thorfish

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Throwaway code isn't always wasteful(wrschneider.github.io)
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Ask HN: Encrypted Group Mailing List Service?
1 points by thorfish 11y ago|0 comments
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How Plastic Are Values?(overcomingbias.com)
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The U.S. In Afghanistan: A Fractally Stupid War(devinhelton.com)
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by thorfish 11y ago
Obviously it varies quite a bit. Some consumer companies can spend very little on sales and marketing. But many consumer companies and nearly all B2B companies spend an enormous amount. Look at a company like New Relic. They took four round
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by thorfish 11y ago
I see it as the cost of forming a startup is much lower now so they can stay private longer. I don't think that is true. Sales and marketing is still very expensive. SaaS needs a lot more cash investment than traditional software, si
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by thorfish 11y ago
Yeah, but as I understand it, employees can usually only sell about 20% or so in secondary offerings. Six months after the IPO, they can liquidate 100%.
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by thorfish 11y ago
"And the tech IPO is basically dead. The tech IPO market is at early 1980's volumes. For most of the 90's the majority of tech funding was public. This has reversed. It used to be routine to hit $20 million in revenues and g
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by thorfish 11y ago
That is very eery. Reminds me of Aktemto Mine in Dragon Warrior 4. Any heroes want to volunteer to investigate what has awoken in the deep?
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by thorfish 11y ago
Such experts can never be completely free of bias, but the idea that every expert should be coupled with someone with an opposing viewpoint (and if there's consensus in the field on the topic, who?) is ludicrous at best. I actually t
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Impressions of overworked Americans(socialpathology.blogspot.com)
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by thorfish 11y ago
I heard a really outrageous example of that the other day. They were doing a piece on migrants from Africa traveling to Europe. The NPR reporter brought on a British professor of international studies for an interview. The professor says, &