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by code4tee 6y ago
Sometimes VCs are a bit like hedge fund traders. They have a lot of terrible investments but one great one that made them some money and made more people want to invest. Often though there is little indication the initial one success was mu
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by code4tee 6y ago
Most executives are very short term thinkers and thus while your logic makes sense it’s generally not how most people think. They need cash now so they cut first and think later. You’re right that some smart execs will run into the fire as
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by code4tee 6y ago
When companies struggle the first thing they tend to pull is advertising. Need some help making this quarter’s numbers? Pull all the TV adverts for a few weeks. “Go dark” as insiders say. Short term this is all standard. The long term dange
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by code4tee 6y ago
Having a lease is not the same as “owing the bank money” to go with the loan analogy. Yes it’s painful for landlords but the landlords have options. If they kicked WeWork out they’re not just out the money in the way a bank is if a borrower
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by code4tee 6y ago
True although that scenario is hardly uncommon. Lots of investors have board seats and there are decisions (like if to invest in the next round) where the desire of the board (get more money for a new round) may conflict with the desires of
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by code4tee 6y ago
Quote: WeWork’s board said that it “regrets the fact that SoftBank continues to put its own interests ahead of those of WeWork’s minority stockholders.” Of course they’re going do to that, it’s called fiduciary duty to their own stakeholde
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by code4tee 6y ago
Coronavirus is just accelerating the market correction in startups that was already underway. In the end it may actually do some good to just pull the bandaid off fast. This is just the next wave in the cycle and those of us that have been
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by code4tee 6y ago
The business model of these companies seems in question long term given that they rely heavily on location data “opted in” from users that honestly probably didn’t realize they “opted in” to share their data for such uses. As more efforts c
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by code4tee 6y ago
Former big time user here. The product slowly declined from its own operating system to a buggy app. We really had no choice but to migrate onto other products and these days even hard core Mac folks use AD for directory, Exchange for email
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by code4tee 6y ago
It’s painful and sad sad for those subjected to such poor leadership. However in the end things have a way of working themselves out. Companies with leadership teams that are this poor tend to get washed out in the long run. Those let go ju
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by code4tee 6y ago
Please don’t let this company anywhere near the healthcare system.
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by code4tee 6y ago
Who’s going to teach us what to cook in our slow cookers now on the weekends?
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by code4tee 6y ago
There are a lot of companies that should probably be 5 people in a basement somewhere run in the cloud... but everyone wants the VC money, big offices, huge teams and such. Maybe the whole current situation will change attitudes back toward
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by code4tee 6y ago
This never made sense under WeWork. Hopefully will help stabilize their future and maintain a service that’s used by many. Still not really sure what the “business” here is but the site and its network are certainly popular.
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by code4tee 6y ago
Sadly this whole current mess may be an insurmountable hurdle for an industry that was already struggling. This is all going to force some changes for what the future of retail looks like. Hopefully in the long run we can all find a place f
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by code4tee 6y ago
We had a bad manager at my last company who really wanted to do this sort of thing. I said to him “So this is an interesting proposal... if we install this software then I can save on management costs by replacing your position with this sp
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by code4tee 7y ago
I like Amazon, but at some level I find it hard to believe that a company that can build a store that automatically tracks my purchases with ML and let’s me walk out without a checkout can’t figure out how to flag some of the blatantly fake
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by code4tee 7y ago
The company isn’t just magically worth billions because they want it to be and want to exit. That may have worked years ago but those days are over. They’re worth something relative to the revenues they’ve been able to generate. The IP is a
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by code4tee 7y ago
Boeing’s argument is that the issue really isn’t an issue based on available data. The FAA’s argument is that a rule is a rule and Boeing seems to have a problem following the rules. Boeing is probably right but given the mess they got them
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by code4tee 7y ago
It’s generally hard to have a “false positive” in a PCR based test unless the sample was contaminated with the material trying to be detected. False negatives would be much more common.
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by code4tee 7y ago
It’s amazing how companies make such stupid decisions on their branding. The new logo looks terrible. The old logo was timeless and iconic. It stood for something and that’s what people wanted from BMW. They don’t need to be hip and modern
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by code4tee 7y ago
Just setup billing alarms. Spend is reported continuously. These people surprised by end of month bills just aren’t paying attention to all the data AWS shows you on your spend. If they hard shut people down then people would be posting “AW
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by code4tee 7y ago
The Achilles heel of electric aviation is that batteries don’t shed weight as they discharge. A fundamental aspect of Aerospace engineering is that rockets/planes shed a lot of weight during flight by by burning fuel. Many big jets tak
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by code4tee 7y ago
Cool tool and the problem it’s trying to solve is a real one. However on the complex mesh of connections across accounts isn’t the new way to do this now not the Transit Gateway? A tool that could manage complex TGW setups across many accou
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by code4tee 7y ago
I don’t agree with the use of an app here for many reasons. That said, such an app would basically need secure authentication and a form to upload some pre-templated numbers. It seems pretty hard to screw that up so badly but clearly it’s q
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by code4tee 7y ago
Other states couldn’t care less what the Iowa constitution says on the matter. In practice it’s ultimately up to the DNC (this is a party process after all). In the past if a state threatened to disobey the party the party would just say th
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by code4tee 7y ago
While states set the dates themselves they generally only do so with consent of the parties. In the past the Democratic Party has supported Iowa in going first. After yesterday’s fiasco that stance will likely change.
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by code4tee 7y ago
The only thing clear about the results at this point is that Iowa will probably be fired from their first in the nation status on voting. If there was ever a use for the phrase “You had one job!”
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by code4tee 7y ago
Yes. Plus all the SQL-like things you can do now. For example storing data on S3 and then querying it with AWS Athena is a simple and powerful way to keep a huge archive of data that you may want to query at some point. Also, never underest
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by code4tee 7y ago
Clearly they’ve come to the realization that they either do this voluntarily or future regulation will force them to do it. The beginning of the end of hyper-targeted online advertising has started.

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