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by pbiggar 9y ago
This is really cool - bringing the great treatment of `ack` to ls. And can confirm how fast it is! The unix philosophy is a great idea, but it doesn't really lead to a good experience. Glad people are making more integrated tools! Oh,
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by pbiggar 9y ago
Did you not read my comment? If you did read my comment, why would you write this one?
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by pbiggar 9y ago
Not only are there definitely people who click ads, but there are people _like us_ who click ads. All the dev tool companies run ads! CircleCI runs them, but the dozen or so other dev tool companies where I know the founders or early hires
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by pbiggar 9y ago
Well, the iphone... But the "cost" I'm referring to isn't just money. It's the amount of people who have done it, the expertise that's out there, the incubators, the support networks, the people willing to inve
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by pbiggar 9y ago
Slight tangent here, but SV tech often gets criticized for building shit that people don't need (Juicero is a good recent example, but people said it about the iphone when it came out). The upside of all that ridiculous tech for 22 yea
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by pbiggar 9y ago
Weird. When I was at Mozilla (2011), almost everyone had a Mac.
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by pbiggar 9y ago
As someone in this space, I think you're approach this wrong. You find early users by hand, reaching out to people you know have this problem and asking them to use the product (you would typically do this before even making it work pr
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by pbiggar 9y ago
Can you explain? I don't see how you got to that conclusion.
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by pbiggar 9y ago
I'm excited by superhuman ( https://superhuman.com ). Alas I haven't got an invite. Also, dunno if they're going to support my style of email use out of the box (I'm strict adherent to the Andreas Klinger style
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by pbiggar 9y ago
I'd love to hear more on this. Can you describe the structures in more detail? I wouldn't have expected the org itself to be anything except a shell around each successive fund. (Maybe I shouldn't have skipped this part of Ve
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by pbiggar 9y ago
I'm advocating that the ability to divest investors from your company is a necessary step to solving this problem. (PS although I answered your question directly, I did not miss the fact that you twisted my words to say something I did
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by pbiggar 9y ago
Good point. I'd estimate that Dave McClure's carry is worth $25m (assumptions: funds control 250m in investments, 20% carry, 2.5x returns, DMC has 20% ownership) It would be tough to get an investor to agree to give up that carry.
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by pbiggar 9y ago
The question I have with all these resignations and apologies is whether the partners in question are still getting carry on their fund. Since it's not addressed anywhere, I think it's safe to assume the answer is yes. I can'
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by pbiggar 9y ago
I just spoke to Correlation Ventures this week. Great model, and a refreshing change for fundraising. They came in cold after hearing about us from another VC, then we had one phone call which was mostly a friendly chat, and then 3 emails w
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by pbiggar 9y ago
Apparently, drivers are scarcely even charged for killing cyclists: - http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/opinion/sunday/is-it-ok-to... - https://nextcity.org/features/view/h
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by pbiggar 9y ago
Exactly. A graphical representation and a syntactic representation of code will both have text in them. They just have different syntax for equivalent structure.
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by pbiggar 9y ago
Strip out the "text" in your code and just leave the syntax - we'll see how readable that is.
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by pbiggar 9y ago
New startup | Distributed Systems Engineer, 2xEngineer, Designer | San Francisco | onsite, full-time | paul.biggar@gmail.com We're solving this problem: https://circleci.com/blog/its-the-future/ I founded and
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by pbiggar 9y ago
Cool product, and great to see this get traction! My new company is very much inspired by Yahoo pipes and making something similar. Would love to chat about your approach!
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by pbiggar 9y ago
Circle 2.0 (in beta) has the ability to use faster machines (and is also just faster).
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What 'snowflakes' get right about free speech(nytimes.com)
4 points by pbiggar 9y ago|1 comments
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by pbiggar 9y ago
From a NYTimes article [1] on the topic: "Universities invite speakers not chiefly to present otherwise unavailable discoveries, but to present to the public views they have presented elsewhere. When those views invalidate the humanity
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by pbiggar 9y ago
> This is what's wrong with so much modern development, we do what's easy for developers, not what's best for users. In the client software case, software that works is what's best for users. If you upgrade a library
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by pbiggar 9y ago
Once you've started using language package managers, it become very apparent that they have huge value, that apt-get doesn't bring. In particular, you get the exact version of the library you want. If you've ever had the expe
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by pbiggar 10y ago
I've heard more than a few women complain that all the bots in the "service" area tend to get female names.
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by pbiggar 10y ago
Anyone know how to export docs for an account for which you're not the admin? I have some docs in various HP orgs that I'd like to export.
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by pbiggar 10y ago
896 on my last one. Maybe the 4th game I played.
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by pbiggar 10y ago
The only thing that matter is validating. Don't write code if you can avoid it, try to validate for cheaper. "Will someone use this" can be better answered by calling them first, then build with their feedback.
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by pbiggar 10y ago
[deleted - supposed to be funny, ended up being mean]
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by pbiggar 10y ago
I'm extremely skeptical. They had a stretcher to hand but no handcuffs?

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