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by pbiggar 10y ago
Revisited the decision to remove him.
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by pbiggar 10y ago
Buried at the bottom: > "The airline eventually cleared everyone from the plane, Bridges said, and did not let them back on until the man was removed a second time — in a stretcher." My reading is they beat him so badly they ha
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by pbiggar 10y ago
Are you sure that google ever "merged" the dot and non-dot versions? As I recall (and I remember finding about that dots don't matter over a decade ago), it was like this since gmail launched?
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by pbiggar 10y ago
I think this is a safe assumption. It's well known in the dev tools space that if you do well, AWS will start to compete with you. A bunch of VCs have articles about how the big cloud players change the ecosystem (esp that AWS will jus
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by pbiggar 10y ago
I had the same experience. I looked it up afterwards. Recent arrivals in NYC in the 1800s tried to celebrate Paddy's day with a traditional ham and cabbage meal. However, the local Jewish butchers didn't serve ham. Also, the Iris
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by pbiggar 10y ago
Ironically, the paramilitary Black and Tans were named after the drink, which pre-existed them by like 50 years.
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by pbiggar 10y ago
Thanks for saying that! I don't have any agenda or ascribe any to you. All I think is that to the untrained eye, this post comes across as founder-unfriendly.
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by pbiggar 10y ago
> This just sounds like optimistic angels not understanding the equations they are a part of. I agree. I edited out of my rant the fact that investors are supposed to be sophisticated. Everyone knows what they're getting into here.
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by pbiggar 10y ago
I really really dislike when VCs make a pro-investor claim and try to hide it in founder-friendly terms. Priced rounds are great for VCs because they remove all their risk. But they don't remove any founder risk. Do a down-round after
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by pbiggar 10y ago
How did angelist help?
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by pbiggar 10y ago
Question: was this on regular CircleCI, or the v2 beta?
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Coordinating Heroku's Incident(heavybit.com)
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by pbiggar 10y ago
Maybe, but given the allegations and how quickly it has gotten traction, I would expect them to act and make pretty large changes. Here's what I think they'll need to do: - fire the entire chain of command to the HR person that sh
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by pbiggar 10y ago
Who was fired? The victim or the harasser?
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by pbiggar 10y ago
Yeah, I'm super interested in this and love AMAs on reddit, but video is just so much more annoying than text.
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by pbiggar 10y ago
RE 2): The article proposes "success". Each company and perhaps founder group will have it's own definition of success, but that's what you should aim for. Do you want to be profitable? To change the world? To be a unico
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by pbiggar 10y ago
Suppose you have a background job you want to run. Clojure has good concurrency, so it's tempting to just run it in the background. OK, now it needs to retry: that's great, Clojure has STM so it'll keep retrying until it succ
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by pbiggar 10y ago
CircleCI uses it - it's great. The upsides are: - the great concurrency model - the REPL - being able to edit with Paredit, - it's a great language - It's also amazing for hiring devs: there is a niche pool of devs who want
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by pbiggar 10y ago
And like the arrival of Uber, this was a massive boon for customers, and had unfortunate ramifications for the drivers.
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by pbiggar 10y ago
My best advice is to have a personality shine through. It will lose you some interviews, but gain you others, As a new engineer you really want to focus on strongly appealing to a smaller number of people, than to slightly appeal to many.
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by pbiggar 10y ago
I'm not sure why you wrote this comment. Did you think that someone who did a PhD in this didn't consider this? The difference between writing this comment and actually trying it is why they give people PhDs. Have a read of my the
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by pbiggar 10y ago
JS does - I didnt focus on JS. PHP has an unofficial spec now but didn't then. Here's what I wrote about it when it came out: https://circleci.com/blog/critiquing-facebooks-new-php-spec/
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by pbiggar 10y ago
Totally forgot about it :)
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by pbiggar 10y ago
Couldn't get around the paywall, but I found a New Yorker article that disputes the WSJ: http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/astrobiology-made-cas...
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by pbiggar 10y ago
Sure. Basically, a bunch of scripting languages (Ruby, PHP, Python, a few others) share the same properties, that make them hard to compile: - they're not really specified anywhere - they use `eval` and similar dynamic constructs - the
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by pbiggar 10y ago
I wrote a PhD on this topic ( https://paulbiggar.com/research/#phd-dissertation; for PHP, though solving different challenged than you'd have to for JS). I also worked on Firefox's JS engine. I'd be extre
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by pbiggar 10y ago
There may be a lot of web developers among gentoo users, but there are not a lot of gentoo users among web developers.
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by pbiggar 10y ago
I think it's the stature of the celebrities that died, not their quantity. While many celebrities are noteworthy, most known only to a niche audience or didn't significantly affect people's lives. In 2014, the only legend was
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by pbiggar 10y ago
Here's the google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C8EN9HS... I can't see much content in the cache but I watched the video. I think she's somewhat right, but we should be careful n
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by pbiggar 10y ago
It also wouldn't be irresponsible to send term sheets - the fact that the company doesn't exist will come out in due diligence pretty quickly.

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