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I Sell Onions on the Internet - Deep South Ventures
Vidalia Onions to be exact. They’re classified as a sweet onion, and because of their mild flavor (they don’t make your eyes tear up), some folks can eat them like an apple. Most of my customers do. During a phone order one season – 2018 I believe – a customer shared this story where he …
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Migrating Ruby on Rails apps on Heroku to GKE | Solutions | Google Cloud
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How I Built and Sold My Company in 18 Months
In January of 2017 I sold my company, SimpleData, to a private investor. In retrospect the process of selling my business taught me more about how to actually build a company than starting it or operating it. In this post I’ll describe how I sold the business, how businesses are valued by acquirers
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Lessons from 6 software rewrite stories – Herb Caudill – Medium
A new take on the age-old question: Should you rewrite from scratch, or is that “the worst strategic mistake you can make”?
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rubygems-update requires Ruby version >= 2.3.0. · Issue #2534 · rubygems/rubygems
I'm having a problem or would like to suggest a feature. My current problem is that I have projects using travis-ci to test them under ruby 2.2. The command gem update --system broken after rub...
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Graham Lyons | Everything You Need To Know About Networking On AWS
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Own the Demand
Disclaimer: I’m a product manager at Uber. This piece represents my views only, and not those of Uber, fellow employees, managers, customers, clients, suppliers, investors or people working o…
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PGTune - calculate configuration for PostgreSQL based on the maximum performance for a given hardware configuration
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Things they don't teach you running a business by yourself · browserless docs
One of the most hotly talked about topics in tech right now is starting an indie business. What is an indie business? It's one where you, and maybe a co-founder, attempt to start a business with no investor funding or large external influence. It goes by many names: boot-strapped, solo-founded, self-funded, indie-hackers...etc... and it's pretty hot right now! Which is why we see a proliferation of sites like IndieHackers and posts on Hacker News (frequently making it the front-page). While I think it's an exciting venture to take part of, I don't think it's for everybody. There's a reason that folks seek employment over entrepreneurship, and we often forget these points when we see how "Joe Schmoe" went from an individual-contributor role to making $50k/mo with his side-hustle selling artisanal crayons out of his basement. Also, spoiler-alert, that kind of growth is an outlier, and not something to expect or bet on. A large amount of these run-away success stories are backed by years of failures and experience that catapulted them to where they are now.
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To get good startup ideas, look for anomalies – Inverted Passion
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Deploying Ruby on Rails application using HAProxy Ingress with unicorn/puma and websockets | BigBinary Blog
Deploying Ruby on Rails application using HAProxy Ingress with unicorn/puma and websockets on Kubernetes.
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Creating an Autonomous System for Fun and Profit
At its core, the Internet is an interconnected fabric of separate networks. Each network which makes up the Internet is operated independe...
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Designing Windows 95’s User Interface
Three years ago I came across an interesting paper written up by a Microsoft employee, Kent Sullivan, on the process and findings of designing the new user interface for Windows 95. The web page ha…
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'Red Oceans': How to Find Profitable Startup Ideas - Capital & Growth
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A Deep Dive into CSRF Protection in Rails – Ruby Inside – Medium
If you’re using Rails today, chances are you’re using CSRF protection. It’s been there almost since the beginning, and it’s one of those…
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11-22-11 - The Mature Programmer
1. The Mature Programmer The mature programmer manages their own time and productivity well. The MP knows that maintenance is as much wo...
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Amir Salihefendic on Twitter
“1/ Remote-first working could be a paradigm shift similar to the industrialization age”
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You are NOT a Software Engineer! - Chris Aitchison
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How to double your trial to paid conversion rate with onboarding
Onboarding is the first impression to your business, and has enormous implications on your conversion and retention. Here Rob Walling walks through how Drip's mastered those first crucial steps.
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[Sriram Krishnan] Building something no one else can measure
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Does it scale? Who cares! · Jacques Mattheij
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Education of a Programmer
When I left Microsoft in October 2016 after almost 21 years there and almost 35 years in the industry, I took some time to reflect on what…
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Google I/O 2012 - Go Concurrency Patterns
Rob Pike Concurrency is the key to designing high performance network services. Go's concurrency primitives (goroutines and channels) provide a simple and ef...
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Pace Layers Thinking: Paul Saffo and Stewart Brand @ The Interval -- January 27, 02015
"Pace Layers" diagram from Stewart Brand's book "The Clock of the Long Now" January 27, 02015: Paul Saffo and Stewart Brand (Long Now Board members) Pace Layer Thinking at The Interval This talk is sold out. Long Now members can tune in for a live audio simulcast at 7
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The Tao of HashiCorp | HashiCorp - DevOps Delivered
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Is it really "Complex"? Or did we just make it "Complicated"?
Alan Kay, education, process science, and economics of mediocrity. Original file: https://vimeo.com/82301919
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Why working on Chrome made me develop a tool for reading source code
Coati is a developer tool for fast and efficient source code navigation and exploration. This is the story of how an internship at Google…
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Streaming Approximate Histograms in Go
If you’re looking at response time, what’s more useful: a mean or a percentile? Not sure? Let’s look at an example. The following graphs are from Github’s status page.
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The Early Days of id Software
In this 2016 GDC Europe talk, id Software co-founder and Doom co-creator John Romero discusses the company's early days and the programming principles that g...
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Joe Armstrong & Alan Kay - Joe Armstrong interviews Alan Kay
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EnterpriseReady - Build SaaS Features Enterprises Love
A guide for SaaS companies to build the features that enteprises love.
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Calm on the surface, but...
We talk about what all of us are struggling with. We'll open up about our own challenges in product design and running businesses that we currently have and ...
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Check My Code: Tips to Keep Ruby Code Smell-Free | Codementor
In this tutorial, we will walk through a few common Ruby code smells and how to best deodorize them. Code smells are...
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When You Change the World and No One Notices
Do you know what’s happening in this picture? Literally one of the most important events in human history. But here’s the most amazing part of the story: Hardly anyone paid attention at the time.
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Report: Apple is adding a glossy 'Space Black' color to the iPhone 7
In case you haven’t heard, Apple has a new iPhone coming out really soon. The leaks have been pouring out, and now there’s one more: Apple is adding a second shade of black to the line up. A leak from Mac Otakara suggests Apple will be adding a ‘Space Black’ to complement the more common ‘Space …
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Watch Ryan Singer - Design: Case Study from Laracon US!
We are building out our app and accepting conferences via invite.
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A Generation Lost in the Bazaar
Quality happens only when someone is responsible for it.
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Tools for Tinder - Free Liker for Tinder on the App Store
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Alan Kay's Reading List
The following list was prepared by Alan Kay for his students.
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Amazon Letter to Shareholders (2016)
This year, Amazon became the fastest company ever to reach $100 billion in annual sales. Also this year, Amazon Web Services is reaching $10 billion in annual sales doing so at a pace even fasterthan Amazon achieved that milestone.
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Ask HN: How do detect a crappy boss / toxic environment when interviewing? | Hacker News
Some things I've been doing is looking at Glassdoor but the problem with that is the reviews are highly dependent on the role, or the department or some manager who may or may not still be at the company.
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Shirky: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy
Clay Shirky's writings about the Internet, including Economics and Culture, Media and Community, Open Source
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Things that aren't progress
A few months ago, I wrote about things that look like work, but aren't. As I paid more attention to founders doing these things, I started thinking about why they were happening. I realized that...
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Embracing stress is more important than reducing stress, Stanford psychologist says
Kelly McGonigal says new research indicates that stress can make us stronger, smarter and happier.
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The way to approach rails
"The single biggest piece of advice I can give you is this: Do not try to reach a point of understanding and confidence so you can then use Rails. Instead, just use Rails, and fail miserably, and get pissed, and hit brick walls, have minor victories, and fail some more but less miserably, and break a mouse, and have some more victories, and read some documentation and then read some more, and fail less and less."
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The 99% (of startups) • Justin Kan
Little known secret: nine months before we sold Twitch for $970mm, I tried to sell some of my shares in a secondary transaction at less than a fifth of that price – and I was turned down by every VC I asked. This is for all the founders who know... | Justin Kan | YC Partner and I started some companies.
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Three stories • Justin Kan
It’s easy to recall the things that went well during your startup. Here are three stories about times when things weren’t going so well. In the first two years of Justin.tv’s existence, we had a bus number of 1: Emmett was the only person who knew... | Justin Kan | YC Partner and I started some companies.
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Founder School Session: The Future Doesn't Have to Be Incremental
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Growth hacking is bullshit
Growth is the lifeblood of startups. Growth is what differentiates Snapchat from hipster coffee shops.
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Y Combinator and Paul Graham are bad for the world (Part 1)
"Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank. Give a man a bank and he can rob the world." In early November, 1988, one of the first major computer viruses, "the Morris Worm", hit the Internet. While th...
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RECONSIDER
About 12 years ago, I co-founded a startup called Basecamp: A simple project collaboration tool that helps people make p…
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excid3/feedforward.io
feedforward.io - Curating articles that inspire discussion
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Why are some people so good at persisting?
By 1933, at 22, a Taiwanese-born entrepreneur had built a successful clothing business importing socks from Japan. Six y…
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5 marketing screw-ups we made that you don’t have to
While most of the news about Zenefits focuses on our incredible growth, we — like any company — have made our share of mistakes; mistakes you’d be wise to learn from.
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Teaching is Selling
When I was little, my dad taught me everything I’d need to know to be, well, me. He taught me to code when I was twelve. I worked for him full time at 14, which we’re gonna pretend is totally great...
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Eric Conner's answer to What are the most profound life lessons from Stanford Professor John Ousterhout? - Quora
These are from the Winter 2012 offering of CS140. I do not know if he used different thoughts in other lectures. Number 1: > > > > A little bit of ...
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Show #32 - Finding conflict, not sleeping, embracing spreadhsheets
Good to put yourself in a place where the majority have different opinions - exhaustion - don't be afraid of spreadsheets. Please subscribe to our channel! W...
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The Value of Values with Rich Hickey
This talk could also be called, "Why We Should Stop Using Object-Oriented Programming" (in a lot of the places we are - he goes into why it came about, and why that was useful, too)
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I sat down with a millionaire who operates 10 businesses while sailing around the world with his… — Entrepreneur’s Handbook
This is what he told me
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The Obvious, the Easy, and the Possible
Much of the tension in product development and interface design comes from trying to balance the obvious, the easy, and …
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Mass SaaS: Thinking about SaaS on the Consumer Side | Andreessen Horowitz
SaaS — instantly delivered, subscription-based software — has officially taken over our professional lives. But it’s also well on its way to now taking over our personal lives.
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Chuck Palahniuk on Writing
To begin a new novel, I look for the biggest problem in my life that I can't solve or tolerate. Something that drives me nuts, but I can't fix. Then I find a metaphor that allows me to explore the problem, exaggerating and expanding it beyond reason. I build it up to the worst scenario possible and then find a way to solve it. By the time the book is done, I've exhausted all of my emotions around the original problem. Whatever it was, it no longer bothers me. And typically, during the time of writing, the problem has resolved itself. It's like magic. Try it. It will keep you alive in this world of bullshit.
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Empty stomach, poor decisions
Entrepreneurial lore is rife with odes to hunger as a foundational necessity of success. Hungry founders are commended as the ones desperate enough to do whatever it takes. Hustle the gullible, bend the law, persevere through endless death marches. Whatever it takes. But is desperation really th…
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Unit Economics
Commentators are looking hard for what’s wrong with startups in Silicon Valley. First they talked about valuations being too high. Then they talked about valuations not really meaning anything. ...
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Look and Feel and Feel
Designers often talk about the look and feel of a product, an app, an object, etc. These are good concepts to be talking…
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How much is Basecamp worth? I don’t know and I don’t care.
I was recently speaking to a class at a local university and the topic of valuations came up. One student asked me what …
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Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
"One reason programmers dislike meetings so much is that they're ona different type of schedule from other people. Meetings cost them more."
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You’re Not Listening
I don’t want to write this article. I believe there is no way to provide advice about listening without sounding like a …
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Why We Killed A $150,000 Feature - Trakio
"Good investors know that the founders’ personal development is part of the startup process"
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Great Hackers
If it is possible to make yourself into a great hacker, the way to do it may be to make the following deal with yourself: you never have to work on boring projects (unless your family will starve otherwise), and in return, you'll never allow yourself to do a half-assed job.
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Bored People Quit — Personal Growth
Much has been written about employee motivation and retention. It’s written by folks who actively use words like motivat…
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Patrick McKenzie on Twitter
“Steal this emailed offer, API companies. (Credit to keen.io) "Want to pair with one of our devs to get it running?"”
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Honest question, why does the pace of development slow down so much at Unicorn startups?
I mean, I’ve heard of the Mythical Man Month. So I kind of get it. But it feels like development stops completely. I’m t…
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Growth vs Retention – AVC
Entrepreneurs always ask what the one number they should focus on for raising money. I always say “90 day retention numbers for your acquisition cohorts”. There’s a common view in silicon valley and around the tech sector that growth is the one thing you should focus on. But it’s hard to grow if you are churning your users. And if you are paying for user acquisition, as many startups do in search of growth, then retention/churn becomes even more important.
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Hacking is Important
Back in the early 90s, Borland International was the place to be an engineer. Coming off the purchase of Ashton-Tate, Borland was the third largest software company, but, more importantly, it was a legitimate competitor to Microsoft. Philippe Kahn, the CEO at the time, was fond of motorcycles, saxophones, and brash statements at all-hands meetings:… More
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The Most Fascinating Profile You’ll Ever Read About a Guy and His Boring Startup
Ariel Zambelich/WIRED Stewart is hungry. He’s munching on potatoes smothered in chicken fat drippings, sitting by a long metal table that once served as a gurney in the morgue at the Treasure Island Naval Base. It’s a prominent piece of furniture in what will be the kitchen area for Stewart’s new startup. All told, the…
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Slack on Twitter
“An update to https://t.co/3w2FaOtoqu shows why it's sometimes hard for us to keep up. Thanks for spreading the word!”
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Average Manager vs. Great Manager — The Year of the Looking Glass
Explained in 10 sketches
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Projects and Companies
In the early days of my startup, I used to get slightly offended when people would refer to it as a “project”. “How’s your project going?” seemed like the asker didn't take us seriously, even...
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Why Founders Fail: The Product CEO Paradox
A friend of mine led his company from nothing to over $1 billion in revenue in record time by relentlessly pursuing his product vision. He did so by intimately involving himself in the intricate details of his company’s product planning and execution. This worked brilliantly up to about 500 employees.
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Why It's Safe for Founders to Be Nice
Tell yourself you can be as nice as you want, so long as you work hard on your growth rate to compensate. Most successful startups make that tradeoff unconsciously. Maybe if you do it consciously you'll do it even better.
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Putting on the shipping goggles
One of the biggest challenges of shipping a product is knowing when to put on the shipping goggles. The shipping goggles make you less sensitive to little nits and scrapes and things that might be able to be a little bit better, but really don’t need to be right now. Stuff that we could tweak, b…
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