foodawg

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by foodawg 18y ago
I can't wait to see more companies getting into the desktop 3D printer space. The RepRap project is still very difficult to a novice user, and has a long way to go. Bre Pettis actually just started a company called http://www.makerbot.com/
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by foodawg 18y ago
Etsy http://www.etsy.com
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by foodawg 18y ago
Manhattan works for me.
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by foodawg 18y ago
I have to agree with this point. No, you do not have to be part of an industry to do work in it. It will certainly make the proposition very difficult however. One of my YC ideas was a product aimed at the HR industry. I personally have no
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by foodawg 18y ago
I definitely agree that a frugal attitude is essential for success. But I'm reminded of a great article on "I Will Teach You To Be Rich" called Cheap vs. Frugal. http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/blog/cheap-versus-fruga... Being cheap
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by foodawg 19y ago
I do all my screen scraping with PHP, curl, and some regex. Previously I used plain PHP. I use it to scrape television listing data ( http://ktyp.com/rss/tv/ was my old site, and http://code.google.com/p/listocracy/ ) and more recently to
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Django's Problems and Why 2.0 is a Bad Idea(lucumr.pocoo.org)
3 points by foodawg 19y ago|1 comments
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by foodawg 19y ago
I don't know if your referring to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=64795 as the older post, but it is only a month old. The web hosting industry is pretty cyclical, but within a month, the data should still be relevant.
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by foodawg 19y ago
Awesome addition, I'm sure I'll get around to turning on noprocrast sometime. ;)
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by foodawg 19y ago
I think what is equally important was their extensive use of open source packages of all types using both Java and Python. Xen, Hadoop, and Boto just are examples showing that more often than not, open source is the way to go.
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by foodawg 19y ago
I'm going to second Trac. I'm using it primarily because of its easy integration with Subversion.
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by foodawg 19y ago
I just want to say that was a great article. I think your baseball metaphor really gets to the point. It doesn't matter that you've tried so many times. The fact you are able to go out on a limb and try to create something from nothing show
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Intuit's New Startup Competition(ducttapemarketing.com)
4 points by foodawg 19y ago|0 comments
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by foodawg 19y ago
You are definitely right to question the other founder's commitment at this point. Me and my cofounder had a pretty big argument over whether to incorporate or not this summer. However, in our case the heart of the debate was whether or not
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by foodawg 19y ago
It was a great article. I think the most important part was: "Software development got cheaper but communication didn't. Pure idea/sales/marketing founders are losing value against founders who can build their own product."
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by foodawg 19y ago
Been using Voxel.net since July. No complaints.