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   by slap_shot 10y ago

   Agreed. I think an interesting expose of this is Drew Houston's YC application where I believe he says he'd be okay with selling for $1M at that time (about a year's worth of work). I'm sure he had buyouts for $10M short
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   by slap_shot 10y ago

   Does this one have an advantage over Wurstmeister's Kafka Dockerfile[0] or did you just make it for the experience? Either way, good job! It looks great. [0] https://github.com/wurstmeister/kafka-docker
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   by slap_shot 10y ago

   Have you considered Discourse? It isn't a true Q/A platform like Stack Overflow or Quora, but if you treat the initial post a question and the replies as answers it works. Also, this guy claims to have written a plugin that gives
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   by slap_shot 10y ago

   I've seen lawsuits funded on GoFundMe. In particular Adam Carolla raised a lot of money to fight a patent troll. I don't know much About trial processes, but I was curious what would happen if the defense wins. Does the other side
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   by slap_shot 13y ago

   RethinkDB is my favorite piece of my current tech stack. I tell everybody I know about it, and I'm soon to release some blog posts and speak at a Meetup showing off what it is good at and how to get started - I really just can't s
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   by slap_shot 13y ago

   Or Chaplin: https://github.com/chaplinjs/chaplin I honestly don't think either of them do a good job of promoting their absolutely awesome work. I tell everyone I can about them, but they really need some presence
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   by slap_shot 13y ago

   I'm surprised there hasn't been much speculation regarding an Apple TV announcement. It's been about a year since Tim Cook stated 'TV is something we are incredibly interested in' - Apple has sold over 13MM Apple TV
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   by slap_shot 14y ago

   I really do not mean for this to be offensive, but I understand how it can be (and I almost expect it to be interpreted that way) but I feel obligated to tell you this. Your excuse is pretty weak. You've "tried meeting technical founders an
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   by slap_shot 14y ago

   I think this an interesting point. I feel like the ASP.NET Web Forms stack got a bad name because it so closely coupled a web application framework with proprietary, abstracted, controls (which I agree was bad). But an empty MVC4 applicatio
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    by slap_shot 14y ago

    I don't think so... He was initially shocked that he, as the '19 year old', was paid more than the 'dinosaurs' and later states that the '19 year olds' are still paid more than the 'dinosaurs.'
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    by slap_shot 14y ago

    > the sad truth is that medical industry doesn't welcome software disruptions This is a message that really needs to stop being regurgitated around the technology start-up space. The medical industry DOES welcome software disruptions. T
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    by slap_shot 14y ago

    http://www.investopedia.com/articles/01/110701.asp#axzz2EC5J...
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    by slap_shot 14y ago

    Take a look at Scott Hanselman's blog post 'Windows 8 productivity: Who moved my cheese? Oh, there it is.' http://www.hanselman.com/blog/Windows8ProductivityWhoMovedMy... This helped me a lot. I don't particularly like the OS, but once yo
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    by slap_shot 14y ago

    There are technicalities you can (and will) skip on as you run your first company (pg has a good article touching on this, btw), but basic incorporation is not one of them. Incorporating shouldn't take you more than a week and $200, and tha
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    by slap_shot 14y ago

    I would remove a lot of this copy that is referring to 'business model' - that's a term that you want to use with your business partners and investors, but not with your customers. I understand why you are bringing it up - to illustrate you
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    Ask HN: What is your setup?

    1 points by slap_shot 14y ago|0 comments
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    by slap_shot 14y ago

    Perhaps the 'Eloquent JavaScript' point should actually refer to http://jsbooks.revolunet.com and mention Eqloquent as a first in a series of great resources.
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    by slap_shot 14y ago

    This. I constantly wonder this when I see these companies. Dan Siroker of Optimizely mentioned something interesting in a talk he gave at Rock Health. Before he founded Optimizely, he and his co-founders tried to reward people who could con
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    by slap_shot 14y ago

    I don't see how this actually supports the pursuit of an MBA. For instance, the first point is that you learn a range of subjects, and while acknowledging that you could learn them each through a book, MBA programs let you talk about these
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    by slap_shot 14y ago

    It depends on the policy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deductible http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copayment
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    by slap_shot 14y ago

    Very nice! Reminds me of an early version FiftyThree's Paper! ( http://www.fiftythree.com/paper )
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    by slap_shot 14y ago

    I have to respectfully disagree with the first line of this. Startups biggest competitive advantage is productivity (theoretically they will be more agile, have less bureaucracy, etc), and productivity is largely about time management! As a
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    by slap_shot 14y ago

    Vertical/Tree Tabs like Firefox has Tree Style Tab. Quick Tab is an...interesting take on the problem, but leaves so much to be desired. I'd pay money for a good Tree Tab system in Chrome. It is literally the only reason I still use Firefox
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    by slap_shot 14y ago

    I wonder if you would really be able to identify a startup that was really tackling a "Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Idea." At the point that they are coming out of YC they would probably be tackling one small, seemingly non-consequential
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    by slap_shot 14y ago

    I think this could be huge. I just don't know if it will be in its current fashion. I just checked my email, and in the last 30 days I've sent my parents 11 emails that were just picture of attachments of things I was out and about doing. S
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    Trendy Entertainment raises $18.2 million(thenextweb.com)

    2 points by slap_shot 14y ago|0 comments
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    by slap_shot 14y ago

    I came here just to post this. Quite an incredible book. Highly suggest it to anyone!
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    by slap_shot 14y ago

    I think his exact number, 5%, may be a little low, but the sentiment is right. The article is addressing the change from programmer to entrepreneur, and I think it is very common for technical founders to care too much about what they are m