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by mrgordon 10y ago
Glad to see the mainstream media picked up on it: http://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Apple-CEO-Tim-Co... From the comments: "It's not personal. It's business." So when does business ta
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by mrgordon 10y ago
I pay less than $3000 actually and see similar listings
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by mrgordon 10y ago
Sure but by giving money you are doing more than just hedging. You are affecting the outcome. Hopefully all prospective and current Apple employees consider the politics and morality that the company is taking on.
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by mrgordon 10y ago
I am extremely disappointed to see Apple executives raising money for such a terrible politician. Goes to show that many important people will donate to both sides of the political spectrum to advance their careers even against their pers
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Tim Cook to Host Fundraiser for Paul Ryan(techcrunch.com)
3 points by mrgordon 10y ago|5 comments
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by mrgordon 10y ago
Rents can vary widely but I think $3000 is probably a more reasonable estimate. The transit estimates also seem too high - I spend almost nothing because I can walk to work and take a Lyft Line for $5 or a bus for $2.25 if I need to. Many p
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by mrgordon 10y ago
Well that brings a few other factors in as well. 1. The company can depreciate capital expenditures and deduct their costs from income whereas the employees would not reduce their taxes by doing a kitchen upgrade or going grocery shopping 2
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by mrgordon 10y ago
The employees also don't pay taxes on the perks so it costs less than giving you the money to buy the things yourself
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by mrgordon 11y ago
Wow, very surprised to see I got downvoted for sharing a perfectly valid anecdote after living in Oakland and San Francisco. I'm sorry if you feel differently but downvoting comments just because you don't agree with them is rathe
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by mrgordon 11y ago
They may appear nicer but when I read Yelp reviews in Rockridge and Temescal they occasionally mention the bars on the windows or robberies taking place which I've never seen in San Francisco. Not trying to say the average person will
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by mrgordon 11y ago
> I mean, by your logic if the fund holds a public stock that doubled in the past month but the fund went down, then you'd have to mark down the public stock, in this case I'm using a public stock as we know exactly what its wo
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by mrgordon 11y ago
I don't entirely disagree but I will point out one thing with the mutual fund markdowns. If the fund's value declines as the public markets tank (e.g. briefly at the start of the year) then the holdings in the fund need to be mark
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by mrgordon 11y ago
Yeah this is relatively common
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by mrgordon 11y ago
Agreed, we ended up on Flowdock ($3 a user per month) before Slack became so famous and it easily meets our needs.
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by mrgordon 11y ago
They did take a stake in Airbnb and Uber. They just marked Airbnb up 14%
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by mrgordon 11y ago
I don't claim to either. But its super fun to just go to the grocery store and the ability to actually try to replicate a few dishes with local ingredients (as opposed to whatever substitute is available back home) is really fun for a
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by mrgordon 11y ago
I don't know how it could be false when I said "usually" (and thus I don't particularly appreciate the downvote). I'd like to see a list of known cases where someone paid $40 million to hide an affair and had nothin
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by mrgordon 11y ago
"Using distributed for match but single machine AG very strong also" Doesn't this imply they weren't using a single PC?
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by mrgordon 11y ago
Innocent people usually don't pay millions in extortion money though
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by mrgordon 11y ago
Because going to the grocery store and cooking local food is a major part of the journey?
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by mrgordon 11y ago
It would be difficult so no one bothers. How many "people" is monthly use of S3, DynamoDB, RDS, Route 53, etc. equivalent to? Its not easy or worthwhile to estimate. Revenue per employee can be a bit of a vanity metric.
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Automating human evaluation at Pinterest(engineering.pinterest.com)
1 points by mrgordon 11y ago|0 comments
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by mrgordon 11y ago
You don't need Wine for that on OS X though
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by mrgordon 11y ago
10 months? I find that unlikely. The conservatives might not LIKE it, but no 5-4 decision in the past is going to help them now.
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by mrgordon 11y ago
No, although it required a little ingenuity. We would have considered using Shiny Server Pro for the auth and other features but we wanted to use our single sign on service. What we did was we put Nginx in front and had it call a tiny Rails
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by mrgordon 11y ago
Yeah I agree. We moved our visualizations from an expensive SaaS product to a few page Shiny metrics app that costs almost nothing.
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by mrgordon 11y ago
I've been meaning to write a blog post about this actually. Maybe I'll actually do it :) I guess it depends what you're trying to do. What part(s) of what Tableau offers do you care most about? How big of an organization? Cha
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by mrgordon 11y ago
Just to offer a different opinion: I know a lot of people who have been switching away from Tableau or not choosing it and using a different solution (or multiple) instead
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by mrgordon 11y ago
I don't think you're going for medium sized when you raise over a billion dollars. The investors who put in $500 million at a $10 billion valuation would need a lot of dividends to even break even, much less make the 10x return th
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by mrgordon 11y ago
Assuming those numbers are all true, we still need to lump in all of the other delivery services and other verticals that Uber/Lyft are attacking. Then on top of this you've computed $100 billion per year which can easily justify

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