Did you see PG's latest YCombo post?
Holy crap. First he does Quite Nicely(tm) with Lisp, then (then?) he
writes not one but two books trying to help others find Lisp to do as
well, when that doesn't work he does the Web thing and gets slashdotted
and all that, not good enough, folks still are not listening, then he
does the ycombo thing, some good luck, not much so against his better
judgment he divulges not one but thirty things they are looking for...
(a) I could have told him about You People(tm) and saved him /a lot/ of
trouble.
(b) Note to Bill...nah, too late.
kt
Kenny <·········@gmail.com> wrote:
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| Did you see PG's latest YCombo post?
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[Hint for those too lazy to find it: <http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html>]
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| ... all that, not good enough, folks still are not listening, then he
| does the ycombo thing, some good luck, not much so against his better
| judgment he divulges not one but thirty things they are looking for...
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The one I liked most:
27. Hardware/software hybrids. ... There's a lot of low-hanging
fruit in hardware; you can often do dramatically new things
by making comparatively small tweaks to existing stuff. ...
If you work on an idea of this type you'll tend to have the
field to yourself, because most hackers are afraid of hardware,
and most hardware companies can't write good software.
That's actually a scarily on-target summary of where I've always
been most productive in my career. Hmmm... Startup time again...?
With something Lispy on the software side...?
-Rob
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