thruflo22

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by thruflo22 9y ago
Middle Wallop. Upper Wallop and Lower Wallop -- hopefully not too firmly.
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by thruflo22 9y ago
That's really interesting. Makes me think about what the feedback mechanism could be. A high rate / corp tax rate that's proportional to an objective inequality measure? Trouble is taxation is avoided but it is the only thing
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by thruflo22 9y ago
Any good recommendations for running Postgres transparently as a fully encrypted database (not just on a table by table basis)? Or alternatively is this a problem that's better / just as viably solved with an encrypted filesystem?
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by thruflo22 9y ago
One interesting mechanism is to exit out to employee ownership. E.g. ref: https://www.nceo.org As a founder, you can exit gradually, selling your shares to the company, so that a. your exit is financed by the company's prof
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by thruflo22 9y ago
Do the investors even know about the conversation? People paying good money for shares will jump at the chance to buy them cheaper. A CEO closing an investment round may have very different incentives, like not frightening the horses. [edit
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by thruflo22 9y ago
You could say that if the CEO doesn't improve the offer, you're going to write directly to the board / new investors. I'm not saying you should do this. Nor am I suggesting it's a good tactic. But it may provide lev
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by thruflo22 9y ago
Publish at least one tweet / post / video / commit / GitHub issue / comment per day. If you want to run a marathon, the most important thing is to run 1k per day. Once you're out in the road, the distance will
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by thruflo22 10y ago
Nice work, keep it up and thanks for sharing!
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by thruflo22 10y ago
It's false (at least here in the UK) that investors blacklist companies that have raised equity crowdfunding. The trend is going the other way: towards crowd equity rounds being anchored by venture funds and to VC co-investment. See eg
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by thruflo22 10y ago
Yes. We're absolutely looking to attract people who are motivated by the ideas and the opportunity but we do also aim to pay relatively competitive salaries. Which perspective do you comment from? Are you used to working in a higher pa
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by thruflo22 10y ago
A common pattern is to have a server process running that watches parts of the firebase tree and then runs business logic in response to changes. It's described as client - db - server rather than client - server - db. I believe there
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by thruflo22 10y ago
It's all about the parable of the bear: you don't need to run faster than the machines, you need to run faster than the other guy or girl. Where running faster means being better at operating the new machines.
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by thruflo22 10y ago
Car roof or house roof?
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by thruflo22 10y ago
As part of the R&R project? I half won and then firmly lost a project around then to port their video serving to our web tv platform. Lost due to severe inability to manage such a project but we had a nice multi-format video player for
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by thruflo22 10y ago
My thought on this was to develop a generic review system (ie would work for anything with a url) that shows you subjective results based on your social graph / trust map and weeds out bad actors by crunching the advogato algorithm. Th
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by thruflo22 10y ago
In my experience this is very true. I was a better chess player aged 11 than I am now. Think like a Grandmaster is a great book that illustrates how tactical chess analysis is -- all about iteration and composition of simple value judgement
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by thruflo22 11y ago
Have you considered an explicit assign? Seems like it might make the process a little saner.
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by thruflo22 11y ago
Pyramid has a very flexible security system http://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid/en/latest/nar... You can define access control policies on a resource by resource basis. These can, where necess
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by thruflo22 11y ago
Sent!
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by thruflo22 11y ago
Hi, your site looks like a great place for my (office furniture) company to advertise. Do you segment by location? How can I find out more?
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by thruflo22 11y ago
The founder of WikiHouse (open source housing system, similar build cost) wrote a book on the topic: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1850356/ARighttoBuild_CC...
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by thruflo22 11y ago
They definitely need beer buttons.