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by dhouston 19y ago
we're in a similar space -- http://www.getdropbox.com (and part of the yc summer 07 program) basically, sync and backup done right (but for windows and os x). i had the same frustrations as you with existing solutions. let me know if it's
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by dhouston 19y ago
+1 to above... also, you can start a startup whenever, and have the rest of your life to live the 'startup life' (i.e. worksleepworksleepworksleep until/while good things happen :)), but only 4 years of college. i would argue that tagging c
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by dhouston 19y ago
def birthday(people=23): from random import randint as rand; return sum([len(set([rand(1,365) for x in range(people)])) != people for i in range(1000)]) (constructs fewer inner lists, otherwise changes are completely cosmetic)
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by dhouston 19y ago
dude, give it a rest. and read: http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/06/the_pmarca_guid_2.html yc's already given you something better than what you'd get out of a canned one-sentence response: a fantastic resource in which anyone can put up the
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by dhouston 19y ago
i think they only care what you build, and if you're smart. the idea of blacklists, or pg holding grudges, etc., is pretty silly. they're pretty clear on this: if you make something people want (or have a demo that shows that you will), you
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by dhouston 19y ago
i've done this kind of thing for spans of a year or two. besides the advice you're probably already getting, i'd say going running regularly helps a lot. when i was running, i'd be have a lot more energy throughout the day and night; when
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by dhouston 19y ago
the article seems more nostalgic than practical; languages/technologies that provide higher layers of abstraction generally prove to be winners in the medium to long run. i don't know if flex is the next big higher layer of abstraction for
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by dhouston 19y ago
re: daikatana i think you mean john romero, not john carmack (it was ion storm, romero's game co -- though yes it was based on the quake engine/carmack's work)
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by dhouston 19y ago
cool idea, but it's a pretty small niche/problem to solve -- which is fine, but maybe not something to expect millions of people to use
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by dhouston 19y ago
that was enough of a kick in the ass to sign up for coverage (after having intended to for a while but never really getting around to it), thanks for the post :P btw, other summer yc founders in cambridge (or other massachusetts residents):
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by dhouston 19y ago
great interview, guys. i love the "make delicious software" quote... haha. keep kicking ass.
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by dhouston 19y ago
well, the negotiation will take some finesse, and might not have a happy ending. if both sides were happy with the prior terms and had the same expectations -- i.e. you didn't really understand or investigate your compensation compared to m
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by dhouston 19y ago
how much and/or how many rounds of funding has the startup had? how many employees are there?
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by dhouston 19y ago
it depends, and in my experience can be reduced to a cost/benefit analysis. a sprinkle of different things has worked for me -- some things to think about: what's the impact of a typical bug in your app: an error 500 page (annoying) or a BS
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by dhouston 19y ago
enfp.. usually either entp or enfp :P
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by dhouston 19y ago
great article; the piece about the phase most developers go through where they like complexity for complexity's sake definitely resonated (or fancy algorithms, or design patterns, or whatever other programming-related book they just read.)
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by dhouston 19y ago
you're thinking of robert kiyosaki (also from hawaii, however :P) (fwiw, i thought rich dad poor dad was fairly interesting -- i'm not going to hate on it as much as others might -- although it's alleged that some of both some of his anecdo
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by dhouston 19y ago
yeah, the intro/failed kumbaya was excruciating. but the rest (ok, i only watched about a third of it) was well delivered, and pretty damn compelling.
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by dhouston 19y ago
btw, cough , someone needs a <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="content-type" /> (or equivalent) in their <head> section :)
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by dhouston 19y ago
you lost me with that last paragraph, to put it nicely. your innovation as a startup will not be reinventing wheels -- building and debugging frameworks that, fortunately for you, others have put [tens of? hundreds of?] thousands of man hou
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by dhouston 19y ago
looks like web.py has some interesting ideas and useful data munging functions. but unless there's something i'm really missing, most normal web apps (that aren't completely trivial) are way better off using turbogears or django, which prov
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by dhouston 19y ago
it depends on where your bottlenecks are. if you're serving static content (e.g. an image hosting or photo sharing service), amazon S3 is a cheap and simple way to do so. if you have a big database involved anywhere (e.g. facebook, which ha
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by dhouston 19y ago
not found? mirror?
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by dhouston 19y ago
good discussion (check the comments too) of the hoops you'll have to jump through once you have the enviable problem of your customers wanting to open their wallets :) annoyingly, paypal and google checkout really seem to have dropped the b
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Dealing with Subscription Payments(activereload.net)
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by dhouston 19y ago
same situation here. last day at the day job was last friday. rock on :)
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by dhouston 19y ago
is the problem that they don't like the idea, or aren't willing to give up their day job? if the latter, i've seen pg's essays (either why to not not start a startup, how to make wealth, how to start a startup, whatever) and better yet jess
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by dhouston 19y ago
great article and discussion. lots of yc companies have gone this way -- we will probably as well. anyone have experience raising hundreds of k (in convertible debt) from multiple investors, or is it preferred to get that amount from only o
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by dhouston 19y ago
the max levchin interview is fantastic, and probably among the top entrepreneurship-related things i've seen/read in a long time. i haven't seen the others, but seriously, go watch or read max's interview (he co-founded paypal and slide); t
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by dhouston 19y ago
short answer: part time sucks. long answer: part time sucks. i did a variant of this (school for part of it, work for another) for 3 years with my first company, and it was frustrating because you miss opportunity after opportunity because

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