jmw

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by jmw 2y ago
Cool to hear… especially in the power specs for that proc. If you don’t mind, What specs does the transcoding machine have and what’s an example of a workload it handles well?
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by jmw 7y ago
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by jmw 11y ago
I had to laugh when I saw the needwant.com guys in screenshots your website. 1) Only half joking question - a) did you ask John/David for permission to use their icons? b) Are they users of Status? I installed status a while ago and fo
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by jmw 19y ago
It's worse in the mobile space. If you're trying to sign a jar to go on handsets, you pretty much either have to go a thawte certificate ($200), or a verisign certificate ($400) in order to guarantee compatibility with most handsets that ar
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by jmw 19y ago
It's interesting to hear an outside view on entrepreneurship at MIT. Inside of MIT, most Course VI (Computer Science) students have gone through 4 years without even having a single conversation about starting a company. There is a single c
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by jmw 19y ago
Boston's still number 2 (behind silicon valley) in most recommendations of places to start a startup (in terms of available capital, nerds/smart people, and proximity to other growing businesses). Another part of the argument goes along the
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by jmw 19y ago
Yeah - thanks for responding to my question on heyletsgo and updating the newest date for it. I'll try to make it this Thurs or next.
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by jmw 19y ago
From this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=8830 it looks like there are other things like this going on. Anybody go to either of these and can comment on the quality of the people or how things went? I don't want to duplica
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by jmw 19y ago
I think it'd be interesting to hear how teams of founders work. What kinds of team dynamics they have - things like: democratic vs. dictatorship 1 technical & 1 business ...etc Woz and Jobs Hewlett and Packard Allen and Gates Sergey and La
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by jmw 19y ago
I'm in. I'm co-founder of a YCombinator startup that hasn't gone public yet. I'm also an MIT student that's living in Boston until at least the end of the summer. Anyone who's interested in startups/hacking should come. I suggest bringing
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by jmw 19y ago
I don't think it has to be organized by YC at all - this is more about Boston/other city based networking than it is about. Jessica/Paul/YCombinator are busy enough as it is - but that's no reason why there shouldn't be a Boston meetup. I c
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by jmw 19y ago
The traditional claims for success/failure of companies inside/outside of the valley comes from Venture Capitalists who have years worth of statistics coming from their own investments. The stats point to a change in percentage chance of su
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by jmw 19y ago
One of the hardest parts of a "seed investor" is having actual successful experience in an early stage company (See PG, Trevor, and RTM in ViaWeb-Yahoo Store), and being able to use that experience when mentoring a young company. Having tal
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by jmw 19y ago
Hardest programming class I could take during undergrad. Spent weeks worth of sleepless nights hacking in a lounge working on a final projects. I dropped out first, started a company, then came back just in time for him to drop out and sta
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by jmw 19y ago
It's not really a place you'd necessarily network at, but you can at least work in the presence of other geeks (and wannabes) at Ritual Roasters coffeeshop on 21st and Valencia. http://ritualroasters.com/ Around Cambridge - I personal pre
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by jmw 19y ago
As someone who'd like to think of himself as a decent hacker, I usually think criticism is a good thing. I don't however, enjoy criticism when it's combined with insults to attract more attention. I know and like the WriteWith developers,
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by jmw 19y ago
There were groups in past batches of founders which were non-US citizens.
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by jmw 19y ago
I'd definitely recommend http://rimuhosting.com I know of at least 1 YComb startup that has used it in the past - and we're using it now. I've personally been hosting with them for 2 or 3 years now and it's hands down the best virtual ho