lindsayrgwatt

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by lindsayrgwatt 1y ago
Had a lot of fun building one of the demo units. Straightforward build and incredibly rewarding to build your own machine.
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by lindsayrgwatt 15y ago
I totally think you're on the right track here. I suspect that Bogost would agree that nearly every 'great' game he's identified creates a very strong intrinsic motivation in its players - or at least a majority of them. And that the challe
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by lindsayrgwatt 15y ago
Will be interesting to see if this goes to other markets both within China (I can't imagine Shanghai is 'decoupled' from Beijing) and where it trickles over to (Sydney? Vancouver?).
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by lindsayrgwatt 15y ago
I've often wondered if one of the (many) reasons why there are so few successful startups coming out of Europe is due to the copying. I visited Berlin a while back and my buddy was telling me about a bunch of guys who've built a successful
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by lindsayrgwatt 16y ago
There's more Geoffrey West here: http://www.radiolab.org/2010/oct/08/
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by lindsayrgwatt 16y ago
I worked in the building for two and a half years and it may appear "dumpy" on the outside but it's an awesome place to work. Walking into work via a half a block long corridor with cable strung over your head and the clack of your feet ech
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by lindsayrgwatt 16y ago
Great to see further integrated support for geoDjango: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.2/#geodjango
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by lindsayrgwatt 16y ago
I think the point is around how coding can give you superior analytical skills that just blow people away because you can generate better insights. Examples I've seen are people in marketing departments who can write a little python script
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by lindsayrgwatt 19y ago
If you're in NYC, check out Freelancer's Union. Like Paul, I saw a guy lying face down on the street the other day after he was run over by a truck crossing a perfectly normal street corner. Made me glad I had my coverage ($150/month)
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by lindsayrgwatt 19y ago
I'd add o'reilly radar. Some interesting tech posts there every week or so. Creating Passionate Users used to be a favourite but alas the writer has been the target of a vicious stalker and stopped writing.
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by lindsayrgwatt 19y ago
If all you want to do is incorporate and you are going to be the sole shareholder, you can do it via an Internet service. Lawyers are useful if you need anything more complex than this e.g., agreements for the initial shareholders, stock o
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by lindsayrgwatt 19y ago
I totally agree that you need a business "model" - but do you really need a "plan" for a site that costs $12,000? If he can get 260K page views, even a 0.5% clickthru @ only $0.10 an ad is $130. Not great, but if you can do it every day yo
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by lindsayrgwatt 19y ago
Do you think he's being insincere or just a showman? My feeling is that Guy likes to exaggerate everything to make a point: in this case, it's getting really cheap to fail, so take more risks. Thoughts?
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by lindsayrgwatt 19y ago
S3 is one of the greatest things ever: turn capex into an operating expense. My dream is a world of only variable expenses and the cost of starting a company drops to almost $0...
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by lindsayrgwatt 19y ago
A couple of good books to read too: 1) Don't make me think 2) Designing interfaces (by Tidwell) 3) Defensive design for the web Anyone have additional books that they've read?
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by lindsayrgwatt 19y ago
Dude-Entrepreneurs College is open to anyone; I'm currently attending the NYC sessions and it's pretty good. Gives you a very good sense of the legal and financial issues you're going to face - and you're getting the perspective of real pr
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by lindsayrgwatt 19y ago
Hey folks, I'm putting this up as I'm looking for a co-founder for a new venture I'm launching. I've been trying to find a better way to organize and share my information for years and now I think I've got the solution. If you can relate t
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Looking for a Woz(lindsayrgwatt.com)
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by lindsayrgwatt 19y ago
Maybe I'm wrong, but I read the page above differently from you. The $200 fee applies to LLCs, Limited Partnerships or General Partnerships. You're a C-Class Corp right? Therefore you pay the corporate franchise tax. If you go to the lin
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by lindsayrgwatt 19y ago
I'm interested that you'd even consider a salary-only job. Why would you ever work for a startup if it was only salary? (Honestly-I'd like to hear your opinion) Wouldn't you want equity? Also, let me ask you why I'd ever want to hire you
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by lindsayrgwatt 19y ago
Dude, Here's another way you might be able to justify a re-negotiation. Think of what value your company will have five years from now if it gets sold/goes public, etc. Let's say it's $100M; your options are worth $500K. Now think of how m
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by lindsayrgwatt 19y ago
Two thoughts for you: 1) What do you want - and more importantly: why do you deserve it? If you can't justify why you deserve more than a VP like that, then you can't justify it (Most powerful words in a negotiation are "where is that num
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by lindsayrgwatt 19y ago
I prefer to think of it as being in the market because you've a passion to solve a problem. There's going to be hard work involved in solving a real problem that people are facing and solving it in a way that's pleasant for the average use
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by lindsayrgwatt 19y ago
You should be able to get your annual fees down below $300 - it should only be about 1/2 that
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by lindsayrgwatt 19y ago
What about "Free Lunchers"? They think that it's a hot market so they can easily create a company and then flip it for some cash?
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by lindsayrgwatt 19y ago
As someone who's looking for talent, let me ask you what you'd be looking for. Here's what I think high quality developers are looking for; I'd love your thoughts on whether I'm out to lunch or not: 1) Chance to be part of a great engineer
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by lindsayrgwatt 19y ago
I love my Blackberry interace-and it does multi app support no problem (I frequently flip between GMail, my browser, Google Maps and my email inbox). Anyone else here love their Blackberry interace or hate it? Anyone here have an interface
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by lindsayrgwatt 19y ago
It'll be interesting to see if OpenMoko can make a start of it. I used to work in the wireless business and nobody is going to put their operating systems on their phone. What will be interesting is whether they can be the operating system
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by lindsayrgwatt 19y ago
I totally agree with this. Think about how much it cost to start a business even seven years ago: you had to buy servers and dev tools, etc. Now you can test an idea for a few thousand dollars and a couple of weeks time by a few people; th
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by lindsayrgwatt 19y ago
I totally agree with you that it's idiotic to say that all the tools have been created. I think that all the obvious tools have been created and the challenge is now to find the new ones that we've always wanted but weren't previously able

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