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Important detail is that they're both divesting from later stage deals, and doubling down on early stage ones

higher ROI than anything else I've ever done for my career, by a long shot with my website [1] I found investors, I was contacted by a highly sought after silicon valley startup, m…

I don't think there's anything about YC inherently misaligned with the next startup era — in fact, they're adapting their model accordingly, hedging their bets + investing in harde…

VC management fees are typically 2%/y. if a VC fund has $100 million in committed capital, the annual management fees would generally be between $2 million and $2.5 million. it's a…

that's not true. you have it written explicitly in the final check. you just don't have to do the mental gymnastics of figuring out how much you'll pay before ordering, which is ab…

I don't understand the general tenor and sentiment of the comments here. I've taken dozens of self-driving cars rides in SF in the last few months. They were magical, and _they wor…

that's correct. most beaches in Italy are privately held, with decades-long contracts it's a huge scandal and yet very hard to solve because of the same dynamics of the bridge abov…

Uhm. I don't know. At my company, we're living on Slack (it's remote). There are only few tactical meetings. Coordination happen async on Slack. Worked out pretty well so far, we s…

even if it was, everyone would benefit from the information (it being public)

yep, true! however, the devil is in the details. from what i've been told, the big challenge was latency: they worked a lot to bring the latency down to acceptable levels - essenti…

replit employee here. the team who built this is very small (less than a dozen, including non-eng roles for the go to market), and went from idea to general availability in 8 weeks…

I know reasonably well some ex FB people from the early days (early 2010s, well before IPO). They explicitly defined FB as a 'utility' - based on how users react during outages and…

Why would they even want that? They paid 15% of their market cap (30 considering the drop) for a new shiny toy, and now they would just… cash it? Doesn't make any sense, their ince…

in replit we just implemented playback mode, it's called history mode, and we do happen to have vi shortcuts (couldn't live without them) (I'd expect pg to know this already, but h…

VSCode is open source. Its underlying editor is too, it's called Monaco: https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/

What you're saying and what the article is saying are two different things. The whole point of the article is not "Don't refactor code"; it's "Never fix a bug and refactor in the s…

I think surround is so deeply nested in users workflow that it's almost like an official one. It's the only one i'd go as far as to adding it to your course, but potentially you co…

I see that there's a pretty big miss in the syllabus: surround! yes, true, it's not "official" but rather a plugin, but you can't really do without it, can you?