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by slap_shot 5y ago
Deep Channel | Full-Stack Engineer | Remote | Full Time Deep Channel is building the next generation of tools for data professionals (data engineers, data scientists, etc). Our mission is to reshape the toolchain of the modern data team, bu
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by slap_shot 5y ago
> Those are two separate things. I think once can do the first without doing the second. I'm just explaining how we do it at our company? > I used to work for financial traders. Some people tend to treat everything as a commodity
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by slap_shot 5y ago
> this wouldn't influence me much It's not about influencing anybody. It's about valuing people's time and paying them for their time. (this isn't corporate bullshit - I made the policy and that's why I made
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by slap_shot 5y ago
We pay candidates for interviews, $100 per hour. Companies are starting to adopt this, but it still blows me away that we aren't getting there faster.
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by slap_shot 5y ago
Is there a reason this hasn't been removed?
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by slap_shot 5y ago
Deep Channel | Full-Stack Engineer | Remote | Full Time Deep Channel is building the next generation of tools for data professionals (data engineers, data scientists, etc). Our mission is to reshape the toolchain of the modern data team, bu
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by slap_shot 5y ago
puff piece. unrelated to the article, but im curious if this business can sustain itself to another round of funding. it has been tried before and does not work. ecommerce stores do well when they run an ad or email promoting a product that
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by slap_shot 5y ago
Is Discord used in the enterprise? I've only used it for a gaming community a long time ago.
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by slap_shot 5y ago
I tried to check this out but I think it's a bit strange that in order to see a candidate's resume, you have to write the candidate a message and answer why you think they would be a good fit. If you look at other platforms, you g
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CircleCI outage: Workflows queued and builds not running(status.circleci.com)
3 points by slap_shot 5y ago|1 comments
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Heroku is having routing issues in the US(status.heroku.com)
3 points by slap_shot 5y ago|2 comments
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by slap_shot 5y ago
Deep Channel | Full-Stack Engineer | Remote | Full Time Deep Channel is building the next generation of tools for data professionals (data engineers, data scientists, etc). Our mission is to reshape the toolchain of the modern data team, bu
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by slap_shot 5y ago
HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26969364
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by slap_shot 5y ago
Why can't they be both? They literally are a software company. And yes, they acquire other software companies. Plenty of companies in other industries (e.g. consumer goods) are conglomerates, often a result of acquisitions - it doesn&#
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by slap_shot 5y ago
I really enjoy these articles. I don't know a ton about Retool, but I know these articles are often written by or in the style of their Growth analyst, Justin Gage ( https://randomshit.dev/ ) who seems to be fantastic at
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by slap_shot 5y ago
> You aren't funding a cool lifestyle, you are building a sustainable businesd that repays the investment. I'd bet that 99% of YC companies do not generate the free cash flow to repay the investment during their three months in
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by slap_shot 5y ago
Most companies have such a low burn that 125k covers the three months to demo day Some companies are already funded prior to doing YC Some companies raise a seed round before demo day
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by slap_shot 6y ago
SaaS is out sourced IT. Plenty of SaaS could open source their entire code base and it would have little effect on sales; people would gladly still pay for it to be hosted. In some categories, having the code open source helps gain adoption
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by slap_shot 6y ago
Can you expand on what you mean by that?
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by slap_shot 6y ago
I've only heard Lex Fridman speak a few times on the Joe Rogan Experince, and I can't help but feel like he's a bullshit artist. Maybe it's just him trying to simplify things for Joe. I see that he has a PhD in CS from D
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by slap_shot 6y ago
your profile doesn't have any contact details, fyi
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by slap_shot 6y ago
You should be asking a lawyer, not HN. If you haven't had a priced equity round, you should be able to sell restricted stock at par value (usually a fraction of a penny). Especially if your _upcoming_ round is a mere 5 million, the bus
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by slap_shot 6y ago
Job interviews are sales pitches: feel free to pitch yourself however you prefer. Also, a lot of job descriptions are of the "perfect" candidate, i.e. the person hired may not satisfy each of the requirements, especially years of
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by slap_shot 6y ago
Anyone else find this a bit pedantic? As a consumer of a website, I infer what service is being offered. I doubt I even bother reading the CTA buttons - I just know I need to click some things to start getting the service I read about. >
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by slap_shot 6y ago
The fact that people are feeding themselves and their families is irrelevant. They're still doing something in a flock like a flock of sheep.
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by slap_shot 6y ago
I hear this come up so much and it's just trite. I don't think anybody in Silicon Valley would say the _definition_ of a Founder is someone who takes VC money. All companies require capital to operate. All capital has a cost. In m
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by slap_shot 6y ago
> I am always baffled when people expect a jukebox from artists of this caliber Plenty of artists of his caliber perform shows with regular renditions of their hits. But some artists just do things differently. And the argument goes both
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by slap_shot 6y ago
> Airflow is an ETL(Extract, Transform, Load) workflow orchestration tool, used in data transformation pipelines. Apologies if this is pedantic, but the orchestration of jobs transcends ETL workflows. There's countless usecases of s
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by slap_shot 6y ago
> He was also serious about the letter O being an acceptable substitute for a zero "0". Whoa, never heard that one. Did that have any major traction at some point? What was the point?
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by slap_shot 7y ago
FWIF he's pledged to donate 99% of his wealth upon death. Given that he's 90 years old, I imagine his primary goal with this capital is preservation, not achieving returns in excess of the market.

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