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Slightly uncomfortable responding to everything in the thread, however, inferring comp milestones is the hardest one.

Public companies are easy because it's all public.

Interesting documents are SEC 8-K's, which are unscheduled filings about material changes to the business. Ask yourself why a couple of times to get to the reasons behind it. Volatility means uncertainty, and uncertainty often implies a power struggle. Nowhere is perfect, but adjust your expectations about how much chill to expect. Read a lot of them to get a sense of what's normal.

If the execs are stacking equity in a public company and only selling to pay taxes, that's a pretty good sign everyone is committed. It's also a sign that there isn't a lot of volatility, and with that stability, growth may be slow, so expect growth opportunities to be commensurate and feel out the trade off.

Huge disclaimer that these are just tea leaves, but to reply to another comment here, you are investing 3-5+ years of your life and your reputation into a company, where a VC is just allocating maybe 1/30th of their fund. You have more to lose as an employee than that investor does. Just keep an eye for the longer term.

Most of us are just happy to get a gig, work with cool people, get paid very well and dream about upside, but when you evaluate every 3-6 months working at a job as opportunity cost against validating an idea against possible market fit, you start looking hard at the trade offs.

Based on crunchbase profiles, if a founder is present, but demoted or marginalized ("special projects"), find out if there is a technical lead who can't say yes, but who can say no to everything. Not a dealbreaker, but a culture variable.

If the founders are out of the picture, ask about tech debt and whether company has enough new runway to stand up a new platform. If not, it means they're hoping to grow their way out, and ask if there's a roadmap for that play. If they don't have an answer, just expect competing priorities as it's going to be very sales driven, with customer/sales politics.

If the CEO or other execs have been there for more than 3 years without profit or a new financing round, who is protecting them and why? (hint, board, running dumb money, possibly angling for sale, not explosive market dominance.)

Window dressing to attract acquirer attention causes insanity on teams because managers have do things to appear positioned, and they are under pressure to "produce," metrics to keep the ball in the air. My experience was it causes rage quits and makes people enemies for life. The pattern of leadership angling for a sale, but must swear they are not makes everyone seem psychotic.

I'm not an authority on this, I happen to write and this is what I've observed.

People behind all this aren't evil, it's just some incentives can be used as tea leaves to get a sense of what questions to ask before you give up 6-10 six-month iterations and pivots on launching your own idea for some snacks and a foozball table. :)
Anyone have any idea what this would taste like compared to bee pollen? Or the most similar thing available in the Western world? Several minutes of Googling yielded nothing.
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Umm, everyone I know is trying to move off of any existing bare metal boxes that we have.

Source: also work at Twitch.

Oh, or are you making fun of using Bare metal?
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Love learning little facts like this!

HN has such high quality in the comments.
I’ve wondered when someone would do this. Great idea

How does it work?
Yes, Tesla got to the $35000 price but it's a car no one wants at the base price and you can't even test drive it.

The battery cost is the problem. I suspect that it's only a matter of time before a Tesla with all the amenities can be had for $35000. Good for them...
Already did my taxes this year but saving this link for next year. I spent a good amount of time this week categorizing expenses for my taxes.

Unfortunately, I also used HSBC last year which sucks at integrating with places, but I just switched to Azlo which is supported well.

FWIW, my feedback - I need a way to filter larger amounts of transactions at a time. I just connected all my credit cards. 100% of my uber and hotel usage is personal - it looks like as is I'd have to select each one instead of being able to search "uber" and check all to remove them.
No, please don't throw stuff with batteries into the landfill.
An alternative approach: I NEVER answer calls that don't have a user-ID that I know (or a number I recognize). IMO, any legit business, charity, whatever will use that advantage.

Picking up, just saying hello, that's a 'real number'. They'll be back.

In some cases, the same (no-ID) number will call several times over a period of days. I add the number to my blacklist and the phone might ring once.

As time goes by, the volume of this type of call drops away to one or two a day.
This is HN not Reddit but it seems okay on this thread, so I’ll allow it, especially since it made me laugh on a Friday evening.
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For one, life was much more violent. A kid of low status, nerdy, or kind of weird (like me) could expect physical violence weekly, if not daily. Second, parents, and adults in general, were out of the picture. I actually suspect that some parents would even enable or encourage the conflict. And, then, we lacked social support networks like kids have today today.

Kids then were still as bored as they are now. But, instead of being able to use video games and apps to get their dopamine rush, they had to rely on causing trouble (which likely contributed to the increased violence) or risky decisions. Finally, there was no where place to escape to. There were no other social options. Kids today are at least able to socialize, gather, and meet online. For instance, I'm amazed to learn about how my nieces and nephews form large social communities of friends on-line. They have rich social lives, even though some of their closest friends are scattered around the globe.

Maybe my perspective is skewed. But, if you think I'm exaggerating, at least watch a bunch of films from that period. Maybe you'll know what I mean.

I honestly expected to read this post and sympathize. But, instead, as I read the descriptions of the kids of today, I felt ashamed that I actually felt a little jealous.
>driver dies again

Again? Dying once might be attributed to bad luck, but dying twice just reeks of carelessness. I hope the driver learns from this, and doesn't die a third time from the same cause.

Edit: typo, not tact.
Can you point me to these open source AI/ML models? I'd like to learn from these.
If Firefly counts, Babylon 5's attempted successor Crusade counts more so. It supposedly had 5 years planned, and was also cruelly cancelled after a lot of network notes and drama including airing some episodes out-of-order/at weird times.

JMS at least didn't try to cram the remaining plot into a single film. Some of the plot is out there as unfilmed scripts and some made its way into book series, and most of it we may just never know at this point because WB doesn't care about Babylon 5.
here are three for less than $100

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Why are there missing numbers in the form? For example, the percentage the founders hold, or the number of shares that will be made available?
Thanks.

I asked because you seem knowledgeable about cultures. Whereas I'm 100% a science geek.
Ask HN: What habits distinguish effective execution from “spinning your wheels”?
I'm watching Ed Catmull's 2007 Stanford talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2h2lvhzMDc), and one comment he made which stood out to me is:

"If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they'll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they'll fix it. Or they'll throw it away and come up with something else."

Jeff Atwood talks about something similar in his blog post, "Cultivate Teams, Not Ideas":

"I wouldn't call ideas worthless, per se, but it's clear that ideas alone are a hollow sort of currency. Success is rarely determined by the quality of your ideas. But it is frequently determined by the quality of your execution. So instead of worrying about whether the Next Big Idea you're all working on is sufficiently brilliant, worry about how well you're executing."

My question is- what are the key habits that someone can develop which would place them in the first group that Catmull mentions, rather than the 2nd group?
Link to Ed Catmull's talk here- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2h2lvhzMDc

Link to Jeff Atwood's post here- https://blog.codinghorror.com/cultivate-teams-not-ideas/
Police in China are way too soft so this is not necessarily a bad thing. They get bullied by civilians all the time.
We make heavy use of threads in slack for anything serious at my work. #general and #random are a mess of course, but that's kinda their point.
Thanks for your kind words. I love your writings.

Connect your personal spending accounts, and we'll find all potential business deductions and categorize them for you.

If something isn't actually a deduction / business-related, you may remove it. If we got a categorization wrong, you can fix it.
Periodic table of self?
Well, it’s a side project right now but I hear you..

I am trying hard to making sure to comment on things that are relevant and trying to add value with a little self promotion sprinkled in and I’m sorry about that but the feedback has been incredibly useful.
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I was so bummed when I looked into this in college. Going for a physics degree, there was basically nowhere I could go in the spanish speaking world with classes that counted towards my degree. Which is nuts, since physics is a degree almost everywhere.
Edward de Bono is an author, not an idea person.
> we have no plans at the moment to do anything else with the data.

I'm not you're target market (I'm a W-2 employee), but I would not share something as sensitive and personal as my full purchase history with a company that didn't explicitly state that they would never mine or sell that data. Especially for a service that I'd be paying for.
You're right; what word would fit something that is not the real deal, but is crafted in a way to be almost indiscernible? Would it be, emu... emula... oh it's just on the tip of my tongue.
>Your pedantry

From the HN guidelines:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

Free is a very loaded term, to the point that native speakers argue about it. It is not obvious that the person who commented is a native speaker, and his comment history suggests he is not from the US.
>I feel the quality of conversations has vastly decreased, on average, because of the intense level of smart-phone addiction that is so common now. Even if nobody is looking at their phone. ("Attention residue" is a real thing.)

It's a continuum. I used to write letters once. I loved email when it was new ("new" where I lived and amongst my friends). Within a few years, people who once wrote me a few pages of letters would rarely write more than 2-3 lines in email. It's gone downhill from there.
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It is orders of magnitude harder to write a “simple” solution. Developers should not be proud of complexity at any age.
The Absurd Structure of High School
And after WWII it was cut off from its economic hinterland until Deng Xiaoping opened China up in the 1980s. It had been occupied by the Japanese for years and they had taken it violently. During the more than 30 years it was cut off from the Pearl River Delta it took in over a million refugees. Hong Kong went from a trade entrepôt for China to growing wealthy by manufacturing and then services. Then China opened up.
While I have nothing against giving to charity, seems like if you're a Trump supporter or Republican it might not be all that happy and fun to work for you guys due to: https://maketweetsgreatagain.us/

But maybe making a product like that just ensures you can filter out certain types of applicants?
My morning egg mcmuffin is a highlight of the day. You people are building dreams.
I'm more in the camp of just committing often... But not with good messages... Once I'm ready to merge though, I rebase and clean up commits... Seems like more work, but I like knowing that I have a fallback position if the idea I'm trying falls flat
> given the marketshare

FYI, Android has 75% of marketshare worldwide and 55% in the US.
I'm assuming they ran the numbers and came up with something like this:

Cost of in person sales force: 100M

Cost of in person returns: 4M

vs

Cost of online only sales force: 4M

Cost of online only returns: 20M

And they realized they could save a ton of money and complexity while only inconveniencing a few more people than usual
Depends on the manufacturer, by the looks of it: https://news.energysage.com/how-long-do-solar-panels-last/

.3%/year would be 85% after 50 years, so I was off by a bit.
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I think the author is mostly saying that, unless you site is horridly designed, that incremental updates where required can have just as much impact on the bottom line as complete sitewide redesigns, especially when the point of new design is often misguided, i.e. simply trying to keep up with the latest design trends.
Who makes the payments on all of those student loans?
Can you share some examples?
alice.elliot@teradata.com is not reachable.
Lynne, KV is a great tool! Thanks a lot for that. If you find time, would love to see -ve metrics as well. That would cover both aspects of a job search: what am I looking for, and what am I looking to avoid.
True. Another one: The engineer who built the first Toaster for NewTek was Brad Carvey, Dana Carvey's brother. The "Garth" character Dana plays on Wayne's World is Dana's impression of Brad.
Looks like a cool app.

But what is stopping an application like Mint or Truebill to offer this?
Great. Maybe that will mean less sluggish desktop apps executed in a browser and more native language experiences.
Yes, I understand that, but if there weren't copyright laws we wouldn't need a CC0 license for example, because it would be the natural state of affairs: you can do whatever you want.

And afaik MIT, BSD and Apache just add the duty of mentioning the author, which has no practical implications on the usage of the software. At least I wouldn't care if someone actually writes my name somewhere. If someone asked me to relicense software I wrote as CC0 (and it was formerly MIT) I'd happily do so.

That means that the open source movement doesn't depend on IP laws. Some projects might still depend on it, like the linux kernel (because of GPL) but bitcoin for example doesn't (MIT). Both strategies work in practice.

ADDENDUM: What I want to say is: for many projects IP laws don't have any positive effects, they just add friction by requiring the author to add (and think about) a license.
I expect in part because it's a more predictable revenue stream. $10/mo from every user is better than $120/year, especially when that payment would only show up in April, and the company would go the rest of the year without revenue (assuming no other follow-on products). Cash flow is king.

Also if a customer cancels mid-year, presumably they still get to keep any monthly fees, even though the customer ends up not using the data.

I think in the end there's also a user experience aspect to it. Paying a monthly subscription is something people are used to. Getting a service "for free" for most of the year, but then finding (to intentionally use harsher language) that the data generated by the service is being held hostage behind a paywall, would likely leave a bad taste in some customers' mouths.
I’d say AirBnB is no longer a startup... with their pockets I’d also have native teams.
This looks like a normal lamp to me. What is that fuss about?

Furthermore. All these expensive mattresses companies are scams right?
Linear Logic and Linear Algebra (2013) [pdf]
If their work didn't benefit Facebook (or at least if Facebook didn't believe their work benefited it), they would not get paid for it.

Also: What kind of person feels bad because their work merely benefits society but not Facebook?
Your argument is analogous to “guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” Well, yeah, but tools selectively amplify people’s powers. Tools matter.
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Many, many enterprises use software developed in East Asia. There just aren't nearly as many software product companies as in the west. Primarily, afaict, it's because in developing economies like CHina & India (or the Philippines, or Vietnam, ...) there's been enough economic uplift from doing things for other people (IT outsourcing) that tackling the top end of the market hasn't been necessary.
Its also a scammy company like all these expensive mattresses companies
It is, indeed, propaganda. But propaganda does not always have to be blatantly wrong - even a broken clock is right twice a day, etc.
As I understood, if an tipped employee's salary is below the minimum wage the employer must make up the difference; so the employee would still be making minimum wage.
Assuming this doesn’t work for Canadians?
Apparently not yet.

Addition of PWA support would be quite compelling. If you then added in the ability to swap Dart with, for example, TypeScript, then Flutter adoption would explode.

The "code once, run everywhere" landscape is filled with compromises at the moment.
Will you sponsor H1B?
Could just be indicative of your adviser being in a poorly paid role in academia?
Statically are you more or less likely to die using Tesla auto pilot?

I wonder if the number of hours drivers went without autopilot, the number with, and the number of fatal accident occurred with and without autopilot are public?
I don't trust any expensive mattresses company. It's all very scammy.
In the case of Mint, Mint is stopping Mint. They've essentially been on life-support and have added no new features in that last ~decade, afaik.
Yep, the fastest way to spot a fake positive review is to notice those seem to be written from the perspective of HR, focusing on things like "fast growth" and "lots of opportunities" that are of little to no concern for the typical person, especially if they're listed as the sole positives. A typical dev is less concerned with the growth rate of the company and how many offices are opening in places thousands of miles away -- they're more concerned about their local delivery team, their local office, etc.
Setting goals and moving towards them with your daily actions.

Also, it's a lot easier to do actions you know and can finish right away. If you're doing those all day you're likely to be spinning your wheels.

Example, you can spend your whole day answering emails and feel like you were productive because your inbox is empty but if you do that every day you will not and have not done anything that will advance you in life. You're just keeping busy.
From one of these unecessary expensive mattress companies
Do you have a GoFundMe where those of us not blessed with the curse of working as a high-paid engineer can contribute? Or are my thoughts and prayers enough?
Seems like finding employee expenses that were missed (where you could recover 100% instead of your marginal rate) is another use case here.

If I miss a few Ubers and a few airport meals that I should have filed expense reports for, that's real savings to me as well. That might be a harder use case (separating the fly shit from the pepper in terms of personal vs business).
What transition are you talking about?
I assure you the wheat field will survive without the skyscraper, the other way around not so much. Cities may believe that they are independent of agrarian and rural society but the reality is that modern cities consume an incredible amount of raw resources and by necessity require the resources that an agrarian society produces. While it may sting and be sub optimal an agrarian society doesn't per say need an urban one to survive.
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> I think the point he's making is that all software licenses (including open source licenses like GPL, MIT, BSD and Apache) are built on copyright law;

GP's point is that 3-clause BSD-licensed software makes such a modest requirement upon licensees that it's functionally equivalent to software in an environment where copyright law doesn't exist.

I also assume that means that the GGP is implying that the GPL's "golden rule" requirement is a necessary restriction to ensure a healthy FLOSS ecosystem. Or at least that the FLOSS ecosystem wouldn't be as vibrant if 3-clause BSD were the only type of FLOSS license.
This has basically been a power play from the crown prince from the very beginning. You get to look like you're rooting out corruption all while eliminating competitors/cementing allegiances and shaking people down for money which you can then use to shore up the finances of your country. 3 birds, one stone.