jimboyoungblood

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by jimboyoungblood 14y ago
What percentage of your fellow Googlers are ex-startup-founders? Yes, there are interesting (and uninteresting) people everywhere. The people I personally find more interesting are found in higher density in startups than BigCo's. ymmv.
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by jimboyoungblood 14y ago
I am sure the engineers at Google are all very intelligent. I never meant to imply otherwise. Back in 2004 or so, Google had a virtual monopoly on all the top engineering and CS talent coming out of school. At that time, Apple wasn't as sex
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by jimboyoungblood 14y ago
Sorry- I probably should have phrased it more carefully. I did not mean to disparage Google, but the OP's reason for choosing Google. It sounds like Google is a great place for you this summer, based on your research interests. However, if
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by jimboyoungblood 14y ago
More importantly, being able to put Google on your resume is a strong signaling mechanism , and the concentration of wicked intelligent, inquisitive people of your age is hard to beat. The fact that you chose Google in favor of a number o
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by jimboyoungblood 15y ago
you get to keep your job. that's (usually) better than not having a job.
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by jimboyoungblood 15y ago
i don't know about other countries, but being a software developer is not high-status anywhere in the united states. i lived many years in sf and mountain view. even there, being a "product manager" is higher status than "software developer
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by jimboyoungblood 15y ago
yes, you will be able to own that coffee shop, but you won't want to. being their landlord is a better way to go. also, i don't think software is viewed as a "high-prestige" profession.
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by jimboyoungblood 15y ago
This is one of the funniest stories I've read in a long time.
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by jimboyoungblood 15y ago
Sounds interesting and all, but how is this "amazing"?
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by jimboyoungblood 15y ago
There's a typo in the title. Should be: "Open Source Developers Wish They Were Rock Stars"
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
The hyperbole around Color sorta reminds me of another revolutionary product from a decade ago: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2001/12/03/here-it-is.htm
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
Is it April 1 already?
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
Both definitions are correct. Your definition is the one used by people who run lifestyle businesses (as well as most normal, sane people). The tinfoil hat definition is used primarily by VC's and founders of VC funded startups, almost alwa
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
I can't empathize with anything in this article. Guess I must not be rich.
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
Nice work. Voting for the next video is great! I can see this becoming really popular.
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
Everyday startups are still severely undervalued. If you believe this to be true, you should immediately invest all of your savings into startups. Second, anything that pulls opportunity into the hands of the smart and ambitious, instead
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
i don't get it. what problem does this solve... that i don't know who my friends are?
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
In that case, let me suggest some other headlines: Heroku, the TurboTax of Rails Application Deployment, acquired by Salesforce, the TurboTax of CRM. 10 things you can do with Dropbox, the TurboTax of Cloud Storage. :P
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
Even if that's what he meant, it's still false.
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
Yup, as well as Mobog, Natuba, BuzzFeed, circa 2005.
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
We were indeed the first to really identify the market for mobile photo sharing. Really, indeed. I built an iPhone photo sharing app about two years ago (It was my self-assigned "How to program in Objective C" project), and there were at
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
according to the letter, X == Z
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
How much traffic was Mashable throwing at you?
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
The next class is scheduled to start March 15, so hopefully before then :)
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
Have you asked your existing investors if they'd be cool with it?
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The i/o ventures application deadline is today.(ventures.io)
17 points by jimboyoungblood 16y ago|5 comments
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
sigh. nytimes tech reporting is as terrible and vapid as ever. there's nothing in the article to support that headline. unless you think that facebook, tumblr, wordpress are "like twitter"
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
The vast majority of his salary is not paid out of state funds. According to this, most of the compensation is provided by Nike: http://www.californiagoldenblogs.com/2010/12/3/1850306/thoug...
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
Last I heard they were still using Twilio. Do the math.. ouch!
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
...but then a new service came along and replaced it for me What's the new service?

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