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by objclxt 9y ago
> As to why they don't allow everyone to be monthly - it's probably because they get to claw back a fair amount of the equity if people leave. I may be being a little cynical, but if you vest annually or bi-annually you can get
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by objclxt 9y ago
Yes, but after the initial grant has vested entirely your opportunities for growth are limited. Here's an example - say I'm hired with 1000 units of stock over four years. Each year I receive a refresher grant of 250 units of stoc
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by objclxt 9y ago
That's what they did after it was clear it was done as a piece of consumer hardware. It's easy to forget how hard Google pushed Glass to consumers. They parachuted people out of a helicopter onto the roof of the Moscone Center w
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by objclxt 9y ago
To add to this: it's not just low transactions fees for the merchant, it's cheaper payments for the customer as well. Both Alipay and WeChat have spent billions subsidizing and discounting. Go into a restaurant in Beijing and th
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by objclxt 9y ago
Take a look here: https://github.com/facebook/react/wiki/sites-using-react ...that's obviously not complete, either. If you think of a large tech company the odds are they are using react somewhere for s
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by objclxt 9y ago
Off the top of my head big users of React include: * Apple (their entire dev docs site is built in it, and they've hosted Bay Area React user meet-ups) * Twitter (for their mobile web) * Microsoft (parts of Visual Studio use it) * Netf
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by objclxt 9y ago
> Don't be so harsh on all of IBM, its like hundreds of companies under one banner. I think you mean don't be so harsh on the people on the ground at IBM. If the issue is IBM's internal structure is fractured and disorga
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by objclxt 9y ago
I'm not sure I'd call it woefully obtuse, at least on the web (which is what I primarily use it for). See an example here: http://imgur.com/a/3Tjb7 ...note that I can choose to dislike the post itself, or hid
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by objclxt 9y ago
Despite being in tech industry I went to film school back when it was still very common to be taught to shoot film so I'll have a go: > I've seen analyses that suggest that 70mm is roughly equivalent to 8K resolution, once digi
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by objclxt 9y ago
> And frame rate. IMAX HD is 48 frames/sec compared to 24 for regular film and IMAX ... up to 48. Christopher Nolan doesn't shoot at 48 for his IMAX material, he shoots at 24 (on film).
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by objclxt 9y ago
If that's the case then how come in other countries with similar strong unions/guilds healthcare costs are so much lower? Nobody complains the BMA is increasing the price of healthcare in the UK. > Everything else is window dre
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by objclxt 9y ago
But...this is true of every software vendor. Does anyone think Microsoft is paying market value for a remote code execution exploit in Edge? They're not, they'll give you $15k for it[1]. I find this particularly interesting: >
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by objclxt 9y ago
> Disney is an entertainment megacorp whose weakness seems to be live entertainment... I don't know, Disney Theatrical Productions does pretty well. It's true that Disney has never really embraced Las Vegas, where Cirque is kin
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by objclxt 9y ago
How do you propose that your new utopian organization actually get its standards implemented by user agents? The only time there has been a half successful splintering off of the W3C was WHATWG, and WHATWG only worked because it was backed
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by objclxt 9y ago
Yep, here's the technical data sheet for the chip: https://people.ece.cornell.edu/land/courses/ece4760/FinalPro...
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by objclxt 9y ago
I think there's quite a big difference between hating on crypto-currency as a concept and hating on ICOs. People here very much do the latter, for good reason.
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Except that's not the case, all WWDC slides from all sessions go through design review. I've presented there several times when I was at Apple.
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by objclxt 9y ago
> One thing intrigues me though - albeit likely a function of my lack of knowledge on the matter - do these requirements implicitly rule out shooting on film for Netflix? In terms of resolution, no. Standard 35mm can produce a good quali
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by objclxt 9y ago
> I guess the company, or a few clever individuals, saw the "consulting" or equipment renting/financing potential Not really, at that level everyone in Hollywood is renting their cameras anyway. Indeed, one of them cameras
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by objclxt 9y ago
> It is also worth mentioning there has never been a single case of fraud or loss attributed to "screen-scraping" Saying "it's never happened before" doesn't in anyway mitigate the attack vector. For what it
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by objclxt 9y ago
But I didn't say I expected the conversation to be good , I said I expected it not to be racist . This isn't really any different from what occurs at stadiums for club sports. If you start loading shouting racist abuse whilst sp
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by objclxt 9y ago
> Your complaint is the equivalent of striding into a concert for 12-20 year olds, and then complaining about the loud noise. Certainly you're right that if I go watch a random stream of a match full of teenagers I shouldn't ex
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by objclxt 9y ago
> Why are people up in arms over this? Because in the US tipping isn't for good service. You tip 15% for regular, average service. I don't think it's unreasonable for me to pay a flat, quoted rate for getting from A to B
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by objclxt 9y ago
> The few Uber drivers I know expect a tip. I think this varies a lot by city. I don't know if you're in San Francisco, but it's never been my experience here that drivers expect a tip. But when I fly down to Las Vegas n
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by objclxt 9y ago
You are mixing up blue collar and white collar unions. Go look at the film industry, and the Writers / Directors / Screen Actors Guilds. The WGA doesn't stop screenwriters from negotiating their own terms. Do you think someon
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by objclxt 9y ago
It takes a certain kind of idiot to make a sexist remark (even as a joke) in a meeting about how your company is going to tackle its terrible problem with sexism.
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by objclxt 9y ago
> What have you done lately which is anything close to what Travis built vs. just commenting on a tech forum at his incompetence? It's true, I haven't condoned obtaining the confidential medical records of a rape victim by my d
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by objclxt 9y ago
> Could you be denied admittance to Harvard because you showed up on campus at some kind of freshman event and started telling extremely offensive jokes in front of the whole gathering? Probably depends how offensive you were. But yeah,
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by objclxt 9y ago
Counterpoint: say you had been admitted to Harvard and were coming from Mexico, or were the victim of a sexual assault during high school. How would you feel if you found out that your new classmates had been sharing racist images, or memes
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by objclxt 9y ago
In Tesla's case I think it's more they can't make the spares, or are having trouble training shops to handle bodywork and the like. You see nightmare stories on the various Tesla forums of owners who have gone months without

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