luckydude

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by luckydude 17y ago
Huh. Not impressed. One of my guys, who went on to be one of the ZFS guys, came from 3par. And they had the 3x3 test: Gives a shit Positive learning curve. Not an asshole. Make your candidates pass that and you're doing fine.
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by luckydude 17y ago
I feel for Monty in that his "baby" is now under the control of some other entity. A couple of observations: a) All of MySQL is currently available under the GPL, so any pure open source business model can take that and fork it and have t
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by luckydude 17y ago
Why is this interesting? pre-commit triggers were in BitKeeper, what, 10 years ago? Did I miss something exciting here?
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by luckydude 17y ago
The people saying 5% are probably wishful thinkers. It's a fact of life that in all but very very few cases it is only the VC's and (sometimes) the founders that get rich. There are exceptions, I got a tiny part of google because I was the
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by luckydude 17y ago
As a long time user of craigslist I disagree with the "bad product" characterization. I find their website extremely pleasant to use, much like google. When will people learn that content is king and all that flash/image/whatever crud may
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by luckydude 17y ago
Probably not. Apple is a corporation that acts like one. They are in it to make money. They are better than average in that they try and make quality products (unlike cough Microsoft), but they are still very much in it to extract as m
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by luckydude 17y ago
Hi Tezza, good point on the recent account creation, does make me look like a stooge. It was/is my personal opinion and I'll try and stick around and establish a track record. I mostly don't do that sort of thing any more (used to be very
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by luckydude 17y ago
Thanks for the tip. The pointer to your successful site is? Sorry, cheap shot but... And your claim that you or the other folks are a user is based on what? Craig takes care of the _actual_ users, the people who buy/sell stuff there, use
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by luckydude 17y ago
You guys. Get a grip. It's his company, he built it, you didn't. He makes the rules, you don't. If you don't like that, then go build your own site that has the same level of success and define your own rules. And deal with all the peop
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by luckydude 17y ago
I know Craig personally, slightly, we've been on panels together. I also know Jim and Susan, been to their place in the city, hung out. I'm old, 47, been in the valley for 20+ years. Seen a lot of shit, seen a lot of people get screwed ov