tophercyll

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   by tophercyll 17y ago

   I don't have a "YC missed out on investing in our insanely profitable company" story, but I did get rejected before finding myself at a YC company anyways. Evan Miller (emiller) and I applied for Summer 06. Evan had to do most of the work o
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   by tophercyll 17y ago

   I'm not sure why you say it's "BS in terms of engineering." The tick/tock is done for both business and engineering reasons. Debugging new silicon is hard enough without landing a new microarchitecture and a new process simultaneously. Whil
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   by tophercyll 17y ago

   Yeah, we definitely had to trim down how much info we were storing. Obviously that was a sacrifice, but the upside was a lower barrier to entering a new feature or bug. We really do just treat it like a digital whiteboard (even to the point
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   by tophercyll 17y ago

   Our three man team recently took advantage of the FogBugz YC offer and gave it a try. There were some things we liked about it, but in the end it felt too heavy for us. It was more of a support ticketing system than an easy way for a small
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   by tophercyll 17y ago

   I love my Steelcase Criterion. It's killer feature for me is the arm rests that slide inward (I have a narrow frame). I had one at $big_company, and managed to hunt down a used model after I left. In general I've been pretty happy with buil