Thread: 30 Things to Stop Doing As A Startup Founder

30 Things to Stop Doing As A Startup Founder (craftsmanfounder.com)

L -3 pts 1 comments by cardmagic Jul 14, 2014 rant Productivity / Career / Business thread

5 Things You Should Stop Doing With jQuery (flippinawesome.org)

L 4 pts 0 comments by remotesynth May 7, 2013 javascript Web Development thread

Stop doing SRE (twitter.com)

L -5 pts 0 comments by jornane Mar 1, 2021 practicesrant Productivity / Career / Business thread

Ten Things I Hate About Working at Facebook (worldofsu.com)

L 1 pts 0 comments by mc Aug 15, 2012 rant thread

Stop Validating Email Addresses With Regex (davidcelis.com)

L 12 pts 8 comments by davidcelis Sep 6, 2012 rantrubyweb Web Development Programming (General) thread

Stop Controlling Traffic (blog.olivierlacan.com)

L 2 pts 0 comments by olivierlacan Sep 11, 2012 philosophyrant Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

I know this topic has been addressed by folks from 37signals and GitHub repeatedly but I still find people who think this can't apply to them, because of their line of work or simply because they don't realize how toxic behavior like this can be for a team, however talented. If you have more exam...

Stop Trying To Force The Startup Life On Everyone (alexstechthoughts.com)

L 6 pts 0 comments by journeysquid Sep 13, 2013 practices Productivity / Career / Business thread

Balaji Srinivasan at Startup School: Sillicon Valley's Ultimate Exit (youtube.com)

L 1 pts 0 comments by rz Oct 29, 2013 lawrantvideo Productivity / Career / Business thread

How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner (daedtech.com)

L 8 pts 0 comments by SeanTAllen Dec 27, 2013 rant thread

Doing Fewer Things Better (blog.linkedin.com)

L 1 pts 0 comments by tedu Feb 10, 2014 news Internet / Digital Culture thread

Highlight: Intro, the mail proxy, is dead.

Subtly Bad Things Linux May Be Doing To PostgreSQL (rhaas.blogspot.in)

L 8 pts 1 comments by journeysquid Apr 3, 2014 databaseslinux Systems / Low-Level / OS Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread

Swagless In Santa Clara (Contemplating the lead-gen bling orgy and why we can’t have nice things) (medium.com)

L 7 pts 0 comments by DaveJosephsen Jul 17, 2014 culturerant Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Stop Changing UIs For No Good Reason

L 43 pts 16 comments by apy Nov 19, 2014 designrant Design / UX / Visualization thread

I just upgraded to Android Lollipop and have come out angry on the other side. This is another example of a problem I keep on seeing: people cannot leave well enough alone with UI elements. * There are a bunch of new 'transitions' between elements. I don't know what the battery cost actually is...

Ten Things I Hate About Object-Oriented Programming (2010) (blog.jot.fm)

L 4 pts 1 comments by pushcx Dec 11, 2014 compscipracticesrant Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory Productivity / Career / Business thread

Don't update NTP – stop using it (blog.hboeck.de)

L 8 pts 1 comments by jcs Dec 22, 2014 rantsecurity Security / Privacy thread

Stop Misquoting Donald Knuth! (joshbarczak.com)

L 10 pts 3 comments by iv Jan 3, 2015 practicesprogrammingrant Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Startup Interviewing is Fucked (zachholman.com)

L 4 pts 0 comments by soulcutter Jan 29, 2016 culturepracticesrant Productivity / Career / Business Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Encyclopedia of things considered harmful (harmful.cat-v.org)

L 2 pts 1 comments by feoh Mar 29, 2016 rant thread

A Dozen Things I Learned Being Involved in one of the Most Ambitious Startups Ever Conceived (Teledesic) (25iq.com)

L 2 pts 0 comments by adsouza Jul 25, 2016 historical Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Why I stopped contributing to vundle (2014) (gmarik.info)

L 1 pts 0 comments by rdegges Jul 25, 2016 culturerantvim Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Fuck You Startup World (medium.com)

L 7 pts 1 comments by mulander Oct 12, 2016 culturepracticesrant Productivity / Career / Business Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Doing Terrible Things To Your Code (blog.codinghorror.com)

L 2 pts 0 comments by flyingfisch Jan 20, 2017 testing Programming (General) thread

The Founder: A Dystopian Business Simulator (thefounder.biz)

L 5 pts 0 comments by cfenollosa Jan 28, 2017 culturegames Gaming / Retro Computing Productivity / Career / Business Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Reckon you've seen some stupid security things? Here, hold my beer... (troyhunt.com)

L 44 pts 3 comments by azdle Apr 28, 2017 rantsecurity Security / Privacy thread

Trickle-down workaholism in startups (m.signalvnoise.com)

L 7 pts 1 comments by cemerick May 30, 2017 culturerant Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Wherein we're currently not doing deliveries, because Uber sucks. (dnalounge.com)

L 0 pts 3 comments by friendlysock Jun 15, 2017 culturepracticesrant Productivity / Career / Business Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Please flag this if you feel it does not belong here--I was torn.

I'm a startup founder and I had sex with an investor — and I am sorry (businessinsider.com)

L -1 pts 5 comments by meskarune Jul 11, 2017 culturepractices Productivity / Career / Business Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

After multiple female tech company founders went public about being sexually propositioned by investors, another female founder discusses her own experiences and culpability in forming the current culture in the tech startup ecosystem.

The Internet of Things - A Disaster (gekk.info)

L 58 pts 21 comments by calvin Jul 14, 2017 hardwarepracticesrant Maker / DIY / Hardware Productivity / Career / Business Internet / Digital Culture thread

Things are going so well we’re doing a hiring freeze (m.signalvnoise.com)

L 0 pts 0 comments by joshuacc Feb 1, 2018 practices Productivity / Career / Business thread

Datomic: Look At All the Things I'm Not Doing (augustl.com)

L 14 pts 19 comments by nickpsecurity Apr 22, 2018 databasesprogramming Programming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread