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by phillmv 14y ago
Hey! I love this kind of service. That said, here's what I want: I want a description of what happens when you give up or get acquired. Thirty days notice for this kind of thing is not good enough. What about an option to be crawled by the
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by phillmv 14y ago
Well, it's not an option if you've taken VC. A VC is only looking at time frames of 3-5 years, given the limitations of their business model. If you don't look poised to grow 5-10x within that time frame then it's not worth their time, give
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by phillmv 14y ago
+1. I almost wrote this myself last year after reading the spec, but then all the will to live and relevant details had evaporated from my mind. It's actually not that hard to understand once you strip the verbose prose.
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by phillmv 14y ago
When I saw that quote I was instantly reminded of: "During the Old Stone Age, between thirty-seven thousand and eleven thousand years ago, some of the most remarkable art ever conceived was etched or painted on the walls of caves in souther
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by phillmv 14y ago
Property rights are a fiction invented and enforced by society. Therefore, it's not inappropriate for society to occasionally have opinions on how property should work. Some of the ways people handle their property is detrimental to society
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by phillmv 14y ago
I have no negative emotions regarding wealth . In absolute terms, I am quite wealthy; I enjoy the serendipity of my birth tremendously and every day give thanks for it. It's just plain to me that we're getting fucked by those much further
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by phillmv 14y ago
No, it's the "redistribute the wealth" argument. Whether you do it by funding welfare or schools or giving tax refunds, it's up to you. >It's like every other human relationship, the more you have to offer the higher your standards can
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by phillmv 14y ago
No. I'm saying is maybe increase high end income taxes, maybe look into the viability of higher capital gains taxes, maybe find and create some kind of disincentive for companies to be bailing out VCs. Find some way to even the playing fiel
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by phillmv 14y ago
>I get down about how unfair that is from time to time, but there's nothing you can really do about it, other than focus on your work. I regret upvoting you prior to finishing your post. This is bullshit. Of course we can do something a
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by phillmv 14y ago
Actually, I think I did suffer from some reading miscomprehension. I apologize for the inconvenience, tho I do disagree with your base premise. Regards,
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by phillmv 14y ago
Did you read the post at all? >Ruby isn't cool any more. Yeah, you heard me. It's not cool to write Ruby code any more. All the cool people moved on to slinging Scala and Node.js years ago. Our project isn't cool, it's just a bunch of b
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by phillmv 14y ago
I thought it was totally spineless. Compare: http://braythwayt.com/2013/03/21/evangelism-pr.html
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by phillmv 14y ago
Listen, I know that once we turn forty we're all put out to pasture in the Great Programmer Iceberg and left to fend for ourselves but: I think the takeaway is, you're not building something sustainable if you can't attract people with kids
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by phillmv 14y ago
"discouraging culture of dickitude", nailed it. We have to moderate the kinds of communities we want to see and participate in. You don't have to put up with people's shit.
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by phillmv 14y ago
I think people forget how transformative Rails was. When it came out it blew people away. We all make fun of the 15 min blog today, but at the time it was really impressive. Nowadays it's not so amazing by comparison because everyone's caug
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by phillmv 14y ago
Hi, I'm with http://rubysec.github.com/ We maintain a freely available advisory database https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/ designed to be easily machine readable. We also maintain a free ruby-wide security announcement mailin
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by phillmv 14y ago
How big is your database? Why are you not keeping it in memory? Was this an actual, real bottleneck? How many servers do you currently rent?
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by phillmv 14y ago
Ah how awful and awesome that the world is becoming like a William Gibson book.
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by phillmv 14y ago
> the rule of thumb is that you need every advantage you can get when it comes to being attacked. Nah. Well, at least people shouldn't feel that way; publishing your solutions helps us all. I just don't think that someone sitting on gig
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by phillmv 14y ago
Oh, me? I'm perfectly calm. I didn't want to sound too condescending.
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by phillmv 14y ago
>This is condescending, and relies on the assumption that I don't know anything about anything and just fell off the turnip truck last week. Well, obviously you didn't get it. > but for something this long you should do me (the read
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by phillmv 14y ago
>It takes about 30 seconds to install an ad-blocking extension. I'd be willing wager that those 30 seconds of barrier would deter like 70-80% of the computer using population. Very few people as a whole know or are comfortable with brow
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by phillmv 14y ago
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme". Know your 19th and 20th century history. It's remarkable how little gets communicated throughout a high school education. A good grasp of recent history really changes your perspective on
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by phillmv 14y ago
I think the honesty in here implies you wouldn't act greedily.
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by phillmv 14y ago
It strikes me as a way to reduce headcount without announcing layoffs. It's shitty if you were one of the telecommuters; and while I am loathe to side with a crappy doublespeak management move… Yahoo! does need a shake up. That's Mayer's wh
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by phillmv 14y ago
http://hnwishlist.com/posts/54520ba4-f32e-473a-8590-365e893f... ("Implement a real name policy") Seriously? Why does anyone think this is a good idea? Can't we just stomp this one out for good? I really miss noms de guerre. It saddens me
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by phillmv 14y ago
HN doesn't benefit from close ties to YC. YC benefits from close ties to HN. YC folks will post to whatever is considered the de rigeur nerd/startup news site, which over the last couple of years has become HN - having migrated from reddit
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by phillmv 14y ago
Note from someone who organizes conferences: Do NOT use any slide deck framework that doesn't have a solid export function - jpgs, pdfs, whatever. The videographer who will be editing your video will not be able to deal with your esoteric f
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by phillmv 14y ago
If you're a vim user, Tim Pope is a goddamn hero and I don't give a fuck what anybody thinks.
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by phillmv 14y ago
Exactly what we had in mind. Soon!

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