mikeryan

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by mikeryan 11y ago
Well that's plenty of time to make sweeping generalizations. Carry on.
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by mikeryan 11y ago
Same goes for '8. Use JSX, ES6, Babel, Webpack, and NPM' - JSX aside, setting up this tool stack is totally unnecessary for a beginner getting started hacking on a Hello World app. While I agree with you in theory, in practice l
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by mikeryan 11y ago
It would be interesting to see if more founders take money off the table in high value rounds as a hedge against down rounds. It's not mentioned but while the founders may lose value in their common shares a lot of them have been able
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by mikeryan 11y ago
That's not a consistent scenario with what happened last time the tech bubble burst. Believe it or not most folks in the Bay Area don't work for tech startups. It would take a combination of a bunch of market forces to drive housi
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by mikeryan 11y ago
Would you agree that there doesn't exist a similar or better way to obtain the highest quality programming? No, cable or satllite both provide a greater breadth of highest quality programming. The cost and licensing terms are rough b
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by mikeryan 11y ago
Look I run a (moderately) successful services firm that's been completely bootstrapped as well ;-) I totally get it, but for every github and Atlassian there's also a Facebook and Snapchat or a hardware startup (wish I could think
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by mikeryan 11y ago
I think this sounds great in a hand wavy way but most folks don't have unlimited time and funds to do this and need to raise money in order to build their business So worrying about YC / other accelerator /angel funding is
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by mikeryan 11y ago
As the guy monitoring the end of a dev hiring email let me broach another challenge. I have no way to wade through the high volume of identical resumes coming out of these programs. Every Hack Reactor grad has the exact same thing as every
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by mikeryan 11y ago
Unless you've over leveraged your mortgage you should (right now) still be able to get out of a house in the Bay Area with most of your equity intact should you no longer be able to keep up with the payments. If you're underwater
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by mikeryan 11y ago
It does seem like one of those real-estate folks selling their "three step system for creating wealth flipping homes" who probably make more selling the system then actually flipping houses. In this case where he'd be giving
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by mikeryan 11y ago
The whole concept of an "album" is dying...
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by mikeryan 11y ago
My first thought on this purchase is it's to jumpstart a studio owned Spotify replacement.
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by mikeryan 11y ago
This is happening right now in Nevada though its political (for the primary season) not business. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/who-bought-nevadas-largest-paper...
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by mikeryan 11y ago
The Average Joe's home loan just got a slight bit more expensive.
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by mikeryan 11y ago
But then the money doesn't get the protections and shelter as part of the LLC which may very well likely invest as a for-profit entity. In other words there are other reasons to create the LLC that aren't about avoiding taxes. An
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by mikeryan 11y ago
There's a better article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/04/business/dealbook/how-mark...
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by mikeryan 11y ago
No the loopholes is that if the LLC donates the appreciated shares to charity it will get a deduction of the fair market value. However if a tax-exempt entity (Charity) then sells the stock it does not pay capital gains.
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by mikeryan 11y ago
These download numbers are depressing, and I, like most developers who have tvOS apps, blame discoverability. What that means is that there are just too few ways for users to find or be shown tvOS apps Seriously? "Hey I threw togeth
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by mikeryan 11y ago
I think in the the post he's responding to "smaller" means "smaller"
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by mikeryan 11y ago
“You see somebody in a suit, a flashy office, a flashy car—they’re trying to create an image. Don’t get me wrong, it’s cool to wear a suit. But it’s a little bit manufactured.” Honestly in the Bay Area a startup hoodie, t-shirt and jeans
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by mikeryan 11y ago
This is not Ello, this is in the whatsapp/snapchat vein.
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by mikeryan 11y ago
So I'm in the process of remodeling a bathroom and spent a bit of time at a toilet/tub place recently. Went into it feeling the same way you did, however while I was there, recently after lunch, patiently following my wife around
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by mikeryan 11y ago
They've done similar before https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5482178 Back then it was to alert folks who were hitting bandwidth quotas and you could make the argument they were trying to help but this one, ugh.
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by mikeryan 11y ago
Oh man KIT Digital was one of the stranger companies I've run into over the years. They were in the process of buying everything they could get their hands on from Broadcast streaming to social games. Had some initial conversations abo
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by mikeryan 11y ago
Picking a nit, they don't use React in the browser across all devices. They actually use an internal rendering engine called Gibbon on some devices with client code written JavaScript with React but not rendering to HTML or a browser i
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by mikeryan 11y ago
Not according to Glassdoor. Average Senior Software Engineer is $212k per year in total compensation. Directors of engineering are at $328.
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by mikeryan 11y ago
Just one metric you're not outlining here. Is the current offer at market rates or is the entire offer assuming some portion of equity in-lieu of cash? If you're already being offered a job at market rates then the rest is really
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by mikeryan 11y ago
My neighbor, son, daughter, friend, mailman all probably can provide an answer?
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by mikeryan 11y ago
Anyone who followed Exec can't have been surprised by Homejoy's demise.
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by mikeryan 11y ago
Agreed thats why it should make sense to buy.

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