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Not familiar with Nikon but it sounds like this is the custom settings mode. This exist in the Canon world as Custom shooting mode. My very old 40D has C1/C2/C3 which are exactly for this. I agree theyre extremely useful as I stay on these mode 90%+ of the time.

> I am a bit confused about the volume of e.g. Amazon on Yahoo Finance[1], which is either 3 million or 3 billion USD.

Volume here refers to the number of shares.

Is there any evidence they're going to rewind or refund the transactions?

I think you're wrong about the uphill battle part. Most users don't bother with new apps at all.

https://www.recode.net/2016/9/16/12933780/average-app-downlo...

Keep in mind this is in the US. People in developing countries, on older and slower devices with limited bandwidth, are even less likely to download new apps.

Which BMW 3 series gets 80mpg?

https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/bymodel/2017_BMW_3_Series.sh...

Are you talking about the i8?

see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet

ARPU being down q4 to q1 makes sense since a lot of the ad revenue happens in q4. Similar trend with FB.

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/03/facebook-average-revenue-per-...

That is not what "astroturf" means.

>That's what I don't get about these people.

The thing is, the reason you think this way is the same reason why you won't be as successful as her. Because by the time you make your 1MM, you won't take these big risks any more.

Money was clearly not the issue. She was at Google very early and ended up VP. Clearly she didn't need the money.

How do you fire any one as a board member? Your only input is the vote and if the CEO control the majority of votes, your vote is meaningless.

You are absolutely wrong about the $100k option grants. There are a lot of startup that offer that to senior engineers.

The proper way to do this for a non public company is to settle the stock for RSU based on the vesting schedule AND an exit (IPO/acquisition). This way you don't technically own the stock and have to pay taxes until there's liquidity. I believe this is how a lot of the bigger unicorns are issuing RSUs now.

http://avc.com/2010/11/employee-equity-restricted-stock-and-...

Board can't make that decision if the CEO has majority voting rights.

h1b data is a good source. Especially for Netflix since almost all their compensation is in salary, rather than benefits/stock/etc like a lot of other tech companies.

http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=Netflix+Inc&job=&city=&year...

VC as a fund class is literally about finding outliers. How much of that is luck is arguable* but it doesn't make any sense to ignore outliers when comparing returns.

* How did Sequoia end up as the only VC that made money from Whatsapp? It certainly wasn't an accident.

Super interesting.

> Subjects were randomized into one of the four possible price schedules, with a 20% probability of assignment to the standard discount or the radical discount and a 30% probability of being assigned to the enhanced discount or the deep discount.

Does anyone know why they would split the experiment group into 20%/30%/30%/20% instead of 25% each?

There are certainly places that will pay top dollars to hire the absolute top talent, think Putnam or acm winners. It just won't be a startup. It should be obvious why: startups don't have the capital or need to hire absolute best. It will more likely be a hedge fund.

As a whole these startups with ridiculous expectations will have to face reality or suffer the consequences of slow hiring. They will lose in the long run.

Another interesting sorting algo https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_sort

I think the marketplace itself is the most interesting part. The sample APIs for sale are probably just examples they built to demonstrate usage.

This service actually comes with a way to get bitcoins for "free" or mine with their hardware.

"The easiest but most limited way to get some bitcoin with 21 is to run 21 faucet, which gives you a small amount of bitcoin to play with."

https://21.co/learn/intro-to-21/#21-faucet-get-bitcoin-from-...

How does vesting work with this system?

steve blank has another article that covers this pretty well.

http://steveblank.com/2015/03/11/fear-of-failure-and-lack-of...

They're configuration files for different *nix programs. For example .vimrc for vim. Or .bashrc for bash. In those dotfiles you can customize how things look or add custom commands etc.

This post is about how you can automated some of that so you can easily replicate the environment you're used to everywhere.

There is only one reddit user in that thread that said his students hate him. I hope you have other sources that shows he is "very very unpopular".

What do they use now?

Thanks, those 2 gifs didnt show up on iphone.

> 1) Why would I waste the candidate or the client/employer's time if there's too large a gap between candidate's salary & their highest potential for this role?

It's trivial to solve this problem for a recruiter by simply stating the company budget range upfront. The problem is that recruiters want the client to give up their information without revealing any of their. That is where the asymmetry of information come into play and engineers end up getting the short end of the negotiation.

Is there a screenshot of what this looks like?

> In fact this is already happening in India and China.

This might happen at some point but they certainly haven't reached that point yet. Apple revenue is still growing tremendously YoY in China. [0]

[0] http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/27/apples-revenues-in-china-so...

Great article. The title should reflect that it's from 2013.