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It's complicated. Firstly, don't love that this happens. But the fact you're not willing to provide tolerance to a commercial tool that costs maybe a few hundred bucks a month but …

With LLMs we're all becoming managers. Good news is we'll get more done. Bad news is that we'll have to get way better at persisting mid-state process status (I sometimes ask my LL…

I have been coding on and off (more off than on) for 47 years. I kinda stopped paying attention when we got past jquery and was never a fan of prototypical inheritance. Never built…

If you live with your parent in a double wide in a trailer park and need to work at the local Target every night since high school to make enough money to help pay for groceries fo…

If you're venture based and were expecting another round sometime soon. With higher interest rates there were more compelling alternatives for LPs than to invest in Venture, causin…

To :+1: this, even if it's a book - there is a central thesis - a headline and a sentence that tells you whether you want to read more. "Your pet could save your life" - The six su…

Thanks for making my day :)

He's right, but having failed a number of times, after you've put all your savings into the business, fired all your team, notified and disappointed all of your investors and custo…

I think the parent poster was suggesting that a human driven uber was here now - not an autonomous one (hence the "chat buddy"/driver)

If it stays private, not only do your existing shares appreciate (which would also happen if it was public), but as an existing investor if you have pro rata rights, you can buy mo…

As mentioned by someone else, estimating how much of the company you have depends on seeing the complete cap table (redacted for names is fine) along with a copy of all of the majo…

The challenge with substantial take home tests is that they have the potential skew your applicant pool in a number of ways that are not ideal for your business. Firstly, as a gene…

Adding value. Lets say there is something in your life that you care about and costs you $100 a month. If I find a way to provide you with the same value for $20 a month and manage…

I saw it around the dot-com days along with a lot of other extremely dubious terms for extremely desperate founders - at least in NYC. Agreed that more than a 1x liquidation prefer…

And I think it's even a little more than this. I've certainly seen college grads come up with impressive algorithms and "solve hard problems". For me senior is having seen other pe…

Huge fan of just including an environment.yml for a conda virtual-env in the repo you store your notebooks in, but the challenge there is that it's OS specific reproducibility. I'v…

Maybe I've been lucky, but I've always found these principles to just be an effective way to enjoy life, build a great team and maximize business value. Every day, I get to check i…

Especially for remote first teams, standups are as much a social connection as an accountability, information sharing and blocker highlighting opportunity. I'm a huge fan of synchr…

Don't see whats fraudulent about building something people want, use and presumably get value from.

Beat me to it :)

You don't! You pay (roughly) per flight hour (specifically per hobbs hour which is subtly different, but close enough). SYou can't just rent for a month and return with two flight …

I think it's more important to count clarify, brevity and value than number of attendees. I have a fast growing team where 12 people reporting to three different departments have t…

Actually, there is a good reason to pay SF or NYC salaries to remotes - you get the remote people who're good enough that they can live anywhere and still command a premium salary.…

But Brooklyn hardly avoids the additional costs of NYC. That said, if you find a 4 bedroom on 1/4 acre of land somewhere near a subway for under $300k, let me know and I'll move ba…

I would expect that with a fairly even distribution such as ages, the median and mean would be similar. Medians are primarily useful for data sets with large outliers and I doubt t…