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AI Labs Urged to Pump the Brakes in Open Letter(time.com)
32 points by ktamura 3y ago|41 comments
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As Airbnb Ponders Timing of Listing, Stock Grants Impose Deadline(theinformation.com)
1 points by ktamura 6y ago|0 comments
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How We Should Bust an Investing Myth(wsj.com)
1 points by ktamura 7y ago|0 comments
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Easy Uberjars for Kotlin Projects(thelyfsoshort.io)
2 points by ktamura 7y ago|0 comments
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by ktamura 7y ago
It may or may not. It’s more that google has a poor track record of investing in niche hardware.
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by ktamura 7y ago
Realistically, if it's equal splits, they probably each own ~5% of the company (By that stage, the founder shares can be down to ~20%) If they are raising $175M, their dilution is probably in the ~15% range, putting their valuation a b
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by ktamura 8y ago
If you are long US and/or the logistics portion of on-demand, digitally assisted marketplace economy, it's not a bad idea. For example, it's impossible to invest in just AWS without AMZN's other business. However, AWS is
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by ktamura 8y ago
This is not entirely true. Yes, Ballmer made many mistakes, but he also architected one of the most sustainably profitable enterprise software businesses (on the heels of all MS software products we love to hate). These enterprise customers
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by ktamura 8y ago
I have to point out that while their marketing copy claims that they want to know "as little as possible" about their customers, they have Segment's JavaScript tag on thehelm.com Do you know what Segment does? It makes it eas
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Dropbox and Abstraction Sandwich(tinyletter.com)
3 points by ktamura 9y ago|0 comments
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by ktamura 9y ago
I agree on both. Honestly, much of my long hours were due to my inexperience rather than supernatural productivity. If I were to do the same work with what I know now, I'd do it very differently with far fewer hours (probably). That sa
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by ktamura 9y ago
>As a final note, I want to add that if anyone was a “cofounder” of TechCrunch it was Heather Harde. She joined in 2006 but she was in the trenches with the team until the very end, working 20 hour days, sacrificing her personal life and
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by ktamura 9y ago
Programmers continue to discover and re-discover APL and array-oriented programming. If someone is serious about array programming/APL and wants to make a lucrative career in it, study KDB+/Q/K. There's a small but activ
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CoreOS Acquired by Red Hat(coreos.com)
1 points by ktamura 9y ago|0 comments
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by ktamura 9y ago
I analyzed Backblaze's business model before. It's quite fascinating. https://twitter.com/kiyototamura/status/934558071019339776 If I had to guess, Dropbox improves their margin by getting people to shar
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by ktamura 9y ago
As a product marketer, I have to say that the name is very unfortunate. 1. Sundown is the name of a Markdown library written in C: https://github.com/vmg/sundown . That Sundown is pretty widely known and used among Ma
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Fighting to Replace America’s Water Pipes(nytimes.com)
61 points by ktamura 9y ago|65 comments
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What Ruby Needs(redmonk.com)
12 points by ktamura 9y ago|2 comments
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The Resulting Fallacy Is Ruining Your Decisions(nautil.us)
2 points by ktamura 9y ago|0 comments
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by ktamura 9y ago
I used to use KX/kdb/Q/K daily for several years. I wrote a full implementation of reinforcement learning (15 lines), a lightweight MVC framework (to show reports and tables in an internal webapp) and even a Q syntax checker
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by ktamura 9y ago
>but it has serious drawbacks such as the time and CPU resources it takes for parsing and the lack of schema. Ditto. And if you still prefer the schema-free approach of JSON but with faster encoding and decoding support across all common
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by ktamura 9y ago
This article epitomizes the old adage: software engineers are terrible at estimating. I have absolutely no stake in Mixpanel, and it has its own flaws, but seeing something as misleading as this on the front page of HN means I have to write
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by ktamura 9y ago
Treasure Data | Solutions Engineer | Mountain View, CA, United States | ONSITE preferred, Full-time | https://www.treasuredata.com/company/careers/jobs/positions/... We are looking for solutions engineer
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by ktamura 9y ago
Wasn't part of the original tax reform to repeal AMT? Was that lost in the Congressional aisle?
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by ktamura 9y ago
At Treasure Data, we ingest about 1-2 million events per second. Using your #, this translates to ~6 trillion events per month. If you (or anyone on this thread) is interested in learning more, please feel free to ping me.
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by ktamura 9y ago
Indeed. Quietly but surely, Apple is changing its corporate policies around developers. We used to never see Apple developers at conferences with an official affiliation, let alone having them onstage as a speaker. I once ran into an engine
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by ktamura 9y ago
I had a similar experience and decided not to buy high-end Android phones: the modular (or fragmented) nature of Android's ecosystem doesn't lend itself for quality end-to-end experience. This is not meant to be a knock on Android
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My Origin Story(redmonk.com)
1 points by ktamura 9y ago|0 comments
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by ktamura 9y ago
This is everything that's wrong about Silicon Valley: we perpetuate the false virtue of overnight success, a flash of brilliance and youthful vision when, in reality, it comes down to years of slogging along, many nights of crying dry
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by ktamura 9y ago
>Can you please elaborate on why you think BigQuery's streaming inserts are not particularly reliable? I've heard this from many users through my work on Fluentd (in fact, many end up using fluent-plugin-bigquery because they d

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