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The screen's OK, once you get used to it, it'll stop feeling like a big deal, the extra pound and a half is something you'll feel every day.

Wow. 3MM raised, 119MM exit. 40x return, and they made that 3MM last 4 years from 2008-2012 with revenue. Congratulations!

Could you give me a link to the forum thread?

We now have an official channel on Roku: http://blog.roku.com/blog/2012/02/28/get-inspired-with-the-o... - but I'm not sure if the quality is still terrible?

I'll test it out myself, but any feedback/steps to reproduce would be more than welcome.

I'm not sure if Amazon Studios represents real democratization of movie-making, or if Primer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_(film) does. Of course cult classics like Primer are few and far between, just like successful startups.

Can someone point me to a good introduction/resources to R? Especially for web stuff?

You can try for an h1b if you're incorporated in the US and have a board. This is pretty new so ask an immigration attorney for help, more here: http://murthy.com/news/n_entre1.html http://murthy.com/news/n_entre2.html

Seconded. I'd be happy to provide time+resources. Ideally, you should just open-source the code.

Like, say, http://fon.com?

Better is relative.

While I love reading well researched and thoughtful pieces on certain topics, I also like the fact that, for instance, on HN there are quite a few off the cuff "idea" posts that are half-baked but meant to inspire conversation and discussion than to be authoritative treatises on the subject.

Merlin wanted to stop consuming and producing half-baked ideas and content, and that is his call.

I'm curious about why the artificial limit? The cable cos have enough backbone bandwidth, right? So why can't they just add channels and sell 100mbps+ today?

This is a great list, someone (maybe Chris?) should write a similar list for raising an angel/seed round

Move to valley. Pick up a stone. Throw it. Unless you're really unlucky, you'll hit an angel.

But seriously, other than AngelList (which is great if you have product+traction), go to meetups and network. If you're not in a tech hub (Bay area, NYC, Boston, London), move to one. Best of luck!

IANAL and I haven't ever tried anything of this sort but I think you can start your own LLC or C Corp, and work for it on OPT for 17months: http://www.ice.gov/sevis/stemlist.htm

You'd have to burn your OPT though, so be careful. In any case, talk to an immigration lawyer before you do anything.

Would love to chat, drop me a note (email in profile).

Yeah, I'm not certain if auctioning your time will really work, but once people start using the system, I'll know better. It is a fairly interesting problem, and lots of things you can do.

Yeah, that is a huge problem with elance, etc.

Two things I've been thinking about

1) Invite only referral system - You only get in if someone vouches for you -- keeps quality up, probably keeps your cost up as well, if you want bottom of the barrel you go to one of the other places.

2) If it ends up being completely open, then people can sort by third-party signals (github followers, stackoverflow karma, quora karma, linkedin connections, etc.)

Thanks for taking the survey!

So, I'm always getting asked for referrals to good people (engineers, designers, etc.) Here's what I'm thinking of building: http://auctionme.me (I'll find a better name, promise!) as a side project

But if you find yourself in that boat, please take the survey and let me know!

These might help:

Teach yourself programming in 10 years: http://norvig.com/21-days.html

and: http://innonate.com/hope/

Er, nothing in life is ever really instant... I know you're in a tough spot but if you're going to freelance seriously learn how to keep your project pipeline full ASAP. As a dev that's the hardest thing to learn when going solo. Chase down every lead, fill out every form and bid on everything that you're interested in and capable of. And then keep doing it.

All the best!

Ask your people? Most likely, everyone will want the day off. Also, 37signals does 4 day weeks and still produces enormous revenues...

Hmm. This isn't in any way, shape or form, like Apple - except for the one guy at the top...

http://www.cogmap.com/chart/apple,-inc.

Apple seems to be divided into Design, Software Engineering, Product Marketing, Applications, along with Operations and Legal, etc.

Think the bigger question here is, how long till you (we) end up paying to bypass the wall.

If the Times does have content worth paying for, then perhaps we'll stop freeloading and pay for it, right? :)

500k+ right now. Wow, this thing is spreading.

http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&q=%22%3Cscr...

The development of Rails?

Back now.

Wonder what the equivalent breakdown is for the much more diverse (fragmented?) Android OS/devices...

Right, except Facebook is also the largest photo-sharing site on the web right now, and one of the most used iPhone apps. So, they've already got all of that data (edit: and momentum) that Color will need to somehow get, and I'm not quite sure how Color will disrupt THAT.

I do agree about the part that Sequoia probably knows what they're doing but the current Color product is shoddy and underwhelming, with that amount of cash and no pressure to launch (SxSW is gone!) - why would you launch a shitty product?

Negative much?

Bitly has massive amounts of data on what people are clicking on, and there's some serious data crunching to be done to tune things like content recommendation, etc.

Last month, Bitly saw 7 billion clicks on its links and currently supports 8500 white label partners.

So, wait. You can print your own money subject to a cap? ie. creating bitcoin only involves spending CPU cycles (or electricity)?