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Re:How to Pick Your Next Gig: Evaluating Startups on Thursday August 17, 2017 @12:28PM (#15038195)
It might be wise to also consider the community and values of a company before you commit to it. For most people, and particularly for people at startups or in demanding technical roles, you'll spend more time with your co-workers than almost anyone else. You'll be relying on them in crises, supporting them when they fall, and looking to them for a lot more than a check. In some ways a job is like an investment, but in others it's like a marriage.

Years ago, I picked a small startup (with a great CEO, a great team, a great product - all the things mentioned in the article), but when I think about the best part of the decision to join them, it was how the whole company came together to support me when I suffered a personal tragedy. I'm happy about that startup's success, but I'm even happier that I was able to make (and keep) the friends I made there.

Re:Urbit is now in open developer beta on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @10:29AM (#11854728)
Just a reminder, you can learn more about the folks behind Urbit, their objections to democracy, women's suffrage, and general agenda at http://thebaffler.com/blog/mouthbreathing-machiavellis
Re:Urbit: an operating function on Saturday September 26, 2015 @03:49AM (#10282478)
This seems to come up at regular intervals. It's worth noting that the architects of this system are the "facist teenage Dungeon Master[s]" of http://thebaffler.com/blog/mouthbreathing-machiavellis
Could anybody explain (or provide a pointer to an explanation of) the details of how the individual words are mapped to vectors? The source is available, but optimized such that the underlying how's are a bit opaque, and the underlying whys even more so.