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November 29, 2010

Startup Tools: Gandi.net Easily Beats GoDaddy.com

I don't know how to say this nicely, so I'll just unload: GoDaddy.com is the biggest crapfest of online services that I've ever had the sorry pleasure of dealing with. By comparison, Gandi.net is a breath of fresh air.

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November 27, 2010

I'm done here

The tyrant of the future won't be a king, or a dictator. Hell, he won't even be a faceless bureaucrat. The tyrant of the future will be the automated application of this structure we're throwing together in an effort to pound square pegs into round holes.

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November 17, 2010

The Startup Attitude

Now that I'm starting to get just a tiny bit of traction in my startup, and I've gotten used to looking stupid so that it doesn't bother me much anymore, I'd like to tell you the things that were wrong with my attitude that took so long to fix.

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November 15, 2010

Stoics Among Us

Read a really good book this weekend: "A Guide to the Good Life The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy" I've already written a review over on my hn-books site, so here's the link: Also, for those of you HNer's, here's...

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November 13, 2010

The HN Heartbeat

Tired of coding today, so I thought I'd look over some server stats and make some observations based on the data. Perhaps my thinking aloud can help other bloggers.

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November 12, 2010

To code quickly, you must quit coding

I did something yesterday that doubled my daily coding performance. It was easy, cheap, and made a tremendous difference in my life. Some of you may already know what it is. For the rest of you, its going to sound wacky.

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November 9, 2010

Make something people hate

"Make something people want" is the first rule of the startup community will tell you. But they're wrong. Or rather, what they say is incomplete.

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November 3, 2010

Good and Evil in the Garden of Hackerdom

I think a lot of such communication is good -- it helps us form and maintain a community. But it's critically important to recognize what these topics are: social candy. A little bit is fine now and then, but it's very easy to do too much.

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