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Re:Rome v12.1: a Rust-based linter formatter for TypeScript, JSX and JSON
on Sunday May 14, 2023 @04:18PM (#35941057)
What I have heard and seems was considered "common knowledge" about a year ago was that the founder embezzled the money. His VCs considered suing, but decided it was just too messy. I'm not joking, something about some seriously extravagant vacations and a house renovation all paid right out of the company's bank account.
Re:Show HN: Lotus – Open-Source Pricing and Packaging Infrastructure
on Sunday November 06, 2022 @06:02PM (#33498489)
Re:Michelin Airless
on Thursday October 14, 2021 @12:30PM (#28866448)
Have you driven around within China much?
Re:The Berkshire Hathaway of the Internet (2017)
on Saturday October 09, 2021 @07:01AM (#28808750)
Andrew Wilkinson recently took a company public in Canada through a reverse takeover https://www.google.com/search?q=CVE:+WE
Very early in the life of the company they have undertaken some pretty dishonest accounting of their revenues, net retention and other key metrics. The CFO resigned after the first reporting quarter.
I have a strong feeling there is more to this character than just the recycling of virtue filled business models.
Buyer (seller) beware.
Re:How Figma's Multiplayer Technology Works
on Monday October 28, 2019 @02:22PM (#21379930)
I worked at Salesforce then and we had this from an acquired company: https://web.archive.org/web/20140625063431/https://goinstant...
A lot of folks were using it to add "Multiplayer" to our apps.
NPM is moving back to its developer roots, founder says
Re:Entropic: A federated package registry for anything
on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @09:57AM (#20819783)
Looks like the project has gone quiet pretty quickly, at least in comparison to the amount of Twitter traffic from some of the people who left npm to start it.
Last PR was closed almost a month ago, same pattern with the Discourse. Issues are largely unanswered.
Canada's Proposed Open Banking Legislation
Re:D-Wave 2000Q hands-on: Steep learning curve for quantum computing
on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @08:50AM (#19430242)
I've met the founder or D-Wave and have known them casually over the last few years. Few people epitomize scam artist and scientific buffoonery quite as much as this person.
They are now on to their 2nd or 3rd post-D-Wave company and each time they have taken on massive funding rounds at large valuations and then have moved on to form a new company. Call me old fashioned, but something doesn't smell right.
I hope D-Wave, Rigetti and others can move our field forward, but this company more than any other feels like a big shell game.