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Today’s Unicorns Have Bigger Cumulative Losses Than Amazon(wolfstreet.com)
3 points by samspenc 5y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 5y ago
My exact first thought reading this on their home page as well. I'm not sure I trust "stablecoins" anymore after all the recent news the past two weeks...
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Lessons Learned from My Profitable Indie Film on Sriracha (2017)(medium.com)
2 points by samspenc 5y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 5y ago
Reddit has been removing posts critical of the CCP for a while now, in their case, Tencent did do a massive investment in them in 2019: https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/11/reddit-300-million/ ("Reddit
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by samspenc 5y ago
The "[@object Object]" prefix string in most of the "manually posted" Twitter posts (in the middle of the article) is a give-away that those posts were not, actually, manually posted and were likely automated.
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by samspenc 5y ago
I suspect a lot, but not just Microsoft, all the FAANG companies have minted a lot of millionaires. If you ever browse the /r/FatFIRE sub-reddit you'll read a lot of stories of how much some of the folks at FAANG are making a
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They Relied on Chinese Vaccines. Now They’re Battling Outbreaks(nytimes.com)
4 points by samspenc 5y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 5y ago
The actual title is "The 2021 Software Developer Shortage Is Coming", which is what I had initially submitted, but it looks like HN automatically trims off "The" and the current year?
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Software Developer Shortage Is Coming(cacm.acm.org)
80 points by samspenc 5y ago|128 comments
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by samspenc 5y ago
This has been shared in other comments here but just in case :) https://www.cncf.io/the-childrens-illustrated-guide-to-kuber...
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by samspenc 5y ago
I see this post is getting flagged; IMHO personally, I learned something new from this post (that this typo is intentional) which I would not have learned otherwise. Can we keep this post up with an edited title if necessary?
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Jobless Rate for Teens Now Lower Than Workers Aged 20-24, a Historic First(bloomberg.com)
2 points by samspenc 5y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 5y ago
Wow I didn't realize this, but it appears to be true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSNBC "Microsoft divested itself of its stakes in the MSNBC channel in 2005 and in msnbc.com in July 2012." I thought t
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by samspenc 5y ago
Still that makes no sense as others have pointed out ... MSFT as a whole made $143 billion in revenue and $40 billion in profit for 2020, so not sure where the €220 billion number is coming from.
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by samspenc 5y ago
Yeah that was my first thought on seeing the title. MSFT as a whole made a grand total of $143 billion (€118 billion) revenue in 2020 (across the globe), and $44.3 billion (€36.5 billion) profit during this time. I'm not sure how the
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by samspenc 5y ago
TL;DR: the origin story of DataBricks (famous for Apache Spark and other data tools) which grew out of an academic research lab and is now worth billions.
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A Visual Guide to React Mental Models(obedparla.com)
1 points by samspenc 5y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 5y ago
I think the other comments have notes about the market cap, but wanted to add another detail I found. Vimeo's annual revenue is $200 million [1] or so. It's not profitable yet. Meanwhile, Youtube brings in $20 billion a year [2] f
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by samspenc 5y ago
> "The truth is, I lack some of the skills that make an ideal manager. I'm more interested in analysing organizational and market principles, and leveraging these theories to further reduce management work, rather than actually
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by samspenc 5y ago
This article might help: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-14/top-3-of-... Specifically, they have a graph that shows the breakdown of "share of adjusted gross income" vs "share o
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by samspenc 5y ago
It took me the first 2-3 "questions" to figure out what was going on but super cool after that I especially liked how the differences were so subtle you had to really pay attention to the minute differences.
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by samspenc 5y ago
I've noticed this as well. I suspect that my watching video news stories related to China (and international news) probably caused this, but I find it bizarre that Youtube correlated my interest in China (and international) news with a
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by samspenc 5y ago
I didn't know about this, but this seems a win-win for all parties, including the students graduating: (1) Students get free GitHub swag (I remember how important this was in my poor student days) (2) Students who don't know how t
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The Bizarre Phenomenon of a Screwed-Up Labor Market(wolfstreet.com)
2 points by samspenc 5y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 5y ago
I would reckon that airline fares are down because of the pandemic -- people don't want to fly because they are afraid of getting infected, and that's causing a "deflation" in ticket prices.
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A CCP-linked account mocked India's Covid crisis on social media. It backfired(cnn.com)
5 points by samspenc 5y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 5y ago
Trying to understand something here: when COVID-19 first came out, there were reports that it would be difficult to produce vaccines for it because it is was a mRNA virus (as opposed to a DNA virus for which it is easier to produce a vaccin
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by samspenc 6y ago
Never heard of Heroicons before (looks like they're made by the same company that makes the other products listed on the website.) But I've used FontAwesome before which I believe (or hope) is still the industry standard for free
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by samspenc 6y ago
Could you clarify what you mean by "double pay"? Do you mean you 2x the hours you would normally have worked or something else I'm missing?
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by samspenc 6y ago
> Can you imagine the iPod interrupting music playback to show you ads for products on iTunes? Well, that's how Apple Music works now, by nagging you to subscribe to its paid service. Lol, the Youtube app on my Android phone (and Yo

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