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by supster 10y ago
Digital Ocean
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by supster 10y ago
It would be really cool to have an Elm type language on the backend. Elm feels like a lighter, friendlier version of Haskell.
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by supster 10y ago
Thanks for all your work on Node.js!
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by supster 10y ago
What cities is this available in?
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by supster 10y ago
It starts to create a secondary market for the shares, which means over time a price gets set. So the next time they try to raise money, this price becomes an anchor point rather than whatever arbitrary price Uber tries to set based on perc
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by supster 10y ago
exactly, I'm not sure why you would be having promises of promises
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by supster 10y ago
Except in Uber's case where they are famous for keeping tight control on secondary sales. http://fortune.com/2014/06/20/uber-plays-hardball-with-early...
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by supster 10y ago
True, but those are the obvious risks you take as an investor. And late stage investors often negotiate downside protection in the form of liquidation multiples or ratchets.
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by supster 10y ago
Sure there is dilution, but the overall valuation has increased faster. I.e. the share of the pie is smaller but the pie has gotten a lot bigger, so you end up with a bigger piece.
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by supster 10y ago
To provide 1) rule of law and 2) services that benefit from economies of scale yet are too important for privatization (e.g. national defense)
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by supster 10y ago
This is especially true for things like flat screen TVs, where both prices have decreased and quality/sizes have increased
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by supster 10y ago
I imagine it's a lot tougher if English is not your native language.
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by supster 10y ago
I feel like JS is an expected part of the web just like HTML and CSS. How can you build engaging web applications if you are not even allowed to rely on standards like JS (e.g. if the user turns off JS)?
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by supster 10y ago
That is super interesting; I would love to see how Clojure compares.
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Remarks by Commencement Speaker Peter Thiel(youtube.com)
1 points by supster 10y ago|0 comments
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by supster 10y ago
Interesting, could you provide some examples?
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by supster 10y ago
Relevant reply by Chris Lattner on the Swift Evolution mailing list: https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mo...
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by supster 10y ago
why? don't you need side effects, like print("hello world")
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by supster 10y ago
laundry would be great too :-)
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Google’s Allo – Blue vs. Green Bubbles(sapan.svbtle.com)
3 points by supster 10y ago|0 comments
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by supster 10y ago
I'm not undermining them - simply stating that there was a vacuum created by the lack of competition. Even cloning successful services at scale is incredibly difficult, but it's not 0 to 1, it's 1 to n. Nonetheless, I agree C
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by supster 10y ago
It must help Chinese startups that many SV companies are blocked from competing in China. For example no competition from Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, Youtube, Gmail, Dropbox, Vimeo, SoundCloud... more info: https:&#x
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Beyond Siri: The World Premiere of Viv with Dag Kittlaus(youtube.com)
2 points by supster 10y ago|0 comments
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by supster 10y ago
I'm a big fan. I love the statically inferred type system, generics, & optionals. Also really like a lot of the functional programming concepts + value types but still enjoy being able to fall back on OOP. It feels like the best of
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by supster 10y ago
Interesting, newbie question: where do you put the x.crontab file and how do you get the system to run it? Thanks
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by supster 10y ago
True but neurosurgeons go through almost 10 years of additional training at a fellow's salary (~$50k/year), in addition to a much worse work-life balance.
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Bots and WeChat of the West(sapan.svbtle.com)
27 points by supster 10y ago|3 comments
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by supster 10y ago
It'll be interesting if the rumors of Apple Pay for web are correct[1]. One could see a near future where using mobile Safari, iPhone users could login and pay at any website just with the credentials stored in Apple Pay + Keychain and
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by supster 11y ago
Yeah I feel that tends to play out based on what class of VC you are. E.g. seed/angels -> high risk / big portfolio (100s startups) / huge win-loss multiples (but invest small $) traditional VCs/Seed A-C -> medium
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by supster 11y ago
fixed, thx

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