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by jward 19y ago
The way to do this is to go to the feature request thread and put in your point. People will vote it up there if they like it. This keeps the rest of YC news clear of feature requests and focuses more on start up stuff. http://news.ycomb
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by jward 19y ago
My impression of them has always been that they are the Apple of webapps. They have style, grace, and a cult following. They also have a reality distortion field, will nickel and dime their customers, and if you don't get it then it's you
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by jward 19y ago
Email the squatter and be very firm and offer a reasonable amount for the .com you want. Couple hundred bucks at the most. Don't go higher, and don't give him twenty five grand or the pisant will just go buy more domains he won't use. If
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by jward 19y ago
Languages? Generally Python as of late. I find it easy and fast to work in. I'm trying to learn Haskell, so my next project will be using that. My workflow tends to go like this... I open an ssh session to my colocated dev box to run ser
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by jward 19y ago
Just curious why you always quote and reference things in your posts. To me it just feels overly formal and extraneous for the level and type of conversation I expect to find here. It's a lot like shaking my roomates hand in greeting ever
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by jward 20y ago
PHP is ugly. Really, I could go on a rant about speed and security, but it's just ugly. I do most of my coding in Python now days which spoils me. I look at php and it's a nasty mashup of code, data, and structure all rubbed into one nast
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by jward 20y ago
When I was six I wanted a remote controlled truck. It was bright blue and in the Sears catalog. I wanted it real bad but my parents told me they wouldn't buy it for me. I had to buy it myself. It was a hundred dollars. That much money
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by jward 20y ago
As I said, rich is subjective. My last job paid just shy of your quoted salary and I would not consider that to be rich. Very well off, yes, but not rich. Rich, to me, is what you have behind you in your savings and investments, not what
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by jward 20y ago
Rich is a subjective thing, but in a short answer: no. You are not rich. The money comes with strings and it will almost certainly say what you can and cannot do with it. It is not your money, it is the companies money. The company which
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by jward 20y ago
That part is good, yes. What I'm worried about is the time and effort it would take to get onto the leader board. There is already a profile linked to every username where people can list their startup urls, blogs, or contact info. An adj
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by jward 20y ago
I don't know if this is a great idea. I'd rather spend time working on my code than scouring the web looking for stuff to post.
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by jward 20y ago
Reddit has made me wary of vote polls, so I won't vote up. But we are still going to do our thing. I'm looking at the silver lining of not getting in. Moving really sucks ;)
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by jward 20y ago
If you launch in the summer you'll have several months of user feedback to improve your site before the mad rush. You don't have to do a full out PR blitz launch and tell techcrunch or the like about it. Just put it out there and tell a f
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by jward 20y ago
Sounds like a great idea! I'd also like to be able to help other startups in other ways such as coding help and the like. What we need first off is an easy way to get in touch with each other. Posting back and forth on YC News would get m
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by jward 20y ago
Most of my ideas come out of things in my life, or from friends and family, that I want to make easier or in some cases possible. I don't really using reading as a resource for this.
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by jward 20y ago
I'd like to make a difference in the world, and have enough money. I first started hawking things to old ladies when I was six. Both my parents have owned several businesses over the years. Finance, law, and business have always fascinate
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by jward 20y ago
The less pieces you have the lower the complexity. The lower the complexity the easier it is to fix when stuff breaks. The easier it is to fix bugs the faster you can get a real product shipped. You would be amazed how much load a single
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by jward 20y ago
You would really be surprised how many people don't know how to do certain things. I spent one year working as a floor coordinator (RA to most people) in the dorm and it boggled me. I don't know why, and I don't blame them for it, but thi
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by jward 20y ago
Same here. The other programs look interesting and all, but I'm not willing to move to another country for anything but the best.
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Edmonton, Alberta, Canada;2;26,28
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by jward 20y ago
Equity is ownership of the company. It is everything that that the company is after all debts have been settled. Stock is the way this is represented. So the percent of equity you have is the percent of stock you have. The only time it t
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by jward 20y ago
Use what you know best. I don't like the feel of writing Java personally and never had to take any Java programming classes to force me into it. PHP on the other hand is very easy and natural to write, but the code can end up damn ugly.
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by jward 20y ago
You're making the assumption the majority of people want insightful and informative. The fact that there is a huge market for content like Survivor and Fear Factor makes me doubt this assumption. I'd say that Reddit has more to worry about
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Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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I found the base site here off of several links. Since then I've spent more time watching their videos that checking stuff here or on Reddit.
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Stanford Entrepreneurship Education Resources(edcorner.stanford.edu)
2 points by jward 20y ago|1 comments
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by jward 20y ago
I'd want to walk away and be able to look someone in the eye and say "I'm a dot com millionaire." So with the share structure, capital gains tax (guessing), and exchange rate the number I'd pull out of my ass would be four million for the
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by jward 20y ago
Once you sign up you can create an entry which sets up your team. You just enter any team member names that happen to sign up there as well. Your entire team doesn't have to sign up officially.
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by jward 20y ago
I highly recommend pyweek to anybody interested in coding. It's a one week long competition where you and a team of unlimited size build a game from scratch(mostly) in Python. To prevent cheating, or at least make it harder, a theme is vo
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Pyweek 4 - Registration Open. Great coding challenge.(pyweek.org)
2 points by jward 20y ago|4 comments

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