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WePay's (YC S09) next chapter(blog.wepay.com)
147 points by stevewepay 9y ago|81 comments
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by stevewepay 11y ago
The sad part is that it's Carly Fiorina's fault for turning HP into the mess it was. And now she touts that as the reason why she should be president. It's a sick joke that she thinks gutting one of Silicon Valley's pr
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by stevewepay 11y ago
Unfortunately, there's nothing you can say that HP would actually care about.
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by stevewepay 11y ago
I would have thought Market Street is the longest, although it changes its name from Market to Portola to Junipero Serra and then turns into 280.
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by stevewepay 11y ago
You said SF, not Silicon Valley. Degree is not relevant, no one in SV cares. There are plenty of people that don't have college degrees that have very good jobs. All that matters is your skill and competence. You are in an awkward po
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by stevewepay 11y ago
Don't waste your time flying in October. Companies will be applying for H1Bs in April, and they usually run out on the 1st day. And even if you get an H1B in April, you can't start until the following October. Very few companie
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by stevewepay 11y ago
Internships in Silicon Valley are most certainly not unpaid. The company I work at pays our interns really well. It sounds like you need to increase the breadth of your knowledge. No one hires for Lua, and although Node is pretty popular
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by stevewepay 11y ago
Not that error handling is unimportant, but my opinion is that C is about focusing on resource usage, and keeping very close track over giving back any resource you take, including memory, etc. If you do that, then the number of hard-to-de
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by stevewepay 11y ago
This is a quote from Michael Lewis' The Big Short, I'll never forget it: Obsessing over Household [Finance Corporation], he attended a lunch organized by a big Wall Street firm. The guest speaker was Herb Sandler, the CEO of a gi
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by stevewepay 11y ago
I used to use Ninjatrader. It has integrations with a lot of brokers, and you can write C# algos. The GUI is pretty good the last time I used, it so overall I would recommend it.
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by stevewepay 11y ago
Articles like this really strike home how huge this world is. I feel ignorant when my first thought is that we should be able to locate a cruise ship in the ocean, but I clearly underestimate how huge this world really is. It's also
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by stevewepay 11y ago
The comparison was between self-driving trucks vs drones, not human-driven trucks vs drones. Obviously those are going to be cheaper than whatever current technology we have. And there's nothing preventing drones on the rough order of
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by stevewepay 11y ago
Drones have the capability of delivering directly to the final destination, unlike railways. In fact,Amazon could redistribute their inventory between warehouses overnight depending on predicted popularity of various items. Or it allows th
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by stevewepay 11y ago
I don't think energy is the driving factor. There are a lot more technical challenges associated with self-driving cars than self-driving drones. Self-driving cars aren't even fully solved at this point. However, even very cheap
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by stevewepay 11y ago
I think drones will leapfrog over self-driving trucks. Why even bother having things that drive on roads when you could fly them directly to a warehouse, over hills, forests, rivers, etc?
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by stevewepay 11y ago
This is why drone technology is very interesting to me. If you have drones flying around that deliver things directly from docks to warehouses, or warehouse to warehouse, not only would it be faster, but potentially safer too (the drone c
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by stevewepay 11y ago
How much do you want to bet that "someone" was actually your boss, but they didn't have enough guts to say it themselves? That sounds like a terrible place to work, good on you for leaving.
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by stevewepay 11y ago
You could get sued, but in the US you can get sued for anything. But you would win the lawsuit. "Revenue" can mean anything. Look up the term online, for example http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/revenu
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by stevewepay 11y ago
I think this is vastly over-exaggerating. Unless you specifically state that you are using the GAAP term "revenue", revenue could mean anything, just like "made" could mean anything, like saying "we made $1M last mo
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by stevewepay 11y ago
How exactly do they do a fair comparison between 1880 and today? I'm assuming the temperature readings today are very accurate, but how accurate were the measuring devices going back in history, and their standards for taking temperat
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by stevewepay 11y ago
Try to get more sleep. This happened to me when I was sleeping less than 5 hrs a day for months on end. It's probably a combination of sleep and stress. When I decided I would sleep more, that day I left work at 2pm, and slept for 1
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by stevewepay 11y ago
Politicians in Congress are explicitly allowed to insider trade based on information they hear about. This is why congressmen's stock portfolios are far more profitable than an average person's.
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by stevewepay 11y ago
I'm curious what patents Sidecar holds, if they truly were the innovators, and if they can use that as some sort of advantage against Uber and Lyft.
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by stevewepay 11y ago
This is exactly how news is created these days, unfortunately. "Cancer cure using garlic!" is actually "Long term study of 1000 garlic eaters shows a 5% decrease in the incidence of gastrointestinal cancers."
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by stevewepay 11y ago
This happened to a lot of people in the Valley after the dot com bust. They exercised their options, triggering a tax liability, and then the shares tanked, leaving them with no money to pay off the liability. They could only deduct $3000
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by stevewepay 11y ago
If you were an early employee and the difference is millions of dollars, I would suggest you stay at Uber until you can sell your shares. It's worth it at this point, and you getting a loan to exercise the shares represents a crazy ri
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by stevewepay 11y ago
This is only true for the front page and for things like /r/AdviceAnimals. The front page is in and of itself a separate phenomenon than the rest of the subreddits, in my opinion. For many subreddits, there are truly fantastic di
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by stevewepay 11y ago
I think reddit is the reinvention of USENET. It is mod-heavy and has enough critical mass of users to provide excellent results from its upvoting system. And many subreddits are extremely well maintained with a very high signal to noise r
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by stevewepay 11y ago
USENET has always been used for porn and piracy, since at least the early 90s. Of course, most of the great newsgroups were discussions-based, but probably most of the bandwidth was porn and piracy. When I was in college, I remember someon
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by stevewepay 11y ago
I get about 600 emails a day because I forward everything* from all my email addresses through a single email account, and I only see 9 spam messages in my spam box, and they are all spam.

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