madebylaw

Joined 18 years ago

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Mar 17
http://robmadethis.com

Cofounded: - https://www.saltlabs.com - https://www.dailypay.com - http://madewithcolor.com - http://spreadthegame.com

Formerly engineer #0 at https://www.referralexchange.com.

UChicago '08

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/roblaw; my proof: https://keybase.io/roblaw/sigs/x4E9kZHa1VD7ndq4-KbEuRVJKarznk2zxxjbpX_Mp5Y ]

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Comment · 14 days ago
For deer hardiness, I meant for plant info pages something like “deer resistant but cage young plants, or deer avoid, or deer favorite —needs protection” I live in an area with high deer pressure and they eat aggressively, so I tend to avoid planting something that will need to be in a forever cage if its exposed to deer.
Comment · 21 days ago
This is very cool! I got into native plants a few years ago when I moved out to the country. I have been using LLMs to help me with what to plant and where but they aren’t perfect. A couple things that’d be handy / cool to add: - more info on deer hardiness - more info on growth speed (show only fast growers) - would be cool to add a feature for sets of plants too like “good for wild turkeys” or “plant these for all season pollination eg a set of plants that bloom early, middle, late”

Congrats on the launch!

Comment · 5 months ago
Their corporate sound system is sick!
Comment · 1 year ago
I’ve done all those updates at real companies with millions of users. They took from an afternoon to maybe a week of single dev time. If you keep your garden tended, weeding it becomes less of a chore.
Comment · 1 year ago
What complex thing were you trying to do with it?
Comment · 1 year ago
AMIs were still pretty novel at the time I started (around 2007 like the GP). The standard deployment in the blogs/books was using Capistrano to scp the app over to like a VPS (we did colo) and then run monit or god to reboot the mongrels. We have definitely improved imho!
Comment · 1 year ago
Where is it “thoroughly debunked” in that link?
Comment · 1 year ago
Classic banker tactic, I love it. “Overwhelm them with data”
Comment · 1 year ago
This is good advice. As a technical founder I have been through many offer ceremonies and I would always make 2 versions of an offer, one equity weighted and the other base salary weighted. The math should be easy if you’ve already had a priced round and you should be telling the candidate the price and fma of your equity anyway. I would say 90% took the higher base. And I wouldn’t up both unless they were a truly great candidate.
Comment · 1 year ago
I lived in NYC < 7 years and saw all kinds of crimes. Fistfights, public urination, I’ve been threatened with a box cutter, multiple female friends groped.
Comment · 1 year ago
Why does the ban need to be reactive for you to understand it?
Comment · 1 year ago
The source is the actual FA dude.
Comment · 2 years ago
There wasn’t a will. The guy wrote his GFs name in some form in 1989 and probably never thought about it again.
Comment · 2 years ago
Franken UI is an HTML-first, open-source library of UI components based on the utility-first Tailwind CSS with UIkit 3 compatibility. The design is based on shadcn/ui ported to be framework-agnostic.
Comment · 2 years ago

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