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nice hack!

Thanks for the heads up about the whitelist feature. I would also like to be able to record all my activity locally and not send anything to the server. It would make RescueTime mo…

Thanks for the tip. I'll definitely try it.

You nailed it. Lately I've been bored by my work. When I'm excited about what I'm working on, the problem is much less serious.

I spend too much time browsing the web and it's hurting my productivity. There are so many interesting sites online -- hacker news, blogs, friendfeed, facebook, nytimes, etc -- and…

In this kind of forum that encourages entrepreneurship even in the face of stiff competition I'm surprised that many people dismiss the notion that someone could make a better seed…

By my experience (I've gotten job offers from a few startups), most startups (especially after their series A) offer employees (at least engineers) a miniscule amount of equity (a …

Is Giles saying that with the help of Rubinius you can do Lisp-style code generation in Ruby? I don't know much about Rubinius but this doesn't sound right. Lisp macros let you man…

Good job on the site! I like how the song keeps playing when you click around, but when you hit the back button the song gets cut off :(

I guess it depends on your definition of risk. The definition I was going by is the chance of getting a decent payout after spending 4 years of your life working somewhere. If you …

I'm not sure how the equity is currently divided, but these are very good questions, thanks. The company had an A round and it has about 10-15 employees. I should have said that fo…

It's risky in the sense that the chance of a meaningful payoff is much smaller. I don't mind living on ramen for a while if it made the "dream" tangible. If the difference between …

Here's my dilemma: there's a relatively young startup in the Valley that I think would be a great place to work. I really like the people, the technology, the product and the marke…

I agree. Despite the guidelines, I can see this potentially being used to spread rumors, gossip, lie, or just stuff that's plain unflattering on people. I doubt many people will be…

Will the same map in a few years include the American empire? Afganistan, Iraq, (maybe) Iran...

Many very smart people built amazing products in Java (Google, Amazon, Ebay). Calling them drones makes you sound like an amateur.