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by fbuilesv 13y ago
This is a repost, past "discussions" here: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3007666 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1469055
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N.A.D.D.(randsinrepose.com)
1 points by fbuilesv 13y ago|1 comments
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by fbuilesv 13y ago
> If Apple is "instructing" that firm, then they aren't representing their clients' interests correctly. Sorry to pick on just one phrase of your comment but I'm honestly curious. How is the "not-representin
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by fbuilesv 13y ago
Hey guys, Federico from MiCarga here. We're happy to answer any questions. If some of the stuff in the letter sounds familiar it's probably because you've read it before in PG's recent fund-raising articles (recommended
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by fbuilesv 13y ago
Thanks for the tip drakaal. As mmvvaa points out, general solicitation is now accepted in the US. We have talked to our lawyers and we think we're safe on this side, but if anyone with more knowledge wants to chime in we'd appreci
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by fbuilesv 13y ago
We are in the same space and to be honest we were amazed by Keychain's launch. According to VentureBeat [0], they had 1 in every 500 trucks in the US on launch day (Aug '12). We launched in May of the same year and we know how har
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by fbuilesv 13y ago
Hi! This is an experiment we decided to run since we want to get this out to as many people as we can. Our network of investors is mainly based in LatAm and it's too small so this is our way of getting it out to the public. It's l
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by fbuilesv 13y ago
Hi, Federico (one of the co-founders) here. We thought a lot about talking in terms of Uber (or Heroku in the add-ons part) and we are aware of this fear of name dropping. The reality is that we think Uber is a whole lot more than a simple
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Letter to Potential Investors(micarga.com)
19 points by fbuilesv 13y ago|36 comments
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by fbuilesv 13y ago
Does our discussion really benefit from comments attacking "these people" just for the sake of criticizing them? Please don't take this personal, I'm not a US citizen and I don't like the NSA capturing and archiving
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Learning New Programming Languages(dev.mheroin.com)
1 points by fbuilesv 13y ago|0 comments
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by fbuilesv 13y ago
I built a site called makeitpersonal ( http://makeitpersonal.co ) where you can highlight, annotate and maybe share song lyrics. Although I use it a lot, I'm probably the only active user (which by the way is OK, I built a to
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by fbuilesv 13y ago
What relevance does that add to this presentation? It's interesting by itself. What do the presentation (or our discussion) gain from the fact that Brad is a super smart guy "much more capable than the 'typical' programm
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by fbuilesv 13y ago
I like your last paragraph. I don't know what the future will bring but I totally agree that today's world works mostly under an old school, factory-style management regime, which is not efficient in industries like ours. Having s
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by fbuilesv 13y ago
It's interesting that you mention Mr. Hamano since I was thinking about how Git or Linux works while writing my comment. I think we both agree that having someone who steers the ship is then fine, call it PM, higher-ups in the commit h
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by fbuilesv 13y ago
Most engineers are good at discussing specific tradeoffs, especially technical ones. Finding tradeoffs that relate directly to a product's roadmap and its impact in the rest of the organization and then discussing them with the persons
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by fbuilesv 13y ago
> Crush chaos and entropy through decoupled design, through APIs that are simple and affordant, crush chaos by making it everyone's job to make the whole simpler. The author and yourself are talking about entirely different things
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by fbuilesv 13y ago
I'm not the OP but take a look at Balanced Payments: https://www.balancedpayments.com/
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Entropy Crushers(randsinrepose.com)
47 points by fbuilesv 13y ago|26 comments
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by fbuilesv 13y ago
I'm currently writing an article about this but the two most helpful things I've found are: 1. Be thoughtful and patient: Instead of writing down whatever comes to my mind, I try to take a couple of minutes thinking about the rami
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by fbuilesv 13y ago
This a list of projects I'd like to implement, a couple of them are there only because I want to learn the specifics about a language/tool: http://mheroin.com/projects . Some I consider fun: * Basic HTTP Server in
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by fbuilesv 13y ago
I like to use Twitter to get in touch with the world without being overwhelmed too much stuff. I try to keep my following list < 50. It's usually a mix of real life friends, interesting people on Internet and services I rely on. A c
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Notes on "Do Things That Don't Scale"(startups.mheroin.com)
4 points by fbuilesv 13y ago|0 comments
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Linus Torvalds Defends His God-Given Right to Offend You(wired.com)
6 points by fbuilesv 13y ago|0 comments
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by fbuilesv 13y ago
This reminded me about Joel Spolsky's Strategy Letter III ( http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000052.html ), where he talks about a company called PayMyBills. PayMyBills would handle the user's bill
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by fbuilesv 13y ago
When you joined a project is irrelevant. If you were hired two days ago and only found out about this now: tough luck, you have some work to do [0]. Even "stable", older platforms like Cobol have to deal with this (Micro Focus mak
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by fbuilesv 13y ago
If you "have no problem with keeping software up-to-date" then don't complain about these type of changes. As developers we either are responsible about version policies or we're not. Let's take Ruby 1.8.7 as an exa
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Ask HN: Can you explain me Keychain Logistics (YC12)?
1 points by fbuilesv 13y ago|0 comments
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by fbuilesv 13y ago
Having recently worked with this project I can say that it's pretty reliable and way better than most jQuery plugins you'll find out there. The iframe transport method for uploads is useful for browsers that don't support XHR
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Groupon IPO Roadshow (2011)(youtube.com)
1 points by fbuilesv 13y ago|0 comments

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