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MailChimp’s founders built the company slowly by anticipating customers’ needs

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Post by simonbarker87 »

chris_7 wrote: post #229
simonbarker87 wrote: post #178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fair enough, that is spam in that case. Your initial comment didn't specify that you have never signed up for a mailing list (except for open source software, which is a mailing list) which I think puts you in the minority of people.

OSS mailing lists shouldn't be considered the same thing because I can send mail to them, and anyone else can as well. They are discussion forums carried out via email. Mailing lists in the Mailchimp sense are just unwanted advertising in what I view as a communication medium - the equivalent of IRS scammer robocalls.

But if someone signs up for them how can they be spam?

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Post by s_baby »

dodders wrote: post #253
s_baby wrote: post #74

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Atlanta has the 3rd largest LGBT population behind SF/Seattle and is pretty diverse in general. It's the other parts of Georgia that can seem backwards. Same goes for North Carolina. A person from SF would feel at home in Asheville or Raleigh despite everything going on in the news.

Do you have a source for that? From wikipedia [1] Atlanta has the 3rd largest percentage, but it's 11th for total population. Admittedly those figures are for 2005, but I wouldn't expect Atlanta to make up that much on the top 3 in the last 10 years? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_demographics_of_the_Unite...

I meant density not total population.

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Post by rak00n »

clueless123 wrote: post #98
echelon wrote: post #37

The Atlanta tech scene is blossoming, just like our film industry. We have a couple of incubators, including a few that are funded/supported by Georgia Tech. The cost of living here is super cheap, and there are brilliant and talented people everywhere. We have satellite offices for tons of major tech companies, so there are traditional tech jobs too. Earning $200k here while the cost of living is so low is phenomina…

Tech people are lucky enough to have a choice where to work. Cheap rent and low cost of living are not enough to attract talent.. There always has to be a "something cool" on a city to be attractive.

I think everyone is entitled to that choice irrespective of field of profession.

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Post by gffrd »

SwellJoe wrote: post #168
michaelcampbell wrote: post #152

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> and has possibly the rudest drivers in the whole country) There are 2 truths I've found, having lived outside Chicago, Manhattan, Atlanta (in 3 different areas), Orlando, Tampa, and Los Angeles: 1. Wherever you are, people think the drivers there are worse than other places. 2. Wherever you are, people think the weather changes more frequently there than other places. I have NEVER lived, and rarely visited places (…

"There are 2 truths I've found, having lived outside Chicago, Manhattan, Atlanta (in 3 different areas), Orlando, Tampa, and Los Angeles: 1. Wherever you are, people think the drivers there are worse than other places." I have lived in an RV and traveled full-time for six of the past seven years. I've driven a bus-sized house through more cities than most folks have visited. I feel like I could write a (very boring)…

Truth on LA.

They drive hard, but there's a very clear & consistent code/system everyone abides by, drivers are attentive and bewilderingly polite: signal, and—more often than not—someone immediately makes room for you. Makes for stress-free, predictable driving despite being 20 over at all times.

… or maybe that's the norm, but I'm from Seattle where drivers are timid, indecisive, unpredictable, and passive-aggressive.

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Post by imatworkyo »

echelon wrote: post #37

The Atlanta tech scene is blossoming, just like our film industry. We have a couple of incubators, including a few that are funded/supported by Georgia Tech. The cost of living here is super cheap, and there are brilliant and talented people everywhere. We have satellite offices for tons of major tech companies, so there are traditional tech jobs too. Earning $200k here while the cost of living is so low is phenomina…

Who in Atlanta is paying 200k? I am just getting off a job hunt and was hard pressed to find much above 130 for senior devs.

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Post by MrMullen »

tedunangst wrote: post #137
MrMullen wrote: post #120

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Because our population is 4 times larger.

That's a peculiar reply. Like it's ok to have bigots, as long as there's lots of them?

No, but even if California's BPC (Bigot Per Capita) was half of Georgia's, we would still have twice as many Bigots as Georgia.

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Post by kartickv »

jonstokes wrote: post #30

And then somehow they managed to totally disregard their customers' needs and screw everyone with the Mandrill changeover. Seriously, has everyone forgotten that fiasco? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11170713 I'll never trust them or use them again, after that. No way no how.

I clicked the link, and briefly skimmed the article linked from there, and I have no idea what happened. What's Mandrill? What was the problem?
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