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The employee never pays out of pocke. Note it's not a loan, but an investment.

Upon a liquidity event, the employee needs to pay back the investment amount + certain percentage of their shares. If the total amount is lower than the investment amount, the payback amount is capped by the amount they received for their shares. Thus, the employee will never pay out of pocket.

Regarding the share %, that varies based on the demand by the investor community for the specific company, and the specific employee strike price.

There is also Redash http://docs.redash.io/en/latest/ We are using it and it's awesome.

Nice move MS. Too bad it ~10 years too late

tl;dr - YES I have hired personally self taught programmers several times.

But I wouldn't suggest you to quit college and seek for a sw developer job. In most cases those (usually talented) developers have knowledge gap when it comes to algorithms, data structure or deep understanding of the HW / OS. Thus, you might be able to find a job right now, but in time you will need to catchup or you will have hard time to compete other developers with formal education.

I'm using dropbox + google drive (due to google docs) both home and for work and I get all of your claims. But what's the alternative? Besides google drive that has it's own issues all other solutions are less than dropbox or same with something missing (proper mobile app etc)...

So what are you switching to?

"With that kind of money raised, the founders didn't get "nothing". They got a salary, probably a decent one, for however long they were running the thing. Which is more than many startup founders get out of businesses that fail. If they don't have personal debt, or didn't lose relationships or friendships, they came out ahead of many startup founders who started a business that failed."

Well, you should always consider the alternative cost. I don't know the founders but I can assume that if they would have work somewhere else they had much higher salary/ benefits etc

1. We don't know of 13K different ppl bought it or if just 1K different ppl. 2. Don't you think that it's great marketing both for pebble and KS?

I still find it hard to believe this numbers, but I might be wrong...

Honestly I find it real hard to believe that they sold over 13K pebbles in less than an hour. imho it doesn't make sense.

They have a great product, but not 13K / 60 min great

My mistake, mixed GCE with GAE

AWS asks you to design your architecture for failure and work across multiple availability zones. Its complicated and expensive but you can avoid that. With google from the other end you can't. and that's the price you pay when you choose PaaS over IaaS

I would love to see potential candidates add this work shape for their CVs

imho its an app. You should start giving it for free, get some traction, learn why/how ppl are using it and what they love about it before introducing monetization.

Currently the pricing page is deterring potential users...

How come everything is so dramatic this days? " The Best Business Book I’ve Ever Read". What happened to: "Recommended reading book! you should add it to your reading list"

Define "high level enough" python / ruby are much faster...

at the end of the day, on the first days of (most) startups you focus on showing results as fast as you can. Prototyping languages (Pyhon / Ruby etc) are the right choice.

Nice stories about how iron.io reduced 30 ruby servers to 2 go servers became relevant only after they proven good market fit and working growth engine.

So GO? maybe yes but probably only when the prototyping languages, can't carry weight.

this is something google should take care of, not the site owners that use GA.

It will backfire for sure. Because stuff like this I prefer to use airBNB over hotels with insane WIFI rates and poor reception in the room.

It doesn't make sense to ignore the fact that you ending with owning the house. Maybe the numbers still works but if he ignores that fact his entire presentation is useless.

maybe I missed something but it seems like he ignored the house value.

Even if we assume that the rent & the house price remains the same of 30y, after 30y you end up with a house that worth $1M & spent ~$15K more per year. Over 30y it's $450K in cash vs owning a house of $1M, meaning buying the house was the right decision.

Where is my mistake?

imho in the near future most countries will have unlimited data plans or similar, so this argument will be irrelevant.

It's a great product and it's a great title. The fact that we all here speaking about it proves that it's a great title that caught your attention.

Google just proved all that when someone breaks their laws they punish him, even if it's a YC company.

Who knows maybe because they are a well funded YC company Google decided to make an example out of them and won't forgive them so quickly.

You just proved the power of good PR and the most ppl forget the past very quickly.

I still believe he might get pardon for two reasons: 1. to make sure he won't leak anymore information. 2. because most of the public think he did a good thing

imho bitcoins technology is amazing and and the near future we will see a lot of new products, such as this one, that are built on bitcoin technology but aren't related to bitcoins.

Could agree more. But just for the sake of discussion, why privacy matters? why do you care if some computer is listening /analyzing what you say to your friends/family?

Can you really see him as a political candidate? personally I think he the government will pardon him sometime in the near future and he will end up working for one of the unicorns (fb/google etc).

link for the final version https://github.com/django-debug-toolbar/django-debug-toolbar...

nicer look http://pastebin.com/MNHkWK3k

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