floppydisk

7 ms·

1.
by floppydisk 10y ago
Does the delta between lowering the cost of labor (assuming people will work for the lower wage) cover the tax increase? Labor, in the service industry, is already handled like a variable cost. If you expect a rush, you increase the number
2.
by floppydisk 10y ago
Playing devil's advocate, what happens to businesses in the presence of an even higher regulatory and tax environment and what will the impact of increased taxes be on employment and business viability as well as the cost of living? Fo
3.
by floppydisk 11y ago
I managed >1TB Postgres installs using not-fancy tools and we did just fine. The How: Installing databases was pretty easy. We wrote DDLs for our databases and created shell scripts that would leverage pgsql via the command line to creat
4.
by floppydisk 11y ago
This is my biggest gripe with the modern technology industry. We've gone from "you have the background and skills to do the work - here's how we do what we do" to "You don't check these thirty boxes specific to
5.
by floppydisk 11y ago
Playing devil's advocate, could this also be a means by which Amazon increases their influence in the book selling world by decreasing the value of the title of "best selling" author? In the traditional sense, we think of bes
6.
by floppydisk 11y ago
Speaking from personal experience, I think a lot of them end up in the boat of having just enough paying customers that the idea looks viable but not getting enough long term traction to go from niche product surviving on raised capital to
7.
by floppydisk 11y ago
I'm going to respectfully disagree with you here and argue that understanding some facets of psychology (perhaps wrapped in a broader definition of people skills) are essential to long term success managing teams and projects. Specific
8.
by floppydisk 11y ago
Yes! Best way to keep up with blogs and websites I like, especially ones that don't update very often, and avoid a lot of the cruft that can make the websites themselves hard to use. Moved over to Feedly after Google Reader shut down a
9.
by floppydisk 11y ago
A couple of questions I've found helpful when talking to startups are as follows: 1) What is the funding situation like - specifically, how much capital is available, is any of it tied to contingencies (i.e. hitting a sales number), wh
10.
by floppydisk 11y ago
Right now it's being used to build out the Air Defense Identification Zone they claimed over the south china sea a couple years ago and back up their claim with the threat of shoot down. By projecting force over the South China Sea, th
11.
by floppydisk 11y ago
As with all other Forward Operating Bases (FOB), it will face the same challenges as any island during conflict. If you can exhaust the island's supplies and constrict replenishment, the utility of the island diminishes. In the case of
12.
by floppydisk 11y ago
It's the same strategy the Japanese tried using in WWII to turn islands into stationary aircraft carriers. So long as you can keep them resupplied, it works to a certain degree. The moment the supply line gets into trouble, the island
13.
by floppydisk 11y ago
It's unfortunately common that once you're salaried, your compensation is capped at $X/yr for 40hr/week of work but it's reasonable for managers to demand extra hours above the 40 without increasing compensation acc
14.
by floppydisk 11y ago
They're growing rent until they hit the breaking point that no one will pay. Many of the families in my metro area are 2-parent working families and many of the big corp positions here tend towards mid to senior level or executive posi
15.
by floppydisk 11y ago
As always, it depends. Speaking anecdotally, most of the millennials I know speak rather forcefully about their desire to not settle down, marry, or begin a family prior to 30. I can count the number (amongst my friends) on one hand who dis
16.
by floppydisk 11y ago
Perhaps, I haven't fully explored that option and it would make sense since the investor's money will be tied up longer. However, paying down principal quickly reduces total cost of the asset since there's less $$ for the int
17.
by floppydisk 11y ago
The basic premise behind that idea is rents are (historically were) cheaper than a mortgage so you could take the mortgage-rent delta, invest that, and generate a return greater than the interest rate on the mortgage and end up ahead. A lot
18.
by floppydisk 11y ago
30 year mortgages make the monthly payment smaller, which reduces the monthly cost of housing, BUT you end up paying more interest since you aren't paying principal off as fast which means the total long term cost of the asset is more
19.
by floppydisk 11y ago
That's the way my recent home buying friends look at it. They know they'll be in this metro area for X years and given most landlords raise rents by 3-5%+ in this area depending on demand, getting a 30 year fixed mortgage lets the
20.
by floppydisk 11y ago
The American VC market has been saturated and everyone with a spare dollar has been throwing cash into the market trying to find the next Google/Facebook/Twitter. A lot of institutional money started looking at the VC market as a
21.
by floppydisk 11y ago
Frankly, I don't even look at them at all. Snacks are a nice-to-have and shouldn't be a selling perk and a 1x week team lunch can be a good way to build morale and camaraderie in the company, but again, not mandatory. What matters
22.
by floppydisk 11y ago
Lets look at it from an evolution of technology angle. 10-15 years ago we had pain points with web apps and making them more fully featured/responsive and dealing with things breaking at scale. They were kind of clunky to build so, we
23.
by floppydisk 11y ago
First off, relax. You want to be there, they want you to be there. You're already "in". Working relationships will begin to develop naturally in the first couple of months as you get comfortable with them and they get comfort
24.
by floppydisk 11y ago
Apple Maps, in many ways, is more usable than Google Maps when it comes to directions / heads up on turns and such. Unfortunately, it's still missing a glaring feature for me where I can't get it to ignore toll roads or highw
25.
by floppydisk 11y ago
That is the one hiccup I foresee happening. The best current workaround I could think of would be to setup your datastore as a micro service the other parts of the app could interact with. That does lock your datastore into a single provide
26.
by floppydisk 11y ago
It's possible Intel keeps a stranglehold on the DC due to DC providers wanting X86-64 compatible chipsets and they do have a sizable advantage in their manufacturing process at this point. I think the greater danger isn't other X8
27.
by floppydisk 11y ago
One of the other commenters already pointed out services like Docker are letting us abstract away from the specifics and just run the software wherever there's an OS that'll take it. That reduces the hold any one provider can have
28.
by floppydisk 11y ago
It makes a difference if they're dealing with a disproportionate amount of revenue concentrated in the hands of only a couple major customers. If the customers end up having disproportionate control over revenue, they can use that bull
29.
by floppydisk 11y ago
I usually go funds as well. However, if there are individual stocks that are getting hammered not because they're doing poorly but because the overall market sentiment is pushing people to sell, I'll grab those too. I.E. The Apple
30.
by floppydisk 11y ago
I was following the article for a while until it shifted and started blaming the politicians' religion as the driving force in the changes to the law. It sounds like the authors have an axe to grind. For instance, they use this quote a

More ›