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by alexro 16y ago
I think the companies in general are better than in your one-sided opinion. For instance, think about hundreds of companies that need to manage financial data. They create solutions to take data from database A and put it into database B. P
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Is the user base behaviour that much different from, say, php user base or javascript user base or whatever mainstream tool user base behaviour?
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I develop on the Windows platform since its inception and I'm not aware of any Microsoft community you refer to. I know that there are millions of people who develop with the Microsoft tools and obviously the more people use something the m
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by alexro 16y ago
This trend of creating proprietary app stores is a bit worrying, to say the least
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by alexro 16y ago
I think that to respect Nature you need to understand that it won't kill you 'just because' you get out of your safe house. Nature gives you a lot to take care of yourself. You need to learn to properly understand it's signs, that's where y
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It's also an interesting way to discourage single founders and promote 2-3 people team mentality
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I think your list is more about state of the art, not trends. But useful too.
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by alexro 16y ago
'Mobile' and 'Location' is the new 'web 2.0' setup at the moment. Everybody can spell these at their sleep but few know how to make profit out of it. Another under-explored opportunity is 'social games' where unlike traditional games people
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by alexro 16y ago
Maybe you were extremely unlucky or mostly in the unusual situations, but people ARE mostly good, for me and other I know. Also, think about this: if people were mostly bad and that would mean they were getting worse and worse every next ge
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by alexro 16y ago
Question is: is it the better and most influential part of kids who want to live in that world? If not, there will be another, better world anyway
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I think while the most performance-critical portion of your data fits in memory you should be alright with this method. The rest of the data can be consumed using normal SQL approach.
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Is it actually possible to attribute the company's success or failure to any single event? I think no. Also, while a single event be the basis for many subsequent events, it doesn't directly affects the end result.
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1) Write a blog post about your launch 2) Let others know 3) Monitor Twitter for the chance of mentioning your product 4) Contact influential bloggers ADD: most importantly, understand why "they" don't come :)
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by alexro 16y ago
I'm kind of confused what you wanted to say. HTML5 runs in a browser, so why it wouldn't be available on WP7? Or you mean javascript based solutions that bridge into the native API? Also, to program native apps for WP7 you need to use Silve
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by alexro 16y ago
Managers are great at talking the talk, but it takes great developers to walk the walk. My current project is successful in spite of a similar list that was created at the inception. Over the course of 3 years, the why, the pitch, the NOT l
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by alexro 16y ago
Have these guy ever applied to YC?
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I don't think that HR/recruitment industry is fundamentally broken. It isn't optimal, but definitely not broken. Also, show me what industry where dealing with people is the core business is doing better? I got all my best jobs through recr
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by alexro 16y ago
Having karma as the measure of legit accounts will force spammers to make more submissions, most likely in automated mode.
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by alexro 16y ago
> nobody on the business team I report to notices any difference whatsoever, except that feature X took a week longer than it probably would have otherwise This. And also Refactoring is almost a dirty word so we try to keep it to oursel
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One reason : attracting the right people
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Simply speaking, make them lose focus, relax
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So, maintaining that technology boosts your runway, but also puts you in danger of loosing everything if the developer quits. Assuming from your (positive) feedback to that idea you think it shouldn't happen in the 12 months timeframe.
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by alexro 16y ago
Often people go through the comments clicking up/down here and there. Yours had just 1 point so was easy to get to zero. I upvoted.
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That's brilliant. During this first year they build up their inventory on the reviews the free members give away. And then charge new members from day 1.
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Don't they offer a free one year before switching you to a paid account?
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You don't have to make your code pretty to be a successful company, think about Microsoft and other huge code factories for instance.
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by alexro 16y ago
I'd be interested in a business/communications female co-founder since my product is women-targeted. I'm the only founder-developer and it's still in the early stage so plenty of time to make collective decisions. The business model is real
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by alexro 16y ago
SongKick founders moved back to London after YC's 3 months ended. Is it perceived as a generally good strategy for people from the UK?
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by alexro 16y ago
If there was a frenzy when delicious started previously would it have succeeded? Sometimes it hurts when people start expecting wonders from you

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