Kartik Agaram

"I find your statement unfair. You're assuming/implying he's asking for a free product; he's asking for the courtesy of a warning. 1. Nobody's claiming entitlement. If there was entitlement there would be recourse. Asking for warning isn't entitlement. 2. You're implying that he wasn't looking to pay. He's said he would pay if he had warning. 3. You claim he 'depended' on it. I'm not sure that's the case. Not having warning is inconvenient, not catastrophic. 4. The company got its valuation in part from people who didn't pay. I think that entitles them to basic courtesies at least. 5. Companies do good by non-paying customers all the time because they care about goodwill. Google and Etherpad have lost some goodwill here by going against consumer expectations. Basic courtesies aren't paid for and aren't bought. That's why they're courtesies." - Kartik Agaram

"Good news is bad news, because this month's not-too-bad number deflates the sense of urgency. The fact remains that unemployment will remain disastrously high for many years. It’s a tragedy, wrapped in a weird complacency." - Kartik Agaram

"No mention of mzscheme?!" - Kartik Agaram

Most awesome writing this thanksgiving. - Kartik Agaram

"If you can use VNC, I built this a few years ago: http://akkartik.name/vnc.html" - Kartik Agaram

"I’ve been using this parser with arc. Many thanks! http://arclanguage.org/item... http://github.com/nex3..." - Kartik Agaram

"That code uses one of several gotchas in java: http://www.cs.arizona.edu/project..." - Kartik Agaram

"Nice to see Scoble referred to as journalist rather than blogger." - Kartik Agaram

"Hi Dane! Yeah, it's amazing how much exposure this post has gotten among my friends. But I'd rather get back to work. I've learnt not to get overly reliant on apple products :) Thanks for the comment, and keep in touch." - Kartik Agaram

"Wow, so many possible causes for poor concentration! I like this thread as an exagesis. What works for me is I think also the lowest hanging fruit: a combination of working on things I care about, and actively bringing my wayward bad habits under control. A reset requires a change of scene. It's likely that you don't like what you do now. That's the root of the problem. Chop it down. Go find something else to do. Once you pick something, do it all the time. It's analogous to shocking your system with a new diet. Everytime in the past that you procrastinated, you gave strength to these demons. Now it's time to starve them completely for a while. Get better." - Kartik Agaram

"Is Carr deliberately misspelling ‘monetizing’ in multiple places?" - Kartik Agaram

"while some forms of horseshit are no longer a problem, others will always be with us." - Kartik Agaram

Hacker or sales guy, learn enough of the other side to have an informed opinion. - Kartik Agaram