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This post makes me sad. I was friends with Carlos Icaza, one of the co-founders. Carlos was a diabetic who died too young. Every time I walk by the Stacks in
by salimmadjd 7y ago
This post makes me sad.
I was friends with Carlos Icaza, one of the co-founders.
Carlos was a diabetic who died too young.
Every time I walk by the Stacks in Burlingame I think of him. We used to have breakfasts there every week or two including our last breakfast before he moved to Miami.
Carlos was a hustlers, sometimes too intense, but he had a great heart.
He used to constantly tell me: don’t be an engineer, be a fucking entrepreneur.
It took me a while to understand what he meant.
RIP, Carlos!
I hope Corona or parts of it be around as an open-source project for a long time.
- s_dev 7y ago>don’t be an engineer, be a fucking entrepreneur. What did he mean?
- abakker 7y agoI didn't know Carlos, but when I've heard this sentiment before I've boiled it down to mean that you shouldn't solve _a_ problem, but instead solve _someone's_ problem.
- salimmadjd 7y agoIn our context, we used to talk about all the new tech innovations, languages, frameworks or new products. I always want to build a better "mousetrap", I'm an engineer/product guy first, and he was a hustler first. If my approach was to build a better product, his approach was to be a better hustler promoting a product and getting it adopted.
- nikolay 7y agoSo, your ideal is to become a snake oil vendor?
- justin66 7y agoThe product in question is really good, not snake oil.
- nikolay 7y agoHow many good products need hustlers? We're living in the age of easy product/service discovery.
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- mthoms 7y agoLike "hacker", the word "hustler" can have positive or negative meaning. In this case it's the latter. From Oxford: > an aggressively enterprising person; a go-getter.
- nikolay 7y agoYeah, exactly like a snake oil vendor.
- Gigablah 7y agoA bit rich coming from someone who was promoting their company on HN just one day ago.
- nikolay 7y agoThanks for taking the time to do the snooping. I wasn't promoting, I was providing a link for the lazy (I also upvote comments with such links). But why did I expect a meaningful comment from somebody with the nick of "giga blah"...
- felixyz 7y agoI wasn't aware Carlos Icaza passed away. I was briefly involved in a collaboration between Corona Labs (then Ansca Mobile) and a iPhone game company in the early days. Never got to finish anything in Corona but I liked it a lot.