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by ibagrak 16y ago
If that's any consolation, you are not alone. I've been spending a lot of time lately thinking about strategies for advancing past mediocrity. Here are some general principles that I apply regardless of your background and past accomplishme
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Startups and attribution bias: "This could only mean one of 347 things"(codercofounder.wordpress.com)
2 points by ibagrak 16y ago|0 comments
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by ibagrak 16y ago
I am hands-on founder, and I've have done quite a bit of coding myself for the project, although I haven't actively coded since college and never made a living as a programmer. As a mediocre programmer, I can tell you: no matter how much yo
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by ibagrak 16y ago
I didn't mean it as a complaint either. Just to clarify: I am a pretty happy user of GAE. Full text search is one thing that is missing from the feature set that could make my life as a GAE developer a lot easier.
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by ibagrak 16y ago
Still waiting for that full text search API. I believe the ticket was 'started' in October last year. http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=21...
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by ibagrak 16y ago
Sorry for all the confusion, and thanks for setting the record straight.
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by ibagrak 16y ago
It means to give up. To punt on something is to set it aside or to give up on it. At least that the definition I was going for. :)
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Fail Slower: The Dangers of Punting Too Early(codercofounder.wordpress.com)
10 points by ibagrak 16y ago|15 comments
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by ibagrak 16y ago
Google App Engine has also been performing poorly ( http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2010/06/datastore-perfor... ). I wonder if these performance issues may be related.
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by ibagrak 16y ago
I own a Kindle and I find that I still prefer it over iPad for reading books. This talk of all-in-one and multi-function devices has always been perpetuated by vendors marketing their next crop of gadgets and claiming to finally rid the con
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by ibagrak 16y ago
Oh, shit. Guess I am in trouble now. Posted this about a week ago in an unrelated copyright violation: http://codercofounder.wordpress.com/2010/06/12/product-manag...
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Ask HN: Your experience with startup advisors
1 points by ibagrak 16y ago|1 comments
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Structured discovery, social media, and game dynamics walk into a bar(codercofounder.wordpress.com)
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by ibagrak 16y ago
I have to second the parent on the comment comment. :) I've seen this done superbly in Snob magazine (www.snob.ru), which is a relatively recent Russian-language project also featuring both an online community (subscribers only) and traditi
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by ibagrak 16y ago
While I was interning at Google in 2006 I heard the guy speak in one of the Google Talks there. Going to the talk I thought this would just be some outrageous crackpot theory, but he seemed very thoughtful and the approaches he talked about
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by ibagrak 16y ago
100% agree with parent. I guess I subscribe to more or less the same notion of what street smarts are. To me it's all about people and relationships. The older I get the more I evidence I have in support of this simple fact. I was a CS majo
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by ibagrak 16y ago
What awful slide in the background of that pic! So many words, so little meaning. I can only imagine that this had to be compensated by some pretty compelling delivery.
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by ibagrak 16y ago
Can't say that I've abandoned that many projects due to distraction of starting from scratch... I just haven't started that many, but I mostly agree with this line of thinking. I think programmers (myself included) tend to get distracted by
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by ibagrak 16y ago
I found the web site ordering hugely convenient for three reasons: 1) I cannot stand going to Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and other brick and mortar stores with their cloying and generally clueless sales personnel. 2) I am an American living
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by ibagrak 16y ago
I've also noticed that most "mainstream" startup discussions are skewed towards a "classic" web startup world view. That's what everyone imagines when the word startup comes to mind. So I think what you are saying makes sense, but at the sa
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What do IRC, Twitter and a sense of bewilderment have in common?(codercofounder.wordpress.com)
1 points by ibagrak 16y ago|0 comments
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by ibagrak 16y ago
Cool. Haven't tried the app yet, but I was looking for something like this. Browser interface is really cumbersome, so any alternative interface would be an improvement.
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The Long Tail of Taste(codercofounder.wordpress.com)
1 points by ibagrak 16y ago|0 comments