madelinecameron

> I'm a serial startup CTO

Is that a bad thing or a good thing? Like, have all your previous places closed, exited, what?

Is that course actually useful? Watching a lot of Gary V's vlogs and ask shows makes it seem like he only puts that out for people who are clueless.

Is it Social Media for Dummies or is it actual discussion of strategies?

>And to make things even more confusing, our engineers were all using the dogfooding version of Asana, which runs on different AWS-EC2 instances than the production version

... That kind of defeats the purpose of "dogfooding". Sure, you have to use the same code (hopefully) but it doesn't give you the same experience.

I just don't think value is only delivered over a 10 year period. It should take a decade (or 7 years) to get your initial 'reward'.

It doesn't make sense to be locked into something for a decade that may not even be the same in a decade. Just personal preference though, maybe someone will be up for decade of vesting.

Oh god.

I think insane vesting schedules are terrible. Let's not make 10-year vesting schedules.

https://zachholman.com/posts/the-new-10-year-vesting-schedul...

I guess it makes sense that if you object to having nearly, if not completely, equal equity splits, you shouldn't work together.

If you aren't willing to give significant equity, they either aren't valuable enough or you don't see them as crucial.

I don't think they meant brand risk to Stripe. Credit card companies don't like "immoral" businesses and refuse to do business with them.

There are quite a few stories about porn stars having their credit cards closed just because of how they make a living.

There is a portion in there that mentions Stripe sees this regulation as "overly moralistic" and that credit card companies have "old school morals".

Eh, we just don't talk about it.

My fiance works in a t-shirt printing shop and I work as a developer. I enjoy hearing about his work, he enjoys hearing about mine but we know neither of us could do what the other does.

If your purview of mental health starts and stops at ADD/ADHD, you aren't really qualified to write off all of psychology.

Yeah... like I like this idea. I just don't know how sustainable it is. I am decent with money (Almost 0 debt, almost 1 month of expenses, etc) but I don't really feel like living in self-inflicted poverty.

I have done it before and I know I can do it, but I don't see the point in inflicting abject poverty on myself just so I am vaguely protected.

I understand what you are coming from, but really isn't for me. (Maybe when my income grows / I don't live in NYC...)

Definitely. The "worst case" is just walk away from my lease and move in with in-laws.

>You should save until you have at least two years

It is a little late to be doing this.

I have pretty bare-bones expenses (Fine, my apartment is 40% of my income) but I would struggle to save 24-months of expenses any time soon.

Unless you are making like $250k and living on $50k, I would say it is a little late to be stocking up to survive a downturn. I could do it if given probably 5 years, but I couldn't pull that off in 1 year.

I don't see how someone can rationalize that someone making $100k should have to have roommates.

I am not saying they need more money, but I don't understand how we have gotten to the point of chiding people making six-figures like they work at McDonalds and want a BMW.

>I want to fix something that's manifestly broken. I envy Elon Musk above all others, because he's seen terribly important things that were very broken, and had what it took to break all barriers to fixing them.

Here is the thing though: Elon didn't pop into existence as the founder of SpaceX or Telsa, or being involved in PayPal.

The way I see it is that he didn't just take the steps to break through the barriers, he took all the steps to get to the barrier.

No one glamorizes what it takes to get to being where Elon is (ok, maybe not a lot of people) but you have to start somewhere.

Sure. Writing an app isn't going to save the world, but maybe if you can fix just one little bitty problem (even if it is just other people's boredom!), maybe you can take that little bit of leverage / money / whatever to move on to something even bigger, ad infinitum. :)

Everything is a gun then.

I ate a banana once. I will die some day. Bananas are guns.

First off, I agree. I agree that everyone who continually says "programming" is dying and in 5 - 10 years, "AI" will be writing code (or whatever else they can dream up) have no idea what they are taking about.

Programming is definitely going to get easier and I don't doubt that it will become a common skill.

I just doubt this idea that professional programming is a dying art or something. It is just silly to say that because tools that lower the barrier of entry are becoming more common, that the entire profession will soon be dead.

(Also, I am like 75% sure that it was a sponsored article to advertise for the company named in the article)

Nice sponsored article there.

Gosh, that sounds a really terrible place to live.

So glad the US isn't like that...

Pretty sure Singapore gives the death penalty to drug dealers. Maybe even drug users, but I do know at some point the minimum punishment for any drug dealing was death.

True, Operation Paperclip wasn't exactly the, uh, most optional thing from what I understand.

I don't think they failed as much as they were never meant to succeed. There are just so many places where the military could've outright "taken out" Erdogan but didn't (such as when the "coup" had two jets right next to Erdogan's jet... but didn't shoot then completely backed off)

This was completely set-up to round up popular support / not make it look suspicious when Erdogan did exactly this.

Went back and re-read it, the entire first section is a lot of overly complex babble. The rest of it is much better.

A lot of them. It came across more like the author was trying to show off their vocab than explain a point.

For example:

>Any large and alienating infrastructure controlled by a technocratic elite is bound to provoke. In particular, it will nettle those who want to know how it works, those who like the thrill of transgressing, and those who value the principle of open access.

Okay, it makes sense what they are saying but does that not seem a little clunky to you?

Why not just say like:

> As the world has progressively become more entwined with technology, those providing these services have become more protective of the technology. As a result of this protectiveness, less people are able to fully study and understand how this infrastructure works.

disclaimer: not an English major ;)

Calm down with the $5 words.

It isn't that I am stupid but it makes for a really annoying read when I am having to think more about the words than the meaning.

I shouldn't have to re-read this article like it is a research paper just so I can absorb what you are saying.

50,000 chimps all banging on keyboards will produce good things.

Ha! You are actually the person I got in contact with when I complained to the help email.

You were very helpful! I am looking forward to having access to more banks! (If that is in the plan)

No way!

Thank you so much for the response! Complaining on the internet finally worked! :) I definitely hold nothing against Stripe, I still love you guys.

I still probably will stick with Ubuntu as my main system.

I have Windows 10 installed on a separate drive for when I want to play games but even then, I have to cater to Windows. Make sure to save constantly because sometimes Windows decides it is too much and causes my graphics card to flip. And I also have to plug my headphones in or else I get static-y mono sound.

Admittedly I could probably go buy "For Windows" headphones and figure out what is going wrong with the graphics card... but I shouldn't have to. We are talking about the latest operating system whose ancestors have been dominant across the world for decades, developed by one of the largest companies in the world. How are they getting it wrong?

Windows is a nightmare when it comes to nodejs and pip. I ended up abandoning Windows when I was playing on my Mac and basically got things working instantly while I struggled to get the right incantations / pile of dev tools to do what I want.

Ubuntu saves me so much time. (Also for some reason, Windows hates my graphics card and produces terrible sound in my BT headphones. Somehow a multi-billion company can't figure out BT while an open-source project can)

I like where Plaid is going but it bothered me that they are coy about their pricing.

Typically when a company refuses to say their price or says "Contact Us", that means "Prepare your wallets".

With that said, very economical. I think it was something like $0.10 per account you add. I am looking forward to Plaid expanding what banks are offered since currently they only work with 10 or so (although if they pick you, they give you access to a few thousand more. Not sure the criteria)