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by spolsky 17y ago
Not at all! Today is the ten-year anniversary of my first real post, so I've been planning to have my last real post on 3/18 for a long time. Thanks for all your attention over the years. I'll still be around, just not doing these essays an
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by spolsky 17y ago
Bad idea. Then you make the seller think that there are TWO potential buyers, so they get greedy and try to run a little auction.
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by spolsky 17y ago
my apartment has a half mile elliptical snow track -- he does 20 laps a day with a team pulling a sled full of New York phone books
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by spolsky 17y ago
don't worry... Jared has read everything on the internets.
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by spolsky 17y ago
These people will make millions selling page-a-day calendars.
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by spolsky 17y ago
Don't worry, as soon as he gets his shots he's going to doggy day care.
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by spolsky 17y ago
I read it as, nerds are bad at making friends and being friendly, so they write off friendliness as sociopathy. I've found that being friendly and helping people get things done is the way you move forward in an organization because those a
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by spolsky 17y ago
I don't get it. What was the ruthless thing he did? Making friends?
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by spolsky 17y ago
I think this article is expecting VCs to do something that angels and founders do: take a chance on a crazy idea in exchange for owning a BIG chunk of the upside. A VC is a later-stage beast. They want less risk, and are willing to accept l
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by spolsky 17y ago
I don't think many VCs let you "take money off the table" in the Series A. It has been done, but it's rare, and it's a sign that a founder doesn't believe in the business prospects that they're asking everybody else to invest in.
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by spolsky 17y ago
Tom Otterness
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by spolsky 17y ago
Nothing. It's not so hard to code, either, if you have time. That's why it's a land rush.
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by spolsky 17y ago
No VC would invest based on one meeting. Nor would they expect the guy who is building the site to schlep along on every pitch meeting -- Jeff has better things to do!. Presumably if we found some interested parties, they would want to meet
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by spolsky 17y ago
Check out the "Tags" page to see the popularity of various technologies on StackOverflow. Although C# and .NET are pretty popular on StackOverflow, I don't think they are disproportionate to their overall popularity in the developer communi
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One in a million is next Tuesday(blogs.msdn.com)
2 points by spolsky 17y ago|0 comments
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by spolsky 17y ago
Famous Gordon Letwin quote: "One in a million is next Tuesday". http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/archive/2004/03/30/10416...
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Git vs. Mercurial deathmatch(blog.bitquabit.com)
1 points by spolsky 17y ago|0 comments
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Coworkers Make You More Productive(hicks-wright.net)
7 points by spolsky 17y ago|3 comments
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by spolsky 17y ago
I love the way the IETF is still issuing reports formatted for ancient mainframe line printers, with hard-coded headers and footers and whatnot.
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by spolsky 17y ago
Hmm. Pat says that their run rate was $8MM at the time of the merger. They were acquired for 941,000 shares (plus a few hundred thousand dollars). Rackspace went public at about $12.50/share so this was about $12MM. Ten million bucks for $8
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by spolsky 17y ago
No. There's nothing wrong with attaching a resume. Charlie's got this one backwards.
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by spolsky 17y ago
I think these are the oldest .com names, but I'm pretty sure there were plenty of older .edu names.
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by spolsky 17y ago
Yes. The distinction between Unicode and UTF-8 is pretty important; Unicode IS NOT AN ENCODING.
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Steve Krug (author of Don't Make Me Think) has a new book on usability testing(sensible.com)
7 points by spolsky 17y ago|0 comments
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by spolsky 17y ago
old news ... march '09
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That's not a bad idea, actually, I'll talk to Jeff about that.
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by spolsky 17y ago
First: you're missing all the users with less than 1000 reputation that have paid for CVs. There are actually about 1500 paid CVs in the system. Is there critical mass? I would say, in major tech/development areas, or for national-footprint
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by spolsky 17y ago
In the article, I wrote "If you’re running a web service, you need to be able to show me that you can build a reasonably recent copy of the entire site, in a reasonable amount of time, on a new server or servers without ever accessing anyth
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by spolsky 17y ago
I think that a lot of people think they have backups, but they've never restored them, so I thought it would be a good practice if everyone starting thinking in terms of "have we restored" rather than "are we backing up." Of course, there's
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by spolsky 17y ago
What if you hit rm -rf * and that gets synched? I don't mean to be rude, I don't know anything about you, but if you were a system administrator working for me, today would be your last day.

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