This is the #1 myth of social media startups - that you can be in the red at this phase and easily turn it all around. People forget that Facebook was ~$50m in the black before they even took a series A.
I know him personally and collaborated with him on some things while he was running Digiforce. It was always a stealth operation, but I know that the technology was real and that it was legitimately acquired. I know that doesn't amount to much reliability on a forum, but I use my real name for my username, so you can see I'm not making this up.
I only kept in limited contact with him after he went to Facebook, but from my experience with him in Raleigh, he's a stand up guy. I'm inclined to believe his story, because if he was incompetent he wouldn't have run FB's growth for several years before going to Snapchat.
This article is the embodiment of the South Park, San Francisco stereotype of the guy enjoying the smell of his own farts.
The idea that they might be living in a bubble that is totally out of sync with 95% of America (geographically speaking) is unfathomable to an elitist.
Exactly. Nothing in this article even talked about technology specific startups at all. It could apply to a craft beer company as much as a new SaaS product.
Just because most of what yishan says is probably true, that doesn't mean he's not tactically omitting details.
For instance, you can go to any of the right-leaning or conspiracy related subreddits and find posts where they show collusion between SRS and CTR. Evidence that is completely undeniable, like mods of SRS and r/politics also modding pro-Hillary or anti-Trump subreddits.
When one side says CTR has totally taken over the site, and the other says they're not involved at all, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
/r/undelete has traditionally been very much about free speech. Unfortunately due to the nature of the censorship on reddit, anyone who is for free speech also appears to be conservative, fringe, etc. There seems to be no concept of being anti-censorship in and of itself, from the vocal proponents of what reddit has become.
> due to the nature of the censorship on reddit ... there seems to be no concept of being anti-censorship in and of itself
I have spent very little time on reddit, so I'm unfamiliar with what form censorship takes there. That said, viewing Twitter and HN, I wonder if this doesn't have more to do with people pulling tangential topics into discussions. It takes effort to pare down an idea, separating it from others that may be logically related or associated with some bundled collection of ideas.
Also, while two people may share a belief, they may not rank the belief equally among all of the others they hold. Alice and Bob may both think free speech is important, but it's really important to Alice. It's more likely that Alice will want to talk about it than Bob. So perhaps people who end up discussing free speech/anti-censorship issues also tend to share similar rankings of other shared values. That could explain why people discussing free speech tend tend to share other beliefs as well. They hold similar beliefs and similar belief rankings.
I have nothing to back that up :) But it sounds reasonable. Anyone need a research topic?
What do you think? Is there something more going on in reddit's case?
TDD has a very specific meaning. It means you write tests, then write code that passes those tests. That specific order. If you're not doing that, you're not actually adhering to the definition of TDD.
TLD could mean, for example, writing a module, class, or function with a defined interface that implements the contracts for that interface, then writing the suite of tests to validate that module, after which you move onto the next module.
Strangely enough, you can do that while you're developing the product without adhering to the process dictated by TDD.
