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by portLAN 19y ago
Loopt is on a pay service; they don't need money from ads because they're not a "free" service, but check out all the web-based ones: Zenter was bought by Google, so advertising applies, as mentioned. Xobni hasn't released anything yet, b
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by portLAN 19y ago
He's lucky no-one's invented a time machine and gone to kick his ass.
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by portLAN 19y ago
At a guess I would say most good developers will no longer willingly program in PHP, so you're likely selecting for the shallow end of the talent pool, more or less. Compound that with PHP essentially making it a sack-race next to other la
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by portLAN 19y ago
That reminds me of the Boulder startup weekend where they chose Java and didn't get anywhere.
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by portLAN 19y ago
I'm quoting your page. Can't wait to see the idea(s) you come up with that haven't been done before.
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by portLAN 19y ago
When they get acquired by Google or Yahoo, advertising revenue is what bought them.
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by portLAN 19y ago
> b) Do not copy something that has been done before. Can't wait! Do you think 9 roles is a bit top-heavy to start with?
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by portLAN 19y ago
I have ideas I executed on but didn't release due to copyright worries. They were niche but very good. The thing that impresses me most about stuff like YouTube is not the tech (which is no mystery) but how they managed to keep going in th
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by portLAN 19y ago
Heck, with KLOC numbers like that, Google was lucky to avoid an all-out bidding war with IBM.
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by portLAN 19y ago
Personally I'm wondering why I can't downvote comments. Not enough karma yet?
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by portLAN 19y ago
But emphasizing correctness makes my one-liner not work! And reading the original I can see this whole issue was already covered! BTW, generators are non-callable.
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by portLAN 19y ago
The funny part is I wrote that before all the news of the DeLorean comeback. I originally wrote "time machine" until I saw BT was 1985, which of course combined with time machine means one thing...
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by portLAN 19y ago
> In my very biased and unlearned view the simplest readable versions are Javascript and Lua. The Python version listed there doesn't actually meet the requirement (it doesn't return a function, it returns a class instance, and it keep
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by portLAN 19y ago
There's no requirement that you have to immediately spend lots of money just because you have it. It's a very normal reaction to not know what to do with a large amount of extra dough. You want to avoid the consumerist trap of retail ther
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by portLAN 19y ago
> From what I've seen, getting rich doesn't seem to change most people's level of motivation much. Didn't you write two Lisp books and start Viaweb before you got rich? Would you say you and your co-founders were just as motivated afte
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by portLAN 19y ago
Funny, I noticed that a week or two ago after reading iCon.
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by portLAN 19y ago
What an excellent choice of terminology for this subject.
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by portLAN 19y ago
What's next, are they going to take the De Lorean back to 1985 and put the kibosh on gambling in The Bard's Tale? Ironically it seems the freer virtual worlds of the future will need to in reality be located outside the "land of the free".
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by portLAN 19y ago
I still wouldn't trust the small print not to taketh away. Typically it involves something like accelerated vesting as long as you're not fired "for cause"; but who's to say what kind of charges might be trumped up to get around it? In wh
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by portLAN 19y ago
This is one of those ideas that sounds good when you apply it to everyone else. Personally I want to own my shares immediately. You never know what's going to happen and what technicalities will let VCs/the board/others fire you before you
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by portLAN 19y ago
> but we never will see a robot that makes a cup of coffee, never. I don't believe we will ever see it. http://www.mrcoffee.com/productmodels.aspx?categoryid=1 > We will never ever have artificial intelligence. I'll take that bet