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JavaScript promises. Got it.

Wait - crashing processes? Denial of service? Wha? Why would JavaScript?...

Oh, this is about Node. Goodbye.

Yeah, but it's not about helping people - it's about sending a message

(at least, in the US)

Interesting in many ways. In particular, only the executives make what would be considered a competitive senior engineer/architect salary in NYC or SF. Perhaps they 'compensate' with equity?

Answer: No. https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests

was going to say exactly this.

To each his own, I guess. They, together, are two of my favorite tools. Never had a problem with either of them.

> it was always a bunch of boilerplate work to get virtualenv setup.

  curl -O https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/v/virtualenv/virtualenv-X.X.tar.gz
  $ tar -xvfz virtualenv-X.X.tar.gz
  $ python ./virtualenv-X.X/virtualenv.py myEnv
  $ source ./myEnv/bin/activate

yeah, that's a killer alright...

Go home and hug your bank accounts tonight, folks...

Great post and thanks for sharing.

How did you get started in this? I mean - why trolling motors? And, how did you find drop-ship suppliers for such a seemingly expensive/low volume-product?

Good luck!

Just http://www.scala-lang.org/ and everybody's happy :)

somebody gave these clowns $15m. That makes me sad.

I've always thought Portland, ME was an incredible city. Just curious - what made you choose there (especially coming from NYC)? What is the tech scene like?

Yikes. what terrible UX for a poll.

What problem does this solve? For the 5 times a year the smoke alarm goes off because I'm burning something in the kitchen, I have to get a chair to push the 'hush' button?

"Wave to disable"??? Are you kidding me??? Sorry - anything could accidentally disable a life-saving device is pretty darn stupid. Someone, somewhere, will die because of this.

So true.

ugh. I know that popular convention is pulling so, so hard in this direction. But, am I the only one around here who thinks that mashing query strings and document fragments into the same namespace is a Bad Idea?

Yes.

And I'm sure that you'd fully reciprocate. You know, give me a heads-up that sales were down this quarter and you're considering laying me off? So I can be adequately prepared? Because that would be VERY PAINFUL.

Good read. I get the message: done is better than perfect. However, in this specific example, it's pretty terrible advice to sign a contract that leaves you in a compromising position just to get a job. You'd probably be better off signing no contract at all.

I know - that one was just a rant. :) But it is frustrating nonetheless.

Excuse Number 5: I don't have an idea. Everyone loves to tout how 'ideas are shit!'. But, when you spend a lot of your time trying to spot problems, only to find out every one of them has been done already...

Excuse Number 6: Health Insurance. I've saved enough to cover my mortgage & living expenses for a year. What I haven't saved for is an insurance plan that will not bankrupt my family if one of us has the unfortunate timing of getting in a car accident or gets cancer while I'm trying to start a business.

Pretty sure the idea is to make this available as a service, for UGC-type sites.

Wow! A meal replacement powder! Groundbreaking! Why are we talking about this again? Oh right. Because Tim Ferris is talking about it.

~15 secs to load a blog post??? Sorry - that's not a problem w/ Django. Something else goofy going on here. Whether or not Go/Revel is ninjarockstar faster than Python/Django, I don't think this is the benchmark to prove it.

How do you differentiate yourself from flippa?

I'd say a 200 person is still pretty small.

Fair enough. Of course, I am only drawing on my own anecdotal experience. However, the big companies you mentioned above, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft - I would propose that they are truly exceptional in "big company" culture. Like one-in-a-million exceptional.

Perhaps my experience in each world was exceptional, but I have a feeling they were rather typical.

Gah. Sorry, No. My experience has been the opposite.

In particular:

"You see lots of very good ideas (like proper source control)" - you mean the group that still uses VSS 4.0 on a network share b/c they're terrified of moving their repo to Git (or even SVN)?

"You get to work with lots of clever people" - no, you get to work with people who work there for no reason other than they live close to the office and have spent the last 14 years building an impenetrable fortress around themselves.

"They have lots of perks" - Yes, that one day a year I got to donate $5 to cancer research so I could wear bluejeans (collared shirt still, of course) makes it all worth it. I'll take my catered breakfasts, lunches, impromptu beer runs, work-from-anywhere policy and unlimited vacation days, thank you.

"You are not going to be sent on that week-long training course on using Oracle or have your part-time MBA fully-funded while at that boot-strapping startup." - Ok, starting to think this is a case of Poe's law in action...

Yeah startups (and small companies) come with their share of headaches, but I'll take it any day over the soul-crushing, creativity-stifling cubicle hell that is a big company.

I feel like this is pretty widely accepted in the tech/hacker world, right? I've found it's generally the more business-y (creative, PM, etc) types that do the weekend check-in/late night thing.

Also - it seems to be magnified in the highly transient NYC/SF environments. Recently relocated young people without families just may not have that much to do outside of work.

>Like when you hear how India was on track to become a major industrialized nation until the British decided to turn it into the world's biggest piece of farmland.

That's quite a bomb you just threw there. Source?