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by bmaier 19y ago
If you haven't realized it yet, most of the education you're paying for in college isn't found in a classroom. College is a nice buffer against the transition to the real world where you can take risks without consequences for the most par
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Chicago News.YC chat channel finally
3 points by bmaier 19y ago|0 comments
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by bmaier 19y ago
I think the place where business people in startups get a bad name is when you have "salesmen" with almost no technical understanding filling "business development" roles. The startups that succeed seem to be the ones that look at the pro
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by bmaier 19y ago
> They aren't systems thinkers. They are the business equivalent of a bench researcher that simply pours blue stuff into green stuff, watches to see if it turns yellow, and then informs his boss of the result. In both science and busi
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An interesting take on hackers vs. businesspeople (thethreepercent.com)
23 points by bmaier 19y ago|7 comments
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by bmaier 19y ago
and I think either one is a valid question. what I meant was I wish there was at least some differentiation between stuff not just simple rehashing for different audiences, oh well.
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by bmaier 19y ago
I'm constantly amazed by how incremental people are in creating webapps. The long tail is an interesting concept but why is the digg/reddit concept for a specific niche being so thoroughly flogged to death? Is each site really grabbing bi
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by bmaier 19y ago
Now taking this question from a different angle... Suppose the striving programmer has chosen to start learning python. What steps would you take to start (are there any one click installers like there are for ruby? other things? tips for
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by bmaier 19y ago
Personally, I don't think anything will truly replace email (at least not for many many years). Twitter is a nice fringe communication tool but simply that. Hopefully what Twitter and the new communication apps will contribute to is a redu
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by bmaier 19y ago
I don't mean to be a downer, but how many times can these principles be re-worded and written about by different people?
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by bmaier 19y ago
Unfortunately, it is somewhat difficult to develop theories about luck and timing beforehand.
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by bmaier 19y ago
I don't think Mark knows how to make a point without making a polarizing comment. Of course, it is one of the reasons he is famous, so whether his off-the-cuff remarks help him or hurt him is open to interpretation.
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by bmaier 19y ago
Stuff like this makes my brain hurt. Ok, so you wrote a post that essentially yells at people, good job. What value does this add? what problem have you solved here? Let's keep hacker news to submissions that are relatively content rich a
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by bmaier 19y ago
I think the more interesting question would be: What techniques do you use to develop a completely unique solution to a problem? Most of what is being done today is incremental problem solving. What are some techniques that can be used t
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by bmaier 19y ago
I agree, Its all about the bug list. Think of all the things that bother you or dont make sense in your every day routine and think about how it should be done ideally. The solution is the beginning of a startup. Oh, and keep a running li
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by bmaier 19y ago
I'm not sure if I'm missing something entirely but to what URL would you like us to bring our friends and earn these karma points? Might be helpful to get that out there.
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News.YC Library
32 points by bmaier 19y ago|31 comments
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by bmaier 19y ago
It is my understanding that NDA's only protect propietary and unique information in a very narrow scope, It does not protect things that could be found by others in the public realm or that are readily known by others in the space. So the
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by bmaier 19y ago
Might be a bit late on the reply but the $10 cpm seems to be an inflated statistic. The ones that are quoting that are getting rates of 10 per cpm on the canvas page while in reality that page is only a small fraction of the total page vie
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by bmaier 19y ago
Ok, a forum is set up for now at http://www.geekchicago.com/talk the geekchicago.com site itself is not complete yet but the forum is working, lets talk there.
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by bmaier 19y ago
I'm putting together a simple forum right now.
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by bmaier 19y ago
On second thought, if the need is there I'll just put out the cash and get a 12 user room for the month. Campfire seems like a good way to do this. Any other suggestions?
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by bmaier 19y ago
Note: Campfire turns out to be less than optimal for these purposes. Working on setting something better up.
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by bmaier 19y ago
Keith does a good job to develop community here though it seems beta is a bit stagnant. I believe he's still working on JobCoin as well as a pretty successful facebook app
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by bmaier 19y ago
Campfire set up for organizing and just general ChiTown talk. http://ycombinator.campfirenow.com if you want an invite mail cubend#gmail.com Works well as a message board or a chatroom. I'll be in there off and on all week
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Chicago News.YC Campfire
8 points by bmaier 19y ago|8 comments
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by bmaier 19y ago
I just set up a campfire for Chicago news.ycers if you want an invite drop your email to cubend#gmail.com It'll be easier to work something out in there.
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by bmaier 19y ago
I'm in Lakeview. Is there an area we'd all want to meet in that's kinda central to everyone?
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by bmaier 19y ago
A news.yc meetup here would be great. OpenCoffee Club here has been ruined by MidPhase but theres no reason we can't set up a weekly or monthly meeting time at a coffee shop where news.ycers can come and go, with some way to identify ourse
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by bmaier 19y ago
Chicago is just getting close to reaching critical mass. The startups that succeeded here before did little to foster community. The startups here now are coming around to the idea of a start up community. It should be interesting to see

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