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+1. I'm a musician who has released albums and I'd never use something like this, because who wants to manage distribution for every platform? DistroKid/CDBaby are a much better wa…

I found this article quite interesting, it's about implementing an analytics system at stackoverflow: https://jasonpunyon.com/blog/2015/02/12/providence-failure-i...

Being a "tech luminary" is a pretty high bar, no? Who would self-identify as this anyways? I graduated from NC State in 2000 and I've had a really awesome, rewarding career filled …

I would upvote this by 1000 if I could. I lived in the bay area for 2 years, and one way streets + right on red is a recipe for disaster for pedestrians because drivers will never …

my .02 from having been CTO at a SaaS analytics company for a long time: "we want to see how your algorithms made their decisions." that's great product feedback. and a problem you…

I agree, although if the company asking is not engaging with an aforementioned auditing company (Mitre is the one I've dealt with the most), then that would be a red flag to me.

in my experience, a couple reasons: 1. It's far easier to raise money from VCs if you are located in SV/SF vs anywhere else in the country. 2. Once you raise that money, the only t…

You could make the same argument about most programming languages. I hate to sound like I'm parroting Spolsky, but, he's right that the reason that the reason every developer ever …

When I worked at a large investment bank we spent a ton of time and effort on a system that allowed equity analysts to use excel and sync their data back and forth to the firm's ce…

package management is a harder problem than most people seem to want to admit. I've run into tons of issues with every package management system you can think of: rpm does some ext…

In the poorer areas of NYC there are few, if any, healthy options. Access to fresh, healthy food is a big socioeconomic problem.

yeah, I guess my point is that maintaining internet and general office stuff is not "free", in that it's costing you your time or money. I don't spend much time on office stuff, bu…

sure, I've subleased a bunch. my experience with that is that two kinds of companies generally sublease: places that are growing and will eventually want the space you're occupying…

exactly. Finding less than a 5 year lease in Manhattan is extremely challenging in my experience.

instead of non-relational, think of it as denormalized. I also can't think of any cases where you wouldn't want some relationships. I can absolutely rattle off tons of cases where …

I agree. I wonder if most people in this thread saying that renting your own space is cheaper has ever really done this. I have, a bunch, and keeping the lights on is not free in t…

Do they seriously claim this? It sounds like a pretty far-fetched thing for them to say. I've opened several offices and moved my company around a fair bit, and I don't know how We…

I'm pretty sure at least a few people genuinely wanted to. they ended up being pretty happy as they ended up working at our company for many years. I have no idea how long you've b…

I had the same experience, although I didn't end up using wework because they gave me a runaround on location (I wanted manhattan space and they were clearly trying to get ppl to l…

I've hired lots of people that used to run their own businesses and want to go back to being an employee.

this has been my experience exactly and a great summary. starting your own business vs being an employee is not about being your own boss, it's about trading one boss for many boss…

all tuning is relative, of course, but my comment is thinking about singers or horn players that play consistently sharp, for example.

I've hired 5 people from flatiron school, all of which worked out very well. desperation had nothing to do with it, I found the folks there were very helpful with matching potentia…

agreed, but even in classical music it doesn't really bother me that much sometimes, some of my very favorite string players have occasional intonation issues (who doesn't?). And t…

The ubiquity of auto-tune is particularly interesting because most people don't seem to have a lot of pitch sensitivity. Tons of very famous recordings are slightly out of tune and…