drewcrawford

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by drewcrawford 18y ago
This is going to be detailed. My thoughts, in order, as I use your site. These comments are mostly negative, but I hope you can take them constructively. It's not a personal thing =) I'm trying to help you. 1. Name. Srsly? 2. Color sc
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by drewcrawford 18y ago
Let's play pong http://ianab.com/trillion/547597778686.html
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by drewcrawford 18y ago
Alternatively, are there any "fun" job titles that are actually decent? Our founders are trying to think of something to call themselves that's not as boring as CEO/CTO/etc.
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by drewcrawford 18y ago
French press is too gritty for me--I hate getting the grounds in my coffee. Lately I've been using an aeropress and have been quite happy. Not Clover coffee, but better than FP and unbeatable for the price.
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by drewcrawford 18y ago
I suspect 2.5 hours is far less time and energy than most startup founders put into allocating shares. It's not something that we spent weeks or months on. We actually spent more time blogging about it than doing the actual allocation, an
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by drewcrawford 18y ago
Obviously the part about valuing the work was referring to work performed by the founders. Investors were involved in the process as well. It is easy to "value" an investment--it obviously already has number associated with it ;-) I can ob
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by drewcrawford 18y ago
As far as valuing ideas up front, we plotted them at discrete points in the creative process. There was one particular "critical" meeting we used early on as a landmark, because a lot of our product ideas came out that day. We would ask o
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by drewcrawford 18y ago
It certainly seemed to be the case for the particular hypothetical developers we would be hiring (the specific languages and technologies we use). Your mileage may vary, but the general concept (paying market rates) still holds.
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Valuation the easy way(blog.experimenthouse.com)
7 points by drewcrawford 18y ago|9 comments
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by drewcrawford 18y ago
Google supports many third-party libraries, (e.g. Django, etc.) and many that they don't explicitly support work anyway. What doesn't work is Python code that has C extensions. There are obviously security issues there. That's the reason
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by drewcrawford 18y ago
Nice! Now all I have to do is purchase one from Belgium (I prefer my $20/mo unlimited 3G data plan...)
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by drewcrawford 18y ago
I think the fundamental problem is that the reason people are on most of these dating sites is because they can't find a date elsewhere. Building a good dating site means solving that problem: making dating online more intuitive than flir
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Ask HN: What's in a name? Serious or fun?
4 points by drewcrawford 18y ago|4 comments
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by drewcrawford 18y ago
The reason .doc is ubiquitous is because, at one point, MS had the best product and it was adopted by the market. There was no coercion--it was a choice between MS Word or a vastly inferior product. Today, things are different. There are
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by drewcrawford 18y ago
This is a fantastic essay. I appreciate Stallman's work, but I find myself much more aligned with the likes of the OSI or Apache Foundation than the FSF. It is refreshing to see Stallman's philosophy intelligently challenged. One rather lar
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Software is not a hammer(blog.experimenthouse.com)
3 points by drewcrawford 18y ago|0 comments
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by drewcrawford 18y ago
It is legal to unlock your phone in the US, as a special exception to the DMCA. Creating or distributing software that allows unlocking phones is not explicitly allowed under that exception. That is to say, it is illegal according to the l
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by drewcrawford 18y ago
Yes, you can import them from Belgium (or Italy, or possibly Australia). Due to the laws of Belgium, it is illegal to lock a phone to a single carrier. Unfortunately they seem a bit pricey: http://blog.steven.be/2008/06/belgium-iphone-pri
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by drewcrawford 18y ago
RapidVPS? I use them to host a few small sites on the cheap (starting at like $9 a month I believe). It probably wouldn't scale, but it's irreplacable for development.
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by drewcrawford 18y ago
This isn't a bad idea. I think I'll actually use this.
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by drewcrawford 18y ago
I doubt that. If I know ICANN, they'll charge six figures for TLD registrations.
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by drewcrawford 18y ago
I'm going through much the same thought process with my startup. The real question is--when do you need to start making money? Obviously the easy answer is "as soon as possible", but most startups have a burn time. Our founders have prett
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by drewcrawford 18y ago
You have to remember, A) it's a small school B) he enjoys teaching I really didn't like the attitude of the larger schools where they would have an associate professor who teaches CS1 talk to you about computer games. I realize that profs
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by drewcrawford 18y ago
All I can say is, make a list of places and go visit. I ended up at a (very) small private school about 400mi away. When I visited, the head of the CS department talked with me in his office for over an hour. From that conversation, I lea
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Ask YC: Login system
7 points by drewcrawford 18y ago|13 comments
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by drewcrawford 18y ago
I'd be interested in a complete overhaul of the tax system. Unfortunately, real tax reform would require A) all of the lawyers and accountants to learn a new system B) If the system is simpler, lawyers and accountants will become less va