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spydertennis··on Mitch Kapor Introduces Lotus 1-2-3 Spreadsheet (1983) [video]
legend
spydertennis··on Digging into a Solopreneur's Experimentation Stack
looks great already. agree that focus is ones most important tool
spydertennis··on Keep the Internet Open
In a thread littered with unpleasantness this comment gave me hope.
spydertennis··on RethinkDB Postmortem
Best comment in here.
spydertennis··on YC Tech Stacks
some good data on best in class saas
spydertennis··on Five Years of Recurse Center
ITT: People who want to talk about their own issues and not Recurse Center.
spydertennis··on What Mailchimp does to make sure emails get delivered
Not 100% of it. Email is a public utility and people use it in different ways.
spydertennis··on Dropbox: Going Deeper with Project Infinite
Fair.
spydertennis··on Dropbox: Going Deeper with Project Infinite
Maybe he doesn't want to talk to you. I'm not stoked to see you commenting about your personal issues.
spydertennis··on Silicon Valley’s Legendary ‘Coach’ Bill Campbell Has Died
Says volumes about our level of discourse that this is considered a pearl of wisdom.
spydertennis··on Why Thieves Steal Soap
how did you manage to make a whole article out of 'soap is easy to sell illegaly'
spydertennis··on BlackRock Plans to Cut About 400 Jobs in Coming Weeks
Yeah but nobody here realizes that.
spydertennis··on Entry-Level Startup Jobs Are Now Mostly Dead Ends in the Boondocks
I know this is satire but it's not untrue. A lot of important sites on the Internet were/are being created in San Francisco. More recognizably so than anywhere else.
spydertennis··on Life in full view: Etsy one year on from IPO
coherent and insightful analysis
spydertennis··on Morgan Stanley Marks Down Its Stake in Palantir, Dropbox
Look, I'm not the ethical police or anything, but I think it clearly is.
spydertennis··on Morgan Stanley Marks Down Its Stake in Palantir, Dropbox
Violating the limit 1 per customer policy is stealing.

EDIT: I wasn't going to engage but with this many downvotes I feel obligated to explain myself. Like I commented below, I'm not trying to tell you how to act. I merely wanted to point out that just because it's easy doesn't make it not wrong. As a group of people who actually run their own companies I would expect us to know better.

spydertennis··on Michael Moritz on how Sequoia Capital has maintained long-term success
cool to see matt huang get a well deserved shout out
spydertennis··on Why a Die-Hard Mechanical Watch Lover Can't Get the Apple Watch Off His Wrist
Maybe he glued it on by accident.

...I hate all the titles on here lately.

spydertennis··on Show HN: Function of Beauty (YC W16) – Personalized Shampoo
I ordered this awhile back when it was posted in the YC Holiday Gift list.

I freaking love it. Relatively cheap and makes my hair feel better than the Aveda products I was previously using.

spydertennis··on LendUp (YC W12) Scores $150M for a Credit Card That Won’t Screw You Over
great article. sounds like sasha and lendup are in business for all the right reasons. hopefully their story inspires more like them.
spydertennis··on Holiday Gift Ideas from Y Combinator
yeah and its dope now
spydertennis··on Holiday Gift Ideas from Y Combinator
yeah but then it would be harder to find things when revisiting the list. oh wait you cookie everyone and preserve the order on an individual basis. sick.
spydertennis··on Glassdoor: Airbnb dethrones Google as the best tech company to work for in U.S
this could disrupt the recruiting industry. its a matchmaking service and it matches your personality to the company. someone make this please.
spydertennis··on Sello lets you sell anything to anyone, anywhere – by Shopify
I can already sell anything to anyone, anywhere.
spydertennis··on About the OS X Yosemite v10.10.1 Update
same here. hope they fix it soon
spydertennis··on Show HN: I just launched Meta Trails a tool for the self taught developer
as a self taught developer ive never understood the point of gamifying the process. building a real world application - dropping in user auth, image upload, etc is far more rewarding than leveling up in some imaginary system.

that being said i welcome more tools for helping people learn to program.

spydertennis··on Stripe – Apple Pay
from the perspective of a retailer, how much does apple take in the apple pay scenario? is it 0.15% + standard credit card fees?
spydertennis··on Show HN: Flight tracker for Android Wear
this is actually super interesting. excited to see where this stuff goes.
spydertennis··on Githug
what is this?
spydertennis··on How to see your iOS8 health data
that's not likely
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