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Element seems heavily inspired by Ant Design for React [1], which came out of Ant Financial/Alibaba.

It's a project by Ele.me, a Chinese food delivery company. Alibaba and Ant Financial invested $1.25B in it last year [2].

[1]https://ant.design/docs/react/introduce

[2]http://www.wsj.com/articles/alibaba-ant-financial-to-jointly...

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Currently open to contract work. I have 7+ years of experience shipping complex web applications for startups and established companies. I'm proficient in all layers of modern web application development, from CSS and Javascript to database architecture, query optimization and deployment infrastructure.

I was previously Head of Engineering at a YC and venture backed startup, and currently run a development consultancy based in NYC. I studied Physics and Philosophy at Yale and did graduate work on Applied Math at NYU.

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This is an excellent guide and one I wish I had when I first started my business.

One particularly tricky topic that I'd love to see covered is paying foreign employees. Paying members of a distributed team is straightforward when they perform as contractors. As we've grown and they've continued working with us, the relationship has become one of employer-employee in the eyes of U.S. law. This puts them in a nebulous situation where they are de facto employed by a U.S. company, but are non-U.S. persons deriving their income from a non-U.S. source.

It's likely other Atlas users could find themselves in a similar situation.

Cellular data networks in many parts of the world deliver incredibly slow speeds. In those places, the hassle of finding and connecting to a WiFi hotspot is often worth it. I'm currently traveling in the Philippines and malls, restaurants and cafes commonly offer WiFi to attract customers, and it works.

Even when the local network is fast, buying a SIM card may not be an option if your phone is locked and under contract, which is very common for US users.

Fallacious arguments (of which circular arguments are a subset) aren't literally meaningless. "My point is true because my point is true" is perfectly comprehensible, it just fails to establish the fact that "my point is true". You can disagree with it reasonably by pointing out the fallacy, so it has linguistic substance, and it is not meaningless.

It is very different from, say, "colorless green ideas sleep furiously" which is literally meaningless.

A talent acquisition signals something more than a job offer. It shows that you're able to conceive and build a product that people are willing to use. It also means that you've had experience negotiating terms. This is very important when/if you decide to take an entrepreneurial step after being at the acquihirer.

All things equal, future investors are more likely to trust someone who has had an acquisition in the past. You're more likely to get press exposure. All these things are meaningless if you're building something no one wants, but they definitely help if you're on the right track.

It's not contradictory to say that the scientific method produces our best understanding of a subject to date and that its statements are falsifiable. In fact, it is because of the standard of falsifiability that scientific knowledge reflects, in all likelihood, the actual facts much more accurately than say, religious dogma.

Wolfram and you both make the mistake of thinking that there is any value in saying that an established natural fact 'feels like a hack' or 'disagrees with your intuition'. One of the most important lessons of modern physics is that intuition is a terrible guide when it comes to understanding the physical world at its most fundamental level.