Someone making a normal salary at a normal job will probably keep making roughly this amount.
An early employee making a low salary plus options at a startup will learn the skills to create a bigger piece of wealth on their own. Why do I believe this to be true? Several of the people who worked for my startups previously have. Also, the ride is rather fun especially for someone shielded from most of the downsides and this has value.
Why the disparity between founders and early employees you ask? There is a huge (order of magnitude+) difference in risk and, frankly, a differential in skills which we don't talk about for reasons of politeness.
Why let the exception case (removing an external drive quickly) ruin the main use case?
going forward it seems reasonable to assume ubiquitous network connectivity, so you can simply treat external drives as a cache and show a non-modal alert "please reconnect for sync, expected to finish within X minutes" iff the amount of data synced is large enough to matter via a 3G connection.
It's basically search engine spam generated from SEC docs. Adds needless verbosity to when people want the info in a concise format. When looking for actionable financial info I hate having to read through sentences when a table or graph will do. Consider why audio podcasts never really caught on for non-entertainment.
i do not think it is as clear-cut that brand advertisers will pay higher rates or even accept the format as they may think. sure, conversion/recall etc might be higher but company X making me do some annoying work is not exactly endearing them to me and tarnishes their brand. people are lazy.
Among the revealed ones I am most excited about (and would invest in) Parse -- solves a real problem, it is easy to see how it can be commercially viable, and there is very little technology risk. Kind of wish I had thought of it. An obvious target to be acqhired by one of the PaaS vendors.
this was also pg's argument when i asked him to remove some postings made with another account that accidentally revealed confidential info about a friend's company, so i considered this would be fair game.
EDIT: post deleted -> put the info on twitter for those interested.
i did go to law school and am thus reasonably well aware of how laws work ;)
having no specific knowledge about sweepstakes regulations, i does not appear completely unreasonable to me that a random drawing in each territory completely changing the outcome might satisfy the requirements.
as a practical matter, when $1m in extra payouts are at stake it could be reasonable to accept a fine from regulators while at the same time avoiding civil liability to participants.
Good story. Wouldn't a better hack have been to draw input values in both countries, then communicate this input to the other location and XOR the results to determine the final outcome, so the drawing will actually have happened in both territories? This would also scale to n>2 countries.
It works even with a US delivery address in your account that is separate from a possibly non-US billing address. You can simply switch back and forth the country in your profile to optimize for catalog availability and pricing.
Out of curiosity: might the fact that - as revealed in this story - there has been an outstanding warrant for the guest at the time of booking have any bearing on airbnb's liability? Can a host reasonably expect that some basic verification on guests is performed against criminal background databases?
Same here. Laid out the estimated added cost of enforcing payment via the court system besides interest to them, received payment soon after. Somehow the psychology of getting a "discount" from avoiding litigation seems to work.
As a founder I disagree. The decision for or against a VC is not made by employees and if anything a16z protected the interests of major shareholders over job hopping opportunists and non-performing executives. I would expect savvy employees to negotiate their compensation related agreements more carefully when these firms are involved in the future, however.
Not to draw this out further but I do think variations of these make for good interview questions for entry-level people. Here is why:
First, it is trivial to communicate the problem and any moderately competent person will find a solution within a short time frame. Second, it tests how precisely someone takes a problem definition. (In my experience, the kind of person who glances over such details will also tend to make trivial programming mistakes like off-by-ones.) Third, by varying a well-known question slightly you can easily filter out those who have simply learned the "correct" solution from the internet rather than thinking it through.
I would not be surprised if the subset of allowed characters was motivated by ensuring easy input cross a variety of gaming devices and console UIs. Of course, I also would not be surprised if this was due to sheer stupidity.
An early employee making a low salary plus options at a startup will learn the skills to create a bigger piece of wealth on their own. Why do I believe this to be true? Several of the people who worked for my startups previously have. Also, the ride is rather fun especially for someone shielded from most of the downsides and this has value.
Why the disparity between founders and early employees you ask? There is a huge (order of magnitude+) difference in risk and, frankly, a differential in skills which we don't talk about for reasons of politeness.