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Thanks! I'd be really curious to know if other folks on HN are doing something similar. I've been talking about this a lot the last year, and sometimes the reaction is "never heard…

True -- there are LOTS of engineering managers who would struggle greatly with the move. They are just too far away from the details and haven't been hands-on in long enough... and…

One skill that I've found to be especially useful in investment and business -- often because others are so bad at it -- is to make good determinations on the value of any given th…

Makes CBInsights look pretty good, actually.

Yeah, fair point. It was a legitimate question when I posted this -- the page wasn't loading and some weird text was appearing at the bottom. Not sure there's a way to remove the l…

I have a feeling the lesson at the end of this is going to involve setting longer TTLs.

It's struggling to load though -- I don't think the hacker was anywhere near ready for Craigslist levels of traffic.

Maybe somebody hijacked their DNS?

Removed the link to Craigslist.org so that people wouldn't accidentally click through to a site (we've now verified) is hacked.

My favorite bit from this article: “A tobacco store lady talking about physics in the wee hours of the morning doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me,” [General Carey] said in an …

Yeah, the Blueprint folks are great: They've been amazing sponsors for the Health Devs meetup group and have hosted our meetups in their space since we started.

I organize Health Devs, which is pretty much exactly as you describe: we do monthly events where people show off things they've created, get help on code, etc. Our next meetup, on …

I'm trying to think of what else to do, too. The current strategy of elected officials, all the way up to Obama, is to try to change the conversation (to the economy, to the Zimmer…