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by oldpond 12y ago
One of the key points in the article is that the OP had lots of experience with Bay area startups. This could be part of their culture. If you use agile you can achieve a code velocity a touch higher than standard, and if you really want
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by oldpond 12y ago
Nice work! I would also recommend stealing as much good stuff as you can from ChicagoBoss. It has the same RoR roots and great overall architecture. Thanks for this.
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by oldpond 12y ago
The music industry could really use this. Stream your music to an application, user likes the song, taps a button, you get 5 moneys, the user gets the song on their device.
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by oldpond 12y ago
I believe they are grasping in the right direction, but what they really need to do is let go of the attachment to object oriented development. I don't mean to start the flame war, but if you insist that the architecture reflects the
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Let's crowdsource the next election...(dancingwilderness.com)
1 points by oldpond 13y ago|0 comments
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by oldpond 14y ago
You're saying that running a query across the internet to ec2 is 5 times faster than running it on dedicated hardware in the lab? I find that hard to believe.
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by oldpond 15y ago
Interesting post. I have to agree with you that there is something wrong with our line of business. I think part of the problem is that we are still feeling the affects of the "lights out operations" fad from the nineties. This was when
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by oldpond 15y ago
Absolutely! Do you have a happy, productive workplace, or are you running a sweatshop? It's all part of the equation. Who naps, how often do they nap, when do they nap, all these things are signals that tell you what's going on in your t
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by oldpond 15y ago
As I've said before, with all that money being made on the internet, do you think for a second they will allow it to remain free? News is a commodity. The newspapers, tv stations, and radio stations are all in the advertising business. Co
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by oldpond 15y ago
Boycott Apple. Simple as that. If you can't compete, litigate? It would be interesting to see when this claim was started. Right around the time Android started eating their lunch?
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by oldpond 15y ago
And what do you know, The Social Network came out on cable around the same time. Coincidence?
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by oldpond 16y ago
Payroll is the big thing stopping me from growing my team with work-from-homers. What if a member of the team is from another country? Do members submit their time each week, or are they all salaried? Trust is key in these situations too
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by oldpond 16y ago
We have an incubator here in Winnipeg called Eureka Project (eurekaproject.ca). I launched my startup two weeks ago with them. I found out they had space available, hired a programmer, and started coding all in the space of a couple of we
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by oldpond 16y ago
Why do we have radios in all our cars? So we can pipe advertising to a captive audience. Why do we have TV's in all our homes? So we can pipe advertising to a captive audience. Why do we have our computers plugged into the internet? Hm
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Should a start-up wait until it finds the perfect team?
1 points by oldpond 16y ago|1 comments
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by oldpond 16y ago
I think he's right in some ways. I for one don't want my internet to be branded. I'd like to know how it came about that everywhere you look you only see a few brands on the internet now. Facebook, Twitter, Google, eBay. Are we saying t
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by oldpond 16y ago
So is sudden colony collapse the equivalent of off-shoring? I understand that's caused by a virus. Is that what we're calling it? I remember back in 2006 being shocked and appalled at how a city councilor was making more money that me. H
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Where's the best place to find freelancers?
1 points by oldpond 16y ago|2 comments
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by oldpond 16y ago
My challenge right now is finding good talent for co-founders or developers. My post on Craigslist got zero response, and my post on eLance got only one response from a fellow down in Uruguay. I was at CAST 2010 this summer, and the buzz a
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What's the best way to visit startups in the valley?
4 points by oldpond 16y ago|8 comments
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by oldpond 16y ago
I've been stuck for 3 weeks, and I couldn't figure out why. My daughter started talking to me about motivation at University, and I just started talking about my being stuck. Next thing I knew I had figured out why. Maybe you haven't los