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Nick Wooster was doing a supreme job at bringing high quality clothing "to the masses"

It's a ridiculous example of "good on paper, not in reality."

All of his albums are good or better, almost all the albums sold well – and the more recent ones like You Are the Quarry are superb. Oh, and he's great to see live solo.

How about almost any rock band reforming? A great idea on paper and almost always a terrible idea. Smashing Pumpkins?

(How about the Euro if you want a good example?)

I wrote a bit about this, and how – as an email marketing company – I figured it's okay to send emails "as if you're a human" but only as long as you reply like a human: https://www.userfox.com/blog/the-joel-at-buffer-feature/

If you don't reply, you shatter the trust from that email you think someone wrote you.

for what its worth, I believe Buffer were the guys that pioneered this, and email marketing companies (like ourselves) just turned it into a feature.

couldn't care less. if you could care less, well, you can care less and then you might as well remove stating that factoid.

this happens all the time. some friends of mine run pagerduty.com and they were funded by ycombinator after 4 applications and interviews.

The internet does a lot of good but times like this it can be scary – or just plain wrong.

Once the wheels of motion are turning there is nothing anyone can do, even the way Hacker News behaved with it's mob mentality was absurd – two people got fired, SendGrid was brought offline, some poor lady received death threats, everyone was humiliated in some capacity, and by the looks of the comment thread on the SendGrid facebook page, equality in tech has been notched back a few decades.

Talk about blowing something out of proportion: some guy made a dongle joke to a friend of his at a conference. It's kind of terrifying if you think how easily you could have been one of the characters in this. You see so many times when some poor person has his personal details spread over the internet based on a rumour. What do you even do when this happens?

Mountain. Mole hill.

I don't understand what this has to do with Y Combinator.

you're amusingly vitriolic about this

I think they should just make reviews less than 3 stars require a text explanation.

it seems kind of ridiculous to presume that one rogue one star rating would get a driver fired. i would assume that there is more to firing drivers than simply the rating system – someone must talk to the passenger to figure out what is up.

You could do it for cargo ships of all kinds. Something astounding like 35% of the Maersk fleet sits idle at any given time.

when i read about greader shutting down I instantly thought "good day for Samuel"

This was a thousand times better than I expected. great job.

What power do investors have if they don't have board control? All the percentage equity stuff seems irrelevant.

that is incredible

correct! we built something, it didn't work out, so we built something new.

I believe the big spike a year last Nov/Dec was the cricket bat story that went mainstream media. The one after, was that _why going offline?

Jim Eno, from Spoon, was a semiconductor chip designer up until Spoon released Gimmie Fiction. They released four albums before Gimmie Fiction and had multiple international tours.

Apple Remote Desktop does almost everything you're describing.

You'd burn through $5M scarily fast with a staff of 28.

I seem to remember Cambridge Medical School students learning Latin. Can anyone confirm?

I personally think this is a matter of personal preference, but the critical thing is to ensure you always use the same terminology throughout the entire application. Mixing them up is horrendous.

I have to wait how long to ascertain what exec is?

The landing page should say "Exec will do whatever you desire for $25/hour, such as:"

and then carousel through examples.

I say the same thing about why I loathe Chrome and adore Safari. I can't really say why, Safari just feels right.

Am I missing something or is Jekyll an outrageously user unfriendly blogging platform?

I have to create a text file, specify the layout, ensure the timestamp and title is in the filename, and then write HTML.

I am stunned no one has made a simple scaffold that lets me create a post with a button click and then use markdown to write, on a simple web app.

The unfortunate (to this article) truth is that the odds of x person being talented is higher if they went to a great school.

I think it's often safe to assume that if you went to a top school you have either (or both) determination or raw intelligence. If you didn't do this you'll spend forever screening dumb people.

I wish this would exist all my existing IMAP emails. Then I'd use this.