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811.
by sgrove 18y ago
A bit of Ask HN/stackoverflow for startups: http://www.chuwe.com This is my startup of course, just for full disclosure.
812.
by sgrove 18y ago
I think California has done a good thing in wooing Tesla to build the model S here. If nothing else, it should serve as a beacon to engineers interested in designing clean-tech - working on anything else will seem boring and old hat for mos
813.
by sgrove 18y ago
A little bit sad about the tone. It's certainly a reasonable thing to do, reading this, "We did look at a number of different options but ultimately concluded that we had to restructure our organizations in order to improve our effectivenes
814.
by sgrove 18y ago
Yeah, dealing with money is a tricky business, and I could understand them being very harsh about terminating accounts. But there must be some contact and process of winding things down (getting the money owed from google, etc.). Just lik
815.
by sgrove 18y ago
Regardless of whether or not this is true, it's a very damaging piece for google not to respond to. After reading it, I'm very hesitant to use their checkout service - it simply isn't worth the risk. Hopefully google can step away from thei
816.
by sgrove 18y ago
One thought I had as mainly a non-gamer is on the costs. Since this is being done in the cloud, it'll cost a bit of money to keep a game running - a company can't simply sell you the game, it now has to pay a bit for each hour you play. As
817.
by sgrove 18y ago
Smaller, unique pc forms like this open up very interesting possibilities to build platforms around. As the physical volume decrease and relative performance/watt increases, we should see novel applications. Airlines could easily include pc
818.
by sgrove 18y ago
First off, best to indicate that this is for India. The UI is not bad, but I would make the font bigger in most cases, particularly the link targets. For example, why not make the entire cell clickable for each entry here http://govcheck.n
819.
by sgrove 18y ago
If you're not looking to differentiate via software/killer features, then the platform is less important than your execution/presentation and most importantly, marketing. I assume you feel there's some group of people not being properly con
820.
by sgrove 18y ago
I think a lot of the points are good, but the wording is dangerously wrong on some: "Wrong: Find people to work for your for free and let them do as they please | Right: Selectively recruit people to work on your team for free and tell them
821.
Startup Advice: Lead like a Dictator (junloayza.com)
1 points by sgrove 18y ago|1 comments
822.
by sgrove 18y ago
I agree, but monetization's always difficult. The trick is finding a niche that you're interested in, can serve well with the site's format, and has money . If you find that niche and you approach it in a novel way, then you can (likely) s
823.
by sgrove 18y ago
I voted you up, but I disagree to some extent. I expect that if you're creative, dedicated, and put in the time to tackle the "long, hard slog" you'll have something of considerable value by the end of it. In fact, if you can get the moment
824.
by sgrove 18y ago
I think so. In fact, I believe it so much, that's my startup: http://www.chuwe.com - "Stackoverflow for startups and small businesses." As brandnewlow pointed out, starting it is a massive uphill battle - chicken and egg problem as it wer
825.
by sgrove 18y ago
I suppose I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do with this. I looked at my area (orange county, california) and there were a few icons. clicking on them didn't give me any description - I suppose it's because you don't have any for those plac
826.
by sgrove 18y ago
Can't agree more. In my undergraduate research in the Cognitive Neuroscience labs at Berkeley, it was disappointing to see how much effort was wasted because people avoided technology instead of embracing it (in neuroscience!). The work don
827.
by sgrove 18y ago
I did some advocacy in a project that was supported under my last startup, http://www.opentextbook.org/ A huge amount of the cost is in publisher fees rather than material cost. And the quality is appalling at times - check out Richard Fe
828.
by sgrove 18y ago
Sounds fair enough. I've emailed garry at posterous to see if there's anything we can do about that.
829.
by sgrove 18y ago
Thanks to garry for posting this, always nice to hear a bit of advice distilled down. Even nicer when you're able to check off most of the points :D
830.
by sgrove 18y ago
"Always test both right after a big deployment." Words to live by. I've changed to a staging server so I can test everything on a "live" server before pushing it to production. As I mentioned before, I'm glad I wrote it just to hear that fr
831.
by sgrove 18y ago
It was the mailer that was sending out confirmations to users who signed up with email address. It failed silently on the dev machine - and I didn't notice because I wasn't expecting an email - while on the server it rightfully failed and s
832.
by sgrove 18y ago
For those of you who don't know, Jacob's a business coach out of Australia who's been wonderful in helping out individual questions on the site. Exactly the kind of expert we were hoping to attract to help entrepreneurs on the site!
833.
by sgrove 18y ago
It was an interesting manipulation of the system, but as pointed out it's a dangerous slope. A community based on trust will sour very quickly if a lot of these tricks pop up. Sharing the trick is entirely reasonable: small hacks like this
834.
by sgrove 18y ago
a few bugs I noticed If I type in @today twice (because it didn't move it to the "today" section), it assigns it to a user called today (I believe, at least that's the same visual language as when I assigned a task to another team member).
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Thoughts on our hn "soft-launch" (chuwe.com)(blog.chuwe.com)
17 points by sgrove 18y ago|8 comments
836.
by sgrove 18y ago
A lot of these "bleeding edge" tools seem very exciting - the automated testing, profiling, etc. But I'm torn on the abstractions - 280 North's cappuccino in particular - but I think on the whole they're going to flourish. They're obviously
837.
by sgrove 18y ago
Very interesting post. I've actually been following that same exact idea - I check over the error logs to see if any users encountered an error, email them an apology and let them know I'm working on it right now, and then email them once i
838.
Various Bleeding edge Javascript techniques from creators of jQuery/Prototype/Dojo/YUI(garry.posterous.com)
14 points by sgrove 18y ago|1 comments
839.
by sgrove 18y ago
Upvoted for the possibilities. It's a (almost confusingly) controversial topic, but there is a lot of good that could come out decriminalization. I've never done any drugs myself, but I can think of a number of business opportunities not on
840.
by sgrove 18y ago
Hey, thought that was a pretty good idea for finding "rising stars". Seems like it's been done http://www.boxuk.com/followfriday/ This obsession with large-scale followings seems rather pointless, but I do enjoy seeing other developers or

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