mcmc

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by mcmc 13y ago
I really feel for you situation, and I would love to help by chatting. I've been involved in many different startups, from working with friends on no salary, to our current $12 mm series-A endeavor. I've seen tons of startups rise and fall,
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by mcmc 13y ago
Microsoft owns the .NET ecosystem; they probably are looking to expand/protect their rights on C# et al. more than they want to make a direct attack on Android... (though it is a nice bonus for them.)
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by mcmc 13y ago
This is awesome! I released something exactly like it a few years ago, hookbox (MIT licensed): https://github.com/hookbox/hookbox/blob/master/docs/source/i... Basic idea is this: You put all your real-time stuff in a message queue (MQ) wh
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by mcmc 14y ago
I would never publicly post opinions that could put me or my current or future employer/company into legal jeopardy with respect to discrimination against protected classes. Yet, there seems to be quite a bit of this on here.
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Game Closure (HTML5) poaches Zynga's Mobile CTO(techcrunch.com)
48 points by mcmc 14y ago|13 comments
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by mcmc 14y ago
Entrepreneurship isn't about having a magical nose for value, and unerringly finding chests of gold at every turn. Rather, it's about the optimistic spirit, the emotional strength, and ultimately the endurance to keep going even when it's s
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Meet the tireless entrepreneur who squatted at AOL(news.cnet.com)
8 points by mcmc 14y ago|1 comments
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by mcmc 15y ago
> I cannot believe that Megaupload is being > touted as an anti-SOPA posterchild. That's the point! According to you, they were a piracy haven, and they were shut down. Without SOPA. So why do we need SOPA again? This is pretty cle
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by mcmc 15y ago
There is so much noise out there that mediocre companies manage to position themselves as the best of the best, or at least manage to make the best companies look foolish at this point. The problem is that it's a lot easier to imitate the t
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by mcmc 15y ago
So, how do the current thermostats get installed?
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by mcmc 15y ago
Your skills don't just scale down to asking out a date or going to city hall. They can scale up to $ billion mergers Maybe the world would be a better place if you had influence over that kind of semi-arbitrary wealth transfer as opposed to
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by mcmc 15y ago
I feel like there's a lot of room for another kritik at the point when the 'quals' of this card are called suspect: Opp questions 'quals' of famous blogger, thus marginalizing independent authors in favor of institutionalized analysis... wh
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by mcmc 15y ago
Game of Thrones
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by mcmc 15y ago
Look me up, maybe we can watch GOT together in PA each sunday or something.
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by mcmc 16y ago
No one tell those "punch the monkey" ad authors... at least not before html5block is out.
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by mcmc 16y ago
Be sure to check out the video to see our technology in action.
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by mcmc 16y ago
The Stanford Accelerator program is particularly interesting in that they 1) Have great connections, but 2) take no equity. The only catch is that you have to be affiliated with Stanford.
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Python Locks, RLocks, Semaphores, Conditions, Events and Queues(laurentluce.com)
33 points by mcmc 16y ago|4 comments
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by mcmc 16y ago
I was curious about the potential for returns so I considered a scenario: the successful YC companies take series A investment at an average $10 mm pre-money valuation (which is reasonable for a YC company starting off with $150k), and no s
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by mcmc 16y ago
What's the point? How many people actually keep fewer than 10k unread messages in their inbox?
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by mcmc 16y ago
I prefer Costco to Best buy any day. What matters far more is reputation and the quality of the product than the barrier to entry to join/utilize the product. Facebook could add a ten page signup form and I doubt it'd substantially impact t
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by mcmc 16y ago
I think you may have missed the point of the Web Store, which, like Apple & the iPhone, is predicated on the idea of selling applications that are compatible with the platform -- in this case Chrome. There will obviously be some applica
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by mcmc 16y ago
Its almost as if you don't realize that Twilio makes money on service usage -- that you don't understand that they're probably thrilled to see their half-formed example code encourage someone to create a real business on top of their fo
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by mcmc 16y ago
I read Ben Bova's "Mars" a long time ago, when I was much younger, and I recall liking it then. Bova tends to express an ultra-libertarian viewpoint in his scifi, but very much less so in this particular novel; he does a good job exploring
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by mcmc 16y ago
No, between you and your opponent, practices are not actually zero-sum.
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by mcmc 16y ago
Absolutely apples to oranges. Google crawls Facebook's data, by request (robots.txt.) You, me, Facebook, and the world do have access to Google's complete data set... its called the world wide web. Facebook, on the other hand, does anyt
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by mcmc 16y ago
It seems fine to just enable SSL everywhere. But indulge me for a second in thinking of alternate solutions. Instead of sending a cookie, send a piece of javascript code (as part of the SSL-cloaked login handshake) that generates a new cook
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by mcmc 16y ago
I have been contracting for a company that has an in-house version of this tool. We are able to push about 10 million emails a day, including processing bounces, click, unsubs, etc, with a fairly straightforward set of python scripts. Its n
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by mcmc 16y ago
"You form a hypothesis, perform a study, and get negative results -- well, you're not going to try to publish it." This seems fundamentally incorrect to me. Wouldn't research all around just fail if no one ever reported their negative resul
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by mcmc 16y ago
Couple of quick responses: pquerna, gridspy, thanks for your responses! I didn't mean to sound quite so cynical. Mainly I am venting my frustration at the lack of a dedicated developer to maintain the project, especially after I've seen s

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