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by pbiggar 11y ago
> If you decide to switch to another investor in that period and it's not because we've done anything wrong, then we might charge you for our costs. There's a weird effect when you actually put a price on something which i
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by pbiggar 11y ago
I like what they're going for, but I'm not sure it really works. - Some of the terms, as noted by others here, are ambiguous (board seat esp). - Some of the terms are IMO founder unfriendly (option pool - though I recognize it&#x2
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by pbiggar 11y ago
Maybe a starting point is to consider a hologram to be a "display", like being on television.
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by pbiggar 11y ago
Hardest technical problem would have to be my PhD. I worked out how to apply alias analysis to PHP (previously people had figured out how to do it for the easy subset of PHP - I extended it to the entire language of PHP 5.3 or so). [1] Alon
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by pbiggar 11y ago
The point I'm making is that use of the term by non-black people may be a useful part of dismantling the apparatus of racism.
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by pbiggar 11y ago
Fascinating article. In particular, I find the final point incredibly interesting: black men use the N-word to mean "buddy" and that black culture is becoming much more mainstream. As such others would like to use the vocabulary o
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by pbiggar 11y ago
The SunSpider benchmark is bullshit, and you shouldn't take anything from it. In particular, Chrome stopped optimizing for SunSpider with their last JIT, as they optimized for longer running apps (such as ones you'd find on the we
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by pbiggar 11y ago
Surely ClojureScript JS could just shell out to the Google Closure compiler, when available?
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by pbiggar 11y ago
This is what happens when folks with a radically-non-mainstream view of privacy try to use an app built for mainstream folks by folks with slightly more mainstream opinions about privacy.
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by pbiggar 11y ago
We (CircleCI) have hired a lot from the whoishiring threads, where we have posted on-and-off for the few years they've been running. We found our first engineer there, and made somewhere in the range of 5-10 hires from it total.
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by pbiggar 11y ago
But don't forget, when you write a piece about one of the hardest times in growing your business, for the benefits of a community of people who could really benefit to learn from those who have been through it, when it's possibly
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by pbiggar 11y ago
Interesting business model. It's like Segment.io for containers!
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by pbiggar 11y ago
It all depends on the circumstances. Is "early-stage" mean they have $1m in the bank, or $10m, or $100m? Do they _need_ you, or are interested in a hire? I think if they're early stage enough that you might get 10-20% (btw, 1
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by pbiggar 11y ago
Alternate theory: March 27th is 38 weeks after July 4th.
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by pbiggar 11y ago
Looks like others took up the cause later, see https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bjacob/builtin-unreachable... and https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform...
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by pbiggar 11y ago
I looked at doing this in 2010 for the firefox codebase. At the time, neither gcc nor clang were able to infer enough information from builtin_unreachable or asserts in non-debug mode to be worth the effort. Also, many asserts are rewritten
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by pbiggar 11y ago
I haven't used any JS build system. I'm just glad I don't have to work with Make. I'm also reacting to the idea that staying with existing tools is a good idea. People make new tools to solve new problems. And Make has a
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by pbiggar 11y ago
I guess we'd be stuck with Make. I can't say how happy I am that that isn't the case.
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by pbiggar 11y ago
I don't know what clearbit collects, but I would guess that this isn't the business model. Clearbit sells a B2B product - they monetize by charging money for a service directly, not indirectly via "collecting data about your
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by pbiggar 11y ago
> Does the pope shit in the woods? One of my favourite phrases, though IMO its complement is better: "is the bear a catholic?"
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by pbiggar 11y ago
There's an argument to be made - and I'm going to make it - that the reason people keep building new frameworks is that existing ones don't solve their problems all that well. As a result, you can expect them to keep being ma
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by pbiggar 11y ago
> Go avoids this because the language designed in simpler ABI requirements, and also doesn't allow binary libraries at all. Yes, this is what I'm getting at! This mess of linking and ABIs is a mess, and it shouldn't exist
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by pbiggar 11y ago
I'm not saying you can completely avoid integrating with the OS (after all, you need to communicate with the OS if you want to run). I'm saying that if you use something like libjpeg, you should statically compile it in. Applicati
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by pbiggar 11y ago
They already do on my xbox. But no, of course I'm not suggesting that - and that's a good counter-example, thanks. Really, I believe that the idea that the OS distributes libraries like libjpeg as archaic (distros strike me as an
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by pbiggar 11y ago
I think we live in different worlds. It seems all your examples are downloadable software. I live in a cloudy/SaaS/distributed systems world.
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by pbiggar 11y ago
Yes.
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by pbiggar 11y ago
I'm being a little imprecise with my language (too much time since I've worked on C++), sorry. I want to eliminate the idea that libraries are distributed separately from the application that uses them.
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by pbiggar 11y ago
I don't understand why you would need a separate version of Firefox for every version of the OS?
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by pbiggar 11y ago
I think I have a (slightly futuristic and not-yet-common) worldview where this is ridiculous. I agree it's real in the present world though. If you assume that: - people stop using a full OS to deploy their apps (in a containerized wor
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by pbiggar 11y ago
No, static _linking_ wont solving this problem. Getting rid of linking as a concept gets rid of this.

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