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by thedufer 11y ago
Giving an employee an option on a $30 unit of stock with a $30 dollar strike price has no tax implications. Giving the same option with a $1 strike price means $29 of immediate taxable income. Multiply by an early employee grant size and y
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by thedufer 11y ago
> Prime postage is now tied to a physical address (not Amazon Account), regardless of sender This isn't going to go over well. If you think the original Amazon Household was abused, this would be a lot worse. I live in NYC in a sm
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by thedufer 11y ago
It sounds like you've found a big part of the appeal. People go where the jobs are, after all.
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by thedufer 11y ago
Avoiding revenue does seem to be a good way to "grow" sans headcount growth, but that seems like a rare exception to the rule rather than a reason to believe that valuation growth doesn't generally correlate with employee cou
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by thedufer 11y ago
I'm not interested in how much value the company gets out of it; it's how much it costs me that matters. And anecdotally, 1-3 hours is...optimistic.
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by thedufer 11y ago
I don't think Github can get away with job advertising like StackOverflow. I pay Github money; if they start advertising to me I'm leaving. Free sites can advertise at me all they'd like.
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by thedufer 11y ago
Saying that a product isn't worth $5/month (and acting on it) sounds like the opposite of market validation to me.
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by thedufer 11y ago
So what you're saying is that, if those IP rights are worth billions of dollars, the company that stands to make that won't outbid an $80M prize? I'm a little skeptical. That would be a bizarre decision for a for-profit com
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by thedufer 11y ago
Why would anyone apply for the prize in that case? The IP rights on anything reasonably successful will be worth way more than the prize money.
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by thedufer 11y ago
If the only reason you're operating at a loss is that you're spending everything you make on gaining new customers, then you just stop reinvesting and are immediately hugely profitable.
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by thedufer 11y ago
"within a factor of 10" is a curiosity rather than anything of real significance. And even that is based on untested theories. It is possible that the Planck length will end up being significant in the way described upthread, bu
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by thedufer 11y ago
The planck length is simply the base length when you set up your units such that c, G, and h are all 1. There's currently no reason to believe it has any sort of physical meaning beyond that.
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by thedufer 11y ago
If we're quoting the guidelines: > Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think a story is spam or off-topic, flag it by clicking on its "flag" link. (Not all
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by thedufer 11y ago
I use [ws]( https://github.com/websockets/ws ). I've never had any trouble with it, and it benchmarks well. Of course, there's no fallback there; just websockets. I haven't seen a websocket+fallback lib
555.
by thedufer 11y ago
A good chunk of the optimizations are timing related, though. Low tide, summer, mid-day, etc. Not inducing the quake gives all of those up (not to mention the moral hazard of lying about it mentioned by others).
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by thedufer 11y ago
/newest currently has a memory of 20 minutes. If a post gets no votes in those first 20 minutes, it is pretty much dead.
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by thedufer 11y ago
> more than a dozen different resources I believe the end-game count is 43 these days.
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by thedufer 11y ago
Pre-React, you would often duplicate every bit of logic. You end up with "here's what you do on first render" and then for each mutable bit you have "here's how you change the DOM to get it back to the right state&
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by thedufer 11y ago
This is a very cynical guess as to why GP is being downvoted. The more obvious, straightforward reason is that the article links to this speech a mere seven sentences in. In that light, the post being downvoted adds nothing and indicates
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by thedufer 11y ago
If winning the bugtracking market was the goal, they probably would've taken VC money. You may notice that everyone who's in a position to claim that has done so (Github, Atlassian, etc). They did learn from this, as you can see
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by thedufer 11y ago
The author of this post started at Fog Creek around a year after Wasabi was invented, if I'm getting my timeline right. He was also the one to finally kill Wasabi. Hardly sounds like jumping ship.
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by thedufer 11y ago
You have to think _very_ highly of Fog Creek to believe that they've been so successful despite making a massive strategic blunder a few years in.
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by thedufer 11y ago
From http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/technical-debt-and-tacki... : > I fixed a crazy number of silly bugs in mono’s class libraries. To be fair, implementing all of .NET is a herculean task, and most of the
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by thedufer 11y ago
> For a small company, this is an enormous waste of time, money, and energy. I think you have this backwards. A small company that writes a compiler and loses a few weeks of dev time per year survives for a decade, while spinning up var
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by thedufer 11y ago
You might enjoy reading http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/technical-debt-and-tacki... . To address your points: > Fun fact: Wasabi has more unit tests than FogBugz. > It’s fully debuggable in Visual Studio
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by thedufer 11y ago
> they were late getting there I'm not sure I'm interpreting this correctly, but FogBugz On Demand was launched in 2007. Was that really late for SaaS?
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by thedufer 11y ago
FogBugz was originally an internal tool meant to facilitate writing Fog Creek's original first product (CityDesk, a CMS). It seems pretty reasonable to go with whatever's most comfortable for an internal tool that you don't
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by thedufer 11y ago
I don't think they did. Wasabi was originally the subset of VBScript that they were already using. Also, there's a big difference between a rewrite and rewriting but maintaining both versions.
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by thedufer 11y ago
I think that multiplier is what bane was alluding to. Incidentally, your numbers seem low for software devs - I'm fairly certain I cost well over 2x salary (NYC). Although my company prides itself on compensating well, so maybe most
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by thedufer 11y ago
All renewable energy sources that I can think of are processes that used to be (Energy -> Heat) and we turn them into (Energy -> Electricity -> Heat), where Energy is gravitational potential, EM radiation, etc. The two changes are

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