oldgregg

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   by oldgregg 17y ago

   Wow. Water is #1 -- and not a single mention of jolt or mountain dew. What a weak generation of hackers -- you know where the term "flow state" came from? David Lightman used to drink his own urine during long coding sessions. That's a scie
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   by oldgregg 17y ago

   Journals don't take up that much bandwidth-- someone just needs to get around to launching thepiratejournal.org.
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   by oldgregg 17y ago

   What's wrong, still thinking about that marijuana thread? Don't worry, we all believe you have really severe back pain... ;-)
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   by oldgregg 17y ago

   Good point. Some of this probably already happens, it's just more informal... New York, ad/media. Washington, politics/government. Nashville, healthcare. Seattle, hipster music start-ups & social networks for cutters. :)
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   by oldgregg 17y ago

   A bunch of these group have popped up but everyone I know will only apply to YC and TS... The other groups just don't have the credibility yet. I think techstars has done alright because it slid in as #2 and it has really gotten out front o
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   by oldgregg 17y ago

   All the research I've seen shows that it has nothing to do with safety and everything to do with revenue. As far as I'm concerned, this guy is a modern day Paul Revere: http://www.boingboing.net/2008/09/04/accused-tollevader-r.ht... Some
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   by oldgregg 17y ago

   A few things to consider... 1. They have a stable base of corporate microsoft shops using fogbugz -- which is why none of us knows anybody using it. My guess is their other products make little if any revenue. 2. They don't pay most of thei
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   by oldgregg 17y ago

   Google got it: http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:http://ww2.samhart.com/n... Anecdotally, all the guys I know that drone on about BDD/Rspec/Cucumber/TDD Dejour... never actually use it.
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   by oldgregg 17y ago

   Unbelievable. The thing about fog creek is that they want highly competent technical engineers without any entrepreneur spirit. Joel is the leader and he needs code monkeys to carry out the work. People who make 4.0s are the exact kind of p
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    by oldgregg 17y ago

    In my own limited experience with brits I've found that culturally they love creativity but only within conventional constraints. If you try to do something that is really subversive I've gotten this "who do you think you are?!" kind of att
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    by oldgregg 17y ago

    their words, not mine. the caste system is alive and well, now it just has a capitalist tinge to it.
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    by oldgregg 17y ago

    We had been doing some pretty standard manufacturing stuff for the publishing industry so when we went to build out a new office we decided to do it ourselves. Visited factories for furniture, electronics, marble, fixtures... Everything cus
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    by oldgregg 17y ago

    I opened an office for a company in India (in protest). Eight people on staff (plus a little servant boy to serve them tea twice a day). One year later we scuttled the whole office and started everything from scratch. Everything they produc
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    by oldgregg 17y ago

    Yeah, that's spot on, it's a cultural issue. We've dumped increasing amounts of money to traditional education model to almost nil effect. But how do you change a culture that glorifies sports and celebrities and openly mocks anything relat
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    by oldgregg 17y ago

    It is a poorly guarded secret that, deep down, white people believe if given money and education that all poor people would be EXACTLY like them. In fact, the only reason that poor people make the choices they do is because they have not be
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    by oldgregg 17y ago

    Riiight, I mean can't everyone just FreshDirect to their UES studio?!
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    by oldgregg 17y ago

    Having been exceptionally poor most of my childhood, I can completely relate to this. You can't absolve personal responsibility but poverty is a vindictive cycle for a reason. It's simple things like vehicle emissions testing -- if you have
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    by oldgregg 17y ago

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_selling_proposition haven't heard that term since advertising 201. what a bullshit class. i spent hundreds of hours creating hundreds of bullshit "thumbnails" for bullshit weight watchers campaigns.
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    by oldgregg 17y ago

    Wasn't a quote, but considering his alcohol consumption, maybe it should have been well then, MacGruber.
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    by oldgregg 17y ago

    Well then, MacGyver.
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    by oldgregg 17y ago

    I think this makes sense. I spent almost a year working on a startup because it was novel technology, easy money and good market timing. I never really stopped to think about the fact that I didn't even like the service. What a waste of tim
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    by oldgregg 17y ago

    If you care about lifestyle, move up to Boulder. Killer startup community, more friendly than the valley. City with highest per capita advanced degrees. Only 100k population with the intellectual capital that you would only find in Boston/B
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    by oldgregg 17y ago

    i would love to hear your monetization strategy. :)
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    by oldgregg 17y ago

    Teachers unions have way too much influence for anything to happen within the establishment. We're in a downward spiral. Government is only getting bigger and if anything the unions will only strengthen their position. The establishment wil
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    by oldgregg 17y ago

    I remember about a year ago Zuckerburg was running on about how we're just mapping the existing social graph so we don't need usernames and deriding myspace for it... amazing how a few months and a little tweetie bird can change your mind.
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    by oldgregg 17y ago

    Belief in a higher power has been around since the dawn of time. There are as many religious people in the world as ever. Decrease in the west? Yes. Increase in the east? Yes. Faith has survived thousands of years of innovation, so it's a b
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    by oldgregg 17y ago

    Ha right, how the government allocates money, "Paul Graham" would spend $39,999,999,992.07 on coke and hookers and the founders would split a frappuccino.
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    by oldgregg 17y ago

    I wonder what would be a good way to eliminate few million restless males ages 18-35? Let's just say it probably involves a land war with the west. Hopefully our MTV will subvert their plans.
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    by oldgregg 17y ago

    This is phenomenal, but devil is in the details in terms of sensitivity. They have to be using a really phenomenal camera and processor to get any real level of precision.
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    by oldgregg 17y ago

    Well at least they are not trying to copy google by having a simple UI. The horsehead nebula will not rescue microsoft search. What a disappointment.