paulosman
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Comment · 4 years ago
I'm at peace with it.
Comment · 4 years ago
Oh shut up you sanctimonious prick. You're confirming all of the negative stereotypes about this website.
Do you think I, in 20 years of working in the industry, haven't dealt with bad board members? How about a little curiosity instead of whatever the hell you're dishing in this thread.
Let me help you out: you're a stupid little troll and your contributions to this discussion are like little turd droppings that just stink up the room. Please kindly contribute constructively or fuck the hell off.
Comment · 4 years ago
I find your tone dismissive, condescending and snarky. I made a (hedged) statement that turned out to be incorrect, updated the blog post, and moved on. I didn't think it was a statement of great consequence, certainly nothing to fixate on.
Please review the HN Guidelines and ask yourself if posting your comment added to or detracted from the value of this discussion:
Comment · 4 years ago
> I continue to believe that corporations and startups, even friendly ones like Honeycomb, are not pleasant places to work at.
I have lots of thoughts about the necessity to work and how that can drain a lot of enjoyment out of intellectual pursuits, but I will say that, of profit motivated companies, Honeycomb is an exceptional one to work for filled with wonderful humans who care about each other. I really enjoyed my tenure there, made lifelong friends, and became a better engineer. It's a really special place and I hope they keep that up as they grow.
Comment · 4 years ago
I'll make an edit to make this clearer, but I was a full voting member.
Comment · 4 years ago
That's awesome! Thanks for sharing - it's great to see companies that are willing to embrace more representative governance.
Comment · 4 years ago
Added a clarification: first non-founder/executive employee to sit on a board. If there's another venture-backed software company in North America who's put a rank and file employee on their board, I'd love to hear about it!
Comment · 5 years ago
Author here, thanks for your comment! Can you elaborate on what you’d hope to see in such a case study? Maybe I can file that away for a future post. I mentioned incident analysis as one way to put these perspectives to _use_, would a case study of applying lessons learned from incident analysis towards roadmap / work planning fit the bill? (As an aside, there’s lots of that at https://www.learningfromincidents.io/).
Also curious to know what you believe the more common framework looks like.
Comment · 13 years ago
Created by two SoundCloud engineers over the weekend at Music Hack Day Stockholm. https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/music-hack-day-stock...
Comment · 13 years ago
Paul from SoundCloud here. Definitely think about shipping a version that uses a web keyboard. The app is too good not to show off to everyone!
Also, got a video of your demo. I'll be posting a blog post on developers.soundcloud.com in the next couple of days. Great work!
Comment · 14 years ago
Readmill and Gidsy are also Berlin based. I know of txtr too, but only because they share an office with SoundCloud :-)
Comment · 15 years ago
"My Facebook account is an identity first and foremost."
Now imagine 5 years ago you said "My Friendster account is an identity first and foremost."