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by ahoyhere 13y ago
We neglected our new, just-a-few-months-old SaaS for a few (3? 4?) months at a time and it was fine until we came back to it. We lost opportunities to grow faster but it kept making money, it still grew (albeit slower), etc. By any stretch
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
And I quote: "...however, studies have shown that the effect is not entirely explained by individual characteristics like religion, education or politics. Research suggests that at least some of the risks may lie in cohabitation itself."
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
Not even close to universally true. About 4 months after we launched our first SaaS, we fell off the face of the planet for months (long annoying story). It didn't grow… much. But it also didn't shrink. It was pulling in several grand a mon
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
Having both lived with people and married one, and being absolutely atheistic, and someone who previously thought "it's just a piece of paper"... it's not, and I was wrong. Being married is different. There's also some reasons to believe th
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstones_formulation "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer", ...as expressed by the English jurist William Blackstone in his seminal work, Commentaries on the Laws of En
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
And Hacker News has officially turned into a less-funny Reddit. Thanks, guys.
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
Gyms smell like desperation, sweat and fee--hey, the metaphor totally holds!
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
"Remember that time our friend committed insurance fraud and endangered our lives and the lives of innocent strangers, deliberately injuring himself and possibly other people for the money? WHAT A LAUGH!" I don't get it. How can you tell th
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Serious question: Why does one action not define a person? I know that's the usual party line, but why? Most of us have ethical boundaries, such as "Don't intentionally risk our friends' lives" and "Don't fuck people up for money." If you c
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
"And then [Twitter] couldn't make any money that way." Hold the phone. Did they actually try to make money that way?
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
"but another term for courteous noncompete agreements with your competitors is cronyism." And another term for this sentence is a strawman argument. Nobody at all said there was a gentleman's agreement not to compete . Please read the arti
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Sad to see the discussion is more about "what'll get you customers" instead of "what does it mean to do business ethically." Capitalism, fine. Competitiveness, fine. Postmark is not a company afraid of customers or competition. But they bel
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
If you play for points, of course it makes sense to cheat. If you play to be a better human being, and better at tennis, you are just fucking yourself in the ear if you cheat. When you cheat, you know you can't win in a fair fight. You may
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Her point is that DDoSing can happen to anyone. If you claim it won't happen to you, you are lying, because there is essentially nothing you can do to stop it, if Anonymous decides to attack you. So not only is was the offending marketing n
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
What do you do when you meet a woman at a party who makes an offhand comment about her "worthless son"? Nothing, right? Maybe "That's really rude" and walk away? Certainly no crusade will be mounted. Because: she's simply a bad person[1], a
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Ah, but they didn't make any comments to her, by her own admission. Her story goes like this: She was sitting a row in front of them and they were having a private conversation with "dongle" and "forking" jokes. It could have been me, makin
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Saying "I wouldn't trust my xyz to a person who does abc" is not a witchhunt, it's a statement of opinion based on another person's very public and controversial choices. Am I not allowed to find cross-compiling to PHP, ASP and vbscript tec
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
I can't say I would ever trust my code to a tool written by somebody who thinks that this is a good idea: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/09/has-joel-spolsky-ju... Also, calling Github a "VW Microbus" and implying they're hippie kum
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
"Empathy is a terribly scarce commodity it seems." Not at all. The commenter was talking about something quite different than the article. The commenter was talking about the kids from the midwest etc. who move to San Francisco to strik
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Nobody here has talked about flash mobs for about a year… they got boring and they appear to have stopped completely. A few white middle class people got beat up, it's true. But there aren't many places in Philadelphia you would go on a dai
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Who exactly is having children like there's no tomorrow? If not for immigration, the US population would be declining already. Educate people (esp women) and suddenly your major western nation can't maintain population replacement levels of
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
"Easier said than done" is itself easier said than backed up.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
I don't think it really does reduce risk. I've worked with more than a few terrible developers who have exemplary-looking college and startup pedigrees. One of the worst developers I ever worked with graduated from a top school and left Y!
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Nope. The ambitious will simply take their ambition somewhere else. There will be a tipping point (and we must be close to it) where the market cannot bear it any more, and the market will fracture/move. "Disruption" on the geographic level
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
I take issue with #2. Lots of people don't want to live in SF/SV… especially given the way the cost of living eats up those "piddling" $120k/yr salaries. Living elsewhere and working on your ability to hire/manage a remote team would be a w
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
As far as I can tell, all this does is sync slides, right? No a/v? If it was a/v I would be very interested. Otherwise, we rolled our own slide-changing tool called Motif. Basically we export our slides to images (PNG), upload them to our s
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Not to mention the toll on the children of the poor who do not get enough good nutrition, education, or a sense of safety and permanence to grow up to be respectable, law-abiding citizens. That's what I don't get about allegedly intellectua
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
"I went my whole life only eating ice cream once a week. Then I got my first paycheck and I ate ice cream three times a day, every day! I had so much ice cream I even had to pay somebody else to eat it with me! Then I met a foreign beauty a
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Along those lines, the BBC documentary "The Story of Science" shows over its episodes that this is true. It's really a fantastically intellectual series and well worth acquiring and watching.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
"You've chosen to be in a business where blogging doesn't hurt you -- and in fact, it helps you." How is this different than any other business? Sure, what Brennan blogs about attracts his customers. But it can and no doubt will attract oth

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