willpower101

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by willpower101 15y ago
sans. I'm too lazy to quote lexis nexus right now.
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by willpower101 15y ago
For the technology? Yes a thousand times over. But practically it's impossible for it to actually erase everything simply to learn one thing. Neuroscience has pretty well defined rules for how we learn and already shows that forced associat
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by willpower101 15y ago
Now that I think about it, mainly it seemed like it was easier to get into hardware back then, and today the entrepreneurial boom is really all about software and lots of money or expertise needed to get into hardware development. (as a sta
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by willpower101 15y ago
A good point. People have been writing for a while about internet becoming more and more transparent as it becomes even more ubiquitous. I remember writing a paper about tv's with integrated imdb 12 years before the first app capable tv cam
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by willpower101 15y ago
Thanks for this constructive criticism. I do kind of feel like I am making excuses to myself and need to admit that to move forward. I just felt like working on software and integrated circuits in the 1980's would have been so easy compared
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by willpower101 15y ago
many entreps are good at starting businesses and bad at maintaining them. Some better serve the economy helping launch more businesses rather than fumbling around trying to grow one.
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by willpower101 15y ago
Oh, and money. Or course I'd much rather receive my $2MM+ over the course of a couple years building a company rather than over 40 years of letting a boss or HR decide my pay. And you bet when I'm done I'll be investing in even more start-u
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by willpower101 15y ago
and that he would take the money and run. lol. who does that? I want startup life because I want to own my own company from the ground up. I would love to set my own hours at a normal company. But how rare is that? Where do you work that yo
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by willpower101 15y ago
I have all my ideas over the years documents. Somewhere just over 30 right now, 3-5 good ones a year, and at least 8 that another company took to market within a year or two of my conceptualization.) I just lack of a technical co-founder. I
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by willpower101 15y ago
It's awesome getting onto Hacker News and saying, "Hey I know that guy!" (I interned with them last fall, amazing place! :)
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by willpower101 15y ago
I ask because, while in 1989 I was programming choose your own adventure games in BASIC on a commodore, I was too young to make anything of it. In the late 90's I was finishing up high school in the rural south without access to any real cs
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What is the next big technological frontier? The next 'tech gold rush'?
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by willpower101 16y ago
First iteration of twitter was a side "project" that was built in an afternoon. End of argument.
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by willpower101 16y ago
Www.dodgeit.com was doing this long before mailinator. They eventually shut down for some reason, but still, mailinator wasn't original. Just well timed.
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by willpower101 16y ago
Yeah I don't get this either. I mean sure, you don't want to work for equity in something you don't care about. But I would LOVE to work for equity in some of the local start-ups around here. I don't mind giving my time for no up front comp