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by myblake 11y ago
Yeah seriously he's incredibly smart and funny.
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by myblake 11y ago
Can individuals customize their investments as well or is it all set at the company level?
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by myblake 11y ago
Yeah very good point about USDS being in a political and less bureaucratic / civil service part of government. However, I'd argue anyone that wins in 2016 regardless of age or party (not that there aren't huge differences) wi
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The American Religion(economist.com)
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by myblake 11y ago
Zenefits is not a 2 person startup, they're worth billions of dollars, have hundreds of millions in the bank and have several hundred employees. It's probably better to think of them as a privately owned growth company than a star
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by myblake 11y ago
cmd+f is back now, but I agree that was a breathtakingly bad product decision, I'm amazed they removed the feature and left it out for like two months. It's not like it's a hard product to dog food or they otherwise have shit
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by myblake 11y ago
It's like San Francisco only way bigger!
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by myblake 11y ago
Yeah some of us in the audience were wondering the same thing, where's the ASCII pics?!
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by myblake 11y ago
Yeah there's also no mention about the tax implications of this stuff which is nontrivial, I suspect the example of paying $50,000 and benefits vs. $57,500 and no benefits ignores the tax implications in a way that doesn't help th
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by myblake 11y ago
Factoring out microservices into Go (I assume where you need better performance or concurrency) seems like a really interesting way to go rather than cutting over wholesale. Anything about it particularly difficult or interesting, or was it
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by myblake 12y ago
It's just a more organized way to use callbacks, but having spent several months on a project using CPS in node I will say it certainly helps add order and remove hellishness.
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by myblake 12y ago
Not sure I see why this is the case since the money's going to charity.
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by myblake 12y ago
I'd also add to this that you should be getting a decent base salary at a company at this phase and you should try and live below your means, both so you can save and have a cushion allowing you to work full time without outside fundin
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by myblake 12y ago
I'd be more concerned with whether YC would invest in a company whose growth had flatlined: http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html , with that said if you're making that much revenue I think there's likely othe
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by myblake 12y ago
You can't do all these without roommates in San francisco (unless you have rent control pre 2011 or so) or Silicon Valley without roommates, but with roommates its manageable to a degree. Keep in mind "start up" can mean pre
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by myblake 12y ago
Heh also came to say the same thing. On reddit it would have obviously happened asap but I thought maybe there's less snarky humor on HN. Guess we couldn't resist this one though.
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by myblake 12y ago
Tucson is really nice in a lot of ways, it doesn't have walkability though which is one of the main components used in the analysis. If it's just a proxy for a certain type of city culturally (as I suspect it is) then in some ways
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by myblake 12y ago
Thanks for the feedback jareds, we've heard from a few folks that weekly is too much for them and will definitely consider changing it in the future, for now we've optimized the service for simplicity rather than trying to address
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by myblake 12y ago
I'd also argue that being able to be more adaptive with how data is structured can be good for a project where things change very quickly. If you have something where the data model is of simple to moderate complexity and persistence i
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by myblake 13y ago
Hacker news: where your DIY at home poop transplant only upsets people because of an incorrect claim of statistical significance.
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by myblake 13y ago
Looks like the site has been improved considerably since I last checked it out, love the new content and context (especially the story about Alice in the about page).
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by myblake 14y ago
Sure, I think he's also underestimating what percent of average office workers actually do have some of the talents and inclination to become skilled professional programmers. Despite excelling at math and doing some basic programming (in q
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by myblake 14y ago
I think that's pretty correct, the entrepreneur's role is to disrupt the status quo, which is pretty much the opposite of how finance seems to operate.
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by myblake 17y ago
gotta love easter eggs right? to be fair that function isn't called.
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by myblake 17y ago
As the author of said source I certainly agree, I put it together in about an hour. If you're referring to the fact it was running super slow for a bit that had more to do with overall just not anticipating how good my colleagues are at pub
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by myblake 17y ago
Good call, I'll fix it. Also just a warning the site seems to be under a bunch of load right now :-( We'll be keeping an eye on it, but sorry in advance if you can't get through.