marcomonteiro

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by marcomonteiro 15y ago
I fell on this path by accident. I started hacking when I was young. I always loved tech and programming. Between 18-20 I went through two jobs as a software developer while still going to school but this was circa 2000 and the market tan
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by marcomonteiro 15y ago
I applied for Summer 2011. I'm a single founder - point against. I'm not working on a social networking project or something with mass consumer appeal - point against. It's a fairly trivial product (though a great demand exists) - point
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by marcomonteiro 16y ago
Yes and that's what makes the equity trade worth it. The money is too small to justify giving up 5-10% if it wasn't for the quality of advisors (and their reputation) that you'd be adding to your company.
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by marcomonteiro 16y ago
The money to me was important as well as everything else YC offered. I wouldn't have applied otherwise. I can't afford to build my business without the seed money at this point. So it's either find a job, go back to school and/or look fo
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by marcomonteiro 16y ago
YC doesn't have the time and resources to help every startup.
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by marcomonteiro 16y ago
$80-120k based on the salary of numerous people I know and work with here. Why? High cost of living, competition and market demand I suppose.
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by marcomonteiro 16y ago
Please put [video] in the title.
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by marcomonteiro 16y ago
Whether I manually compile it or it's automatically compiled it still has to be compiled which was the question I was responding to. Which is to say Node.js will not run CoffeeScript directly.
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by marcomonteiro 16y ago
That would make startups drastically uncompetitive.
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by marcomonteiro 16y ago
This is a very low estimate for Silicon Valley.
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by marcomonteiro 16y ago
True. I wonder if the same would apply if this disclosure/terms were placed as the header with something along the lines of "by continuing to read this email you hereby agree to the following...", similar to TOS on websites.
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by marcomonteiro 16y ago
1) The YC staff and Alumni possess a wealth of knowledge that would be available to you. 2) To get out of your bubble. Being surrounded by other intelligent individuals all working toward demo day helps you stay focused and keep moving. 3)
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by marcomonteiro 16y ago
Yes basically. Your repository could grow faster using binary files but it's still worth it to have a version history. Even if for nothing else other than to be able to see how something evolved.
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by marcomonteiro 16y ago
I wonder if people actually even notice an email footer these days or if they're ignored like most advertising. The only footers I ever notice are the ones that say "Sent from my iPhone [iPad]" but I'm biased and those are potential custom
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by marcomonteiro 16y ago
Actually in certain circumstances it can impose a legal obligation. For example, I'm licensed to sell real estate in California. As a real estate agent, I can create an agency relationship by giving advice in an email. This means that if
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by marcomonteiro 16y ago
You have to compile it. http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/
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by marcomonteiro 16y ago
I had the same question after reading this.
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by marcomonteiro 16y ago
Git, like most versioning systems works by adding a file to a repository. Then subsequent changes are added to the repository by saving only what has changed in the file. In the case of a bitmap image think of a grid made up of pixels. Ea
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by marcomonteiro 16y ago
True that would make it easy to produce a PDF but ePub is more flexible (and enjoyable) on the iPad than a PDF. Which is why the original author (from GitHub) created it.
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by marcomonteiro 16y ago
I'm 29. I started programming C when I was 12 or 13 and I really think that C is probably the best language to learn to program with. In fact I made that recommendation to a friend who recently took his first programming class using Proce
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by marcomonteiro 16y ago
C was my first real programming language. Loved it. I just don't use it much anymore. Most of what I do is either web (Ruby/Rails, PHP, etc) or mobile (Objective-C).
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by marcomonteiro 16y ago
Ok, we get it, some people are paranoid and afraid of running a "random script" and having to sudo to install it. Can we please have a discussion on the merits of the actual application. I just installed it - I trust 37signals enough to g
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by marcomonteiro 16y ago
This is awesome! I'll join in a few minutes.
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by marcomonteiro 16y ago
How are you actively seeking them? I'm just curious because I'm sure I could be doing more.
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by marcomonteiro 16y ago
I concur. I'm self-taught and would agree that "we don't know what we don't know". I'm not sure that's exclusive to programmers. Give me a tip about what I don't know that though and I'll research it obsessively. That's just my nature.
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by marcomonteiro 16y ago
Maybe we can connect and share ideas. marco[at]marcomonteiro[dot]com
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by marcomonteiro 16y ago
This is extremely true. It is all politics and there will be a lot of hurdles. It is what it is.
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by marcomonteiro 16y ago
Agreed. I'm 29 and have been doing real estate sales and mortgage origination for the past five years. I've always been a hacker, though admittedly much less so over the past few years. I'm scratching my own itch. Turns out it's a commo
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by marcomonteiro 16y ago
I'm sorry. That's a really hard position to be in. On another note what does "sucking it up until the end" entail? Where is the end? What happens when you get there? Lastly, what's the worst thing that would happen if you were to walk a
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by marcomonteiro 16y ago
Putting the real Multiple Listing Service back in the hands (literally) of real estate professionals and combining it with tools that helps them make sense of the real estate market. It's part listing syndication, analytics and social netw

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