curiousgeorge

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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
Fantastic game. Played it enough back in college to realize that the spawn points in multiplayer weren't random. That realization changed the dynamics of the game somewhat.... More on-topic, I think the title is wrong. People who can write
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
As long as the new stuff displaces less important and interesting projects, don't worry about it.
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
piano.
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
You should assume funding will not happen. Follow your intuition here. And then calm down and realize that 5-7 months of living expenses isn't exactly scraping by. Follow everyone else's advice on cutting costs, and look for part-time work.
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
It is extremely unlikely they want to fund you. I'd ask at the outset what their motivation for the call is. Ask them to give you their own understanding of the market: how your product compares to others, what they think about the industry
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
>> the economy will continue to tank despite (or because of) attempts to "stimulate" it Perhaps you should make up your mind about basic economic causality before hectoring Krugman for having actually read the original texts. The G
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
Communism would have worked if people didn't try to game the system too. If your philosophy isn't robust enough to deal with the sharp intrusions of reality, complaining about reality isn't the solution.
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
hire hot people and you get to meet their hot friends.
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
Once you get bought, you aren't perceived as an independent company. Media focuses on the buyer not seller. Which is one reason to make them pay cash.
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
Not if you know the people and you know the project. Managing outside your area of expertise is a lot more difficult.
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
Not really. The last nail in the coffin of serious research on the gold standard was "Golden Fetters" by Eichengreen. It has a phenomenal and indisputable country-by-country timeline showing the cycle of deflationary behavior stopping durin
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
Perhaps you can be more specific about why you need a co-founder? Can you build the product yourself? If you cannot what value do you bring to any venture? I'd suggest you put yourself in a position of strength by executing and other people
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
This is just rent-seeking behavior by the state. China has all sorts of these tests. The private market doesn't pay any attention to them.
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
I'd like to find out a more effective way of online marketing so that I can reach more people like the ones already paying me, and use the revenue to hire people to reduce my own workload and push the business is new directions.
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
Also, fix your email. I just sent feedback to customer-support@wozad.com and... "Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information abo
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
One Suggestion: You want people to have positive feelings about your company (you are putting a lot of work into it in order to help people, right?) so drop the negative advertising. Figure out ways to differentiate and complement others so
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
What on earth would venture capital be needed for anyway? If you have clients you shouldn't need them.
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
One piece of advice: make sure you keep your social elements concentrated if you want people to contribute/comment. Nothing kills a site like a big empty forum.
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
I learned something interesting in grad school. It is that the Nash Equilibrium for mutual assured destruction involves the occasional nuclear explosion simply because players must be credibly irrational for the threat of deterrence to be
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
The platform operates on Amazon EC. They did not take or try to take investment. And at least one person worked hard on it. This does not sound like failure. It sounds as if the product is either something that people do not want, or someth
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
Why do you think that re-writeability matters? People who write code that is difficult to maintain should make more money by virtue of being harder to eliminate. I don't think effective programmers document everything either, but maybe this
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Dow+Jones&btnG=...
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
I've had that a few times. It is very cool. But eating is cool too. Balancing the two is important. ;)
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
Regression analysis. Then factor out the expected effects of wealth.
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
quite impressive. thanks for posting, will play around with it.
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
Out of curiosity, does anyone use Ruby who doesn't use Rails?
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
Perhaps we can stop the language flaming. I build my stuff in a combination of PHP, C++ and javascript on a LAMP stack. Feel no need to justify it to people who aren't making architectural decisions.
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
That being said, being able to do something differently matters. Especially if you are in a niche market, it is much more difficult to get and keep traction without first-mover advantage. Innovation in the way you will get traffic is one of
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
What exactly is meant by incurred technical debt? How do you have "margin calls" on technical debt? Totally confused.
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by curiousgeorge 18y ago
Unless you're certain about the UI elements, doing a hard design may be a bad move. I personally get better mileage from building the core architecture/functionality first, and working on the rest, ideally with public feedback on both after

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