MicahWedemeyer

85 ms·

811.
by MicahWedemeyer 18y ago
I agree 100%. I'll sign up for random sites now, knowing I might never come back, just because it's easy. No waiting for bullsh*t activation e-mails, selecting username, you name it. It's just...easy! Heck, that's how I signed up for Hac
812.
by MicahWedemeyer 18y ago
Excellent write up! One point I would add: Options do expire, and at least where I work, the expiration is tied to when you leave the company. So, if I quit, I have 60 days to exercise my (vested) options. In plain terms, that means I hav
813.
by MicahWedemeyer 18y ago
Right on! An app which never launches due to premature optimization scales infinitely. Scalability is a problem we all dream of dealing with.
814.
by MicahWedemeyer 18y ago
Just remember: Veoh had the deep pockets necessary to fight this in court and take it all the way to a decision. While that may be the case for larger sites, it's totally different for the small sites. If you can't afford the court costs
815.
by MicahWedemeyer 18y ago
Definitely go with hosted. Every account you force people to sign up for will drop your user base by a ton. Would you be posting on Hacker News if you also had to sign up for S3 (or give your current S3 account) in order to provide storag
816.
by MicahWedemeyer 18y ago
While reading it, I was just waiting for the "buy my book for 3 easy installments of $19.95" pitch. Hmm, there's a startup idea: Ego-stroking self-help books for geeks..."Chicken Soup for the I Know I'm a Genius Why Doesn't Everyone Else Re
817.
by MicahWedemeyer 18y ago
Before you get all excited and start writing your own pseudo-random number generator, make sure to take a stroll through some CodeSOD over at the Daily WTF. There are plenty of examples of people trying to out-smart the built-in generators
818.
by MicahWedemeyer 18y ago
Yep, magically protected. That's what we thought :)
819.
by MicahWedemeyer 18y ago
The lack of encryption in these things is just astonishing. Sure, encryption isn't a magic bullet, but it's the first line of defense, and most programming languages make it so damn easy to use.
820.
by MicahWedemeyer 18y ago
Yeah, scrum was the first thing that popped into my head when I read the article. Managers who remove obstacles = great Managers who are obstacles = get a new job
821.
by MicahWedemeyer 18y ago
Yeah, if only to get some external validation that you're not crazy.
822.
by MicahWedemeyer 18y ago
I'm also a loyal slicehost customer. It's perfect...if you know what you're doing. Before jumping to VPS hosting, you need to be sure that you can handle administering your own machine. If you have some Linux experience, you'll probably b
823.
by MicahWedemeyer 18y ago
Another common mistake: Imagining your business will have a fairytale YouTube-style ending.
824.
by MicahWedemeyer 18y ago
I recently mentioned "equity" to some fellow hackers regarding a project we're thinking of starting. They bailed, calling me "Mr. Corporate" Still, I think the outcome proves that they're not ready or not willing to go through the necessar
825.
by MicahWedemeyer 18y ago
Well, the books were in the "nonexistent" state. We had a bunch of receipts from web hosting providers, plus maybe $100 in ad revenue. We wanted to declare all the hosting costs as a loss on our income taxes. The accountant recommended se
826.
by MicahWedemeyer 18y ago
Forming an LLC is cheap and easy, but be sure to keep up with paperwork. I showed our "books" to an accountant and he told me that if we ever went to court with that, our LLC status would be stripped away immediately and we'd be personally
827.
by MicahWedemeyer 18y ago
Big businesses hold an insurmountable advantage over startups when it comes to recruiting <em>the most conservative and least aggressive talent</em> "Wanna be the first to do something cool?" vs "If you punch your time card
828.
by MicahWedemeyer 18y ago
Why focus solely on the text Web? The article mentions archaeological value of the data, and how trash dumps are more important than great books. On the Internet, I think that translates to archiving things like World of Warcraft and Punc
829.
by MicahWedemeyer 18y ago
I like some of the emphasis on physical location of the data store. I'd like to store my data in the country with the strongest privacy laws, please.
830.
Barcamp Atlanta registration now open(blog.jeffhaynie.us)
2 points by MicahWedemeyer 18y ago|0 comments
831.
Build a crappy website, make a million dollars(blog.aisleten.com)
2 points by MicahWedemeyer 18y ago|0 comments