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by ticmasta 6y ago
How can Atlassian LOSE money on this level of revenues, in this market, with the combination of their tools and shifts in usage... after this long? They used to be a small, privately controlled company with focused yet ambitious goals and a
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by ticmasta 6y ago
>> something that increases wages faster than raises. not sure if you misspoke or I don't get your point >> fair profit-sharing "Fair" is just a trigger that one side uses to put the other on the defensive. Compa
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by ticmasta 6y ago
The only way you can accurately evaluate and attribute the work of this hypothetical intern is to answer the question "what would happen if they took their idea and implemented it independently?" * Does it require a big capital in
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by ticmasta 6y ago
Ha! I was the only one taking AP-level everything and electronics and power mechanics as my electives! The shop teacher was so grateful that he finally had someone super-interested in more advanced topics that I got to do extra projects he&
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by ticmasta 6y ago
I used this justification to buy a really good router. I would love to have a drill press and a spindle sander; there's some things you just need one to accomplish well.
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by ticmasta 6y ago
We have this problem with our non- OS project but found that after the initial review (of which most were false-positives) we could permanently suppress them with a comment and fail the build for net-new work without a huge impact on develo
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by ticmasta 6y ago
I agree with you, but it is a really hard problem with huge, diverse, systemic drivers. The OP mentions how much work from how many people this takes - the entire process could fall apart at any of the steps, plus it required personal relat
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by ticmasta 6y ago
The demands for background checks tends to be inversely proportional to the ability of the employee/applicant to do criminal or civil harm. You'll need a clean criminal record to work a random retail job but could have numerous co
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by ticmasta 6y ago
including a YC-backed firm that does this explicitly. I find it sad/humorous that they have copy about "connecting companies with a more diverse set of candidates" while essentially selling a service for streamlined filtering
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by ticmasta 6y ago
This advice is all targeted at the technical challenges which, in the language of NSB, are all accidental factors. The essential challenge of video calls is bandwidth; you just don't get the same depth of rich, non-verbal communication
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by ticmasta 6y ago
Do you think the lifespan of the topic or the delivery platform impacted your returns? I don't buy a lot of books anymore but used to drop 40-50 bucks on an O'Reilly book that would be used for years. My LP purchases probably top
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by ticmasta 6y ago
yes, why would an employer want employees who have the capability to write a book on the payroll? That's time that could be spent heads-down coding! </s>
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by ticmasta 6y ago
way more people finish college than publish a book though. It's a higher-level signal IMO, even a self-published book is a massive accomplishment that shows huge dedication.
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by ticmasta 6y ago
>> They first need to start thinking in steps, loops, commands, ifs This is exactly what turtle logo does, with the modest, easily definable, straight-forward goal of drawing cool pictures. I think one of the big mistakes we're m
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by ticmasta 6y ago
There's a big difference between making obvious mistakes that make everything worse and making the "right" decision for a future consideration. Beyond first-hand experience (i.e. making the mistake and then recognizing it in
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by ticmasta 6y ago
not if you traded early comp for the promise of astronomical equity returns. Especially if you were sold hard on this by the founders; in this scenario they have failed because the goal was not to build a stable, self-sustaining business.
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by ticmasta 6y ago
There can definitely be different psychological motivators at work IME: VC => we're building something big and I want to ride on the rocket ship; Bootstrap => We're cultivating something that embodies part of me; I'm i
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by ticmasta 6y ago
Pretty funny that the push towards static serverless has made something you used to get essentially for free on your dynamic client-server app into quite a complex undertaking. Static compile-time sites are fantastic for a huge swath of app
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by ticmasta 6y ago
That's what gives cows the taste most consumers recognize as "prime beef". Eating solely grass-feed is definitely a different taste;I'm not sure most consumers would like it, at least initially (outside of a hamburger).
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by ticmasta 6y ago
For many of us in the Western World and specifically Canada, water use is a major area of concern as well. Seaweed obviously doesn't use a lot of fresh water to grow, but I'm not sure about the processing. Cattle production still
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by ticmasta 6y ago
Does this generate diagrams from schemas and vice versa? That's always been my preferred way to both refactor and get started, and a few tools do this.
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by ticmasta 6y ago
Traditionally payment & accounting has never been a problem in the music business, so I think blockchain would not really help. The underlying economics is what has changed dramatically. Distribution is close to free, but unlike the ~ $
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by ticmasta 6y ago
70% of an apple purchase goes to the app developer. That's not ripping off developers.
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by ticmasta 6y ago
Isn't this just an abstraction on living in your parent's basement? I don't believe that most newish techies have parents with spare, vacant homes ready to go.
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by ticmasta 6y ago
This totally ignores the fact that a big reason salaries are so high in these markets is because cost of living is very high as well. Living on 25K a year wouldn't even cover your shared accommodation costs.
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by ticmasta 6y ago
There's also old with lots of experience but it's 20 years of doing the same thing, or 10 x 2 years experience vs. 20 years of xp
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by ticmasta 6y ago
>> "St. George Security and Alarm". isn't this why Vivint has been so successful? I thought they pioneered converting recent missionaries into DTD alarm sales...
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by ticmasta 6y ago
Then you don't understand the specialization of labor very well, and you're being very disingenuous to the parent post. They made no reference to certain work being beneath them, only the idea in maximizing resources. Maybe you co
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by ticmasta 6y ago
regardless if you're a billionaire or not, at some point money is for keeping score. We all have biases that influence our desires and actions; he was able to indulge his more fully. What's your proposed alternative to the amalgam
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by ticmasta 6y ago
I don't think Chuck Feeney set out to be purposely secretive as much as anonymous and focused on the money doing the work. I think stories like this one in Forbes highlight he understands the necessity of good leadership by talking abo

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