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Direct democracy is easier to buy than representative democracies for two reasons: first, voters have other things to do with their time than become experts on every bit of law tha…

I’m curious what maximization function you are considering

It is so interesting to me the way “nerd” and “geek” function as quasi-diagnostic categories for Boomers: not specifically medicalized, yet used to describe developmental differenc…

I would recommend reading the blog post; I think there is context you have missed. I'm describing interactions here I am having with my peers, not people I'm in a service relations…

Is anyone else only able to see the first page of the PDF?

I am sorry your work has been frustrating. Here I was talking specifically about code reviews, so the context is pretty different than an incident retro. A code review where there …

It's not like he's from the Middle Ages or something; 1964 is within living memory.

He was creepy and unprofessional, not a criminal. “Be fired” is the proportional and appropriate response.

This approval is just a first step; we intend to augment (subject to SEC approval) the exchange's listing rules with those innovations.

We are thrilled that the SEC has officially approved the Long-Term Stock Exchange as a national securities exchange!

In the data set I used for reference, Series C+ companies still mostly failed to exit. Even at the furthest extreme the data tracked, of the 35 Silicon Valley companies that raised…

Building this I used information from CB Insights, which looks at companies that receive VC funding by cohort. Their most recent report covers companies that raised seed rounds in …

Then you're stuck: there isn't any way to value shares in something without knowing the denominator. Your company should be willing to provide the "fully-diluted basis" for your sh…

Building this tool we purposefully steered away from education. We found that the users we talked to, people considering startup jobs who didn't know how to value options, were fre…

If you are looking for more detailed scenario modeling, we've also built a free cap table management tool that takes into account the specifics of a particular company: https://cap…

Only if it exits at that seed stage: if it raises more money, the number goes up. If the company makes it to Series C+, the number is probably going to be higher than $35M. Which i…

Thanks for the feedback! That's a good idea; I'll add it to our list!

It's fun to watch a market that's actually nearly perfect: no barriers to entry or regulation to capture means that lead time is about the only source of surplus and profit consist…

When TDDing the tests are going to change a lot, just like the code you are saying you write anyway. I recommend the book Refactoring for the tools so you can make the changes with…

This only comes up if you have data that isn't bundled with logic: as long as there is some logic to test, even enums end up with full coverage. The outstanding issue with Java cod…