a_small_island

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by a_small_island 10y ago
With all due respect to your freedom of speech, but who cares? I want to read responses about the article, not anecdotal weight loss data and about your daily habits.
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by a_small_island 10y ago
This is nonsense.
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by a_small_island 10y ago
Fat is good for you. Cut the carbs if you need to lose weight. Meaningless source of food.
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by a_small_island 10y ago
I feel bad for the employees. This song will repeat itself many times over. Selfish deluded egomaniac taking advantage of people and their livelihood. Good luck to the rank and file.
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by a_small_island 10y ago
>See, eg, healthtap. https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/HealthTap-Reviews-E453567.... Wish there was something more that could be done than just saying "I'll never work for or do business with this company
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by a_small_island 10y ago
Not a snark, but why do you address him as Mr. Buchheit and not Paul?
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by a_small_island 10y ago
I can't believe how many typos there were in this article, do editors exist anymore?
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by a_small_island 10y ago
What's the likely scenarios for an employee whose been there for 2 years, an employee whose been there for 1 year, and an employee whose been there for 6 months? If we assume 1 year cliff on options.
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by a_small_island 10y ago
>Beyond that, when I'm interviewing someone, I know I can't or shouldn't ask certain things, and I don't want to make people uncomfortable or break any laws. So I will often casually mention that I'm married or h
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by a_small_island 10y ago
A _social_ network built by "ex-Google" engineers.
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by a_small_island 10y ago
Yeah but why ruin a good headline?
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by a_small_island 10y ago
Fair enough. I respect your point of view. I hope you engrain this mentality in your team for future hires and/or when they start their own companies. It's a solid perspective, sorry for being critical. How do you deal with feedba
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by a_small_island 10y ago
Not sure what's so revolutionary here. Seems the process is this: 1) Call with "CTO", who answers any questions about the company. Sounds like a standard phone screen. 2) Work sample, the company now wants you to prove you ar
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by a_small_island 10y ago
Your mindset is very scary to me because a lot of others think like you. If someone earns options over one, two, two and a half year period and then is deemed "toxic" to the company, why should they not receive similar compensatio
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by a_small_island 10y ago
$500M invested, previous valuation ~$1B, so a "3x" exit.
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by a_small_island 10y ago
Uber does not own all 20%, from the article: "Investors in Uber China, an entity owned by San Francisco-based Uber, Baidu Inc. and others, will receive a 20 percent stake in Didi, the people said. "
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by a_small_island 10y ago
I think mbesto's list was supposed to highlight the fact that a large number of China's top companies are state owned.
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by a_small_island 10y ago
Good story, but not exactly hard-nosed in my opinion. Either be left on the sidelines while your competitors all jump on the newest distribution platform, or follow suit. I'm just surprised these details happen over email instead of ov
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by a_small_island 10y ago
Yeah, but the executives already got their bonuses for many years. If the campaign is a monetary failure for the company, they will just clean house and hire a new batch of execs who will blame all the problems on the prior group so that th
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by a_small_island 10y ago
>"2. Being able to identify troublemakers in a community (such as a forum or a social networking site). I'm sure a lot of administrators would love to know if that suspicious looking new guy is the alias of a banned troll from
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by a_small_island 10y ago
Hocus pocus. >"Ordinary Display Advertising Performance: Estimated percent successful 1%" >"Estimated Adlove Performance: Estimated percent successful 50 %" Do you have ANY success metrics to back up this claim
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by a_small_island 10y ago
No different than calling yourself a Googler.
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by a_small_island 10y ago
Top line of wikipedia: "In business management, micromanagement is a management style whereby a manager closely observes or controls the work of subordinates or employees."
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by a_small_island 10y ago
Don't get in the way of a good story.
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by a_small_island 10y ago
Skully has a few interesting glassdoor reviews: https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/SKULLY-Reviews-E1046917.ht...
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by a_small_island 10y ago
>"12.9-inch iPad Pro" I had to look this up. It's real. A 13" iPad. Are these still labeled as tablets? Same size as my laptop screen.
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by a_small_island 10y ago
>"Sand Hill began as two Silicon Valley entrepreneurs creating an online business involving the valuation of private startup companies in the region along the lines of a fantasy sports league. But Gerrit Hall and Elaine Ou changed
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by a_small_island 10y ago
How did you account for a woman having many more times the matches of a man? Wouldn't this influence whether they would be willing to "spend" time on the match?
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by a_small_island 10y ago
How linked into the company are you? Are you linked into the dirty growth hacks? Is the CEO linked into the culture and aware of these 'sketchy things'? Below I will attempt to recruit responses from my hacker news connections.
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by a_small_island 10y ago
I appreciate that this article attempts to explain the structure behind all "Cyanogen" entities, but I'm still left confused by all of them.

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