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by streblo 7y ago
Here's the problem with doing this in the US: if you're out of a job, you're out of health insurance. If your whole family is on your health insurance plan, you'll never accept a project-based gig that might not become f
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by streblo 7y ago
It's really hard to tell what in this book is based in fact. It's almost entirely based off of hearsay and gossip. There are interviews with people recalling minute details of conversations they had ~5 years in the past. You can c
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by streblo 8y ago
All of this reminds me of a talk by Gary Bernhardt called The Birth and Death of JavaScript ( https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death... ), which although farcical is actually a really compelling vis
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by streblo 8y ago
How would you do something like this in the US? 900 number?
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by streblo 8y ago
> If management are "fair and reasonable", what do they care if there's a union on premises? Everyone just goes about their business. Do you realize that you have to pay monthly dues to a union? If I were paying union dues
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by streblo 8y ago
I'm not sure if it's a fiduciary duty of an accountant not to disclose this kind of stuff, but it should be.
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by streblo 8y ago
Which is especially unfortunate, since most Kindle users want this feature and (probably) frequently request it, not knowing that Amazon's hand is forced.
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by streblo 8y ago
> There are enough of those apps in the store, and they are clearly profitable enough if they can buy Super Bowl airtime. You're talking about the top 1% or less of micro transaction-based apps here. There are ton of indie apps that
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by streblo 8y ago
> The trend in broadband has been more competition. In the past decade I've lived in three different cities, and in each one Comcast was the only provider available. Do we really not think Comcast has a monopoly?
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by streblo 8y ago
I find this category of posts ("falsehoods programmers believe about X") to be patronizing and unhelpful. Most of these lists (this one included) don't give good explanations and don't have guidelines for how to avoid th
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Lawsuits Surge Over Websites’ Access for the Blind(wsj.com)
11 points by streblo 8y ago|3 comments
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by streblo 8y ago
It is definitely not common to get preferred stock as an employee
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by streblo 8y ago
If you're acquired, there's a significant risk of a cultural clash between the people from your company and the current employees. "I didn't want this job" syndrome is real.
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by streblo 8y ago
Especially since GDPR
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by streblo 8y ago
The original post specified "no stock options".
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by streblo 8y ago
Market value for new grads is not $160-200k
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by streblo 8y ago
We are using Google Kubernetes Engine
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by streblo 8y ago
There's a lot of FUD in the comments here about kubernetes, so let me chime in with a success story -- my company has been using kubernetes to operate a reasonably large and complex set of services (>100 nodes/pods, >5B requ
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by streblo 8y ago
I have tried to cancel the WSJ before and they totally give you the runaround. It's not as bad as other services (e.g. Comcast), but it's 100% of the reason I won't sign up for another subscription.
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by streblo 9y ago
Because what he's doing is not a jailable offense.
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by streblo 9y ago
I work in advertising and I don't think it's immoral or unethical.
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by streblo 9y ago
> We need to go beyond high school guidance counselor nostrums like "work hard! study hard!" and really struggle with the issue of how we can contribute. I think your argument is just as reductive as the parent comment. If we&#
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by streblo 10y ago
> The main problem is that, if they wanted to, it shouldn't take Apple/Microsoft/Google/Amazon too much work to put out a comparable product and offer it for free. Apple[1], Microsoft[2], Google[3], and Amazon[4] alre
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by streblo 10y ago
https://archive.is/UguCJ
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by streblo 10y ago
He wasn't even the head of the engineering organization before Roetter. He (Messinger) was sidelined by Chris Fry before Roetter ever took over.
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by streblo 10y ago
He was not the VP of product, he was a VP of product, specifically VP of product for Twitter's advertising arm.
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by streblo 10y ago
> The perceived monetization "problem" is painfully and frustratingly easy to rectify if Twitter would simply embrace their role and stop trying to compete in the social media gutter. I'd love to hear you expand on that po
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by streblo 10y ago
Buffett isn't exactly buying index funds for BRK
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by streblo 10y ago
FiveThirtyEight had an article about this recently: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/you-cant-trust-what-you...
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by streblo 10y ago
> Black scholes is options valuation and never used in 409A valuation 'never' is wrong, depending on your meaning. It's definitely used in many 409A valuations. Typically a 409A will use a couple different approaches to co

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