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by poof131 11y ago
Appreciate your service and your viewpoint but disagree. How do we win in Iraq? We supported the Shia backed government and they used their power to oppress Sunni political opponents. Now the Sunni regions are in revolt with ISIS ruling l
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by poof131 11y ago
The government issues government accounts for different levels of classification. You get a normal .gov or .mil for unclassified, another one for secret, and another one for top secret. All the communication is done on separate networks:
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by poof131 11y ago
Sounds like, “I’m looking for someone in the majors who is interested in switching to playing minor league ball.” If you had a fantastic developer who you could use to build new product that drives revenue or use them to write tests for th
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by poof131 11y ago
That’s one of the problems with data. It seems so exact but can really be so misleading. You break out charts, I break out charts. [1] My gut feeling is that much of middle class america has seen significant wage and livelihood stagnatio
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by poof131 11y ago
Definitely agree that the iron law needs to be relaxed. You can give special voting rights to founders stock to make sure they maintain control of the company, but currently the risk/reward ratio between founders and early employees is
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by poof131 11y ago
You hit a part of the military that really upsets me and I feel garners virtually no discussion. As a former F-18 pilot, I saw this first hand, as the military spent $billions on using jets to target insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan when
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by poof131 11y ago
Well written but disagree. I don’t see the internet playing a significantly larger role in 2016 than in the last couple of elections. The real distinction is the trajectory of the economy and people’s belief in the future. Sanders and Tru
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by poof131 11y ago
Agree with all that you said and I have seen it first hand as I tend to be a poor negotiator and overly trust people. My main issue is the selling of the “mission” by investors and founders. Even in the first comment of the article you li
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by poof131 11y ago
I think you are exactly right on equity and expose a problem of startups and recruiting that borders on disingenuous at the very least. VCs fund multiple startups expecting many to fail. As I’ve seen first hand, a prototype can land a mil
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by poof131 11y ago
Really? How about early startups protect themselves by treating employees fairly and not trying to lock them in with equity tricks many don’t understand. The fact you suggest this course seems to indicate a certain level of disdain for em
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by poof131 11y ago
I’m not sure what your point is or how it contradicts the part of the opinion you quoted. Sure, the founding fathers weren’t perfect and the sedition act seems downright deplorable, but the wiki article you referenced describes how the law
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by poof131 11y ago
Loading an application and hydrating with data seems like the ideal architecture. Especially when your single application can run on the web, mobile, or a desktop. A choice between thin and thick clients seems a little mainframe versus PC.
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by poof131 11y ago
I may be misunderstanding as I'm not familiar with your sources, but I’m not sure how you can have an effective team without accountability? If you are responsible for delivering something and you don’t and there’s never any ramificat
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by poof131 11y ago
Sure. But when you do fly I’d say it’s pretty risky.[1] Even some of the training can kill you. Seems more risky than a typical desk job, but maybe that depends on how deadly boredom can be. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by poof131 11y ago
Astronauts aren’t doing it for the money. The government doesn’t pay it’s people well for risk. Contracting with the government is much more lucrative in this regards. Military can often pay less than $50k a year[1] to people taking a ton
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by poof131 11y ago
+1000. It’s not like developers are licensed and only so many exist. The reality is you can’t find someone with the experience and talent you would like, who is interested in your company, team, product, location, and compensation. Tough t
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by poof131 11y ago
I believe it’s very possible, just not standard. A number of companies have adopted such measures to great effect for the founders to maintain power over investors [1], but not many have used similar legal tools in reverse to help spread t
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by poof131 11y ago
Seems like a solid plan to address issues with disparity in compensation / upside between different tiers of employees. It spreads the reward but still allows the founders to maintain larger ownership chunks, which is the important pa
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by poof131 11y ago
Congratulations. You built an end-to-end product that you sold for money. This is probably more than 99% of programmers have ever done. In many ways you are succeeding. Be flexible. Your determination, focus, and drive allowed you to po
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by poof131 11y ago
Yes and no depending upon seniority and context. Senior developers leading teams should make sure the patterns being used are secure. Junior developers should mostly worry about getting stuff built. Companies of even a modest size should
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by poof131 11y ago
What does this even mean? If you are starting a company you should be in other people’s business as often as you can. You need to be selling your product to people or companies. Are you trying to glamorize the “not work for someone else”
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by poof131 11y ago
Equity is the dirty secret of the widening wealth gap in society and especially poignant in startup land.[1] You’re taking a 50% pay cut for 0.2%. Assuming (for argument sake) no more dilution and $100m exit you get $200k. All that does
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by poof131 11y ago
While what you say can often be true, it is a sign of weak leadership. Strong leaders promote the best people and thereby lift themselves and the whole team. Bad leaders see strong subordinates as threats to their power and suffocate the
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by poof131 11y ago
The most telling quote for me was “The two men also differed over whether to address employee morale by re-pricing stock options to the new lower valuation, according to people familiar with the matter. Mr. Conrad favored the move, but Mr.
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by poof131 11y ago
If the cars are armored, the difference between Tahoe and Escalade is probably minimal compared to the overall cost I'd imagine, but still would be a nice gesture to not bling out when working for the government no matter who you are.
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by poof131 11y ago
Agree 100%. It’s frowned upon to talk about this as a generational thing, but it very much is. Debt is the instrument to have now and pay later, and the debt burden is rampant everywhere. Modern economics has essentially disregarded the r
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by poof131 11y ago
I’m not sure I agree 100% with your thesis on the B2B side. I’ve seen a few companies recently that seem to be getting strangled by the long tail. They have large numbers of low paying, price conscious customers draining resources. They ca
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by poof131 11y ago
Stay in your lane isn’t helping the situation. Also, while fobbit is funny internally and helps maintain the operator focused hierarchy, calling these names on the outside is distasteful. We need to be supporting each other in our travai
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by poof131 11y ago
While their growth tactics have pissed me off to no end (spammed my whole company once), I do see value in the product. I’ve found two jobs from LinkedIn and been contacted by recruiters at a number of companies I may want to work at. For

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