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Engineer turned B2B founder here. I've sold to a lot of large $100M+/year businesses at this point, so feel decently qualified to answer this question. The top three things that he…

I don't know why more people don't say this. I agree 1000%. This should absolutely be the case. Why should anyone have a lower probability of winning a lawsuit just because they're…

Posting about how they're going to take over delivery while being investigated for antitrust stuff is an interesting choice.

Save money. Get a job that pays as much as possible, even if it has shitty clauses around side projects, and just save as much money as you can. When you have 1-2 years of nest egg…

This already happened on healthcare. He already has a healthcare initiative: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/20/dr-atul-gawande-to-lead-buff... . The thing to bear in mind with this i…

Snarky comments aside, Zuckerberg built a massive ads business from scratch, not previously knowing anything about ads. He built a massive social network from scratch, not knowing …

I've had this thought before, but always come back to what happens after they hit that limit?

> but, he asked, why should they be treated as sagacious experts when they come from a completely different arena Because they have a history of getting impressive shit done. Not c…

This is a really fair question. Amazon doesn't do it well, but just about no one currently does it better. It's like looking at Yahoo or AltaVista before Google came out and saying…

Founder here. It's a probabilistic problem from the perspective of solving personalization. If you tend to want something different after trying the same thing a bunch of times, th…

The author focuses on the generalists who did great things, but ignores the specialists who do important work, and speaks nothing of the many jack-of-all-trades who can’t find a jo…

What does this do that Percona's pt-online-schema-change tool doesn't do?

sure :)

People downvoted you because you're saying they want Uber to burn due to sensationalism and not because it's a genuinely bad company. It sounds condescending and probably pissed pe…

I have a number of acquaintances in the situation where they tried to go out and raise a proper Bay Area seed of $1-1.5m, got told they needed more traction, and wound up giving up…

Cython looks like typed Python. Crystal looks like typed Ruby. Both are compiled, and both are not quite as fast as C, but much faster than the language they're based off of. The p…

So, this is like Ruby's answer to cython?

She's a great writer, but wow is she wrong about everything. In her head, the market decides Candy Crush is $7b because a few VCs decided so. That's not how this works. The market …

PG started off talking about the fragmentation in politics, and I wish he would have wrapped that back in at the end. It feels to me like the two party system in the US is dying no…

I'm a long time Python user and I still tend to go for 2.7 over 3. When writing packages, I'll add support for 3 as an afterthought, but that's it. The main reason for this and the…