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by trcollinson 8y ago
Out of curiosity, why would you max out your retirement contributions if you are trying to save for a good down payment on a house?
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by trcollinson 8y ago
You’re thinking rather short sided here. There are a lot of ways to find out if someone can think critically and also has the appropriate level of skill at programming. I prefer to give them a set of much more real world type scenarios to s
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by trcollinson 8y ago
So you already hit the nail on the head. You say "This does not fit normal VC deal structure." That generally means you are going to have to create a whole new funding market to get that 10MM you are looking for. The important par
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by trcollinson 8y ago
That makes sense and those are good points. I think it’s about tone all the way around. It’s entirely fine and beneficial to both parties for the startup to ask questions. But there are some distinct differences in how people ask these ques
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by trcollinson 8y ago
All I can say to this is they are rather arrogant. They like the success they have with the methods that they use I guess. Ultimately, I think every VC is arrogant in their own special way!
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by trcollinson 8y ago
Truth be told to get an actual answer to this you’d have to ask the partners. I do know that there are different funds within the VC and they may go seeking investments. I honestly don’t know. What I am sure of is that they don’t go looking
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by trcollinson 8y ago
That’s a fine question to ask if the investor comes to you. If you are coming to the investor asking for money, you are not profitable and spending way more than your income, then I’d suggest not asking this stupid question. I consult for V
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by trcollinson 8y ago
Just a quick fact check. Howard Buffet was temporarily unemployed during the Great Depression. By the time Warren was 9 years old his father had a successful brokerage and was elected to the Omaha Board of Education. By the time he was 12 h
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by trcollinson 8y ago
I agree that the slippery slope could be a logical fallacy. It really just describes why the parent post gets scorn when he brings up his idea. Lots of people believe logical fallacies and get upset because of those fallacies. Heck, look at
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by trcollinson 8y ago
Sorry I might not have made it clear, I just understand the reason why people scorn you for your opinion. I think your opinion is at least somewhat valid and has merit. At the very least I think that it is worth debating and shouldn’t be me
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by trcollinson 8y ago
I think the issue you are probably running into is a lot more nuanced then you are portraying it to be. Whether you are religious or scientific or some mix of both, creating offspring is a pretty fundamental instinct that is very deeply ing
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by trcollinson 8y ago
That’s exactly it. It’s more the 100 day part that is restrictive. It takes a lot of time and effort to get 100 people working effectively.
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by trcollinson 8y ago
I could. I’ve run very large development groups. It takes a lot of time and effort to get it right and with 16 groups of 6 it would be the same overhead, if not more. It just wouldn’t be for me, that’s all. I think I’d be much more successf
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by trcollinson 8y ago
As a theoretical experiment it’s interesting. But it would never ever work. You’d literally spend a year or more trying to prepare for that 100 days and I’m still not convinced you’d get anything out of it. Now, if you were going to give me
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by trcollinson 8y ago
Excellent! If you somehow read my entire message and got out of it that Slack shouldn’t give you detail about the outage this morning, then I somehow did not portray how important it is to emplain issues and resolutions to paying customers.
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by trcollinson 8y ago
As usual people are taking a comment and twisting it any old way they'd like. Which is fine, that's why we have these communications. To start off, no I am not in aviation. I have run quite a few companies and development departme
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by trcollinson 8y ago
I entirely understand what you are saying, believe me I do. But that is not the way some communities take it. We still see messages like "You could move to Gitlab but... you know they dropped their production database a couple of years
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by trcollinson 8y ago
Yes, that way we can beat them up for years to come based on whatever mistake they made. It would be even better if they told us which employee made the mistake so we can incessantly mock that employee openly and publicly every time Slack i
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by trcollinson 8y ago
Well, over the weekend I wrote up a bit about my struggle with burnout and mental health. I got about a bajillion fake internet points for my comments so I guess people wanted to know what I have to say. I’ll go ahead and add a bit about ho
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by trcollinson 8y ago
I honestly can’t agree more. My doctor basically had to say “I’m going to get you an appointment with a counselor or I’m going to lock you in my trunk and you’ll be stuck there until you see a counselor.” Her trunk was quite nice but after
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by trcollinson 8y ago
Well, the number one way I solved this was by going to therapy every week for months. My counselor helped me to realize it and gave me assignments and had be follow up on those assignments to figure myself out. I had to ask myself a lot of
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by trcollinson 8y ago
I have been coding since the 90s. This year I finally felt really burnt out. It got so bad I was upset, miserable, and lost all passion for working. I have 6 kids and a wife with a chronic untreatable disorder so I couldn’t just quit. And I
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by trcollinson 8y ago
That’s quite interesting. I’m going to have to give this a try under real world condition. This gives a pretty good argument for massive improvement.
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by trcollinson 8y ago
That’s a highly unrealistic real world scenario. I’d like to see a page under load with actual queries. Heartbeat checks are far from actual real world examples of much of anything.
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by trcollinson 8y ago
Sorry to fact check here but on my Rails app I am getting 200ms return times. This is running a web application and a few hybrid mobile applications. Are you saying that basically out of the box with Elixir/Phoenix I would get 20ms ret
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by trcollinson 8y ago
It's really all about posture. The fancy desks and chairs and screens and lifts are all there to help you to have good posture and positioning but it's absolutely possible with just about anything. Make sure you use a chair that h
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by trcollinson 8y ago
I don’t drink coffee but I know a ton of people who do. I actually really like this idea and your layout of it. Great job. I’ve also never heard of your service but I like that too! I’m on gitlab though. Any comment on when you’ll integrate
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by trcollinson 8y ago
Before going down this path, I suggest you pick up and read The Mythical Man-Month. The experience the author has closely matches my own experience. What you’re describing has very little to do with python and a ton to do with your software
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by trcollinson 8y ago
I guess mine might be an unpopular opinion, I believe in a supreme being and am religious. Usually when people say thing like "Given we're (largely engineers and science minded folks here" they aren't looking for religio
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by trcollinson 8y ago
I’m not the poster here but I’ve been involved with the sale of a few businesses like this and I consult for a VC. I’ll answer a few of these. I’ve seen owners (either single or partners) who own between 5% and 100% of the business when the

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