npkarnik

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by npkarnik 11y ago
First decide why you want the job. There are good reasons to work at an early-stage startup, the pace of work will stretch your capabilities exponentially more than a stable job will (from personal experience). The skills I developed workin
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by npkarnik 11y ago
I think the point is that people give to charities as a proxy for "helping people." Massive research oriented charities probably won't be displaced by something like GoFundMe, but the idea is that average people can directly
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by npkarnik 11y ago
Github Enterprise. Turns out that maintaining a git server and the familiar and great (imo) UI is something that medium-large companies generally have no interest in doing in-house and will gladly pay for.
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by npkarnik 11y ago
Many highly valued tech companies do secondary offerings to allow average employees to get some liquidity. Sure, the general public may not "get in early" but M&A is far less risky for both VCs and general investors. If mostly
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by npkarnik 11y ago
Hmm, it depends a lot on the size/type of company and reason for acquisition. If it's closer to a acqui-hire where the employees of the "acquired" company cease development on whatever they were doing and eventually just
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by npkarnik 11y ago
Fair use does in some cases
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by npkarnik 11y ago
Very Relevant: http://www.crypto.com/papers/export.txt (current Penn professor Matt Blaze's mid-90s account of registering as an arms dealer with US Customs to transport an encrypted telephone to Europe)
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by npkarnik 11y ago
Yammer is a team communication solution Microsoft already bought, but is way worse at synchronous communication (chat) than Slack, but also better at at asynchronous communication (threaded conversation, like on Facebook). Microsoft would w
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by npkarnik 11y ago
I didn't realize that the Slack CEO was also the Flickr founder, so you might be right in that Slack just isn't for sale to a megacorp. But Microsoft is the most likely buyer, it's been on a spree with integrating best-in-cla
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by npkarnik 11y ago
Which is preferable to the current model of your-and-my-data-and-eyeballs-to-advertisers-as-a-service
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by npkarnik 11y ago
Though Docker's current valuation wasn't disclosed, it was rumored at $400m for the Series C round, and has probably at least doubled since then, given the amount of capital raised right now and the fact that they haven't spe
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by npkarnik 12y ago
In some cases maybe, but hopefully most founders who obtain some personal liquidity in later rounds are not sadistic/hypocritical enough to deny their employees the same opportunity. But you're right, one potential large risk is a
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by npkarnik 12y ago
?? Barkley retired after the 1999-2000 season.
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by npkarnik 12y ago
A lot of the very recent, surprising successes in hardware (Oculus, Pebble) were crowdfunded (specifically for those, Kickstarted). I would go as far to say that using a premier crowdfunding platform to test the market may be the best, lowe
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by npkarnik 12y ago
If you have ever successfully done internet (and in particular, email) marketing, you would know that this is not BS. Targeted emailing works. Your potential customers are engaging with you for a reason, they often need some kind of activat
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by npkarnik 12y ago
There are more wealthy people suffering through engineering degrees than you'd think.
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by npkarnik 12y ago
One of my favorite David Foster Wallace essays is this Esquire piece on an obscure but top 100 tennis player named Michael Joyce (who later coached Sharapova for a while) http://www.esquire.com/features/sports/the-
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by npkarnik 12y ago
Palantir seems to have stopped lettering their rounds after G. Though I'm not sure about the distinction between a $400 million Private Equity raise and a $1.2 billion "Series E" a la Uber
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Mapping Tech (with) Bubbles(blog.zillabyte.com)
13 points by npkarnik 12y ago|1 comments
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Hacking the Kinect into a (t-shirt shooting) Weapon(techcrunch.com)
2 points by npkarnik 12y ago|0 comments
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by npkarnik 12y ago
A lot of tech related journalism gets (fairly) maligned. This is truly amazing writing, and I highly recommend reading the whole book, even if you know most of the story.
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by npkarnik 12y ago
Extralegal power has always been a mainstay of the federal government. For 20th century examples, the FBI was notorious for monitoring and blackmailing Civil Rights leaders (associating the movement with communism), especially MLK. Japanese
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by npkarnik 12y ago
Thanks a lot for the catch.
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by npkarnik 12y ago
Working on a mixtape right now actually. I can't really speak to R, having barely used it, but Python is definitely better to know in general, given that it is heavily used for scientific computing/data science and many other doma
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by npkarnik 12y ago
I'd love to improve the UI. My frontend skills need work, but any suggestions on javascript for interactive graphing? I played with sigma.js for about 15 minutes.
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by npkarnik 12y ago
Author here, something I've always wondered: how many software engineers are hip hop heads?
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by npkarnik 12y ago
I hope this guy succeeds. In most markets, blackouts are rare, but when they do happen, it's nothing more than a disgraceful power play and a relic of rules that were devised 40 years ago. The real crime is publicly financed stadiums.
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by npkarnik 12y ago
Some of the more recent negative stories around the Astros are alluded to in the article, but it's worth emphasizing that Houston is probably the most dysfunctional organization in the majors. The focus of the piece, GM Jeff Luhnow, ha
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by npkarnik 12y ago
Whatsapp is a paid service and was profitable (probably highly highly profitable)
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by npkarnik 12y ago
No, unemployed people count as participating. Non participating people don't count towards the official unemployment rate. For participation to drop as unemployment grows is the worst possible combination of trends.

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