calgaryeng

Is there an ETA on availability in Canada?

> Capital -- especially long-term capital willing to invest outside of the current trends -- is an important ingredient in that mission.

Does anyone else read this and take away "[investors/VCs/other equity funds who don't group-think and blindly follow each other based on FOMO] are an important ingredient in that mission."

The technology that Devon invests in is not the type that Hacker News talks about.

Any particular reason this submission disappeared off of HN?

I don't think you know how these work

Haha - you have clearly never worked for a 'real' company :)

Step 1) Take investor's money Step 2) Take $3MM off the table Step 3) Profit Step 4) Shut down

Deleted a comment because you don't have time to argue on the internet, and then proceed to argue on the internet?

Big ups for the "bigger man" type response :)

> What's the best way of managing that? I've been envisaging a world in which my application is one single large immutable data-structure containing everything about the current state of the application. The actions and then carried out (maybe via a backend over a websocket as you've described) to make changes to the tree. React then looks after the rendering.

Look up "Om/React", might just blow your mind.

There have been many cases of people in finance being able to cover up significant losses of company funds (through bad trades or what not) or a long period of time simply by understanding the front/back office systems.

If you force people to leave (and cut off remote access) they are unable to maintain the pretenses required to cover up these losses, and can help drive exposure of foul play. At a minimum you'd need two people 100% in on the cover-up which reduces the chance of it happening.

What are they burning $500/day on?

This is only tangentially related to "Why Silicon Valley Works", but am I the only person who is frustrated by "famous" VC's saying that "founders should stop worrying about their valuation"?

I can't get over this. This is like a used car salesman telling you not to worry about the cost of the car, just to remember that there are free weather mats included!

I feel that there is a connection here as to "why Silicon Valley" works from the perspective of VC's in a position to influence founders. However I'm not feeling particularly eloquent today and haven't fully formed these ideas.

Page is down. Cached version:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:T5Tk3Zb...

Contact info?

Pedantic: why put "Confidential" on the bottom of a slide deck that you are giving in public, and fully expect to be released on YouTube?

This is awesome

I have a hard time even reading any of these pieces where a VC is complaining about high burn rates / valuations all while continuing to invest.

"Because my competition will continue to invest" is not a good reason.

You don't see Warren Buffet investing at valuations he believes are untenable, just because the market happens to be up.

I came here specifically to comment on the previous post. Great minds think alike :)

I think the app I'm working on (https://www.RetirementPlan.io) is in the right ballpark for what you are asking for. Can you try it out and provide feedback? It's free while in beta.

It's missing the Mint-style auto-connect, but it largely does the rest of it (the actual hard math).

Appreciate your comment, but the act of starting the business is not what I was referring to. Obviously the cost of running a small startup is effectively zero for all practical purposes.

I'm talking about the VC/accelerator-backed startups that gain traction and mindshare, solely because of "permission" (otherwise stated "a nod") from VC's or accelerators, when other, better products may exist. The very fact that this program largely eliminates/discriminates against an entire swath of entrepreneurs who DONT want to move to Silicon Valley is closer to my point.

> This offer is available to startups that meet the following criteria: > - In an approved Accelerator, Incubator or VC fund

Why is this a thing? Not everyone wants to build their startup through venture capital, or an accelerator. This just reinforces the existing "permission-based" startup ecosystem.

Location: AB, Canada Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: - Good: Ruby, Rails, Ember.js - Beginner: Python, Go, (Docker) - Exposure only: Clojure, R, Java Resume: On request Email: calgaryeng@hotmail.com

Yeah this is kind of lazy...... Maybe just use something other than your bank password?

Hi there - the app is currently in public beta, and completely free to use while it's being built out.

I'm open to all comments & criticism... Have at it! I'm not a professional programmer (I do this on the side) so hopefully it still stacks up.

I've had a ton of success with Slate, FWIW.

s/mainteance/maintenance/

Replying to the sibling. There was documentation of how the names changed - you just need to know where to look:

https://github.com/emberjs/data/blob/master/TRANSITION.md

What does this add over top of just plain foreman?

"[...] In Quebec, you cannot call yourself an engineer unless you went to an engineering school [...]"

That is actually true in most (all?) provinces.