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Comment · 6 years ago
ipad doesn't have 27" screen, 3 cameras and as good mics. This is a dedicated device, so you set it and forget it.
Comment · 6 years ago
Yes, the else keyword is not intuitive. The best way to remember for/else is for/nobreak
Comment · 6 years ago
What is "post-money safe" for a priced round like this?
Comment · 6 years ago
A penny from Softbank? Didn't you get the memo? Softbank requires you to take at least 1 billion.
Comment · 6 years ago
> Instead of giving this one company $2.6 billion, the investors could have invested $100k in 26k different startups.
This already happens, its called angel or accelerator funding. YC gives $150K to 200+ company every year. Some of these companies then raise more, then some more.
For founder with successful exits or other outstanding achievement, they can effectively start with series C and raise 50 million as the first round.
Thereafter everyone wants to bet on the winning horse.
Comment · 6 years ago
The key here is "in vitro".
If there is virus growing in a Petri dish, we can inhibit the growth. But we have no idea what happens when we put this drug in a complex living being.
Comment · 6 years ago
DHT causes hair loss, perhaps you can hope to keep your hair longer with Soy protein
Comment · 6 years ago
Monopoly market leadership in their respective fields, which translates to high gross margin, which leads to a ton of cash on hand. Conversely, being market leaders, they are solving some really hard problems related to scale and attract good engineers.
Comment · 6 years ago
The article is not saying that - if IBM hires 100,000 developers but AppAmaGooBookSoft have a hiring freeze, then then you get a much smaller risk premium. The point being that AppAmaGooBookSoft pay insane salaries so other companies need to pay their employees somewhat well to minimize risk losing their (best) employees to AppAmaGooBookSoft.
Comment · 7 years ago
Phew ... tragedy averted. I ranted earlier about them [0]. We didn't use google Hire exactly for this reason. And they were more expensive than existing software while providing few features with less polish.
And yes, they had a more aggressive sales force pushing the product, who would cold call, play the discount game, etc.
This could have been a good value add to the G-Suite. Alas.
Comment · 8 years ago
Basepair (https://basepairtech.com) | Lead Software Developer | NY or Remote
Basepair is a data analytics platform for genetic scientists. Our customers include Harvard Medical School, NYU, UCSD, etc. who use our software to make breakthrough medical discoveries in cancer, AIDS, etc, and provide better medical care to patients.
You'll take ownership of the product. Working with the science team, you will develop interactive visualization to help users make sense of their data. We prototype ideas quickly, ship, get feedback and repeat. We're looking for someone who's done it before and wants to be a part of a rapidly growing genomics analysis startup. Our tech stack is AWS + Python/Django + REST + React.
Please reach out to jobs -a-t- basepairtech.com
Comment · 8 years ago
I wanted to purchase subscription to Google Hire. I literally had the credit card in my hand. But there was no way to pay. Not even a way to sign up for a free trial right away. I called them several times, no response.
More than a month later, someone finally responded. The person sounded like he is doing me a favor by getting back. In the meantime I started using another ATS that worked well for us. The salesperson response was effectively, "duh ... we are Google".
I see they have the pricing online now: https://hire.google.com/request-demo/. But still no way to pay or sign up for a trial right away.
Comment · 8 years ago
Startups were a rarity in 2008?