timaelliott

He already told you, they are good with the goddamn customers. They have people skills, they are good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you?

I don't disagree nor do I use heroku, it's moot for myself.

I was just commenting how row-limitations were a very NoSQL way of enforcing data limits and inappropriate for an RDBMS.

I like that you guys pointed out more efficient ways to do stupid things :)

I disagree. By restricting the number of rows I think you're just going to end up with folks creating sloppy schemas specifically to avoid going over the limit.

  post.categories (varchar) = "1,51,78,84,100"

and other wonderful non-normalized approaches.

Is making otherwise innocuous changes which have a substantial impact on user behavior important to the startup culture?

No, no at all.

I fantasize about computers too. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships? motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways? I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see.

Nice try, overpriced US universities and for-profit degree mills.

Awesome response from Spolsky but that's not Quora. You can tell because it has users and content :)

Why do you think you'd only get paid $33k? If that's the case, that's suggesting the compensation and ownership is:

  Co-Founder: $33k Salary, 45% Equity
  Co-Founder: $33k Salary, 45% Equity
         You: $33k Salary, 10% Equity

I'm hoping the problem is self-evident.