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Like so many industries (photography comes to mind), it's incredibly easy now to get something done. It may not be awesome, but it'll be complete.


NASA needs better Marketing.


Amazing and Awesome. Congrats.


A proper logging solution:

ELK - elasticsearch - logstash -kibana

A docker image will have you up and running in minutes.

If you're looking for open-source, mature "analytics" solution, then checkout Snowplow analytics


I assume (correct me if I'm wrong) its OK for a company to have an employee maintain their Wikipedia page (i.e. the employee is being paid).

What about a contractor? In other words, I'm wondering where the line is on paid editing being a bad thing.


It's not banned, but it's "strongly discouraged" and any such affiliation must be disclosed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest...


Mailinator has a Saas option for this (api, private domain, etc).

http://mailinator.com/featurematrix.jsp


As does Mailtrap[0] which is apparently used by GitHub and Atlassian among others. (No affiliation, just happened to see their customer list and was somewhat impressed.)

[0] https://mailtrap.io/


Applets were a grand idea and probably responsible for spawning other (more usable) tech in this space. Or at least showing people what was possible.

Of course they sadly ended as a staggering failure.

Epic loading times of the JVM were the practical death knell. A grand-canyon of a security hole was the deal sealer.


Engh. What I'd say really killed Java Applets was that Sun disliked Microsoft giving developers Win32 API access in their JVM (due to fears that people could then theoretically create non-portable "Java" programs) enough to sue them to prevent them from using the technology going forward, leaving the at-the-time most widely-deployed browser, Internet Explorer, forever stuck with a broken stack that was only compatible with the rapidly-limiting Java 1.1 unless the user went out of their way to install what I remember being a little-known and rather finicky package from Sun. In the mean time, Flash stepped in with a runtime that was equally supported on every then-major browser, which had a great IDE, and which was maybe even less complex to install (but certainly no more complex).


Not to mention less secure (speaking of Flash)


Serious question: Even if Theranos goes down in flames, won't she walk away from this with a fortune? Maybe not quite the fortune she thought, but still many millions?


Quite likely. In later rounds, founders are often strongly encouraged to take money off the table by selling equity.

This isn't shady, it's so the founding team stops worrying about money and focuses full-time on the company. Ramen-profitable is good in the short term, but time becomes increasingly valuable as a company grows.


> This isn't shady, it's so the founding team stops worrying about money and focuses full-time on the company.

Uh, no. It's so that the founders won't sell the company at a mere 4-5x rather than then 20-100x that the VC's want.

If it was genuinely about the company, they'd let all the initial people take some stock off the table. Instead they only allow the people who could sell the company to take stock off the table.

Big difference.


This is true for many companies, but in the case of gross negligence[1], simply the action of her cashing out could be securities fraud and/or grounds for clawing back the money she took out.

[1] which I'm not accusing Holmes of, but it's not out of the question, either.


It's common and its bullshit. If founders take from funding then so should employees. They should be able to stop worrying about money as much as the founders.


She came from an old money family, so she will inherit millions regardless of whether she made (or will make) anything off of Theranos.


I've seen her driving around town, she has some insane sports car that looks like a rocket ship. I couldn't even recognize what it was (Ferrari? Lamborghini?) it was so unusual looking.


Really ? in the media(i think the new yorker, pretty respectable) she was portrayed with the life style of a monk.


It's quite possible that some clients will find grounds to sue if something serious is proven.


I'd assume that at this point she sold off at least a few million dollars in shares.


Sad news. RIP Ed and thanks for all the books.


This is data I'm grateful to have and at the same time, can't believe someone went to all the trouble to get it !


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