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by sbraford 18y ago
While the "one in a million" better is a cool blurb, what does it really mean? Let's say your team makes 25 commits per day. 25 * ~300 working days = 7,500 commits per year That would take 133+ years to reach 1 in a million. The more intere
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by sbraford 19y ago
If any system (attempting to solve this problem) allows one to add 2,433 emails to an "inbox", then it is doomed to fail. Sometimes, it's the tool user, not the tool itself, that is to blame.
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by sbraford 19y ago
Do it man! Honestly, it really is a weird feeling. I always hated working for other companies, but felt that I "had to" because I was afraid of taking the leap. (and yes, of course, it is more secure/stable/etc) But yes -- I definitely di
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by sbraford 19y ago
congrats! I am just in a mode right now where I see victimhood for what it is. Glad you're not letting yourself be a victim.
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by sbraford 19y ago
quit?
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by sbraford 19y ago
It feels a little weird saying it, but I feel exactly like the uncaged lion paul describes. My "hack" to achieve this: * quit the job to pursue part-time freelancing * the idea is to work on a startup / projects the other part of the time *
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by sbraford 19y ago
I would suggest working part-time as a freelancer as another option. (i.e. if you can't get into YC)
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by sbraford 19y ago
I'm a recovering SBCer (now AT&T, again?). IBMers and SBCers compete over whose company was the basis for Office Space & TPS Reports. (i.e. the TPS Report zero that started it all)
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by sbraford 19y ago
I also heard Enron was much like this (amazon + the defense co).
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When trolls had class...(youtube.com)
11 points by sbraford 19y ago|11 comments
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Yahoo to Merge with AOL?(techcrunch.com)
8 points by sbraford 19y ago|3 comments
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by sbraford 19y ago
This is great stuff. Thank you for posting this! I normally have a dual-screen setup powered by desktops plus a nice keyboard + mouse. But I'm in the process of moving abroad and will be living out of my laptop for a little while. You see s
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by sbraford 19y ago
Congratulations, guys!
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by sbraford 19y ago
I know you were mostly kidding, but it made me think. Yes -- the Dark Side of rails is the (obvious) realization that it's still just a framework (built on the ruby language), in which just as crappy code can be written as any PHP, Python,
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by sbraford 19y ago
along with "i heard he produces invalid markup" (cue beavis & butthead laugh)
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by sbraford 19y ago
Boy, would I love to never have to think of XHTML/CSS. The reality has always been quite different. At least churning out valid XHTML+CSS from Photoshop designs has now become a commodity business: http://onwebapps.com/39-photoshop-psd-to-
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by sbraford 19y ago
My only problem with table nazis is when they do their job poorly. i.e. they insist on a tableless layout, yet when you look at their design in IE6/7, the right sidebar always seems to end up at the bottom of the page. So instead of working
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by sbraford 19y ago
lol - nice find
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The Valley turns out for Natali(valleywag.com)
1 points by sbraford 19y ago|0 comments
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by sbraford 19y ago
curious: is there any difference between public domain and MIT? they seem like ostensibly the same thing.
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by sbraford 19y ago
Tichy - oftentimes as a consultant you can work offsite. There are of course those contract gigs where they want you onsite, but that sounds like it would be just the same problem for you. I'm the same way though... consulting has been gre
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by sbraford 19y ago
Skribit looks sweet - is it RoR powered or what? Are you in YCombinator?
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by sbraford 19y ago
I agree, being forced to know ahead of time how many mongrels you'll need is sub-optimal. At the same time, it's trivial to switch this number if you've not hit your server resource limits yet. (i.e. when coming under a digg load) Once ser
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Napster to Offer DRM-free Downloads(mashable.com)
1 points by sbraford 19y ago|0 comments
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by sbraford 19y ago
That's a really good question, eh? :) It seems to me the webserver would then need to support that (dynamic allocation of additional target mongrels). The way it works currently is you put Apache2 / Lighty / nginx / etc in front, working as
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How 7 Mongrels Handled a 550k Pageview Digging(shanti.railsblog.com)
20 points by sbraford 19y ago|18 comments
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by sbraford 19y ago
Not sure if you're looking for a co-founder, but Christian Perry (runs Geek Sessions, etc) was trying to startup something similar a while back...
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by sbraford 19y ago
Management failure.
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Ask YC: What podcasts do you subscribe to?
14 points by sbraford 19y ago|26 comments
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33 Steps to Moving (your startup) Abroad [Checklist](onwebapps.com)
3 points by sbraford 19y ago|0 comments

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