forced into that paradigm. Every premium channel on cable (HBO/Showtime/Starz etc) have had to have a new breakout hit pretty much every year with a pretty small slate of new conte
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by mikeryan 6y ago
If the content was good folks would watch it, Whether in quick bites or not. Even then, adjusting to the new reality and repackaging 10 minute episodes of a show into 30-60 minute episodes could likely be done in an editors suite in a few w
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by mikeryan 6y ago
I work in this industry and generally agree with your assessment. However a few things, the general industry perspective went like this: 1. David Katzenberg and Meg Whitman were creating a consumer service targeting a demographic they don&#
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by mikeryan 6y ago
It's not? But that being said I'm not sure this is static HTML either. You're going to need someway to parse and display that sheet data. Even if its server rendered as static HTML React isn't a bad way to go.
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by mikeryan 6y ago
Yeah we didn't design it. Just did the best we could to make it all work. The design is actually a bit of a legacy as the original version was actually an interactive blu-ray set[1] I kind of ended up with a love hate thing as well, it
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by mikeryan 6y ago
I don't disagree with you and it was proposed. However we didn't have A/B infrastructure in place then and on a project that may never make money it just wasn't a high enough priority to justify the spend.
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by mikeryan 6y ago
I'm going to be fascinated to see what this does for conversions. My company built the Neil Young Archives, when doing so we initially launched with Social log ins and at one point Neil decided Facebook and Google were evil and wanted
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by mikeryan 6y ago
Is it me or is the real problem that someone wrote a package and quickly wrote use “import ...“ instead of writing “const x = require(“...“ Node works fine out of the box from the command line, modules just need to have the correct instruct
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by mikeryan 6y ago
A Doordash delivery guy actually has to pick up the food though right? This also does probably provide some legal cover as well.

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