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by altay 19y ago
Hey, thanks! Why am I not doing it? Um, all I can come up with is, "I'm working on other projects... that are more complex... and less of a sure thing." =P Anyways, if you're inspired, go nuts. Lemme know if you want any help building i
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by altay 19y ago
Here's mine. You ever play Erotic Photo Hunt? It's a game on those touchscreen video kiosks in bars. Each round, you're shown two almost-identical pictures of a scantily-clad girl. You've got a minute to find the 5 subtle differences in
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by altay 19y ago
Ah, so that's where "Make something people want" came from.
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by altay 19y ago
If I'm trying to reach a big goal, like "run a marathon" or "bench-press my weight" or "launch my site", the way to do it is to break it up into bite-size chunks with discrete milestones. It'd be cool to offer some "goal templates" (e.g. "h
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by altay 19y ago
uh, so... does anyone know what they DO online?
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by altay 19y ago
what? i'm not the only one with a backup pr0n plan? i'd be so rich right now, if it weren't for these bullshit scruples.
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by altay 19y ago
I'm in the same boat - a recovering 'ideas guy' who buckled down and actually learn to hack over the past year or so. (One of the best decisions I've ever made. Though, granted, I developed a real passion for it.) I'm enjoying Ruby/Rails
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by altay 19y ago
No way -- plenty of flameouts were led by hackers, too. On top of that, the reason we've heard about the "most notorious" flameouts is because they actually knew something about marketing! I'd bet that the vast majority of successful compa
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by altay 19y ago
Uh... what's your address? I'm aguvench on gmail.
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by altay 19y ago
Portland, Maine (seriously) and SF/Mountain View, CA.
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Elton John wants to shut down the internet.(thesun.co.uk)
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by altay 19y ago
wow, that's the best thing i've ever read on his blog. and it wasn't written by him.
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by altay 19y ago
If you've got a Sony-Ericcson phone, you can use Float's Mobile Agent. It's open source. Lets you download/upload your contacts, texts, photos, etc. via bluetooth. It can also do cool-in-theory but useless-in-practice things like use yo
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by altay 19y ago
ACT! is a POS!
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by altay 19y ago
Diesel Cafe in Davis Square (Somerville). In the past, a lot of YC folks used it as a hackspot. Not sure if that's still the case, but the last time I was there, I met a couple of (non-YC) guys in the booth next to me who were working on
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by altay 19y ago
Yeah, and even if a client-based app is necessary, I wouldn't advertise that it's a 10-minute download. On the internet, that sounds like an eternity.
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by altay 19y ago
It's interesting to hear his perspective on the iPhone. BTW, for folks who aren't familiar with Christensen's work, his books and ideas rock. (He coined the phrase "disruptive technology," and has done a lot of solid research on patterns o
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by altay 19y ago
Today students take computers for granted. You say that like it's a bad thing. But it's really a good thing, for both the general population and also for those select few who do know how to program. (Also, I'd bet that the percentage o
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by altay 19y ago
Why is acquisition integration such a hard problem? How come no big company has figured out how to buy a startup and not drive it into the ground?
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by altay 19y ago
Uh, they should probably do one more edit pass over the docs before opening it up to the world... =P from http://developers.f8.facebook.com/documentation.php?v=1.0&doc=fbml#mockajax " PLEASE CHANGE THE URL IN THE EXAMPLE : ... clickre
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by altay 19y ago
Yeah, exactly. It's remarkable to me that people haven't done cooler things with the Facebook API thus far. So much interesting data there... so much potential for quantitative social network analysis. This is where MySpace has failed --
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by altay 19y ago
cool!! that's totally it. now if they'd only get this in my gym... =)
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by altay 19y ago
oh, i totally agree, far33d... those make for the coolest companies. anyone know anything about sensor networks? lately i've been thinking that a sensor network plus an accompanying web app could be useful in lots of domains. for example
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by altay 19y ago
Get familiar with FireBug, by far the best Firefox extension for web development. ( http://www.getfirebug.com ) It's how I learned CSS. If you're interested in the user interface/experience side of design, it'll help you there too. It'
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by altay 20y ago
Paul, the Henry Potter reaction is understandable... this certainly could be interpreted as blatant plagiarism of your ideas. But the other way to read it is as a validation of the vision behind YC. The new model for startup investment th
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by altay 20y ago
Incredible!! Congrats, Trevor! Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go prepare my bunker for the coming War with the Machines.
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by altay 20y ago
I'd second the Fabrice Grinda recommendation. It's obvious just minutes into the interview that he's a straight-up A-player entrepreneur. It's especially interesting because he ISN'T an ideas guy -- rather, he's a
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by altay 20y ago
Yes, Venture Voice rocks. Greg is a really great interviewer, and the interviewees are super interesting. This is one of the most consistent sources of entrepreneurial inspiration I've found, up there with PG's essays and Jessica&
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by altay 20y ago
hey, look at that... line breaks! =)
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by altay 20y ago
ideas.yc.com. we've all got more ideas than time, and it's a shame to let them languish in our individual imaginations. so how about creating a public clearinghouse for ideas where they're a) subject to reddit-esque competition, and b) &#

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