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by nrmitchi 5y ago
I *think* that this is overall a good thing, but does it not implicitly create a floor for what a future funding round would be able to raise at? My basic back-of-the-envelope math looks like this makes raising a future round at anything &l
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by nrmitchi 5y ago
That's a bit of a goal-post-moving response. The statement I responded to was that people can't "use their equity as cash". Saying that you can't use a heloc to pay off your home is *true*, but not really related to
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by nrmitchi 5y ago
> they do not have the income to utilize it as cash I take it by this you're specifically targeting individuals who can't qualify for a HELOC or other (very common) methods of accessing home equity? I assume you have data to su
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by nrmitchi 5y ago
I was thinking about this at a previous company, when I took a look at our questions and thought the same thing. I realized that when given to a candidate, we don't just throw the question out and come back an hour later asking if they
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by nrmitchi 5y ago
I want to believe that. I really do. But I'm not sure that I agree. Testing of an app/system can, and does, happen within a non-real-world environment. I think it's kind of hard to justify that "testing the app" als
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You know, I would hope so. But unfortunately with many work status situations the decisions can end up feeling rather arbitrary. I think there is a stark difference between health and safety training/upskilling, and doing customer deli
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Overall I think ideas and programs like this are good for the company long-term; building user empathy is obviously important. It feels kind of odd to be explicitly forcing everyone into it though. This sounds like it would be concerning fo
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by nrmitchi 5y ago
It's kind of important to remember that the world, especially the social world of meeting new people, has *drastically* changed in the last 2 years.
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by nrmitchi 5y ago
There are many options for this, but at the end of the day it comes down to "it's a pain in the ass and isn't worth the effort for most applications". Obviously non-interactive exploits like log4shell change the math on
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by nrmitchi 5y ago
> You could say the same thing about the whole spectrum of ethically questionable jobs. I think we can all agree that there is at least some point on that spectrum where "Well, I needed a job" is an unacceptable excuse. Sure, b
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by nrmitchi 5y ago
> Taking one of those jobs does nothing to advance a person’s position I don't believe that anyone taking these positions are doing it in order to advance their career. > will probably leave them worse off Worse than homeless, st
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by nrmitchi 5y ago
> don't hire anyone who started working there after the labor dispute happened. I kind of see the point that you're trying to make, but I'm sure you understand that not everyone is in the same position to pick and choose j
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by nrmitchi 5y ago
Interesting that "buying majority control" of an organization in crypto-land is now called "doing a 51% attack".
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by nrmitchi 5y ago
I'm not disagreeing that there is likely an organization out there. You lose a lot of negotiating power though when everyone knows that you are going to have a very short deadline, and don't really have an alternative.
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by nrmitchi 5y ago
I think it's more than that; "preference" aside, if you can't find a partner willing to cover the costs, how will the upkeep costs be paid for? I see 3 options: 1. They are required to raise additional funding for mainte
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by nrmitchi 5y ago
So let me get this straight. There is an auction for a priceless (well, very expensive) item. A group is trying to raise funds to buy this item, but is not guaranteed to win the auction anyways. Participating in an auction while having a pu
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by nrmitchi 5y ago
Sorry, are you part of Gallery, or are you answering questions on this Launch from the perspective of a separate, but similar, company?
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by nrmitchi 5y ago
This is a lot of victim-blaming in a such a small response. > If you are totally clueless and don't bother to take even a few minutes to try to understand a system you are using, the results are going to be poor. Having a hosted sys
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by nrmitchi 5y ago
I may have not been as clear as I should have; I'm not necessarily arguging that typical , or expected scaling action should be slowed down. Ie, throttling scaling from X -> 1.5X doesn't really make sense. A scaling change t
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by nrmitchi 5y ago
> Let's say you're now hitting fabulous numbers / signups - but suddenly you start hitting that 500. Sure, you get alerted, confirm it's reasonable, and then change your limits. You're also describing how many
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by nrmitchi 5y ago
There are also many options in between "cloud-based infinity scale" and "on-prem". You can use cloud services that abstract many day-to-day operational tasks of db management, but are still bound price-wise to your month
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by nrmitchi 5y ago
Disagree; cloud services trade reduced operation work for higher prices. There is nothing inherent to "cloud services" that requires budget surprises.
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> The question that follows would be: how do you know what was intended to be less performant versus optimized on-demand? I'm saying that the cloud provider shouldn't try to make assumption either way, and I'm definitely n
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by nrmitchi 5y ago
Even with "infinite scale", you should still be monitoring, and be doing some form of budget monitoring. The difference is that application performance metrics are generally available in near-real time, whereas billing metrics are
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by nrmitchi 5y ago
As the author touches on, the main problem here isn't learning about indexes. It's about "infinity scaling" working too well for people who do not understand the consequences. In no sane version of the world should &qu
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by nrmitchi 5y ago
Some people seem to have a very skewed perspective on "poverty". "After paying all of the expenses for my upper-middle-class lifestyle, and saving for retirement, and supporting my aging parents, I have barely anything left o
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by nrmitchi 5y ago
According to the first paragraph of this article, it targets "the country's roughly 700 billionaires". It seems pretty safe to say that regular individuals at the vast majority of start-ups would not be affected. Really I thi
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by nrmitchi 5y ago
This is literally the same argument for why Uber/Lyft/Doordash drivers need to know the details of a fare before accepting, but a couple of orders-of-magnitude higher.
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by nrmitchi 5y ago
That cuts both ways; why should somebody be allowed to induce a negative impact on property that they are not paying for?
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by nrmitchi 5y ago
I'm not here to defend unnecessary zoning restrictions, but your argument here is that the right to not be affected by the externalities of someone else's decisions should be limited to the uber-wealthy?. It's completely reas

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