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by anildash 10y ago
Yep! We're doing exactly this — hope you'll give it a try. :)
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by anildash 10y ago
Hey throwaway, this is a link to my personal blog. Our official company posts aren't about me, just the one on my site is. You'll also find my personal Instagram has pictures of me & my kid and my personal Tumblr has some song
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by anildash 10y ago
Nah, if we'd have done that it certainly wouldn't have been while I was asleep and over a major holiday.
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by anildash 10y ago
We did find that out after launch, as it unfortunately hadn't come up in our searches prior to that. I personally apologize for the offensive name and we'll be directly addressing it soon enough thanks to several Russian speakers
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by anildash 10y ago
That's a fair concern. There are two paths I think we'll offer to address the issue. First, the code you're running is just totally standard Node.js, and we've got easy tools for taking what you make and running it anywh
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by anildash 10y ago
For what it's worth, I bet if you asked Marco, he'd agree he's very privileged, just as I am. I certainly respect all he's accomplished, and have used every product he's put out.
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by anildash 10y ago
Thanks, I appreciate the measured reading.
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by anildash 10y ago
We'll see! For what it's worth, I've been a CEO 3 times and have spent years as a management consultant with most of the clients being CEOs of multi-billion-dollar companies, so there are parts of my experience that aren&#x27
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by anildash 10y ago
I dunno, Kim Kardashian has brought multiple wildly-successful mobile apps to market with a consistency that exceeds most publicly-traded companies trying to make mobile games. As someone who aspires to make apps that reach a broad audience
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by anildash 10y ago
I've made a few things over the years; I helped create Movable Type and TypePad, which were sort of the WordPress of their era (used to publish Gawker, HuffPo, etc.) and more recently built ThinkUp and Makerbase with Gina Trapani. I do
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by anildash 10y ago
Absolutely. Right now, Gomix is not very accessible (in terms of editing code, not mental model), but that's definitely an area we'd like to improve in. And more broadly, making the creation of tech accessible to a far larger audi
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by anildash 10y ago
I'm really glad somebody asked this, because I'm the CEO of Fog Creek and I had no idea what Joel was talking about with that. :)
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by anildash 11y ago
(Disclosure: I'm an advisor.) Some of this is selection bias, since the most popular blogging platforms (depending on how one defines it) could be Tumblr or WordPress. But within the community you mention, Medium has a few traits that
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by anildash 11y ago
It's also probably relevant that Twitter didn't launch at SXSW. This was me writing about the company and service a month before that SXSW, and I was hardly first: https://blog.twitter.com/2007/anil-dash-twitt
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Just Five Bucks a Month(scribbling.net)
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by anildash 12y ago
I appreciate the thought and reflection, especially given that my response could reasonably be seen as snarky.
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by anildash 12y ago
Honestly wasn't trying to be snarky -- it may just come naturally. (Would also separately argue I'm not particularly well known on HN.) If "our industry" is defined as the technology industry, it's actually far les
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by anildash 12y ago
You are responding to a bug report on one platform by saying that you cannot reproduce it on another.
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by anildash 12y ago
You read the story of a range of women from across the industry, said you haven't had the experience these women have had, and then explicitly asked men for their opinions. See if you can figure out the bug here. * "We have this p
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by anildash 13y ago
It was supposed to be silly, not a literal consideration of the ecological impact.
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by anildash 13y ago
I had just wanted to document the moment and thought it was kind of funny to do sort of the anti-Upworthy headline.
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by anildash 13y ago
Because every effort like this will have false positives and I don't think it's meaningless overall. If my goal were to change policy, I'd have addressed this to my congressperson, and reached out to Treasury, not talking abo
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by anildash 13y ago
Do yourself a favor and read the rationale and see if you can get past your defensiveness. I bet you won't find it odious. https://medium.com/the-web-we-make/79403a7eade1
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by anildash 13y ago
"I think it's time we just all acknowledge that the U.S. has the most onerous and insane financial laws in the world. The only reason other countries put up with them is because the U.S. is the sole remaining superpower." I&#
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by anildash 13y ago
It blocked several simple variations as being duplicates, likely because the address is necessarily the same.
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by anildash 13y ago
Yeah, to be clear, I wrote this up because it's unfortunate and weird, not to vilify folks at the Treasury Department who have an unenviably difficult job. I don't think this one false positive for me is a huge burden (and most of
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by anildash 13y ago
"I'm a white male and I am evil to them" Name one person who has said this.
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by anildash 13y ago
No, clearly what we need is more funding of guys who unabashedly say they won't try to hire women. Because that's a great world to live in.
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by anildash 13y ago
Let's see, we should have: * A few folks wrongly arguing this is about free speech even though it's not an issue of government limiting speech * Guys saying this is trying to silence someone, without ever reflecting on whether Pax
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by anildash 13y ago
My intent was really just to engage in a dialogue that was already going on (see e.g. Alexis Madrigal's Atlantic piece), but I can understand that perspective. Truth is, lots of people are talking about Medium, way more than would be i

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