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What types of apps are you trying to create?
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I'll answer this based on my experiences: 0. Having a team where everyone is committed is ideal. It's very difficult to run a company by yourself (beyond a very small operation). Finding a co-founder should not be driven by YC, VC
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Yes, we measured it. I am rounding these numbers for simplicity, but essentially, our split of developer time and KLOC follows: # Labor and spend allocation - 75% of engineers were on our server-side (Java) (1) - 25% of engineers were on fr
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There will be breaking changes as Meteor moves from 0.6.5.1 to 0.7 to 0.8 up until it reaches 1.0. This is part of the bargain of working with pre 1.0 software (APIs etc. will be stabilized once 1.0 is reached). I have found these "bre
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Don't get too hung up on the installation. I think their point was to make setup/installation/getting excessively simple. With regard to why not "npm install -g meteor", I think the short answer is that the Meteor i
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Congrats to the MDG team on having 1.0 within reach, and thanks for releasing an amazing platform. Meteor is one of those platforms that you should try. I could give you a menu of features, but the productivity boost from Meteor is one of t
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What is the form of the asset? I assume you did not get $750k in cash, but likely it is in stocks, bonds, real estate, or ...? First and foremost, if your goal? Is it to increase your wealth, to live large for short but fun time, etc? Your
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1. Yes 2. Find an area you are passionate about. Web dev is very broad. Do you like games, social, business software, news...Focus on learning to develop applications within the area you like / are passionate about. 3. This depends on
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If, as a customer, you don't like what Dropbox, Google, Microsoft etc. are doing, then cast your economic vote and don't use the one product that represents the bulk of their revenue. Most companies earn most of their money from o
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Reasons not to use C for web dev: 1. Maintenance costs will go through the roof with C. C developers are not cheap, and most people who use C have are not web developers. 2. Hiring will be exceptionally painful. Again, most C devs are not w
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Agreed...and you're not the first person to mention this need. A good curation/ranking site for all of the various JS libs would be helpful. Its wasteful for every developer to read the code of numerous JS libs just to figure out
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RethinkDB looks promising, but it's a bit early.
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Test higher prices, like you've done so far. Some price point is too high, but you won't now what it is until you've found it via testing.
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View your co-founder as your first, permanent hire. A way to manage the risk of getting it wrong is to start by working with the person as a consultant. Then move to part-time and finally to a partner. If you cannot work together, its bette
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Recent survey conducted by Washington Post-ABC News: 1. 75% of [Americans] are concerned about personal privacy 2. 40% say it is more important to protect privacy even if that limits the US government’s ability to investigate possible terro
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In my experience, a good salesperson is either a total drag or big boost. The total drag happens when a salesperson is brought on too soon. When the product is not aligned with the market (pre-product/market fit), there is little a goo
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IMO, the reference to large volume sites that use a product is an indicator that it can be scaled. Not that scaling a given solution was easy, but more that it can be done.
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Love the quote. Nice adaptation. "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others".
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(Copy and Pasted from) Obama's Ethics Agenda (2008)...in his own words. Protect Whistleblowers: Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public int
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2 plus years ago there may have been merit to your implicit assumption that JavaScript is limited to front-end developers. However, today there is more diversity in the JavaScript developer community. For example, Yehuda Katz is both a serv
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I actually reuse the same code a lot, which is a very nice feature once you get used to it. I share code between the client and server. For example, I have data type checks where I reuse the same library and the same application specific co
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Yes. If a person already knows JavaScript well, then it will be easier for them to write a CLI app/utility/script in JS than it would be to write a shell script. Another reason to write in JS would be to gain code reuse. If the pe
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From the article: "So, in the last 2 years, we’ve had number of frameworks that simplify the client side development – Backbone, Ember, Derby and Meteor – and my favorite one, AngularJS." These are not all the same. Meteor and De