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by econner 7mo ago
It's weird that one of the reasons that you endorse AWS is that you had regular meetings with your account manager but then you regret premium support which is the whole reason you had regular meetings with your account manager.
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Ask HN: What Happened at Hulu for the Oscars?
1 points by econner 2y ago|1 comments
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by econner 2y ago
It makes me wonder how Israel can achieve something like this while simultaneously not being aware of the Oct 7 attacks.
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by econner 2y ago
Agree with this completely. I have found it consistently challenging to create the structure necessary for low performers to turn their work around. We have also had issues with people actively working for other companies while turning in p
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by econner 3y ago
For anyone coming back to math I can't recommend enough the book "Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics". It's interesting how much of algebra came originally from geometry and the path to developing
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by econner 3y ago
Our team has an Enterprise account, but individuals cannot access GPT-4 through the chat.openai.com interface. With teams, do individuals get access to GPT-4 through that interface? Is our account just broken somehow? It seems odd we have e
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by econner 3y ago
Yea I always liked the way Spanner solved this. Let's not bother with any of the distributed system theory and just use that Google money to build in to the system extremely precise clocks :-D. (Obv I know it's more complicated th
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Ask HN: What do higher level engineering managers who don't code do all day?
2 points by econner 3y ago|4 comments
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by econner 4y ago
If you like RATM then it's worth watching this early video of theirs from 1992. So many hits on their debut album and about 10 people in the crowd in the middle of a record store. This video is a definite gem. https://www.yo
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by econner 4y ago
Yes.
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by econner 4y ago
On iOS
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by econner 4y ago
There is a weird bug on your "What do you want to learn about first?" question. I am able to select both "Cheeseburger" and "Greek Salad" but not "Greek Salad" and "Spaghetti & Meatballs&quot
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by econner 4y ago
You still owe capital gains on the original proceeds, deferred a few years and with a possible 10-15% basis step up. This isn't zero capital gains tax. If you happen to have a billion dollar exit on your reinvested capital gains that c
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by econner 5y ago
I feel this. I just upgraded MacOS 11 Big Sur and to XCode 12.5 (from 12.4). Both updates were 12 GB.
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by econner 6y ago
Where I am in Colorado gyms reopened. No one inside wearing masks & even though they had reserved times it didn't seem like they limited the number of people at all. I imagine people are now "wearing" masks but actually s
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by econner 7y ago
> None of our stockholders are party to any contractual lock-up agreement or other contractual restrictions on transfer. Following our listing, sales of substantial amounts of our Class A common stock in the public markets or the percept
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by econner 7y ago
"Seems like the game now is to grind whiteboard before I get too old for Google." the sad reality of this industry...
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by econner 8y ago
It's hard to reason about wealth inequality because it is so massively, massively skewed right as a distribution. I don't think humans are very good at reasoning about distributions that are not normally distributed. For example,
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by econner 8y ago
Nothing like increasing net losses leading up to IPO! 2016 - ($682,794) 2017 - ($688,301) 2018 - ($911,335) As a percentage of revenue though the loss is decreasing, 2016 - 2x 2017 - 0.6x 2018 - 0.45x 2018 revenue was $2.1bn. Since they are
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by econner 8y ago
We used to like it especially when management referred to their employees as "resources" .. you know.. "we have 5 resources devoted to this". So we started referring to ourselves as meat bags. "We have 5 meat bags o
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by econner 8y ago
In my mind the only reason to work crazy hours is when you find product market fit: the ball is rolling down the hill and you're chasing it. That is supposed to be what it feels like. Customers are breaking down the door because they w
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by econner 8y ago
Bulleted changes from the article: - The pre-sale, which is like the early-bird sale for tickets, will be moved until after the directed group sale, which is for burners who are "key contributors to Black Rock City (theme and mutant ve
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by econner 8y ago
What kind of due diligence is required? Isn't the concern here mostly how the stock should be priced? And why then are private funding rounds so much cheaper to get done? Diligence still has to be done for private funding. Why is more
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by econner 8y ago
The best part is stock options. Not only are you not diversified, now you get to concentrate your portfolio by buying stock in the company that provides your income. Stock options: for concentrating your income and your investments when you
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by econner 8y ago
In San Francisco public housing projects are funded from fees on new development. In 2016, voters approved Prop C which increased the affordable housing requirements to 30% of the total units for a new project. A combination of factors -- r
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by econner 8y ago
I thought this video about one developer's saga trying to build housing where his laundromat currently is explains a lot of the problems SF has with creating new housing: "This Insane Battle To Block a New Apartment Building Expla
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Pinterest Readies Itself for Early 2019 IPO(wsj.com)
1 points by econner 8y ago|0 comments
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by econner 8y ago
AKA Twitter
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by econner 8y ago
What other snippets from the speech show he believed in permitting violence?
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by econner 8y ago
But realistically what is Facebook doing that could be considered anticompetitive?

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