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by mwmanning 19y ago
Presidential politics is vitally important to web entrepreneurs. Barack Obama is the only candidate who has pledged to make net neutrality a priority if he gets elected. http://www.techcrunch.com/presidential/issue.php?issue=1 If the gov
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by mwmanning 19y ago
Does anyone have figures for acceptance rates from previous years? I'd like to have a rough idea what my chances of getting to go are.
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by mwmanning 19y ago
Here's what worked for me: 1) Do the grunt work: Make sure you have a basic understanding of Ruby syntax, especially how Hashes and method arguments work. The code in most Rails books, and even the code generated by Rails itself uses lots
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by mwmanning 19y ago
That is an important distinction. I hadn't really considered that. I think the reality is somewhere in between the two scenarios you outline here. I think my peers' technological knowledge helps them understand how this service will be u
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by mwmanning 19y ago
Unfortunately, the demo is only about 80% done at the moment (we're trying finish it up a few weeks before the YC application deadline), but I appreciate the offer for advice and will pitch it to the community when it's ready.
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Ask YC: "Why would I want to do that?"
7 points by mwmanning 19y ago|11 comments
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by mwmanning 19y ago
Did anyone else parse that as "Open Cialis API"? I get too much spam.
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by mwmanning 19y ago
This is almost exactly the way I learn. After years of doing it the "traditional" way (ex. reading an entire book on a language), I realized that I was mostly wasting my time. The only way to really learn is to try to solve a real problem
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by mwmanning 19y ago
Their page doesn't render correctly in my firefox session. Do you get a discount if that happens to the site they build for you?
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by mwmanning 19y ago
Deepak Chopra thinks he can: http://www.amazon.com/Ageless-Body-Timeless-Deepak-Chopra/dp...
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by mwmanning 19y ago
"And if they got all their clicks from 'networksolutionsloveshitler.com' they'd suspect worse." applause
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by mwmanning 19y ago
"If the same question was asked about any other early web property, no one would have given it a second look." I think that was the reason for posting it here.
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by mwmanning 19y ago
Swapit.com was a spectacular failure as well. You can't just slap Web 2.0 branding on bubble 1.0 ideas and expect them to work. How long before we see collaborative filtering for online dog food purchases?
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Ask YC: Spouses
14 points by mwmanning 19y ago|18 comments
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by mwmanning 19y ago
Google can do #4 site:whatever.com <query>