swingbridge

9 ms·

31.
by swingbridge 10y ago
Twitter is being judged negatively by the business community and elsewhere because, simply, it's a terrible business that's losing money hand over fist. I consistently fail to understand why the present company isn't just 75
32.
by swingbridge 10y ago
As the article points out theres a big difference between addresses being allocated and addresses being used.
33.
by swingbridge 10y ago
Being an Excel jockey was "cool" in the 90s and 00s but all the cool number crunching kids are much more likely to be using something like Jupyter Notebook, R or homebrew command like stuff these days.
34.
by swingbridge 10y ago
High profile aircraft (ie Trump Force One) tend to ask for their data to be scrubbed from these sites and the sites typically comply; however the data from those planes is still transmitted unencrypted over open airways for anyone to listen
35.
by swingbridge 10y ago
Not likely as I believe they turned off the transponder, which is what these devices listen for.
36.
by swingbridge 10y ago
They're still doing quite well all things considered--really well in fact relative to most people trying to manage other people's money. Personally I don't place much value in comparing short term returns as it applies to say
37.
by swingbridge 10y ago
Lean and profitable is the new black.
38.
by swingbridge 10y ago
I think it's hard to lump them all into one bucket. One still needs to be quite ambitious and have a good CV going into the bootcamp, but I've seen people come out of these programs that have landed good job. Are they the world&#x
39.
by swingbridge 10y ago
Very cool.
40.
by swingbridge 10y ago
I recently read how Palantir is currently suing the government because they got pissed the Army is considering dumping them and is trying to bid out the work to others. They're coming across as a bit desperate in this whole thing and t
41.
by swingbridge 10y ago
The may be smart, but the business model seems to be failing. Not clear how this helps WalMart much.
42.
by swingbridge 10y ago
The price in these "the business model didn't work so let's save the investors and sell" type deals is primarily driven by paying off the early investors. Term sheets typically say these investors make a decent return be
43.
by swingbridge 10y ago
Given the proposed price relative to funding raised it's likely the investors will get their money back plus a small return, employees with options will likely get nothing or perhaps a token amount (after all the preferred terms are ca
44.
by swingbridge 10y ago
Meh... Fair point on the icon for the photos app, but other than that the article is grasping at staws
45.
by swingbridge 10y ago
Mature American Elms are beautiful trees, especially over walkways like in Central Park. Hope they can sort this out.
46.
by swingbridge 10y ago
Classic Streisand effect. It also wasn't terribly smart to take "proprietary" customer data and make it available to others via an API. If you say everything is sugar and roses but your own published data says there's tr
47.
by swingbridge 10y ago
Ditto, can't see any instance data either via the API or graphical dashboard. Instances themselves seem normal for the moment.
48.
by swingbridge 10y ago
A lighter engine certainly doesn't hurt, but it's really the batteries that are an issue. The other item often overlooked on the battery front is that most batteries hate the cold. Take your iPhone out on a 20F day and see how lon
49.
by swingbridge 10y ago
"Lean" is the new black. With investors focusing more on hard fundamentals like revenue and profit and a lot less on "hype" metrics like user growth, employee growth, number of baristas on staff and such a lot of tech co
50.
by swingbridge 10y ago
I once had to call the help desk for a US government system. They were actually surprisingly responsive and helpful, on a weekend even. After speaking a bit of technical jargon the person on the other end of the line understood that I wasn&
51.
by swingbridge 10y ago
So basically putting some competent tech people in charge of government technology has resulted in a cracking down on waste, fraud, abuse and general stupidity. And this is a bad thing because...?
52.
by swingbridge 10y ago
This sounds like a move made out of desperation, not benevolence. Word on the street is that all is not well at Palantir.
53.
by swingbridge 10y ago
Every major company performs these sorts of "red team" tests and virtually no major company passes with flying colors... so it's not surprising that Palintir has its fair share of issues. What is surprising is that all this s
54.
by swingbridge 10y ago
Traditional transponders aren't going away and they would still work with secondary radar.
55.
by swingbridge 10y ago
The WeWork spaces are nice, but when I've visited companies there it seemed WeWork was struggling to fill the spaces. This news would seem to go along with that observation.
56.
by swingbridge 10y ago
The company is still far too bloated, contributing to the fact that it's financials don't remotely support its valuation.
57.
by swingbridge 10y ago
This is generally a good sign for the market. Not so good for bloated startups without a viable business model or cash positive finances (including probably the majority of the unicorns out there at the moment). For such firms it's abo
58.
by swingbridge 10y ago
Saw the aftermath of a Palantir project after the client parted ways with them. What a train wreck. There was a lot of hype around them but when one looked deep into what they actually did it was a lot of smoke and mirrors and not a lot of
59.
by swingbridge 11y ago
Top talent has been fleeing academia for a while now. Lower pay, limited job security (unless you manage to win a few rounds of the the publish or peril game), limited freedom to do what you want (in large part due to games around funding a
60.
by swingbridge 11y ago
The business model is broken. Surprised they managed to raise more funds at all.

More ›