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by anildash 1y ago
Not sure how many national magazines you’ve written for, but it is in fact fairly standard practice to write first-person essays in the first person. You did make up a whole bunch of people you don’t like in your example there, but literall
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by anildash 1y ago
I didn't flag it.
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by anildash 1y ago
I get it, we’re all sort of running into the brutality of the descent into authoritarianism at different times and in different ways all the time, we’ll be out of sync with our respective senses of whether we can process it as grief or absu
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by anildash 1y ago
Definitely having that feeling a lot these days watching the cycles repeat. I am tired of earth. These people. Their APIs.
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by anildash 1y ago
I was using the phrase in the vernacular sense; I’ve worked on genuine open standards and know the difference. I don’t think it matters that much to use the phrase in this way in an obviously casual piece on my personal blog, as opposed to
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by anildash 1y ago
I’m furious about it, I just made a joke in passing because this piece isn’t about that. As it turns out, when I write about the threat to democracy, HN doesn’t actually let the link survive. https://news.ycombinator.com/ite
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by anildash 1y ago
My perspective on that might not be what you expect. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/nfts-weren...
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by anildash 1y ago
Yeah, and to be clear, the context that I assumed most readers would have (on my site, where I think they'd know a bit about me, as opposed to here on HN) is that I'm a former CEO. So my disdain for CEO stupidity is higher, and my
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by anildash 1y ago
Was genuinely my feeling at the time, too.
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by anildash 1y ago
I might have screwed something up in my RSS (well, technically Atom) feed. I'll take a look later.
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by anildash 1y ago
I will admit it was not my kindest joke, but on the other hand, I genuinely did not expect him to read a treatise on IOT infrastructure.
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by anildash 1y ago
Yeah, I think that's fair, but those bosses that made us get Blackberries were mostly doing that because they wanted to be able to call us and make us work, not because we had to be convinced that smartphones had value, right? We all e
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by anildash 2y ago
Christian's been an awesome Glitch community member for a long time; I had caught Thinkserver when he first posted about it the other day. Generally, over the last 7 or 8 years we've seen super users be inspired to make their own
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by anildash 2y ago
There are absolutely vested interests that would want to stop any new players from entering and would try to stop that from happening. One benefit of existing processes is that there is usually at least some degree of visibility or accoun
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by anildash 2y ago
It’s a free tier for CDN, Storage, Observability, and lots more stuff. Definitely want to hear what you’re looking for on the computing side, we’ll be iterating.
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by anildash 3y ago
Yes, sorry, had missed this thread. We've got more details up here now: https://community.fastly.com/t/new-options-for-polyfill-io-u...
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by anildash 3y ago
Thanks for mentioning this, the reason was.... I was messing around with my site. Hah! But should be okay now, apologies for tinkering while not knowing everyone was going to come by to visit.
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by anildash 3y ago
Please. George joined the company when it was damn near a decade old, and already a publicly-traded company. It's embarrassing to ascribe anywhere near the agency to someone like that than to a founder.
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by anildash 3y ago
Strongly seconding this (especially as someone who was backstage with Jeff and Tony right before that demo). What's less visible is the impact and influence Jeff has had in enabling leaders and founders to do the right thing. So much o
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by anildash 3y ago
He’s banned everyone from sex workers to activists to journalists from the platform. If you like conspiracy theorists who profit off of the mass murder of kindergartners, you’re the extremist, as is Musk. This isn’t actually complicated. Th
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by anildash 3y ago
That's a cool idea! Arxiv is a member of our Fast Forward program at Fastly, which helps a lot of open source/open web projects, and we've enabled other projects to share that kind of data in the past, so maybe we can figure
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by anildash 3y ago
I don't work on that team, but I work _with_ that team and consistently hear that people think the support is excellent, so be sure to ask about that as you reach out to them.
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by anildash 3y ago
So what you really want to do is subsidize _managers_ who can't?
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by anildash 3y ago
"Politics" is when people fight for more human rights for others, but when companies try to destroy others' lives or livelihoods, that's _not_ politics, right?
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by anildash 3y ago
Can't think of a stronger argument for organizing than the fact that white supremacists hate it when it happens. It's good to do things that antagonize and infuriate white supremacists.
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by anildash 3y ago
Do you use the "forced" framing when your money and labor is used to fund your employer lobbying against your interests? Or is it just natural and right that your effort is subservient to the desires of your boss because they are
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by anildash 3y ago
At that time Alexis was drawing logos or art for products he advised or knew the founders of, including most notably Hipmunk. I’m not sure if Joel asked him to draw it, or he volunteered, but it happened and then early in my time at Fog Cre
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by anildash 3y ago
One other bit of trivia, Alexis Ohanian drew one of the versions of Fog Creek’s kiwi mascot that was featured on some t-shirts and merch, though never in any of the products.
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by anildash 3y ago
Liz we had another couple hundred of those still sitting in boxes in the office as late as when we gave over the space to Trello around 2018. How many did you make?!
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by anildash 3y ago
here’s a well-deserved upvote

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