mattboardman

>A startup made for the purpose of acquisition was never a competitor

You cannot get acquired unless you represent a percentage of market share, have IP which will lead to greater market share, and/or have employees who can expand market share for a product.

>A big whale company that gobbles up some of the fifty startups that only have like 2% of the market total is not a competitive market at all.

A big whale company performing that many M&As to little startups is essentially fueling future competitors. If I was an investor I would see that market as valuable for the unicorn breakthrough possibility or at least an eventual acquisition exit event.

Arguing good or bad on a single data point is reductive. I'm raising awareness that there is a counter argument for assuming excessive M&As is "bad."

Devil's advocate: more acquisitions creates more incentive to launch a start-up. More startups create more competition.

My biggest complaint with gRPC is proto3 making all nested type fields optional while making primitives always present with default values. gRPC is contract based so it makes no sense to me that you can't require a field. This is especially painful from an ergonomics viewpoint. You have to null check every field with a non primitive type.

I just built a rig with new, top of the line, hardware and installed fedora on it without an issue. What components are you talking about specifically?

Usually your main function can't be used by any other part of your program. You should move all component implementations to modules so they can be re-used elsewhere.

I don't think Apple will back down in order to appease developers. Their strategy is pretty clear: make their platform so popular people pay to play by Apple's rules. Apple could charge 50% or 70% on their app store and developers would still line up. The bigger issue in the relationship is when they started building competing apps with the developers. Why would anyone want to help Apple build a platform that they will then use to undercut you? This is also after they already took a huge cut of your revenue.

Why not interview someone willing to go on the record that will speculate the IPO value? There are plenty of articles where they interview professional investors with knowledge about such matters who go on the record.

>people familiar with the matter said

Why is this line used everywhere in the news? What is the consequence of getting someone on the record for speculating the value of an IPO? It's the most frustrating and lazy part of journalism.

It looks like one core issue was designing the system around pre-determined bounds (monthly, yearly, etc). This happens in lots of systems and isn't specific to billing. A job scheduling system will have the same problem (we built it to track seconds and now they want us to track calendar dates!).

I think the promise of threads is exactly what many people want. Hopefully the product improves to meet the expectations. Some things I'd like to see:

1. Native notes like feature for long form posts I can embed and share. I cannot stand the tweets threads of (n/27) about a topic.

2. Topic based feeds. Whether it's hashtags or some other type of categorization process. I think I read on HN the other day a twitter engineer had come up with something like that but it never got buy in from the decision makers. This would also help filter out things I don't want to see more broadly than manually muting users.

3. Enabling the option to only see verified accounts.

4. Private threads. Threads where you can tag an audience where only they can see the posts and replies. This would be a form of DM that isn't just another chat app.

>I don’t mean to discount individual experiences of crime, only to say I really enjoyed our stay and it seems still to be a vivacious place.

Your entire comment is littered with assertions that say you felt safe/fine, but at the same time you note your behavior was fairly cautious.

1. You didn't go out at night.

2. You stayed away from the TL

3. Something you witnessed gave you pause.

Then you also have to consider that you weren't really living there. You worked most of the week and toured the rest of your time.

>I don’t mean to discount individual experiences of crime, only to say I really enjoyed our stay and it seems still to be a vivacious place.

You put the idea that negative experiences are individual and not systemic. As if being a victim of a crime is an "individual experience" and not a pervasive element of the area.

>If comments were on for those posts... there’s a reason why they’re not allowing comments. That is a very un-Reddit thing to do.

If it's unreddit why is it a feature of reddit? (A feature, that in my opinion, is heavily abused by mods and admins).