tomasienrbc

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by tomasienrbc 14y ago
I love all the "aren't the current players going to win this war" posts. That's a HUGE advantage for you: everybody is going to underestimate you and your possible impact.... until it's too late. This isn't a sure bet, not by a long shot, b
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by tomasienrbc 14y ago
This is the Moby Dick of blog posts. Incredibly boring, but that's the point: he's illustrating how boring his startup was, so he quit, just as HM illustrated the monotony of whaling by making Moby Dick beautifully written but unreadable. S
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by tomasienrbc 14y ago
The Moby Dick of blog posts. Boring, but that's that point.
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by tomasienrbc 14y ago
This is the Moby Dick of blog posts. Incredibly boring, but that's the point: he's illustrating how boring his startup was, so he quit, just as HM illustrated the monotony of whaling by making Moby Dick beautifully written but unreadable. S
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I Had That Idea Years Ago
2 points by tomasienrbc 15y ago|2 comments
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by tomasienrbc 15y ago
GREAT GL reference btw, really appreciate it BRO
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by tomasienrbc 15y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOdAbjebs-g It's supposed to be hard.
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The "Do Whatever It Takes" model: an alternative to the Lean Startup(blog.thecityswig.com)
2 points by tomasienrbc 15y ago|3 comments
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by tomasienrbc 15y ago
Sounds like he subscribes to the lean model too.
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by tomasienrbc 15y ago
This guy says he saw his business losing profits from the "tube" sites (free porn aggregators) but instead of bitching about it he said: thank you for raising the profile of our industry, now let me go innovate and create something to capit
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Kill Hollywood could learn from the porn industry(youtube.com)
3 points by tomasienrbc 15y ago|3 comments
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Just keep running
6 points by tomasienrbc 15y ago|3 comments
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by tomasienrbc 15y ago
A hacker that was 3x as productive as the average hacker in my company that specifically wanted 3x as much pay, as opposed to other benefits, as my average programmer would be suspicious to me. Great hackers want to be paid well, but they g
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by tomasienrbc 15y ago
Couldn't fit this in the title, but I would love comments on the UI/UX and code. We're building something totally different out of this (a local recommendation engine for finding what to buy and where to go when you want to drink and when y
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Criticisms/comments? Beta v0.9.1 (find local drink/beer/liquor deals)(thecityswig.com)
1 points by tomasienrbc 15y ago|1 comments
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by tomasienrbc 15y ago
My phrasing of "has anyone here solved it" implied I think it's crazy difficult, I know it's not. I'm just not getting it. If anyone has the code that works for it, gosh darnit I'd love it. tommy@thecityswig.com if you wanna email it
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Code Academy Intro to Objects lesson 6
1 points by tomasienrbc 15y ago|1 comments
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by tomasienrbc 15y ago
It was a series of posts, but you're right this was the wrong way to vent. This also wasn't passive aggressive it was aggressive aggressive. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_aggressive
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by tomasienrbc 15y ago
By the way, what is the process for getting on the front page? I'll be honst, with 19 points and a few comments I expected this thread to appear on the first or second page, but I can't even find it. Damn I hope Paul Graham isn't mad at me.
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by tomasienrbc 15y ago
I would like to be clear that I like Hacker News and I like Paul Graham's writing/thinking, but the posts that end up getting featured, especially on the Twitter feed, are starting to make me gag.
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by tomasienrbc 15y ago
I love Hacker News, but this is MORE a response to what gets featured on the Twitter feed. It's either this or, as many others have stated, very conventional "VC gave us a ton of money so we're super special, are you a super special/rocksta
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by tomasienrbc 15y ago
That sounds a little aggressive, but this isn't meant as a call out: I'm legitimately curious. Currently UnThink the "anti-Facebook" claims to have solves these issues, but they STILL make their users their product. Anybody got an idea on h
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Monetizing on consumer-taste startups
2 points by tomasienrbc 15y ago|4 comments
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by tomasienrbc 15y ago
No way! Their looking for certain things, this shouldn't stop anybody. Just keep building you guys, getting rejected from Y Combinator means nothing except that you won't be in Y Combinator. That's it.
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by tomasienrbc 15y ago
This should say either "God," or "Got" at the beginning. You get to choose!
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by tomasienrbc 15y ago
I control+f'd "accept" on this thread. No results except those asking if the emails were received. I'm thinking maybe acceptances haven't been sent yet. I got rejected, unsurprisingly. Beside the fact that nobody should expect to be rejecte
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by tomasienrbc 15y ago
Maybe that was harsh. I think Klout is fine as long as we don't take it too seriously. I believe they're dedicated to perfecting what they do, and that in a couple of years we'll see a much more interesting and useful product. For now, I wo
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by tomasienrbc 15y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS7nqwGt4-I
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by tomasienrbc 15y ago
Another brilliant part of their strategy: it's borderline impossible to friend people. It's like Google+'s closed Beta strategy except it's not a Beta, it's just the whole entire product! This is the future y'all, I'm telling you.
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by tomasienrbc 15y ago
And I think we can all agree that hurts Groupon in the longterm. So.... doesn't seem like it depends at all, regardless people are trying to avoid using Groupon.

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