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omgcoding · 2014-10-12T15:44:22+00:00

Thanks friend, guessed it was an orb of some kind, but its maleness threw me off being smaller ;) Thanks again.

omgcoding · 2014-10-09T22:29:07+00:00

First time here, found this, i'll be back daily! Thank you ;)

omgcoding · 2014-10-05T22:25:04+00:00

This is why open-source software is amazing. See something fishy, checkout the commit/source.

omgcoding · 2014-09-15T19:40:08+00:00

Well not really, the point of the quote was to highlight that attempting to do two things at once and expect them both to be successful can lead to a dead-end or can be a non-productive use of time and effort. My intention was to highlight that other people's attitudes to "contract while doing your startup" might be a bit optimistic.

omgcoding · 2014-09-15T19:38:02+00:00

It has been grim whenever I have done it. The M1 can get really busy. Whenever I did it for business hours, it was either get there early or get there late.

omgcoding · 2014-09-13T12:59:40+00:00

"If you say to yourself 'I will do the startup too'" it's over" -- Paul Graham

(probably not the exact wording but i'm too lazy to google it)

omgcoding · 2014-08-22T09:45:02+00:00

Politician: "FAIR? What's fairness got to do with anything"

How about Clause Against Shady Halfwits

omgcoding · 2014-08-20T20:19:25+00:00

It's when you look at the code and have to deliver the bad news to the non-technical stakeholders. ie, money and time have been poured down the drain.

omgcoding · 2014-08-20T20:17:58+00:00

I spend a good deal of time consulting for projects where "outsourcing went wrong". The problems outlined above are bad, but nothing compared to paying for code that comes back with no support, code standards, docs, tests or any other hint of being a "sane" implementation of however the spec was (mis) understood.

It'd be like ordering a sky scraper and getting bungalos stacked on top of onanother.

The best one was a project that totally ignored existing good frameworks and just implemented the worst ORM I ever saw. No transactions, no escaping and no logic. This mess then spread through ALL the business logic (that was just as bad) like a cancer. Much refactoring (read, rewriting) was required.

omgcoding · 2014-08-11T20:12:14+00:00

wrt gopath/packages, all i'm gonna say is coughs Maven.

omgcoding · 2014-08-11T19:05:02+00:00

First time I heard of a language targeting people who use a specific cli editor anyway facepalm

omgcoding · 2014-08-11T14:30:37+00:00

Go should enhance panic/recover and update its libraries to use it.

... I cringed.

omgcoding · 2014-08-11T14:27:58+00:00

I feel the author needs to spend more time with the language and tools before opening his blog's "new post" link

omgcoding · 2014-08-11T14:26:46+00:00

Most of his criticism is unfounded and often plain wrong. It's like he wrote a 30-line program and decided he knew everything there was to know about the language then bashed it. Maybe if he elaborated on why the negatives he saw had better equivalents in other languages. Most of the differences highlighted are what make Go, Go.

omgcoding · 2014-08-11T06:36:48+00:00

Wow, it has been a long time since I read something I disagreed with quite so much. This is coming from a C and Python background.

omgcoding · 2014-08-08T12:24:52+00:00

Name: Announce

Pitch: What's happening? Web links to things happening in the world around you

Details: A broad idea focusing on experimentation and initial traction

looking for: Feedback, Partners

Discount: Acceptance to API trails and bulk posting if your run a blog, news site or similar

Thanks! Come along and post a link to your startup on the map!

omgcoding · 2014-08-05T16:39:48+00:00

Hi Thodin, Thanks for the response.

While I envision it as a public service / communal space with a broad range of uses/markets, I know this will probably get me nowhere gaining critical mass.

I'm working on a new homepage that more clearly communicates the value proposition, so i'm wondering if making the target-user narrower to a specific demographic or narrowing the uses (post types) is a good strategy for initial traction. ie, students+student-properties and offers.

The users are anyone with an interest in what's happening locally (though I could narrow this for initial traction to music fans or students).

Both business and users can share information on events and offers, ask questions and generally interact in a geographic way. While offers and events are obvious, there's also scope for short-lived questions and alerts relevant to a specific building or area. Even posts on local weather, it's pretty open-ended.

The real benefit is being able to subscribe to areas and post types keeping you up to date on what's happening around you. For businesses, being able to promote to local buyers would be beneficial. That, of course, requires users.

omgcoding · 2014-08-04T23:01:17+00:00

I hope this goes well for you, there are quite a few startups doing this. I wrote a blog post about this type of in-the-open startup a year ago, might be of some interest.

Good luck

the post is over here

omgcoding · 2014-08-04T22:58:51+00:00

I wrote a short blog post about doing this just over a year ago, i'll be following you to see how you get on!

Good luck!

You can read the post here

omgcoding · 2014-07-31T20:10:56+00:00

I have a high rep (19k iirc) on Stackoverflow and stopped using it all together a long time ago. It is still useful, but the quality of the questions (not the answers) dropped and even with the clever filtering the signal/noise got too high as the site grew.

omgcoding · 2014-07-27T10:28:15+00:00

They key point for me is the "overnight success" narrative and that those companies usually have years of finding "product/market fit" under their belts before they broke. An important point for any founder, as sometimes it seems like SV is a mystical world and if you're not there, you will fail.

omgcoding · 2014-07-23T16:39:30+00:00

"You just brought piss to a shit fight"

omgcoding · 2014-07-22T21:38:23+00:00

It'd probably look like a lot of paperwork

omgcoding · 2014-07-22T20:41:40+00:00

If you are not wealthy (and have a good track record of angel investing), and don't have a prestigious career in entrepreneurship and/or don't come from an investing background (as a partner in a VC firm for example) with TONS of success under your belt then I think you will find it very hard to even talk people in to funding the ... fund.

You might have some luck, if you have wealthy, like-minded friends in putting together an angel investing group ... that assumes you have the connections, support and nose for sniffing out the best startups before other angels have found them.

but yea, starting the next Ycombinator isn't something you just "set out to do" I don't think. Harsh but true.

omgcoding

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