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As a naive person, I have a simple question - why would they even fly to an airport where there's 100mph winds? Wouldn't ATC know this and tell the flight way in advance to fly to …

This comment reminds me of the infamous Dropbox comment :)

The asymmetric reward is the _company_ having a liquidity event thereby enriching the founder, NOT a funding round enriching the founder.

Sells or shuts or goes public. Those are the only three outcomes for a venture backed startup.

Founder liquidity is wrong -- and not because employees don't get the same deal. It's wrong because it is NOT uncommon for a founder to take chips off the table sometimes enriching…

Interesting name! (probably get rid of the dashes if you can :) I liked the idea of a demo site. Very few take the pains to create one. Is there a way to target individual users or…

SEEKING WORK | Oakland | Remote Looking for something a little different here: I'd like to help an early stage startup hire remote overseas talent and build a stellar dev team. I'm…

I feel like I'm in the same boat as you. I'd love to chat and exchange notes or just discuss challenges. My email is in my bio. Would love to hear from you if you're open to it. It…

Why do you want to shut the dev shop? I run a dev shop myself and would love to hear your perspective.

I posted this yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33783313 Piggybacking off of that, if you're an experienced (mid-level & beyond) eng, where are you going to check out…

You're an experienced engineer. Do you keep your eyes and ears open to new opportunities even when not actively looking for a job? For the purpose of the question, I'd define exper…

Q for engineers on this thread: would you be more open to a "recruiter reach-out" if that person _is_ an engineer themselves but independently also helps startups build teams as a …

i meant a physical book

I read a lot of things online - blog posts, twitter threads, newsletters etc. But for a long time now, I've realized it really breaks my flow to be bombarded with this information …

Software development in most startup teams today has essentially become ticket-driven development. Tickets are created, assigned, and are magically expected to be delivered on in 1…

If you're a hiring manager, have you felt the burn trying to find and attract people to full-time roles? And if so, what are you seeing? Sourcing has become near impossible with mo…

I hear something over and over, often from higher-ups, but also from sales and marketing functions in an org, and occasionally from other eng teams. They really don't know what has…

Take on freelance work on the side if your day job isn’t too taxing.

Does anyone have an opinion that's strongly in favor of Node/Express and why? May be once past the MVP stage, Node/Express was a better choice for xyz reasons - I'd love to hear wh…

Has anyone here extensively worked with Rails and then gone on to work heavily with Node/Express, or vice versa? Would love to hear your overall experience and thoughts between the…

Why aren’t companies going public sooner now? So much of the medium term upside is gone by the time they IPO and the stock then gets hammered in the markets.

The short answer is probably because it's a people thing. Or that people don't use them as they're intended. Or you don't understand agile (side note - the agile way is the stupide…

So I suppose most people should not start a company for the next 50 years?