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five18pm | 13 years ago | on: Haskell powered companies

I thought the link would be of companies that use Haskell as their primary language of development, but it is more of companies which use/had used Haskell in one of their projects. The former would be interesting to know, if indeed such companies exist.

five18pm | 13 years ago | on: Scaling a Lean Startup, The Story So Far.

Why didn't they think of using dedicated servers? Dedicated servers would have been more economical than using so many VPSes.

five18pm | 14 years ago | on: Why Quit? Because the other company has bigger monitors.

At my previous work we used docking stations for the laptops. So at desk I had my big 22" monitor, mouse and regular keyboard connected to my laptop and whenever I am away I still had everything that I worked on with me.

Then again I was a manager so all I had open most of the time was Thunderbird and Excel. I don't know if the extra pixels helped in my case ;).

In any case I would recommend that setup for work.

five18pm | 14 years ago | on: Shutting down a product? Open source it.

Also, I've not actually heard of Copycopter before, and I think it's a bit of a stretch to make the causative link between your announcement of shutting down, to also having AOL and Oink following suit. Correlation does not prove causation. (I've not actually heard of copycopter before).

I think they were trying to joke about the shutdown. I don't think thoughtbot would have been under any illusion that the events were related.

five18pm | 14 years ago | on: A Man. A Van. A Surprising Business Plan.

This is what happens in front of every single Indian government office - state or central :(

five18pm | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: I just got my first team lead. What should I do?

Do you like your team members? If not, find out why and find a reason to like them. Once you develop that basis to like your team members, everything else will fall in to place. You will take interest in their activities, not just in terms of getting your work done, but in terms of what they are trying to achieve.

Talk to your team members on an individual basis frequently and in an informal setting - people are much more open in an informal setting. Keep these meetings to 5 mins. If there are more topics than can be covered in 5 mins, increase the frequency of meetings, not the length.

Never do your team member's work. Help them in every way for them to do their work, but just don't do it for them.

(Break every rule / advice that people are giving out. Finding what works for you is one of best parts of management)

five18pm | 14 years ago | on: How to Become a Must-Have

In a different location Mark does talk about the x-axis - the x-axis is "Time and Money"

http://smartfaststartup.com/2011/06/08/real-secret-to-startu...

Which make the loops palatable.

five18pm | 14 years ago | on: What I Did in 2011

If he had been good, he wouldn't have linked to tvtropes in the first place ;).