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by richcollins 20y ago
Heh not looking for Karma. Just thought everyone would enjoy it. Although my wife (mcollins027) apparently thought I wanted some Karma :S
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by richcollins 20y ago
Sorry to "Hack" the site, but the other post's title wasn't very interesting (even though it is the title of the article!). I just read this and thought the readers of ynews would enjoy it.
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The original "Getting Real"(tinyurl.com)
11 points by richcollins 20y ago|7 comments
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by richcollins 20y ago
The original "Getting Real"
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by richcollins 20y ago
How does seaside help with that? Do you code all of the client logic in Smalltalk instead of Javascript?
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by richcollins 20y ago
"Business types" are not necessary. What is necessary is the presence of someone who really understands people. Your product is destined to be used by people; so make sure that someone on your team has an interest in truly understanding
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by richcollins 20y ago
I was rejected by YC for the 2006 WFP. I created an app with no funding that didn't make any money, but gave me credibility. As a result, my current (new) project is funded. If it had kept looking for funding instead of just building som
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by richcollins 20y ago
See the Io programming language: "Io is a small, prototype-based programming language. The ideas in Io are mostly inspired by Smalltalk (all values are objects), Self (prototype-based), NewtonScript (differential inheritance), Act1 (actors
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by richcollins 20y ago
In the io programming language you can generate code (message trees) at runtime and then eval them in any context that you want to. You can also pass messages trees (code) to a method without evaling it, and then modify it however you want
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by richcollins 20y ago
If you really need to be told a plan B you shouldn't start a startup. Plan B is just start building something and stop worrying about getting other people's approval! If you make something cool, then you will be able to find other founders
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by richcollins 20y ago
Nice work Drew! Lets see it on the mac now ;)
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by richcollins 20y ago
This assumes that the newly established avenues for marketing will keep their toe hold. They compete for attention as much as the startups do and there will be turnover there as well. The key will be finding where attention is being focu
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by richcollins 20y ago
Looks like I'll be accepted if I just cross dress while smoking and pulling sarcastic pranks on people: http://www.likebetter.com/quiz/results?quiz_id=1627867125&user_list_id=6
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by richcollins 20y ago
Heh see http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=7584
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by richcollins 20y ago
Tipping point achieved
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by richcollins 20y ago
People's hidden desires will continue to be fulfilled by a free market society. People can feel free to try to swim against the tide, but nature abhors a vacuum. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_Of_The_Self
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by richcollins 20y ago
Yep - if I end up homeless I am coming to his house to beg :P
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by richcollins 20y ago
Paul Erdos was prolific into old age. I contend it is a lack of focus that prevents older people from innovating, not age: "Paul Erdos never learned to tie his shoes, never drove a car or sliced his own piece of fruit" http://teenink.com/
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by richcollins 20y ago
Maybe I am just jealous since I am over 30 and have not yet succeeded in a startup, but I think it is lack of commitments that allows younger people to be more inventive. If your mind is occupied with IRAs and Cars and Kids ... etc, you ne
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by richcollins 20y ago
My wife helps support me as well. I'm not sure I would say that I couldn't do it without her. Having serious obligations like a wife definitely distracts me from my startup big time. Of course I would give up my startup in a second if it
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by richcollins 20y ago
Why does it feel like this: http://youtube.com/watch?v=rVLiAvZ_N1w
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ITT TechStars(techstars.org)
1 points by richcollins 20y ago|1 comments
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by richcollins 20y ago
You like truck pulls and pit bar-b-que
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by richcollins 20y ago
They are wrong. Ga Tech is the MIT of the south :P http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_in_popular_culture Not sure why we are proud of being qualified by "of the South" though.
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by richcollins 20y ago
I know of a Y Combinator company founded by someone who didn't attend college. Also, it turns out that lots of smart people go to Ivy caliber schools (who would have guessed)
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by richcollins 20y ago
wow I am surprised this has gotten so many comments. Obviously it depends on the value of the company. If threw together a prototype that hadn't seen a single user and there was no apparent IP, then 100k would be a ton of money. If I wer
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by richcollins 20y ago
Co-Founder
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by richcollins 20y ago
People don't usually know what they want. It is your job to figure it out based on the available information and then give it to them. Perhaps this would be useful to those ends; but I would not take what people say to be what they literal
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by richcollins 20y ago
I disagree. I thought it was one of the best events for networking with other hackers that I have ever been to. Everyone there was knowledgeable as well as driven and energetic. I was up until the wee hours of the morning on both nights t