troutaway123

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by troutaway123 9y ago
To be clear: I think they would all likely be the same valuable businesses. My point is that not one of these companies would be funded by YC today. They succumbed to credentialism. They traded hackers for MBAs. The proverbial John Sculley
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by troutaway123 9y ago
> “Can this be a $10 billion plus company?” like Airbnb and Dropbox I have said it before and I will say it again: this nonsense is going to be the death[1] of YC. Airbnb/DropBox/Stripe/Twitch would not stand a chance gett
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by troutaway123 9y ago
Yep ;D
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by troutaway123 9y ago
> preserving access to the toolchain which operates trivially with files was worth the additional performance overhead of working with the files Sounds like they're OK with that. In any case, couldn't you avoid the kernel trips
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by troutaway123 9y ago
¿Porque no los dos? Store the files in a database but expose them via FUSE.
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by troutaway123 10y ago
I think they're referring to the incident that caused this RTF to be necessary, but yes, confusing.
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by troutaway123 10y ago
Do your eyes still work when you drive through the mud or it's raining hard?
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by troutaway123 10y ago
The same logic used by cperciva can be used here: > If 95% of applications are from pre-revenue companies, then the 50/50 split between acceptees which are with/without revenue would indicate that companies with revenue are 19x
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by troutaway123 10y ago
> Error establishing a database connection The real reason
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by troutaway123 11y ago
> One thing seems increasingly clear to me: this way of building software is not sustainable. What can we do? Waiting 530 days before upgrading and then only spending a day to upgrade what is effectively three major versions actually see