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yes but this aligns with the initial statement in the post that top 1 doesn't happen as much and top 15 is more common.

Very scary...

I just want Apple to release RCS already

You're implying that you knew how to hire and identify smart architects and provided them the right vision to build a good building.

There wouldn't be a counterfactual in your hypothetical scenario, but I'm confident that the difference between someone that got lucky and hired "smart" architects versus a visionary doing the same task would be drastic.

Money can only get you so far.

I wonder how comparable this will be to MidJourney and I'm excited to try it out.

400,000+? I don't mean to question this but that's a crazy high number assuming it's not Amazon or Walmart.

Amazing!

I'm actually curious what the Chess.com statement would be - they seem to have some bombshell that's coming soon. Also curious how Hans' will react to all of this.

we should all mourn this tragedy but do not paint this guy as a good man. He is a historical revisionist.

people said that about Honey (just a chrome app store solo dev project) and look how much they got acquired for. Don't underestimate them.

I think we need to stop comparing Uber to Lyft. To me, this is more of a Lyft problem as Uber has diversified way more.

Qualcomm did the same thing on their phones back in the days (known as QFUSE). Not sure about right now.

there is no ARE and there's also a "0ARR" handling setting - so this is actually considered 0 input delay.

I think the right approach for this is to make this program voluntary - not forced. If someone wants to learn more about customers, they can CHOOSE to do this. This just shows that DD doesn't trust their employees to care and have empathy.

Concur is painful to set-up but once it's done, it's not too bad

This is taking a longer time than expected for a company like Facebook - must be serious where a rollback isn't possible or trivial.

reminds me of Google Wave

that sounds way more rare than most jobs

x-googlers are expensive. most companies can't afford them. They'd likely need to sell with stock options and IPO prospects

It's unclear if these were private messages. It's possible these were posted on public channels. AFAIK, Slack doesn't allow companies/IT access to private messages unless there are legal implications.

A lot of ex-Stripe companies are destined for success

Will we ever find out what this actually means in our lifetime?

What an excellent write-up. So much to take notes on.

I'm guessing more people will leave in the next few weeks.

Google could probably do it if they REALLY wanted to. But to handle all the small nuances and complexities is not trivial. An example - larger companies will never use Expensify because of a lot of features that it lacks compared to Concur.

Doubt it's Netsuite. Netsuite is mostly for smaller companies.

LG should've gone out years ago. Hindsight is 20/20 but it just wasn't worth it after G6 in my opinion. Obviously, G4 was when they should've really stopped but that's much harder to predict.

I feel like this is a problem of not being about to please everyone. Someone will always complain about something. I'm sure there's a flip-side to this post of people finding a huge amount of success from Lambda School (that are less likely to post about their positive experience).

I don't disagree that Lambda School may have problems but they're still young and have a lot to improve. Just from my personal anecdote but I've worked with people from bootcamps (notably Hack Reactor), and they've been fantastic so I believe that they're (bootcamps) definitely capable of educating people for success.

how does this impact their IPO?

As someone that worked at an OEM, updating used to be a huge hassle and required a lot of R&D work. Project Treble definitely simplified this effort and I'm glad this is enabling and making life better for users.