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zephod | 1 year ago | on: London's 850-year-old food markets to close

We spent our first year as a startup hacking on laptops in the attic of Smithfields, along with a dozen other startups. No idea if Innovation Warehouse is still up there[1]. If you arrived at work early enough they'd still be hosing the blood off the tarmac from the early morning market.

Most startups moved out to WeWork as soon as they could turn a profit. But hey, it was cheap office space in super-central London.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/innovationwarehouselondon/

zephod | 8 years ago | on: Mixing Vue.js templates with server-side templates can lead to XSS

Let's be clear - this affects client-side apps which include the template compiler (ie. the full vue.js bundle). Right? So apps built with Webpack, and using vue.runtime.min.js should be safe?

I'd imagine that represents the majority of Vue apps in production, but I might be wrong.

zephod | 10 years ago | on: How to Value a SaaS Business

My feeling is that a simple revenue multiplier doesn't work as a seed stage business valuation.

For example, how does this work for pre-revenue SaaS startups valued $1M-$5M during seed? Even if they've started generating revenue, much of their value comes from the long-term network effects and potential to create a market (right?)

zephod | 10 years ago | on: 301 redirects: a dangerous one way street (2012)

I took over a domain which had previously 301-redirected HTTP:// to HTTPS://. It caused us no end of trouble getting the alpha site online -- obviously we set up SSL but we didn't realise it was the _first thing we'd have to do_.

It also caused half a day of confusion to understand why some of our web browsers were still failing to connect and others could see the alpha site (because they'd never visited the previous 301 site at that address).

zephod | 10 years ago | on: On the Proposed PHP Code of Conduct

It did say [Flagged] for a while, though. I was reading the discussion and it bounced in-and-out of existence while I was trying to contribute. The Reply button would disappear; at one point the link and title were removed, then restored. I guess this is what the Vouch system is for.

zephod | 10 years ago | on: People Call Me Aaron

Intuitively I'd agree, but I was surprised at how many people/friends/colleagues didn't know what I was talking about when The Internet's Own Boy was released. If they weren't readers of Hacker News they almost certainly didn't pick up on the story. Again - anecdotal.

zephod | 10 years ago | on: People Call Me Aaron

This is so sad. I wonder if Noah has considered moving abroad for a bit - in my experience, very few people in the London tech scene know who Aaron Swartz was, or if they've heard the name they will struggle to remember the story behind it. Maybe people will disagree, but I don't think the story had quite the same cultural resonance outside the USA.

zephod | 10 years ago | on: Unethical Growth Hacking from YayView

I wasn't at all surprised to see this is a funded startup -- it's had a lot of effort put into the design and execution, and it just screams desperation to me. I imagine somebody is under a lot of pressure to hit their growth metrics, and they probably convinced themselves that throwing out the rulebook is ok.

zephod | 10 years ago | on: Please do not delete this commented-out version

> It is possible, or even likely, that a repository switch could lose that history on a project like emacs.

Surely the "D" in DVCS means that many thousands of copies of the project history would be available around the world?

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