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the fact that his username is INTPenis ... doesn't quite elucidate it either, actually.

I honestly think it holds the project back.

Demand does work that way.

Why does a drug dealer give free samples at first? ... Creating demand.

What they will not have for long though is a monopoly on supply in India.

This looks great. After this the next step for Jenkins should be to change the name.

It's introducing people to the service and acquiring market. Better prices come later.

A common case is for typeahead completion. You have a requst to the sever in flight to get typeaheads but the user has entered more characters and triggered another request. Now you would like to ignore the old one. Since async calls are not guaranteed to arrive in the same order they were sent, it would be nice to cancel the old one instead of maintaining logic to ignore it.

> I think Atlassian is the company that makes the most out of the git marketplace

Think or know? For enterprise version control, I would be surprised if they made more than Github. I'll take enterprise Github over Stash any day.

I think you nailed it about his drive for successful serial entrepreneurship. Slide was sold for an ok price but was shut off. I don't know how Levchin fared at Google but I assume he probably didn't like working for someone else. I think he chose an area where it was almost guaranteed they would make a lot of money / perceived success. Affirm is definitely that, they will make a lot of money, but it is not far off from payday loans and rent-to-own furniture, no matter how good the PR is.

Do you think retail credit lending isn't sleezy, dang?

Having known Max, I stand by my comment.