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Kirk Wylie
Personal blog · kirkwylie.blogspot.comprogrammingstartups
Kirk Wylie writes Kirk's Rants, a personal blog at kirkwylie.blogspot.com about programming and startups. Since 2008, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Scala Considered Harmful For Large Projects?”. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Kirk Wylie's blog for a response post proposing that VCs charge portfolio firms what employee travel would cost, a reply to an article on how to handle a VC who flies First.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I code. I used to be super-hardcore in Silicon Valley. I moved to London, sold out and worked for financial services companies. Now back to the startup life. Here's where I rant at nobody in particular.
Most-linked posts?
- Scala Considered Harmful For Large Projects?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-01-17
- The Founder Visa Ignores Immigration Reality 2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-09-21
What Hacker News says?
I liked this article so much that I wrote a response ( http://kirkwylie.blogspot.com/2011/09/good-vcs-dont-charge-t... ) about a reasonable policy that I wish all VCs would adopt: charge firms what they'd pay for employee travel.
Comment linking /2011/09/good-vcs-dont-charge-their-companies.html
on “How to handle a VC who flies First”Submitted The Founder Visa Ignores Immigration Reality as a story · 78 points
HN discussionThanks for bringing this up! RabbitMQ Cloud Messaging is all over the industry media, but in fact, it is not a cloud messaging platform/solution at all. It is an open source version of a traditional message-oriented middleware solution based on the controversial AMQP standard that RedHat has patents pending on. SpringSource/VMWare would have to rearchitect the product to make it into an actual cloud messaging platfo…
Comment linking /2009/03/red-hats-amqpxml-patent-press-release.html
on “SpringSource/VMware Acquires RabbitMQ Cloud Messaging Technology”Submitted TBray Response: Sun Should Stop Sucking as a story · 39 points
HN discussionAs someone pointed out recently (sorry, can't find the original blog post) this sort of plan really skews the power dynamic between the entrepreneur and VC/angel. If you really make this visa contingent on funding, then in addition to having the power of the purse, the VC will have the power of immigration. One solution, of course, is to make it independent of funding, but then distinguishing between "founders" and…
Comment linking /2009/09/founder-visa-ignores-immigration.html
on “Fred Wilson: Startup Visas”Submitted Scala Considered Harmful For Large Projects? as a story · 36 points
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HN discussionSubmitted Scala considered harmful for large projects? as a story · 6 points
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HN discussionSubmitted RabbitMQ talk at LShift Last Night as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Location Sensitive Posts: Do It Right, Or Don't Do It At All as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Good VCs don't charge their portfolio companies to fly first class as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ordinary People, Super-Stars, Compensation and XP as a story · 1 points
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