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Was approached by a small startup valued at $1B. Other than expensive stock options, any other reasons to be concerned about such unusually high valuation? Thanks!

It already exists -> The stock market.

It was my conclusion as well. I only found async useful in situations when a service has to deal with a large number of incoming requests, e.g. web server

I say you dodged a bullet. Imagine working under this person.

> Anyway, this is much longer than I meant, but my conclusion is that I'll continue to use async/await for web apps and REST APIs (because, why not), but for services, I'm going ba…

Rust is a complete pain for the types of problems Python is used for. Same for Go/Java.

Borland C++ and Turbo Vision were a killer combo back in the DOS times. Borland's decline over the years was painful to watch. I guess that what happens to the engineering driven c…

You purposely set them very low, then "beat" them and watch stock price go to the moon.

> Because Amazon is comparatively low-margin vs. other tech companies, improved revenue has a much greater effect on earnings. Are you saying that 10% revenue increase has led to 1…

Or, they are simply gaming H1B and/or employer-sponsored Green Card application process that requires submitting a proof that they couldn't find a US citizen.

C# with .Net Core seems to fit the bill.

The right term is "entreporn" which what this article really is. > There’s no actual skill called business. Avoid business schools and magazines. Proceeds giving a bunch of generic…

> What do you think society would look like in 20 years? My guess is what would happen is we would build robots, machines, software and hardware to do everything. We would all be l…

> I tried reasoning with them, that I just wanted to view content and did not attend to write answers or interact etc, plus, they had a valid email address and facebook profile (al…

Shall we legalize slavery then? Just imagine how many business models would become viable if labor was free

Poor design has nothing to do with generics. If anything they make API cleaner and safer to work with.

How old were you at that time? Did you have to leave any dependents behind? I did the same thing in my 20's, now, with family and kids, a large change like that would be much harde…

They have achieved their early goals and found out that they were fakes implanted by the society. Now they are left in a vacuum surrounded by a bunch of responsibilities.

Just to add some color BREAKING: Author and journalist Maria Konnikova becomes PokerStars Ambassador https://www.pokerstars.com/en/blog/2018/author-journalist-ma... > Maria Konniko…

> To conclude, this is just a disguised marketing article for a gambling site, featuring a PR officer of the site. (english translation for "sponsored poker pro") I was curious abo…

> 6. The creators of RichCoin, who long ago converted their 1000 Bitcoins to $5,000,000 USD, move to a private island and never work again. Is it that easy to turn BTC to cash? I h…

> I think the reason this one in particular is doing so well What makes you think it is doing so well?

> It doesn't really make any sense. Whether it makes sense to you or not market price manipulation absolutely does work as shown by hundreds of lawsuits filed by SEC every year. >T…

> A pyramid scheme requires a central actor to run the scheme, Bitcoin has none. No, once put in motion, a pyramid scheme doesn't require a central actor. > We don't need to make t…

Bitcoin is just a dressed up pyramid scheme to enrich ones at the top. The lack of oversight and regulation is pretty much a welcome sign for every scammer in the world.