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Open rate and read through was probably close to 100% on this one.

Steep haircut, but 50% of something still better than 100% of nothing.

Losing money but doing it at scale.

Many other tools exist that can make HTTP requests, but curl remains my go-to.

I wonder though, if the ballot initiative to repeal and replace it came up, would it stand a snowball’s chance in hell? Prop 13 gets put to the chopping block every few years and seems to always come out unscathed. Wouldn’t the same folks vote to maintain CEQA?

What about venmo? Same thing?

Recently got my shodan and can relate to this article and the merits of structured practice. Judo taught me a lot about how to learn a skill as it's really pedagogically laid out by Kano. The method for learning is spelt out in such a way that if you repeat the process then apply what you've learned during randori, you will improve.

To the $17 sandwiches and salads, I say good riddance.

They take a rake on pretty much all e-commerce so I’d say that qualifies.

Hopefully getting Stripe's designers to take a crack at the AWS UI would be nice.

Thought it was ironic to see “user interfaces that run anywhere” only to see the landing page break the viewport on my phone.

I read the whole thing but stopped taking it seriously after this line:

> Only the original author may remove content they produce.

This has some pretty bad implications if we think about obvious content problems like child abuse. And sure, algorithms can remove this from people’s feeds, but what about the victims?

Am I the only person who thinks this is a giant, glaring hole in this whole argument?

To add some color to my story, I was employee #1 at a startup that got acquired after 2 years and gave me 2 years of rest and vest.

Then engineer #4 at a "hot YC startup" that went from series A to series D in <4 years. my illiquid 18 months of trying to navigate the politics of a hyper-growth company is "worth" significantly more than what I got for 2 years of 9-9/6.

I affected basically zero change there, but by virtue of being early on the rocket, my stock has appreciated massively in value.

I feel more proud of working at the former as I designed and scaled the system from scratch, but would I have been better off doing a hit and run on 2-3 of these "hot" YC companies for a year at a time? Not sure.

As a former employee #1, I can say all it leads to is killing yourself and bitterness, lack of control and resentment.

In my case I even had a decent outcome but you'll always feel like you got screwed because you're off from the founders by an order of magnitude at least.

Better to just angel invest if you have the means or start your own company where you have more upside.

Worth noting the SEC is a civil regulatory agency, not a criminal one.

Kind of makes sense. The salad days of $300k+ TC at FAANG are over. What remains is the startup jobs that pay decidedly less and are skewed towards equity comp that's harder to value.

Why stop at creative cloud… go after autodesk. Hire guys writing shaders to build productivity software better in browser. Figma showed it can work.

I thought the insurance companies that underwrite the lotto start buying tickets at this point?

At 14m ARR, the founder is well past fatFIRE. If someone wants to disrupt him, I doubt he cares.

A friend once told me, “have strong opinions, weakly held”. Be able to accept the opinions of others even if you don’t necessarily agree with them.

Being less opinionated doesn’t sound all that great to me. Your opinion is the sum of your experience filtered by an idea. This distillation is the basis for your thought process.

Opinions seem to work in an almost bayesian sense: you have some opinion A and upon learning B you update your priors.

I’ve gone from basically shouting “you’re wrong” at people when I was younger to now I will listen to pretty much anyone’s seemingly wild opinion on anything. My curiosity has shifted towards learning why people believe certain things, seeing if they came to that conclusion rationally, and seeing if there’s anything I missed on the topic. You typically form new ideas even by hearing bad ones from other people. Seems to jog the creative part of your brain where we as humans are wired to be social and collaborate.

By understanding how other people think about things, it gives me a heat check on my own takes. It helps me form a clearer understanding of what motivates that person and where our irreconcilable differences lie.

Tl;dr have opinions on stuff, but most hills aren’t worth dying on. Listen to others and develop yourself and your thought process accordingly.

Love the domain name. Gave me a chuckle.

As I think about teaching my son programming, I think I would start with C and assembly because although it’s super low level, it gives you a fundamental understanding of how the machine works. The debugging and problem solving skills these languages impart will also be invaluable.

I was wondering this as well. Are individual supes indemnified from their actions taken while in office?

In my mind I play out some RICO case takedown where they all get indicted in one fell swoop but surely this is impossible.

And here I am still waiting on my 40 acres and mule they were supposed to give my great great grandfather.

My main gripe with it is it’s an added level of indirection that makes debugging just a little more difficult.

Back in the good old days, you could open up the network tab, see the request made by the client and copy as curl to debug it.

Now with SSR and graphql, such a workflow is out the window.

You can blame the execs, but the real question is, where was the board of directors who were supposed to provide governance during this time. Ultimately they approved it and you don't hear anyone calling for their ousting.

I'm not going to bat for the executives at all, but given the opportunity to take $22m off the table ala Dan Wright, why wouldn't you? Shame on him but he'll wipe his tears with hundred dollar bills. Why did the Board approve this sale — that's the real question.

The secret guy gave the Ferrari back if I recall correctly.

Its not even founders. Its execs that came in after founders got pushed out.

While I think there is a certain moral bankruptcy in the individuals for looking out for themselves over the employees writ large, I think in this particular case the board is certainly culpable for allowing these types of shenanigans to take place.