malachismith

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by malachismith 1y ago
I haven't commented here in years. I watched the steady decline as the bros slowly took over. I tried commenting, only to be flagged and downvoted. I tried sharing articles, only to have them flagged. Starting with Gamergate, and then
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by malachismith 5y ago
I love that it took facial expression software for people to understand this. All anyone had to do was talk to a dozen internationally competitive athletes to understand this. Happiest competitor is the one who wins. Second happiest is the
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NextEra acquires mobility company eIQ(newsroom.nexteraenergy.com)
1 points by malachismith 6y ago|0 comments
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Bringing Transparency to VCs(forbes.com)
1 points by malachismith 6y ago|0 comments
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by malachismith 6y ago
This is the exact sort of feedback shared privately among experienced entrepreneurs - it's just finally accessible to everyone. From my look at the reviews I'd say it's about 80% true to my experience.
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by malachismith 7y ago
You can understand why, here on Hacker News, we might have interpreted your statement that she "directly authored many foundational pieces of Mozilla and (arguably) the internet" as claiming that she contributed code, rather than
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by malachismith 7y ago
Mozilla Corporation is a for-profit business
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by malachismith 7y ago
Sorry, but you've misunderstood. I am merely correcting the (common and frustrating) claim that Mozilla is a non-profit.
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by malachismith 7y ago
It's clearly wrong to market yourself as a non-profit when you are a for-profit company.
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by malachismith 7y ago
Again... The Mozilla Corporation is NOT a non-profit.
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by malachismith 7y ago
Mozilla Corporation is NOT a non-profit.
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by malachismith 7y ago
What "foundational pieces of Mozilla and (arguably) the Internet" did Mitchell Baker "directly author"? If you make a claim like that, you need to provide some evidence or citation to back it up.
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by malachismith 7y ago
To be clear... this charts the comp of ONE person at Mozilla (the Board Chair - and now interim CEO).
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by malachismith 13y ago
Many of us in SF would like to PREVENT this city from turning into a place like NYC. Yes... there is a problem with capitalism (or, more accurately, with unfettered "market driven" capitalism). But there are two other problems whi
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by malachismith 13y ago
"I find it difficult to distinguish what tech is doing to the valley and SF from what Wall Street has been doing to New York and London for decades." I couldn't have said it better myself. And sadly the author doesn't se
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by malachismith 13y ago
Actually.... I would argue that the "TechCrunch / HackerNews" mentality (as you describe it) is more common OUTSIDE of the Bay Area than it is within it. In the Bay Area you are surrounded by real world examples of success and failure, and
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by malachismith 13y ago
Just because you don't NEED to be in Silicon Valley to build a successful venture backed start-up doesn't mean your odds of success are not IMPROVED by locating there.
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by malachismith 13y ago
So in other words you're saying that your time is so incredibly valuable that you should be made exempt from the generally acceptable standards of behavior? (I've spent 20+ years in the tech biz. I've probably hired a few hundred people mys
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by malachismith 13y ago
Anyone interested in putting something together so that we can start aggregating the worst violators? I know I'd use that list not just to filter out the time-wasters but also to apply pain-pricing.
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by malachismith 13y ago
probably a combo of mysql drivers and connection pooling.
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by malachismith 13y ago
Sure... as long as you have the migration and rewrite plan done and ready to go, and have engineered the product for that rewrite. Otherwise you're gonna be wishing you'd failed rather than succeeded.
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Keeping it Simple(jordancooper.wordpress.com)
1 points by malachismith 13y ago|0 comments
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by malachismith 13y ago
If you do research and analysis NOT to find out the answer to a question but rather to JUSTIFY the answer you have decided (without evidence) is correct then the value of the results is nil.
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by malachismith 13y ago
Fantastic response. Thank you so much for writing and sharing. Cuts through all the spin and FUD effectively.
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by malachismith 14y ago
The comment thread here is incredibly sad and depressing and perfectly illustrates how deeply misogyny is threaded through this community and industry. You might want to go and find a female friend and have them read what you wrote. I think
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by malachismith 14y ago
Close... but the business model for most of these operations is traffic generation. Need 1M uniques this month to hit your numbers? No worries!! Enter your credit card here!
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by malachismith 14y ago
Perhaps you misread the headline or post? They are being acquired by Facebook
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Facebook Acquiring SF Design Firm Hot Studio(hotstudio.com)
9 points by malachismith 14y ago|3 comments
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by malachismith 14y ago
"wasn't informed"?!?!?! Umm... this is a hiring fail. You shouldn't have to be informed about the dominant player in your market.
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by malachismith 14y ago
Wow. So the problem was that their messaging wasn't right? Seriously? Not that their sales people are clearly dialing for dollars from some boiler room using scraped lists? Not that they're hiring people who don't know someone who ANYONE wo

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