The 211 number was given as what Airbnb has found to be what it takes to break even on the cost of a unit. Prop F, and others like it, are not trying to destroy Airbnb but stop people from purchasing housing and using…
That is how representative democracy works. You decide how things work in the area where you live. Imagine if I got to decide how things worked in your neighborhood without living there, that wouldn't be fair. People…
Precisely. In Silicon Valley it would be like a company that is raising record amounts of money at mind-boggling valuations but whose revenue isn't growing at the same pace. One of the major question marks has been wage…
> Seeing a team build a prototype shows another level of commitment. I've built hardware, so i know how much more time/effort/money it takes over a software wireframe... A wireframe is not the same as a hardware…
Could you run the other ones as well? If you're positioning yourself as a faster alternative to ABP, it makes sense to compare yourself against other popular alternatives.
That's really been the most enlightening part of the series for me. Reinforces that the hardest part in engineering is rarely the technical problem. Distributed databases are really f*ing hard, but infinitely harder if…
We struggle with that last one all the time. Our sales team can't add issues with tags or assign them without write access to the repo. So they just have to dump them in issues and then engineers have to categorize them.
> In other words, Square today is more of a financial services company than a consumer product company They are becoming a B2B software company, building back-office tools. Square Capital is a financial service, but a…
You are technically correct. Silicon Valley uses P/E when calculating valuation/revenue, because startups are rarely profitable. They aren't equivalent in the same way that user growth and revenue growth are not…
They may be important, but the argument against them isn't just not understanding their market. If they were a strongly profitable, or even high revenue-generating, company then the announcement wouldn't be about…
The problem is that RubySpec isn't used to TDD cross-implementation features. It isn't a "specification" so much as a reflection of what MRI does. The Rubinius team's complaints (though hyperbolic) still stand.…
Note that Kara Swisher (executive editor of Re/Code) was married to Megan Smith [1]. Megan is now CTO of the United States, but previously was at Google for over a decade and a VP at Google X. It's not unreasonable that…
According to the press release, they describe themselves as "San Francisco’s leading office catering service." Unless they plan on dramatically expanding their product offerings, "Improve[ing] the Health of Humanity"…
Unfortunately enticement is literally the purpose of the check. You're required to exchange value in order for them to agree to not sue the company. When I had to do my first firing I was surprised that this was the…
Note that the article only spoke with the COO of Zenefits and no one from ADP. As has been detailed numerous times, ADP absolutely has a right to cut off access based on violations of its ToS. They want to be put in the…
That was the parent's question. If they froze prices with these subsidies, would it continue?
The opinion goes into strenuous detail on the history of marriage cases before the court. This decision was not tearing down "what is marriage?", but pivoted (for Justice Kennedy, who was the deciding vote and wrote the…
This was my experience as well. I had to destroy my personal account once I left the company because they couldn't unmerge them and transfer to a new account. This was like 3 months ago and I was shocked that they still…
Same as using 1Password — you don't. You're trading convenience for increased security.
I agree and think you did an excellent job here. Distilling down such critical information shows how much time and thought you put into it. It's easy to ramble on for 100 pages, but capturing the essence of your values…
It sounds like the purpose of these values is to provide guidance. From your piece: > It’s a framework that we can turn to whenever we’re faced with a difficult decision, whether it be about how to best architect…
I've heard (second hand) that VMWare has a good parallel track. That said, it makes sense for a company in which individual contributions can revolutionize the business. There are cases where being an individual…
this is really cool! Great work.
Obviously I have the option not to use it, but we can still have a discussion about the pros and cons. What I'm saying is that "pull requests welcome" is a really lazy way of telling someone to support themselves.…
Also the mental jump. Just because something is easy for them to do doesn't mean it is worth the distraction cost. Github builds tools for developers. Atom, chat (abandoned), Pages, Gists, and github.com all fit within…
The 211 number was given as what Airbnb has found to be what it takes to break even on the cost of a unit. Prop F, and others like it, are not trying to destroy Airbnb but stop people from purchasing housing and using…
That is how representative democracy works. You decide how things work in the area where you live. Imagine if I got to decide how things worked in your neighborhood without living there, that wouldn't be fair. People…
Precisely. In Silicon Valley it would be like a company that is raising record amounts of money at mind-boggling valuations but whose revenue isn't growing at the same pace. One of the major question marks has been wage…
> Seeing a team build a prototype shows another level of commitment. I've built hardware, so i know how much more time/effort/money it takes over a software wireframe... A wireframe is not the same as a hardware…
Could you run the other ones as well? If you're positioning yourself as a faster alternative to ABP, it makes sense to compare yourself against other popular alternatives.
That's really been the most enlightening part of the series for me. Reinforces that the hardest part in engineering is rarely the technical problem. Distributed databases are really f*ing hard, but infinitely harder if…
We struggle with that last one all the time. Our sales team can't add issues with tags or assign them without write access to the repo. So they just have to dump them in issues and then engineers have to categorize them.
> In other words, Square today is more of a financial services company than a consumer product company They are becoming a B2B software company, building back-office tools. Square Capital is a financial service, but a…
You are technically correct. Silicon Valley uses P/E when calculating valuation/revenue, because startups are rarely profitable. They aren't equivalent in the same way that user growth and revenue growth are not…
They may be important, but the argument against them isn't just not understanding their market. If they were a strongly profitable, or even high revenue-generating, company then the announcement wouldn't be about…
The problem is that RubySpec isn't used to TDD cross-implementation features. It isn't a "specification" so much as a reflection of what MRI does. The Rubinius team's complaints (though hyperbolic) still stand.…
Note that Kara Swisher (executive editor of Re/Code) was married to Megan Smith [1]. Megan is now CTO of the United States, but previously was at Google for over a decade and a VP at Google X. It's not unreasonable that…
According to the press release, they describe themselves as "San Francisco’s leading office catering service." Unless they plan on dramatically expanding their product offerings, "Improve[ing] the Health of Humanity"…
Unfortunately enticement is literally the purpose of the check. You're required to exchange value in order for them to agree to not sue the company. When I had to do my first firing I was surprised that this was the…
Note that the article only spoke with the COO of Zenefits and no one from ADP. As has been detailed numerous times, ADP absolutely has a right to cut off access based on violations of its ToS. They want to be put in the…
That was the parent's question. If they froze prices with these subsidies, would it continue?
The opinion goes into strenuous detail on the history of marriage cases before the court. This decision was not tearing down "what is marriage?", but pivoted (for Justice Kennedy, who was the deciding vote and wrote the…
This was my experience as well. I had to destroy my personal account once I left the company because they couldn't unmerge them and transfer to a new account. This was like 3 months ago and I was shocked that they still…
Same as using 1Password — you don't. You're trading convenience for increased security.
I agree and think you did an excellent job here. Distilling down such critical information shows how much time and thought you put into it. It's easy to ramble on for 100 pages, but capturing the essence of your values…
It sounds like the purpose of these values is to provide guidance. From your piece: > It’s a framework that we can turn to whenever we’re faced with a difficult decision, whether it be about how to best architect…
I've heard (second hand) that VMWare has a good parallel track. That said, it makes sense for a company in which individual contributions can revolutionize the business. There are cases where being an individual…
this is really cool! Great work.
Obviously I have the option not to use it, but we can still have a discussion about the pros and cons. What I'm saying is that "pull requests welcome" is a really lazy way of telling someone to support themselves.…
Also the mental jump. Just because something is easy for them to do doesn't mean it is worth the distraction cost. Github builds tools for developers. Atom, chat (abandoned), Pages, Gists, and github.com all fit within…