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by mcfunley 12y ago
There are of course people who just put up finished goods without modification, and "reseller" is a descriptive term in those cases. That activity violates the terms, so these people eventually get banned. In my experience this is
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by mcfunley 12y ago
Etsy didn't exist in 2004. The third world is much more connected now, on mobile phones. You have the old rules more or less correct, but the spirit of them was exactly the opposite. The intention was for Etsy to serve as a (much lower
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Re-Introducing Deployinator, now as a gem(codeascraft.com)
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by mcfunley 12y ago
Honestly PHP could improve matters a lot by just removing the community comments on php.net.
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Call Me Maybe: MongoDB (2013)(aphyr.com)
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by mcfunley 12y ago
I'm glad someone else has noticed the profound weirdness of "The Dilbert Future." I stopped taking Scott Adams seriously a few minutes after reading it. I haven't looked at it since high school (in the 90's -- eek),
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Taste(gigamonkeys.com)
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Occupational Licensing Hurts Low-income Entrepreneurs(newrepublic.com)
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Feedback(gigamonkeys.com)
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by mcfunley 12y ago
Totally true. It would be great to have some real stats about how often options earn a profit. But keep in mind this is at best an upper bound on that.
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by mcfunley 12y ago
I find the idea that "less than 5% of employee option grants are exercised" both very sad and unsurprising. From working in this industry I've gotten the overwhelming impression that employees don't know how equity works
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by mcfunley 12y ago
PG's time would be better spent arguing for top marginal tax rate increases. Or something else that's testimony against self-interest. I think it's not at all surprising that the overall reaction to his transparently talking
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Top Five Digital Media Launch Mistakes(elizabethspiers.com)
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> Any bike thief worth his shim knows you’ve got to liquidate the rolling booty via parts When I lived in New York in the mid-2000's it was pretty common to find folks trying to sell stolen bikes for $20 in public parks. Being young
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by mcfunley 12y ago
I just finished a remote job search. I'm in Los Angeles, and most of the companies I talked to were in SF. I had previously worked remotely for a company in New York (Etsy), and I was honestly really surprised how hostile SF companies
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by mcfunley 12y ago
Yes, it really is an accurate portrayal of the process. Etsy isn't pushing days of development out in a deploy. That would be considered poor practice at Etsy. To make a sizable feature live, you use a bunch of methods in cooperation:
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by mcfunley 12y ago
You're not performing surgery and you're not arguing in court. You're making many mostly-trivial changes to a website, and that process should be trivial enough that it can be learned in a day. Having people deploy on their f
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by mcfunley 12y ago
One answer is that it's convenient to have the task around for engineer first-day deploys, which serve a greater purpose. A second answer is building a database-backed CMS to replace editing html for every dumb page on the site would b
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by mcfunley 12y ago
Nixon invented the freaking Southern Strategy. I think noting "polarization" in HST's polemic is missing the forest for the trees a bit.
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US Links North Korea to Sony Hacking(nytimes.com)
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by mcfunley 12y ago
"I didn’t buy the New Republic to be the conservator of a small print magazine whose long-term influence and survival were at risk." Except TNR existed for a century as a subsidized, money-losing magazine. Buying the magazine with
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by mcfunley 12y ago
It's a weird privacy model to try to reason about. Your anonymity depends on how many contacts your _contacts_ have. If you have a thousand contacts you may have no idea who's posting the secrets you see, and you might feel more a
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by mcfunley 12y ago
Exactly--a company I worked for did a stock split that was at least partially rationalized by being able to offer candidates higher share counts. Companies also hand out explainer sheets with their grants that don't really help, inasmu
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by mcfunley 12y ago
> Think about working for equity vs. salary It's really common for people to drastically overestimate the value of startup equity, or to just not understand the basic mechanics of it at all. In my experience people look at the face
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by mcfunley 12y ago
The point is really that this experience isn't shared by other people in other industries. I'd feel silly explaining how many unsolicited recruiting emails I get to the folks I know in entertainment, fashion, marketing, or whateve
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by mcfunley 12y ago
I do not actually believe in karma or any other form of cosmic justice. But blowing off easy employment prospects in public strikes me as the kind of collective sin that we will all be struck down for eventually. It's bad form. With th
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by mcfunley 12y ago
Practically any other way. Responding as he did shows an incredible lack of judgement that shouldn't be tolerated in any employee, let alone the CEO. The response lacks all proportionality. A former employee is saying mildly critical t
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by mcfunley 12y ago
That was a thoroughly classless move on his part. The reddit or HN community might eat that kind of thing up, but it's recruiting poison. Anyone contemplating taking a job at reddit would have to think twice about working for someone w
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by mcfunley 12y ago
My first job out of college was building a TA package at a then-small Bloomberg competitor. I knew basically nothing about any of this and just approached it as a technical challenge, and I had a generally ok time just getting paid to write
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by mcfunley 12y ago
There are legions of VB programmers out there, you just don't hear from them. The ones I worked with a decade ago were not the types to wind up on HN, to read programming blogs, or to engage with the wider programming community. They w

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