I'm surprised you're getting downvoted. Running youtube costs money, some creators spend a lot of time or even make a living out of their videos, that we, the users, willingly enjoy to watch. Youtube (just like Nebula) enables us to watch content we like, and helps funnel some money from the users to the creators.
The whole tracking industry sucks, contextual ads seem acceptable as an alternative to payment and still protect privacy. But there is no free lunch
The first thing I would advise is to be as transparent as possible with the founder, you can't go on like this. Don't go in as the whole team, it'll probably be a hard time for him, you need to break the news but let him time to digest before going into the details. Keep in mind without him you probably won't be working together on this great product.
I see 3 probable outcomes:
- he does not see the situation as you do, but does not want to leave. this would make leaving the company easier for you if your disagreement is too profound.
- he understands the misalignment won't be solve and quit (either by choice or following investors pressure)
- he agrees to try to change things, this will be hard because it won't happen instantly. Your team will need to set checkpoints with dates, which if not met bring you back to the start.
Anyway for your own mental state (and your teammates) you cannot go on like this.
I think this is sound advice. What I’d add builds on this point:
> he does not see the situation as you do
At the moment you may be lacking the perspective of the founder, perhaps the coaching and input they’ve had from investors and other advisors on the direction of the business. I would go into a conversation with the founder but seek to gain a true understanding of their perspective as much as to emphasise your own point.
> we unanimously felt that the product works, and the team is amazing
It takes more than a working product and an amazing team to make a startup succeed. The product might be amazing but do the unit economics work? Is there a market fit? Does the market fit scale? Is there something that needs to be hit to secure the next round of funding? Maybe you have this info and omitted it for brevity in your post… but if you approach your investors for a dialogue without a complete understanding of this side of the equation I’d say your in for a rough time.
And still there is a 'follow us on FB' button on the EFF website and this specific page, which acts as a tracker (and as such gets blocked on Firefox).
I asked what is the difference in delta-v between getting from the surface of the earth to GEO vs getting from the surface of the earth to Lunar orbit.
Without considering the fact that the orbit of the Moon is not circular, this only helps reduce the delta-v needed to go from the surface of the earth to the surface of the moon by ~3.2km/s, but we still need ~12-14km/s to go to GTO/GEO.
However since the moon period is not the same as a GEO period, maybe the fact that you could juste 'catch' the end of the cable before falling back to earth without having the speed to maintain at GEO could help you save some delta-v.
An elliptical orbit that intersects the surface of the massive body at the periapsis side is fine, if you can change the orbit when you reach apoapsis.
i think the bigger upside here is that getting humans into orbit and then to the moon via elevator is likely safer than repeated landings back and forth.
you can use the partial escape velocity equation. ~10 km/s to get to GEO without the radial velocity. delta-V to the moon is about 18 km/s (one way). Keep in mind that kinetic energy is proportional to velocity squared.
The gravity is only 3% up there, so more tricky. And reducing with square of the distance.
Also every second you are accelerating straight up costs you gravity worth of Delta-v because gravity losses. So need to be quite short and intense burn to be worth it.
meanwhile European CS students, with their fellow students from the UK, Switzerland, Korea, Japan, [add whatever country you like except the 3 which are - on average - worst than the US in CS) are busy getting even more better than the average CS US student
Going to need a citation on that. The US presently dominates the tech sector. Rankings of programs are generally to be taken with a grain of salt, but MIT, Stanford, UCB and Carnegie Mellon all rank the top 4 on almost any list you'll find.
Meanwhile, in the UK CS grads have the highest unemployment among any field, and have maintained that "award" for nearly a decade. That certainly indicates that your educational programs for CS are lacking if you didn't go to a school named Oxford or Cambridge.
There's a lot of ways you can measure which country has the better educational system for a given degree type, but there's very few metrics that indicate anything other than the EU being way behind the US.
"That certainly indicates that your educational programs for CS are lacking if you didn't go to a school named Oxford or Cambridge."
lol, you can't judge educational programs by the rate of unemployment! You realize how little sense that makes? The fact that you would even state such a fallacious comment makes me question YOUR educational background. A countries unemployment rate is massively dependent on the economy of the country. You don't say, look at the lack of top tech companies in Russia, it must mean their students are idiots! It has all to do with their governmental policy-making and the sanctions on the country, as well as various historical factors.
The UK has been under government "austerity measures" since the 2008/2009 crash which have massively reduced growth across sectors. The UK actually has a great education system but this doesn't matter if the economy is doing badly and jobs aren't being created.
In fact (I live in California) from all I've seen of the US CS market, US grads are by far the worst in terms of all the nationalities I work with. The fact that the US tech industry is booming has far more to do with the VC world, the booming economy, and the huge amount of people from around the world moving to California, than it has to do with US schools being good at CS. All the top data scientists at my current company are from China!
> The fact that you would even state such a fallacious comment makes me question YOUR educational background.
I'd advise you avoid resorting to personal attacks when you disagree with a non-personal statement, as it really does lead to people ignoring your the premise of your point. Personal attacks when calling out fallacious arguments are particularly off-putting.
That said, you failed to understand the premise because you took one sentence out of context. The point I was making was that Cambridge and Oxford both have top CS programs which can result in jobs outside the UK and EU. Major tech companies routinely nab graduates from those two universities on work visa's in the US.
The importing of UK CS graduates plummets beyond top-tier universities, while China, Russia and India all see massive work visa imports into the US. The UK, outside of Cambridge and Oxford, simply doesn't export a lot of CS graduates, indicating an educational gap (or at the very least, an "interview gap") between those countries and countries with massive work visa exports.
> In fact (I live in California) from all I've seen of the US CS market, US grads are by far the worst in terms of all the nationalities I work with.
The point was to illustrate the fact that 'world domination' is a strange word to use when comparing against 3 countries only, leaving aside a lot of well educated students, some of who ranked as the best of their field - for instance korean and french students in ML.
Plus the fact that the US dominates the tech sector has more to do with the available capital there than the technical skills of US students (on average)
That didn't seem to be the point, since you were implying that EU students are already better and now they are working on getting (to quote you) "more better".
Like I said it's hard to quantify educational programs, but China and Russia both dominate competitive programming competitions, and have for years. Whereas EU simply doesn't (outside of occasionally wins by Poland and Czech Republic).
- 1 & 2: just use virtualenv, js has its own version manager too (nvm) which is very useful. This is one of the reason why only python2.7 is included in OSX, since most of seasoned python devs not use it. usr/include vs usr/local/include in cpp are not easier to use / understand.
- 3: my opinion is this forces you to write readable code, in which you don't have to ask yourself where the scope starts / ends
- 4: since import use dot notation you just need to follow the path until you find a file and in this file the corresponding function. Or read the doc. Or use an IDE with autocompletion. Looking a .h files in c sometimes lead to using a wrong function judging only by its name.
- 5: They are called "list" because they are lists, not arrays in a C sense (size not fixed)
- 6: multiline strings are a mess indeed, but python3 handles them all in utf-8 (one of the reasons why it broke backward compatibility)
- 7: just like js, making them 2 of the 3 most used languages. Understand the difference between pointers and references is harder to grasp for a beginner to just remind modifying the arguments of one method is dangerous unless you know what you're doing
- 8: there is the from ... import ... which allows you to avoid this while being explicit
> 3: my opinion is this forces you to write readable code, in which you don't have to ask yourself where the scope starts / ends
I agree with this so much. I've never looked at someone's python code and had a moment's confusion about where a particular function ends. On the flip side, I see plenty of randomly/confusingly indented C/C++/C# code.
You have EU funds to help bootstrap your company, either directly or via subsiding the institution which is funding you (even if it can be harmful), cheap or even free medical services for when you're getting sick and you don't have any insurance since you've put all your money in your startup. Allowing people to come to work for you without having to handle the visa nightmare means you're not giving them insanely hight amounts of money every months. Price for incorporation is <1000$ in almost every EU country. Your employees don't have to pay taxes on stocks they haven't sold yet. There are some upsides too.
Totally agree with you. There is a huge benefit having a clean API which works for a variety of clients (native / mobile / desktop) and a corresponding variety of team members instead of maintaining 2 different view sets on your backend, without even talking of the specific issues you can find yourself in in web development (browser specific features / inputs / styles / ...). And you still can't do any real native apps.
I'm not sure this is a fair comparison though since PMs usually are experienced when junior software engineers are common, and even more you can have SE switching to PM roles but the opposite is quite rare. But the reality remains that is way more difficult to find a good PM than a good SE.
