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by mcfunley 11y ago
Both the price of the final pre-IPO tender and the sale price I privately arranged were higher than the current public market price.
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by mcfunley 11y ago
I was in a similar situation two years ago. I'd advise having both a plan and a backup plan before you pull the trigger on leaving. This is generally pretty good, if verbose: https://github.com/jlevy/og-equity-comp
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by mcfunley 11y ago
Am I right in assuming that the name is a tribute to John Allspaw's rec.music.phish posts from the 90s? https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/allspaw$20phriend%7...
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Common Pitfalls in Experimentation(codevoyagers.com)
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Magical Thinking and Thought Terminating Cliches(tinyletter.com)
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by mcfunley 11y ago
He's starting a company around jepsen so it's a bit different now: > For folks who would like to pay for a Jepsen analysis, email aphyr+jepsen@aphyr.com. I've got one client lined up but I'll keep in touch. :) https:
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The Age of the Cockroach(medium.com)
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How much is Basecamp worth? I don’t know and I don’t care(medium.com)
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The Pixel Factory: WebGL, GPUs and Math(Box)(acko.net)
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What writers make in 2015(theawl.com)
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by mcfunley 11y ago
Same here, I also did basically the same thing in 1997. I wasn't expelled but I was banned from my senior prom and served a lengthy in-school suspension stint. The administration threatened to write to the colleges I'd already bee
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by mcfunley 11y ago
Visual Basic has/had this and not as a joke. It was called "On Error Resume Next."
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by mcfunley 11y ago
Yes: taxes.
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Targeting Broad Queries in Search(codeascraft.com)
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by mcfunley 11y ago
We hired some key employees from Flickr who knew a particular MySQL sharding strategy really well. Postgres would have worked fine, just not the way we were using it back then.
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by mcfunley 11y ago
I was at Etsy when this was being built by a consultant, ostensibly for us to use to test our morass of stored procedures in perpetuity. Early on, someone got some bad advice and thought you were safe from sql injection if you wrote your sq
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Choose Boring Technology: Expanded, Slide-Based Edition(mcfunley.com)
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by mcfunley 11y ago
I think I've spent at least 50% of my career either contributing to or dismantling one Fowler-inspired disaster or another, so I hear you. That said people are fallible and should generally get credit for changing their minds about thi
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Great Teams, Great Products(blog.capwatkins.com)
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Failure is an Option(indecorous.com)
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by mcfunley 11y ago
Yeah this has come up and it's reasonable, although it's a tricky/laborious migration in practice given a wide variety of things emitting stats. The statsd design choices here are mostly explained by the fact that Etsy uses i
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by mcfunley 11y ago
I was at Etsy when we made statsd, and I'm currently working on fixing the same problems at Stripe. This is super interesting and relevant to me personally, thanks for writing it all down! There are some details of how Etsy uses statsd
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by mcfunley 12y ago
> What the author should focus on is the lack of agility that prevents companies from experimenting and failing quickly. Wow weird someone should totally think about that, maybe it doesn't even have much to do with the programming l
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by mcfunley 12y ago
> I don't think there is a single engineer working at Etsy who thinks PHP is the best language out there Nota bene, the creator of PHP works for Etsy (Hey thanks for the comment, Will)
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by mcfunley 12y ago
Author here--yeah the irony is killing me. It's PHP though. I'm fighting quota issues with my dumb host. I assure you migrating to something better is not my day job. Here's a pdf of it: https://www.dropbox.com&#x2
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by mcfunley 12y ago
100% agreement. Startup equity is not only more complicated than you suppose, it's more complicated than you _can_ suppose. Everyone working in this industry should get an appreciation for this. And I'm not saying this for altruis
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by mcfunley 12y ago
Don't work for a company that won't give you all of the details necessary to value their equity. I'm not surprised that people don't ask about the equity, because people are generally woefully uneducated about it. Recrui
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by mcfunley 12y ago
Another version of this story that I love uses the Russian Navy: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/brada/archive/2005/05/12/417064.aspx
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by mcfunley 12y ago
I'm just now putting two and two together, but I now realize that I saw Carlos talk about his haproxyctl project at the Pasadena meetup last month. He projected enthusiasm and earnestness in a way that had me grinning from ear to ear.
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FCC overturns state laws that protect ISPs from local competition(arstechnica.com)
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