PaulJoslin

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by PaulJoslin 11y ago
I think the real reason people say 'ideas are cheap' - is because in the grand scheme of things - an idea is not worth much. An idea on it's own, is just an idea - without a really good execution / team behind it - it ha
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by PaulJoslin 13y ago
Just looking at his two blog posts, I think that the company's hiring practice worked perfectly and weeded out someone who may be technically competent, but is toxic to the work environment. His tone is aggressive and completely self
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by PaulJoslin 13y ago
I think this is an important lesson in marketing and getting press attention that other start ups or entrepreneurs should take note of. The key to getting press / marketing attention / viral affect is to do something different tha
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by PaulJoslin 13y ago
It's coming from China[1]. A LOT OF MONEY from China. Like $millions. That's how all these early adopters in the USA are being able to cash out millions and the price is not crashing. They seem to like the fact it separates them f
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by PaulJoslin 13y ago
This is why I was unable to buy bitcoins when I first read about them on HN in 2010 and similar in 2011 when the price had gone over $1 and actually showed promise. (I have some emails to colleagues / friends showing my frustration at
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by PaulJoslin 13y ago
Capitalism is powered by money and greed. At it's heart, the point is to maximise profit and efficiency. This drives innovation and growth across the world... this is no bad thing. However, as a side of effect of this, it also means bu
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by PaulJoslin 13y ago
That is incorrect, London is not like that today. London is an extremely multi cultural city, with both rich and poor living side by side in the same boroughs. A lot of people argue that most of London's unique culture in places like B
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by PaulJoslin 13y ago
1. I address this somewhere else. I agree this is broken, but this is not a problem with the benefit system - it's something to do with wages not rising accordingly with everything else. 2. Perhaps, although if they do something stupid
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by PaulJoslin 13y ago
The idea is nice, but if it causes widespread increases in costs / consumer goods / rent due to the reasons I mentioned, then the only places you may be able to just stay at home and work may not be the place you want to be. For e
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by PaulJoslin 13y ago
That's correct Mike, it's not always the case (benefits being cut and working a job can provide you with a worse quality of life) - but I think that is more of a problem regarding the wages people are being paid in jobs, rather th
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by PaulJoslin 13y ago
The thing I genuinely don't understand regarding the basic income for all argument is that surely it just moves the goal posts rather than solves the problem at hand? In the current system, you can go stay at home and get income suppor
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by PaulJoslin 13y ago
Fantastic work. I really hope pg has accepted your application to ycombinator. You clearly have a talent for hard work, perseverance and knowing how to market your product well. Even if pg doesn't like the idea, he should realise the t
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by PaulJoslin 13y ago
I understand what the blog post is trying to convey and I agree that programming is a wonderful craft, allowing anyone who knows how to code an amazing world of possibilities. However, the way the blog post tried to convey this, it falls do
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by PaulJoslin 13y ago
Am I right in thinking with this design you can only have one app as a point of focus at a time? So assuming I'm doing development, I can't be in my IDE, with a browser open on a particular stack overflow question, while having th
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by PaulJoslin 13y ago
The idea of it was a smart idea, but the real reason for the success was the marketability of the story behind it. In a world of internet before everything went viral, this story was just 'crazy enough' to essentially go viral. Th
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by PaulJoslin 14y ago
I really like this idea. It removes the risk for the developer to just 'build' (which is ultimately what they enjoy doing) and also shifts the key responsibility for the initial marketing / customer acquisition away from the developer (whic
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by PaulJoslin 14y ago
I disagree. I thought it was a clever idea to ask people what they would pay for the service. It's a simple service, pricing it would be hard unless people tell them how much it's worth to them. The question isn't. 'What do you think this s
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by PaulJoslin 14y ago
Perhaps half the reason they kept asking about the business model / trying to compare it to Dropbox was that they were trying to evaluate whether they had a potentially billion dollar + company on their hands, or a niche nice little side bu
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by PaulJoslin 14y ago
I don't want to be negative, but $34 for a 124 page book seems a bit steep. What's more, the fact it's 37 interviews over 124 pages means that on average it's only 3.3 pages (including pictures) per 'interview' / example. If we expect a sta
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by PaulJoslin 14y ago
One of the trends I've noticed more and more over the last few years, is that Design is now a USP in itself. Take anything that already exists and execute it with better design / user experience and watch it become popular / successful. Tha
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by PaulJoslin 14y ago
Well, think about it this way. How many people as a result of his great advice and transparency have mentioned / linked to his site? - That alone ensures he will rank top of Google for any Bingo Card Creation based key words. - Then there's
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by PaulJoslin 14y ago
To be honest, some of the recent success stories like this, have often become a success partially due to the publicity gained through sharing how they got it and being transparent. If they had stayed quiet, most of these success stories may
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by PaulJoslin 15y ago
Refined carbs / refined sugar seem to be the problem with most foods these days. With the fear of 'fats' many food producers replaced the 'fat' with refined sugars to add the flavour with less fat (on paper). - http://www.globalhealingcent
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by PaulJoslin 15y ago
I think what I enjoyed the most watching this was the fact that he clearly has a lot of artistic talent, as well as the ability to code. Many programmers have been unable to produce masterpieces, due to the lack of ability to produce any of
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by PaulJoslin 15y ago
You have to realise that quite a lot of the ground work he is doing at this point is probably very familiar code. The fundamental code which scrolls the screen about, renders the sprites and moves the objects around the screen will be somet
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A motivating speech on actually 'Getting things done'(youtube.com)
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by PaulJoslin 15y ago
Cool concept, fairly good execution. I think I would advise not to just focus on concerts, but potentially other mass events, e.g. sporting events. I guess you're using the audio stream to do some form of sync / time stamp though, so that m
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by PaulJoslin 15y ago
I agree, this functionality is not required to make the product succeed. The product is already useful in itself. I was merely referring to a use case of someone learning to program / think like a programmer by watching replays of real prog
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by PaulJoslin 15y ago
At first, I enjoyed watching this, it allowed me to see a glimpse of pg writing one of these famous essays. However, after the initial 'wow' factor, I realized a slight flaw in this idea of learning by solely watching others (in replay). Yo
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by PaulJoslin 15y ago
A feature suggestion from me: - Allow the recruiter to decide what he's looking for in the code. e.g. Complexity / Efficiency / Clean maintainable code / OO Principles, etc. The biggest problem I have with job interview style 'coding puzzl

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