chralieboy

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by chralieboy 11y ago
The 211 number was given as what Airbnb has found to be what it takes to break even on the cost of a unit. Prop F, and others like it, are not trying to destroy Airbnb but stop people from purchasing housing and using it exclusively for sho
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by chralieboy 11y ago
That is how representative democracy works. You decide how things work in the area where you live. Imagine if I got to decide how things worked in your neighborhood without living there, that wouldn't be fair. People who _want_ to live
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by chralieboy 11y ago
"Sharing economy" is just the marketing term for it. If I share a bench with you, I'm not charging you for the privilege. I agree that it is the word we use, but it doesn't accurately communicate what we're talking
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by chralieboy 11y ago
> nothing stops an unethical founder from raising 800k at a 8M cap, and turning right around and letting the company get acqui-hired for 4M a month later, pocketing $3.6M and leaving the investors with half their money. Except that they
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by chralieboy 11y ago
Thank you for this, it is spot on. It's like saying Amazon can't have a sale because then it would have to lower the price of every item it sells.
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by chralieboy 11y ago
Precisely. In Silicon Valley it would be like a company that is raising record amounts of money at mind-boggling valuations but whose revenue isn't growing at the same pace. One of the major question marks has been wage growth during t
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by chralieboy 11y ago
> Seeing a team build a prototype shows another level of commitment. I've built hardware, so i know how much more time/effort/money it takes over a software wireframe... A wireframe is not the same as a hardware prototype.
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by chralieboy 11y ago
Could you run the other ones as well? If you're positioning yourself as a faster alternative to ABP, it makes sense to compare yourself against other popular alternatives.
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by chralieboy 11y ago
That's really been the most enlightening part of the series for me. Reinforces that the hardest part in engineering is rarely the technical problem. Distributed databases are really f *ing hard, but infinitely harder if the people can
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by chralieboy 11y ago
We struggle with that last one all the time. Our sales team can't add issues with tags or assign them without write access to the repo. So they just have to dump them in issues and then engineers have to categorize them.
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by chralieboy 11y ago
Ideas may be cheap, but that doesn't mean that good ones are not valuable. Execution against a bad idea is my largest frustration with SV. Consider Color[1]. Raised $41m for a genuinely terribly idea. Social networking with random peop
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by chralieboy 11y ago
go
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by chralieboy 11y ago
> In other words, Square today is more of a financial services company than a consumer product company They are becoming a B2B software company, building back-office tools. Square Capital is a financial service, but a majority of the new
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by chralieboy 11y ago
I agree on what it actually is, mine was a comment on how it is used. I've seen P/E used many times in SV referring to valuation/revenue.
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by chralieboy 11y ago
You are technically correct. Silicon Valley uses P/E when calculating valuation/revenue, because startups are rarely profitable. They aren't equivalent in the same way that user growth and revenue growth are not equivalent to
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by chralieboy 11y ago
From startups and public markets to open source projects and online communities, communication and collaboration are always the most difficult and rewarding piece of any human endeavor. Never let the technical problems mask what really matt
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by chralieboy 11y ago
They may be important, but the argument against them isn't just not understanding their market. If they were a strongly profitable, or even high revenue-generating, company then the announcement wouldn't be about strengthening Yah
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by chralieboy 11y ago
Before Uber, I never took taxis. Now I use Uber 7-10 times per week. That's just one anecdote, but my business wouldn't be counted as Uber taking part of the taxi market.
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by chralieboy 11y ago
The problem is that RubySpec isn't used to TDD cross-implementation features. It isn't a "specification" so much as a reflection of what MRI does. The Rubinius team's complaints (though hyperbolic) still stand. Deve
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by chralieboy 11y ago
Note that Kara Swisher (executive editor of Re/Code) was married to Megan Smith [1]. Megan is now CTO of the United States, but previously was at Google for over a decade and a VP at Google X. It's not unreasonable that Kara, and
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by chralieboy 11y ago
According to the press release, they describe themselves as "San Francisco’s leading office catering service." Unless they plan on dramatically expanding their product offerings, "Improve[ing] the Health of Humanity" sou
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by chralieboy 11y ago
Unfortunately enticement is literally the purpose of the check. You're required to exchange value in order for them to agree to not sue the company. When I had to do my first firing I was surprised that this was the case but our lawyer
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by chralieboy 11y ago
Note that the article only spoke with the COO of Zenefits and no one from ADP. As has been detailed numerous times, ADP absolutely has a right to cut off access based on violations of its ToS. They want to be put in the same boat as Uber an
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by chralieboy 11y ago
Your title is highly misleading. > Out of the $585 billion remittance market, an estimated 10%-20% is used solely for bill payments. If there are $585 billion in remittances made, your market is not $1 trillion. It also isn't $585 b
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by chralieboy 11y ago
That was the parent's question. If they froze prices with these subsidies, would it continue?
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by chralieboy 11y ago
For now, but the trend in the article is related to mass manufacturing. Fracking (lower electricity prices, cheaper oil) helps large steel and aluminum manufacturers. Cheaper raw materials leads to cheaper widgets.
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by chralieboy 11y ago
It did strike me as a bit out of left field. White Anglo-Saxon Protestants are not the inventors of names nor does it seem like that group in particular is radically defensive of how naming works. I'm not sure it is hate speech, but it
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by chralieboy 11y ago
The article cites no statistics on actual injuries. Neither do the politicians wanting to ban them out of safety concerns. For something around for this long, you'd think they'd be able to at least give an example of someone getti
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by chralieboy 11y ago
The opinion very specifically did _not_ provided any protected status to gays and lesbians. Persecution had nothing to do with it.
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by chralieboy 11y ago
The opinion goes into strenuous detail on the history of marriage cases before the court. This decision was not tearing down "what is marriage?", but pivoted (for Justice Kennedy, who was the deciding vote and wrote the majority o

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