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by dabent 16y ago
Want to meet me? I'll be the guy at the Glancely booth all day Saturday. ( http://www.glancley.com )
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The relationships between content length and upvotes on Quora(quora.com)
1 points by dabent 16y ago|0 comments
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Convore's (YC W11) Apple Announcement Topic/Chat(convore.com)
30 points by dabent 16y ago|5 comments
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by dabent 16y ago
I'm pretty sure entire companies don't collapse, but projects are canceled and companies are limited in what they can do by relying on overly-complex solutions. I know that from experience. Of course, that's one thing that can give a start
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by dabent 16y ago
Here's another take on Java, well, really it's more about Python: "In a recent talk I said something that upset a lot of people: that you could get smarter programmers to work on a Python project than you could to work on a Java project. I
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by dabent 16y ago
Have you read this? It might help. http://www.paulgraham.com/procrastination.html
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by dabent 16y ago
Did Jason Baptiste draw that graph? I thought Paul Graham did at the YC offices. (The one with the Tech Crunch of initiation)
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Drop out. Or don't.(areallybadidea.com)
110 points by dabent 16y ago|46 comments
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What is the most beautiful equation?(quora.com)
14 points by dabent 16y ago|1 comments
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Nearly Half of Americans Use Facebook; Only 7% Use Twitter [STUDY](mashable.com)
2 points by dabent 16y ago|0 comments
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by dabent 16y ago
Thanks for making me chuckle. You do make a good point. If this was just another enterprise Java job, I wouldn't have listed it. I guess I was mostly curious about the Erlang/Android angle.
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by dabent 16y ago
I did a test search and found a Erlang/Android job "by the beach." I don't job surf very often and I'm not currently looking for another day job, but this has to be one of the coolest job listings I've seen: http://careers.stackoverflow.c
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by dabent 16y ago
I'm an outlier in a few different ways in life, and in my 40's, I am with startups as well. I didn't discover how satisfying being an entrepreneur could be until I really started trying it in my late 30's and now I can't get enough. I al
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by dabent 16y ago
Familiarity breeds contempt. Often it's the language that coders are currently using that seems like the worst, because they're dealing with that language's problems on a daily basis.
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by dabent 16y ago
"In Silicon Valley you decide to start a company then look for ideas. In real America you have an idea that eventually becomes a company." That certainly seems to be the case. I know some successful business people locally who didn't have
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by dabent 16y ago
I'm not so sure that nobody was calling it a bubble. I sure felt it was, but didn't have a lot of money in the stock market then, so I wasn't personally concerned. I just billed my skills out at crazy rates and loved every minute of it.
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by dabent 16y ago
Very good point. There are certainly tactical moves that will change due to conditions, such as fund raising. But the general "run for the hills" attitude I see in many of these posts isn't productive. It's almost as if I see people hesit
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by dabent 16y ago
I agree with you, and as someone who gained an interest in startups before anyone started calling this recent trend a "bubble" I ask myself one question: Will this change what I'm doing with my startup right now? And the answer for me is a
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by dabent 16y ago
I know from experience the difficulties an unusual name can bring, but Quora hasn't called me out just yet. I value their desire to build an authentic community, but other sites have grown without resorting to this sort of tactic. Fakes e
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by dabent 16y ago
pg actually wrote an essay about that: http://paulgraham.com/control.html
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by dabent 16y ago
Someone can be difficult from an investor's perspective, but not so with a team member. Both a team member have different personalities and motivations which might not align. Co-founders are probably more likely to have found an alignment
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by dabent 16y ago
> Of course, employees working on a team don't have the same interests that investors do. Yes, team dynamics, especially at large corporations are vastly different than startup dynamics. Loveable fools fit right in at BigCo, as long as
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by dabent 16y ago
I do wonder what Fred Wilson and other VCs perceive as "difficult," even from brilliant people. A founder demanding to retain control after a series A might be seen as difficult from the VC's eyes. A founder who has a great vision that's
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by dabent 16y ago
"I do NOT want my employer actively trying to become my friend." Exactly, and a variation on that is on the front page here today (VCs Are Not Your Friends). You might be on friendly terms you your employer, but it's primarily a business r
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by dabent 16y ago
I'd love to hear what the pain points of using Bloomberg are.
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by dabent 16y ago
"I would be strongly tempted to take my business to vibrant competitive offerings. Sadly, Google is pretty much the only game in town" There has to be a way to change that, and it might not be from a direct attack on AdWords, or even PPC
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Don’t Should All Over Yourself(artofmanliness.com)
1 points by dabent 16y ago|0 comments
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by dabent 16y ago
This is a case where someone's HN reputaion made the collection a "must read" for me. RoG has done a great job here of knowing what's been posted, more than "finding dupes" and adding to the conversation. I look forward to checking out th
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Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us [video](youtube.com)
2 points by dabent 16y ago|1 comments
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by dabent 16y ago
At first glance it looks pretty cool, but I have a few questions. How is this different/better than the existing http://www.housingmaps.com/ ? How is this different/better than Hot Pads? http://hotpads.com/ Do you have CraigsList's perm

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