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Maybe the founders are just trying to throttle for performance and ability to let in users only as fast as they can talk to them and get feedback. That’s what I feel like Y Combinator taught me anyway. Feels like something we should encourage on HN.

I get the concern about vapor ware and fatigue but feels like there is a better happy medium here.

Retool is the closest thing I've seen to capturing the magic of early Visual Basic.

But if you can crack the code in solving the transaction cost/friction, it would open up a tremendous amount of creative value. I hope this team succeeds.

I get what you’re saying but is the track record of terrorism any better at causing constructive change? Really we need to engage a lot of people’s minds, and that just turns out to be really hard in our current culture no matter what angle you come at it from.

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Really interesting to think about hardware vs software. Thank goodness for Von Neumann for helping us get more generic.

A lot of historians assume that Babbages work collected dust and was lost for 100 years. This turns out to not be true at all. His work was consulted by the Scheuts and Jevons. Details on what I found researching him at https://buriedreads.com/2019/02/09/when-computers-stopped-be...

More over the risk of death is part of the cost calculation for tobacco. Not all prices / values are monetary. This is a crucial aspect any serious economist incorporates and this article completely misses.

Carmack’s Twitter is a fun follow

Our dog caught Valley Fever on a road trip through the southwest. It was just dumb luck that our vet originally practiced in Arizona and was familiar with this fungal infection. The only symptom was a mild cough, but left unchecked the fungus spreads throughout the body and can do quite a bit of damage.

Why would this actually be true? If it’s easier to find in source, Microsoft probably would have found it. Ever single feature there goes through multiple security reviews and there is tons of code linting. All the penetration testers I have met don’t even bother looking at source. They just start trying things they think will flummox the software.

"Stay Awhile and Listen" is a great book covering the founding story of Blizzard North, creators of Diablo 1 & 2. While not as great as Masters of Doom, it reminded me quite a bit of it.

Was hoping for a way more interesting interview. This guy is the most singularly responsible person for being XML HTTP Request (AJAX) to web browsers. There could be such an interesting conversation how he came up with that approach and what he thinks of where it’s come.

I read it and agree that sometimes it goes too fast and other times too slow (do I need to know the geographical history of New Jersey?), but so many good nuggets in this book.

I’ve been trying to read the great books on computing history, if you know of others let me know. I’ve been retelling bits of the story and linking to great books at https://buriedreads.com/engineering-newsletter-issues/

I am working on one for engineering. Goal is so send no more than every two weeks and just keep quality bar super high.

First issue is up at https://buriedreads.com/2019/01/19/how-computing-came-about-...

The #1 approach that worked for us at Mattermark was having founders talk to every single prospect early on. Most of the best approaches I have heard are just a business contextual version of this (eg Airbnb sending a company rep to meet customer first hand and take pics).

My company Mattermark is hiring, and I'd be happy to talk to about the full stack position we have. We have several more senior engineers on staff that are great mentors. We also work with a range of technologies that give you a chance to sample broadly but also go deeply in 1-2 areas. This includes everything from crawling/scraping to website to REST/Graph QL API to 3rd party integrations.

Hit me up through kevin@mattermark.com

Fun fact I recently learned: about 90% of world population is in the Northern Hemisphere. I expected it to be lop sided, but not that much.

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Also how long before it comes out that Peter Thiel is secretly running Twilio out of his basement.

This is terrible. There should be a law against it.

One simple way to evaluate this would be to look at press attention.

I did a quick check using Mattermark data of which YC companies got the most news since 2013 that are not still alive. It yielded (num articles / startup): 67 Homejoy 13 Tipjoy 13 Buttercoin 6 Tutorspree

Sorry didn't see this was already submitted. Happy if dang wants to move karma over.

Furthermore, the company made a quarter of a trillion dollars in profit during his tenure as a CEO. Early in his career, he was also the first manager of the Windows team, which went on to become one of the most profitable software franchises in history. I should hope to be such a failure.

They did not willfully let their partners control the last mile. They demanded this right in their original OEM agreements, and used it to define the out of box experience for Windows 3.1 and Windows 95. Circa 1999, the Department of Justice took it away from them as a result of an antitrust litigation settlement.

It's widely under appreciated how much he championed there being a software industry at all. Most people thought software was just an aside that you threw in with the hardware. Software was also widely pirated and he fought for the notion that people should pay for software so that engineers could have a job building it.

There is a great EconTalk episode on poor incentives in research: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/09/nosek_on_truth.html

Much of this research is funding through the NIH, which has a $30B budget. I have to believe there are tremendous politics in that.

I would love to do this. I am a hiring manager, and would love to be on the other side of interviews myself so I can learn more.

Anyone that's interested can reach out to me: kevin@mattermark.com

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Record Macros and inspect the code to learn the object model.

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