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by jmtame 15y ago
That wasn't intentional, but if a few sales came from it I can't complain about that. I made the page more explicit to point this out though, near the end. Thanks for checking it out.
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by jmtame 15y ago
I had seen he was working on projects, but that was just my impression. I know how it goes when you're focused on something that you can't take meetings and you only work on stuff for long uninterrupted periods of time. I didn't harass him
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by jmtame 15y ago
I didn't realize until I read that IAMA yesterday that he was in YC. He didn't provide much detail on it, maybe I can get him to talk more about that--maybe other projects he would have liked to build instead. People seem to be most interes
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by jmtame 15y ago
Wow. Thanks. That strategy was coincidental; I only knew I'd have to promote the book once I finished it, but I didn't know how I'd do that. As about a week ago, I got ranked in the top 50 bestsellers in 3 different categories, so Amazon is
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by jmtame 15y ago
I tried getting a meeting with him several times back when I was still a student at UIUC, I read how he launched a t-shirt web site and made some money from it, and it seems every response I got was: "sorry man, I didn't get any sleep last
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by jmtame 15y ago
Oh, for those curious, the actual product Chesky designed that I reference in this article is called the PUREFLUSH. Here is the presentation on American Inventor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAWB5wzSUb0
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by jmtame 15y ago
is there a reason to dump your images into the assets vs public folder then?
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by jmtame 15y ago
on the topic of rails, has anyone noticed images loading slowly on localhost with 3.1?
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by jmtame 15y ago
You're not the first person to recommend this, I'm actually interested in doing it that way too. I'll get this done at some point when I move it into an HTML format that can be re-arranged and compiled on the fly.
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by jmtame 15y ago
Ahh, good ol' reddit =]
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by jmtame 15y ago
I'm looking at Google Analytics right now for my web site, but all I can see is yesterday's data. Is there somewhere to see the data collected today? Edit: I use both Analytics and Mixpanel, they're both great services. Google has its stren
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by jmtame 15y ago
Google Analytics has a delay. Mixpanel is real-time and specifically aimed at certain events that you specify. So when someone clicks your sign up button, it fires an AJAX call and you see them do it in real-time, instantly.
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Ask HN: What questions do you want to ask John Resig?
9 points by jmtame 15y ago|2 comments
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by jmtame 15y ago
The announcement they make in a few weeks is going to be huge and disruptive. Some interesting bits from the interview in Startups Open Sourced : Q: Tell me what your experience was like raising money. Was that positive or negative? That
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by jmtame 15y ago
I think you summed it up pretty well. The post started with the idea of "how to find cofounders" as one of the most difficult things founders deal with. I'm challenging the notion that you have to be out there and aggressive about it; inste
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by jmtame 15y ago
No way. I know from interviewing him for Startups Open Sourced that he's pretty excited about his customers, and he specifically referred to them as "Target customers" rather than "Wal-Mart customers" because they're valuable, willing to bu
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by jmtame 15y ago
Not the entire time. Andres was installing a sensor a mile beneath the water surface (if my memory is right; writing this from a mobile phone without the book on me). That was part of his research, I believe most of his time was spent in hi
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by jmtame 15y ago
Octopart was the first company that came to mind when I thought about writing Startups Open Sourced . Having not heard about them for a while, I wanted to know what they were up to and writing a book about it was a good excuse to talk to t
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by jmtame 15y ago
if they don't allow it on the forum, and the guy who writes this is reading this thread, email me at jmtame at gmail and I'll be sure you receive $100 over paypal (I'll verify with the OP)
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by jmtame 15y ago
I just tried to add $100 to the bounty from StartupsOpenSourced.com -- not sure if they'll accept it or not considering it's not necessarily coming from an individual, and they don't know me personally.
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by jmtame 15y ago
I didn't see this before, but the SpaceX office tour is pretty awesome: http://spacex.com/multimedia/videos.php?id=26
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by jmtame 15y ago
The media's portrayal of startups is something I have a split opinion on right now. On one hand, I feel bad criticizing the media because several founders have cited jealousy as their reason for starting a new company. "Kevin Rose was on th
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by jmtame 15y ago
Speaking of Hacker Houses--if anyone is looking to join one in SF with a few other hackers (one YC founder, one Facebook coder, and myself) let me know jmtame at gmail
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by jmtame 15y ago
It all looks pretty easy when you see a TC write-up on them and VC business cards sprawled out on the floor, but some interesting back-story from Evan on how LAL got started (from the Startups Open Sourced interview): "As soon as I gradua
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by jmtame 15y ago
I found myself recommending it to a business student recently. He was saying he's having conflicts with his technical cofounder, so I told him to just stop working and go grab drinks, talk about anything except work. Put your keyboards down
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by jmtame 15y ago
No kidding. Coming from a guy who has never raised a single round of funding and has operated profitably every single month since launching (except for one month where he hired two people), they're doing really, really well.
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by jmtame 15y ago
Loved Tom's social hack for finding cofounders, from Startups Open Sourced. He also has a really good outlook on the role of design in startups. Q: So, the best way to get to know somebody is to go drink with them? A: That is absolutely the
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by jmtame 15y ago
LikeALittle had 20 million page views in their first 6 weeks ( http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/19/likealittle/ ) Also, really cool story about Evan from his childhood, from Startups Open Sourced: 'When I was 16 or 17 I convinced my parents to
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by jmtame 15y ago
i can't imagine anyone is actually excited about this. i'd prefer not to have formal rules here, with the exception that AT&T can punish their top 0.05% users by bandwidth usage. they want to turn the internet into a giant cable tv pack
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by jmtame 16y ago
for anyone interested, i wrote about how i dealt with the traffic here: http://jmtame.posterous.com/startups-open-sourced-is-out-go-... the story was down for the first 20 minutes. i was trying to call siong to delete the story but he did

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