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by cubes 13y ago
Wait, what? You didn't take AMT into account? Because I have colleagues that AMT has nearly bankrupted, and who spent years having their wages garnished by the IRS because of it. Feel free to edit your post so as not to send people t
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System Administrator Appreciation Day Picnic in South Park(sysadmin.eventbrite.com)
3 points by cubes 13y ago|0 comments
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by cubes 14y ago
I lean toward the 13" Air. My current work laptop is a 15" Macbook Pro, but I have an Air at home. If you don't need the larger screen, which I don't because I plug into at least one extra monitor most of the time, the Air is a nicer pack
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by cubes 15y ago
You're also missing the fact that joining an early phase startup carries non-trivial risk, and part of the reason early equity grants are large is to compensate for the risk one assumes by joining.
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by cubes 15y ago
It's a potentially neat idea, but keep in mind that many people already use their email for such a purpose. Rather than a specialized app for managing and tracking pitches, consider building something that integrates into mail clients ala
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by cubes 15y ago
SES is extremely easy. Unless you actually care about deliverability. Deliverability on the modern internet is hard. SES does not handle this. If Mailgun handles deliverability well, that alone is worth the price. Making it programmabl
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by cubes 16y ago
Eventbrite is hiring in San Francisco. It's a fun place to work, and we've got lots of openings: http://www.eventbrite.com/jobs/ Email cubes@eventbrite.com if you're curious.
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by cubes 16y ago
It's kind of organized ad hoc. If you're interested in putting one on, I'd suggest contacting the organizers. :)
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by cubes 16y ago
What do you mean by large scale? The first San Francisco event featured 20 trucks. The most recent Brooklyn one, which is where it originated, had 30.
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The Lost Horizon Night Market, bespoke experiences in box trucks(missionlocal.org)
3 points by cubes 16y ago|4 comments
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by cubes 16y ago
Some informative links, in case you haven't seen them already: * http://www.quora.com/What-caused-Foursquares-downtime-on-Oct... * http://blog.foursquare.com/2010/10/05/so-that-was-a-bummer/ * https://groups.google.com/group/mongodb-us
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by cubes 16y ago
While luigi's statement is a little extreme, I think the gist is right. Yes outsiders can offer advice on a system, but it's really difficult to offer sound advice without specific details of the system. Perhaps outsider advice shouldn't
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by cubes 16y ago
I find this sort of uninformed armchair analysis to be unfulfilling.
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by cubes 16y ago
The stock swap scenario is a hedge. It allows founders to potentially realize some upside even if their company does not succeed. I think this could be a useful tool to help founders effectively mitigate some of the risk they take on. Tha
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by cubes 16y ago
Syzygryd, a 2.5 ton fire breathing collaborative musical instrument. With a lot of help from friends. http://www.syzygryd.com
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by cubes 16y ago
I believe it's to encourage the projects Kickstarter funds to have a specific focus, and to decrease the likelihood of fraud. If the money just goes into a slush fund, it's easy to lose track of it. For instance, the Syzygryd Kickstarter i
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by cubes 16y ago
This is actually tricky from a legal perspective because startups are illiquid investments, and the SEC has rules that prevent you from selling shares in a non-public company to so-called non-qualified investors.
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by cubes 16y ago
I'm a member of Noisebridge, and I think it's pretty great. If anyone is in the San Francisco Bay Area, drop by some time.
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by cubes 16y ago
Do something else. Travel. Go to Burning Man. Get away from the keyboard.
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by cubes 16y ago
Startups are, typically, all consuming. Of course that's going to have an effect on your relationship with your significant other. I think it's really important to keep the plans you make. Yes, sometimes the servers will crash, and it ha
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by cubes 16y ago
Facebook uses Cassandra, and, with properly designed schema, those queries are actually cheap, and, better yet, distributed across a cluster of machines. You can read about Cassandra here: http://cassandra.apache.org/
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by cubes 16y ago
This is not really accurate. Some NoSQL solutions, such as Memcached, MemcacheDB, and REDIS are key-value stores, i.e. hash tables. Other solutions, such as Cassandra, MongoDB, and CouchDB provide richer semantics that make it possible to
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by cubes 16y ago
My point is that religious debates, not unlike the Google Pac-Man logo, waste time. But at least Google's Pac-Man logo is fun, and nobody spills blood over Pac-Man :) As for using both, I tend to use emacs for the heavy lifting, and vi for
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by cubes 16y ago
Seriously? Seriously? It's 2010, and we're still having this religious debate? Pick an editor that works for you. Learn it. Use it. Done. NB I'm a heretic, I use both vi and emacs.
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by cubes 16y ago
Minor technical gripe, there's an annoying audio hiss, but the information is great.
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Flamethrowing musical sculpture destined for Burning Man(wired.co.uk)
2 points by cubes 16y ago|1 comments
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by cubes 16y ago
Facebook did not integrate in to MySpace, and managed to unseat it. I agree that ease of use is key, and this is what has crippled cypherpunk projects in the past; it's why STARTTLS protects so much email, and PGP protects so little. Also
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by cubes 16y ago
The average Kickstarter is not pulling down anywhere near 200k, and it would take a remarkably clever con to pull off what you propose. Why would a clever con target Kickstarter, something that is trivially traceable? Also, why target a l
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by cubes 16y ago
While you raise a legitimate point, I think you discount the basic fact that, on balance, most individuals behave in a trustworthy manner. Society depends on this fact. We trust people to drive cars, and not intentionally run people down.
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by cubes 16y ago
The reasoning in this article is pretty specious and circular. Some of the author's arguments can be summed up as: * Diaspora will fail because it sounds similar to something someone else tried one time that failed. * Nobody will use Diasp

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