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The "right" startup - one that is bootstrapped, has a successful product idea, a good founder, competent employees, and equity - is almost always a better choice than the big firm. That's because you'll get to wear all hats, learn on the fly, learn to do everything and anything to make the product successful, and with luck get a big chunk of change in a few years.

That said, companies like this are few and far between. Especially now, apparently with most startup companies opting in early for venture capital or angel investor funding, which dilutes both your opportunity for equity and say in the company. And honestly, there are a lot of dumb ideas out there. Also, if you're relatively new to the industry, you probably don't have the ability to recognize the right startup opportunity.

In most cases, it's better to start off at a big company and learn the ropes, and when you think you've done that, take your time watching for the startup opportunity, and then make that move. In the long run, though, no one really is going to look out for you. With these two steps under your belt, you'll have the background to be your own founder one day.
I used it locally on a project where I really needed 5-7 shells opened in specific folders and some of them running specific things. Tmux made it easy.
Which is fantastic, but my point is that no amount of acting like Bezos will turn someone into Bezos. It's just cargo culting, survivor bias, and turtles all the way down.
Not to mention those adapters break constantly and you can lose them. I'm on my fourth one and have been in a few situations where I wanted to use my headphones but low and behold, I don't have the adapter with me.
I second that. Maybe one more point to add abich was already hinted at in other comments. Working for company like Google allows to develop a dgree of professionalism that a start-up simply cannot. This is something you can build up on for the rest of your career.

But since you are thinking about joining a start-up, I assume you are not preparing to stay at Google until you retire, one last suggestion. Prepare for an exit strategy already basically from day one. Not to take it negative at being with Google. Just be aware that this is not your last job in your life.
Did you use spot instances when possible?

Did you use autoscaling to keep your instance count as small as possible?

These could be reasons why your costs were so high.

Another reason why companies use AWS is that it allows them to move faster. If you're afraid of lock-in and want to build everything yourself then yes, AWS will be damn expensive. But if you use the services they provide, you can build things pretty quickly without much workforce.
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Ok. Regardless of the intuition, staring into a light source feels different to everyone I have ever known that staring at normal objects reflecting light, like paper etc. Someone above claimed that reflected daylight was a lot more nits than a laptop could put out so I was going with the idea that this is true. I can look at paper in bright daylight with no eye strain. I cannot look at most LCDs even at low brightness without bad eye strain. It's not PWM in my case as I have ruled that out. Its much worse on LED displays. Fact remains that staring at backlit stuff gives people eye strain in ways printed or reflective never does and it seems logical that staring at the direct light source is a part of this.

I know its not scientifically measuring nits/lumens etc but stare into even a low wattage (15w etc) light bulb for a few min and see how it leaves you feeling...seeing spots etc. Then stare at a newspaper or book or E-Reader under a 250w lightbulb or even brighter sunlight outside...and notice how you do NOT have that same problem. Even with a much brighter light source there is something different about how/how much actually enters your eye. I'd love an answer as this is a major life problem for me.
I wish there was an adapter let me plug lightning headphones into my macbook. The current incompatibility between apple devices means carrying two sets of wired headphones, or ditching the packed in lightning headphones.
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They can produce noxious chemicals or retrieve resources from threatened parts among other responses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_defense_against_herbivor...
Consider the ethics of working for a company that makes its money extracting data from users to sell advertisements. (Sure, it does other stuff, too.) If your promising startup does the same, maybe it is a wash.
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see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18000109
How many sqm? To get that price in Beijing I would have to be outside the 4th ring road at least, or in some box with a concrete floor and white/blue lighting.
see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18000103
Where possible Bezos has Western employees pissing in bottles and penalized for taking sick days, working without vacations, retirement savings and health care supplemented with food stamps and tent-camps so it's pretty generous to blame Chinese culture for toxicity from the top.
Interesting. That seems to explain why we call these 'paranoot' in Dutch.
For me, it's how the hosting provider handles stuff when things go wrong:

- How reliable are their datacenters?

- Do their servers use good hardware? e.g. Hetzner is known to replace HDs on their budget servers with used HDs that have been "retested." Whatever it is, they fail more often than HDs at other hosts.

- Do they have organized procedures I can bet my business on? (DDoS response, hardware failure, power failure, network failure)

- Do they have a dedicated security team?

- Do they have professional, knowledgeable support? Low cost providers are typically lacking, IMO. When shit hits the fan and I need top-notch, professional support at 2am, can I get it?

To me, the only budget host that seems on par with the bigger companies is DigitalOcean.
And they only work one way - you can use the adapter to use 3.5mm headphones with your iphone, but there is no adapter to let the iphone lightning headphones with an imac or ipad or macbook.
Now that we have Certificate Transparency you have much less need to trust them. Starting from scratch with a new system at this point would be a massive undertaking, all to attempt to solve a problem which has been largely fixed by CT.
I didn't share the site's unstated assumption that making comments that people upvote isn't being a "contributor to the community".

You can control downvoting for disagreement by explicitly stating a norm against it, as StackOverflow does with alt text over the downvote and Reddit does with Reddiquette.

I don't believe I had had a comment downvoted before this one expressing disagreement with downvoters. However, I have found that many downvoted comments do contribute to the discussion, and even earn my upvote about 25% of the time. I don't think the downvote inner circle has a wholly positive effect on the site.
While this is still email, this arguably stretches credibility as a suggested alternative for someone looking to replace Google’s Inbox app!

Classic hacker news “just roll your own email server”...
The case made by the article strikes me as surprisingly clear: 50% of dollars spent on wireless headphones we're going to Apple and they wanted that percentage to grow larger. Forcing their customers to buy wireless headphones directly increased the amount of money Apple makes and has allowed them to dominate another product segment.

This argument about the quality of the headphones seems very much beside the point. For those purchasing these newer smart phones, there is only one type of headphones that work. Clearly that is the one they will buy.
I'm amazed that this is online, but the Van Gogh museum experience was really fantastic. I got back from Amsterdam a little over a week ago and was impressed at how innovative it felt compared to US art museums I've visited. We happened to enter the The Van Gogh Dreams installation (https://vangoghmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/exhibitions/van-gogh-dr...) ahead of the main museum and I found it a very helpful experience before seeing the art.
Then use the dongle ... it was free on the iPhone 7 and is $9 to buy another one if it gives out over a year after purchase.
Don't forget that NVIDIA is not only a gaming company. They are involved in a lot of computational geometry fields, localization reconstruction, machine learning, etc.

There are a lot of use cases for ray tracing that are not games. So far NVIDIA has done a great job at changing their GPU architecture in a way that is mutually beneficial to all of their diverse customer base.
Their definitely is a difference between academic economists vs the "economists" who direct policy in the halls of power.
E-ink has been mired in patent stagnation for a long time. I remember 5+ years ago when the Kindle was getting huge there were rapid increases in contrast, color prototypes like Mirasol that just disappeared etc. I supsect someone bought them and quashed it so they can ensure low production costs and high sales as they are the only "legal" source and don't have to spend money creating manufacturing for larger/better tech. At least that's my cynical view of it. ClearInk has been teasing relflective color prototypes for a while and a purchasable tablet is always "right around the corner" for years but I am not holding my breath. They said monitors are many years away so to me that means 10 with their progress so far. There is no technological block to large E-ink/reflective tech panels...they don't use some rare or exotic materials or have some super expensive manufacturing process using unicorn blood. We could easily have desktop displays using them but it's far more profitable to sell 6-9" e-reader displays to Amazon etc that have a high profit margin.

This company https://www.visionect.com/blog/32-inch-eink-development-kit-... makes a 32" product for signage that doesn't seem to have any input for normal computer use...but its 3500eur. I don't know if they paid huge licensing fees etc or what but the pricing is mental for the tech/materials involved and seems to be purely business/supply stuff. The largest I have seen otherwise is the Dasung stuff that's 13" and 1000eur or the Onyx Boox MAX 13" that is a self contained E-reader and has terrible lag when used as a monitor. I have not found anything between the 13" and this singular 32" available and nothing but the small Dasung designed to be used as a monitor.
I'm not a sociologist but this is a fairly common distinction in sociology. Countries like Russia or China are considered to be more collectivist. For example in China they are very OK with using eminent domain to seize individual property to build rail roads. America is considered to be more individualist. We also have eminent domain here, but it's much less common to use it, (eg. see California high speed rail).
You frame the question very narrowly.

Where are you in your career?
How big is your network?

Life is a "marathon rather than a sprint."
Consider both the immediate pay-off and your long term ambition.

If you are in your twenties and aspire to build a great company in the future the answer is different than if you are in your thirties and have a family to support!
If ethics is not something to consider in your decision, I would say go for Google. Work life balance will be better, and the money although probably less are not a gamble. Plus having Google in your CV means you will probably be able to join any startup you want if you change your mind down the line.
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There are shades of grey here. In an absolute sense Newtonian mechanics worked until the systems of measurement got good enough to show that there were problems. Economics seems to be in quite a different situation - it's been shown not to work at all. Economists seem to have very little predictive capability, they predict poorly, measure things that matter little and deliver interventions that alter the wrong things. An alternative doesn't have a high bar to jump.
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Realistically, you're already listening to audio that has been through lossy compression, and if you look at the AirPods they send the AAC bitstream over bluetooth, so what you hear out of the other end is exactly what you'd hear with a pair of headphones plugged into a jack.
Tomatoes are vegetables under any classification scheme.
This article reads like a movie trailer. Cool party: who is this guy and how did he get his money?
Specifications are used to reference in conjunction with an implementation.
There are many specifications I could point to that would overwhelm most engineers yet they use those standards just fine.
> Bluetooth audio is almost 20 years old. A2DP was available mid 2000s.

Yes, but for instance NFC, which made pairing within the Apple ecosystem much more attractive, is considerably more recent, as is the processing and charging technology in e.g. the AirPods.

> Jobs certainly wasn't afraid of change but he also seemed to have an appreciation for things that just work

Like 3.5" floppy drives, or CD-ROM drives?
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The reality is that they solve very different things. Part of what you're getting with AWS, GCP, Azure (DO, etc) is API support, and a big set of features. I view the big ones as a PaaS, and 'smaller' players as IaaS. Ultimately IMHO selecting a provider is either a risk mitigation strategy.

OVH in particular is really just phenomenal for dedicated hardware at a very reasonable price. They deploy very quickly (anywhere from 3 minutes to 48 hours, depending), and I've always found them INCREDIBLE to deal with - the last 4 years. Prior to that, when they were the go-to host for lowendwebhosting/cheapwebhost/lowendbox/etc they were a 'best of luck' provider. And that caused grief for many a friend / startup / client.

There's really a risk/reward difference. With AWS and friends, I'm getting incredible scale. With OVH and friends I'm getting tremendous disk space, processing power, but the scaling can be at best a PITA.

Ultimately I'm a big fan of physical to cloud bursting - if that's your need. Monitor your environment from a third party and use that to orchestrate your cloud-bursting strategy if necessary. It's fairly easy to do, if not a tiny bit time consuming.
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This. Bluetooth is 24 years old, but it's still a crapshoot whether two brand new devices will talk to each other.
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The photo at you link sums up the modern confused apple ecosystem for many of us, a big mess of wires, dongles, adapters, and chargers.

https://www.belkin.com/resources/img/overview/f8j198/belkin-...
Sorry you had a bad experience. I found that 1.0 generally works, but there were so many changes in the language that several bugs have cropped up. 1.0.1 should fix a lot of them.
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Seems like this doesn’t fall under the submission guidelines

“Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.”
Well worth it. It's a long slog. I've never read anything on this scope before. There are so many characters and story lines I can't imagine how the author kept track! Brilliant series, nothing else like it.
Question - have you tried the airpods themselves? Because they weigh far less I know people who always had Apple ear pods fall out have no issues with AirPods.

And remember - other wireless headphone manufacturers are available, Beats do over ear ones that use the same W1 chip (super simple pairing with mac devices).
OVH' stance is "we keep our customer support shitty to keep our prices low".

This is hit-and-miss marketing strategy that works for some, but not for others.

I use them but tbh I miss quality, responsive customer support when things gets bad.
I certainly hope anyone who gets the idea to print these out will take a moment (or a year) to find the originals and appreciate the quality of the paint used before they try to get this impact out of a dot-matrix++ printer.

Also, note the rights:

https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/organisation/conditions-use-...

Edit: removed irrelevant anecdata
> The difference is that now you won't see DJs in front of crowds using Apple products.

OK, I'll call BS. iPhones and iPads are barely used for live performances. On the Macbook side, other than USB-A, what have they gotten rid of that DJs truly need for performances? We were using USB MIDI interfaces and USB audio interfaces long before the optical audio out went away.

Meanwhile I know a few musicians who haven't touched a Microsoft OS in over 10 years (!). Yeah, Microsoft finally introduced an Audio API in Vista to take on CoreAudio, but that isn't new. Does anybody like Windows 10 given the choice? If anything, I'd expect Microsoft's infamous Update strategy to make anything Windows 10 a non-option for live gigs. About the only argument I can think of is that musicians with less budget might lean more towards a Windows-based DAW.
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Totally fair, and I never missed it because I have a different approach. I always open the shell and execute my commands in it - regardless of screen/tmux, a straight bash shell, or xterms(etc).

I have a crazy amount of automatic generating shell commands, so that I basically need bash --login to trigger anyways.
It wasn't about thickness - the taptic engine takes up the space that would have otherwise been used for the headphone jack. I would also wager that it makes waterproofing to IP68 somewhat harder (not impossible).
We did receive large amounts of AWS and Google cloud credits.

I did not mention in the question for brevity, but we moved to Google Cloud (GCP) after exhausting AWS credits to utilise GCP credits. We came to know of OVH a couple of months back and having burnt through our GCP credits, we are again making a switch.
My favourite little tmux trick is in ~/.tmux.conf:

`bind r attach-session -c "#{pane_current_path}"`

All the terminals I open start a new tmux session (left as an exercise to the reader). I change directory to whatever project I'm working on, hit `C-b r` and from then on all panes and and windows in that session will start in the correct directory. Saves me a lot of cd'ing.
It depends on your age, what sector the startup is in, the prospects of the startup and your relationship with the founders.

1. Is it a real startup doing real/cutting edge technology work ( aka cybersecurity, data, etc )? Will you be working on cutting edge development work?

2. Are you young with little to no responsibility ( aka no wife, kids, etc )

3. Do you believe the startup has a shot?

4. Do you respect and get along with the founders. And do they respect and get along with you.

If all the above is yes, then you may not earn as much initially, but you will most definitely learn a lot more than at google and you may be able to retire in your 20s rather than 50s if everything works out. If not, then you will be able to leverage the skill you picked up to get another job easily. Caveat being you do real development work in a real software startup.

If you are a single digit employee at a startup with a good relationship with the founders, not only will learn a lot technically and technologically, you will also learn about angel investing, VC funding, etc. You might even get to tag along to see what the hubbub is all about.

If it is a real startup, then the risks are higher but the upside is also higher. With google, you will get stability and name recognition, but you are still ultimately a corporate grunt and have to deal with burnout. Keep in mind google has extremely high turnover rates ( I believe the median tenure for a google employee is only 1 year ).
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Actually, quantum 'measurements' are like that; decoherence happens when a entangled photon (or whatever paticle) escapes far enough away that you can't retrieve it and force it's horizonal and vertical states to feed amplitude into the same outcome. This generally happens because you lost track of that photon (and countless others), the same way you lose track of the blackbody radiation photons your heat engine emitted to cool down.

Edit: And actually, causal relationships aren't directional, they just look that way because we usually care about "What can we infer about the more complicated [thermodynamically later] system state given knowledge about the less complicated [thermodynamically earlier] one?" rather than vice versa. (Well, also because most physical processes exchange information about about particle velocities (heat differentials) for information about the state and layout of macroscopic-ish objects (knowledge), and the laws of thermodynamics result in those exchanges all going in the same direction.)
Innovation? Yes. Fix? No. Needed? Debatable.

Ditching the only analogue sound connector was without question a bad idea though.
That's simply not true. OVH launched their cloud lineup years ago with locations everywhere around the globe. Sure, you get bare metal servers, but similar to EC2 you also get your "cloud" machines that are spawned within seconds via their API.
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According to Google’s official documentation: “Android 5.0 (API level 21) and above supports a subset of USB audio class 1.” This subset is more limited than the full class 1 specification, limiting audio to two channels of 24-bit PCM data with a frequency up to 48kHz. There’s no default support for high sample rate audio over USB out of the box.

Individual smartphone manufacturers can implement full audio class specifications on top of Android’s default and many do. In fact, Google supports all three of the USB Audio Classes with the Pixel 2. However, this leads consumers not knowing what to expect from their handsets. You can find forums full of users struggling to understand why products don’t work with their specific smartphone, along with headache-inducing workarounds requiring specific apps and USB OTG cables.

https://www.soundguys.com/android-usb-audio-class-3-0-18494/
This article is incorrect, a pterosaur may not be a dinosauria but it definitely is a dinosaur.

Dinosaur has become a generic term. You can even refer to humans who have old-school ideas as dinosaurs.
IMO one of the best things about working for Google is that it's so easy to move between teams to e.g. find the domain you want to work in.

While it's true that you may not have many options for your first team (unless you are already a domain expert, in which case you may get funneled into your domain), if you are performing well for your current team, it is extremely easy to move around.

I say this a a Googler who was originally slotted into a team that was fun but not what I was really into. I swapped teams a couple of times and found something much better for me.
Yeah, and because basically all of mainstream economics has VERY strong ideology built into its foundational assumptions, and its practitioners enjoy a great deal of (largely undeserved) respect and often great power (unlike other more truly scientific fields), the odds that a mainstream economist would look at the failure of their theories and conclude "wow, everything we've been doing is deeply flawed at best" is low. Good luck getting a mainstream economist to dig deeply and take a critical look at the fundamental contradictions within capitalism.
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