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We're Committed to One "Nine" of Reliability! (tm)

If we disqualified all developers with personal issues from investment, there would be no-one left. Emotional intensity and productivity seem to be positively correlated.

> Source? Straight from PG: "Incidentally, the last straw, I've been told, was some bug in CMUCL threads that kept making the system crash." http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lan…

> "The only thing you can conclude is that it's a crap shoot," Kawasaki said in a recent interview at his home office in Atherton. "You have no idea what is going to succeed." (Guy…

I hate it when facts don't agree with my theories.

Sounds like you worked with some pretty uptight people! I would suggest buying them copies of Spice World. And no, "Hacker News" is not a professional setting, it's certainly infor…

My impression is most Rails developers are not C programmers.

"Girl" isn't a pejorative unless you're determined to take it that way. It has nothing to do with age; it's part of an informal nomenclature, as in "girls and guys". I know many wo…

There must be some Caterina Fakes and Sandy Lerners in there, right?

Not necessarily -- some organizations would patch it themselves in a private branch just to maintain an edge, assuming they have the expertise in-house. I've done this before with …

This seems to be a recurring theme with Lisp implementations. Reddit switched from CMUCL to Python (threading); Vendetta Online switched from SBCL to Erlang (GC/memory leaks). Othe…

Okay, you are now officially smart in my book. I'm going to apply.

> Are there any examples of husband/wife teams in successful startups? Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake, Flickr.

Lobotomy. Now the conversations are much more interesting.

The first version of the Terminator hunter/killer. SkyNet will be pleased.

This is my objection to many "high-tech" companies: in many cases it boils down to grunt work, mindless labor. I don't want to get rich off the backs of poor people doing menial jo…

Might want to get out the pesticide before the Ayn Rand-ers pull a Ron Paul-ing of YC News.