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Tech Companies are valued at a multiple of next 12 months revenue, not last 12 months revenue. Since anthropic grew from $1billion to $5billion in revenue in ~8 months, that means …

I don’t think they were the same difficulty at all as some of the upper divs. Classes like CS 170 (Efficient Algorithms), Cs 189 (ML) and CS 182 (Deep Neural Networks) were all sig…

For full context, this is someone with a wife and two kids[1] who had a couple of semesters and just needed a temporary solution, not a 20 year old kid. Different then the title mi…

IMO one of the way that most schools are going to end up being able to detect plagiarism is going to be a custom word processor (or something similar) that can track all of the edi…

Location: San Francisco Remote: Not full time (at least hybrid, no full time remote) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Java, Python, Bash, SQL, AWS, Postgres Website: https://a…

Location: San Francisco Remote: Not full time (at least hybrid, no full time remote) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Java, Python, Bash, SQL, AWS, Postgres Website: https://a…

Yeah, probably the best way to prevent this from happening would be to have the FDIC guarantee up to 40 million for businesses, or something on that level. Going from having >95% o…

That sentence seems enough like some bastardized version of shakespeare[0] and Lisp that I bet you could get it to compile in some dialects. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shake…

It's less that it's illegal/impossible and more that it's not in the interests of the company in the long run. Say you do that, then what? If you screw over the seed investors, the…

Not quite. The way that it works is that the 375k is invested now, but at terms that are determined in the next equity round. If the next round values the company at 10 million, th…

Is there a timeline for when you will be rolling out the availability to ride in one of your vehicles to the general public?

This is something that would have been really useful when I was trying to get a POC out for a startup I was working on, especially at 1/3 of the cost that we ended up paying for an…

There are limits based on the size of the binary that apple will allow on the app store. In addition, here's a really interesting story about how uber had to fight to downsize the …

Early stage startup valuations are more or less worth the paper that they're printed on. Probably more cost effective to hard-code the valuation to the same number than to try and …

Its not one console held in a single repository. AWS has teams built around individual features, and each individual team is responsible for creating its own UI, which is why its n…

I got one from the Costco in SoMa with no wait, that’s probably the best bet for immediate availability.

Ooh I did a similar thing at in college where I used a raspberry pie to hook up the door handle to speakers to play “The Boys are Back in Town” whenever someone opened up our front…

That’s an interesting question. I think I would. But at the same time, I think that I would be more interested in building the next spacex than working at the current one.

I think that’s the crux of it. It’s hard to give a shit about making someone else’s product. I like what I’m working on, think it’ll help people at scale, but it’s not my product, …

I’ll push back on that. I currently work as an SDE at a FAANG company known for being pretty demanding. My boss is phenomenal, pretty much everything you could ask for. Shielding u…

People who invest in stock have more money when stocks go up. News at 10

Having had a similar idea and decided against it after a lot of research, there’s a lot of thought that you would have to do as to how to position yourself. There’s already a numbe…

I love pretty much everything that Patrick McKenzie writes, but for some reason, my default internal monologue for his writing makes reading everything that he writes sound like an…