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This reminds me of PG article http://www.paulgraham.com/maybe.html

May be they should give 1M and not 40k ? That would surely move some more interesting startups...

But this king of companies tend to live on thin margin and exploit local population. This may not be in the best interest of Chile to bring this kind of population.

I think that this is a great idea, this is completly inline with HN. I added all the services I know.

Actually the first answer of the page is completely not about money, it's more about the process of business and I think that it's fine on HN (for as much as I understand what HN is )

I've found this tool after looking for a lot of ways to send my website to my hosting server : FTPSync, FTPSync.pl, FTPSync2d, WPUT, GIT-FTP, WEEX and Unison over netdrive.

It's very nice because it works over ftp, which means that you can use it with a simple file hosting server. It's also very fast because the diff with the server is done from a single __REVISION__ file.

The only issue I had was that I had some files that were different between my hosting server and my local test server, but it's very easy to edit the source to skip them.

I noted that : - With a great idea but bad execution, someone else will probably do it better.

Actually not, probably because games do not require you to read a lot and because the resolution is quite low. I don't feel that it looks bad.

This all began as a project I wanted for me and my kids that kept scrolling when playing and loosing focus, etc... I couldn't have hoped better exposure, as this goes to the HN front page.

Given the feedbacks, this might be its grave as well too... may be I should have written a blog post first ;)...

I'm probably an hardcore flash gamer. As I worked on it, may be I have fallen in love with my idea, and stopped looking for it's pertinence. This might be a case where scratching your own itch does not work. I love the little fun of flash games and was hopping to give it more quality.

It's built anyway, I think that some people will like it because it's still the absolute best solution to play flash games fullscreen as it has qualities that no other solution provide : not scaling games and speed.

If you want to try it, I guaranty that it is safe anyway, I checked it against http://virustotal.com, it's clean for 41 of 42 antivirus.

Paper ? It's possible to print binary data on paper now. I'm not sure at what 5TB would look like though. It's probably better to keep the data at hand and migrate it as the world and the technology evolve.

I find really interesting that patrick build a pagerank on a totally different population than his customer base. He target hackers for pagerank building (and invest a lot of time writing articles who are probably not his first customers), but his customers lands on content created by freelancers (cheap, lesser quality content probably ).

That was my first thought, keep a low profile !

I tried it but I often work with lot of subdirectories and many files and that script abort when it reach 200 files. Increasing the limit beyond that would be slow. I use the Project plugin switch to the buffer, search with incremental completion. At least it's cached so it's faster, that's not to bad, but I find it less integrated than VS.

This kind of humble post is the best protection against piracy, jerks never pay for games anyway. Post like this remind you that if you want to continue to play you have to give a little of your money. Of course, it's easier to do when you are a small player that when you are EA but I would like EA to remind people as nicely as this is why you pay games : so that there will be another one sometimes... instead of putting insane DRM that get cracked anyway and annoy real customers.

I switched to vim, because I wanted a command from visual studio. That command was "of" that allowed to open any file of the project with incremental completion. I know that many consider VS to be a crappy editor, but if you know many shortcuts, command console and macros it's actually nice.

But it's an IDE and I needed something for javascript files and html files that was in the range. So I switched for this only reason. I switched the exact same way you did, using the mouse at first, I spent time in the help for every issue I had, I learned motions, macros, etc...

Interestingly I've never found something as neat as the "of" command of VS, but I loved all the rest.

This comment made me think that there might be a /r/startups and actually there is one and its summary point you to HN

Try doing it only once every two day, and decide to use the gathered time to do some work. Time gathered back from other activities is very productive because you decided to sacrifice something, so you make a good use of it.

The title of hnhackers is "Hire HN consultant", that seems very different to me.

may be they are so bored with the world that they'd rather live apart from it ?

Are we at the beginning of a marketplace over hackernews ? (not that this is a bad thing )

Some companies would agree to fire you on your demand, but it not very legal, so bigger one might not do it. You'll have to get good relation with your management to do it.

You can received unemployement help for 2 years, given that you worked enough before (it is roughly 70% of your salary, but decreasing over time ). You can also ask a part of that money up front, but that will cut your right.

There is also an interesting "autoentrepreneur" status that is nice if you want to boostrap something that allow you to be registered as a company but ask you minimal accounting, simplify registration and only tax you if you earn anything. It's important because company are taxed more than in the US.

Salaries are lower too (it's not very easy to accumulate 6mo/1year of cash in advance ), few peoples speak english, so you really need to speak french to start something in France.

It would be great to have a google maps of location of hacker news members world wide, so that we could engage in local communities

As an angel you are invited to many events where you can connect with other angels and networks.

Even better it's not a future network that will grow over the time as previous students get at better places and positions, it's an already active network of more senior people and you'll meet them as homologue not in a student/professor relationship.

You can probably get a better network by loosing 120k. May be you could choose the right categories of startups to meet the category of people you are the most eager to meet ?

http://headrush.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/04/06/... (from kathy sierra blog )

It was on hackernews from cdixon blog a few days ago : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1431531

How did you get it known among this audience ?

Type 1 design is not taught anywhere, people don't even know this is an option. The only design strategy that is taught is architecture astronautic.

I had an argument with a teacher that thought that it would be useful to abstract things from a pop/imap email fetching service, in case other protocols show up ? I'd argue that was improbable and that would complexity the design and that possible other protocols might be so different that they wouldn't fit the abstraction. He dismiss it as industry specific way of doing (but I lacked examples a little bit, so I wasn't completely convincing ).

We have to be quite vocal because we cry against the mountain.

It might be better to still pitch big blogs even if they ignore it.

If you get some press from smaller blogs and the big guys read them, it may recall them that you tried to contact them and have them have a second look at it ?

You shouldn't take life so seriously, you are putting too much pressure on you. Take your time, learn more about things you want to be good at. If you need money, borrow things instead of buying them and live simply. Don't try to amass $1m, try $5 first. The first money you'll get for your project feel really great already. $1m is not a goal that you can act on to make it happens right now.

If you can't get people to work with you, may be you can get to work with them. Great people may need someone to help with some projects. Be indulgent, help others, if they have lesser capacity than you do (on some things, they'll be better than you on other things ).

The trading textbook website is a good idea. I can feel how this idea came from your experience, and trying to solve an issue for yourselves is a good way to start a project.

there is only marketing but no product