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lansteinon How Dave Goldberg Built a Billion-Dollar Business and Still Gets Home By 5:30 PM

Having been at two SoMa companies (Splunk and PagerDuty), I think you're generalizing a bit here.

lansteinon I skateboarded 85km from Sydney to Wollongong. It took me 12 hours

> Edit: I'm in the early stages of planning the next one, which will be bigger :)

Better get a G-Wagen then ;)

http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/gunther-holtorf-g-wagen-r...

lansteinon The Tyranny of Taxi Medallions

see: Fung Wah buses on the East Coast

lansteinon Ask HN: Am I underpaid?

I'd recommend putting your (throwaway) email in the about section of your profile - you may get responses you wouldn't otherwise from people who don't want to go to the trouble of making a throwaway HN account.

lansteinon Tesla Model S Sales Exceed Target

That is totally false. I see at least three/day in SoMa.

lansteinon Screenhero Shares Your Screen with Others, Gives Each Person Their Own Mouse

She might want to get her domain spelled correctly.

lansteinon New Java 0-Day Vulnerability Being Exploited in the Wild

e.g. http://blog.fireeye.com/research/2012/07/grum-botnet-no-long...

lansteinon New Java 0-Day Vulnerability Being Exploited in the Wild

FireEye is an awesome place to work FYI. Lots of stuff like this.

lansteinon The Story of Bageshwori, Watsi's First Patient

https://watsi.org/profile/f7523849edfd-kingsley

Done. This is amazing.

lansteinon The depressing math behind consumer-facing apps

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnomes_(South_Park)

lansteinon Exploring the Abandoned Macy's Midwest Headquarters

Of everything, this goes uninvestigated??

"A microphone for the PA system. Some of them still work, and we assume that they still play in the main (functioning) mall."

lansteinon Website Impounded

Why would they care?

lansteinon In Defense of Copy and Paste

principle

lansteinon Why New Relic Is Raising $80 Million Now

Did you use a + address? That cuts both ways, you know.

lansteinon PagerDuty (YC S10) Raises $10.7M From Andreessen Horowitz For IT Alert Service

Short answer is availability - we have three datacenters, and redundant connectivity around the globe. We have 12 of the Fortune 100 as customers for this reason.

Others: Our phone and SMS alerts read the text of the alert to you, and you can ack/resolve/escalate right from there. Centralized management of all alerting If you lose a rack, we wake you up and tell you you have a thousand incidents, we don't page you a thousand times (and DoS your phone in the process) Super-simple drag-and-drop scheduling Easy multi-timezone rotations Fantastic REST API

Happy to elaborate if you're interested - email is in profile.

lansteinon PagerDuty (YC S10) Raises $10.7M From Andreessen Horowitz For IT Alert Service

Before anyone asks - Android is in the works!

lansteinon PagerDuty (YC S10) Raises $10.7M From Andreessen Horowitz For IT Alert Service

We sincerely appreciate the support that so many of you have given us. If you'd like to let us know what you'd like us to build next, please vote on our UserVoice page: http://feedback.pagerduty.com/forums/18293-general

Also - we have an iPhone app now! It's in the App Store.

lansteinon Randi Zuckerberg Also Confused About Facebook Privacy

Believe that was sarcasm.

lansteinon Oracle Acquires Eloqua for $810M

Odd... I'm contributing code to Oracle.

http://code.google.com/p/eloqua-php-sdk/

lansteinon Facebook tests $1 fee for inbox access

That's basically SMS in India in a nutshell from my understanding. Except I believe there's a third level allowing SMS spam.

lansteinon "Brown and Cornell Are Second Tier"

Skull and Bones. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_and_Bones)

lansteinon [dead]

Believe there's an extra or missing logical operator there.

lansteinon Valid Email Addresses

I remember what it is, and you're completely right - it's certainly legitimate and legible (though unusual ;) ).

lansteinon Intel CEO Paul Otellini to Retire in May

Is 38 not nearly 40?

lansteinon Nobody’s going to steal your idea

PagerDuty! (I work there.)

lansteinon Zenbox Acquires Wishery

re: Cooper - couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

lansteinon The Let's-Sell-Our-House-And-See-the-World Retirement

That makes sense. FYI I deleted my comment because I didn't feel like it added anything.

I think you would actually like SF - there are a lot of companies building real software, and if there's any smugness, it's that you can work at what you love, make more money than the Wall St. folks, and do it in a t-shirt and shorts.

I appreciate that you took the time to write, I understand where you're coming from a lot better.

lansteinon First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win

Well, only for the last couple years, really - they got acquired fairly recently.

lansteinon An experiment: Can desperation drive success?

So, the same as at Google?

lansteinon NetDNA's real-time network monitoring system

Justin is a great guy, and NetDNA is an awesome company. Look for more great things to come from them.