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madmotive

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About madmotive

After 1000 days on Hacker News I decided to switch my user name to be consistent with my Twitter name:

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jot

http://hackernewsers.com/users/madmotive.html

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    A very long article... One of the most significant bits for me: Seedcamp do plan to open source their funding documents.

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    Comment #929576

    This underlines to me why it's essential to have technical founders.

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    You shouldn't expect them to remember what was in the application. If they do remember something it will probably only be one line.

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    You get an email when you don't get in with a nice couple of lines explaining why. Our email came in the early hours of the morning. I'd encourage you not to respond to it, at leas…

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    This is exactly how our "interview" went. Despite being given the same advice by others that had been through the process we still foolishly wasted time preparing a short 1 minute …

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    What approaches do other OAuth providers take to this problem? Revoking all OAuth tokens on a password change/reset takes away a good chunk of the value that many people get from u…

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    The costs have dropped to zero for many of the smaller low traffic sites because they don't currently need more resources than those provided by Herkou's basic free service. We can…

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    Heroku is the only business critical service I use that makes me smile almost everyday. I wish my telephone company, ISP and bank could provide such an excellent product with the s…

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    Good point. So far about half have paid. I guess the main reason this works for us is that we prefer smaller projects. We don't aspire to being a huge consulting company / agency t…

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    Our approach is to respond to RFPs with a fixed-rate proposal development fee. Anyone that's good enough to be in demand should do the same. Clients that expect you to do work for …

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    or, since it's on Heroku: heroku logs

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    I find it amusing that they actually seem to think $60 is the right price point for "students, hobbyists, individual developers". How out of touch with the community can you get. L…

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