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You're not the CEO - You're the Fucking Janitor(zachbruhnke.com)
371 points by zbruhnke 14y ago|132 comments
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by zbruhnke 14y ago
Congrats Kirsty! You deserve it for all the hardwork and time you put in dealing with all of our questions and accounting issues. thanks for all you do!
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by zbruhnke 14y ago
pb ... you staying at YC or heading out with Brett? lol
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by zbruhnke 14y ago
I'm making my version of this now and hopefully launching soon to some feedback, feel free to email me questions thoughts etc. check it out here: http://cloudbill.com
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by zbruhnke 14y ago
for me its the amount of bills I actually have and trying to keep track of all of them. I have about 16-17 bills monthly (mainly because I own two homes) but I have to remember to login to each of those accounts and make sure all of the pay
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by zbruhnke 14y ago
Usually its in plain sight ... try something that affects you daily. For me its paying bills ... it sucks, so now im building something to make it suck less. When I built my last house I also found things that sucked like components for han
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by zbruhnke 14y ago
As someone who recently made this mistake (and in a big way) I whole-heartedly agree with just about everything you have said here. I had already sold a company, I had proven myself both as a hacker and as someone with at least enough busin
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by zbruhnke 14y ago
>> How much did luck play in your success? I'd say in my case, as with most anyone's I was very lucky and we all have to be to have a story like mine, but I am still a firm believer in great people making their own luck. Call me cra
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by zbruhnke 14y ago
My argument here is simply that the people who make it are the ones who go through those struggles and keep fighting. I promise you there were a few occasions in my life where I had to choose between toilet paper and toothpaste. My employee
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by zbruhnke 14y ago
Personally I admire him for taking the opportunity he truly wanted and believed in. That's so much more important in the long run For those of you who think money is the only thing that matters, go make a good bit of it then see if it chang
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by zbruhnke 14y ago
If you're on rails try out the new gem I just wrote ... Bloggy! http://github.com/zbruhnke/bloggy
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by zbruhnke 14y ago
I think DM kind of missed the point of what YC is doing here. Their argument is not that smart people can just make anything work, but that smart people who have the desire to change things in the world for the better almost always have an
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by zbruhnke 14y ago
I'm not to 30 or 40 yet so I may not be your target audience here but I can comment on how it has affected me thus far and what I usually tell people about making this choice when it comes down to it. I dropped out at 20 as a Junior in coll
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Introducing Bloggy: A simple way to add a Jekyll blog to any Rails application(engineyard.com)
7 points by zbruhnke 14y ago|0 comments
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by zbruhnke 14y ago
The gem was written for everything to be handled locally and then committed. If you run the rake tasks provided it will take care of putting everything in the right place for you. Just make sure you commit the changes and push them. Glad yo
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by zbruhnke 14y ago
Hey all, I wrote this gem as an easy way to add a Jekyll blog to any existing rails application. No additional server configuration required since nginx, Apache and most other simply serve static pages. It's still a little rough around the
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Show HN: Bloggy - Add a Jekyll blog to your rails app in seconds(rubygems.org)
5 points by zbruhnke 14y ago|3 comments
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by zbruhnke 15y ago
Pricing looks pretty solid too. Be interesting to see an EC2 vs Rackspace vs ATT on this pricing model
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Interesting cloud offering from ATT ... taking a shot at dethroning Terremark?(cloudarchitect.att.com)
2 points by zbruhnke 15y ago|2 comments
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by zbruhnke 15y ago
Nice gesture from an accomplished programmer. Makes me be appreciative of the field I am in. SO much of what I have learned over the years has been the same way. I always say Github has been the most humbling experience of my career. Just w
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by zbruhnke 15y ago
yep ... that's the graph you want to show investors haha
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by zbruhnke 15y ago
mine is out but some people in my office aren't
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by zbruhnke 15y ago
been using this since it hit its very early stage beta a few months ago ... all I can say is it is awesome ... truly wonderful when I need to pull a ton of pics off my phone
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by zbruhnke 15y ago
I dropped out but was not at a school which even had a CS Major, I have been programming since 12 and dropped out as a Junior in college because I sold my first software company. I actually just took my first "real" job (start tomorrow) and
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The Streets are paved with Pyrite(zachbruhnke.com)
2 points by zbruhnke 15y ago|0 comments
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So you want to apply to Y Combinator...(zachbruhnke.com)
2 points by zbruhnke 15y ago|1 comments
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by zbruhnke 15y ago
Couldn't be happier for ya man. I'm sure twilio will miss you but Justin knows he couldn't ask for a better engineer. Kick some ass over there and keep building out an awesome service
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by zbruhnke 15y ago
"The Fourth Man wants to remain anonymous for now" lol makes you wonder how long that lasted :P
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by zbruhnke 15y ago
you probably wouldn't honestly. just a simple founder dispute which lead to me leaving, nothing too eventful there
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by zbruhnke 15y ago
It's amazing to see the humble roots of YC and what it has grown into now. As a person who made it through 2/3 of the previous batch I can honestly say there is no other experience like it and solely the intelligence of the people you are p

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