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by ttcbj 11y ago
I think the most interesting thing YC could do to promote prosperity in the US is some kind of 'fellowship' for technologists with an interest in helping the impoverished to 'embed' with social service organizations and
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by ttcbj 11y ago
Just a few days ago I spent $200 to purchase a multi-domain wildcard certificate so that I could host multiple secure domains, with multiple subdomains, on a single elastic beanstalk app. It was such a headache to figure out that I needed
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by ttcbj 11y ago
I agree the This American Life stories were pretty good. They were based on a pro-publica story which has background statistics that make the picture more interesting: http://www.propublica.org/article/ferguson-school-
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by ttcbj 11y ago
+1 for sincere thanks. bootstrap is one of many factors that had made a lean development approach so much easier.
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by ttcbj 11y ago
Off topic, but I never knew that Dash existed. I frequently look up APIs through google, which always involves a few clicks, and Dash is going to make my life so much better! As I went down through the API list, I was amazed how many ti
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by ttcbj 11y ago
Super funny. You really nailed it. Awesome. Thanks!
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by ttcbj 12y ago
Funny!
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by ttcbj 12y ago
Yes, I think another way to think of the 'between-taker' idea is that an entrepreneur find ways to use existing resources in a new way that creates more value than those resources could previously create. Sometimes those resourc
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by ttcbj 12y ago
I really appreciate this poem. I have a two year old and a six month old, and I had no conception of how I committed I would feel to my children until I had them. I actually took some risks and worked super hard in my mid-20s to mid-30s,
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by ttcbj 12y ago
Totally agree. I didn't get the success I thought I wanted in my 20s (some sort of tech mogul). I did get a different kind of success (small business ownership, flexible with direct customer relationships). Now that I have a famil
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by ttcbj 13y ago
I have no specific knowledge of airplane systems, but I wonder if the airplane's computers could have been hacked to produce the disappearance? It would explain why so much effort would go into the planning, with the plane then appear
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by ttcbj 13y ago
For what its worth, I worked on the InDesign team during the InDesign 2.0 - CS timeframe, and my boss at Adobe had worked for a long time at Quark. He was very knowledgable about Quark's code. During that time period, he repeatedly as
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by ttcbj 13y ago
I agree with the analysis above, with one addition: a big reason to pay yourself more at any owners only profitable small business is to max out a contribution to a 'individual 401k', sep-ira, or similar. The rules vary, but if y
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by ttcbj 13y ago
I also found the book 'Selfish reasons to have more kids' interesting on this topic. It uses twin studies to suggest that although parenting does have an effect in the short term, in the long term genetic factors are dominant as
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by ttcbj 13y ago
I recently read Robert Caro's biography of Robert Moses. RM built most major highways and parks in NY state, and effectively became an absolute ruler in his domain. For 40 years he exercised near total control. It made me understand
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by ttcbj 13y ago
I mostly agree with this. I have owned three mac pros. I use them for development work. I like them because they are fast, well-built, run OS X (which I like), I can put lots of RAM in them, and put a few extra hard drives in with softwa
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by ttcbj 14y ago
If you are interested in this story, here is an interesting podcast from an economist studying this issue: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/04/autor_on_disabi.htm...
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by ttcbj 14y ago
Wow, beautifully executed! Quite an achievement. Looking forward to trying it out.
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by ttcbj 14y ago
From my perspective, this comment has some truth, but is a little off also. When I was single, I found the Epstein article compelling. Then, I met the right woman, and I realized the article missed the point. If a woman you love feels goo
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by ttcbj 14y ago
I had a very similar attitude to yours about 6 years ago. I sympathize with your frustration. Although I am not denying that it may be harder for you to find someone, I think your current attitude/self-perspective is not helpful to you. I
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by ttcbj 14y ago
I did not read the full post, but the basic gist reminds me of the book 'How to sell at margins higher than your competitors.' I wasted a lot of time in my early 20's reading business advice books, but that book is well worth the time. It
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by ttcbj 14y ago
I really like the sentiment of the post, and the quotes. It's easy to waste time on things that are not important when starting a business. However, from a bootstrapping perspective, I think it is useful to look at the value of your time i
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by ttcbj 15y ago
Couldn't agree more with everything said here. I have had a very similar experience. The only thing I'd add (more in relation to the comments above) - I think people are too quick to discourage a direct sales model for bootstrap B2B compan
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by ttcbj 15y ago
I've been programming since the early 90's. I went through three stages of excitement: A. Hardware/OS/experience. At first, I was excited by the experience of working with computers. When I got access to a special computer lab in college
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by ttcbj 15y ago
Awesome and delightful!
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by ttcbj 15y ago
About 8 years ago I quit my job at a great company to start a business. I had no idea what I was doing. About 2 years later, my co-founder had quit, I had not seen a drop of income from the business, I had burned through a good chunk of s
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by ttcbj 15y ago
In my view, GWT is for creating large/robust web-based applications, and that is where machine-level optimizations really pay off. If you are writing a tiny utility on a page, hand coded javascript might pay off, but if you are writing a l
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by ttcbj 15y ago
I am also disappointed, but in a different way that most commenters. I don't mind java syntax, and I prefer strongly-typed languages. My concern is that Dart seems to give up a lot vs. gwt, and not add much. That is, with gwt you get - st