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   by blader 18y ago

   Reminds me of the old game designer joke: Q: 'What would a game look like if a UI designer designed it?' A: 'A big button that says: "Click here to Win."
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   by blader 18y ago

   I can't tell you how many times I've wanted to punch people who've told me that in the face when I was sleeping for 2 hours day for a month.
3. 213.▲
   by blader 18y ago

   ... until you have them.
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   by blader 18y ago

   The only problem with Rails are all the armchair scalability experts and backseat developers who read TechCrunch and use Twitter and think they know a thing or two about scaling. When Julia Allison goes on web radio and starts holding court
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   by blader 18y ago

   Yeah. So is VIM. So is emacs. So is driving an F1 race car or flying a fighter jet. Development isn't supposed to be easy to learn - but it is supposed to be efficient once you are proficient at it. And that is exactly what Perl is.
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   by blader 18y ago

   1. It depends (mostly on company financing stage and valuation). 2. 4 years, 1 year cliff. 3. It's an uncommon structure that won't align the company's interests with your employee's. Revenue up front and value building don't always go hand
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   Microsoft: The "Velvet Sweatshop" (1989)(krsaborio.net)

   12 points by blader 18y ago|4 comments
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   by blader 18y ago

   It's worth about $27 a share, by definition.
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   by blader 18y ago

   It's just a fucking word.
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    by blader 18y ago

    Hi Matt Maroon.
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    by blader 18y ago

    Thanks for looking out, lol.
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    by blader 18y ago

    Wow Lucas, you put our scaling story to shame. When are you guys coming by and visiting dude?
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    by blader 18y ago

    "pre-IPO" stock options. Lovely.
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    by blader 18y ago

    "brought down the Department of Defense Arpanet computer network last week for a day and a half" So RTM literally brought down the internet?
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    by blader 18y ago

    It's an absolutely awful and egregious to the point of malicious deal. For a tiny investment, you are getting an overblown option pool, a 25% ROFR on your next round, and getting an investor leaning board. When negotiating financing, you ha
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    by blader 18y ago

    Being a Ruby / Rails guy - the job market for that talent is hot. Good Rubyists easily get jobs in the six digits. That aside, this debate is like emacs vs vi. Get good at one, because in terms of productivity and getting things done it mak
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    by blader 18y ago

    I'd guess yes. Writing great code, and building a great product with a small team is a very different skillset than managing a medium to large company of dozens to hundreds of engineers.
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    by blader 18y ago

    Go for the framework that lets you develop quicker. The truth is that there's no framework on earth that has solved the 'scaling' problem for you. Anyone who says '<framework x> doesn't scale' in all probability has never scaled any
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    by blader 18y ago

    pingdom
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    by blader 18y ago

    Nginx: http://highscalability.com/friends-sale-architecture-300-mil...
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    by blader 18y ago

    Hi Fayram, fancy seeing you here.
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    by blader 18y ago

    There's few things in life that feels as good as signing your own checks.
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    by blader 18y ago

    This is pretty spot on.
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    by blader 18y ago

    There are pretty standard numbers for post series A equity compensation - these numbers are typically shared by VCs with their portfolio companies so they're not going to be too different from company to company. For a mid level engineer th
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    by blader 18y ago

    You can have control of the board, but veto rights on acquisitions is a very standard provision in the Investors Rights Agreement for institutional rounds. I'd be shocked to hear of a series A financing without that provision - that would b
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    by blader 18y ago

    Not much to add to this except we're hiring: http://www.seriousbusiness.com/serious-hackers/
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    by blader 18y ago

    They can reach more users than any individual social network on the internet.
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    by blader 18y ago

    This makes sense though. By virtue of being users of this site and knowing how them 'puters work, we are almost certainly outliers in the general population. 'Things people want' and 'things we want' are likely to be different.
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    by blader 18y ago

    "That’s true, but it’s even more fashionable (at least in tech circles) to say that Facebook is the next Google, or that Facebook is building the social graph which is worth a lot for some unknown reason and they’ll monetize it later.
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    by blader 18y ago

    The two largest Rails deployments on the internet are not on that list.