Flemlord

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by Flemlord 19y ago
With my first startup I saved up about $30k, then went into "hotdog mode". This is when you cut your expenses down to the point where your only overhead is hot dogs, tap water, and rent/mortgage/utilities. You have no gas expenses because y
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by Flemlord 19y ago
Good for them. I'm closing on a house tomorrow in Denver and I have nothing but contempt for the real estate process. I passed on my first house when I found out the selling agent was trying to collect 2x the fee simply because I didn't hav
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by Flemlord 19y ago
The questions feel like tricks to get the entrepreneur to reveal negative information about himself or his company that he wouldn't otherwise reveal. If I were an entrepreneur sitting through a round of questions like these, I would be a bi
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by Flemlord 19y ago
Believe me, it's real. I've been on reddit for a long time and I've seen it go from a great site with quality links to kitten pictures and "Vote Up If You H@te Hillary" posts. It's not as bad as most people say, but it's certainly a differe
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by Flemlord 19y ago
Maybe he could spend a couple sermons on proper condom use instead of magic baby Jebus. Shout-out to all the unwed pregnant Latina hackers in Cali!
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by Flemlord 19y ago
> "A recession forces [constraints] on a start-up - but those constraints aren’t BAD." A blind person becomes efficient at reading braille and learns to use their hearing in ways I can only imagine. But it still sucks to be blind. Const
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by Flemlord 19y ago
Nonsense. The Singularity will happen, it's only a question of when. 20 years at the earliest, 50 at the latest.
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by Flemlord 19y ago
What an AWESOME idea. I wish I had some sort of widget to sell.
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by Flemlord 19y ago
Was that meant to be funny? All but one of the points essentially say it's good to start a company in a recession because it's really really hard, and if you somehow manage to survive, you'll end up tougher, leaner, and meaner. Here's a tip
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by Flemlord 19y ago
You call yourselves hackers? That's four more phones than you should need.
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by Flemlord 19y ago
If you go with a Big Powerhouse in a vertical silo, you may learn enough about the business to create a startup. My first startup was based on my 12-month experience at an established software company, where I learned the market and built a
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Wiki Time Travel Humor(abyssandapex.com)
17 points by Flemlord 19y ago|1 comments
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by Flemlord 19y ago
I'm about to use it for serious development. We're planning on using it exclusively so I haven't paid much attention to how well it will integrate with Java. My feeling is that we'll be able to develop a much richer front-end in Silverlight
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by Flemlord 19y ago
Ah! I thought they changed their minds about allowing downmodding. Heh.
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by Flemlord 19y ago
Anything by Ian M. Banks. His Culture books are about a post-singularity universe where humans and superintelligences live in harmony. I'd recommend starting with Player of Games.
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by Flemlord 19y ago
I have a confession. I actually don't listen to anything when I code. I find it all distracting. I'll sometimes put headphones on so people don't bother me, but I never have anything playing.
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by Flemlord 19y ago
I was in that situation and turned down the offer. The same buyer came back in a couple days with a fair offer and we accepted it. Had the buyer not come back, we would have been caught in the general market crash and the value of our compa
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by Flemlord 19y ago
Try TradeStation.com.
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by Flemlord 19y ago
I'm a Hacker News newbie. What pages are you talking about that require karma thresholds? And what are the thresholds?
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GameSpy sits down with StarCraft II Lead Designer Dustin Browder to discuss the coming of the swarm.(pc.gamespy.com)
3 points by Flemlord 19y ago|0 comments
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by Flemlord 19y ago
It supports the full C# language and many of the component libraries. Silverlight is essentially a plug-in that can run in any browser, and there are extensions for different operating systems. (Apple and Linux soon.)
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by Flemlord 19y ago
Best advice so far. To it I'll add (1) lose the outline/dropshadow effect, (2) do it in Photoshop or something that smooths the pixelation, (3) use a white background, (4) use a thinner, sans serif font, maybe something slightly techno. My
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by Flemlord 19y ago
I also put my office right next to the developer room, so I'm in on all the day-to-day issues too. Sales on the left, development on the right.
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by Flemlord 19y ago
A founder's elderly mother in the first startup I ever joined won the lotto, in the $100 million range. He he got swept up in the general excitement surrounding the win and lost focus. The other founders booted him, but I'm fuzzy on the det
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by Flemlord 19y ago
Developer convenience/speed is our main motivation for considering Silverlight, but a close second is that we'll be able to create a desktop app with the same code.
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Ask YC: Do you think Rich Internet Applications (Adobe FLEX, MS Silverlight) are going to take off?
8 points by Flemlord 19y ago|33 comments
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by Flemlord 19y ago
High Tech Start Up - John L. Nesheim Crossing the Chasm - Geoffrey Moore One Minute Manager (but only if you've never had management experience)
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by Flemlord 19y ago
Hacker News, reddit, Drudge Report
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by Flemlord 19y ago
Adobe seems to have reinvented client/server. Congrats.
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by Flemlord 19y ago
I ran into this situation about ten years ago. (With the exact same amount of seed funding and series A funding oddly.) I didn't want to do raises and my co-founder wanted to do a huge raise that would have doubled his salary. We compromi

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