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by code4tee 6y ago
This makes complete sense and there’s no question commercial restate is turning into a bit of a house of cards. In some big cities you have many large buildings where their primary tenant was WeWork, which appears to be imploding, and now a
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by code4tee 6y ago
The whole “Uber makes a profit on the ride” stat is broadly just creative accounting that counts the revenue and ignores most of the costs including the huge back office operation to build and support the app, marketing, admin, etc etc. Yes
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If Instacart was able to pivot to full end to end food delivery with their own distribution chain it could have long term viability. Their current model of just having people shop in normal stores is problematic for many reasons, not the le
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This whole industry is yet another example of “fake markets” that were created by just massively subsidizing something with VC cash. Food delivery is hardly a new idea. By basically just having VC’s pay for everyone’s food delivery you can
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by code4tee 6y ago
Offices won’t go away, but the idea that there is a physical space permanently set aside for you in an office and that you use that space most workdays will largely be seen as a quaint relic of the past for many. It’s not a question of if t
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by code4tee 6y ago
Sadly there are few in leadership positions willing to step up and do something today to help with a long term problem that’s not obviously going to matter in the very short term. Climate change and crumbling infrastructure are other exampl
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Many real estate investments are highly leveraged—-you need people renting your property to pay back the loan you used to buy the property. If a family owns a vacation property outright and they’re going to miss out on some extra income the
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by code4tee 6y ago
IT support friend of mine told me a story how the place where he worked (major US bank) basically took its whole email infrastructure offline when the company essentially DDOSed itself with a single email. Someone in IT was testing an email
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The markets already know the figures are terrible and that’s priced in already. Unless the numbers come out worse than what the market was expecting there’s no reason for the market to go down on announcement. Often the market will go up on
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Yes. This is applicable to most automation, machine learning and AI. These technologies are generally really bad at sense checking their results. At the end of the day they match patterns that are mathematically the “most correct” pattern e
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by code4tee 6y ago
Apple’s move is more about tax optimization. Yes they have all this cash but it’s sitting in accounts all around the globe. They’d have to pay hefty taxes to repatriate it and then pay it out as dividends. It’s “cheaper” for them and better
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by code4tee 6y ago
It’s often been said that VCs invest in people not products and there’s certainly some truth to that. That said, having a realistic plan on how your idea turns into a sustainable business is certainly key too. That’s even more important wit
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by code4tee 6y ago
The office isn’t dead, but it is also clear that the office won’t come back to levels we saw before. Commercial real estate is very expensive. In many companies the biggest expense after salaries is the cost of their office space. That cost
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by code4tee 6y ago
Most STEM PhDs (and especially in the hard sciences) are funded from mostly government sources. It’s seen as the country making an investment in top talent. Nobody (who is any good) in the USA pays money for a STEM PhD. You get paid to do t
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by code4tee 6y ago
The higher education bubble has been building for a long time. It follows a similar trend to the housing bubble: high prices fueled by loans that are too easy to get and too hard to repay. The current situation is likely going to force a ha
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by code4tee 6y ago
When the final lifeline for your company is suing your primary investor over competing definitions of just how terrible the company is performing then I’m not sure it’s worth much for either party!
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WeWork is effectively worth nothing at this point. Their revenue surely has tanked given everything and won’t just magically return to normal. They’re sitting on massive liabilities with all the leases and capital they invested in locations
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by code4tee 6y ago
What you describe is often part of the problem. Companies are often far to quick to chase after every feature request and endlessly customize product for each customer. Finding the balance between meeting true feature needs and ending up wi
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by code4tee 6y ago
I like the post but it does somewhat miss the point of these comments when they’re made. It’s not usually someone saying they could rebuild the whole site / product / company in a weekend but rather challenging the value that ever
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by code4tee 6y ago
What’s happening now is very analogous to the 2000 dot.com crash. The economy overall will recover, albeit slowly. However companies are questioning why they need 100 engineers instead of 50. That doesn’t just reverse itself overnight. As t
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by code4tee 6y ago
tl;dr: Basically everyone will decide this summer.
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by code4tee 6y ago
We used this with our youngest. It’s a decent product but now it’s turning into a brick at the end of next month when they kill the app. Guess we need to figure something else out.
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by code4tee 6y ago
It’s a tough market because there’s really no inventory. At least some produce can be kept in storage for a little while. When the flowers are ready they either need to be sold or they go bad. Then of course all the “regulars” have stopped
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by code4tee 6y ago
Interesting story, but wouldn’t be surprised if the real play here was to get his source code so they could get some bad guys to use a modified version that the NSA could crack. Put a back door in and then intercept traffic trying to downlo
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I do enjoy being in the office sometimes but not every day. After this is all over I imagine many companies will go “remote work” for at least part of the time. There we’re many naysayer companies that were forced into doing it and now real
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by code4tee 6y ago
GoPro has been struggling for a while but like a lot of companies they will likely use the present situation as cover to make some changes. It’s a lot easier for executives to say “there was this terrible Coronavirus thing that forced us to
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by code4tee 6y ago
How does that pair off against the reports that YouTube channels are seeing their ad earnings cut in half as digital ad spend drops? Don’t doubt there are companies going against the tide but seems clear as spend has declined. Clearly an op
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A lot of companies are cutting back big time on advertising spend and that’s Google’s sacred cow of revenue so this isn’t a surprise.
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by code4tee 6y ago
Nice article. People sometimes dismiss Django but it’s been around for a while and is certainly the fastest framework for building out new ideas that I’ve seen. It’s my goto framework for prototyping. I find too many teams are so focused on

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