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Every generation throws off the ideals of the generation that came before. Parents monitor their kids for a combination of: 1. Worry about the outside world. Justified - but monito…

You could devote your whole life to the pursuit of knowledge and still not have a good understanding of the world. That is how I'd justify the fact that 12 years of access to educa…

> Going from owning 1% of a 1M company to owning 0.5% of a 2M company isn't unfair. The extra value comes directly from the new shareholders investing their money. If this we're tr…

The shares given to investors often have dilution protection and guarantees as to when the company can sell and what minimum compensation will be given to them if that happens. The…

If you're in this position, also be aware of whether you're being offered stock options or stock. It's a little heartbreaking to watch years of equity disappear, in the company you…

I think that your evaluation of the employee not entirely understanding the toll it has taken on you, is fair. Sympathy and empathy only go so far. One thing I'd suggest is - In th…

If the first employee had left their college, family, or country to join the startup - would they have gotten as much stock as the founder? How much risk must the first employee ta…

Startups don't tend to be fans of tying their own hands in terms of what they can do with stock. To be fair - investors are also not fans of that. Potential investors will look at …

I might be oversimplifying this - couldn't companies that want to take part in the parallel world set up local sensors around their building to estimate position to a much more acc…

What happened to innovation? Innovation on privacy isn't possible? The only way we can assure that cryptographic algorithms are in fact secure is to subject them to public scrutiny…

Well the idea would be that companies would be forced to actually figure out how to properly clean data or forced not to use it out of public pressure

I'm curious what a solution like "All Machine Learning algorithms, and the data that taught them, must be open-source and easily accessible by the public" would look like. It'd all…

Yep - open source software was built for you and your startup to not pay people for labor. You got it. You've gotten right to the heart of the matter and have it all figured out.

If I'm lucky, I'll never see the term "Capitalism has proven..." again, in my lifetime

I just started out in UI, too! It's based on watercolor painting but I have to say that Making Color Sing by Jeanne Dobie has dramatically improved the UI of my applications throug…

Most everyone's job, at pretty much every company, is to make life easier for their coworkers. Let's say you're asked to build a signup-with-facebook button. The task is not to bui…

I definitely agree that higher education should be accessible to everyone and for free. I feel like the conversation should be - "We need ethical and professional standards because…

There were budget cuts. Teams were shuffled around. You're running the team now. Your colleagues have only ever built boxes. Go get em', master architect! This is my (hopefully hum…

Does it bother you that every day, your personal information is transferred between a massive number of services created, maintained and secured by individuals with no security or …

I agree with the general point of this article. Showing that you have the skill to accomplish a job effectively will get you a job most anywhere. There's a major issue when this is…

This part is often referred to as "data engineering" Though I admit - I love "software plumber" and want that as a job title some day! Sounds very cyber-punk

I tried to build an app and then googled each problem I hit (How to display a button on iOS. How to change label text on iOS. How to play a sound in iOS...). A few apps later and I…