portLAN

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by portLAN 19y ago
Thank you for the thoughtful replies. I gather I need to (1) practice the art of diplomacy; and then (2) relocate. Probably wouldn't do to meet investors and still be overly brash!
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by portLAN 19y ago
Saying things the right way in dealing with people is an art. I'm mostly around computers... kind of like a lawyer who comes home and then deals with his family by continuing the cross-examinations! Thanks for pointing it out; I was thin
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by portLAN 19y ago
> you're trolling, and its annoying. No. Objecting to platitudes isn't trolling. The statements most commonly described as "platitudes" are short proverbs and aphorisms which are intended to motivate or encourage another person, but
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by portLAN 19y ago
> Nobody asked. Actually that's how this whole debate got started -- I asked: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=52613 > because nobody is doing deals in Boston So in your opinion would YC be better off doing both batches in Sili
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by portLAN 19y ago
I appreciate that you mean well; it seems that you're advising people on how to do something you haven't done, however, which is the same situation as at the top of the thread. My impression is that the best way to meet investors is to li
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by portLAN 19y ago
> Show it to industry contacts. You need industry contacts first. Suggestions? > Take over the world. (Microsoft) "Left as an exercise for the reader."
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by portLAN 19y ago
> I respond to posts here with specific advice whenever there's a question I feel qualified to answer. You haven't explained how your start-up succeeded without YC. > seen Guy Kawasaki's Art of the Start I hope you're kidding abou
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by portLAN 19y ago
YC's value, as is repeated often, is in the advice and contacts. Finding 30 investors that will sit through your demo is something most developers don't know anything about. GGP is conspicuously silent on how to pull off that trick with
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by portLAN 19y ago
YC is a known strategy. If someone is suggesting an alternative approach, details would be useful. "You can do it too!" works better when they aren't telling you to pursue a different strategy than they did with no specifics.
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by portLAN 19y ago
Why don't you tell us how you did it? *cough* Virtualmin -- YC Winter 2007 *cough* Are you suggesting in retrospect that you'd have preferred a different strategy?
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by portLAN 19y ago
If you can get something together by Oct 11 for YC's deadline, you can be demoing to investors in March. http://ycombinator.com/w2008.html
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by portLAN 19y ago
http://lwn.net/Articles/66665/ http://lwn.net/Articles/66666/ Are all those sixes a coincidence? And the finale, "666" + "69" = CrAzY delicious! http://lwn.net/Articles/66669/
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by portLAN 19y ago
> Well, why not the daguerrotype? It doesn't update in real time. To go back to your Starcraft example, that is why Starcraft is a game, and the screenshots on the box are not. > what value is there in making that distinction? To mo
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by portLAN 19y ago
> I was not inspired enough to make it to the ten-minute mark. That's too bad. I personally found the second half quite interesting. > even more precious to hear him refer to the telephone as the first virtual reality technology. W
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by portLAN 19y ago
A little background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil "Kurzweil was the principal developer of the first omni-font optical character recognition system, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first CCD flatb
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by portLAN 19y ago
"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong." -- Arthur C. Clarke If you're looking at academic papers
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by portLAN 19y ago
> It hasn't happened yet so acting like it's inevitable without giving a shred of reason why except people have been wrong in the past is unreasonable because "Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try
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by portLAN 19y ago
http://www.stanford.edu/~blp/avl/ * Binary search trees * AVL trees * Red-black trees
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TED: Ray Kurzweil delivers inspirational talk on the power of accelerating technology; AI by 2029(ted.com)
12 points by portLAN 19y ago|21 comments
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by portLAN 19y ago
> and I don't believe it. Yoda: "That is why you fail." See http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/38 Cf. heavier-than-air flying machines, walking on the Moon, the Internet, sub-4-minute-mile, summiting Everest, Deep Blue, the
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by portLAN 19y ago
Don't forget we're planning to bomb Pearl Harbor. Chinpokomon.
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by portLAN 19y ago
> Gabor's posts here have indicated that they're doing stuff with NLP NLP? Great, maybe it can make me get over my Luposlipophobia .
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by portLAN 19y ago
My school experience indicates that the career path that can be predicted for gifted youth at age 13 is: burnout . Hopefully things have improved since then.
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by portLAN 19y ago
Cal Newport graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College in 2004, and is currently a Computer Science Ph.D. candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Something about a buck fifty in late fees at the public library.
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by portLAN 19y ago
Yes; and conflict of interest is a perfectly valid basis for questioning impartiality as a matter of jurisprudence.
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by portLAN 19y ago
Whether you think you can, or think you're Kant, you're right.
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by portLAN 19y ago
Marvel Comics up 35c in afternoon trading.
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by portLAN 19y ago
I've been doing the splits on chairs and having coconuts dropped on my abs from increasing heights but I still can't catch tiny koi fish while I'm blindfolded. When do we learn the Art of Flipping Off Your Customers?
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by portLAN 19y ago
Install Vista and that'll flip him. Flip him for real.
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by portLAN 19y ago
libavl. Next?

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