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by poof131 11y ago
The mass market isn’t so much “morons” as just the lowest common denominator. Everyone is “smart” about the niche areas that interest them. These niches seldom overlap. So the mass market is more about things that cross the boundaries: s
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by poof131 11y ago
I feel like you are being harsh. Recruiting seems like a pretty essential part to a fast growing company. And to say they affect the “local intelligence culture”, well there’s a lot of locals in SF who say that about all of tech and there
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Probably view it as a negative signal. If it’s a startup, and the revenue has flat lined for the last two quarters, making most peoples stock worthless, and all your team mates talk about is how the gourmet catered lunch isn’t as good as t
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I don't think so. 9 people was mentioned in 2013. Tallying up the costs seems more current and the picture of the team shows 50 people.
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In a certain way this article makes me happy. I’m all for immigration as I think it makes countries stronger, but the fact a large number of Iraqis are confidant enough in the stability of their country to return home seems a good sign. D
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The saddest part of it all is that we were allied with Vietnam in WW2 with OSS operatives in assistance.[1] Ho Chi Minh reached out to the United States for our support at the end of the war. Unfortunately, the French wanted back their pr
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by poof131 11y ago
Didn’t know about the AC-130. Definitely a risk even in a moderate threat environment. I still don’t believe F-35 is the right platform for CAS. In a medium to high threat environment, I would prefer bombers (perhaps stealthy) or drones (
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Agreed that existential threats are the most critical. Could argue that terrorism combined with bio/nuclear is an existential threat, but then the real threat is bio/nuclear more than terrorism. But regarding CAS, I feel we shoul
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If we can't get an uncontested airspace, CAS is probably the least of our concerns. I wouldn't put ground troops in until the main threat was only shoulder launched, which the previously mentioned aircraft should be able to handl
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F-22 pilots are definitely clubbing baby seals when fighting 4th gen. I've been the baby seal. But I also call BS on the full invisibility people selling these platforms are trying to claim. If they are wrong (which I believe they a
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It’s all smoke. Using the F-35 for CAS is ludicrous. Using 4th and 5th generation aircraft in place of AC-130s [1] and Super Tacanos [2] not only costs more, but is incredibly less effective for the soldiers on the ground. CAS and the F-
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by poof131 11y ago
Yeah, but if I bring a fleet of trucks launching SA-20s [1] or a fleet of Mig-21s (and drones) with advanced upgrades [2] functioning as missile trucks, who knows. You’re really battling the missiles and BVR targeting capabilities. The pl
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1. A promise of equity is a red flag. A professional startup puts this in writing. If things don’t work out, that’s what vesting is for. 2. Wearing all the hats and the only technical hat initially puts you a lot closer to founder status.
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Saying there should be a standard number for the first employee is like saying there should be a standard valuation for every startup. Sure, YC throws out a fairly generous standard valuation, but they are choosing top notch startups and t
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by poof131 11y ago
People’s obsession with Slack and chat apps (applies to open offices too) seems overly done in Silicon Valley. Career switching from the military to development has been interesting in this regards. The military uses chat, but only when n
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by poof131 11y ago
Learn that everyone has value. No one is as exceptional as they think. The guy coding a little slower but who customer success always talks to about problems. Great, he’s enabling communication between teams. The girl who cleans up behind
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by poof131 11y ago
I’m not 100% sure how I’d tackle this problem, but the plane you described could play a roll. It’s not poorly thought out by any means. Generally, I’m a fan of a diverse set of assets for survivability and cost. Focus on specific missions
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If you had to have a computer for 20-30 years, you would definitely want to be able to load new data. Even if we could fit all the current radar data into the computer, as weapons change we would need new data. And there is much more to m
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Seems fairly standard. He provided feedback that could have prevented a disaster and the managers ignored it. So at the very least, the managers would dislike him for the fact that he illuminated their incompetence, but even more so for t
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I did a Masters in Computer Science online from DePaul[1] and the teaching quality exceeded that of my undergrad time at UCLA where most Professors just read from the book to a hall of a few hundred people. There are really two problems wit
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I don’t think this is helpful. There is no medical test for it being in your blood. This ends up being a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you quit, it wasn’t in your blood, if you succeed it was in your blood. Most entrepreneurs I’ve come a
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You are not being ridiculous and don't let people hate on you. 1. I see expert programming similar to Mathematics.[1] If you can do two 2-3 hour spurts that produces a ton, it can be draining and you need time to recharge. It's
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My issue isn’t with placing some of the blame on Churchill but all of it. The world was in a war where untold millions were killed and the outcome was anything but certain. My guess is that Churchill had to juggle multiple aspects of the
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Thanks for posting your comment and showing another side of Churchill that I was unaware of. [1] But I think you are being down voted because the comparison with Stalin is ill chosen. Churchill seems to have been a bigger racist than was
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Holocracy is a single manager’s delusion that everyone can report to him or her. As far as I can tell Zappos still has a CEO. I also think the divide people are commenting about between manager and creator is a red flag for a bad organizat
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So could we then say based upon your comment and the parent that a meritocracy is antagonistic to diversity. Not trying to be argumentative, just more of a thought exercise. If a meritocracy chooses the best, and the wealthiest tend to ha
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Perhaps the main problem is treating a team of professionals like an assembly line. Execs and PM dream up the idea, throw it over the fence to design who mocks it out, who throws it to the backend to build the api, who throws it to the fro
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My main takeaway is to not work for any startups that don’t extend the window to exercise options.[1] Employees deserve to get what they earned without having to take on additional risk. Especially with the extended time to IPO these days
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Yes, more than changing the world, fake equity is what start ups are all about. The goal is to take the fake equity and try to make it real. As an example, a friend built a prototype in a couple months and with the help of someone else, h
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Maybe they didn't underestimate the consumer as much as the Federal Reserve's desire and ability to inflate stock market valuations and other asset prices.[1] Certainly helped Silicon Valley and the unicorns, but we will see how

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