dorkitude | 12 years ago | on: What CTOs Fear Most
Loved your thoughtful responses!
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dorkitude | 12 years ago | on: Rent Affordability Gap in San Francisco
Love this post. I agree with almost everything you wrote here. One thing I would respond to is the notion that tech industry workers are somehow inherently not creatives or artists. The best programmers and designers I know here are without exception creative, thoughtful people in many other areas of life. The ones who choose SF over the valley may trend even more in that direction.
dorkitude | 12 years ago | on: You May Not Like Weev, But Your Online Freedom Depends on His Appeal
That would be a crime, because then the email addresses would've been "possessed" or "transferred" "in connection with" another distinct and separate crime.
But giving them to a responsible journalist for whistle-blowing purposes is not a crime. It's a public service.
dorkitude | 13 years ago | on: Mailbox Is Joining Dropbox
Now if you were to acquire 49% of Mailbox, I might believe that. But you must understand our doubts -- it feels like every single time a giant company acquires a useful little startup, the users eventually (and often sooner than later) get burned by it.
I'm open to your Mailbox acquisition being the exception to this trend, but I hope you understand my healthy skepticism.
dorkitude | 13 years ago | on: Announcing our pricing (including consulting rates)
It's hard to measure emotion and brand loyalty, especially since you can't A/B test something as long term as the latter.
I'm a data scientist, but I'm the first to admit that data isn't always the answer. I'll take sound data-informed intuition over mechanical data-driven decision-making.
dorkitude | 13 years ago | on: Announcing our pricing (including consulting rates)
How do you feel about GitHub's pricing?
dorkitude | 13 years ago | on: Announcing our pricing (including consulting rates)
Interesting. I'm curious:
Do you find our prices themselves to be unreasonable or unmarketable, upon quantitative analysis? Or is it just because we put them in powers of 2?
dorkitude | 13 years ago | on: Announcing our pricing (including consulting rates)
This is pretty much what we're trying to do. We think the .99 pricing schemes dehumanize the relationship, and we're really all about humanity in our business relationships. Glad you appreciate it -- I'm surprised by the controversy, though, and we may have to reconsider after getting so much negative feedback on it.
Glad you like our published consulting stuff too! Openness is our core value, and it's good to hear that that is getting across to someone in the wild :)
dorkitude | 13 years ago | on: Announcing our pricing (including consulting rates)
Totally understand that.
Q: What do you mean by source code guarantee?
dorkitude | 13 years ago | on: Announcing our pricing (including consulting rates)
We'd love your feedback on consulting as a piece of our business model.
The main reason we're doing it is to put our customers at ease while we continue learning, not because we want it to remain a substantive part of our revenue at scale (because the linear opex is unattractive to us as businesspeople)
dorkitude | 13 years ago | on: Jetstrap Beta 2.0 - Projects, Screen Linking, New UI, and 2.3.0
Hadn't seen jetstrap before this. It's going to be a hit at hackathons! Nice work.
dorkitude | 13 years ago | on: The dark side of HackerNews: negativity at best, suppression at worst
Okay it's actually pretty amazing that this post made it to the frontpage immediately, then was flagged down and buried.
I like justice and all, but ironic humor trumps even that ;)
dorkitude | 13 years ago | on: Sexism in Tech: A Good Apology is Better than No Mistakes
To me, your post could be pretty easily translated to another industry & time as follows:
"Got a problem with slavery? Stop complaining about it! And just buy cotton from the Yankees or from the Dutch, ya bunch of whiners."
Drawing maximum attention to the problem is the most important step in solving it. Even stoking seemingly unproductive conversations like this HackerNews thread is an important step, if only because it helps those of us who are on the side of justice practice our arguments.
dorkitude | 13 years ago | on: Sexism in Tech: A Good Apology is Better than No Mistakes
As one of those people myself, I certainly didn't mean to suggest that all straight white males are oppressors, but rather quite the opposite: that all or most oppressors of civil rights in this country appear to be straight white males.
dorkitude | 13 years ago | on: Sexism in Tech: A Good Apology is Better than No Mistakes
I think he means "I think I'm going to get downvoted by a lot of privileged dudes", rather than "I'm gonna get mad points from this!"
dorkitude | 13 years ago | on: Sexism in Tech: A Good Apology is Better than No Mistakes
Aaaand, cue the throng of straight, white, upper middle class males, who'll post a hundred aggressive comments like "stop being oversensitive".
dorkitude | 13 years ago | on: '2 girls 1 cup' producer sentenced to 4 years in federal prison
Haha, good point!
At least everyone on the internet either knew what they were getting into, or had the option to close their browser once they realized what was up. Those poor jurors.
dorkitude | 13 years ago | on: Steve Jobs' exchange with Palm CEO Ed Colligan
Steve's letter is a disappointment to me. I wrote up my thoughts here, in a post entitled "It’s important not to worship any hero wholesale":
http://dorkitude.com/post/41267859215/its-important-not-to-w...
dorkitude | 13 years ago | on: '2 girls 1 cup' producer sentenced to 4 years in federal prison
Disgusting as the video is, I'm pretty sure having a council of random citizens deciding what is and isn't "art" is the start of a slippery slope...
dorkitude | 13 years ago | on: Why the Fuck?
Well, that's certainly not what everyone of consequence is doing, just the risk-averse and as-yet-unrescued.
A lot of us work hard to rescue them :P