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At times we toyed with the idea of a new service called Viaweb Gold. It would have exactly the same features as our regular service, but would cost ten times as much would be sold in person by a man in a suit. We never got around to offering this variant, but I’m sure we could have signed up a few merchants for it.
Hackers & Painters - Big Ideas From the Computer Age
Paul Graham
wanted to know about it right away so we could reproduce the error and release a fix. So at Viaweb the developers were always in close contact with support. The customer support people were about thirty feet away from the programmers, and knew they could always interrupt anything with a report of a genuine bug. We would leave a board meeting to fix a serious bug.
Hackers & Painters - Big Ideas From the Computer Age
Paul Graham
All the idealism of mankind, hitherto, is on the point of turning into Nihilism—may be shown to be a belief in absolute worthlessness, i.e. purposelessness.
The Will to Power
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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