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Don’t be a shill for big tech over elastic in this fight. AWS was using elastic’s trademark and aggressive advertising to push their managed elasticsearch. They left elastic with n…

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I think it's more likely to cause a lost Decade of people not going into CS or tech due to lack of entry-level jobs. Maybe next time there's a boom and the pendulum of the power dy…

So many astroturf comments here.. the moderation here is out of control terrible :/

Why is this on HN.

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Interesting story but why is this on HN?

interesting story, but why is this on HN.

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Redmine was pretty great.

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How does this belong on HN.

It sounds unusual for a seed-stage company (I assume that’s what you mean) to seek funding from private equity. Did the company already have significant revenue and profitability? …

The Age of Inhumanity... AI mimicry of human patterns devalues our very humanity. Without wise leadership, which we clearly lack, this upcoming Age will be profoundly unstable.

Awesome. Best rant I’ve read since Zed Shaw’s “Rails is a Ghetto” back in 2008.

This risk of losing business in the EU due to regulations around data is also acknowledged by google in their recent filing.. this isn’t specific to Meta despite all the articles t…

> Common saying: "go fast alone, go farther together" Great advice.

Are you the CEO? And does your vesting agreement have any provision for accelerated vesting if your employment is terminated without cause?

I've found that it's a good way to restrict access to testing/staging/dev environments. way easier to set up and manage than a vpn imo.

It's not paranoia. An ex-Amazon manager told me fairly recently that they look at customer performance data (trends etc) when evaluating future business opportunities. So once you …

Hire an attorney (or several) for a couple of hours to read through your agreements. The shareholders agreement, even if 'boilerplate', may only give the company the right of first…

I can relate... I'm not sure it helps, but what you're going through is not uncommon for startup founders. I know someone who just came out of a job where he was hired to take over…