randallsquared

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by randallsquared 20y ago
I think not selecting anyone would be bad for reputation. They're already starting out "in the hole", so to speak, and failing to select the ten they say they're looking for would confirm evilness for some people, and raise the question fo
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by randallsquared 20y ago
Clearly not necessary , since the list of startups without such a person as a founder is long.
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by randallsquared 20y ago
We got ours yesterday. At least it removes the problem of deciding what to do if accepted by TS and invited to an interview by YC. :)
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Anyone else gotten a "We regret to inform you" from techstars yet?
2 points by randallsquared 20y ago|7 comments
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by randallsquared 20y ago
Oh, no problem. I thought that more people would notice that it's lifted directly from the article. On the other hand, I guess it's quite possible that it isn't funny. :)
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by randallsquared 20y ago
Columbus, GA area; 2; 33, 27
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by randallsquared 20y ago
Ah. For even more control over what appears on the front page, it might be useful to have a certain pool of points for each user, derived from site metrics, which the users could then apportion as they saw fit, rather than only one per sub
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by randallsquared 20y ago
Well, the first part of my comment was a joke, and the second part was only asserting that Microsoft wasn't going to go away soon, because they're a de facto standard. I'm not saying that I worry about them for my own projects, or that yo
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by randallsquared 20y ago
I'm not sure I see the point, actually. Why would this be more interesting than the current reddit behavior?
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by randallsquared 20y ago
...but not all of us. There must be a bunch of hackers here who'd rather not deal with people, but feel forced to because, well, who else is going to? By the way, Steve Jobs is more of a design critic and salesman than designer. It take
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by randallsquared 20y ago
Microsoft is still an enormously profitable and powerful company in the real world, and you should be more careful about drawing conclusions based on what a few people think in your insular little "Web 2.0" bubble. More seriously, I mostly
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by randallsquared 20y ago
I'm still working on the details, but the direction I'm moving mostly consists of taking the best ideas of current payment systems and leaving the worst ones out. The trickiest one involves email addresses as the payment identifier. That
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by randallsquared 20y ago
Yet another micropayments startup. Unfortunately, my current thoughts on that require several hundred thousand, minimum, so I'll need to get rich (relative to where I am) before I can really get that done.
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by randallsquared 20y ago
Perhaps you also need a certain amount of karma. I'm logged in (with 2 karma) and don't see any down arrows.
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by randallsquared 20y ago
While I don't consider anything patentable, I just put "No" on the application.
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by randallsquared 20y ago
Hm. They complain that they couldn't contact Google about this, yet it only took me a minute or so to find: "To request reinclusion, log in to Google webmaster tools, click Tools, then choose the Request reinclusion link and follow the ste
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by randallsquared 20y ago
That's less useful for those of us who don't believe in a creator.
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by randallsquared 20y ago
It just takes longer to evaluate the worth of a novel than the worth of a blog post, so if you read only novels, it might be weeks before you find one you really like, but if you're reading blog posts, you're likely to find something you re
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by randallsquared 20y ago
But if we avoid requiring the dedicated poll code, PG won't need to get around to writing it... So the obvious solution is that everyone should make a point of doing a poll a day until PG writes the code.
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by randallsquared 20y ago
Well, I wouldn't go that far, but it is easier for those of us who have wives who are interested in being a founder, rather than a founder's wife. :)
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by randallsquared 20y ago
"I wouldn't feel comfortable telling my ideas to people who copy others so obviously. maybe they hoped nobody would see?!" Or maybe they've internalized the idea that ideas aren't the important part of most startups, and it didn't occur to
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by randallsquared 20y ago
near Columbus, GA. Currently working on a tenant griping site (launching later this week; I'll probably post about it), and trying to figure out this whole "revenue" thing. :)