curiousjorge

fat chance in hell. as soon as uber makes money by raising prices, paying drivers less or both, many others will jump in, quickly destroying the returns on investment.

I see uber as a giant bulldozer that is paving the way for future competitors. Once they realize there's no way to keep people locked in unless they form a cartel like the traditional taxi industry, investors will panick.

An Uber cartel is the least possible outcome because they do not own the roads, the car, the people. Do I ride the bike to work or hitch a ride? Do I use Uber or just take a taxi that's parked right across my building? Do I use Lyft or Uber if Lyft is offering cheaper ride? Is there any noticeable difference or do I even care, I just want to go from A to B and pay the least amount of money.

This is the endgame for Uber: enable future competitors to reap the returns on it's investment because they are focused on monopoly in an industry that won't make it possible.

could I port a chrome extension to firefox now?

that site is the worst, many of the postings are low quality

was there any programming interviews? where can you find these type of jobs?

so I'm not sure how this works. Is your side project a metric for your ability as a developer?

pretty baseless conjecture I think is against HN rules

this sounds like me

Andreesen talked about this. His specifically mentions that many many startups and tech companies are going to evaporate overnight if the capital stops and these are run by people who are basically burning cash and not knowing what they are doing. A major market correction.

in b4 "oh but if you bought back in 2003 you'd still be up 1000%"

shadow banking > gdp

debts > gdp

real estate over supply

infrastructural problems

political strife

pissed off middle class

I love this car but hate its look precisely because it has remained unchanged. It reminds me of a souped up volkswagon.

is there a javascript library or framework that lets users build visual logic like this and serialize it?

looks like these workers will be jobless when the robots begin to replace them or the outsourcing hub moves to even a cheaper labor source, perhaps even Africa in the future.

I think if China could transform these very workers into consumers, it would be unstoppable.

so this makes me think, what made our species so successful if not our tools since it seems quite common. Was it the discovery of fire?

I always get hungry when I see squid or octopus, they sure are intelligent, and tasty too

what the...well why would this get downvoted. im just saying money is totally relative.

just seems like postgresql is constantly coming up with new things that just sort of works on top of a solid and reliable platform.

I made 10k in a year by playing the slot machine once a week

A business engine always breaks with the very people that make up the engine. If people aren't happy, the product sucks, managers go into panic and begins pushing people more and the downward spiral continues.

My speculation here but I think Amazon has reached peak. It got what it wanted, the largest retailer in America. Jeff Bezo got his feature on magazine and tv shows. Stock leaps one more fold. Amazon has consistently led on investors that future profits is everything while undercutting everyone else in a razor thin margin operations. Now that it's reached the title it wanted it finds the very people that got them there miserable and jumping ship. That's very hard to fix especially when you piss off the work force and give the impression that it's a hell hole.

Reminds me of a startup that grew super quick while maintaing crazy turnovers until they couldn't hire anymore directly because their reputation has gotten so bad. They never recovered. I think we are seeing something like that to a certain degree but in much larger magnitude.

I think Walmart would be very much poised to begin eating at Amazon's margins. These days I find myself comparing prices with walmart.com before ordering on Amazon.

this excerpt I find striking:

> If you're an intelligent curious person it can be painful to run a company of more than 50 people. You spend more time than you'd like repeating yourself, sitting in boring meetings, skimming over long legal documents in which you know there are errors but aren't sure how serious, etc. The temptation is to hand over the reins to the first "professional manager" who comes along. And that's what the standard venture capitalist formula dictates. But Bill Gates didn't do that. He hired Steve Ballmer in 1980 and gave him the CEO job 20 years later. Making money in the software products business requires domain expertise and a commitment to solving problems within that domain. Great tech companies are seldom built by non-technical management or professional managers who aren't committed to anything more than their paycheck. Adobe is another good example. The two founders were PhD computer science researchers from Xerox PARC who were passionate about solving problems in the publishing and graphics world. They are still guiding operations at Adobe.

How about no decks at all? Why not just bootstrap your way to your first 1~10 million dollars and then be in a much more dominant position when it comes to trading cash for equity?

You could literally be able to walk from any VC. You could ask for absolutely every set of conditions that puts you in favor. You could have complete control.

To me I think that is an invaluable asset to have, being the one with control not your investors whim. They should consider it an honor to be able to invest in you. You will be able to ask for far more. You run the business for your vision not theirs. You ultimately have more control over your destiny than being focused on burning cash fast to keep your investors happy and then looking for more of them before you run out.

I feel that as well. We are told it will be a while until we see anything beyond single digit TB and suddenly Samsung drops a massive bomb with 16TB? I doubt that an average consumer would use 16TB but who knows. Also I have some qualms about storing on SSD knowing the data won't last forever

so another inaccurate and unscientific claims that investors love throwing their money at because it's a startup. Techcrunch is like the tabloids for questionable startups and it's really hurt the perceived quality. I've built a filter mechanism for TC since a few years ago when they just became a dvertising platform rather than a serious journalism

tragic, we won't be seeing russian reddit bots anymore. advertisers probably don't get a lot of russian customers so I fail to see reddit being impacted.

where are the webpages stored? are pieces of it distributed through all the nodes or do each node have it's own copy? I'm trying see if there's any potential vulnerabilities here.

majority of people just enter the name in their address bar and click the search result. domain name is not as important as it was.

have you heard of the edit button? try summarizing your incoherent thoughts in a neat single comment instead of three so I don't have to reply to them all.

yes I have been to both. yes I still think you are crazy. yes I've never heard of your company called Zymeworks Inc. which explains why it pays less (as you already mentioned it is even lower than what other senior positions in vancouver pays since it's a small company), yes it is significantly lower than US and by 60% if you factor in exchange rate. Your arrogant attitude doesn't help at all. You seem convinced that SV engineers can do more with less money. I don't think even skilled engineers would work for that kind of salary here in Vancouver but you might not be after quality but high turnover. Would anyone reading what you wrote and how you are behaving really convince people here and elsewhere to work for your company where they insist that people need to take less pay so they can have a better lifestyle? You don't need to do a study on every startup in existence because it'd be a waste of time especially since you've already mentioned you are amongst the bottom barrell in terms of pay compared to SV and local, might be a good company who knows but I've hard time believing you don't have any issues with bringing someone from SV to Vancouver that offers 60% less pay and same or more cost of living compared to SV. You really don't know what you are talking about.

>I prefer a theoretically lower pay for a way better lifestyle

You are insane. Are you even being honest with yourself here? Why would you put up with less pay and higher cost of living? What better lifestyle is there to speak of that bigger cities south of the border doesn't provide you? The mountains and ocean? They got that over there too.

The only reason I think you might be saying this is the same thing people without any other choices say, that it is the best choice. This is textbook cognitive dissonance.

edit: well looks like you are a recruiter which explains a lot why you might be pushing this crazy idea. I've ever heard of Zymeworks Inc. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7337161.

I already went into lengths to discuss why I think this might be more prevalent amongst visible minorities in my other post so just read that. Also this came out of a discussion with several Asian engineers/workers from wide variety of industry not just tech in Vancouver.

In fact, non-Asian co workers thought it was unfair and actually spoke out against them working overtime without need but it fell on deaf ears.

Also I'd use > or the quote formatting to make it clear you are replying to my excerpts to avoid confusion.

It is not at all overblown. There are real enclaves in Vancouver, just take a look at Richmond. Lot of shops and restaurants don't even have signs or menus in English, it's all in Chinese.

I'm not sure if you ever been to UBC or SFU, all the foreign students chill with themselves. Have you ever seen a white guy identifying himself with a group of Korean foreign students who came here to study and barely speak a word of English? Or how often do you see a group of mixed cliques compared to single race cliques even amongst those that grew up here? Even for those that grew up here, the cliques are largely based on ethnicity. We might identify as Canadians but for the visible minority, the Canadian experience is vastly different from the mainstream one.

Just because you say it doesn't exist doesn't mean it goes away. Who says other cities are singing kumbaya? That wasn't my point, I was just offering a more reality based view that diversity that was being discussed above is largely politically correct and doesn't help to the overall discussion.

If you want to talk mixed couples it's happening in the States as well. But the difference between Canada and US is that Canada has no melting pot, there is definitely a lack of the same level of cohesiveness. Plenty of visible minority Canadians still see themselves identify as their native ethnicity. Why is this? How many times have you seen someone described as Canadian as being non-white in mainstream media? Apart from olympic medalists, celebrity or some power figure, the vast majority of visible minorities in Canada are not at all viewed in the same light.

I've seen a Pakistani taxi driver who used to be a surgeon and a Taiwanese pianist working as a janitor. Can these people honestly feel like they are accepted and treated as Canadians? Can we say that they are given the same equal choices and opportunities? No. Instead you see incompetent people running the governments, people with half the wits running companies. Don't fucking tell me we live in a perfect world where visible minorities aren't given a hard time. No, minorities have to work harder, better and faster to get to the same place someone who is readily accepted by the mainstream because their ancestors 'took' the land that didn't belong to them and continues to oppress them. This land was taken by European settlers at gunpoint, and if you live by the gun, you die by the gun. There are no masters or prvileges being handed out based on race explicitly but it does not rule out that there still exists a deep divide on who is accepted as equal or not. Obviously that Pakistani surgeon shouldn't be a taxi driver but he has to because of the invisible hand which in turn is influenced by invisible walls we've built long time ago and still exists. It's getting better but we sure as shit can't pretend that the emperor wears no clothes.

edit: msie, I can no longer reply and you are going to just reply to every sentence without even making a cohesive argument for your case so I have to assume you are trolling. Your superb ability to use the character '>' is duly noted.

I said good day, sir.

of course but what's interesting to note is that there were no managers overworking the Asian engineers, they were doing it to each other. I never blamed it on one ethnicity I just saw the discrepancy that was commonly acknowledged by other people working in the industry.