"Have you ever considered: because equity is how we finance startups, therefore most startups fail"

We'll be speaking about effective automations at El Rug, the London Ruby User Group today. Come say hi after the talks!

Two Ex-Googlers Want To Replace Your Local Ice Cream Parlor With A Shrieking Void That Uses Your Fears As Training Data

I was about to comment on the craziness of VC/Silicon Valley until I realized I also never really worked at a profitable company. x.com/bryce/status/9…

Four Ways to Not Hate Slack medium.com/@jessitron/eff…

“I often see a complete lack of understanding how to relate the business issues their organisation faces to the technical strategy” x.com/ealexhudson/st…

Wow, what a killer release from HAProxy. One of my favourite pieces of software. haproxy.com/blog/whats-new…

Yup. The OSS model of feature branches & PRs was designed for distributed, volunteer, casual-membership teams. x.com/bguthrie/statu…

Part of the problem is that we reward people for writing code, not for the far greater skills of NOT writing code, or successfully managing a good vendor relationship and saving the company from a category problem.

OH: I’ve failed at startups a number of times and I’ve never come out of it wishing i’d spent more time polishing things

I had fun meeting fellow Rubyists yesterday. Such a nice group! x.com/amsrb/status/9…

Also they have really good rain radar apps here for the Netherlands. I need that for Copenhagen!

Our own Jan will be at Ruby on Ice for the next few days. Looking forward to the sledding and interesting conversations! Also, wow, what a beautiful Place!

The world doesn’t deserve this explanation x.com/BryceElder/sta…

14/ If you’re a geek who people ask about technology, please start telling your friends and loved ones to stay away from cryptocurrencies, and from blockchain tech investments.

I was busy thinking about and building a better dependencies badge. Feedback is most welcome! x.com/depfu/status/9…

Somewhere in the multiverse, this HN exists.

"Unlimited Paid Time Off" is Silicon Valley's version of the Marshmallow Test on its workers, testing their will and devotion. A truly worker-centric model of care for personal lives of employees would be "# Of Days Mandatory Paid Time Off."