samnwa

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by samnwa 10y ago
That's not true. Managers are measured on delivery, customer satisfaction, and revenue or profitability. These measures are directly related to ability to manage inputs (engineering resource) to outputs (finished code that drives those
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by samnwa 10y ago
I have seen this work the other way. Manager asks for something reasonable. Devs do not execute successfully on timeline. Devs complain it was unreasonable or unrealistic but refuse to review the process that got them there.
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by samnwa 10y ago
But also a company that shares very little. Snapchat's positioning has always felt relatively scammy to me. Look forward to some amount of transparency around traditional metrics either as a result of this suit or through the IPO proce
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by samnwa 10y ago
Here's a medium alternative built by one guy: www.allthink.com.
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by samnwa 10y ago
Snapchat makes no sense to me so I choose to believe this. Theranos 2: The Snappening coming to a theater near you!
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by samnwa 10y ago
If you can open items from Dropbox and edit them directly, there might be hope for the product. Saving even one click between Dropbox and my current collaborative tool (Google Docs, Slack, etc) can be meaningful.
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Ask HN: Will Bitcoin price collapse again in 2017?
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by samnwa 10y ago
Allthink is pretty good.
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by samnwa 10y ago
The problem is that companies doing crowdfunding still have too much leverage. They set the valuation, the terms, etc. A 3rd party should set the valuation and it should likely be at a discount to traditional VCs.
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by samnwa 10y ago
What is your email address?
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by samnwa 10y ago
Is "transforming the tech world" a bit strong? I get turned off by all this headline hyperbole.
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by samnwa 10y ago
It's funny because if you know education's history this is a debate that has gone back and forth every other decade. Before "we" were in school when mixed abilities were separated, mixed abilities were in one class. No d
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by samnwa 10y ago
Any specific examples of established academic research you can link to?