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by jward 19y ago
I was on a first date the other week and was explaining some of my ideas and the lady I was with nearly wet herself with excitement telling me about a webapp she'd love to have. After thinking about it and asking a few other women I know,
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by jward 19y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by 'provide more'. The entire idea behind the government owning the infrastructure and not the services that run on them is to stimulate fair competition between private enterprises. I wouldn't really want the g
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by jward 19y ago
I believe the government should provide the following services: 1) Emergency services. These are things you don't really have time to negotiate price on or do research for. Police, national defense, fire and rescue, emergency medical. Th
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by jward 19y ago
About 5 years back I had an idea for a free wireless system. I'd go and offer places like Starbucks and Chapters free wireless for their customers. The hardware at their end would be a simple DSL/Cable modem hooked up through a small form
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by jward 19y ago
Edmonton.
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by jward 19y ago
You're assuming people buy books to read them, not to display them and have them be status symbols.
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by jward 19y ago
It's spyware with an altruistic motive. In Founders at Work the guy touched briefly on the ethics behind it and drawing the line.
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by jward 19y ago
I've been puttering around on a Facebook app to do this kind of thing. I've been wanting to make private notes and the like about people on there. I have a horrible memory sometimes and it'd be really nice to have a place to jot things do
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by jward 19y ago
Staying in Canada ;) The downside is not being around silicon valley and not having access to a like minded support network in person.
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by jward 19y ago
Do do dooo do do do. sigh Please take my karma. I hate posts that do nothing to add to the discussion but I could not help my programmed response.
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by jward 19y ago
Taking your definition of frivolous to be anything not directly related to my work, no, I don't find it insulting. Being happy at work makes you more productive. For me this comes first from having a sense of purpose and importance. After
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by jward 19y ago
My personal feelings are strongly anti-podcast. I find them a great inconvenience. I can read faster than people can talk and I can't think or work effectively when someone is talking. Written communication is by far my favorite way of g
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by jward 19y ago
I picked up his book, Art of the Start, a few weeks ago and was somewhat disappointed. I love Guy, except that Garage invested in Gator/Claira, and read his blog and watch his speeches. After that there really was nothing new in the book.
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by jward 19y ago
Not until they offer it in Canada ;) The contract on my current phone is up in December. The iPhone apparently starts being sold up here in January.
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by jward 19y ago
Just curious how you got 1000 users already. What type of marketing did you do?
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by jward 19y ago
Well crap ;) That'll teach me for writing stuff when I'm too tired to double check. I have no idea where I got that URL from.... http://apps.facebook.com/apps/application.php?api_key=3724b1a0743578308ce28e934c600377
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by jward 19y ago
First off I apologize because you need to be on Facebook to use this. Our YC app was rejected and my founder stayed at his job and I decided to go on ahead and see if I could make our idea work. The gist of what we submitted to YC was a pl
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RFC: Rejected YC concept built as an integrated Facebook app(facebook.com)
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by jward 19y ago
News.yc is written in arc, which to my best knowledge is a functional lisp like language. Reddit is written in Python using web.py as the framework. It was originally written in lisp but they changed to Python for various reasons.
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by jward 19y ago
I'm hacking away as we speak. I'm taking the root of what I applied to YC with and trimming it down a lot. Mostly I just want to learn the API and I think that being able to link into an existing social framework provides great benefits.
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by jward 19y ago
I use Django. For the most part it does the heavy lifting and then gets out of my way and lets me code. Another large factor I really like is the peace of mind knowing that it actually works in production environments and isn't impossible
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by jward 19y ago
My big question is how did you manage to score a .edu domain?
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by jward 19y ago
It's a shame justifiable homicide is still illegal. Email them and make a very firm offer of a few hundred bucks. Don't go higher and don't be afraid to walk away. Find options to the name you really want. Options are leverage. Most squ
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by jward 19y ago
To be honest, this doesn't interest me in the least. It fills me with deep unmoving apathy. I don't think that the information gathered would be useful outside of an initial voyeuristic kick. Overall statistics might be neat as well, but
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by jward 19y ago
A few ideas: 1) If someone is downvoted, don't allow them to post for a set period of time. It seems angry people post a lot in succession, especially if they get voted down. More time to think and cool down. 2) Have a short timer (five m
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by jward 19y ago
It is my understanding that most purchases of companies are not done for cash. They are done for stock. It is in your best interest to help the acquiring company grow because that will only increase the value of your stock more. At the v
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by jward 19y ago
Good luck on your hunt :) If you need any help or advice just ask! Don't buy extra ram through Apple, they gouge you hard core. All the macs are really easy to upgrade the ram in, except the mini. As a side note I'd recommend any web dev
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by jward 19y ago
A University with a design department. Make some friends, chat up some people, and ask nicely. It will end up better than if you did it yourself, be fairly cheap if you're nice, and be a portfolio piece for them.
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by jward 19y ago
Rails feels like magic to me. Too much stuff gets done for me, and as a control freak that makes me uncomfortable. Django seems much clearer and cleaner. I know why things happen and if I need to I can easily change, alter, or fix someth
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by jward 19y ago
My roomate is CTO for a company that builds giant kiosks. Every so often I go in and help him out. The workstation I was at last time had two 42" plasma's and a 50" LCD. The things are 1080p, so not too shabby, but in general they're just

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