dangelo

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by dangelo 6y ago
Sid explicitly says he expects we (Quora) avoided the pitfalls of hybrid companies in this comment: https://www.quora.com/q/quora/Remote-First-at-Quora/comment/...
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by dangelo 10y ago
At Quora we decided not to have a higher "minimum service period" aside from the standard 1 year cliff. The rationale is that the vesting cliff is what everyone is expecting as the minimum. If a company wants to have a higher peri
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by dangelo 10y ago
We were the first startup to use 10 year exercise periods, which started this trend. I wrote a long response to this here: https://dangelo.quora.com/10-Year-Exercise-Periods-Make-Sens...
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by dangelo 11y ago
http://www.quora.com/Why-doesnt-Quora-sell-its-product-to-ot...
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by dangelo 12y ago
The truncation was a bug that was fixed. Sorry about that.
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by dangelo 12y ago
FWIW the "spawn pop ups whenever you click anywhere on the page" was a bug that was fixed.
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by dangelo 12y ago
The unusual number of complaints on this thread were actually because of a bug causing a bad experience. This was our fault and it has been fixed. We don't mind the change of link - we just want knowledge shared on Quora to get to as m
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by dangelo 12y ago
We don't care about signup counts, only about real engagement. Most people have no problem with registering, and the engagement from logged in users is so much higher that it more than offsets the small minority of people who don'
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by dangelo 12y ago
We serve the same content to Google that we serve to users. We have no interest in deceiving them.
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by dangelo 12y ago
The copy/paste issue on iOS is a bug, and should be fixed within the next week. Sorry about that. We want people to copy and share content out of Quora far and wide, which is why our terms of service gives people an unusual amount of l
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by dangelo 12y ago
There is a clear one-click unsubscribe link at the bottom of every single email we send, and there always has been. It says: "To disable all email from Quora, visit the following link: Unsubscribe."
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by dangelo 12y ago
You say our motivation is "to force users to pay or share advertising data or some such bullshit". Actually, we don't charge users anything, and we don't run ads or sell user data or anything like that. We only try to ge
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by dangelo 12y ago
Thanks for including us!
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by dangelo 16y ago
Maybe the postgres supporters can fill this in about Postgres reliability: http://www.quora.com/How-reliable-is-Postgres-replication that's one of the biggest issues scaring people away from Postgres.
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by dangelo 16y ago
The built-in MySQL schemas have problems - mostly that schema changes can take hours or days on large tables. As a result of this you need to build a system that doesn't require schema changes at the MySQL level. This doesn't mean you can't
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by dangelo 16y ago
It's an answer to a question that someone else posted. I wouldn't have written it otherwise.
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by dangelo 16y ago
You're right that it's ok to repost Quora content anywhere as long as it includes a link - more details here: http://www.quora.com/How-can-material-on-Quora-be-reused-els...
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by dangelo 17y ago
Why did Google Checkout fail? http://www.quora.com/q/Why_did_Google_Checkout_fail What are some good reasons to take a technology company public? http://www.quora.com/q/What_are_some_good_reasons_to_take_a_... How did Mint acquire 1.5m+
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Three constraints that are holding the web back(ugcs.caltech.edu)
21 points by dangelo 17y ago|10 comments