yannisp | 11 years ago | on: CoreOS is building a container runtime, Rocket
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yannisp | 12 years ago | on: Affordable, automatic sit-to-stand desk
Woah, their goal was hit in 38 minutes O_O
yannisp | 12 years ago | on: Wall Street is Buying Homes - Will Main Street Follow?
I have an issue with this article. How many people have $100k available in their bank account? I've never been over $50k of remotely liquid assets.
That said, I received helped from my parents for the down payment and couldn't be happier of the move to mortgage over rental.
yannisp | 12 years ago | on: Beware: Uber Has No Customer Service and Still Has Bugs
I think the point being made is that you find out after and there's a lack of upfront information. Personally I'm a huge fan of the map, time stamps, and oddly enough, the rounding down
yannisp | 12 years ago | on: LIVE: Twitter IPO
Regarding the profitability piece, they closed their mopub acquisition this week - something i believe will make or break the future of TWTR reopvenue... I believe the money is on that piece to perform or the company is dead in the water.
yannisp | 12 years ago | on: Tesla lost $38M in third quarter, stock tumbles over 12 percent
IIRC it's actually financing with a balloon payment (with no risk since they're not the lenders), with an option for buyback. That liability of buying back should be somewhere in the books, either accrued or entered in full.
yannisp | 12 years ago | on: I Bought An Apartment To Rent Out On Airbnb
Hmm I don't see any mention of equity here but only profit. If you're able to cover the cost of mortgage + HOA/property tax + expenses of running the place then the equity is the profit. Assuming the price of the place is the same in, say, 10 years. Then you've built up 10 years worth of equity buy having someone else pay your mortgage...
Of course if this place was bought cash, you could have done the same thing in reverse. Take that money and loan it to an individual to buy a house. The only difference is there's no extra profit to be made but also no added risk of not finding clients, repairs, etc. (unless someone wrecks the place and it becomes worthless)
yannisp | 12 years ago | on: Pinterest Raises $225 Million at $3.8 Billion Valuation
So my guess is they want to do something similar to fancy.com but probably on a more massive scale? What do you spend $200M on in less than 10 months with max 150 employees?
yannisp | 12 years ago | on: 'TWTRQ' Up 685% in Clueless Trading
I'm curious to know what happens after they halt trading. What's the outcome for those with outstanding shares? I would assume either the spread would get ridiculously wide or the sell orders never be fulfilled?
yannisp | 12 years ago | on: How to Hire
"The absolute cheapest benefit you can offer an employee is their title, and if they have a rational reason for wanting a better title, why on earth would you refuse to give up some title to get a good candidate on board?"
If your role doesn't match your title, you may be in big trouble when/if your company gets acquired. Also it might seem like the cheapest in one sense but as the company grows you'll find yourself in an awkward situation when a manager makes more than a VP you just hired. It's a sensitive subject that should be approached more carefully than you'd expect.
yannisp | 12 years ago | on: Tesla Model X
Have you seen the Koenisegg doors? Those are my favorite...
yannisp | 12 years ago
it's already on the front page..
yannisp | 12 years ago | on: The Alibaba Crash Course
I would have upvoted had there been a preview, quote, or something but for now you get my email address anyway.
yannisp | 12 years ago | on: Docker hack day lightning talks live
Apologies ahead of time for the lower quality streaming for those watching, we have multiple cameras and sources that we can't put into Google Hangout but we will have an edited post-production video ready later this week!
yannisp | 12 years ago | on: Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore
You know, I still wonder the same thing, "1-20 of many" is quite annoying too..
yannisp | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: Google Glass + Tesla Model S = GlassTesla
Its not illegal to have a Bluetooth headset and have your gps running. What's the difference here?
yannisp | 12 years ago | on: Making the web fun again
Anyone have a repo of the old gifs that were most common? I'm thinking of things like the under construction stickman or the rotating wordart welcome sign.
I am a little sad that security of web browsers has gotten better. I remember offering people free cup holders by opening up their disk trays :-)
yannisp | 13 years ago | on: Failed Startup's Final Income Statements Reveal Grave Error
I hope no one forgets we often value companies (in an overly simplified way) by a multiple of their revenue. Of course other things are taken into consideration but had they kept their discount as a marketing expense they could have gotten away with it in going on to next steps like a potential IPO. What the article highlights is that the wrong variables were taken into account when calculating margin, and this could happen very easily/could be debated both ways.
The thing I'm curious about is their balance sheet. If someone buys from a site like plum district a gift certificate for $40 that they paid $20 for, California residents are entitled to at least $20 of goods for an unlimited time... What a nightmare!
yannisp | 13 years ago | on: PenFM: Returning as an Engineer
It says chapters at the top of the page but I can't find any table of contents. I want to skip between chapters without going through each page, am I missing something or just a missing feature?
yannisp | 13 years ago | on: Introducing the new dotCloud dashboard
The thing with PaaS vs EC2 is that you're hiring a whole 24/7 Ops team and have a whole layer of software on top of the infrastructure you would have used to ease scalability, failover, load balancing, etc. All these things go into keeping your application live. Sure it's not a nightmare to figure out how to setup your own mongo on a VPS, but as you grow and need that high availability and uptime, your sleep will decrease dramatically (nightly alerts at 2, 3, and 4am? Yeah they hurt..) or need to hire sysadmin(s) to take care of that for you, you realize the difference in monthly cost versus the $100k+ engineers becomes much, much sweeter.
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