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by ibdknox 14y ago
This is the first part of what my talk at the Clojure Conj was about. Part two is about how this relates to Light Table's design :)
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Anatomy of a knockout(chris-granger.com)
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by ibdknox 14y ago
Doing a startup in general will test even the strongest relationships. I've seen old friends break apart. So yeah, YC can really be that stressful.
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by ibdknox 14y ago
If I remember correctly there's a year long grace period after which the investors can choose to force the note to convert. I don't know much about how that works though.
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by ibdknox 14y ago
I agree. I meant that you could raise after demo day. As I said, it's pretty unlikely that you must have more than the 100k you'll get during that time, even for hardware. Plus constraint in this case is a good thing, virtually anything c
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by ibdknox 14y ago
> The office hours help all the startups. I would say that they were definitely valuable to us, if for no other reason than to get a chance to talk with investors before there was anything really at stake. The way investor meetings go i
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by ibdknox 14y ago
This is a convertible note[1], just like the previous incarnations. Which means that the amount of equity it is worth isn't determined until a priced round happens (where a valuation is set). [1]: http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/21/convertib
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by ibdknox 14y ago
This doesn't preclude a company from seeking funding elsewhere and I can imagine very, very few companies at this stage that could legitimately burn through $80k in 3 months. If that doesn't get you close enough to at least prove something
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by ibdknox 14y ago
I would actually go further and say it's not just difficult, I imagine it would be near fatal unless you were a well established company walking in. We found fundraising to be an incredibly soul sucking process and without at least a firm g
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by ibdknox 14y ago
It seems like the smart thing to do in this case is to then go down the Kickstarter route. I definitely wouldn't suggest it for software, as I genuinely think we got extraordinarily lucky, but for hardware it's an excellent choice.
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by ibdknox 14y ago
people often switch ideas in the middle of YC, so there are more than a few who get up on stage with just a couple week's worth of work (if even that). By ugly ducklings in this case he means ideas that may not yet be fully fleshed out or w
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by ibdknox 14y ago
Actually I did take some interesting things away from the experience. Not sure how broadly applicable they'll necessarily be though. A blog post on it is forthcoming.
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by ibdknox 14y ago
This was for a coding competition[1], all assets had to be created in 48 hours - I would've loved to have gotten more done, but I'm happy with where we landed.. Especially since it really came down to the wire. :) Here's our entry [2] [1]
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by ibdknox 14y ago
Written by us (kodowa) in 48 hours for the NodeKnockout using Light Table :D EDIT: video of it in action here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v09DnU4vQ74
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by ibdknox 14y ago
It wasn't a matter of the work involved, it's a matter of wanting to keep in touch with the person.
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by ibdknox 14y ago
There's absolutely nothing preventing a sandboxed environment :) Connections are just processes that talk over tcp, if the client wants to sandbox whatever it evals, it can definitely do that.
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by ibdknox 14y ago
Yeah, I'm not happy with how that works yet. I ended up compromising on what it does now, because I couldn't seem to get CSS to cooperate with me on how I really wanted it to work. There will definitely be improvements to that bit.
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by ibdknox 14y ago
Thanks for this, it's a wonderfully detailed explanation of what you went through - mind putting it into a bug report for me? We have a ton of user testing to do and this is the first breath of air this particularly set up has seen (it didn
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by ibdknox 14y ago
Out of curiosity why aren't you at least on the latest 10.7? Which is 10.7.5
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by ibdknox 14y ago
Here's a 64bit one: http://temp2.kodowa.com.s3.amazonaws.com/playground/bins/Lig...
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by ibdknox 14y ago
These are all things I plan to talk about in my next blog post :)
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by ibdknox 14y ago
As with all tools you have to consider if it's the right place to use it. Things like the instarepl aren't very valuable in highly side-effecting code, but being able to evaluate some block on command still is. You still have to test if tha
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by ibdknox 14y ago
I don't notice anything unless I have my machine doing some crazy stuff. That being said we haven't done any real performance tuning yet. Out of curiosity what macbook do you have? I run one of the 2011 airs.
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by ibdknox 14y ago
Ah, the proxy is probably it. Does your proxy bypass 127.0.0.1?
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by ibdknox 14y ago
Did you by chance have the old one before? There may be some weird conflict with the directories. Try removing HOME/.lighttable and restarting.
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by ibdknox 14y ago
We'll likely do some more work to make it a bit more platform flavored - those are specifically a mac convention. From left to right: Close - Minimize - Maxmize The one on the far right is fullscreen.
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by ibdknox 14y ago
This was over a series of years. There are lots of reasons why we stopped working on the different projects, but I'm not sure I believe there was any less potential in them - especially Prospector. While I agree that they've gotten very goo
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by ibdknox 14y ago
Nope, they were all different ideas/companies. Typewire - disqus for liveblogging Attend.me - conference management software Prospector - medical chart review and finally LightTable. Oddly enough we had/have domain expertise for all of them
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by ibdknox 14y ago
As a data point, I was rejected by YC 3 times. Once after the interview, once at the application, and amusingly enough the first time we applied for the last batch. We got in after applying again late with LightTable. There is certainly no
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by ibdknox 14y ago
LT already has a basic form of this, it just interacted with the filesystem directly instead of going through git. I'll play with this some to see what I can make out of it :)

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