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He’s Only in Field Service
The most important early customers for your startup usually turn out to be quite different from who you think they’re going to be. He’s Only in Field Service When I was at Zilog, the Z8…
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 6,087 posts.
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The One Thing in Life You Can Control: Effort
I remember the time well. I was 27 years old. I finally had my own apartment for the first time. I still hadn’t bought a new car yet, but I was jazzed that I had a 4 year old Mazda RX 7. 4 Years old was as good as new to me, and driving a gold RX 7 back in the day was fun as well.
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Real Advice Hurts
This domain is parked. There is no active website here.
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Make an Extraordinary Effort
> "It is essential for a man to strive with all his heart, and to understand that it is difficult even to reach the average if he does not have the i…
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Failure must always be an option
An essay I wrote six years ago about some of my experiences working for NASA has gotten some recent attention on Reddit and Hacker News . ...
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Five whys
At 3:30 in the morning of January 10th, 2008, a shrill chirping woke up our system administrator, Michael Gorsuch, asleep at home in Brooklyn. It was a text message from Nagios, our network monitor…
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Things I learnt during, and about, my PhD
Jamie’s blog about software, startups, and swimming (and other things that don’t alliterate).
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How My Brain Kept Me from Co-Founding YouTube
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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Understanding Engineers
Indexing the entire World Wide Web and providing relevant search results in millisecond response times is a Very Hard problem. Breaking commercial-grade encryption within practical hardware and time limitations is a Very Hard problem. Peace in the Middle East is a Very Hard problem.
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The Value of Downvoting, or, How Hacker News Gets It Wrong
Paul Graham's Hacker News is a great website to find interesting programming links and sane discussion. The site reflects a sort of post- Reddit sensibility; the design of HN was directly intended to address the shortcomings of programming.reddit.com from someone very much on the inside (Reddit was a Paul Graham Y…
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RethinkDB looking for a technical cofounder
Looking for a technical cofounder for RethinkDB.
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Some “Developers” Just Can’t Develop
I’ve been interviewing candidates for developer positions for over a decade now. In my early years I was very much hit and miss in terms of...
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No, 37Signals, Planning Is Not What You Think
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