It's interesting the news on Tinder and Snap Chat came around the same time of Apple’s new iPhones and iWatch release. In fact, it's no coincidence they must have been trying to hide behind the noise.
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#32It's interesting the news on Tinder and Snap Chat came around the same time of Apple’s new iPhones and iWatch release. In fact, it's no coincidence they must have been trying to hide behind the noise.
That's almost exactly what the headline of the article says!?
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#33Seems a bit comical that the article claims this to be the first disappearing photo app. I created and launched one myself a year before Snapchat started... The normal way for start founders to receive equity, is only from one or more of these 3 things: - For hours worked, based on the vesting and usually the hours must be beyond the cliff or you get nothing. - If you built a crucial part of the IP that the company n…
While I might agree that contributing a simple idea to a startup isn't generally worth a stake in it, driving that startup with a broad, complex vision over its development certainly is.
Unfortunately, I've met founders that equate the latter with the former, and think it's fine to steal off with "ideas" that people have worked on for years because "well, ideas have no value, only implementation does." If the "idea" is several paragraphs (or even pages) long, and includes comprehensive implementation details, it has value. No question.
Now, SnapChat, I agree, there isn't really much going on there beyond a one-sentence pitch. But not all ideas are that simple, and the complex ones are given inherent value by their complexity.
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#34As a side note, is it still wise/advisable to join Snapchat as an engineer? Particularly for Visa candidates whee the risk is higher?
If they pay you enough, sure, why not.
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Have you seen their shareholder agreement? Does one even exist? Vesting is quite common in the EU, but only when it is agreed upon by all parties. If you're founding a business on equal equity based on the capital deposited you get those shares up front, any additional shares emitted subject to vesting/shareholder agreements, payments and so on. What you agree on matters, not what you later think you should have agre…
Just noting how much I hate the practice of deleting comments, especially after someone has replied to them.
Same.
But the downvotes trickle in even after you realized that your arguments, or emotions were not quite up there.
Idea: Functionality to mark your own post with "I concede", keep it grey like downvoted posts and block further voting.
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Just noting how much I hate the practice of deleting comments, especially after someone has replied to them.
Same. But the downvotes trickle in even after you realized that your arguments, or emotions were not quite up there. Idea: Functionality to mark your own post with "I concede", keep it grey like downvoted posts and block further voting.
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Just noting how much I hate the practice of deleting comments, especially after someone has replied to them.
Same. But the downvotes trickle in even after you realized that your arguments, or emotions were not quite up there. Idea: Functionality to mark your own post with "I concede", keep it grey like downvoted posts and block further voting.
Or you just edit your posts to clarify/fix somethings
Of course, you can also stand by your original post, which is something I've done sometimes.
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Same. But the downvotes trickle in even after you realized that your arguments, or emotions were not quite up there. Idea: Functionality to mark your own post with "I concede", keep it grey like downvoted posts and block further voting.
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> I wish we could ban most of the top active commenters on hacker news.
Assuming I'm on it, let's see the rest of your list of HN'ers you'd like to see banned.
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Same. But the downvotes trickle in even after you realized that your arguments, or emotions were not quite up there. Idea: Functionality to mark your own post with "I concede", keep it grey like downvoted posts and block further voting.
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People care about voting way too much.
It's worth noting that you rarely end up with more than -1 or -2 votes. Write a single popular comment and it more than makes up for it.
I'm not sure what your comment about "people linking to old comments" means. Either you stand by your comments or you don't.
Edit. The comment I replied was by the user "compare"[1] and said the following:
In this case, it was people linking to old comments, to try to make the attacks more personal, and attempting vote brigading. I wish we could ban most of the top active commenters on hacker news. They get controlling and territorial.
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> I wish we could ban most of the top active commenters on hacker news. Assuming I'm on it, let's see the rest of your list of HN'ers you'd like to see banned.
I'm guessing [1] is most of them?