mgrouchy

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   Twitter Raises $200 Million at $3.7 Billion Valuation; Adds New Board Members(kara.allthingsd.com)

   74 points by mgrouchy 16y ago|71 comments
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   by mgrouchy 16y ago

   I am actually shocked that people on this site would buy in to Paul Grahams philosophies. I mean why would they? This is a community site about startups(at least originally), that was developed by PG, for a company who funds startups(YC). H
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   by mgrouchy 16y ago

   I'm not an emacs user, but this is pretty awesome. Anyone know if something similar exists for Vim?
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   by mgrouchy 16y ago

   I dunno, I'm in canada before I got my unlimited txt plan, its 15c per txt to receive and 15c per txt to send. Its highway robbery.
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   by mgrouchy 16y ago

   It's different because there is nowhere on Paul Graham's website where you can have a discussion about the individual essays(or at all).
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   by mgrouchy 16y ago

   We use it as well. No problems to date. Its pretty great.
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   by mgrouchy 16y ago

   I find it interesting that you are saying its lowering the value/utility of the community here, but in one of these "Offer HN" threads you requested help not too long ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1839595 I think all in all that
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   37signals silently drops Basecamp basic plan. (basecamphq.com)

   4 points by mgrouchy 16y ago|1 comments
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   by mgrouchy 16y ago

   Good point. I guess I was nitpicking.
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    by mgrouchy 16y ago

    So really the name of this article should be "Five things that Paul Graham and I don't Agree on", not as flashy a title, but probably more accurate.
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    by mgrouchy 16y ago

    I'm not sure where you find these people, generally you will find the small subset of students who do projects outside of class work generally work on the web because these are things that can be most easily shared with peers. In my univers
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    by mgrouchy 16y ago

    changing from Chargify or any other recurring payment service to another provider shouldn't be too hard, considering all your customer data should be stored in your Payment Gateway(Authorize.Net, Braintree, etc.). Changing your gateway howe
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    by mgrouchy 16y ago

    I have a CS degree, I have done my fair share of math, its a requirement. That being said, I'm not amazing at math(working at becoming better), I'm passable for sure, understand concepts, not amazing on the details. It all comes down to the
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    by mgrouchy 16y ago

    I think the thing here, would be to grandfather paying customers, as they are already paying you and you can determine their expected value to make an educated choice about them.
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    by mgrouchy 16y ago

    I think this is essentially true, we made this decision early when we came out of beta to not offer a free plan for exactly this reason. Non-paying customers end up taking up the lions share of your companies resources.
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    by mgrouchy 16y ago

    I should add this is in relation to Chargify's recent pricing change. Can only do so much with an 80 character title.
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    How to Break the Trust of Your customers in Just One Day - Lessons Learned(davidhauser.com)

    197 points by mgrouchy 16y ago|97 comments
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    by mgrouchy 16y ago

    There might be 6000 years of culture, but this app finds degrees of separation(i guess) between wikipedia articles and adolf hitler(that is its purpose). So the association isn't casual and in relation to Adolf Hitler its pretty on topic.
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    Man Who Somehow Failed To Delete Facebook Account Complains About New Feature(techcrunch.com)

    2 points by mgrouchy 16y ago|0 comments
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    by mgrouchy 16y ago

    Chargify ( http://chargify.com ) -> recurring payments. Campaign monitor ( http://campaignmonitor.com )-> email campaigns. Github ( http://github.com ) -> vcs. Lighthouse ( http://lighthouseapp.com ) -> bug tracking. T
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    by mgrouchy 16y ago

    I do most of my work in python/django so virtualenv essentially solves much of these problems. The problem I am running into now is that our production environment is starting to get complicated enough(mysql, redis, 2 different django proje
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    The VC Market: An Adaptive System(informationarbitrage.com)

    1 points by mgrouchy 16y ago|0 comments
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    by mgrouchy 16y ago

    This is getting insane.
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    by mgrouchy 16y ago

    Depending on how this goes, this might actually make me use my Facebook account.
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    Facebook launches new Groups feature(facebook.com)

    2 points by mgrouchy 16y ago|5 comments
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    by mgrouchy 16y ago

    I can't remember where I read this, but this service already exists. I searched around and couldn't find it either though. so there is probably opportunity in the space.
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    by mgrouchy 16y ago

    This is why I hate Software patents. The whole patent system in general is screwed up, but its stuff like this that drives me crazy. Software patents as broad as this can basically kill innovation(which is contradictory to the actual purpos
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    What you can get with 120 million US Dollars.(brianshall.com)

    3 points by mgrouchy 16y ago|0 comments
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    Google URL Shortener Gets a Website - open to everyone(googlesocialweb.blogspot.com)

    3 points by mgrouchy 16y ago|0 comments
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    by mgrouchy 16y ago

    Most if not all of the things you counter nerd-rage about here are available in vim and emacs if you want them.