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I have a simple list: money, medication, identification, underwear, bathing suit. Everything else you can figure out.

Deals of this type are usually cash free and debt free. The cash went to the shareholders. Hence the implied valuation of $2.5B.

I’ve seen many people climb the SWE ladder or build a YC company (having done both myself), and trust me the founder route is not the most efficient. You only believe this because …

For two reasons: 1. They create externalities 2. They generate an economic flux that can be taxed

My experience could not be more different. I’ve made life long friends at work, especially when I was working for smaller firms. I don’t think those relationships are transactional…

no chance

France, USA, Australia to name 3 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_food_self... ).

If you follow his logic and believe that the ultra-wealthy pay too little tax (as e.g. Warren Buffett does), then a balanced approach is to set the tax rate to: "37% of income or 1…

This was my first thought: this seems like a web + 3d port of Fritzing. Perhaps they even reuse some of the code?

Gross margin doesn't tell you much about their level of investment. Gross margin is only revenue minus COGS (i.e. hosting, support, potentially infra teams). To understand further …

In practice, I don’t think tax policy is the primary driver for where people chose to live. Even very wealthy people. If I were very wealthy the first thing I would want to buy is …

Extremely impressive that they were able to ship inside-out tracking, pancake lenses, and eye tracking + foveated rendering. Each of these is a serious engineering challenge. Very …

This guy ^ runs a conference on corporate values. You can't make this stuff up...

Hacker News formula for startups: no offices, no offsites, no meetings, and no MBAs. If only idiot CEOs and rapacious VCs were listening!

If you, like me, were looking for a video of the demo in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=752-Oo1hok4

In hindsight I think the correct word would be "regular software upgrades".

Every vendor you bring in comes with switching cost, and this is no different. But we do our best to make it easy for folks to migrate off of our platform should they decide.

Hi Pete -- email me (francois at) and I'll get you early enrolled into the special deals we have coming for Nordic customers.

Thank you!

Thank you!

It's all on Github ( https://github.com/nordicsemiconductor ), but it is not technically open source as it is a modified BSD that does not let you use the SDKs with other chipsets.…

I'm the co-founder and CEO of Memfault. We were in the W19 YC batch. I never thought our news would make the front page of HN! This is a very exciting day for us (after a very inte…

Litestream has seen very little development lately and I was worried it was dead. Very glad to see Ben Johnson is continuing to push the project forward with some exciting new plan…

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