gyro_robo

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by gyro_robo 20y ago
Imagine if someone had jumped in 5-7 years ago...
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by gyro_robo 20y ago
> The irony is, the biggest disruptive innovation that ever came from the Internet could in fact be open source software, and the old industry it destroys will probably be venture capital . The interplay between open source and trade se
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by gyro_robo 20y ago
> You want to fail as quickly as possible. A bunch of us got that out of the way!
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by gyro_robo 20y ago
Next funding round? So you plan on waiting until 2008 for someone to even start on it?
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by gyro_robo 20y ago
See my top-level post.
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by gyro_robo 20y ago
To me, it seems muddled; I don't see the usual thanks to the usual suspects so I assume PG single-foundered it instead of running it past RTFM et al.
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by gyro_robo 20y ago
There seems to be some confusion here with "the usual distribution of ability". >"There will be a few stars who clearly should make the team, and many players who clearly shouldn't. " Rather, there are a few who clearly should, a few
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by gyro_robo 20y ago
Pirates of Silicon Valley - Google Video http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7941901498664355924
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by gyro_robo 20y ago
Read the rules for both... For Netflix, it's a million bucks, and you grant them a non-exclusive license (meaning you let them do whatever they want with it, but you can, too). For Spock, it's $50k and you give them all the rights, solely
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by gyro_robo 20y ago
Not for variants like Stud, where people folding changes who gets which card next. For THE, the cards are predetermined from the start of the hand anyway, so the only difference ever is the betting.
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by gyro_robo 20y ago
Nerds 2.0.1 on Google Video, downloadable: http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=nerds+2.0.1 Triumph of the Nerds was on there previously... meanwhile, just Google for torrents.
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by gyro_robo 20y ago
College is a way, not the way. Billionaire college drop-outs: http://www.pennylicious.com/2006/10/09/billionaire-dropouts/ Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Michael Dell, Richard Branson, et al. This doesn't include
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by gyro_robo 20y ago
Shiny, yes. But what about equity?
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by gyro_robo 20y ago
Define "scalable". Trivially, Erlang; because the language and implementation, including Mnesia, go together. However, you might find its performance characteristics don't suit your problem domain: it's not fast compared to C: http://shoot
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by gyro_robo 20y ago
Also see SWIG: http://www.swig.org/Doc1.3/Lisp.html Here's an example of compiling and loading inline C code that works with SBCL and CMUCL: http://homepages.nyu.edu/~ys453/ SBCL: sb-alien package allows interfacing with C-code, loading
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by gyro_robo 20y ago
Y Combinator picked Pollground. And one of their best-performing picks currently was their thirtieth and last pick of the 30 "most promising" they invited for interviews that round -- if they had assigned it #31, it would have gotten axed.
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by gyro_robo 20y ago
Not only that, but everyone knows you're also a Pomeranian or a Chihuahua. A very smart one, but small; the majority are "web 2.0" sites with a 3-month ramp-up. A few are a bit larger, like Lassie.
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by gyro_robo 20y ago
This feels a lot different. The barrier to entry has dropped a lot, so we're seeing lots of small start-ups as opposed to the gigantic ones last time around. Also the monetizing seems to be coming from larger tech companies (Google, Yahoo
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by gyro_robo 20y ago
As I understand it, they have quite a large audience (hundreds of thousands of unique IPs/day), and the goal of any acquirer of a site like that is to convert traffic to ad sales.
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by gyro_robo 20y ago
What cold calls is a CEO making?
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by gyro_robo 20y ago
This is fairly well-trod territory: http://www.google.com/search?q=why+php+sucks A good resource for comparing languages is the shootout: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4sandbox/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=all Most people just refe
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by gyro_robo 20y ago
Us rejects should team up. There's nothing investors hate more than missing out on something big, especially if it was originally offered right to them, like Apple and HP/Atari.
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by gyro_robo 20y ago
Was rejected.
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by gyro_robo 20y ago
It ate my greater-than signs. ->
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by gyro_robo 20y ago
Firefox: View-Page Style-No Style
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by gyro_robo 20y ago
We're gonna keep on, keep on, keep on moving, We're gonna keep on, keep on, keep on grooving. Keep on singing and dancing all through the night.