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Google is simply bored while making so much money so comfortably, with an absolutely dominant market position in search. So every few months they need to do these copycat things si…

this is amazing. thanks for sharing... His talk on user testing at Stanford is also amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAws7eXItMk

Surely you're joking, Mr Feynman is amazing.

I tried to read this book but never quite understood it. What's it really about?

If you aren't being merely rhetorical just google for Facebook quarterly earnings

Just like how google's predecessors were not keen on search relevance so that users didn't find what they were searching for quickly - leading to them spending more time on the web…

Pretty standard in my opinion. Depending on your negotiability, you're going to get diluted 10-40% in every round. Do that a few times, and you can see where one ends up :)

Amazing, practical advice. Segmenting users into happy and unhappy and then using that to ask for reviews is a really smart idea..

We have been using Amplitude at 12 Labs (getapplause.com) after having tried several analytics platforms, and it's an amazing platform. Large free tier, really intuitive interface,…

Yelp is an example of a system where it'd have been easy to be cynical about their system scaling up. It's nowhere near being a perfect system, but I use it frequently and I'm able…

Having worked in enterprise companies, I'd conjecture that enterprise sales guys are not using AL much yet. Just a matter of time though..

Congratulations. Can you share some insights into what works well for attractive engineers, esp on AL?

It's somewhat hard to argue with a generalization like this. It's like saying: you give loans to 100 people meeting some very specific criteria, and the return rate is great. When …

Yes, some of that company information is written with investors in mind, but AL allows you to share that with job candidates. Since that doesn't really contain super-sentitive info…

That's a really bad hiring strategy. What the company doesn't realize is that they are still paying 80%. If the company flipped their position and added an extra 10% to the 100%, i…

Just curious: what are some historical examples similar to this?

Fixed now.