ph0rque

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   by ph0rque 19y ago

   Can't tell if you're sarcastic or not :-/.
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   by ph0rque 19y ago

   Why not ask the wife to be the temporary breadwinner while you concentrate on your project?
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   by ph0rque 19y ago

   I think it's certainly better then when you hear about a 10% survival rate for startups, as stereotypical as that is. But you're right, it could be better. PG mentions a 90% survival rate is possible.
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   by ph0rque 19y ago

   I think this is a good idea... >>I'm sure one of you is already thinking of how to make this a Facebook app, but I think a personal phone call would work best. Actually, my first thought was meetup group in a certain area.
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   by ph0rque 19y ago

   >> We've done this five times now, and we've seen a bunch of startups die. About 10 of them so far. So, not counting this batch (19), 10 out of 39 [1] startups died so far. So, the survival rate is 72%. Not bad! I know that some mor
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   by ph0rque 19y ago

   I mostly agree with you, but in the article, the slow component had a subsecond response time with a 60 second deviation.
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   by ph0rque 19y ago

   hmmm... how about a logarithmic mean? This comes out to 0.5% (log10).
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   by ph0rque 19y ago

   news.ycombinator.com/best
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   by ph0rque 19y ago

   Contact me.
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    by ph0rque 19y ago

    >> And, worst case, if all of the markets she deals in dry up over the next three years...she still makes enough to retire comfortably on (and a lot more than a measly 1.6 million). This thought makes the last few sentences in the a
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    by ph0rque 19y ago

    My standard speech to them is that hacking is the ultimate in flexibility: whether they found a startup, make a standard career of it, or choose another path (such as marriage/motherhood, the popular choice in my family's subculture for you
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    by ph0rque 19y ago

    I forwarded this article to my sisters, who are around that age.
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    by ph0rque 19y ago

    Hey, a fellow mnt (molecular nanotechnology) enthusiast, cool! Yes, I've read EoC and Nanosystems (well, I skimmed Nanosystems; it's not a very easy read, being so informationally dense), and follow the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology
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    by ph0rque 19y ago

    hey bootstrapper, what is your company?
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    by ph0rque 19y ago

    I think that one of the problems that will need to be solved before molecular nanotechnology arrives is how to put together (and take apart) units of atoms using very similar atoms as the dis/assembler. So, if it can be done in Legos using
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    by ph0rque 19y ago

    I'm a geek, but I actually like wearing suits when it's cool outside. However, I don't have the money for nice ones.
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    by ph0rque 19y ago

    The advantages/disadvantages for each language have been discussed here and elsewhere ad naseum. To tell you the truth, I didn't research the language decision too much; my rationale for choosing RoR is based on the fact that we have a R(oR
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    by ph0rque 19y ago

    If this is true, then all IBM needs to do is buy more web2.0 websites.
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    by ph0rque 19y ago

    I was in the same position as you literally two months ago. Since then, I've brushed up on HTML, learned CSS and Javascript (somewhat), and am learning Ruby on/for Rails. In retrospect, I would learn RoR concurrently with the others. I woul
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    by ph0rque 19y ago

    Brett, Here's a suggestion for non-daily chains: say I want to work out twice a week. I can set that property (somehow) in the chain name, and when I work out on Monday and market it on the calendar on Monday, it will have mon-wed marked of
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    by ph0rque 19y ago

    Hmmm... maybe I should name my band, er, startup We Threw Gasoline On The Fire And Now We Have Stumps For Arms And No Eyebrows (a NoFX song) :~).
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    by ph0rque 19y ago

    Interesting point. I noticed that lately, start-up names sound like band names: Infinity Box, I've got a Fang, etc.
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    by ph0rque 19y ago

    > Thanks to Sam Altman, David Greenspan, Aaron Iba, Jessica Livingston, Robert Morris, Peter Norvig, Lisa Randall, Emmett Shear, Sergei Tsarev, and Stephen Wolfram for reading drafts of this. PG, you got the Stephen Wolfram to read
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    by ph0rque 19y ago

    In Soviet Russia... No really, I remember learning about things like x + 2 = 5; solve for x in 2nd grade in Soviet Union. After immigrating to US, I recalled the level of math education we got in USSR. One teacher remarked that according to
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    by ph0rque 19y ago

    As far as punishment goes, there's something really simple: the kid gets kicked out (and goes [back?] to public school). This won't be the first resort, of course, but the fear will be enough to keep the kids in line. Also, you could do tri
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    by ph0rque 19y ago

    The reason I left my previous start-up, the "camel-back-breaking" factor, was a lack of transparency among co-founders. I think a policy of intra-company transparency, or a policy to openly discuss everything, as you put it, is instrumental
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    Cringely: Surviving Immortality(pbs.org)

    17 points by ph0rque 19y ago|8 comments
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    by ph0rque 19y ago

    There's a YC company (sitepass, I believe) that is working on using OpenID. I assume they are working to assuage these problems?
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    by ph0rque 19y ago

    hmmm, I guess I didn't really do my homework: it looks like bigsight.org is a people directory, and Craig's entry is open to public editing ( http://www.bigsight.org/directory/501/edit ).
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    by ph0rque 19y ago

    According to the app developer's website ( http://www.bigsight.org/craigulliott ): "Craig Ulliott is a freelance web developer and the guy behind the "Where I've Been" Facebook application that has reached more than 2.3 million users in it