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The most concerning part of this post is that you could get drunk enough to watch shitty lifetime movies and describe "those shits are fun"

Agreed. This is aligned with what I was throwing on another thread. Your behaviors were not aligned with your identity so one of them had to go. Sounds like you picked the one you …

I beg to disagree. Self-hatred is always negative and certainly does not correlate with any particular behavior. Does being hooked on doughnuts and ice-cream go hand-in-hand with s…

There is this lesson that keeps coming up in my life again and again that I believe is true, applies effortlessly to matters of substance consumption, and generalizes out to life i…

Your problem is very simple: you are working on bullshit. Across your entire description of your situation you never once mentioned what it is you are actually working on but calle…

There is no intrinsic value to being in a management, leadership, or even a founder role. It's really a shame that we have embraced this nonsense of uplifting and celebrating roles…

OCSP exists because CRLs don’t scale as you build an ever growing list of revoked certificates

Okay, I will bite. What you need my friend is a strategy. Are there features that if delivered create outsized economic returns? You need to invert your thinking. Nobody gives a sh…

The analysis I have read here is far over-indexed on the technology and privacy aspects. Pushing a new messaging platform involves a fundamental change in consumer behavior and thi…

There is a fundamental disconnect here in the analysis and attribution of malice and disregard for social duty. Building a product and company is a messy affair. You have to earn y…

Uber's valuation is entirely driven off the idea that they will reap monopoly profits in a market that is exploding. Like PayPal, Google and Facebook before them the wager is that …

Blake from Layer here: I've reviewed the updates from last night and I don't feel like the tone was out of line. We were simply trying to provide our customers with complete transp…

Thanks for the link. We are taking a look at what Algolia has done here and will likely put together a public infrastructure overview page for Layer as well.

Blake from Layer here: We are forthright with all our customers about our current deployment configuration and the roadmap timelines for evolving into a deployment with higher avai…

Hey, Blake from Layer here: we regularly undergo architecture and deployment reviews with our customers. We are fully transparent with the current deployment configuration and time…

Hey, Blake from Layer here: We were not at all trying to finger-point our issues at Google, only provide our customers with up to the minute transparency on where we were with the …

Blake from Layer here: I'll definitely share your feedback with the product and marketing teams. Here's my version of a summary for a developer-centric audience: Layer provides a c…

Blake from Layer here. Have you taken a look at our developer documentation on developer.layer.com? I felt like we did a pretty good job of presenting the product capabilities. Our…

Hey guys, head of engineering at Layer here. If you actually try to go down the road of building a platform for other developers then you are very quickly going to discover that yo…

Hey saarons -- Blake from Layer here. This is a big challenge that we are actively discussing internally. With Atlas on iOS, we had the luxury of a gold standard reference UI thank…