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2731.
by wheels 18y ago
Sorry, just adding, "It's hacker news because..." doesn't make it true. Through a long enough chain of logic I can relate just about anything to Danny DeVito.
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Ask YC: Recommendations on company formation in the UK
5 points by wheels 18y ago|6 comments
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by wheels 18y ago
I agree, for what it's worth. Fear is an essential component to the mix. One thing I'd add -- building something people want isn't a silver bullet. Building something people want enough that there's value generated is. Mixing that up, wh
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by wheels 18y ago
Oh, I wasn't implying that you're stupid -- just that anyone would be to get particularly excited about your idea with the original info. :-)
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by wheels 18y ago
Ok, now I get it. You're more or less looking to hire a zany creative person to bring in some creative energy. Which is cool. That said, in my opinion, the suspense, and really, the hard part, of being an entrepreneur is figuring out how
2736.
by wheels 18y ago
Process only stupid people follow: jump into something without having any idea what it is. I think the poster means well, and good on him for that, but there needs to be more information if he wants to attract folks.
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by wheels 18y ago
This doesn't make any sense to me. What do you get out of it? What do you require of said hacker? Do want partial ownership or just someone to bounce ideas off of? What do you mean by in-residence combined with we-don't-care-where-you-l
2738.
by wheels 18y ago
We're in a similar situation and we've put together a checklist of stuff that has to be ready for the launch. Since we started putting it in concrete terms the amount of stuff was more than we suspected. :-) Things included were: - Essent
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by wheels 18y ago
Am I the only one that wanted to sign up after reading the message? ;-)
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by wheels 18y ago
I started to respond, "...then they could be aggregated in a separate top level 'blogs' tabs and upvoted if interesting." ...but then something groovier occurred to me. What would be all kinds of cool would be an aggregation that automatic
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by wheels 18y ago
That wasn't so much meant as a suggestion to you as a warning to others. When companies grow, which is one of those "what if's" that should be considered, home grown systems tend to lack features that the organization needs. When you're se
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by wheels 18y ago
That's almost universally a bad idea. That forces you to pour resources in an area that isn't the core of your business on a system that eventually won't scale if you start growing ... at which point you'll annoy your employees by forcing
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by wheels 18y ago
Ditto on the agenda-in-wiki, with the addition that if it's not on the agenda it has to wait until next week. This keeps meetings from wandering from topic to topic, usually on topics that someone just thought of that don't really need to
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by wheels 18y ago
In addition to the comments above, once you wrap your head around the basics of the process, I find Venture Hacks a great place to get a feel for a lot of the caveats ahead: http://www.venturehacks.com/
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by wheels 18y ago
I think one flaw here, that certainly applies to programming languages is the equation of concision and fitness. There are a lot of things that I would tend to factor in -- for me expressiveness would be chief. As a native English speaker
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by wheels 18y ago
Pinker seems to be on the other end of the academic spectrum from the SWH. For those who don't know linguistics, Chomsky was the driving force in modern linguistics. Last week I stumbled across this video, the first 15 minutes or so of su
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by wheels 18y ago
There's the link with some actual info: http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/06/09/rotating-wind-powered-to...
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by wheels 18y ago
The time argument is the thing that really turned me off. In my one published paper we wrote the draft a full two and a half years before it saw the light of day. One referee didn't like it, so it went through a review process, then got b
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by wheels 18y ago
You don't want to end up in a pissing match in a dominant market unless you've got something that will truly differentiate you up your sleeve. This isn't to say that you couldn't compete, but even in your best case scenario, you've capture
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by wheels 18y ago
To be honest, that's one of the worst job postings I've read. Cut out every instance of "great", "top-notch", "exceptional", "talented", "dynamic", "experienced", "professional", fast-paced", "innovative", "challenging" ... and replace the
2751.
by wheels 18y ago
Actually SUSE announced "your idea" last week at LinuxTag.
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by wheels 18y ago
I agree with your take on it, but generally I find it better just to reproduce titles as they occur rather than to interpret them, even if in fairly obvious ways.
2753.
by wheels 18y ago
Three things: - This isn't hacker news. - Please read the guidelines and don't editorialize in titles. - If this sort of thing interests you, read Freakonomics.
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by wheels 18y ago
I've seen these run through various hacker communities in the past and INTJ is definitely the classical hacker, with INTP not too far behind. When testing in high school I tended to test INTP, but I've drifted towards ENTP and now tend to t
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by wheels 18y ago
A lot of people left West Berlin when the city was divided and a lot of people left East Berlin right after reunification. The massive housing surplus that resulted caused housing costs to sink and cheap housing made the city a mecca for a
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by wheels 18y ago
It's a mix here. There's definitely a bohemian atmosphere (in many, not all parts of the city), but reducing that to sex and drugs isn't really fair. It extends to arts, street culture, work environments, etc. I think I see what you're g
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by wheels 18y ago
That's the wrong question. This is about culture, not tallying. Berlin is special because it's a chaotic city in a country of orderliness. I started writing a list, but it doesn't do it any justice. Just like listing 10 big companies won
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Business and Beer, Founders meetup Berlin (Wednesday)(fu-berlin.de)
1 points by wheels 18y ago|0 comments
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by wheels 18y ago
I think Paul's right here, but there is one point that always irks me when he's talking about location: It comes off as assuming that the singular goal of your life is to start a successful startup and that having a successful startup make
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by wheels 18y ago
We are. Actually I think more startups are than you're assuming. There are two reasons that this is not obvious: - Usually a good solution to a hard problem looks easy to users. - Simple problems get a lot harder when they're forced to sc

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