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I'd have to agree that in my case, I'm pursuing a full-time start up after having worked for a few years, saving up a bit of cash that will hold me over for the next few years. Along the way, gaining some experience from the corporate sector to bring to the start-up.
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It also adds the "Thanks. You did." line to the submit form.
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Yes, but I already live here. =)
Yes, but I already live here. =)Let me know of any meetups!
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If it is not too much of an hassle, I would advise you to test on IE6. But, unfortunaltely, it is usually too much of an hassle.
The last time the LLVM backend was mentioned on the PyPy blog it was mentioned near the phrase "unmaintained and at least partially broken"

Link: http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2008/10/sprint-discussions-rele...
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OK You've got a point. But let us say only 20% of the applicants stay in Atlanta. That's 4 more than otherwise would. Also, as I said before, once you pass the seed stage, it's easier (but not valley easy) to get the $1M you mention in "Can you Buy a Silicon Valley". It will help long term.

Basically, if we could at least get the ease of raising seed funding in Atlanta at parity with the ease of raising 1st round for a startup with revenues, it would be a significant win for us.

I do agree with you that if there were more VCs funding at the $1M level in Atlanta, we could keep all the Shotput applicants here and maybe a bunch of startups would move from across the country to Atlanta. But since politicians are unlikely to be as enlightened as making the $1B investment you mention in your essay would require, we'll have to attract private investors. If 1 of those 4 startups has a big successful exit, we'll probably get 1 more large fund to come to Atlanta.
I saw it as noted in my above comment. It just doesn't give me the warm fuzzies that it really worked, but that's just my feedback.
I have a Harvard MBA and took Christensen's class. The guy has a major outsized ego and frankly I didn't learn much more in his class than I did from his book (other than he's diabetic, Mormon and likes to cold call!).
I agree with you. It seems in this day and age if you wanted to find some information about a topic you cared about you could gather enough information online or by asking some experts. Lobbyists tend to have a biased opinion.
You know, today morning I was thinking of exactly same project. A bit like everyblock.com

I am interested in contributing to the project, if you need help. Let me know.
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I think it's ideal to have some sort of part time job. In my case, I have a full time job and can't leave it for two reasons:

1) I am on H1b-Visa [More Important than #2, so didn't even think about applying for YC this summer, though I would love to]

2) I need $$$ :-)

I typically try to wake up early(6am), hit the gym, put in my 8/9 hrs at work so I am free by 5-6 pm. Now I have potentially 6 more hours till 12:00 am during which I try to get some work done on my personal projects OR go to silicon valley meetups etc Or just laze/party out completely some days. [Potentially 30 hrs in 5 days]

So, time is not really a problem, it's more of a Time management and Motivation that will carry you forward. I am still tweaking both :-)

PS: On another note, I will be up in the SF city for StartupWeekend. Still looking for people to partner up ? Anyone Interested ??
No, I still use it because the extension model is so awesome. I have and actually use about 35 extensions, as well as doing many custom modifications to how Firefox renders pages that you just can't do in other browsers (that I know of).

So I am sticking with Firefox, but it's just sad (from my perspective) to see it deteriorate. Maybe it's a consequence and the right thing to do as it has become more focused on the hoi polloi, but it's leaving me behind.
Why would I ever want to view a slide show of web sites? I'm curious.
Yes, if these become affordable in countries such as the Philippines (where emissions choke the air and it's not uncommon to see 3+ people sharing a motorbike or trike), I can imagine it would improve quality of life to a noticeable degree.
Everyone's how is going to be different and probably not applicable to your situation but here is what you can do...just make it fucking happen. This small piece of advice may not seem that helpful but what I'm trying to say is you're nuking it. You're over thinking. Jump in head first and see what happens.

On that note, I don't recommend any plan that involves your parents, but that's just my undying need for self-reliance.

If you really want to know what I do to survive, nothing special really. I cut back my costs but don't eat only ramen and live in a box. I pick up some consulting and freelance jobs and help out people with other stuff when I'm in need (menial labor can be a good thing). The key is flexibility. I think about my company 24/7, but there is no way I can work on it that much. There is more than enough time in the day to make a living wage and work on your startup full-time, just make it happen.
I gave it a try for six months or so, and it turned out to be visually distracting and seemed to be purposed to being a substitute bookmarks -- I am not really sure what the intent of it was, despite all that I've read about it on various places Mozilla developers hang out.

Anyway, I just didn't appreciate how visually distracting it was, how it searched through my bookmarks and other areas I'd prefer that it not mess with, and how it also slowed down the browser significantly while the algorithm is working. Since I have about 7,000 bookmarks, it was a noticeable slowdown.

I disabled it from searching bookmarks, and then disabled it altogether, and was much happier with the old behavior (as much of it as can be rescued, anyway).
I was pretty sure that anywhere.fm helped launch a pay service during the acquisition process. I wonder how that has contributed to help paying the bills?
I imagine picking the people to interview is an exciting part of running something like YC. And although the act of reading paper applications is probably more prosaic in reality, the videos should make it more interesting.
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But Wufoo still deals with a Big Idea: namely, something that's creating a large infrastructure on the Internet. 37signals is a private, internal service: they make things that appeal to closed niches. On the other hand, Wufoo is something that's more public, in a sense.

Maybe it's just a matter of what YC companies get named more than others, but the ones that immediately come to mind are big-problem companies. Reddit for finding news online. Disqus for comments. Scribd for document indexing. Wufoo for forms. There aren't as many niche sites (versus something like TechStars, which had a cooking site) - or am I just missing lots of niche YC sites?
It depends on the day. I use multiple timers to track my time, and the correlation goes like this >

The more timers I have correlates to more multi-tasking, and when I multi-task, I usually deflate quicker, so I end up losing steam at around the 6th hour. It takes some coffee to finish up the last two.

On the flip side if I'm working on one or two projects I can go 8hrs with no problems.
Can a company with 175 million users ever change?
As an aside, I took a look at your submissions, and it's paltry, meaning that you got most of your 1400 points from commenting. Good comments.
I _can_ do more than 4 or 5 hours in a day, but not sustainably. I'll occasionally go into "hackertrance" and do a week or mores work in one 15 or 20 hour stint, but I'll usually then need to take a day or two off (or spend a day or two not actually achieving much if I don't). If I push myself to 8 or 10 hours a day of serious thinking work, I'll fade in a few days or so...
But let us say only 20% of the applicants stay in Atlanta.

This assumption is off by an order of magnitude. YC funded 61 startups in Boston. Only 3 are still there, and 1 of those is talking about moving to SV. So the assumption should be more like 2-3%.
I think many developer tools - and perhaps Unix-style tools in particular - suffer from this problem of skipping past concepts to syntax. There's an inherent expectation that you aren't a user who wants just the "shallow" common-case uses, but instead are going to go through a rite of passage where you learn the ins and outs of all the concepts the tool uses, make it part of your daily life, and piece it together with the other small powerful tools into some conglomeration that solves your problem.

This is great for developers, but bad for end-users, as a lot of users will run away before learning new concepts(they're busy enough already), while others will take a macho posturing attitude towards it and look down on the people who ran away. The community gets polarized. Git exemplifies this kind of thing, for better or for worse.

It's not a huge surprise that so many developers have switched from Linux to OSX, since the latter has made many more provisions towards the newbie end-user; it indicates that most developers don't want to take on this kind of burden, at least not all the time.
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Rod's comment didn't seem biased, but yours sure does.

Not intended as a flame, of course - just trying to point out that you are kind of proving his point.
Thanks.

Either the people here don't get math jokes, or I commented too late to catch most readers. I'll try reposting on some more appropriate thread later...

...since if any joke can be repeated more than once, it's that one, right? Maybe everyone's just heard it a thousand times.
Second the advice about early starts. Engineering and then grad school inevitably turned me into an insomniac but my productivity since I had to (more like was forced to) start waking up early as increased a lot.

And re: "Find poetry in the humdrum". If big chunks of your life regularly feel humdrum, you're either doing it wrong or doing the wrong thing.
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Could anyone offer more advice for making self-imposed deadlines stick?
Thanks for the insight. I wouldn't have noticed any similarity to the multiples of 1/19. Accepting this, though, is there a reason it would have been obvious to him that there was no smaller number?

The first such number, by the way, does indeed have 18 digits. I got there by considering every final digit and figuring out how long the string needed to be before the final digit reoccurred with no carry.

(edit: oops, just read your explanation below which pretty much answers this)
Thanks. If I end up needing an actual job/career, you're right -- I'd have to get out of here in order to find anything enjoyable. But I think as a startup founder, the situation's different -- I'm not directly dependent on the job market here, so I'm not immediately inconvenienced by a lack of good CS jobs.
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It's definitely not going to die any time soon.

The "M" in an MBA still stands for Master's degree. Master degrees are certainly not worthless. If the author of the article wants to disparage graduate level studies, he certainly ought to go after more than one particular brand of degree. The MBA hating is getting really old.
Woohooo...great review. These cars are now built at a factory near my hometown (Ahmedabad). Believe it or not, that's one of the main things keeping the real estate prices there up when they are plummeting across the rest of the country (and the world).
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Not at all! It's great to have new, interesting people flooding to your location.
I agree with IsaacSchlueter's comments, some of the examples/explanations given are just incorrect.

<address> is supposed to be used only to signify the address of the author of the current page, not any address. The <cite> example doesn't really make any sense, as he doesn't actually have any quotation to cite. And Twitter is an acronym for "Founded in 2006"? What?
I was basing it off the 4/20 TechStars number but o.k.

This is getting me depressed. I am off to go write some code to work it off!
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At this point, does more applicants mean better participants?
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If the answer does not involve A/B testing I will be upset.

[Turns out it is a bit more clever and probably less effective -- they used a rules system to eliminate "obviously" poor designs and then ranked the rest using Amazon Turk. Points for innovation, but I'm skeptical that people are good judges of what they find to be beautiful, as weird as that sounds.]
Bingo! I too live in my parents' basement - it has it's perks and a few downfalls as well. Aside from saving money, I've found it easier to code at all hours of the night and day while in the basement. There's also an added sense of privacy which seems to give me some mental comfort as well. On the downside, I've now become part of the super-nerd stereotype: jobless and living in my parents' basement. =)

On a side note, I've also found it increasingly difficult to keep in touch with old friends post-grad. The majority of my time is now devoted to my projects rather than hanging out or attempting to reconnect.
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free will is what optimizing a decision tree feels like when you're the evaluation function.
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These are not really "rare" HTML tags. More like. . . common XML tags.
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Get a part time job, find friends with an extra room and live on the bare essentials. If you don't have the comfort of parents who can help you out then it is all the more pressing for you to MAKE your startup succeed (if that's the route you want to take).
With all due respect, I could have cut and pasted your post from any global warming website. I note this is your first comment on this group. Did you come just for this topic?

In this utopia you describe, you neglect to explain what miraculous devices will produce this infinite energy supply. I think that's an important point that you left out. If you're wrong on that point, then we've hurt people for nothing, right?

Since we're cutting and pasting from web sites, let me just paste the following from http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html , Everything else is just philosophy.

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Water vapor constitutes Earth's most significant greenhouse gas, accounting for about 95% of Earth's greenhouse effect (4). Interestingly, many "facts and figures' regarding global warming completely ignore the powerful effects of water vapor in the greenhouse system, carelessly (perhaps, deliberately) overstating human impacts as much as 20-fold.

Water vapor is 99.999% of natural origin. Other atmospheric greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), and miscellaneous other gases (CFC's, etc.), are also mostly of natural origin (except for the latter, which is mostly anthropogenic).

Human activites contribute slightly to greenhouse gas concentrations through farming, manufacturing, power generation, and transportation. However, these emissions are so dwarfed in comparison to emissions from natural sources we can do nothing about, that even the most costly efforts to limit human emissions would have a very small-- perhaps undetectable-- effect on global climate.
Well, since you asked for an obvious reason, and not a completely separate derivation, here it is.

The process of rotating a repeating decimal expansion x by 1 digit means adding some integer n and dividing by 10.

(n + x) / 10 = 2x

Simplifying, n = 19x, i.e. x = n/19. So you know the number has to correspond to a decimal expansion of n/19, which is 18 digits in length.
I started my first company by getting supported by my partner, working all day & night :). I had a deadline of 6 months to release which I met. We lived like students (still in a student flat), and by no means had any disposable income. It was exciting and daring, and paid off.

My advice, find a brainy girl/boy who believes in you (and can add value in their own way) and talk it over :)
Human nature is not subject to Moore's Law.
I've written C code emitters too. FWIW, I've found nicely-indented output templates help to keep the source code of the emitter clear (and with no need to get at the enclosing scopes). But the question you raised was whether indentation-only was harder to generate, and I'd say no, because code.replace('\n', '\n ') is as simple as '{' + code + '}', if slightly slower.
The exact text says that Apple "reserves the right to keep the commission". I don't think that's synonymous with "will always keep the commission", unless there's something weird about legal jargon that changes the meaning of "reserves the right". It would help to actually hear a story from an iPhone developer who was debited the 30% commission during a refund.
you can argue that an MBA is very shallow on technical skills. There is a large difference between MBA, and getting something like Masters in Finance.

MBA is the more generic one, where you get to learn fewer skills, many of which you can learn while working. Somebody with real finance skills, is more valuable in my eyes.

Having done a year part time program, I can say that the number one thing I learned there was that MBA is very overrated, and you can pick a lot of skills/more by being in the right place (small company).

It might be valuable for people that are looking into higher title in the coorporate world/consulting (an MBA is more like a gateway to some jobs), but for all those startupers, it is really of little value.

You waste a lot of money and 2 years of your life that you could have been spending creating a real product.

Now with all that financial engineering bubble going away, we will see the real value of the MBA.
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It worked. The "Thanks, you did" isn't just something that gets generated automatically as a result of clicking submit. The code that prints this doesn't know where you came from; it decides whether or not to print "Thanks you did" by checking whether your application has been modified since the last time it was submitted.
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In the Czech Republic people used to have two windows -- an inner and an outer. Not only is it great for insulation but you can keep things between the two windows and it stays cold without freezing.
Hard to say. The quality of the top group of applicants (say, the ones we invite to interviews) has definitely gone up, but it's hard to say whether it's because the total pool is larger, or because more smart people want to start startups, or because as YC seems more legit, better founders apply.
Good points all. Of all things, you've managed to remind me of "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Rev...) which gave rise to that hugely overused "paradigm shift" phrase.
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I have to disagree with some of what you said.

It was the USSR and the US who were the biggest allies in WW2. China was a non factor. And after WW2, the US opposed Mao by supporting the losing side. The USSR supported Mao's revolution. Trade began between China and the US in the 70's but it was not part of a plan to defeat the soviet union. It only really picked up at the end of the cold war.

I don't think Japan is being usurped. If and when the re-unification happens, it will be chaos. South Korea just hopes it does not bankrupt them. Having a new source of inexpensive labor will not help Korea surpass Japan. China is close by and there is still plenty of inexpensive labor to be had there.

Also, its not like just Japan uses Chinese manufacturing. The whole world does including the US. Japans engineering head-start was not given to them by the Marshall plan(which was mostly directed at europe). They earned it starting in the 50's.
Try telling people about them; it will motivate you. Also, when you write down things to do, try to write down the smallest possible parts of the item as a task and don't include things like "think about," "decide," etc.

i.e.:

bad: 1. create concept for new message queuing 2. implemeting queuing
better: 1. design message header 2. write message header parser 3. write a message pump 4. etc
Hm, yes - it would be interesting to turn crontabs directly into .ics files for export into Google Calendar or iCal.
On the downside, I've now become part of the super-nerd stereotype: jobless and living in my parents' basement. =)

You're probably just being facetious, but you're not jobless; you just don't have a job that involves working under contract for someone else. ;-)
Part time. But as the weeks go by it's more obvious that it needs to be full time. I took the day off yesterday and got more done than I have the previous eight or ten nights after work. It's not that I don't make progress on evenings and weekends, but there's no replacement for eight, ten, twelve hours where you really get into the hard stuff. I rarely work straight through for that long, so it's not just a result of having more time. It's more about being able to focus solely on one project (and one that I love). On July 11 I'm going full time and will get to do that every day.
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Another underutilized set is definition list tags. They work well when you want to create a box with paired text and images.
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No, you're confusing the grade with credit. Grade 'D' denotes below average, Grade 'F' means failure. But most schools don't award class credit for below average ('D' grade). I think this explains why you would say this, correct? So they're not interchangeable, they denote performance.
I have found that any art does the trick for me. Over my life I've played Viola, crafted pottery, attempted to paint, and done photography. Of those two were wildly expensive (photography, oil painting), and the others were cheaper. I think the main draw of modern photography for programmers is that a great deal of our technical skill transfers into every part of photography except taking a good picture -- so we don't feel baffled when we first start.

That said, if you want to take up music or some other art, it's never too late. Music lessons are fairly cheap and honestly indispensable (I held my viola wrong for six months of practice before I started lessons). Painting is a much freer art and you can produce decent works on your own without instruction. If you do painting, I personally found oil painting an amazing medium because it allowed me to constantly improve my paintings no matter how bad they started =p.
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