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by giansegato 2y ago
Important detail is that they're both divesting from later stage deals, and doubling down on early stage ones
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by giansegato 2y ago
higher ROI than anything else I've ever done for my career, by a long shot with my website [1] I found investors, I was contacted by a highly sought after silicon valley startup, moved to the US and got my visa sponsored, I even found
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by giansegato 2y ago
I don't think there's anything about YC inherently misaligned with the next startup era — in fact, they're adapting their model accordingly, hedging their bets + investing in harder tech with higher capex and longer feedback
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The dawn of a new startup era(giansegato.com)
17 points by giansegato 2y ago|7 comments
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by giansegato 2y ago
VC management fees are typically 2%/y. if a VC fund has $100 million in committed capital, the annual management fees would generally be between $2 million and $2.5 million. it's a lot of money.
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by giansegato 2y ago
that's not true. you have it written explicitly in the final check. you just don't have to do the mental gymnastics of figuring out how much you'll pay before ordering, which is absolutely absurd
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by giansegato 2y ago
I don't understand the general tenor and sentiment of the comments here. I've taken dozens of self-driving cars rides in SF in the last few months. They were magical, and _they work_. It blows my mind that the general defeatist to
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by giansegato 3y ago
that's correct. most beaches in Italy are privately held, with decades-long contracts it's a huge scandal and yet very hard to solve because of the same dynamics of the bridge above: special interests, and hideous lobbying
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by giansegato 4y ago
Uhm. I don't know. At my company, we're living on Slack (it's remote). There are only few tactical meetings. Coordination happen async on Slack. Worked out pretty well so far, we ship tons of stuff continuously. I agree with
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A Chat with Aaron Swartz (2007)(blogoscoped.com)
2 points by giansegato 4y ago|0 comments
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Why ed-tech startups don't scale(giansegato.com)
2 points by giansegato 4y ago|0 comments
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by giansegato 4y ago
even if it was, everyone would benefit from the information (it being public)
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Why Ed-Tech Startups Don't Scale(giansegato.com)
3 points by giansegato 4y ago|0 comments
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by giansegato 4y ago
yep, true! however, the devil is in the details. from what i've been told, the big challenge was latency: they worked a lot to bring the latency down to acceptable levels - essentially to be usable in a cloud IDE iirc the team managed
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by giansegato 4y ago
replit employee here. the team who built this is very small (less than a dozen, including non-eng roles for the go to market), and went from idea to general availability in 8 weeks
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A Word of Caution to AngelList LPs(medium.com)
8 points by giansegato 4y ago|0 comments
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by giansegato 4y ago
I know reasonably well some ex FB people from the early days (early 2010s, well before IPO). They explicitly defined FB as a 'utility' - based on how users react during outages and usage patterns. I think that your definition is n
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by giansegato 4y ago
Why would they even want that? They paid 15% of their market cap (30 considering the drop) for a new shiny toy, and now they would just… cash it? Doesn't make any sense, their incentive is to keep it great and working. Whether they c
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When I got back my Instagram account by sending Facebook a letter(giansegato.com)
3 points by giansegato 4y ago|0 comments
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Replit – 100 Days of Code(replit.com)
3 points by giansegato 4y ago|0 comments
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by giansegato 4y ago
in replit we just implemented playback mode, it's called history mode, and we do happen to have vi shortcuts (couldn't live without them) (I'd expect pg to know this already, but hey, here it is)
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by giansegato 4y ago
VSCode is open source. Its underlying editor is too, it's called Monaco: https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/
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by giansegato 4y ago
What you're saying and what the article is saying are two different things. The whole point of the article is not "Don't refactor code"; it's "Never fix a bug and refactor in the same pull request". It&#x2
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by giansegato 4y ago
I think surround is so deeply nested in users workflow that it's almost like an official one. It's the only one i'd go as far as to adding it to your course, but potentially you could think of a chapter on vimrc, which skyroc
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by giansegato 4y ago
I see that there's a pretty big miss in the syllabus: surround! yes, true, it's not "official" but rather a plugin, but you can't really do without it, can you?
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by giansegato 4y ago
How could they refuse after being compelled by a court ruling? Did they appeal / sue you back? Can't see how they could simply say... "no".
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by giansegato 4y ago
in Europe it's quite popular and widespread for legit purposes as well
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Replit: The Bundling of Software Development(giansegato.com)
1 points by giansegato 4y ago|0 comments
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by giansegato 4y ago
ime mods here tend to actually stay away from negative yc stories, in order to not get into slippery paths. don’t have proof of it, but the simple fact that this is still up with 400 points is a fact.
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Replit: The Bundling of Software Development(giansegato.com)
20 points by giansegato 4y ago|1 comments

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