brianmckenzie

We almost immediately started a startup, which failed almost as immediately. So this is actually our second try, and we're probably both dumber now than we were the first time.

Thanks,

Rejected Jessica Alba suitor Brian McKenzie

Perhaps another approach would be to have a bunch of cameras around the stadium, motion-track the ball in 3d, then stitch the ball's POV together using a process sort of like Google street view, or that dumb 3d revolving-subject thing that was in all the commercials five years ago. Then you could calculate a 'line of best fit' for the ball's trajectory and render video 'just-in-time' for a quick, smooth replay.

I know I'm going out on a limb here, but I bet that in most companies 85% of the hiring decision comes down to this, and the urgency of filling the position. Affinity hiring also comes into play much of the time, i.e. people hire others of the same sex / educational background / interests as them.

If an interviewer personally likes you and believes that you are similar to them, the whole equation is flipped around: they have to find reasons NOT to hire you.

I also find it funny that Google managed to come out with this before anyone else even came out with a viable competitor for Google maps. Damn.

It was a very educational experience though. Here's a summary of startup wisdom I learned from this experience Forgive me if some of these seem like tautologies.

Don't spend money unless you absolutely have to - don't buy a $5000 copy machine when you really don't copy things that often. Don't spend several grand on rent when you could work out of your house.

Don't forget to eat and sleep (once in awhile). You aren't a very good programmer after 36 hours of straight coding with no sleep and only a can of mixed nuts for sustenance.

Becoming a startup founder doesn't immediately make you 'somebody', so don't go around being a dick to everyone. The same rules that apply to everyone else still apply to you.

Spend your time building products, not doing administrative stuff.

Focus on your core competency. If you're a clothing company who happen to have developed a piece of inventory-control software in house, you might be tempted to try to re-sell it for an additional revenue stream. Don't do it! Get back to designing clothes and just be thankful you have a way to control your inventory. Amazon seems to be the exception here, they're selling everything under the sun, even at night.

I could draw a bunch of other fun implications from this article, but they mostly fall in the "What you Can't Say" category.

Just get creative - there are tons of usable domains still available.

I'm 6'3" and the MacBook keyboard is too small for me, so I bought the iMac and have not looked back. The iMac has a 7200rpm drive as well, together with the gorgeous screen would be better for video editing.

This isn't to say that 'web'-style interfaces don't have room for improvement, but it's a different ballgame than the desktop. On the web we have load time concerns, a different toolset for building the interface, and different considerations in terms of color and space.

Not to mention the precedents set by every other web page that has come before which people are used to. Geez, we have to do a scriptaculous hilite on every xhr just so people will notice what's going on.