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Private markets take 3-5% of a deal, require a 3-way contract, and thus won't do anything below $100K. They are indeed fragmented, disorganized and inefficient. If Carta can solve that, great.

Very true. In 1996 I incorporated as a British Virgin Islands offshore exactly because of the upfront capital requirements. It was easier than doing it in Switzerland.

I’m Swiss, did CS at the University of Geneva and work at AWS in New York.

“The lake is not burning” is my favorite way to describe Switzerland when it comes to software and startups. And everything else, in fact.

Came here to leave this comment, with a slight variation. I was so exhausted from 2 years of legal separation that I just decided not to bother with a divorce. It has practically no advantage, and it's easier to stay technically married wrt issues related to kids.

I remember drinking horse milk, кумыс, as a kid, in Ufa, Bashkiria. Highly recommended. Is it sold in the US at all?

I may or may not have participated in click fraud in 1997 with DoubleClick by forging source IP headers and going through a proxy ... that I may or may not have been running. I can only imagine how much more sophisticated click fraud has become today. Even if you raise that bar, I suspect a vast % of clicks are probably fraud anyway.

When I moved a couple of years ago I started banking with Fidelity which has 17-digit account numbers. Using those for ACH with ConEd resulted in them failing to bill me at the end of the month. I thought it was a typo and put the ACH numbers in again, only to fail and get disconnected and flagged at the end of next month plus some late fees.

The whole problem was that the account number was too long. No error messages anywhere. Fidelity also has a 13-digit account number version that I've been using ever since.

What a mess.

That actually seems to be working. I maintain ruby grape, a mid sized project. We get $144/month from Tidelift. As more companies signup for corporate sponsorship the $ amount increases. It’s a pool.

SSO on *nix is a non-starter and is a big (only?) argument to use a Windows box for Windows services. It used to also be a big argument for writing applications in .NET instead of, say, Java, but that got resolved with https://github.com/Waffle/waffle

How so? I use dokku on A DigitalOcean server for a dozen apps. AFAIK cluster support is different (it exists). What else?

Time to finally remove support for it, https://github.com/slack-ruby/slack-ruby-bot/issues/261

4-12 years, https://www.thecut.com/2019/05/anna-delvey-sorokin-sentenced...

Here's a deck from the convicted con artist Anna Delvey, https://www.are.na/block/2250665

The strongest slide is the team, which includes 2 PhDs, and an MIT research scientist.

I joined AWS 6 months ago at 43 as a principal engineer, transitioning from a CTO role of a Series D company, and wrote about it.

https://code.dblock.org/2019/11/17/the-pros-and-cons-of-goin...

I would recommend it.

Same customer support though.

For runners Garmin is far more reliable and superior in every way. Fitbit is cheap. I think google wants data from more people, and Fitbit is a distressed asset, so good opportunity.

Fitbit is damaged goods. Just read https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Ionic/Would-you-buy-Fitbit-I... - I own one of these along with many unsatisfied customers. Google is buying technical debt.

I like this. A nice, practical solution to a real problem!

Disclaimer, I work for AWS. At some point there's just too many of these data streams, so a warehouse no longer does it and we turn to data lakes. The advanced version of what the OP is trying to achieve, without any actual manual work, could be an AI, and be called Lake Formation, https://aws.amazon.com/lake-formation.

Windows programmers are familiar with StrSafe.h, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strsafe.h and https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/blob/master/src/pal/inc/st... which go a lot further.

Also found https://github.com/mubix/netview/blob/master/banned.h on Github with a better list.

I’ve recently left a CTO job and am going to a large software thing. Facebook was the one company I didn’t consider.

Facebook being “the past” played an equal role to “Facebook being evil” in my decision.

Right on.

Yes, you can pay people full engineering salaries to do random OSS. They contribute to your team's brand, reduce recruiting costs and reduce team churn.

If they do too much random OSS to a point where it prevents them from achieving your business goals, you can terminate them.

No no no.

This work should be part of your total, main, comp. Working on open-source projects directly contributes to your employer's business, even if the code of that project doesn't get used in those systems. You're building your team's brand (and yes, your own, too). Because other Engineers want to work in an environment where OSS is encouraged, this reduces costs of hiring and retaining Engineers. At $20/hr Formidable is getting recruiting on the cheap.

This article makes me sad. While not a fad, Silicon Valley is the ultimate manifestation of a place where Americans and contagiously the rest of tech workers value work over life.

Congrats.

I used patches and lists before, a lot. It was either hard or impossible to track more than one at a time, in context and with lots of conversations around specific lines of code. It was also a nightmare for maintainers to constantly want to tell people to rebase their patches based on other people's patches. To link patches to other patches to issues, etcetera.

The Github website and its fork/pull request flow has increased my productivity and the amount of things I contribute to or can maintain with some level of sanity 100x easily.

Huge fan of any effort that gets rid of FB events.

My biggest feature request in this space is around address book and inviting new people to a larger event. I want something that can, for example, check my email or other contacts and surface anyone I've been connected with since the last party.

Btw, I no longer have a facebook account and only held on to it for events, until I didn't. Now when I don't get invited to events personally I just think it wasn't worth it in the first place. Haven't tried the site for an invite yet, will do my next one on it. Been using paperlesspost. It's fine.

I am Russian and my best manager ever, in 20 years of software development, was Indian. So YMMV and these kinds of generalizations need to become a thing of the past.

+ https://www.are.na/

Artsy CTO here. I am excited to see this article and, putting aside that it quotes me :)

A couple of things I wanted to highlight that are not in the article and should have been.

- Pay attention to how Microsoft has used open-source to turn things around in terms of developer credibility.

- Becoming open-source by default can still be an advantage as 99% of companies don't do it. It can still fix your hiring pipeline, but that advantage won't last as it's becoming more mainstream.

AMA