jayparth

Your comment made me smile :)

I would doubt that any company would take such a bet now. If not Google, then why would, say, Shopify stand a better chance? I'm an entrepreneur from Toronto and I won't bet the next three years on my life on a municipal government that has shown a bias against action again and again.

Not even sure that data privacy killed this project. It was probably the bias against action that plagues every branch of government nowadays.

Well not necessarily. The Martian equator can get as hot as 18C. It doesn't retain the heat (due to no atmosphere) and it gets cold like even a few centimeters off of the surface.

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I think you're off base. It's simply not runway at this point. That like 200 years of runway at their peak losses.

It's pretty simple why they have such a big cash pile. They literally don't have a better place to put it.

Dude... what? Both of those are false analogies.

I mean... "The Department of Innovative Technology" is kind of what the USDS is. It's ran by very competent people, and do short "tours of duty" with competent SV engineers instead of long-term, safe, bureaucratic jobs. Here's a podcast:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvXN7fRTVds

I think you're misinformed on the topic, but that's OK. I assumed it was a typical government agency until I got further information, and then I changed my mind. Will you change your mind?

Hugging Face is also a for-profit startup. I wonder how betrayed this guy is going to feel betrayed when they launch a paid service...

We do love Kijiji up here, don't we? I have no clue why it's so popular and isn't really a thing anywhere else in the world.

I think you might be misinterpreting him. When I read that, "full of stuff" meant old tickets, process that you had to go to, etc. Slow =/= app performance but general cruft.

I don't think he literally meant that the app's performance was slowed down by the volume of tickets. I don't think Jira's performance gets much worse even with 10,000s of tickets in it.

The baseline performance of the web app is just baseline bad though.

What's your question here? The premise of the OP is that they created a fast issue tracker.

People complain about Jira being slow (me being one of them.) No one has claimed that all issue trackers are slow. ClickUp, Hive, Linear, are all snappy.

I think most of us agree that stereotyping and prejudices are not desirable, regardless if it's by nationality, race, sex, gender, etc.

Sounds like you'd get what you want via a large round from an angel investor.

As someone who has never worked in the restaurant industry, I don't understand, at all, what you mean by this. Could you elaborate?

It's cheaper to get clicks because there's less competition for the keyword. True for a lot of categories right now.

The best jobs? Granted I don't know what "the best jobs" are in Victoria, but that seems surprising. Are there big tech offices in Victoria?

If there aren't good jobs there then it's a different story.

We met with Elizabeth virtually (didn't like the idea but wanted to invest if we pivoted.) Very fair process & a sharp person to boot- I don't think we lost anything over an in-person meeting.

I just don't know what this product does. Your messaging appeals to me but I have literally no clue what features or functionality I'm signing up for.

Just to clarify for you because you're not getting the point:

People are getting confused because your reply is structured like you disagree with him, because your comment is written like a rebuttal and your tone is derisive.

However, in your original reply, you're not disagreeing with the above commenter. You're agreeing with them, and ALSO, you take issue with another small thing they mentioned, the comment about how this person would do the cleaning on the weekend.

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To your original point I say this- lots of parents have free time. My mother had hobbies in her free time. My aunt has hobbies has hobbies in her free time. I'm sorry you don't, but the fact that you don't does not mean much about young people that do.

Very interested in seeing how you try to make a business out of this!

I spent ~3-4 hours a few weeks ago deciding what analytics products to buy and I ended up creating a cost/benefit sheet on each option. If you guys existed back then I could have just linked to you instead.

No. Why would you think that?

So interesting to hear about this niche problem. I never would have imagined that this would be an issue. When I read the title, I thought.. "duh... just use a backup generator", but the back of the napkin math doesn't seem to work out.

I wonder what the economic impact of such a simple issue is. If you think of food loss from all processors in a whole country, it is definitely huge. What other seemingly small issues actually could have huge impact? What problems in my country are hiding right under my nose?

I'll share my experiences becoming a PM outside of a formal program like APM. I started out as an intern and now I'm a junior PM.

You're slightly moving the goalpost with your comment, because it's not necessary to go through formal training to be a PM. Engineers are tangentially involved in the product process pretty much always. The transition is essentially about taking more responsibility over the product and spending more time driving product vision as opposed to building. Passing a PRD to your manager if you thought a feature could be done better was encouraged at my last job.

Your manager will often support you doing this. Then, if you've been doing this well, you can speak about making a change to the PM role because you've proved yourself. If your manager does not support you doing this or the company doesn't need another person in a product role, then you might need to make a change.

FYI large companies accept internal applications for their APMs, which is a formal training program, albeit pretty much for junior employees only.

I think it's interesting how this article painted middle management as the good guys. In my experience, "intricate layers" of middle management is not a good thing- most of these "layers" do not add value and it's why companies chase a flat org chart.

Arguing that management takes the lion share of pay, and McKinsey has captured this value away from the middle class, is also a silly argument. McKinsey's revenue is small on an absolute scale- $10B last year. Companies in the Fortune 100, which they mention, generate trillions in revenue. They haven't really captured this value at all.

Here are some things that are true:

- A typical company nowadays has slimmed down, especially in middle management, compared to 50 years ago.

- The profits of this slimming have not necessarily trickled down.

The rest of the article feels like fluff.

IMO this article does not deliver on its title. I was expecting a list of systems that we should "pay attention to"- that hold promise in the coming years or now.

Instead, this was an index of current literature from pretty much all deep learning methods that have been applied to recommender systems. It's more useful to a lay person than a researcher.

I assume would fire an employee that's underperforming.

You haven't actually refuted the point of this article. You can do one thing better than two. If you believe in your startup, then you'll do it better working on it fulltime. Else, if you believe in the startup you're working for, then just focus on that. You will probably get better outcomes on either front.

This isn't a legal argument, it's general advice. He also didn't say you can't do a full-time job and a startup on the side. He said it's hard to excel at your job when you're doing a startup on the side.

Whatever dude, I'm not going to argue with you here. The beginning of this article starts out by explaining what a stand up is. It's not written for tech workers it's a general piece. And just working at any large technology company puts you in a very small fraction of the population and the truth is a lot of people vy for these positions. If you work at Slack coming out of undergraduate, you'll be a top 1% earner for your age bracket. That is pretty "elite" by a normal person's standard.

My original point still stands. Realize you're living in a bubble if you think a normal person would not consider working at any "average" tech company like Atlassian, or Dropbox, elite. Let me guess, you work at a company that's """elite"""?

Yeah, that makes sense. There are definitely different types of side projects, not all are "startups". Also, I don't think doing a start-up on the side is bad if you work at a job that is 9-5. But this guy is saying dedicate to whatever you really care about- you should be working on at most one "startup" at a time if you would like to create a "startup" in the traditional sense.

The guy who wrote this piece is speaking from the perspective of an entrepreneur himself. Presumably, he would like dedication and focus from his employees. When I've worked at startups, that's what's been expected from me. This is why he's saying this bubble "causes great startups to fail."

Aside from that, I've found that generally in my life, I can only do three things well at any given time. Health, work, relationships, other goals... It takes mental energy to make decisions and process things, and even you are still spending the same amount of time on something. So yes, you can spend your time elsewhere, but the fact that you have a second full time job is highly correlated with you doing your first one worse. Are you claiming that your productivity at work is going to be the same if you have a side project or not? I definitely think there's a clear difference, having done it at one time.

In what way is Slack not elite? Slack is within the top 10% of companies in the Bay Area by pretty much any metric you choose to rank companies by. By almost any measure, that's elite.

Is Berkeley not an elite school, because it's less prestigious than Stanford?