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Startup Story: A Cautionary Tale

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Startup Story: A Cautionary Tale. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Maybe we should break up," she says. You close the door behind you and head towards the subway. All you can think about is all the people that would lose their jobs if your company got shut down. And then you think about all the...Dev/C...

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Bill Watterson's Commencement Speech to Kenyon College Class of 1990

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Bill Wattersons Commencement Speech to Kenyon College Class of 1990. I really love this commencement speech. It's not about technology, it's not about business, it's not even about success or making money. It's simply a very real, honest examination of what life is like out here in the 'real world.' It seems like the thing that every commencing college student should hear, but none will understand (until it's too late.). It is a stark reminder that the. May 20, 1990. Wait, didn't I graduate already?

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Hypem Extension For Chrome Lets You Download Your Favorites

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Hypem Extension For Chrome Lets You Download Your Favorites. This sweet new Chrome extension. Creates a temporary history of the songs you've been listening to and provides an easy download link to nab your favorite tracks. It even sets the right name on the file and adds id3 tags. I'm using it right now and I have to say, it is very convenient. My biggest gripe with Hypem. The creator of the plugin, also plans to add desktop alerts for what track is playing and support hot keys. Sounds pretty sweet.

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Xcode Sucks And Here's Why

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Xcode Sucks And Heres Why. This is how Xcode manages your file hierarchy and project workspace. I have never seen something have such tremendous lag and failure rate when connecting to the emulator. Approximately 50% of the time Xcode will just hang, and never connect to the emulator when I run the project. Ditto goes for running the project on a device. There have been numerous times i just have to kill Xcode. Youll need some code like this for stretching images in IOS4 and 5. At the very best, adding a...

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Which Programming Language Should You Learn To Make Money?

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Which Programming Language Should You Learn To Make Money? I often hear people ask what programming language they should learn first. But the question should be: why do you want to program in the first place? If you are interested in it because it seems fun, then any language will do. But I have a feeling some of you have bills to pay, and youre thinking it wouldnt be so bad if programming could foot some of that. Now the question is ponderable, but be warned, the answer wont be the same for everybody.

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What Is Growth Hacking?

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What Is Growth Hacking? Full disclosure: I run a growth hacking service called Followme.io. I hear it a lot, I see it everywhere. Growth hack your userbase! Growth hacks for more followers! Growth hack your way to success! But is it real, and does it work? The short answer is yes, it works. But the how and why may not be palapable to everyone. And a trend was born. Wikipedia cites mega startups like Dropbox, Twitter and Airbnb as employing growth hacks, and offers these examples of growth hacks:. The 'ha...

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Big Companies Are Trying To Protect You, For Once

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Big Companies Are Trying To Protect You, For Once. Three big players and one little guy are looking out for your best interests. It is a good time to be a consumer. In the past we've seen loads of debacles around Facebook and privacy, and it seems like these guys don't want to make the same mistake. The most recent protector of your identity is Apple. A few months ago they announced they would no longer allow developers to track your UDID. And finally, there is this chart. You may also find posts about v...

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Why We Didn't Get Into Y Combinator

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Why We Didnt Get Into Y Combinator. Our idea sucked. That was probably the biggest reason. Other factors include: we had no prototype, no users, no traction and no revenue. We went to YC NYC. Also, YC is accepting applications without ideas. Which is exactly what we did. Seriously. And in retrospect it makes 100% sense to me that YC would not want to invest in something boring like development tools. I think it may still be a good market. Though. But not only was our idea boring, it was half baked. If I ...

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If You Build It, They Won't Come: A Warning To Developers

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If You Build It, They Wont Come: A Warning To Developers. That was one of the best lessons Ive learned in recent years, something I like to call the. Mentality. That if you build it, they will come. They being the critical mass, the teeming hoard, ready to blast your servers to hell. And it being anything your fingers could program, possibly something you thought of with a friend, and most likely involving social, mobile, geolocation or all of the above. We should build something. 4 years ago Reply.

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5 Ideas For Your Next Startup

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5 Ideas For Your Next Startup. It feel like every week that I read some post on Hacker News. Or some random blog post extolling the virtues of free love with our ideas. People say that ideas are cheap, it's execution that matters. They say that nobody is interested in stealing your crappy idea. And if your idea is worth anything, you will have to shove it down peoples throats. I think that ideas are floating around in the collective unconscious. 1) Communication tools for Product-to-Developer. I have a f...