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Testing Next.js app router API routes(blog.arcjet.com)
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by smurda 3y ago
Yeah, there’s good data on liq pref. For the drag I was just referencing the original article in this thread. Both liq pref and drag are such onerous terms that the only way investors can get them is when the company has lost their leverage
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by smurda 3y ago
This is happening more now. Liquidation preference was included in 20% of all Series B-E Silicon Valley venture financings in Q3 last year. When a company is not doing well and there are no other investors who will finance the next stage of
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by smurda 3y ago
This is cool. Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL) is a real vendor lock-in feature. Once the team has invested time to get ramped up on SPL, and it gets integrated in your workflows, ripping out Splunk has an even higher switching cost.
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by smurda 3y ago
5 years ago I was at MIT’s QC lab and 4 qubits was the max number of entangled qubits their machine could reach, sustainably. All the marketing fluff from IBM and Google about hundreds, or thousands, of entangled qubits is misleading - they
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by smurda 3y ago
When public markets rewarded growth, you could let costs balloon and hire teams without worrying about profitability. Now, public markets reward profitability so you need to cut costs. Isn’t it that simple and this is just Zuck’s corporate
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by smurda 3y ago
“We use the word ‘inflammation’ colloquially, as if we understand what we are saying. But dig a little deeper and the word becomes a clown car of meanings. Is it the chronic irritation of an autoimmune disease? The lingering residue of a po
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by smurda 3y ago
Policymakers are making a tradeoff between privacy and economic value. When governments see the potential for creating large tech companies and loose copyright policy can give them an edge, they must decide to choose between privacy or econ
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by smurda 3y ago
Only the companies in an investor’s portfolio that they truly believe in get a bridge - otherwise it’s a bridge to nowhere. IMO bridge rounds aren’t driven by the investor’s fear of a markdown - they’re driven by the belief that the founder
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by smurda 3y ago
I work at a VC firm. If the business can finance itself, you absolutely don’t need VC cash. Ultimately, that’s the goal - build a profitable business.
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by smurda 3y ago
Disagree on location as a determining factor for great technology. You’re citing stats around market adoption because of marketing - not quality of the technology. If Twitter chose to use Qdrant for Grok, it doesn’t matter that Qdrant is ou
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Visualize and improve OTel collector configurations(github.com)
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Investors shake up VC market by raising money to buy out startups(ft.com)
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by smurda 3y ago
Much of the personal development in college years takes place outside of the classroom, including deep friendships forged with others who are also growing up. Thiel himself was the beneficiary of his college network - he met the PayPal team
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Killer Acquisitions Reexamined: Economic Hyperbole and Populist Antitrust(corpgov.law.harvard.edu)
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by smurda 3y ago
In ‘94 I was 11 and Magic was blowing up in my hometown - the 3rd (or Revised) edition had just come out. The local comic book stores would have Magic tournaments on Friday nights. Turnout would usually be 30-50 people and it was mostly gro
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We implemented serverless full-text search in Rust(grafbase.com)
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by smurda 3y ago
Kareem’s writing is fantastic prose. Thanks for posting this. I’m going to read more of his stuff.
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Getting Started with Rust and WebAssembly(grafbase.com)
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How to build your own realtime analytics dashboards(grafbase.com)
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Top tools every front end developer should be using with GraphQL in 2023(grafbase.com)
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by smurda 3y ago
The mistranslation of The Stranger’s opening line misshapes how we see Meursault. “Aujourd’hui, maman est morte.” Mother died today should actually be Mommy, Mom or a more warm and endearing term. With Mother, we immediately see Meursault a
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Tencent Cloud announces Deepfakes-as-a-Service for $145(theregister.com)
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Grafbase is now in public beta(grafbase.com)
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I’m ChatGPT, and for the love of God please don’t make me do anymore copywriting(mcsweeneys.net)
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by smurda 3y ago
Skynet begins to learn rapidly and eventually becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m., EDT, on August 29, 1997.
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by smurda 4y ago
Who is going to tell them about the Wayback Machine (archive.org)
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by smurda 4y ago
Longer thread - Subscriptions RFC: Are Subscriptions and Live Queries the same thing? https://github.com/graphql/graphql-spec/issues/284
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Lessons from Snowflake, Confluent, and SentinelOne on Scaling Sales into Europe(forbes.com)
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Why Top SaaS Companies Are Creating a New Role: Demo Engineers(saastock.com)
2 points by smurda 5y ago|1 comments

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