richardbrevig

This is always my thought whenever I see a conversation like this come up about Uber. I understand they're all important issues, but why care so much about whether their drivers are employees or contractors when they're intending to lay them all off ASAP? They're just buying time and taking market share until self-driving cars arrive.

Don't remember the link, but Kalanick was recently quoted about how he'd buy a bunch of Tesla self-driving cars in 2020. Whether it will be Teslas or not, I believe it's clear that their whole strategy is to move to self-driving cars as immediately as feasible.

gmail does this too. I've been caught several times having forgotten to actually attach the file.

> it is math incarnate.

I learned how to write functions and subroutines a long time before learning algebra. The way that functions were taught in my math class were so confusing. Eventually I realized they were the same as what I learned coding.

Looks neat, but I don't understand the use case. I thought maybe it was a form of heat map, but then it asked me to determine what definitions were relevant. For instance, the civil war map. Why was it asking me to decide the correct explanation for the civil war? And what did the map represent...countries that had a civil war?

For understanding and calculating MRR, CAC, LTV, and cohort analysis, "SaaS Metrics 2.0" by David Skok (of Matrix Partners) [0] is highly referenced. Skok discusses viability of SaaS businesses (such as that LTV should be at least 3x CAC). A list of definitions is provided [1].

[0] http://www.forentrepreneurs.com/saas-metrics-2/ [1] http://www.forentrepreneurs.com/saas-metrics-2-definitions/

As well, if having financial difficult, someone could request forbearance for up to 12 months and not have to make payments [0].

[0] https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/repay-loans/deferment-forbearan...

I think #24 was my favorite.

If I had to venture a guess:

They're referring to fixation [0], or preservation of the tissue, and not to affixation, the attachment of something.

So, basically, they fixed the tissue prior to removing it from the skull, causing it to keep form. Whereas, if they removed the tissue from the skull and then chemically fixed it, the tissue would have already lost form and the lymph would be undetectable (no longer be in original form).

Think about a cake in a pan. Baking = fixing. Remove the cake before "fixing" it, and it's a plot of mess. "Fix" it first, and you have a free-standing cake, it'll hold shape. Bad analogy, sorry. :)

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixation_(histology)

Edit: forgot reference.

TL;DR: The most important step to success is simply making the first step and actually doing something. Coding vs watching a movie.

Their premise is the most likely to found a company? This seems fairly misguided...what about succeeding at the venture? If all they're looking for are people that want to be founders, there are thousands here, on /r/startups, and a multitude of other sources. This must be some type of publicity stunt. Because otherwise I'm not sure why the criteria that they haven't founded one yet is necessary.

As of April 18, 2015...I know that's not true. They archived a site of mine that does not have a robots.txt So it must be a very new policy, because prior to that there are long histories of my sites that don't have robots.txt files being archived.

Tinder brings to the mainstream what the gay population had since 2002 [1].

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20020903191409/http://www.adam4a...

Edit: changed to reflect actual date of a4a going live.

An expensive ($800k+ home) in Dallas could easily cost $10k a month to maintain. Generally, as people make more money, they find more ways to spend it. More/expensive cars, more/expensive housing, more/expensive vacations, etc.

I had a driver stop to get gas on their way to me. Another one was very close when they accepted the hail, but after several minutes after I expected them to arrive I checked the map and noted they stopped at a CVS.

It's been a while since I had this problem: many times I'd hail an uberx, it'd be accepted, and then I'd have to wait 8-10 minutes for the driver to leave their home. It was upsetting, and I think uber may have fixed it by now, but I had to remind myself it was still better than the experience I used to have when calling for a cab.

I live in Dallas, btw.

A $20k poverty threshold is for a household of 3. For 1, it's a little under $12k.

http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/15poverty.cfm#thresholds

I'm surprised this has received so many upvotes in the past 2 hours. It rang like click-bait playing a race card. Maybe someone knows more about the details than I do, but exactly what injustice is being done? This is similar to when a plant is closed and the employees are upset. The plant owner didn't owe the employees a job. The relocation package offered to the tenants is...amazing...and would probably not have been offered to a trailer park of people (whatever race) in Florida on prime beach front property. They would have been told to vacate, no relocation package.

I grew up on the Ernest movies...like "Ernest goes to camp." I remember many years ago when it dawned on me that the "evil corporation" wanting to shut down the summer camp was simply acting in their best financial interest. Something that they should do. It's sad that the film makers decided to teach false entitlement instead of enlightening how the world really works, and how the viewer can become part of the true market (and not just victims of it).

In supermarkets, I understand it's common to pay initially to get the shelf space so you can demonstrate your product will have traction.

Agreed, and that's what he said, the cooling was for humans, not the servers. I think their current plans are open where they let air in from outside.

> To prevent the server stacks overheating, tech companies spend vast sums on cooling technology - more than a third of a data centre's hefty energy bill may go on air conditioning.

Data center cooling isn't necessary. I saw a presentation by Christian Belady, the general manager of Data Center Services for Microsoft's Global Foundation Services (GFS) group, where he spoke about how they don't cool their data centers anymore. He tested the theory by putting a bunch of racks outside in a tent to see that they wouldn't overheat.

Is there a way to get included in the ACH beta?

I was afraid of lakes when I was younger. Anywhere I couldn't see the bottom, I'd try to avoid.

At night you can take a flash light, shine it towards a lake, and you'll see all the eyes reflecting back at you.

For databases: I remember all the "create dynamic websites with PHP and MySQL" tutorials around 2000. Prior to that, on the low-end (being a high schooler with no money), my applications used flat file databases.

> Real Media was satan.

I remember Real Player wanting $2,000+ per server license to be able to stream content. It was a perk in different hosting accounts, some featured the ability to stream.

Learning to script back in 1997, this was completely my experience. Learned a little by looking at other code, but also had to buy a book to learn Perl. Among others, this was a main reason why I switched to PHP around 2000, because of the online manual making it easier to find out how to do things.

> Even if Zenefits turns into a unicorn

It turned into one ~2 days ago [1].

[1] http://recode.net/2015/05/06/startup-zenefits-raises-500-mil...

Nothing against the quality of the book. But I would have considered this at a $9 price point, not above, for ebook. That's how much I paid for "Running Lean" and I doubt to gain more value, personally, from this than that book.

People party in hotel rooms all the time. It's just part of the standard operations of the hotel to deal with them so they never become a big deal.

Yep. And thanks for the correction.

It says "look up" with a carrot symbol over it. I understand that's supposed to be a roof? But I swear the site was telling me to look up to the address bar. Actually waited a few seconds for it to do something I was supposed to be looking at.

I'm sure you're already familiar with Gary Goldschneider's work: http://thesecretlanguage.com

DIFM = the "whole product" as described by Geoffrey Moore in "Crossing the Chasm." He suggests that you partner with third-parties so that your customers get a complete use case, usually your technology only solves part of the problem and leaves the customer coming up with the rest.