arockwell

100% agree. It is shitty and rude. Not to mention it does not even make sense.

SVB has billions of dollars in client funds. Once you start having cash in the millions it isn’t practical to have all of it FDIC insured.

Microsoft changed to an OS agnostic strategy with the switch from Ballmer -> Nadella.

Those kinds of analysis are total bs. Real cost is most likely a lot lower.

The $42/mo thing was a hoax. Several news outlets picked it up since it looked pretty legit. In hindsight, the price point should have tipped us off.

They actually have done massive stock buybacks. The company is just an incredible money printer.

It really isn’t quite that simple. There are Intersex people who have ambiguous genitalia and there are several viable chromosome combos besides XX and XY.

There is an AWS Aurora serverless now: https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/hands-on/building-ser...

If most of your candidates cannot answer the question, but you would still hire them I would drop the question. Knowledge of when to use an index is more valuable than the specific mechanics of how the index is implemented.

When I want to test database knowledge, I usually give the candidate a simple database schema and ask them to write progressively harder SQL queries. Database modeling questions are also good for teasing out the seniority of a candidate as well.

Childcare is substantially more expensive and the public schools are not very good. You almost have to put your child in private school, and you are looking at $20k-$30k/year/child. The city is not very kid friendly in general.

Lyft Line recently added this option. You can wait 10 extra minutes to save a few dollars.

There is no $5mm payout in this scenario. This is the paper value of the shares, which you must pay taxes on since the IRS considers them income. In other words, the IRS thinks you have received something worth $5mm in value, so you must pay taxes on it.

This looks really well done. I've used a bunch of different transit apps in SF, and all of them are extremely awkward and hard to use.

I'm very hopeful I can use this app to replace nextmuni.com, which has always been slow and buggy for me.

It's a fair question. I'm honestly confused about why this blew up in the first place.

If that were true why aren't their uproars over any of these projects:

https://github.com/grosser/pru https://github.com/colinta/ned https://github.com/aljungberg/pyle https://github.com/zzak/gsub https://github.com/bjfletcher/node-js-sed

I'm sure there are more. These are just a few I could find a few minutes.

Sorry, I'm not trying to call you out here. I just have serious doubts that the criticism has anything to do with merit. In other words, I don't think it makes sense to rationalize jerky behavior :(

I have my doubts the folks criticizing it actually read the code. Even if they have, what's the point of shitting on someone's pet project? Note that none of them actually give a reason for why the think it's bad. I think the folks criticizing are simply being bullies.

I think the code is fine and the project serves a nice niche. I can never remember the syntax for sed either, so I might actually use this project. No such thing as bad press I guess :)

Yes, that was my exact experience with Hibernate. I spent two years working on apps that used Hibernate and I never felt like I really understood how it worked. ActiveRecord for the most part "Just Works" for me in comparison.

Your comment is making me feel like a loser :P

Can you explain what you mean?

Author went to college.

Look at his questions from another angle. Would you hire a CS grad who couldn't answer the question "What's your favorite programming language?"

I think his example might be overly specific, but the answers the candidate gave would certainly be a red flag.

Ignoring that he has built a successful company (while needing to hire a ton of people to accomplish it) seems very selective to me.

Also saying that "Maybe he'll be a winner in the future, and I wish him well" makes me think he completely missed that, or perhaps has never heard of Bleacher Report. The intersection of tech people and sports people does not seem very large.

I have to admit, I'm surprised at how polarizing the words "winners" and "losers" are to people in this thread.

Replace the word winner with successful, and does it seem so bad?

Author is definitely a winner. He founded Bleacher Report. Disclaimer: I work there.

It's fine to disagree, but it's a pretty lame attack him based on a selected portion of his bio.

There's a fine line between correction and pedantry.

Look at the ruby libraries for syslog. Iirc, there is a ruby standard library for syslog.

If you are currently at roughly 0 active users, I would not worry about how much 500k active users cost.

That said, I think something about your cost estimate is way off. It should not cost $75k/mo to host 500k active users. My guess is that either:

  1) Your use case analysis is on the high side
  2) You are using parse incorrectly 
  3) Parse is a bad fit for your application

You can rent 100s of servers from aws for $75k/mo. That should be way overkill to handle 500k active users.

What's wrong with the metaphor? How would you have described the problem differently?

I thought it was a really good description of the situation Facebook is in. People have speculated for years about all of the different ways they could produce insane revenue/profits (the hot dog -> caviar machine), but their current revenue (the hot dogs) is very lackluster.

In practice it is very difficult to sell shares of a private company.

I think you should look at 1-5 or 1-10 scales logarithmically. It doesn't take a whole lot of work to become basically competent in a git or Rails (2/5), but to become an expert (4/5) takes exponentially more work.

What is the advantage of YC going public? I doubt they will have any trouble raising more money if they need it.

Yes, this is absolutely true. I should have worded my post more clearly to indicate that this is the policy not the reality.