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by rwhitman 13y ago
I think its possible the immigration quotas are skewed by how many people are in the country that didn't come through the system today. Prior to the current wave of southern border immigration, almost everyone had to go through the sys
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by rwhitman 13y ago
I just checked out WeddingLovely from your blog post. I got married a few months ago and also did advisory on a premium domain wedding niche startup a few years back so I "get it" - this is on the right track and think the 'w
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by rwhitman 13y ago
Well he admits that he made bad choices. Obviously quitting his job was a bad choice - though I have spent several years around Hollywood folks and social norms regarding work amongst entertainment industry people in LA are a little differe
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by rwhitman 13y ago
So you get the worlds best and most powerful email inbox - for free - and the small price you pay is to be continually asked for PII and very subtle upsells on using additional, also free, services. I don't know but that sounds pretty
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by rwhitman 13y ago
Yea I used to rent an office for a few years. I learned some important things - particularly making sure that you have the right office environment for your productivity. I unfortunately rented a space before the 'coworking' revol
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by rwhitman 13y ago
The cohort of men who would have been undergrads in 1938 would have been in middle age at the time of the sexual revolution in the 60's and 70's. My guess is there was probably some political overlap with sexual-liberation, and th
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by rwhitman 13y ago
I've been a remote freelancer on and off for about 12 years now. In a lot of cases the clients I've had where I work remotely, were clients that either A) aren't tech businesses and typically don't have developers workin
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by rwhitman 13y ago
I'm in this bummer of a situation where I can work remote from pretty much anywhere I like, but my wife is bound to her 9 to 5 that won't allow her to work remotely for more than a few days at a stretch. She does knowledge work as
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by rwhitman 13y ago
Can you really attribute all of your success to an HN post, or maybe you just had a slam dunk of a product? Not everyone can nail product market fit out the gate, for most people this is hard work
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Definitely.
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by rwhitman 13y ago
Call me old fashioned, but my rule of thumb is to always wait a good month or so for a few hotfixes to be released before I upgrade an OS. I'd rather other folks get bragging rights to the new OS than risk myself getting into a crisis
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by rwhitman 13y ago
I grew up in the Northeastern US, snowy winters and all that. But its strange, even when I lived in sunny Southern California and it was 80 degrees and clear in December I'd still feel a little depressed and would sort of hibernate in
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by rwhitman 13y ago
If any of these sites were built using a well-engineered deployment framework, I wouldn't be using a MediaTemple grid account to host them
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by rwhitman 13y ago
No. Sure you get more money, but this is going to be absolutely toxic to your company culture. Now every employee at the company has to wake up and know that they're going to work at GoDaddy, a company that supported SOPA and PIPA a co
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by rwhitman 13y ago
Please just stop your community crisis management is just making this worse
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by rwhitman 13y ago
You're never going to win our hearts or minds here. MT is dead to me now. There is no one web technology professionals hate more in the world than GoDaddy. I can't think of a vendor I despise more. Also I'm an MT customer o
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by rwhitman 13y ago
Yea exactly. You just can't win with a small host provider. They will always get acquired. Always. Though I did get the sense that MT was large enough to stay independent. Really uncomfortable feeling knowing its GoDaddy now
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Also unlimited domain names and a huge amount of storage.
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The problem is that MT has the best shared host dashboard control panel out there. The grid shared hosting option historically sucked (can't tell you how many fires I've had to fight because of prolonged grid outages) but damn, th
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by rwhitman 13y ago
Bullshit.
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by rwhitman 13y ago
I have no love for Media Temple, but have so many client sites there that this really affects me. Just when I thought MT was improving they go and do this. That line about it staying "independent" is total crap. I stupidly got loc
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by rwhitman 13y ago
I don't anymore.
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I worked for a consumer startup that fit the profile. CEO would come up with an exciting business model, raise money with the dream, staff up, fail the execution and then 6 months later lay off half the company to go lean, pivot and repeat.
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by rwhitman 13y ago
Isn't it also possible the companies at the higher end of the revenue/employee spectrum are outsourcing more of their labor?
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by rwhitman 13y ago
Having lived in both NYC and Los Angeles for extended periods of time, NYC for the last 3 years and LA for the previous 7, I was surprised by how little of the underground creative DIY energy is left here. When I first moved to Brooklyn 2 y
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by rwhitman 13y ago
It depends what you want to do. Javascript is crucial for anything regarding web development, so if your goal is to master web dev, definitely have a sound foundation in Javascript. Personally I moved from PHP CMS's (years ago now) str
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Yikes, thats an alarming story. The fact that they were deliberately asking junior developers to impersonate senior developers using the same email addresses etc is a really worrisome practice. I had a situation managing a team for a clien
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by rwhitman 13y ago
This is brilliant. Just such a useful idea. But I would say that this should have been 'mobile first', and would strongly suggest expending effort on mobile experience. This is large and by far something I'd be more likely to
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In my experience the larger the apartment building you live in, the less likely that your neighbors will acknowledge you. Unless its a condo/coop where there are association meetings, and then everyone is in your face all the time. The
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by rwhitman 13y ago
I guess it makes sense that the future could be dominated by multiple, parallel internets of varying degrees of freedom. The corporate controlled internet we know today is just the mainstream realm of YouTube and email, while darker DIY int

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