trekker7

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by trekker7 19y ago
Agreed, this is the best one yet. Here's to determination.
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by trekker7 19y ago
Cool post. Do you have a website going right now? What do you do?
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by trekker7 19y ago
Seems really small, actually. I guess the site has a ways to go before it contains the sum total of all human knowledge, if that is the goal. But Wikipedia already kicks ass.
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Ask News.YC: Does anybody want a forums here?
2 points by trekker7 19y ago|3 comments
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by trekker7 19y ago
Cheer up, tough it out man... I'm sure things will look up soon.
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by trekker7 19y ago
Insanely great. Reminds of that post about K->12 students doing startups a while ago... maybe they can do it, after all.
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by trekker7 19y ago
You've got a really slick implementation... the site works great. I think one thing worth looking into is how often people go to music shows; these can be somewhat expensive right? If the average show-goer only goes once a month, traffic ma
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by trekker7 19y ago
Oh man, you know that moderation is going a bit too far when something like this happens...
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by trekker7 19y ago
This isn't directly related to the article (sorry), but reading about how Pantone's CEO didn't recognize the opportunity with the Web did make me think of something else. It seems like every decade or so a new product/technology comes up t
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by trekker7 19y ago
Exactly! "Web 2.0" has somewhat of a bad image because people think of the flash instead of the substance. "Web 2.0" actually has a lot of deep technology to it; I think "harnessing human intelligence" is a technical trend that will continu
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by trekker7 19y ago
I'm going to offer an alternate point of view from some of the other comments (I'm a programmer and am studying CS in college). Do you think if you gave programming an honest shot, you'd sincerely like it? If the answer is "no", then forget
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Ask News.YC: Anyone working on a systems software startup?
1 points by trekker7 19y ago|0 comments
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by trekker7 19y ago
I think this is true of startups in general... most startups fail right? The reason why people pick on Web 2.0 in particular is because (a) it's the current trend and (b) it's a lot easier to launch a website than sell enterprise software p
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by trekker7 19y ago
Should it vary by site content? Reddit turned into a general purpose social news site, but Hacker News is more of a niche thing. Would a larger corporation buy a site like this? I'm not saying they wouldn't; I don't know how it works, maybe
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by trekker7 19y ago
Nice story... makes you appreciate how people can make it through tough times, and still come out on top.
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by trekker7 19y ago
All these smart kids should just do startups, get rich, and skip school entirely, provided they can learn the basics themselves, and their social lives aren't too screwed up by this. If college students can start companies, why not brillian
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by trekker7 19y ago
As opposed to caring about the specifics like fixing punctuation, I think that critics don't like the authority (and potential for abuse) implied by administrators messing with user submitted text, no matter in how trivial a way. At some p
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by trekker7 19y ago
This is really brilliant. Imagine what people would say if you traveled 50 years in the past and told them you could launch a new business in less than 11 hours.
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by trekker7 19y ago
Awesome move. One thing I always missed on early reddit and Startup News was Slashdot's comment-tagging system; comments are not only voted up and down but tagged with "interesting", "funny", "insightful", etc. Also, there's an absolute sco
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by trekker7 19y ago
This is a great concept for books and articles in general. A while ago I was thinking a collaborative book summarizing site would be a good idea; if you could pull it off, scaling to massive amounts of summaries would be easier.
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by trekker7 19y ago
I'm tired of all these books and articles. A lot of them are fun to read, but it seems like nowadays you spend more time reading than doing. Is it really a prerequisite for any entrepreneur to read so much?
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by trekker7 19y ago
I once read that it helps if you go to sleep only when you're exhausted (can't keep your eyes open), but set like 10 alarms to make sure you get up at the same time every single day (7 or 8 AM, whenever you need to). It'll suck forcing your
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by trekker7 19y ago
This is a pretty cool concept for a profit-making site actually, although I don't know if that was the intention. What would also be great is pictures of offices at historic tech companies like Digital and Wang, from back in the day.
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by trekker7 19y ago
Some of the example applications he gave kick ass.
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by trekker7 19y ago
It seems like the author would find traditional, client-based applications more useful than server-side Web applications. The whole point of the latter is to use everyone's data to make software more useful, and if he doesn't care about eve
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by trekker7 19y ago
If a Web startup makes money with AdSense it means people are visiting its website. The delivery of content that people want is a business model, regardless of where the money eventually comes from.
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by trekker7 19y ago
well said.