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by spolsky 15y ago
Voting is actually a kind of "test of concept" of the idea of Trello Plugins which enhance Trello boards in interesting ways that not everyone necessarily uses
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by spolsky 15y ago
Some corrections: (1) it doesn't matter what I believe in. We now have telecommuters at both Stack Exchange and Fog Creek and for the right individual, it's fine. (2) this doesn't follow. Do you really think we give people desktop computers
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by spolsky 15y ago
I love the way people on the Internet always find a way to misinterpret every post in the worst possible way, no matter how little sense they make. After reading a detailed article about how we spend over $5000 to make sure our developers a
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by spolsky 15y ago
The trouble is, you can't remain anonymous. You just had a meeting with partner X. During that meeting, he kept getting up to go to the bathroom to do lines of coke. You write, "Met with X. He kept getting up to do coke. Avoid." Guess what?
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by spolsky 15y ago
I can't stop thinking that this was a top-secret hit job by some shady character working for the hotel industry looking to derail AirBnB's next fund-raising round. Heck, if Nixon could do it, why couldn't The American Hotel & Lodging As
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by spolsky 15y ago
Well, that might be what it's for, but that's not how it works. The Funded doesn't have the data. It's full of random meaningless flattery ("Great firm!") or random complaints ("Partners were fiddling with their blackberries during my pitch
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by spolsky 15y ago
I completely don't understand these public bug tracking systems that turn into YouTube threads, for all intents and purposes. How does any working engineer get anything done like that?
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by spolsky 15y ago
- Copies of the report, titled ''Teletext and Videotex in the United States,'' were scheduled to be available after June 28 from McGraw-Hill Publications, 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, N.Y. 10020 Typical New York Times. No URL.
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by spolsky 15y ago
If you have a bachelors degree in a useful field it's very easy with a NAFTA (TN) Visa.
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by spolsky 15y ago
I'm sure whoever wrote this creative job ad is trying their best, but you're right... it comes across as kinda douchy, which they certainly did not intend. They've just closed their round of funding, and I'm sure they're feeling incredibly
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by spolsky 15y ago
Probably moderators decided that was Apple flamebait and would generate more heat than light, or that it was off-topic for hackers.
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by spolsky 15y ago
Yeah! This is great journalism and what blogging is all about. On the one hand, you have a bunch of upset film editors complaining about the upgrade with their laundry list of complaints. Unlike every other journalist in the industry, who j
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by spolsky 15y ago
The 37signals ethos of having an opinion and saying no a lot creates wonderful experiences and products for users who are new to a certain field. For someone who is new to project management, for example, the fancy programs with every featu
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by spolsky 15y ago
The top result I'm getting goes to TripAdvisor. Arguably, TripAdvisor is much bigger and has tons more reviews than TravBuddy. I can't speak to its quality but that does speak to its "canonicalness".
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by spolsky 15y ago
Because of the lucrative nature of affiliate payments and commissions in the travel industry, one of the biggest sources of what Google considered bad content was sites linking to hotels. Look at this page: [ http://www.travbuddy.com/hotels
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by spolsky 15y ago
Good GOD this is a terrible system. As a person that many people want to get in front of, I can hereby certify that this fellow would have been blocked by a bayesian spam filter by email #2. The trouble here is his attitude. It's all about
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by spolsky 15y ago
Good luck with that. The IRS has very specific rules for who can be considered an employee and who can be considered a contractor. Attempting to treat people who should be employees as contractors is one of their number one enforcement goal
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by spolsky 15y ago
It's really not that big a deal. At Stack Exchange I think we have employees in eight different states now, all individuals working from home. It's a lot of paperwork but not disproportional to the amount of paperwork you have to do per-emp
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by spolsky 15y ago
This is more of a job listing than an actual "blog" "post" per se.
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by spolsky 15y ago
To those who thought that team lunch is "mandatory," you misread the article. It's not mandatory. You can go out instead. You can go to the gym instead. You can hide in your office and "free your mind" instead. You can bring your friends or
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by spolsky 15y ago
A lot of times I hear from people who are phobic of the 50/50 split because they're confusing control and ownership. There's no reason you can't split the ownership 50/50 and still decide that one person is the CEO and therefore has final s
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by spolsky 15y ago
Ha! I see what you did there! A classic, Usenet-quoted, point-by-point nitpick, complete with UseNet style > quotes. I salute your ingenuity!
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by spolsky 15y ago
The Stack Exchange community places a rather high value on "being nice." It's an important part of our values and we think it makes the Internet a better place. A lot of the Math Stack Exchange users came from Usenet's sci.math where epic f
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by spolsky 16y ago
Hi! First of all - team@stackoverflow email goes straight to Jeff, and he replies to it personally. There's no secret team of people pretending to be Jeff to deal with customer service requests :-) I personally believe that any company--or
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by spolsky 16y ago
just to be clear, I had nothing to do with this! :) - THE REAL JOEL. Sent from my Babbage Difference Engine(TM)
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by spolsky 16y ago
How many times did they do that? Everybody who "loses" at Swoopo gets a crash course in the scam, and never falls for it again.
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by spolsky 16y ago
All I'm saying is that the "buggy" adjective is the last reason to hate them. $41m, lack of product-market fit, no users, these are all genuine reasons to be hating. But anyone with ten minutes of programming experience knows that bugs are
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by spolsky 16y ago
Boy, there are a million reasons to hate on Color, but the fact that their 1.0 app crashes is the least convincing and the most mean-spirited. Everybody's 1.0 app crashes.
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by spolsky 16y ago
I like stack, too, but there's already an awesome company using stack.com. You probably don't know stack magazine because you're not a high school jock, but it's the #1 high-school-jock magazine in America
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by spolsky 16y ago
Thank you cletus; I needed a link to match this one. http://www.codeproject.com/Lounge.aspx?msg=2724411#xx2724411... The burn rate is very low. The valuation is private.

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