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by seiji 11y ago
Plus, Americans don't learn Chinese history outside of fireworks and dragons and ancestor worship and the silk road. Being upset about using this phrase is like an army of tumblr SJWs being annoyed when someone says gypped. Not everyb
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by seiji 11y ago
Happens with Cisco all the time too. Cisco acquires startup Y, founders vest for 4 years, founders leave Cisco and create Y+1, Cisco acquires Y+1, .... It helps to get re-acquired once you have all the existing connections and the acquirin
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by seiji 11y ago
You missed a step. Blogger (text posting on internet). Twitter (text posting on internet). Medium (text posting on internet). Nice hat trick. But, if anybody deserves internet funny money, it's ev. He's the most genuine and l
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by seiji 11y ago
This is really the only guide to interviewing anybody needs: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3454
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by seiji 11y ago
The AirBnB (airbnb, Airbnb, AirbnB?) argument actually has two facets, and any argument with more than one part is too nuanced for arguing in public, sadly. The two parts are: fast-flux roommate discovery versus entire apartments. Fast-flux
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by seiji 11y ago
but does your model take into account ė, the derivative of evil in the hearts of humans with respect to time?
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by seiji 11y ago
clearly a misuse of the word "share" Yes, it's not "sharing" when a middleman takes a fixed percentage of all transactions and works for maximizing their revenue. The way you get your astrotuf terms to be less ast
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by seiji 11y ago
Sam means well, but he does live 200% inside the internet hype machine bubble vortex: The whole magic of the sharing economy is better asset utilization and thus lower prices for everyone. Home sharing makes better utilization out of a fi
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by seiji 11y ago
feel concerns about their social impact are simply not worth addressing. Welcome to VC land. The game is: collect everybody else's money and resources for yourself at any cost. It's even easier when laws and regulations are ei
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by seiji 11y ago
Yeah, saying airbnb is good for housing prices is like the people who think a universal income will help people live easier. hint: if you give everyone an extra $20k/year, housing will magically go up by $20k/year to match. with
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by seiji 11y ago
Wouldn't that require you to actively watch the logs going by? lol, in that case, yes. we had 500 servers reporting centralized syslog and many people would just tail -f the central log to make sure not too much crazy shit was hap
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by seiji 11y ago
you won't find this information in application logs anyway. Anecdote: I've previously caught an in-progress exploit by seeing mysql errors logged from the application because the exploits were doing dumb things like SELECT * aga
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by seiji 11y ago
you have a good application firewall that is looking at the incoming traffic I will concede if you have a perfectly configured all-knowing security oracle in front of your application then you don't need proper logging. :) immutabl
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by seiji 11y ago
Centralized logging is critical to managing security. No real world production systems should be logging locally.
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by seiji 11y ago
Great example of panopticon-like surveillance leading to people self-censoring since they are afraid of being monitored.
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by seiji 11y ago
Great point. The most important VCs want to fund the most important companies, so everybody has to ego-inflate themselves into being the best in the world at everything or else nobody will even look at you.
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by seiji 11y ago
Welcome back!
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by seiji 11y ago
competitive with nginx for performance, and as a tradeoff for an unnoticable slowdown you get a full, turing complete programming language to completely control the flow of your data. It's almost like erlang and mochiweb never existe
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by seiji 11y ago
I've never heard this. Who does this? For various compliance reasons, customer data must never be transmitted in plain text even internally. I've seen point-to-point serial links even require encryption when they come under com
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by seiji 11y ago
That's a given, isn't it? They are nowhere even worth that much today. Private company valuations aren't based on rationality, they are based on emotion. Uber's current backwards valuation is capturing all speculation
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by seiji 11y ago
Or they might write something, change their mind and enter something else Facebook explicitly does that (log every field input even if never "submitted") and uses unsubmitted thoughts to build more detailed models of you. The &q
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by seiji 11y ago
Re-watch Fight Club and American Beauty for tips on negotiating competent severance packages.
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by seiji 11y ago
Asking google for suicide topics usually starts off with a big info box (non-ad unit) of: Need help? United States: 1 (800) 273-8255 National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Hours: 24 hours, 7 days a week Languages: English, Span
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by seiji 11y ago
adtech is a modern example of the banality of evil: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/15/the-banality... . It's not secret Machiavellian billionaires running around shoving ad tracking upon us,
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by seiji 11y ago
height minimums would be great. It's almost disgusting walking around ~8th st soma and seeing single story car maintenance places or strip malls take up entire blocks. Tear them down and build rows and rows of 5 story to 20 story apar
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by seiji 11y ago
I mentioned a few of these the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10240084 How do we fix the current system? We could make a global centralized review system for doctors then start maintaing records of perform
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by seiji 11y ago
Yeah, I ran across "You must agree to Apple Terms and Conditions" when running command line make after an Xcode update last week. So, then you have to run sudo make to invoke the global license agreement console interface, the
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by seiji 11y ago
There was a comment yesterday about how investors only operate by FOMO ("fear of missing out"). Once you convince one, many more will follow. That's one reason this go-nowhere, do-nothing startup had so many investors: http
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by seiji 11y ago
The core group always gets to ignore the lockup period, so they do cash out at the top. "Early insiders are still fine, of course. Groupon co-founder Eric Lefkofsky and his affiliated entities took nearly $400 million off the table wel
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by seiji 11y ago
things like http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/10/groupon-ipo-in... or http://www.thinktrade.net/ipo-fraud.php or http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013

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