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by romanhn 6y ago
As a PagerDuty alum, one of my favorite anecdotes was of a time when the system experienced an outage early on and the founders along with early employees had to resort to calling people up manually and reading off alert messages.
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Russian Cyberpunk Farm(youtube.com)
7 points by romanhn 6y ago|0 comments
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by romanhn 6y ago
OP's point is that those things are correlated to the vaccine announcement (more travel coming, less remote work), so not random stock market decisions. Per my understanding though, this would still be considered insider trading as sec
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Dropbox Goes Virtual First(blog.dropbox.com)
4 points by romanhn 6y ago|0 comments
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The Maliwawa Figures: a previously undescribed Australian rock art(theconversation.com)
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by romanhn 6y ago
Re: partial refunds - Airbnb was actually good here. In both instances they refunded the nights we didn't stay as well as 50% of the nights we did stay (that was unexpected). Oddly, the second host still attempted to extort us for the
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by romanhn 6y ago
Yep, I literally went through all same reactions, until I realized that these decisions were all intentional on Airbnb's part and served to inflate the ratings and reviews on the site. That's when the trust was lost.
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by romanhn 6y ago
While both sides deserve to tell their story, Airbnb should be able to do a basic sanity check based on provided evidence. In our case we provided lots of photos that were clearly were not fraudulent (can be compared to those in the listing
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by romanhn 6y ago
I recently had the occasion to stay with 4 different Airbnb hosts over the span of under a month, my takeaway was that if I owned any Airbnb stock, I would've sold it immediately. The first two accommodations were huge let downs in ter
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by romanhn 6y ago
Two YC companies have gone public, actually - Dropbox and PagerDuty.
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by romanhn 6y ago
Very curious about which FAANG this is. As an EM at "F", my experience is pretty much the opposite - everything moves at breakneck speed, driven by an impact-oriented culture and related incentives. A team like you're describ
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by romanhn 6y ago
The latter looks to be the solution put in place to deal with the former. That seems to be the pattern with all of these - first list the issue, then the last paragraph describes the remediation.
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by romanhn 6y ago
It's not that they are fundamentally wrong, but rather that these seem like simple, black-and-white statements/decisions, when they are anything but. When it comes to databases (especially distributed ones), the devil is in the de
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by romanhn 6y ago
The article is from 2015. From the profile, it sounds like she no longer works there and the profile was updated to reflect that.
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by romanhn 6y ago
Somewhat off topic, but I was reading up recently on the lives of folks involved with Tetris early on, and one sad outcome was the murder-suicide of Vladimir Pokhilko, a friend of Pajitnov and co-founder of a company together. It seems like
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by romanhn 7y ago
Guess what, nobody owes you, or the world at large, a thing. We only have one life and everyone's priorities are different. Want to spend your life chasing greatness? Be my guest. But if one would rather define happiness through friend
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by romanhn 7y ago
Having read many of the books recommended here, I found this one to be the most concretely useful of the bunch. No fluff, just solid advice from someone that went from engineer to CTO.
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Elizabeth Warren slams Twitter for policy banning ads fighting climate change(cnbc.com)
2 points by romanhn 7y ago|0 comments
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by romanhn 7y ago
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by romanhn 7y ago
The documentary "Startup.com" provided an insider's view into one such dotcom. Check it out.
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by romanhn 7y ago
That reminds me of the first time I accessed World Wide Web. Back in '96 I was browsing a computer magazine and happened upon a listing of useful mailing lists, one of which returned the contents of web pages for a requested HTTP addre
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by romanhn 8y ago
I see the profit angle brought out often in these discussions, and as someone that has worked at one of these unicorns with a recent IPO, I'd like to point out that profitability is not a black-and-white consideration. A company has ma
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by romanhn 8y ago
I wasn't writing Scala day-to-day myself, but common (though by no means universal) objections were around complexity and difficulty of iterating quickly. The author of the Elixir post below also wrote a bit about his experiences with
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by romanhn 8y ago
I left PD about 5 months ago, so my information might be slightly outdated, but I can confirm that Elixir is used quite a bit internally, including for highly available critical services that all event data passes through. While there might
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by romanhn 8y ago
Fun fact - this is the second YC IPO, after Dropbox.
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PagerDuty pops nearly 60% in debut as tech IPO market heats up(cnbc.com)
120 points by romanhn 8y ago|54 comments
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by romanhn 8y ago
Lockup periods are generally 180 days, so current shareholders should become liquid in the September timeframe.
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A Decade of Duty: A Brief Look at PagerDuty's History(pagerduty.com)
1 points by romanhn 8y ago|0 comments
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by romanhn 8y ago
Early exercise is a benefit provided by the company at the time of the option grant. Same company may choose to make the benefit available for some grants and not others (some reasons why they might not are listed here: http://ww
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by romanhn 8y ago
Worth recalling that PagerDuty is a YC S10 alumnus. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=758653

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