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Patrick McKenzie
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"15~20 years ago, technically-inclined founders routinely got taken to cleaners by capital due to information asymmetry. This is no longer the case due to folks like Brad Feld et al writing about it and PG's YCombinator." @robwalling #microconf
@robwalling I think one of the things we'll see over the *next* 15~20 years is that there will be sufficient money internal to the tech community (broadly writ) such that tapping high net worth individuals / endowments / pension plans won't be necessary.
@robwalling (This has already basically happened prior to Series B or so; the big question is whether it happens to B/C as well. One wonders who will win growth rounds, mutual funds or SoftBank or funds, but I'm glad that my day job is not attempting to build differentiation for money.)
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Patrick McKenzie
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Engagement is a toxic metric.

Products which optimize for it become worse. People who optimize for it become less happy.

It also seems to generate runaway feedback loops where most engagable people have a) worst individual experiences and then b) end up driving the product bus.
This reflection brought to you by the respected American journal which retweeted ragebait today... for the eighth time in the last two years.

Did they do it because their social team knew that article would piss people off? Or does "sort by engagement desc" generate this magic?
I described the article as "clearly designed to be ragebait" in an early version of that tweet but in hindsight I think that might actually not be true. They could literally just have entirely conscientious journalists publishing daily and have their social team find the bait.
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Patrick McKenzie
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Currently dogfooding upgrading my Stripe integration, because we should have to go through as least as many hoops as customers do.

Including, in this case, “Ahh joys of maintenance programming this is on Rails 3.2.x I wonder what is going to go wrong when I bump the library.”
I'm happy to report that literally nothing broke on the Stripe API or ruby bindings or their dependencies when doing a jump from stripe-ruby 1.8.3 to 4.12.0.

I did spend a lot of time reacquainting myself with 2012 me's organizational choices and disdain for functioning tests.
"You mean functional tests?"

Oh he hated those too.
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Patrick McKenzie
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Paraphrase of a sentiment I hear a lot in OSS/etc adjacent spaces: "I do a lot of uncompensated labor. If I were a consultant, I could have charged $100 for this email."

This is probably not the optimal way to run a consultancy. Unpaid labor does not go away if you run one.
Consultants run businesses which are substantially more complicated than being an individual contributor of their core labor. All businesses have unbillable overhead. Consultants are particularly aware of this, precisely because their billable rates are so high.
If one desires to have a boundary between doing paid work and unpaid work, one would generally not say "Here's an invoice for $100 to respond to this email", because if your consultancy is capable of generating $100 invoice its rates are too low by at least an order of magnitude.
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More news out on the #NXIVM cult case today. We are seeing a lot of movement in this case the past few weeks.

Another key #NXIVM defendant, Lauren Salzman, has pled guilty to Racketeering and Racketeering Conspiracy. frankreport.com/2019/03/28/lau…
Quoting Frankreport.com: "Following in the footsteps of her mother, Lauren Salzman has decided to plead guilty rather than go to trial in the case of the U.S. v. Raniere Et Al.to one count each of Racketeering and Racketeering Conspiracy." #NXIVM
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gab user ‘whiteboner’ is a racist, sexist, transphobic, homophobic, anti-semitic white supremacist who for the past year and a half has focused almost exclusively on trying to ‘prove’ james fields did not kill heather heyer.
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Am about to drop the backlog of arXiv & IACR papers for the past few weeks. If you are not interested mute this thread now :)
T. Xie et al. “The Untold Secrets of Operational Wi-Fi Calling Services: Vulnerabilities, Attacks, and Countermeasures” […study of exploring security issues of operational Wi-Fi calling services in three major U.S. operators’…using commodity devices…]

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Andrew Walsh
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Writing Myths #3 Writing Portfolios are the magic way into the industry!!
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1)Portfolios are NOT magic. Simply having one doesn't get you a job. Tey are a tool to be used in chasing work and an increasing number of employers ask for them. Having one can be very useful, but just putting some bits of writing in the same place does not = instant career.
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1) I'm not sure how to make people remember or care that 15 years ago the United States invaded Iraq, setting off a war that continues to this day, with several hundred thousand Iraqis dead, millions turned into refugees. I covered the invasion for the New York Times Magazine.
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1/ Manu (The progenitor of Humankind)
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2/ The word Manu literary means man but it is a title given to the progenitor of mankind. According to Hindu Puranas there are many kalpas (One day of Lord Brahma the creator) and each Kalpa has 14 manvantara and each manvatara has one manu. So basically each Kalpa has 14 Manus.
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