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Almost the identical use case - I sometimes sit back and use gestures to scroll, swipe browser back, swipe between desktops.
An external trackpad would also do the trick, but the mouse is ergonomically nice for when you're stretching or leaning back.
> The $5 million that went into launching River Studios came from Rothenberg Ventures’ second and third funds...One LP says that in a phone call with investors in August after Rothenberg had told them about the River Studios investment in an email, one grilled him on why River Studios wasn’t in the annual reports, and says Rothenberg responded that he was still getting around to the disclosures. Rothenberg’s employees also say they were kept in the dark. Two former employees tell Backchannel that when they asked Rothenberg how River Studios was funded, he told them only that there were outside investors. Another recalls Rothenberg saying he paid for it himself. Rothenberg disputes this, saying that all investors had been made aware, adding, “We’ve been very public about it.”
[https://backchannel.com/mike-rothenbergs-vc-firm-was-young-s...]
Yosemite national park has loads of grizzly bears. Also a few million visitors per year to spot the grizzlies and sometimes get killed by them. [http://www.yellowstonepark.com/things-to-do/wildlife/bears/]
I wouldn't bet money on a tiger living there either, but there really aren't many humans walking around most of the DMZ.
Either way, the DMZ is 400 sq miles largely forested, with about 0 human population density. Maybe its got some leopards, maybe maybe a tiger.
There's a difference between saying taxi drivers are evil, and saying that the taxi system is a corrupt special interest.
The 'system' is not just drivers, in most large US Cities it's a few concentrated medallion owners, strongly motivated to lobby against diluting their share of the taxi market. Dilution could come from regulatory changes, or just allowing more medallions.
What is a 'special interest' anyway? Medallion owners represented a concentrated minority of the population with strong motivation to push for policies that are neutral or harmful to the majority. But since the harm is spread among the many, and the benefit is concentrated in the few, the few are more organized and willing to expend time and money to achieve their goal. And yup now ride sharing apps are a new special interest.
That's just the political economy. There's also the fact that in many cities the cab titans were operating like corrupt slumlords, while local law enforcement long seemed willfully ignorant.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/08/03/fallen-taxi-kin...
It helps me understand the original intent of the developer, but I don't trust that it's actually the right thing to do, and mostly shouldn't be there.
"After the Hartford proposal fell through, Robert Kraft paid for 100% of the construction costs, a rare instance of an NFL owner privately financing the construction of a stadium."
Did they respect your time in the interview process?
-Good: schedule a full day of interviews and make the offer within a day or so.
-Bad: ask you to come into their office several times, or make you wait outside the CEO's office for 30 minutes (feel free to replace CEO with department head, partner, etc)
Did the interview involve a reasonable number of people to make a decision?
- Good: mixture of peers or management levels, each interview session has a clear point
- Bad: lengthy HR gate keeping, meeting with multiple non-technical people to evaluate your culture fit, seemingly everyone in the org needs to sign off on a hire
In general, I've found that organizations execute "real" projects the way they execute interviews.
The biggest benefit I can think of is that some institutional investors have restrictions on the types of securities that they can buy.
Someone could solve this by creating a company to buy lots of bitcoin, and then having an IPO to list that company on a public market. Then pension funds would be allowed to buy it, Jane Doe could buy some in her IRA, etc.
Any reason this wouldn't be just as good as an ETF?
Features: Slack wins. Slack is usually a little ahead. Hipchat was catching up and then I just popped back with threaded convos.
Uptime: Slack wins I think. Hipchat goes down/slow kind of often. Approximately github often. I don't use Slack as intensely, but can't think of many times that slack was down aside from major internet outages.
Rooms/Channels: Hipchat has rooms, slack has channels. Basically parity in terms of group/private/team channels.
Pricing: Hipchat wins. Both have free tiers, but those are for toy groups. Hipchat is about $2/user vs $10/user for slack. Slack doesn't charge you for inactive users though (2 weeks dormant), so it can be competitive if you have a small team of actually active users.
Mobile: I find hipchat to be slower and a little worse in tiny annoying ways. For instance on my phone/watch, I get notifications for 1:1 messages and @mentions. But in hipchat, if i'm not already in the room where someone mentioned me, it doesn't show up when I open the app, even if I get there by swiping the notification. Come on hipchat!
Let's say you interview pretty well overall, and the interviewer guesses that there's a 80% chance that your previous company is really that bad, but a 20% chance that you are the toxic personality.
In general, a smaller company filling one of its few leadership roles will have less stomach for risk, so any real or perceived warning signs can be grounds for rejection. Even more so if they are small and not growing very quickly.
2) 7 interviews without an offer doesn't mean you are damaged goods, but you didn't mention any feedback or learnings from those 7 interviews. Its ok to ask how you did at the end of an interview. Even without that, what are they telling you without telling you?
* Statement questions like "so it sounds like you don't have direct experience with X?" or "is there a reason why you didn't do Y?" * Enthusiasm/body language changes during the interview - whats the topic when they occur? * Leadership questions like "that does sound like a problem, what did you do to address that?" * Do you feel like you are doing well with some interviewers but not others? peers, senior leadership, engineers, direct reports... they are grading different things
My thinking was that 'People worried about money losing companies with huge valuations' is a popular cause of consternation and 'People worried about non-GAAP accounting' is another popular (for some people) cause of consternation.
Gaap(Pnl) vs non-gaap made me suspect you were conflating the two worries, and made me wonder if lots of people might also be confused by what accounting/finance/investment people are generally talking about when they talk about "Non-GAAP measures"
you get the special order, or get some other style and get the embroidering or whatever, or pick a different thing to get
Facebook also IPOd with minimal profits, 300 million users who would never be willing to pay for the service, and hordes of VCs ready to fund their competitors. Snapchats mileage may vary, but facebook now generates lots of ad revenue.
- some digits are pronounced differently for counting than as part of a larger number - some digits are pronounced differently when reciting the individual digits of a number, like in a phone number - phrasing like "one hundred 2" means 120, not 102 - large numbers not grouped in thousands, but in ten thousands, ie having a single word for 10000, a word for 10^7, etc, so a valid spoken number is "13 thousand ten-thousand" -> 1.3 billion
Are you committed to working in NYC? * Move now. Worst case save up a couple thousand dollars so you can make it a month. Live somewhere cheap and you can pull this off more easily than you would think.
Rather than feature the products/apps you built, write about the process you went through. * What challenges did you overcome? What UX assumptions did you start with that evolved through user feedback and testing.
Where is your github profile? * feature it
Many top executives are on this track as well, which explains some of the crazed pay scales.
A more accurate phrasing might be "One reason staffers quit google's car project? The company structured their pay so that an intermediate project milestone was treated like an IPO event."
It's not that the employees got rich so they no longer cared about money, it's that they basically got their maximum bonus from Google, so they were better off taking their talents elsewhere to get the next big payout.
Given that their CFO discussed these payouts on the earnings call of a company with $6.6 billion in operating expenses, it sounds like these were entering the $100million range. Makes sense given that Google was trying to recruit and motivate people to work on startup projects, while overall Google market cap wasn't going to grow exponentially the way that a 2011 facebook or uber might. It probably wasn't a bad idea, they just executed in a way that only incentivized employees to get partway done.
It's one thing to expect labor solidarity from workers, but I don't see how it's rational to expect labor solidarity from a massive store of private wealth.
What uber did was make it less profitable for uber drivers to scab, which is moderately pro strike if anything. Lyft fares undoubtedly went up in that time, but Lyft doesn't profit as much from surge pricing, rather their model allowed scabbing drivers to keep those extra wages.
I agree that if you can hold out for a dev job, do that and save a year or two getting to the same place. If you really can't get a dev job and need the income, get a QA Automation job and start migrating early by asking to fix small bugs yourself, or work on the automation tooling.
At a smaller company, working on the build system and QA automation tooling might be more interesting and get more attention than what you would do as a jr software dev.