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by downer 19y ago
> As a Catholic, I find that objectionable. Object to all the straw men you care to erect. > But what happens when all your startups have failed and you're 40? What happens when you're 40 and all the companies you've worked for have
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by downer 19y ago
Disney's full of bad messages, like Believe In Yourself, Express Yourself, Be True To Your Friends, Follow Your Dreams, isn't it. "Absorb what is useful" regardless of the source.
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by downer 19y ago
> Thin slicing can work REALLY well if you do it right. Any "X" can work REALLY well if you do it "right". Doing it right, now there's the trick...
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by downer 19y ago
The study, sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the Angel Capital Education Foundation A bit like Microsoft sponsoring studies showing Windows beats Linux, isn't it.
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by downer 19y ago
You guys already know that high school doesn't matter, right? College doesn't matter, either. You will discover this eventually. Sure, it might seem important if trying to impress an employer right out of school, but that's still like wa
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by downer 19y ago
It might not be worth negotiating the finer points of the deal at the term sheet stage. The fact is, everything can be changed once a term sheet is signed, so negotiating on the finer points of it may be overkill. This reminds me of http
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by downer 19y ago
So, how does that affect someone's chances for funding...
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by downer 19y ago
Med 2.0?
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by downer 19y ago
Everywhere -- rip, mix, burn.
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by downer 19y ago
Crack into the server and change the code. The password is Japanese for "Red Castle".
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by downer 19y ago
I would guess it takes roughly the same effort as ever. That is, the tools exist for a single person to be massively effective now (Skype, IM, eFax, EC2 8-core instances, S3, AdWords/AdSense, turn-key solutions for all sorts of services, m
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by downer 19y ago
As far as "help" goes, yes; but that's usually on an occasional, part-time basis.
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by downer 19y ago
Nah, Cisco did the same thing.
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by downer 19y ago
Since wrapping the C versions of sin() and cos() would be too much overhead using JNI, just redo the whole loop in C and call that . Alternatively, write new library functions that make the normal calls and then use Csin() and Ccos().
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by downer 19y ago
College happens to be a pretty good place to meet co-founders.
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by downer 19y ago
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2000/0211homeless.html
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by downer 19y ago
An interesting corollary might be "Lessons for YC". The extreme time crunch just doesn't seem conducive to making accurate evaluations. Of course the people with the money make the rules; it's not a question of power, but every process c
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by downer 19y ago
I.e. Draftmix is a DOS attack against your own startup?
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by downer 19y ago
Not to discount the role of genetics, but how many parents ever prepare their children to learn Calculus at age 10 in the first place? If it were tried with all children and only a few succeeded, the genetic argument would be stronger; as
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by downer 19y ago
> ysearch.com Never knew about it! Thanks.