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by arohner 14y ago
> "Where is my bike and is it OK?" How does the skateboard avoid this? Where do you park it when you go to a restaurant or something?
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by arohner 14y ago
49% is a whole lot. For that much, you should find a co-founder who will work full time. Also, to reiterate what other people in this thread have said, find better ways to monetize this. Think about bigger ads, charging trucks to send email
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by arohner 14y ago
You're right, sorry. This is a technical limitation for now (the inner and outer are separate apps). We're merging them real soon now. We start at $20/month for one project and scale up from there. We offer bigger plans for more projects, m
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by arohner 14y ago
> I really don't know what else GitHub would be missing from the overall process of checking in code. CI as-a-service is a massive undertaking, and requires different focus from what GitHub is currently doing. Three main differences a
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by arohner 14y ago
I've wanted exactly this site. Please add SF and Austin as locations.
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by arohner 14y ago
San Francisco: fulltime, intern, designers, developers. Remote considered for exceptional candidates. At CircleCI ( https://circleci.com ), we're building Heroku for Continuous Integration. We have traction and revenue. Our customers love u
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by arohner 14y ago
Because I'm not using a desktop client.
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by arohner 14y ago
How do I set that up with GMail? It's trivial on a desktop client, or one where I own the server.
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by arohner 14y ago
One thing I would really love in an email client is a strong separation between reading and writing email. During productive hours when I'm sitting at my desk, I would really like to be able to 1) open GMail, 2) read old email 3) Write new
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by arohner 14y ago
> you'd rather your portfolio companies swing for the fences and miss, rather than bunt. That implies a correlation between what you're working on, and whether you'll get acquihired. From what I've seen, the aquihiring companies will of
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by arohner 14y ago
The team is two founders and a contractor. Without talking specifics, the distinction between acquire and acquihire is IP/revenue/traction. Acquihire means "we don't care about your product, market or IP, but we do need talented engineers w
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by arohner 14y ago
I can tell you from experience, I've turned down several acquihires in the last few months from giant companies, with no VC raised. It can happen if you're bootstrapped.
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by arohner 14y ago
The talent market is going to stay frothy until engineer salaries adjust up to stable equilibrium. The market is doing the rational thing, when Acquihires are worth $1M/engineer with a 3-4 year lock-in, while 'normal' salary offers are $150
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by arohner 14y ago
Absolutely true. The other big reason to charge is you'll get dramatically more honest feedback from users about what to improve. Feedback on a free SaaS: "oh, that's nice". Feedback on a site costing $20/month: "I won't buy till you fix X,
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by arohner 14y ago
> continuous deployment works fine for web projects, but it's not an option if you've got a packaged product that you have to ship at some point. Agile is not a panacea for these environments. I think that misses one of the key insights
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by arohner 14y ago
> What matters is never "return" but always "return on investment." You're right. This is one of the primary advantages of startups with technical founders that talk to customers. Among many other flaws of the "OfficeSpace" work environ
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by arohner 14y ago
Fat client apps are fantastic for making some kinds of UI interactions trivial. The simplest example is the checkout form, or any kind of wizard linking multiple pages together. In a fat client app, all state for all N pages of your check
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by arohner 14y ago
> A/B testing, using usage metrics to drive decisions, customer development, lifecycle email marketing... unit tests, Selenium [testing], code reviews as a routine practice, reproducible server setup/deploys, etc. That sounds like the J
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by arohner 14y ago
Clojure absolutely has threads, in the common meaning of the term. I use futures all over the place in my code, and it's quite idiomatic. (future (do (foo 1) (bar 2)) Runs the expression on another thread. Futures intentionally compose well
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by arohner 14y ago
I'm pretty sure Valve wouldn't sell to MS for any amount of money. Gabe is a billionaire, and left MS to do his own stuff. And Valve culture sounds incompatible w/ MS culture.
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by arohner 14y ago
Clojure exists because rhickey didn't like the current state of programming languages. Dataomic exists because rhickey didn't like the current state of DB design. SQL is an anti-goal. "Familiarity" is a terrible metric for new things. New t
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by arohner 14y ago
I'm pretty sure SQL will be added to datomic over Rich Hickey's dead body, and that's a good thing IMO. There are already enough SQL databases in the world. rhickey isn't looking to make a 'me too' database, he's interested in improving the
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by arohner 14y ago
> They can be useful for certain constructions, but they don’t really enable anything amazing that you can’t do otherwise, just with a slightly different algorithm. One really nice property of laziness is dealing with data larger than R
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by arohner 14y ago
AFAIK, the largest tier in any AWS instance type has always been the full box. i.e an m1.xlarge is the whole box, an m2.4xlarge is a whole box, etc.
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by arohner 14y ago
Supposedly, high heeled shoes are also related to horses. Men's boots were heeled to make stirrups more effective. Heels then became a status symbol, as in "I wear heeled shoes because I own a horse, and therefore I am rich". then the fashi
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by arohner 14y ago
> I also seriously doubt that anyone has ever written a production system of any reasonable complexity and been able to use the exact same ORM code with absolutely any backend (if you have an example please correct me on this). You're e
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by arohner 14y ago
The also linked http://martinfowler.com/bliki/PhoenixServer.html is good. My startup has been in production on EC2 for 6 months, and I think we've never had a server up for more than 3 days, and never booted a production box from an AMI m
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by arohner 14y ago
How does limiting supply and artificially raising prices "protect the consumer"? And it sounds like your pitfalls are already illegal.
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by arohner 14y ago
Absolutely true. I find the same effect on HN to be even worse. HN now has over 100k uniques/day[1] . That means that on any topic you'd ever like to comment on, odds are good there are many HN visitors who are better at that you are. [1] t
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by arohner 14y ago
There are lots of services I would like to have. For example, I would love to buy $10 for $5. That doesn't mean someone can provide that to me, long term. The only way for fractional reserve banking to be practiced "safely" is if there is

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