BitGeek

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by BitGeek 19y ago
Tied how? Certainly not legally. When you buy the computer you buy a license... no court would uphold charging people for something and not letting them have it. The "shrinkwrapped" license agreements are not really enforcable... at leas
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by BitGeek 19y ago
I think the path is really very straightforward. Assuming you're a developer, get a job, preferably with a local startup. Live really cheap. Work really hard, save %50 of your gross income. Do this for 6 months to a year and you won't
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by BitGeek 19y ago
Its a craigslist job posting, rather than an announcement... but just in case it disappears: Were looking for an experienced technical expert in highly scalable distributed systems technologies to join our Software Platform group as a Sr.
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Amazon reveals new web service: Amazon Simple Database(seattle.craigslist.org)
11 points by BitGeek 19y ago|3 comments
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by BitGeek 19y ago
I realized Microsoft was dead in early January 2007 when it occured to me that vista was about to come out and I didn't see anyone who really cared. Of course now that Vista has failed to garner any real attention, this view is confirmed.
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by BitGeek 19y ago
On the contrary, it is simply saying I've already rejected that strategy since it doesn't actually solve the problem. You cannot grow a shared memory system efficiently. Since someone has actually solved the problem, I'm going with that so
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by BitGeek 19y ago
History- Learned Lisp in High School in the 1980s. Since then, procedural (Pascal & C) and then about 17 years of object oriented development.. C++, Java, Ruby, Objective-C. I am interested in concurrency oriented programming now... and hav
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Haskell vs. Lisp vs Erlang for Concurrency Oriented Programming?
6 points by BitGeek 19y ago|5 comments
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by BitGeek 19y ago
Or put another way, perserverance has resulted in business success... for those who had a long term strategy. The herd instinct is dangerous. High Tech startups are less likely to fail (though the %48 figure was "companies seeking VC fundi
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Lessons from the 1990s Bubble- don't get big fast.(strategy-business.com)
2 points by BitGeek 19y ago|1 comments
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by BitGeek 19y ago
You missed his point. Yes, what you are doing is replicating the situation that worked for you. And this program is probably a good one for students who are still in college and want to build a company over the summer. But anyone who ha
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by BitGeek 19y ago
Yes, and at the end of the day a decision has to be made. This is where companies get in trouble- the founders have different opinions. I've seen two companies struggle because founders differed... and I've known one company where the foun
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by BitGeek 19y ago
I'm sure SF is a great social scene... but this seems cash inefficient. For $2600 you could rent 2.6 houses in the Seattle area... and seattle ain't exactly cheap. Or put another way, you get a nice 2BR house to live in with a yard, and
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by BitGeek 19y ago
Isn't that some amazing nerve? The Rick is offering the founder shares in his own company as compensation for not taking a salary! The inherent assumption behind this asinine perspective is that "Preferred" shares are for VCs only... but
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by BitGeek 19y ago
This is a great site, and I think the more people are aware of the situation with Venture Capital, the more they realize that the real cost of it is not in loss of ownership of the company, but in increased liklihood that your company will
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by BitGeek 19y ago
Older programmers are more productive than younger programmers. I think the perception that goes the other way is based on teh confusion of measurements of productivity. Zuckerman measurs productivity as lines of code generated, or worse,
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by BitGeek 19y ago
Actually, its very easy to argue. You really haven't given a reason at all... only ad hominem. "Best people naturally want to be where teh best startups are". I think the best startups are in Seattle, and I've compared both regions. I'
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by BitGeek 19y ago
What I find perplexing is that for so many people who think the Bay area "is better" I've yet to hear any concrete reasons its better. Ok, more venture capitalists in the bay area-- sure, this is a blessing and a curse. I've listed the d
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by BitGeek 19y ago
Zuckerberg is not very smart here, and his comment illuminates the area where younger people are stupider (in general): Blindness. Lack of awareness of the world around you means that you will not understand what your customers are asking
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by BitGeek 19y ago
You're arguing that reducing your chances for success is the only way to succeed. You presume that if you aren't about to die, then you must be lazy. You presume that the only model is unprofitability until someone either buys you or yo
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by BitGeek 19y ago
That's not a reason, that's an assertion of your opinion. You're not alone in that opinion. The real question is why? This has never been answered, other than "closeness to VCs". There's no fundamental advantage to the Bay Area over, say
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by BitGeek 19y ago
Right, all the areas where you previously had to build infrastructure are now free or you can rent them ... and they have become commidtized. Thus a team of a few can focus just on adding value, making the bootstrapping runway dramatically
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Web 2.0 Startups in Seattle(blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com)
1 points by BitGeek 19y ago|1 comments
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by BitGeek 19y ago
Where will you learn more? Four years of college will teach you some things. Four years of starting a business will teach you more. Given a 22 year old applicatant for a job, I will take the one who never went to college and started a busi
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by BitGeek 19y ago
You're confusing selection for objectivity. Startups founded by "hot wiz kids" get more media attention to the fact that they are young. Companies founded by older people do not have that hook, so there is less emphasis in their age when
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by BitGeek 19y ago
"From what I see most are made up of young male geeks who could be brothers." If your universe of startups is just YC funded companies, then sure, but even there, I think you're excluding some.
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by BitGeek 19y ago
Two factors: 1. Its not as disproprotionate is it seems due to the amplifiction effects of mainstream media. 2. In the 70s, most of the problems I have identified didn't exist, and so it was a good place to form high tech companies. Now,
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by BitGeek 19y ago
You answered your own question, and I'm not talking about YC anyway. I'm talking about VCs, and in particular the strings that come with them. My purpose is to point out the disadvantages, because the assumption seems to be that its alwa
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by BitGeek 19y ago
Paul and I are describing the same scenario... and that incentive only exists when it looks like there's a possibility for the one in a million payoff. Otherwise Liquidation Preferences mean that even a successful sell results in no retur
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by BitGeek 19y ago
I think Austin is an excellent location for a startup. You have good high tech infrastructure, a good college that (at least in the 1990s) put out CS students who actually had a clue, a very supportive community, low cost of living (again

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