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As Someone Who Has Written This Blog Post,(zachholman.com)
2 points by holman 8h ago|0 comments
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Show HN: QSBS Calculator for Company Stock(signed.com)
2 points by holman 1mo ago|0 comments
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by holman 2mo ago
Cheers! That era of the internet was such a fun chunk of time. All the little design tricks and bite-sized approaches people shared… it was a lot of fun.
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by holman 2mo ago
These little stories, though not my original intention with the post, are very lovely to read!
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by holman 2mo ago
See, it all worked out!
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by holman 2mo ago
That's been my biggest annoyance lately. Everyone's trying to AI these sorts of things, but for people who get a lot of these frequently, it's pretty easy to spot. Talk like a human and you can go pretty far, though.
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The Cold Email(zachholman.com)
302 points by holman 2mo ago|126 comments
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by holman 3mo ago
Really amusing to read this one. I did something similar for Qatar 2022 and got access to roster submission ( https://zachholman.com/posts/hacking-fifa ). To their credit they patched it pretty quickly, but their promise
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by holman 4mo ago
Happy and definitely gone, haha. Not my circus not my monkeys.
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There's No Minimum Angel Check Size(zachholman.com)
2 points by holman 5mo ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Wowza it's hard to track equity and investments(signed.com)
2 points by holman 6mo ago|0 comments
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by holman 6mo ago
Me: Whoa, cool, my hometown is on atop Hacker News! Also me, reading further: Uh-oh. The chief of police also resigned today; wouldn't be shocked if this was part of the reasoning.
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The Tools of Angel Investing(zachholman.com)
2 points by holman 7mo ago|0 comments
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by holman 8mo ago
Hah, no, that wasn't a thing at the company back then. 220k is large; not sure what snapshot of the page they were looking at at the time, but in any case "performance" in this context means server-side perf.
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by holman 8mo ago
404s were designed for performance, as OP says here, but also to be as simple as possible. Part of the difficulty was info leakage; early on there was a lot of concern that a 403 would imply the existence of a repo that the org might otherw
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Taking money off the table(zachholman.com)
137 points by holman 11mo ago|108 comments
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by holman 11mo ago
(fwiw, GitHub switched to Rails 3 sometime around 2011-2012 or so).
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by holman 1y ago
Amusing to read this and think back on GitHub's seed round ($100M). At the time we just had a small business account from Bank of America... going from relatively thin cushion in the account over the previous few years to suddenly drop
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by holman 1y ago
I have like 7500 stars on my dotfiles over the last 15 years or so; it's definitely weird. It's kind of a different open source project entirely; the goal isn't really to make good software... it's to make good software
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by holman 1y ago
Things were going quickly on the run-up to Rails moving over, but even so, Rails was pretty aggressive at jumping on GitHub when they did, and it was one of our first real "major" open source projects on the site, in hindsight. Th
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by holman 2y ago
I'm a huge Newsroom sucker, but that one just felt weird. The whole "we used [clip] sarin" felt really drawn-out and kind of weird. On the other hand, my partner and I constantly say "we used sarin" to each other so
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by holman 2y ago
> FCP was outstanding in its time, but was neglected. I'm more of a casual when it comes to Final Cut Pro rather than a daily driver, but it does seem like the last year or two they've started to get back into the fight again.
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by holman 2y ago
Made me super happy to read that!
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by holman 2y ago
I built the last major update to GitHub Issues over a decade ago now, and I was... kind of hoping for more. Feels more like it's checkbox-driven development instead of sitting down and really planning long-term about what improvements
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by holman 2y ago
When this comes on in the Big House you immediately feel like you want to run through a brick wall for the team.
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by holman 2y ago
Yes. It’s probably one of the most-watched games in NWSL this season. People who don’t even watch NWSL watched this game. I mean, hell, even if it were just another game I’d probably find it relevant to include that Alex subbed off in the 1
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by holman 2y ago
I discovered it literally late last night and was going to start reading it today. I’m not really sure what it’s all about yet, but the fact that it’s number one on HN today is making me feel like everything is some kind of simulation for m
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by holman 2y ago
I can't really explain how cool Urchin was. I think it was one of the first truly analytical software I used — not just from a web traffic point of view, but it was a site that used and presented data . The graphs, the maps, even th
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by holman 2y ago
I used it pretty regularly for non-work things (primarily really great TV or movies I wanted to watch, or live soccer games). Found I couldn't really use it for work stuff (the interactions, though not fatal, aren't in a state tha
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by holman 3y ago
I’m doing not too bad these days, thanks for the well-wishes! :o)

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