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by 9oliYQjP 19y ago
One idea in general, is jumping out of the browser, and not in the Silverlight/Apollo way. It's important that we begin thinking of the Internet in more abstract ways instead of the current primarily visual experience. We've reached a point
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by 9oliYQjP 19y ago
Web programming is only boring because companies have been focussing on using the newer frameworks and tools to reduce the amount of time it takes to develop typical projects instead of setting loftier goals to use them to develop bigger, b
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by 9oliYQjP 19y ago
Programming has a lot to do with people. People influenced the choice of languages, file formats, applications, and operating systems you use more than their technical merit on its own. The ability to convey technical merit and convince oth
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by 9oliYQjP 19y ago
By default, I block ads. If I find the site to be useful (the litmus test is "will I return?") then I unblock the ads. Why do I do this? There are far too many digg/reddit link whores that for all intents and purposes add no value to the In
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by 9oliYQjP 19y ago
He wasn't out of a job. He was working at Microsoft and was shopping around. I suppose there is nothing I can do to convince you otherwise. All I can say is speak to really good programmers, and by that I mean people that can 1) code 2) not
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by 9oliYQjP 19y ago
I think PG's qualification of "very best" is important here. While he has restricted his assessment to programmers, that need not be the case. This is applicable to the very best in any profession. I don't consider myself to be in the categ
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by 9oliYQjP 19y ago
Have you fully quantified the risk and the reward? If not, that's your first priority. Here is some food for thought: 1. If you farm out your website, there is a significant risk that you will spend some or all of the $30K and it will not c
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by 9oliYQjP 19y ago
Keep being an arrogant little bastard when it comes to getting the best for yourself and never settle. Never ever settle! I think one of the tragedies of post-Waterloo culture is that it is not entrepreneurial enough. This is ironic given R
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by 9oliYQjP 19y ago
Well YC would have been great for me the first time I tried starting up a company and failed badly. Ohhhh you have to try to make money....I totally forgot about that part at 22 :-) Second time around is going better but I have a healthy ne
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by 9oliYQjP 19y ago
I'm a few years older than YC's audience. But for those of you contemplating this decision, hear me out. My few years out in the real world are more valuable than you think. First, approach choosing between startup schools much the way you
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by 9oliYQjP 19y ago
Let me play devil's advocate here. There may be more types of users out there. But in my mind, there are at least the following distinct types of people that have their own websites: 1. Those that are web savvy but use hosted application so
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by 9oliYQjP 19y ago
Have you considered EC2-on-Rails? I tried it last week. Works like a charm exactly as advertised. http://ec2onrails.rubyforge.org/