rottendoubt

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by rottendoubt 6y ago
looking forward to this. =)
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by rottendoubt 15y ago
Ya, agreed. The second one was nowhere near as good as the first. Also have been wondering when new courses will come out. I finished the first two in two days (one each day) and was disappointed there weren't any more. It's been about
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by rottendoubt 15y ago
Pretty interesting how many he got right or close....
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by rottendoubt 15y ago
I wonder if this could be used for a game somehow...
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by rottendoubt 15y ago
Just curious if Dropbox had a MVP? If so, what was it? Was it ready and launched by Demo Day? Was it a purely free model, or were they already going with the freemium model at launch?
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by rottendoubt 15y ago
Just read through the whole interview. Wow. Had no idea he did all that. That is just amazing.
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by rottendoubt 15y ago
Make one or two of them co-founders. Until you see traction, you have no choice but to keep the team extremely small and bootstrap like crazy.
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by rottendoubt 15y ago
Downloading now. Will give it a try. Thanks!
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by rottendoubt 15y ago
Diablo 2 gave me RSI (repetitive stress injury). =/
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by rottendoubt 15y ago
What I do is give my brother my password for Steam and not keep a copy for myself. When I am busy, I just log out of Steam and I can't play any games until I ask my brother for the password.
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by rottendoubt 15y ago
Cut your costs down to just rent plus servers. Keep only the technical people plus yourself. Have everyone work for free in exchange for equity until you see traction. The ones that believe in the company and the idea enough will do it.
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by rottendoubt 15y ago
Ya, I read about that and I really, really, really respect him for that. kaffeinecoma - Google "The Woz Plan" for more.
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by rottendoubt 15y ago
Thanks for the clarification. So it has to be some sort of verbally transmitted code (ie. a phrase) since it's used over the radio? That pretty much takes out almost all the guesses posted here so far.
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by rottendoubt 15y ago
I hope I never have to smell either (dead mouse or dead human). =/
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by rottendoubt 15y ago
Someone posted on the original article that "You cannot recall smells..." That is one possibility. Pandarus could give Manelaus a bottle of a very specific perfume that Pandarus was familiar with. If Pandarus smelled the perfume in the f
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by rottendoubt 15y ago
Ya, I'm wondering that myself. Or it could mean that Pandarus gave Menaleus a way for Menaleus to identify himself (Menaleus) to others. If so, then it could be something unique to Menaleus such as his finger print. Menaleus could use hi
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The Machine That Changed the World (includes interviews with the two Steves)(waxy.org)
1 points by rottendoubt 15y ago|0 comments
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by rottendoubt 15y ago
If I were Google, I would have done it. Offered $2B and taken the 2-year deal with Hulu. Match it up with YouTube, grow it as big as possible, and completely dominate online video to the point of creating a monopoly. At that point, you'd
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by rottendoubt 15y ago
I usually ask to meet up in a very central place for coffee. And to save on time, I usually group a bunch of meetings back to back at the exact same spot.
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by rottendoubt 15y ago
Love it! Great words of wisdom.
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by rottendoubt 15y ago
New York Times story on one of the guys mentioned in the article (Joe Engressia): http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/20/us/20engressia.html
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by rottendoubt 15y ago
The article itself could be the basis for a movie.
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by rottendoubt 15y ago
Not sure if you all have seen this. One of the co-founders of YC, Jessica Livingston, wrote a great blog post on this exact subject: www.foundersatwork.com/1/post/2011/01/what-stops-female-founders.html
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by rottendoubt 15y ago
Oh, I agree. I'm the same way (I'm 37). It's just that differences in biology force women to consider the issue earlier than men. I'm guessing that societal pressure also plays a part as well -- ie. parents may push a woman at 30 to get
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by rottendoubt 15y ago
From the Atari article someone linked to a few days back about Steve Jobs, his boss said he contracted hepatitis when he made a spiritual journey to India. If it's true, it explains all the health issues Steve dealt with later in life. He
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by rottendoubt 15y ago
I was just having dinner with a female friend that was an EECS major (electrical engineering computer science) from UC Berkeley and she brought up another point. She said whenever she took classes and needed a partner, she'd always have gu
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by rottendoubt 15y ago
My thoughts: 1) As jlees mentioned below, you need to look at the "subset of women hackers who also have some entrepreneurial drive" when looking at something like YC. The 4% doesn't really surprise me at all. 2) My observation is that wom
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by rottendoubt 15y ago
This is great. Thanks for sharing and please keep it coming! =D
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by rottendoubt 15y ago
This article was a little bit before my time (I was born in 1974). I found it fascinating, though! Pre-computer hackers. I wish I had seen some of the books you mentioned when I was younger. =)
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The article that inspired Steve Jobs: “Secrets of the Little Blue Box”(slate.com)
49 points by rottendoubt 15y ago|8 comments

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