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by shostack 5y ago
Correct and afaik it still is. There were also a few families that had multiple family members working there. It was (and presumably still is) exceptionally family friendly. Even by Bay Area tech standards.
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by shostack 5y ago
Can confirm that SmugMug and Flickr people love their users and customers. Every single person I interacted with during my time there cared a great deal about the people and photos the service supported. Most people there were into photogra
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by shostack 5y ago
What's the laundering angle?
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by shostack 5y ago
Also, Russia may need the money. Wars are expensive.
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by shostack 5y ago
The faster someone tries to get me to sign something, the slower and more carefully I read it. Do not ever let someone rush you into signing things involving health, rights, or expensive transactions.
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by shostack 5y ago
It feels inevitable. Between the scent of subscription models in the water, paired with a desire to do away with the concept of ownership and potential of inflated maintenance margins by limiting where vehicles can be serviced, it feels lik
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by shostack 5y ago
Interestingly, my mechanic sends invoice links over text. Mine didn't come through so they asked if I had TMobile. Turns out, T-Mobile charges businesses a fee (I want to say they said something like $250/mo?) to allow messages th
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by shostack 5y ago
Kittens Game is another wonderful and quite deep incarnation. Some of the paradigm shifts are amazing as you enable certain things through scale
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by shostack 5y ago
I'm curious how much is also being fueled by the current markets. The US economy had a large amount of rocket fuel dumped into it repeatedly. Asset prices surged, but with the increase in business costs, perhaps businesses found custom
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by shostack 5y ago
Expense is coming down, and form factors and weight are rapidly shrinking while performance of displays improves. Whatever gripes you have about the space, it is hard to deny the rapid evolution we're seeing due to the influx of invest
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by shostack 5y ago
Honestly I wish I could get some people to switch to greeting cards only. The whole equal value exchange is there, but so is the stress of needing to pick out gifts. Honestly, in this day and age I'd rather they give me the gift of les
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by shostack 5y ago
The total value captured isn't just the initial subscription. The LTV calculation should also incorporate, just off the top of my head: sale of valuable customer data, improved targeting of ads for new cars based on that telemetry, ups
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by shostack 5y ago
In the middle of this book now. So excellent. Is what you're referring to here called coffin corner? Or is that something else?
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by shostack 5y ago
For the one who crashed 3x, what were the causes?
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by shostack 5y ago
I've racked up many hours in Elite: Dangerous. It's an amazing piece of tech, and nothing quite captures it's sense of scale like playing in VR. It's unfortunate to see the state of the game as the business side begins t
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by shostack 5y ago
Is this akin to asynchronous space warping or synchronous space warping used with VR headsets to improve perceived frame rates?
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by shostack 5y ago
I think you mean Citizen's United.
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by shostack 5y ago
What is a good strategy then if one expects to need to buy a vehicle in the next 6mo?
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by shostack 5y ago
One of my favorite sci-fi books of all time. What makes it so good is how the author manages to get you to see the world through the (many) eyes of the Portia spider, and evolve it they get uplifted. The use of ants is pure genius. The sequ
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by shostack 5y ago
I'm curious how touch screen glass cockpit pilots feel. Flying and messing with a touchscreen seems a lot more risky and dangerous on the surface, not to mention more difficult in turbulence thanks to bouncing around in three dimension
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by shostack 5y ago
If you haven't had the chance, I'd suggest watching the FB Connect keyboard. It couldn't really be more explicitly spelled out in terms of the long term vision and the road to get there.
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by shostack 5y ago
I'll add some other asks: 1, Give me a way to mark a period of time or specific songs in my history as not to be used to inform my recommendation model signals. I might want to put on some special themed dinner music or listen to a son
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by shostack 5y ago
Whenever I'd try this, once it would leave my inbox it would be out of mind and the rest of the day would inevitably find a way to get in my way. So I'd have a clean inbox, and then several growing folders that wouldn't get a
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by shostack 5y ago
You know a market is bad when a company can lead the space simply with the platform of "we won't scam you."
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by shostack 5y ago
Unfortunately he's more likely to attract some, but not enough Democratic voters. That could hinder Democratic candidates in an upcoming election. Same reason the GOP live the Green party. Getting Republicans Elected Every November
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by shostack 5y ago
Fair point about statistical analysis. My comment was more that the tools and data to provide that visibility are starting to trickle down to smaller companies, sort of like how GA did it for web analytics. For better or worse. Disagree on
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by shostack 5y ago
TY. Incrementality is king. Measuring that as a marketer and advertiser is getting more challenging for a variety of reasons. The future, primarily for large brands, but increasingly accessible for smaller and smaller companies is in statis
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by shostack 5y ago
Thank you. The one sided view we typically see on this, while in m supporting my views on paying people what they are worth, often glosses over that this isn't evil fat cat monopolists with monocles trying to keep the man down in all t
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by shostack 5y ago
I've been in a similar situation. For me it was a different type of struggle... More, I need to be informed about the space. I am a firm believer that there are ways to do ads in a manner that respects the end user, is not obnoxious as
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by shostack 5y ago
And do you use RES?

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