pmikesell

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by pmikesell 10y ago
For some background: http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/03/06/the-hiring-post/ Part of the idea is that there are some great devs out there who don't have the resume to "just email the compan
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by pmikesell 11y ago
And also - the price that employees pay for stock options is the common share price which is appreciably different (2x - 20x) from the preferred price. The preferred share price is what the investors paid, and it is that higher valuation th
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by pmikesell 11y ago
I think it's because it suggests that professional landlords / developers are using the platform to sidestep rent control laws, as opposed to regular people just renting out their homes while they are away on vacation.
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by pmikesell 11y ago
> but then found someone who would mail me a check for $40,000, even during a recession, because they were risk-taking business owners themselves. Perhaps the guy from Provo Utah, instead of being a sucker, really wanted to see something
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by pmikesell 11y ago
>> The only problem unique to the tech-unicorns here is exercising stock options when you can't pay for the taxes. Don't do that. Ok, sure, but what do you do when you have all of this equity vested on paper and either 1) yo
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by pmikesell 11y ago
It wasn't about this one interaction, it's about the relationship that police have with black people, and vice-versa. If you are white, your expectation is that in this situation the cops would have taken you to the victim, she wo
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by pmikesell 11y ago
The common counting down problem he's referring to is where an unsigned iterator can never be <0, so it introduces an infinite loop. Setting a found boolean does nothing to alleviate that situation.
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by pmikesell 11y ago
The other thing about circuit labs is that it's b2c. It didn't take long time for me as an individual to play with circuitlabs and go "ok, this is cool, I want to use this a bunch, let's type in my credit card". As
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by pmikesell 11y ago
He has a perfectly valid economic argument. He's not saying it's the sunk cost that provides the value, it's the added overall value they provide by having a college education. The cost of getting that education could be a re
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by pmikesell 11y ago
I've had the same experience. If they'd literally done nothing but make sure the product doesn't lose data in the last two years since they last CEO announced a refocus on quality they'd be in a much better spot. Wit
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by pmikesell 11y ago
If I build a box and sell it to you, the cost of the parts is cogs. If you buy someone else's box through my website that's gmv. Your example is correct too, but probably not what somebody would use because in that example it&#x27
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by pmikesell 11y ago
"We also looked at whether the college a founder attended might impact company performance. Unsurprisingly, teams with at least one founder who went to a “top school” (unscientifically defined in our study as one of the Ivies plus Stan
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by pmikesell 11y ago
It doesn't have to be 100% one way or the other. I think the optimal solution might be something like 1 (or maybe 2) days per week in the office for planning and sync up, and then 3 days WFH. I'm sure it depends on the size or the
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by pmikesell 11y ago
Google IO is 1 day away. My guess is they just finished polishing presentations which got published.
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by pmikesell 11y ago
Well, why are you missing out? There's plenty of opportunity for these things in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Seattle, etc. Is this a question about how to pick the right company, or where to live, or what kind of work to focus on?
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by pmikesell 12y ago
Ok, I agree with most of what you said, but you must admit that there are a large chunk of "software engineers" out there that are just terrible, right? Companies have to do something to try to filter good from bad. So what's
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by pmikesell 12y ago
>>> He's really talking about online application business-to-consumer startups ("appcrap") No, I don't think so. The author is Slava from RethinkDB. His company is definitely not "appcrap" (as you put
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by pmikesell 13y ago
The california version is covered california ( https://www.coveredca.com/ ). After investing a total of 8 hours over the course of 3 days on this site I still don't have health coverage. Timeouts abound, and even when th
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by pmikesell 13y ago
I don't understand how you can lose important irreplaceable data but still continue to use the product. Evernote lost a set of conference notes for me. It wasn't the most important thing in the world, but it was something I went t
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by pmikesell 13y ago
"1. Offers to make partnership introductions that are a waste of time." This happens over and over and over again. It's compounded by the fact that both of the introduced parties feel some amount of obligation to report the i
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by pmikesell 13y ago
I think another key point is one that was only partially touched on in this thoughtful post. When you go to raise your B round, this party round A is going to look "different" than what the B investors are used to seeing. Anything that look
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by pmikesell 13y ago
Fifth - if I do give in an install the damn thing you're just going to want me to update it all the time anyway
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by pmikesell 14y ago
The big difference is that you are logged in and you request a car with your account. You've essentially rented the car from the moment you hit ok. Why does this matter? Because it means the car will actually show up. I live in San Francisc
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by pmikesell 14y ago
As somebody who my name on a bunch of software patents - software should not be patentable either.
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by pmikesell 14y ago
This whole article was gushing over how beautiful and modern his experience was, but the one and only actual example he uses of it actually doing something for him was that it found printer drivers. This was written like a fashion artic
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by pmikesell 14y ago
Foreflight - for the pilots out there this one app makes the whole thing worth it.
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by pmikesell 14y ago
I moved from Seattle to SF and one big difference I noticed is that people are waaay friendlier here in SF than they were in Seattle. It's so much easier to get to know new people here. I think part of the reason for that is that almost n
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by pmikesell 15y ago
There are bunch of online music labels springing up. What really needs to happen (at least from my limited point of view) is for some of those to wind up in the Pandora (or other) feeds and then it's game over for the traditional labels.
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by pmikesell 15y ago
Overheard at the bar: Person: "Greg, if you're not on facebook you're missing like 50% of world". Greg: "Is there some way that I could miss 75%?"
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by pmikesell 16y ago
Seattle has had some good outcomes. There's some great companies up there and a thriving tech sector. UW Comp Sci is a quality program too. And lastly, there is a sizable amount of VC activity.

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