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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
_Can the business major who loves the web and has a good idea about a web based business succeed_ Yes. Kevin Rose.
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
I think this is probably why YC looks for co-founders. Personally I handle boredom by doing something else. This works incredibly well for programming and incredibly badly for interacting with the government. To be more specific, if somethi
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
2006, right after the VCs started backing again.
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
http://you-need-to-read-borges-labyrinth.com
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
The Science Of Thinking More Intelligently . Go Harvard go.
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
google giles bowkett archaeopteryx. did presentation today @ goruco (ruby conf in new york). started presentation with system autogenerating drum and bass rhythms through Reason. not audio software; midi software. heavily lambda-fied. essen
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
_sounds kinda girly to complain about this._ yes, that's a good point, because anything females do is bad.
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
gilesbowkett.blogspot.com!
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
Yeah. OK. So, I'm bringing this whole irony thing. It's kind of ironic to say somebody else is small-minded because they have opinions about other people. Honestly, don't you fuckers have startups to build? I'm not interested in your opinio
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
Here is my comment. If you don't dig it, don't read it! Fucking DUH. It's your life. It's your time. Choose it how you spend to choose it, that reflects on YOU, not me. Muppets.
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
What kind of mind discusses people discussing people? A small meta-mind?
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
This is a silly line of reasoning. By your own argument, you shouldn't have made your own argument, as it probably has not resulted in any code being written. So nyeeeeeeeeeeeah.
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
Thanks for the 1/11429th of a burrito.
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
http://tinyurl.com/qyhcx
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by giles_bowkett 19y ago
Pickup-chicks stuff I have to give very mixed reviews. Yes walking up and introducing yourself to people will make you better at talking to them. That much is certainly undeniable. But the online communities associated with such things have
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by giles_bowkett 19y ago
Forget about Silicon Valley and startups. Think of something that needs to exist. Then build it. The first step is the only hard one.
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by giles_bowkett 19y ago
_a new web framework called Kiiteh_ I got you a continuation but I ated it.
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by giles_bowkett 19y ago
I can't find it in Gmail, but IIRC one of the Auctomatic guys told me they were on Seaside, and they didn't understand why the whole world wasn't on Seaside too. I would be working in Seaside if I had more time, but there's the huge Rails j
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by giles_bowkett 19y ago
This is straight-up plagiarism from a cool book from several years ago.
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by giles_bowkett 19y ago
Personally I think activation e-mails are dumb. People do way too much user security bullshit. Simple is better in many many cases. (All imho.)
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by giles_bowkett 19y ago
guys, you need to just build this shit, and then figure out a way to monetize it. finding out what people pay for and then building it is doing it backwards. I mean you have to do it when you have to, but start with this page and build what
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by giles_bowkett 19y ago
+1 on the surprising people with yr intentions not being ethical. I'm dealing with this whole thing. A while back I got one company interested, blogged about it, and got expressions from interest from two other companies as well. Unfortunat