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by mde 18y ago
I appreciate the call-out of an important omission from the article. I've learned that having a bizdev on the team is truly critical . That whacked me on the side of the head when I started thinking about Twitter's strategizing ( http://ww
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by mde 18y ago
Another good idea resource from PG: http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html That serves as a helpful litmus test. Not falling somewhere onto that map doesn't invalidate your idea, but the 30 items cover a lot of ground.
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by mde 18y ago
Enjoy this phase! Idea generation can be a lot of fun. Get some books to stimulate. I've gotten a lot of mileage from "A Whack On The Side Of The Head" and "Creativity" (Csikszentmihalyi). Watch some TED talks. Go to your local unconfe
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1983-96: The Golden Age of Programming Languages(micahelliott.blogspot.com)
3 points by mde 18y ago|0 comments
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by mde 18y ago
That's probably a rather common situation for someone getting ready to take the plunge. I'd quit my job right now if I had 50K to get off the ground. You could probably live off that for a whole year, working full time on your idea(s). I'
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by mde 18y ago
I have that down as reason #17 for leaving your corporate job. Seriously, though -- having your prize projects locked inside corporate walls is a huge problem, a real innovation-stifler. After many attempts to get a couple of my old proje
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by mde 18y ago
I hope MIT's next innovation will be getting the prototypical engineer's handwriting OCR'd.
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Tech Start-ups Aren't Just for Wunderkinds(news.slashdot.org)
1 points by mde 18y ago|1 comments
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by mde 18y ago
That article was kind of tedious to wade through. In general, I'm in the camp of "design patterns are language band-aids". PG seems to be one of the quotables on this topic. I was recently trying to elucidate this in my own thinking, giv
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by mde 18y ago
That's great! Everyone loves this comment since so many of us are banking on it (or have lived it). It just brought to mind my reading of some interviews in "Creativty" ( http://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Flow-Psychology-Discovery-I... ).
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by mde 18y ago
You guys are being kind of tough on his blog. I really only see one ad (though the motion is distracting). I just spent some time reading through some of his other articles. The guy has some great ideas: freeing mental RAM, read a book a
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by mde 18y ago
I'm finally starting to find LinkedIn kind of useful ( http://micahelliott.blogspot.com/2008/04/sponteneous-recomme... ), when the various features are used holistically, and profiles near completeness. Some others (facebook) I just sign up
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As Broadband Growth Slows, Expect Speed Boosts(gigaom.com)
2 points by mde 18y ago|0 comments
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by mde 18y ago
Hmm, does that mean everyone who want to share their email should put it in their "about"? I just did so -- someone correct me if there's a better way to share.
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by mde 18y ago
That's a good question. I looked into this recently too, but haven't decided yet whether to go with "Amazon FPS" or "Google Checkout". Search on those terms and you'll get some relevant comparison hits. I'd love to hear about other servi
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The Total Cost of Parallelization(linux-mag.com)
1 points by mde 18y ago|0 comments
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by mde 18y ago
It would have been nice to also see the numbers for Bazaar, which seems to be #3 on the list of mainstream DVCSs. I adopted hg for $HOME a few months ago, and it's working great. This was after having used SVN for a few years for the same