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How many quarters after Q1 2016 till Marissa Mayer is unemployed?
	1 or fewer
	2
	4
	Her job is guaranteed; what are you even talking about?

mitztronic: Jun 17, 2005; mixcloud.com/mitztronic

As someone who works in MV/PA in Aerospace, and used to live in MV for many years, what the hell are you talking about?

# ¿ Feb 10, 2016 01:09

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# ¿ May 4, 2024 11:04

mitztronic: Jun 17, 2005; mixcloud.com/mitztronic

Pebble laid off 25% yesterday(ish?), I'm trying to keep a list of companies that have been scaling back on some level, some via news announcements and some through my network:

Pebble
Zenefits
Yahoo
VMWare
DoorDash
SurveyMonkey
LivingSocial
AutoDesk
MixPanel
Instacart
KaBam
EMC
Pivotal
Optimizely
Tango
NetApp
HomeJoy
Twitter
Avid
Sidecar
Zynga
Evernote
Cisco

Obviously not all are startups, some are big time enterprise companies.

This also has a bunch of startups that have recently(ish) failed: http://autopsy.io/

mitztronic fucked around with this message at 16:45 on Mar 25, 2016

# ¿ Mar 25, 2016 16:38

mitztronic: Jun 17, 2005; mixcloud.com/mitztronic

http://www.wsj.com/articles/is-the-tech-bubble-popping-ping-pong-offers-an-answer-1462286089?mod=trending_now_3#:lWGT6A-Eq3_gxw

quote:

The table-tennis indicator is a peek into Silicon Valley culture, in which the right to play ping pong on the job is sacrosanct.

�If you don�t have a ping-pong table, you�re not a tech company,� says Sunil Rajasekar, chief technology officer at Lithium Technologies, a San Francisco software startup.

...

Pivotal, a San Francisco software company, has eight tables. It has netted off the area to block errant balls.

The tables aim to give coders a break, says spokesman Michael Lee. �This is an activity thoughtfully selected by our CEO for their benefit for the sake of their corneas.�

...

Venture capitalist Michael Cardamone, the tournament�s co-organizer, approves of young companies buying tables with venture funds.

�You absolutely should,� he says. �It�s part of building culture.�

Table buying �tracks most closely with startups that hit that threshold where they�re taking out office space,� says Russell Hancock, chief executive of think tank Joint Venture Silicon Valley, which follows economic trends. �That�s when you�re going to get your first ping-pong table.�

# ¿ May 4, 2016 19:04

mitztronic: Jun 17, 2005; mixcloud.com/mitztronic

ToxicSlurpee posted:

A neural network that learns how to win at chess can't suddenly learn to play Counter Strike let alone figure out how to destroy civilization.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLRLYPiaAoA

# ¿ May 6, 2016 22:53

mitztronic: Jun 17, 2005; mixcloud.com/mitztronic

WrenP-Complete posted:

Would combining the two companies make it easier to produce mixes? I would have imagined that SoundCloud is a nightmare of IP issues. IP for the music, not IP for the connection.

Soundcloud is actually still waging a war against DJ mixes and mix tapes. I don't see them merging as a way to solve soundcloud's complete copyright ineptitude. They would have to rework their entire platform to allow proper copyright/royalty for continuous mixes, and that ship of opportunity sailed away years ago and they let it.

Mixcloud would be a company that would be worthwhile to merge with in this regard, but I don't know anything about their finances. Mixcloud's biggest problem is their user base and their embedded player being trash, both things Spotify could potentially improve. Pipe dreams tho

# ¿ Sep 29, 2016 16:30

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