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The history of app stores is pretty clear on this — the primary ways to get non-negligible exposure is to get promoted/featured (literally “picked as a winner”), or somehow trigger a viral word o…

Pour on the hate, but I still miss Windows Phone.

Close to home. I may be the only customer of my current project. My hope is that I’m just “early” and not “too early”.

“Tron Spider”

Fraud is a pretty light word. An overt act that results in someone’s death goes by some more serious words, and without a convenient statute of limitations pass.

I’ve never heard of this until seeing it here. I’m dumbfounded.

It’s a bit faster than the trains running from Portland to Seattle, so there’s that to celebrate. Hopefully it gets faster over time. Comparing to flying Portland to Seattle, it’s a wash mostly when i…

How many servers does Stack overflow run on? It’s not a good measure of data volume or criticality. I think “expensive” here is basically relative to revenue/margin. Where margins are high, spend…

Oh yeah, totally agree. I’m a little sensitive about the kind of extrapolations that are so common with some of these articles/announcements - it doesn’t make science look good, and it’s importan…

In the video they specifically talk about a platform for building on, and there is mention of this find contracting conclusions about the nomadic nature of “folks” at the time. Both indicate they went…

Two logs connected for some purpose near a River == must be a house? Not a raft, which would be much easier and obvious and helpful?

The point the article makes to me (as a leader) is “keep the billing model simple, honest and stick with it”. The cost of change is high, and the value isn’t to the people getting the work done. My pe…

Isn’t economic growth largely predicated in population growth? Some argue “no” but I find them unconvincing. My fear is that the business leadership community will be very, very slow to adapt to a re…

I tend to agree with this, but there is an important missing bit: context. Specifically, what is the operational overhead of the team? More plainly, how many lines of code/systems/processes&…

Opinions are never wrong (a truism that they are the product of their author), but statements of fact can be.

Sorry for your experience. I’m not going to be very helpful, but nonetheless… This should be a solved problem, but isn’t. Looking at the code alone is only effective if there is some hint as to the co…

Feels like “the web” in 2000.

In a profits interest where the taxes due are zero, it probably is required to make the 83b election, and as far as I can see there is no downside (though a profits interest can come with other downsi…

Yes. The primary reason would be the obvious one: if the company is less valuable in the future (there are many reasons this could be true, even if it grows), or fails (bankruptcy), you’ve prepaid tax…

At $25k per month per person that’s $30,000,000,000 per year for the 100,000 folks with CF. As a T1D I get it, but there is no way of escaping the other impactful uses of that sum.

I can tolerate, and even respect an honest cheat. But a lying cheat has a special place in hell. Related: “It’s a miracle any of this works. People were involved.”

Or, you get past the POC and “land” the whale. You take a deep discount on price to lock in the revenue. Now you have revenue, but insufficient to hire and grow. Rinse and repeat. All the debt (techni…

Do you have alternating A/B days or a straight five day schedule? I’ve struggled to find a good way to handle the A/B day mess and ended up just scripting it each year.

In sampling a couple I would call these narrations "serviceable" rather than "high quality". My benchmark is the voice of my mom reading Shakespeare and Grahame, with intonation a…

Interesting concept. I handled the bandwidth balancing by using multiple IPs in DNS, and latency-based routing.

It does, but seems to suffer some of the ills in the article[1]. I haven’t tried it, though and should to confirm. [1] http://www.austintek.com/LVS/LVS-HOWTO/HOWTO/LVS-H…

The gunwales.

Malloc for the web. It’s famously what S3 was supposed to be, but isn’t. Remote memory as an API would enable some cool new serverless architectures. I have neither the time nor know-how to build it, …

I doubt it, but it depends on what you mean by “significant”. Large percentages? No. Large absolute numbers? Perhaps. Significant contributors? Almost certainly.