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I’ve never understood this kind of thinking. If you want to give your money away you are absolutely free to do so. The Gates Foundation does wonderful things. If you want to fund g…

I have worked in software for 20 years with numerous being very early stage ventures. I would say that most of the problems I’ve faced in software venture is with non-technical fou…

FYI: Truther article

As a guy coming up on 40 this is my number one concern.

This is a nice presentation about URL best practices, but it doesn't really get into the most relevant or interesting topic of RESTful API design which is resource design represent…

My issue with this has less to do with the rate and more to do with the overall tone of it. Sam has done some excellent work, no doubt, and should charge whatever rate he finds app…

For the first six months or so of a startup's lifecycle, it's all about building a product. If you can't build a product, you're overhead at best and a distraction at worse.

I was with a startup and was the only technical member of the founding team. While the two other members personally bootstrapped the venture, I have to admit that outside of the fu…

I agree. There is absolutely no excuse for not having some sort of source control and deployment system in place at an organization with a commercially deployed solution. Why would…

Indeed, the over the top gags have grown tiresome.

I frequently fork projects on Github, add features/fix bugs, send a pull request and then delete my fork after my changes have been integrated. I've started to consider keeping my …

Why not just use JRuby?

I'm of the opinion that co-founders should split the equity as evenly as possible.

You can obviously build a very successful company outside "The Valley." However, I view being in the entrepreneurial "hot spots" like having multiple founder with a technical backg…

I had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Yunus in Dhaka and touring a village bank back in 2008. His personal office was simple and sparse (and not air conditioned) and he was very kind a…

I have only recently discovered HN, and it has quickly become the most useful site I frequent. Up to now, however, I have not yet commented.