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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Agreed. While we're clearly not as rich as you or the top commenter on Quora, we're definitely in the "not really limited in purchasing" category of wealth. Sure, we can't just up and buy a second home, but we are definitely of the "just bu
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Actually… I didn't really beat myself up about the downtime. I am totally over beating myself up for things… it just makes it harder to fix them and it's not as if my guilt would help anyone else feel better! It was upsetting, though, on an
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
1. I think we gotta talk about the word "abandoned," which to me involves letting something languish without attention, which is exactly what we didn't do. But aside from disagreeing with that word choice… Would we not have carefully shu
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Thanks for the sentiment. They may show up, but they never bother me!
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
We won't open source, for a variety of reasons. One reason is that if we serendipitously meet the right dev/hiring manager, we will hire them and revive the project. Secondly, as all bigcos who randomly outsourced a dead project can tell yo
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Asked with all sincerity… did you read my article? "A kernel issue" was not "the problem." There was no "the problem". There were a slew of problems of which that was merely the icing on the nasty problem cake. And considering how many time
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
As somebody who's read Marcus Aurelius, I feel like if you read it, it ought to make you realize how pointless pointless suffering is.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Whatever it was, it is gone now. This was Rails 3 early days… very early days. The problem was in the development environment only. It was a crazy memory leak — 50MB every page load or so. As you can imagine it because so unbearably slow we
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Absofrigginglutely. Until (and unless) you have the people to work on scale.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Good question. Not at all. We were exhausted, but we love the project. I still hope that if we come across the right hire(s), we'll revive it. But I'm not going to spend a year of my life desperately hustling to hire (which still may not w
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Hi, y'all. Amy here. If you've got a real question, I'd be glad to answer it. EDIT: As of 4pm eastern I'm off to meet my interior designer and then attend a joinery demo at a wood shop so it may be a bit but I will absolutely read & res
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Totally. Nobody on HN likes to read post-mortems or understand what goes wrong on a large, revenue-generating product, or in partnerships, or growth. Or hear opinions from somebody who's bootstrapped a biz to $750,000/yr gross. Nope. Defini
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
I think you're replying to protonfish, not me.
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I was going to write a sarcastic reply saying "Whoops! Better tell all [major companies using Rails] that they made the wrong decision" but honestly, is it worth my breath? Haha.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
"I see how many times as as developer I've either not cared about decisions that directly affect me. Or maybe I've just rolled over and accepted the things I don't like. It's the nature of (most) developers. Don't stir the pot. Don't disse
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Nobody took the power from you, you gave it away. There was no defeat because there was no battle. I've never had to endure any of those things because when they arose, I quit the job. And when they arose again in the next job, I quit emplo
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Learn to quiet your mind not by denying but by embracing what's going on. You can become an observer in your own head instead of being caught up by discoursive thoughts… see them as weather. My #1 go-to recommendation is the AUDIO book (not
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
The statistics for young people across the US show that the OP's situation is more "normal" than yours. Most people don't end up with $40k of debt but they still have a lot more than you spent: $27k. Considering that's an average there are
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
I recently bought a pair of pajama pants from Walmart.com and they shipped the same day. How many online retailers do that ? Other than Amazon, of course. Certainly Walmart believes they are competing with Amazon. (I would have bought my p
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Clay is inanimate and there's no potter in evidence around here.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
After you read Meditations, follow up with Essays by Montaigne and then Markings by Dag Hammarskjold. Thank me later! PS - don't just read, take notes and write your own reflections. That's the way to learn.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
I used to live in Greenbelt, in the heart of PG County, and my 2-bedroom-and-den semi-crappy apartment cost $1750 nearly 7 years ago. And Greenbelt is a DUMP. An expensive, expensive dump. Since the apartments were all full — and not 6 peop
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
(serious not snarky) Do you think the people who talk up how they're "changing the world" includes the 1 out of 99 (or fewer) who actually does? I don't. The people I know who are really out there changing the world focus on small effects f
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
A friend of mine who follows you/your work is convinced you, unlike most HNers, aren't soaking in the particular startup cliché I'm talking about. That you aren't aware of its epidemic-like prevalence. My side of the conversation doesn't ma
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Excellent point. The word "change" is totally amoral! Also, it doesn't really express degree, either. Either everything changes the world, or nothing does.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
If you can't see the gulf between being a doctor who dedicates his/her life to doing surgery in remote, third-world locations, for a pittance, in order to restore the lives of poor women, vs sitting in a comfy office in the first world deve
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
I'm technical and I'm really excited for this to ship. You can't do your own system from scratch… your deliverability rates will blow. Ever set up autoresponders in other tools that actually handle deliverability rates well? Their UIs blow.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Done right, long copy sells. Not saying visuals won't help, but long copy does an important job. IF you have the problem in question that the product solves. If you don't, no amount of copy or pictures will sell you.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
> starting a company is a lot like going off to war Why is this accepted, considered common knowledge? It doesn't have to be this way. Not at all. The vast majority of crazy stress related to "starting a company" is self-inflicted, th
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
While obviously nobody would say "we should be less supportive of people with depression," my point was that people need to stop bald-faced lying to themselves. And to remove themselves from situations where that is not only the norm, but c

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