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by sah2ed 9y ago
I think the poster's metric was largest in terms of capitalization and not revenue. The top 5 in terms of capitalization: 1. Apple 2. Alphabet 3. Microsoft 4. Amazon 5. Berkshire Hathaway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Agreed. The obscene amounts being raised through ICOs doesn't make any sense for a product or service that doesn't even exist yet.
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by sah2ed 9y ago
You are joking right? The question about fraud was in the context of the misappropriation of capital from investors for a purpose different from what was initially agreed to, and not as a general catch-all term for posturing or affectation
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Charged at a flat rate like the cost of a Digital Ocean $5/mo instance, would developers pay for such a service to provide automated notifications of service overages for all the major cloud providers? All a developer needs to do immed
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by sah2ed 9y ago
EDIT: I've reposted my question as a top-level comment to give it a bit more visibility as I'm interested in seeing answers as to what would be a fair price for such a service. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
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by sah2ed 9y ago
I think integration tests would be more appropriate here, especially since there are different co-operating moving parts: S3 <--> EC2/Lambda.
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by sah2ed 9y ago
I think it's more like Bill Gurley not fully looking out for the interests of Benchmark [0] while dealing with Travis when he held the board seat at Uber on their behalf. Fun fact: Gurley has himself being sued by some founders of a st
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Fraud is never OK. The end does not justify the means.
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Mind if I ask why you feel strongly about such a request? Afterall, Pinboard.in also offers an API.
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Really cool demos of ARKit there! Makes me pumped for the kind of clever apps that will be built for iOS and optimized for the upcoming iPhone. I especially liked the kitchen measurement demo.
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Moving Defcon to Canada doesn't solve the issue if attendees have to get there via US airspace. Deplaning [0] is a real possibility. [0] https://news.vice.com/story/somali-canadian-forced-off-fligh...
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by sah2ed 9y ago
There's no reliable way to tell which roles permit working remotely. For instance, this one requires being onsite: https://jobs.jobvite.com/couchbase/job/oApC4fwp
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by sah2ed 9y ago
> I've been using a Bitcoin-linked debit card for a couple of years now, Please, tell us about the debit card. Who is the issuer?
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Visit your HN profile then set "showdead" to "yes" to see some of such comments.
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Although you used a throwaway, you forgot to include contact info. Assuming you want to sell the side project that is.
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Tech is indeed is an industry. Look at it this way: Big law firms are called that because they hire a lot of lawyers (and lawyer-types); big 4 accounting firms hire a lot of accountants and big 5 tech firms hire a lot of software engineers
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by sah2ed 9y ago
> Their business is ad delivery. Yes, but they do a whole lot of other things, which as you noted, tie back into their main source of revenue. I don't disagree with what you've written but I think calling them an "ad deliv
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by sah2ed 9y ago
I'm sure Warren Buffet will disagree with that generalization of all companies being tech companies, especially since he, the quintessential value investor, doesn't consider Berkshire Hathaway as one. Neither would Carlos Slim. No
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by sah2ed 9y ago
They are tech companies not ad companies. It just happens that Google and Facebook draw most of their revenue from being middlemen in the advertising industry, the same way Uber is a middleman in the transportation industry -- Uber doesn&#x
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by sah2ed 9y ago
> The only exception is Bill Gates who is trying to make this world a better place. Bill Gates certainly isn't the first to play the philanthropy card after a ruthless spell in business. There was John Rockefeller before him. http
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by sah2ed 9y ago
This was a long but very illuminating contribution. Mind me asking what kind of work your investment bank does with the healthcare industry?
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by sah2ed 9y ago
No it's not shrinking just yet although they clearly don't see Windows as a cash cow like you are suggesting. Their moat is in having diversified but complementary business units. Microsoft made $21bn on $90bn in revenues [1] and
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by sah2ed 9y ago
> And as a counterpoint, Snap has not crossed the chasm, despite a $25b IPO. I think it is a bit too early to call this one. I'd rather give Evan Spiegel and his team a few more quarters to see what they've got in store against
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by sah2ed 9y ago
This should save anyone else a few clicks: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073CPP581
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Starting later selects for a founding a different kind of company than the one a fresh graduate/drop out would found. I don't think there is a best time to be a founder; it's largely an individual thing.
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Peter Thiel's version: "All happy companies are different, all unhappy companies are alike (in that they failed to escape "sameness" or competition).
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Could you compare and contrast the ones you've tried and why you eventually settled on Recruitee?
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It was also called WebTV (later renamed to MSN TV). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSN_TV
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Anyone can say they were too early to market as the main reason for their failure. The idea of hailing cabs electronically is not new. A confluence of factors helped Uber figure out how the idea could work, in hindsight. > "The idea
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by sah2ed 9y ago
You seem to be contradicting yourself then if you say "iCab started almost a year after Uber" when you wrote above that: " But I have a conflict of interest here because in 2008 I made my own attempt at starting an Uber-li

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