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by coffee 15y ago
"...and cancels everytime I ask him to come in. We only work on Saturday/weeknights" He has a baby, family, and a house. You refer to him as a "kinda cofounder" paying him well below market rate and have provided him no equity after he's pu
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by coffee 15y ago
Couldn't agree more. I think the two founders just have no clue. Good on them for sharing the details though, they probably have a genuine desire to understand why they are failing.
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by coffee 15y ago
This is pathetic... "...can sell ice to an eskimo..." But can't sell a programmer, and college friend, on the idea of not being a "dick" to them? Sounds like the two founders have zero skill but do have HUGE egos. They're paying him $25/hou
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Startups Built to Fund(nateberkopec.com)
2 points by coffee 15y ago|0 comments
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Five Skills Entrepreneurs Need according to Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe.(readwriteweb.com)
2 points by coffee 15y ago|0 comments
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Google was once important for growth, now it's not just #2, but irrelevant.(articles.businessinsider.com)
2 points by coffee 15y ago|0 comments
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by coffee 15y ago
So very sorry to hear about this. In the next few months, if you can muster up the energy (and desire) I think the community would love to hear a post-mortem and/or some thoughts about how you could have pivoted into a successful business m
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The Startup Genome Compass: It's Not How Big It Is – It's How Well It Performs(steveblank.com)
3 points by coffee 15y ago|0 comments
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by coffee 15y ago
Agreed, really would like to see more technical information about this. A deeper dive is preferred...
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Watch a swarm of flying robotic drones construct a tiny building(botjunkie.com)
357 points by coffee 16y ago|78 comments
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by coffee 16y ago
doh! You are totally correct. I completely missed that. Maybe I should drink a bit of coffee and wake up ;) Although... I have a suspicion that at some point it would effect non-logged in users. Many logged in users banning a site is a sign
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by coffee 16y ago
"'Reformat the Planet' is a feature length documentary which delves into the movement known as ChipTunes, a vibrant underground scene based around creating new, original music using old video game hardware."
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A documentary which delves into the movement known as ChipTunes(hulu.com)
2 points by coffee 16y ago|1 comments
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by coffee 16y ago
"This would solve a lot of people's complaints in one fell swoop." And doing this would spawn a lot of people's complaints in one fell swoop. If you owned a site, and created enemies, they could band together and flag your site as spam.
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How I Work - learn about new tools by watching screencasts(how-i-work.com)
45 points by coffee 16y ago|4 comments
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Could delicious become the first user-owned Internet service?(asides.bmannconsulting.com)
2 points by coffee 16y ago|0 comments
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by coffee 16y ago
hmmm... I have two perspectives to contribute to this question. 1) Do not think in terms of dollars per hour. Instead, think in terms of a full time job that pays 200k per year. Then go to places such as glassdoor.com and look up who's gett
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by coffee 16y ago
I was thinking the same thing when I first started watching but it get's far better about 2/3 of the way through...
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How to Disappear in America(youtube.com)
5 points by coffee 16y ago|1 comments
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by coffee 16y ago
How does one manage all of this? For example, I've successfully followed up and want to re-contact with them in a month with something topical. How do I manage to remember this (when the contact list get's large) and how do I manage what's
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by coffee 16y ago
My interpretation of it reads: "Getting into YC and being successful in SV do not overlap ." In other words, they are independent of each other...
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Treat Everyone with Respect(ecorner.stanford.edu)
14 points by coffee 16y ago|5 comments
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by coffee 16y ago
I say post it. The community will decide if they continue to find them interesting or not. If your links stop landing on the front page, or someone creates a "bitch" thread about your posts, then you'll know to consider stopping. But those
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by coffee 16y ago
The Eugene Schwartz book is awesome, unfortunately it's out of print. But you can go down to your public library and pick it up if you don't want to buy a used copy for $200. If they don't have it, and you are in a metropolitan area, they c
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by coffee 16y ago
Someone else also mentioned these Standford courses in a previous HN thread: http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/developing-apps-for-ios-... http://itunes.apple.com/itunes-u/iphone-application-developm... To help get started with iPhone
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by coffee 16y ago
"There is no reason why someone who is really good at it would work for anyone else." That's really just a false statement, in my opinion. That's like stating why would any good programmer ever work for anyone else? Honestly, there are a to
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The Algorithm + the Crowd are Not Enough(randfishkin.com)
1 points by coffee 16y ago|1 comments
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Core Data on the iPhone - Building a Simple RSS Reader(appgoal.posterous.com)
1 points by coffee 16y ago|0 comments
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Getting your "baggage" handled by the TSA? Yeah, there's a badge for that(aboutfoursquare.com)
4 points by coffee 16y ago|0 comments
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by coffee 16y ago
I think it comes down to the question of; if you're passing data over a secure channel (SSL), does that fall within the U.S. governments compliance requirements. mickdj had a link with a comment in it discussing this: http://stackoverflow.

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