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danelectro
12y ago
I'm surprised that nobody has posted any answers to your ASK. You'd think that those having Kickstarter, freemium, or seed funding experience, especially all 3, would contribute their opinion. Anyway, I think Kickstarter can not b
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danelectro
12y ago
Thanks for posting this Colin. Once the subject of Soylent came up, I've been thinking of contributing this myself but I don't think I have enough karma to make a difference. Too expensive for me to use as a meal so I would use it
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danelectro
12y ago
For me, it's a superior multiboot arrangement so I can choose other Windows or Linux versions painlessly without hesitation to take advantage of inherent productivity differences whenever I want.
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danelectro
12y ago
I would work for him, but what do I know?
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danelectro
12y ago
I always wanted to get to be over 30 so I could gain enough respect to do advanced things that were always discouraged for youngsters back home where most people have always been over 65. Well, in 1982 when the IBM PC was not very popular y
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danelectro
12y ago
As far as I can tell, some of us have ancestors who spent thousands of years above the Arctic circle, where the sun doesn't even go down every day anyway. And there never were any other primates, or trees either. In a lab based on extr
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danelectro
12y ago
How about an augmented form of plain text, where a SMALL MINORITY of special undisplayed characters invoke formatting options which can be utilized by consoles not much more powerful than dumb terminals. We could call it Hypertext . . . Cou
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danelectro
12y ago
I like having a multipartitioned USB 3.0 device even when going back & forth between Windows & various Linuxes. It's been live USB for me for over a decade now, and the hardware for fast boot times has finally arrived with USB
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danelectro
12y ago
C, E-flat, and G walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Sorry, but we don't serve minors." So E-flat leaves, and C and G have an open fifth between them. After a few drinks, the fifth is diminished, and G is out flat. F comes
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danelectro
12y ago
Some excellent advice has been posted already. to simplify, I would first concentrate on Ohm's law & Kirchoff's laws. explore the properties & differences between AC & DC. start becoming very acquainted with schematic
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danelectro
12y ago
I like that, what kind of pickups are you going to put on it?
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12y ago
I started my company on my own years ago and now I'm at it again. In my case I when I go without verbal communication for a while (like doing long days & nights of computer science), my enunciation is compromised during the first f
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danelectro
13y ago
Most of the FAT patents of the '90's finally expired in November. Now exFAT is much more recently encumbered.
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13y ago
Here's a short story about Frank Andrea and his 20th Century startups: http://www.andreaelectronics.com/pdf_files/Distant%20Sparks....
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A great inventor – read the chapter on WWII
(thehammondorganstory.com)
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13y ago
I started my company single-handedly even though people said it couldn't be done. It's a scientific laboratory where I needed to continue a tradition of building labs, in this case assaying international petro/chemical commod
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danelectro
13y ago
By schleps I assume you don't mean people, but tasks. Such as filling hundreds of test tubes or soldering as many connections as you can do, or writing code that is necessarily huge but represents a small concept. Hustling is one of th
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13y ago
On these multi-decade projects, it always seemed to me like investors would be more interested if a few of the decades were accomplished in advance of trying to achieve funding. If your life's work was geared toward making money for in
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13y ago
I'm a new poster here, I started my company with all recycled equipment. Here is my stream of consciousness post about this. I could have thousands of words about it so this is intentionally brief. I am always trying to improve my abil