gyro_robo

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by gyro_robo 19y ago
A more technically literate user base will use Adblock. And it's about time -- it's bizarre that start-ups are trying to get acquired with money that ultimately comes from advertising Tide. Don't offend the corporate sponsors.
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by gyro_robo 19y ago
Which is why your usage of "immoral" is not ironic.
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by gyro_robo 19y ago
Your use of the word "ironic" is Alanis Morissettic.
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by gyro_robo 19y ago
Jobs... Housing... Discussion... Funny posts... Personals... Gigs... I don't know about that. Making profit may be a moral, but I wouldn't say im moral.
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by gyro_robo 19y ago
If you feel strongly about something, you have to strike while the iron is hot. You'll do better with enthusiasm but no experience than with experience but no enthusiasm. Most of the big success stories have junky back-ends anyway (Flickr
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by gyro_robo 19y ago
Which is why I don't get the whole "charisma" or "reality distortion field" claims. He's just this guy, you know?
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by gyro_robo 19y ago
That is so darn sneaky.
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by gyro_robo 19y ago
> The Java platform was selected /Nuff
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by gyro_robo 19y ago
Python does the same thing with range: >>> range(1,10) [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] Leaving out the starting value starts at zero: >>> range(10) [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] Which is like dotimes: [
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by gyro_robo 19y ago
And this is the caliber of individual YC funds? It's on the official Xobni site, no less. I don't know how to compete with that kind of class act.
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by gyro_robo 19y ago
A Y Combinator acceptance is nothing compared to eternal salvation. Angel funding indeed.
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by gyro_robo 19y ago
A truly advanced Lisp dialect will infer parentheses.
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by gyro_robo 19y ago
Who's Google going to one-up if Yahoo goes away?
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by gyro_robo 19y ago
"Traf-O-Data used the device to process the paper tapes generated by traffic counting boxes and produced some revenue. Eventually, the State of Washington offered free traffic processing services, ending this revenue." And he's been against
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by gyro_robo 19y ago
No, but I can P a lot. Python, PHP, Perl, PostScript, PDF, Pascal, Pict, Pike, PL/1, Prolog. Don't you love IBM... Programming Language 1... Operating System 2...
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by gyro_robo 19y ago
If you actually manage to do the work, the only downside is some investors have a story about how single founders can't hack it. It's a prejudice. They've decided things already, a priori , without knowing your particular details. Wheth
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by gyro_robo 19y ago
Just e-mail him. He actually reads and responds :)
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by gyro_robo 19y ago
CampusU has filed to go public on the Nasdaq where it plans to raise $28.8M. Doesn't this further argue that going public is beside the point? The point is making money, and when you're that small, the whims of investors can wipe you rig
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by gyro_robo 19y ago
Thanks! I've wondered about that since I saw the interview. Looks like he got 1% also. "Cheriton is also credited for setting up Stanford students Sergey Brin and Larry Page with money men at Kleiner Perkins, thus becoming one of the earl
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by gyro_robo 19y ago
+ For sufficiently side-effect-/IO-excluding values of " any ".
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by gyro_robo 19y ago
Why not the Rails to JavaScript port by another Steve... http://code.google.com/p/trimpath/wiki/TrimJunction
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by gyro_robo 19y ago
In reference to: http://www.iunknown.com/2007/06/steve-yegge-por.html Steve Yen already did it years ago! Kind of. The code looks pretty brief.
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by gyro_robo 19y ago
Looks like it: http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html Larry and Sergey's Charlie Rose interview is a bit unclear, because Larry talks about getting that check from a "David Sheridan" or "Sheraton", one of the "founders of Sun". I t
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by gyro_robo 19y ago
The initial $100,000 check he wrote to the Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page is an investment now worth more than $1.5 billion. So $100k for 1%? That's 40x the YC rate. What kind of dilution are we talking about?
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by gyro_robo 19y ago
Too old? You're never too old. I think people don't do themselves any favors by disqualifying themselves , in ANY arena. If someone else wants to, they can, but that's their problem -- always be confident you bring a lot to the table an
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by gyro_robo 19y ago
Hmm, apparently a missing listen() means they have to bring in an entire second language and VM. I don't get why normal sockets are so anathema to web purveyors.
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by gyro_robo 19y ago
What can't Flash do?
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by gyro_robo 19y ago
Condensed version: Making money. Edit: No, really. "Because, really, what else could it possibly be?"
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by gyro_robo 19y ago
If they're using Java they could just as well use a Java video player. My guess is that it's closer to "off-the-shelf" for Flash, and the networking stuff is closer to existing code in Java. I'm sure those parts'll all be redone in Flas
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by gyro_robo 19y ago
The Andreessen guide: Have Jim Clark find you . Marc: You may not know me, but I'm the founder and former chairman of Silicon Graphics. As you may have read in the press lately, I'm leaving SGI. I plan to form a new company. I would l

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