kra34

Does anyone else find it funny that it's a .org domain?

Yeah I have to agree it's actually really hard to fail when backed by one of the bigger VC's, if you're on the road to failure they can just bully one of their former portfolio unicorns to acquire you with post IPO Opm dollars. See Twitter's recent bail out of Foursquare care of Fred Wilson. There are no losers in this game.

I suspect that the money piling up should have been leaking out in the form of increased wages; however, that does not seem to be happening anywhere or least not fast enough to keep the historical economy, Smurf or other, functional.

'My name is Sam Altman, king of VCs: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away

The plan we discussed at SXSW was to establish some sort of hunger games style competition where the unemployed battle for a rich life in the capital far from their respective districts, but admittedly there is a lot of work to do between now and then.

Where do you want to be 5 years from now?

How does a tech company run out of money? Isn't this where some VC steps in with a billion dollar valuation for the series G round?

I'm already replacing my project's ancient Go and Rust based services with Pixie powered end points!

You're going to work for a company that built a framework on top of another framework, in an industry where framework life span is about 6 months and you don't see that as risky?

"Performant" actually isn't a dictionary word, there is sort of a debate about it's use:

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/38945/what-is-wro...

the way they are using it seems like their spell checker just changed the word from "performant" to "performance"

Hi, I'm with Google Corporate Development and I'd love to talk about your algorithm.

If it makes you feel any better:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Gold_Rush

"Recent scholarship confirms that merchants made far more money than miners during the Gold Rush"

If it makes you feel any better:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Gold_Rush

"Recent scholarship confirms that merchants made far more money than miners during the Gold Rush"

If it makes you feel any better:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Gold_Rush

"Recent scholarship confirms that merchants made far more money than miners during the Gold Rush"

If it makes you feel any better:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Gold_Rush

"Recent scholarship confirms that merchants made far more money than miners during the Gold Rush"

That's why all the best programmers are the oldest guys in the room, they've been at the game longest...

Yeah but nobody wants to hear or believe that to be true.

That's crazy talk, next thing you'll be saying we don't need AngularJS to make web applications.

but where can you buy their complicator gloves?

Already exists as well (more or less)

http://www.paywithcover.com/ New York

http://www.tabbedout.com/ Austin

Open table is also doing it in select markets.