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Re:I spent two years trying to do what Backstage does for free on Thursday September 22, 2022 @12:14PM (#32941014)
opslevel.com is worth checking out.

(Disclosure — I’m an investor.)

Re:A Standard and Clean Series A Term Sheet on Monday January 28, 2019 @10:58PM (#19023638)
Agreed. A founder should assume any ambiguity in a term sheet will be resolved in the investors favor (since you're very unlikely to walk away from a deal after signed). I preferred more comprehensive term sheets so that we could pin everything down while the investor was still in "courting mode".

Something we did in our later financings was to (very politely) provide an interested investor with a fairly comprehensive (~7 pages) template term sheet that had blanks for the major economic terms, but otherwise fully specified all the details of the proposed deal. This kept things from drifting off "founder friendly" after signing and had the added bonus of making offers easier to compare.

You might enjoy Fred Brook's essay "No Silver Bullet", where he distinguishes between "Accidental Complexity" (basically, complexity created by software engineers when implementing a solution) and "Essential Complexity" (complexity that arises because software is written to solve some real world problem and the world is complex).
Re:Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier – BWV 731 [video] on Thursday May 18, 2017 @03:36AM (#14365476)
I've always thought musical counterpoint and multi-threaded programming have a great number of parallels. Both are fundamentally about setting up independent but interlocking things that need to work together to accomplish a goal without crashing into each other. And I think the first time you experience either done by a real master, it is mind blowing in the same sort of way.

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Realtime Software Engineers - PagerDuty - Toronto

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PagerDuty seek a dynamic Web Engineering Manager – San Francisco

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PagerDuty Seek a Heavyweight Senior Software Engineer (Web Team)

You've been around the block before -- you understand this "web stuff" and have built quite the number of web apps in your time. Your co-workers come to you with their most tricky performance problems, and project managers trust your estimates with only minimal padding. Junior engineers are elated for the rest of the day after their commits pass your code review.In fact, you do your job so well...

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PagerDuty seeks a Web Engineering Manager – San Francisco

Web Engineering Manager Job Description Please apply to [email protected]'re a seasoned engineering manager -- expertly adept at managing people and projects alike. You've heard the stories (and perhaps have first hand experience) of useless layers of management at the big software houses. But you also know that solid management can make an enormous difference in the day to day productivity...

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Senior Realtime Engineer - PagerDuty, opportunities in San Francisco and Toronto

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Lead Web Engineer - PagerDuty San Francisco

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Director/Manager of Web Engineering - PagerDuty San Francisco

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