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Starting Up, One Year Later: The Honeymoon
- vaksel 17y agohow much longer would the honey moon phase last, if you were in SV surrounded by other entrepreneurs?
- tdavis 17y agoI often wonder that myself. I have a feeling my life would have been more balanced, at the expense of less work being accomplished in the short term. Much "hanging out" goes on there ;)
- mahmud 17y agodon't let them California folks tempt you; their "thug life" tats are henna. this shit is supposed to hurt. /me goes back to struggling with CSS in IE, you fucking piece of crap!
- edawerd 17y agoAwesome, heartfelt post. It really got me reminiscing about the good ol' times in hot, humid Boston that summer.
- jmorin007 17y agoOh man, almost ungodly humid. But I agree, that was a fine piece of writing by Tom.
- tdavis 17y agoWell, some of you geniuses decided to not even use A/C, which was completely nuts. Once ours were acquired, things were rather comfortable... so long as you didn't leave the room with 2 units in the windows!
- jmorin007 17y agoOur "office" (read living room filled with computers) was actually sealed off with sheets in order to keep the cool air from the in-window AC confined to that room. The real killer was the two mile hike to YC for weekly dinners and meetings. Unfortunately walking to the T, taking it a couple stops, then walking to YC was the same equivalent distance, so we ended up just hoofing it over there in the heat and humidity.
- edawerd 17y agoWe did pretty much the same. I remember sometimes it would rain like crazy out of nowhere. We'd come to dinner soaked to the teeth! good times, yo
- rantfoil 17y agoTwo serious lessons learned: 1) Don't try to get through a Boston summer without AC 2) Don't try to code 18 hours a day on a 12" laptop sub lesson to point #2: Don't try to code Rails 18 hours a day on a Windows laptop. It's a joke.
- boundlessdreamz 17y agoTo Rails Newbies/Rails Coders on Windows: Don't ever code rails on windows! Ruby is dog slow on windows. Use linux or OS X
- motoko 17y agoThis looks like a troll post, but this is actually good advice. Don't try to force a good Ruby environment on Windows. Instead, merely edit your source code on Windows, and use PuTTy to SSH into a Linux machine that runs your development Ruby on Rails installation. This will also help enforce best practices like keeping your source code in source control instead of hacking it bits-to-metal on your local machine.
- delano 17y agoI think it's the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I'm forever going to imagine you riding on an old bus, looking out an open window.
- tdavis 17y agoIt seems like a good image to me. What should life be if not a string of uncertain journeys? I'd be more worried if I knew where I was going.