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carimura

1,646karma·538submissions·December 7, 2011
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Former founder/CEO of Iron.io

Former VP DevRel, Java Platform Group, Oracle

What's next? TBD!

https://chad.cm

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This is not a delay in the filing date (yet, although many predict it's coming). This is a 90-day interest-free grace period for paying owed taxes.
6y ago·view thread
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don't forget the necessity for major public relations efforts when your company is under fire for tax evasion, dangerous (sometimes lethal) work environments, not properly governing its platform …
6y ago·view thread
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Start a company. Then you, as the board of directors, can appoint you, as CEO. Sure, knowing the right people helps with the success of your new company, but certainly isn't a prerequisite. Just …
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Many comments here say this already but from the way you describe it, most of the work by far is ahead of you. Most startups put vesting schedules in place for this very reason, and two years in you&#…
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What requirement does Apple put on the JDK location? All of mine are in ~/lib/* and are easy to manage. JENV for bonus points. Definitely not a double-click-install experience, but not hard …
7y ago·view thread
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The ownership, creativity, unknown. The ups, downs, fears, joys, camaraderie. The charge-the-hill attitude. The late nights and early mornings. The chaos, the clarity. Evolution, growing up. The first…
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I'm willing to bet if you gave 100 people the opportunity to build a startup, or work at a nice friendly large company, with the guarantee that they'd make the same amount of money over the …
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You did it! Congratulations! World's best email client! Great job, everybody!
7y ago·view thread
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maybe the data was cached to server it quicker?
7y ago·view thread
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Go Broncos!
7y ago·view thread
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The universal certainty of expansion and contraction. Hey we all got here through it. Now we're in the expansion phase of trying to make the frontend easy again. Contraction comes next.
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I'll save you the read with this gem: "Data and research has shown the premium bottled water market is booming and I believe this will correlate to an increased demand with water sommelier p…
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Personally I'd revise point one -- do meet with some investors, even if you aren't planning to raise. At a minimum the experience is worth it (learn what they ask, how they think, etc.), but…
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This is a really great post, but what makes me sad is how different I felt after multiple experiences dealing with AirBnb's customer service. Obviously anecdotal but I've seen dozens of simi…
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I was waiting for links to all the awesome [open source] code Slack talks about in this post. I was sad.
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It shouldn't be looked at that way and it's not black and white. Ideally they're treated like people, not cogs, and the manager and company does what it can to either get the person the…
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+1 for whisper.
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It's not just price. Think about how trends evolve over time and how long it takes larger companies to "catch up". The planning/facilities groups are still high-fiveing from the ma…
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my wife pointed out that I sent this article to her one room away and was talking to her about it over imessage. like boiling a frog, even the "aware" forget.
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That's why the cloud providers are building higher-level services that ultimately speed up development and increase laziness. They're already higher than k8s now so ultimately that too is an…
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...with devices that we're emotionally and physically addicted to flashing and making noises that are designed to ignite a flurry of activity in our reptilian brains sending the message PAY ATTEN…
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There's an abundance of CPU power. Access to those CPU's is one problem but essentially why two-sided marketplaces exist. They've emerged for this exact problem in other categories (as …
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literally the first thing I thought. Never even seen that before.
7y ago·view thread
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+1 to Why We Sleep. I've been cutting back caffeine, alcohol, light, and spreading the sleep gospel since reading it.
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brutal comment.
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