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by rburhum 8y ago
I think doing the argument of "open source vs business focused" is incorrect. I would just make the comparison of "business focused vs not business focused". If it is open source or not, that is just a detail of the busi
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This is McKinsey's official response: https://www.mckinsey.com/about-us/media-center/mckinsey-stat...
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by rburhum 8y ago
Of course if you see it in a macro sense you are right. My comment was within the context of this article: My point was that [Time worked == money generation] is exactly the opposite way of looking at things.
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When I was freelancing a bit over a decade ago I was making more than most people my age I knew at the time. My natural reaction was to try scale that, so I hired folks to do the work for and with me... that is when I learned first hand
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by rburhum 8y ago
Not only "rich people" have stocks. I for one lost a few thousand with that drop. Global warming is an issue at play even though it is always easier to point the finger "at the evil [X] corporation"
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You mean like AWS being down?
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Ask HN: What VPN Service do you recommend?
1 points by rburhum 8y ago|5 comments
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I am just going to leave you with this image here that shows the SP&500 since 1928: https://imgur.com/a/JCMbIvU We have had 10 years of growth since the last recession (every gray line is a recession). If you take
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by rburhum 8y ago
So then you do it like we used to back in the day, where we do our time (at least one year) while you look for a different job. Then your visa does transfer over. Choosing to leave before the one year is up is his fault, too.
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He should not have accepted the job if he wasn't happy with the SDE position in the first place. It would have saved Amazon and him money if he would have been upfront about what he wanted.
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by rburhum 8y ago
I have been looking at these computers forever and am continuously waiting for them to come up with a nice looking laptop. I don't want to buy something that looks like a Dell I had in 2002. I want something that is comparable to my
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money?
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by rburhum 8y ago
Anyone that has been lucky enough to be able to build and run any organization with 50+ people knows that every month you will have new people joining and at least someone leaving. That has nothing to do with your company culture or how wel
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by rburhum 8y ago
Don't agree with this, but was surprised by the quotes from the Redis CEO.
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The Commons Clause causes open-source disruption(sdtimes.com)
1 points by rburhum 8y ago|1 comments
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by rburhum 8y ago
The first time I built a business, I made the same mistake as the OP: "Then, it struck me: what if ingredient parsing was the business? If this was a problem for me, then surely other developers struggled with it as well. Hopefully, so
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by rburhum 8y ago
PostGIS already has GEOS which does cartesian math and its own implementation of a polar coordinate system math.
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Extreme temperature changes? Solar flares?
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by rburhum 8y ago
Time to do the conference somewhere else
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Google Maps added a new feature that’s equal parts genius and creepy(bgr.com)
1 points by rburhum 8y ago|0 comments
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by rburhum 8y ago
Market Size. You can't sell stuff for 39.99 if only 20 people in the world will buy it
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Atlassian exits business communications space, surrenders to Slack(cnbc.com)
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The scooter company that raised 400M in 4 months is what is wrong with SV(businessinsider.com)
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by rburhum 8y ago
First of all, congrats - that is amazing and really shows true commitment. As somebody that lost 30+ pounds (I am 5ft 65 and went from 205lbs to 172lbs), I definitely understand can sympathize with the work it takes. For anyone else embarki
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by rburhum 8y ago
Fair enough. But why do you say Ripple is centralized?
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by rburhum 8y ago
What part of "Distributed Ledger" seems centralized to you?
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by rburhum 8y ago
I never said Ripple == XRP. In fact, I meant Ripple the company . I am not going to make a comment about coin valuations - that is a different discussion. You were looking for an example where something useful that creates real value for c
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Ripple and XRP have actual Banking software actually used by money transfer firms and banks
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by rburhum 8y ago
GitLab open sources most of their core source. They never said they were 100% - and even this concept is crazy. At some point you have to realize that they need to have scalable business model, and this is what they have chosen to do. Good
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by rburhum 8y ago
"Everything else" seems like a strong statement. What about XRP?

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