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juwoon Be Relentlessly Resourceful

To PG: Jesus said it all before you did. He told the first evangelists to be resourceful in spreading the new gospel. see http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2016:%201-1...;

Note that he is commending the resourcefulness of the manager, not his dishonesty. Also he is asking them to invest in eternity and not things that perish. Unfortunately, you consider Jesus to be irrelevant as you wrote in an essay: "bronze age shepherds wandering about in Palestine". On the contrary. Read Jesus. Your world will be shaken.

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ok, shall do!

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I think it's on topic and not spam. I filed a internet crime complaint at http://ic3.gov.

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I can shut off all comments but would that make him desperate?

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Why is my thread marked dead?

juwoon Ask YC: Recommend me *the* best Javascript book/reference

except that the free download link for the pdf mentioned has since been removed.

inurl:javascript.the.definitive.guide filetype:pdf

juwoon $200M market for a product catering to prejudice. If you had a similar product idea or implementation that could make you rich; would you still execute?

Sorry, but that is the truth IMHO. Anti-Hispanic feelings run high in many states in the US and is largely unreported in the media. Just as anti-black feeling was socially acceptable in an earlier era.

(I look Hispanic myself, and realized how much they are disliked when my wife observed that I receive glares and cold stares from strangers).

juwoon $200M market for a product catering to prejudice. If you had a similar product idea or implementation that could make you rich; would you still execute?

ask any student from India. (I was born and raised there). That is why there is affirmative action for the lower castes.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=59891

juwoon $200M market for a product catering to prejudice. If you had a similar product idea or implementation that could make you rich; would you still execute?

It is my observation - I too studied in India. It is common knowledge that brahmins (caste) as a group are more intelligent than the average population. For example, They have made up the bulk of Nobel laureates from India.

My room mate was from the untouchable caste (translation for Americans). He was super intelligent too - managed to leave the country and got 2 post graduate degrees in the USA, trained himself to run marathons.

regarding your comment on hereditary occupations, please read this article

And no, I am not a brahmin.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2231011.stm

"In the dead of the night, when the city of six million goes to sleep, groups of jobless low-caste Hindus, known as Dalits, eke out a living by removing human excrement from pits in the poorer neighbourhoods of the city."

juwoon $200M market for a product catering to prejudice. If you had a similar product idea or implementation that could make you rich; would you still execute?

"African people have a genetically higher percentage of 'fast twitch' muscles"

wow. did not know that.

juwoon $200M market for a product catering to prejudice. If you had a similar product idea or implementation that could make you rich; would you still execute?

many Asian/Indian men find white women more attractive - that is why models in these countries tend to look caucasian. It works the other way, too. My wife said that she observed in Africa, that white women only married Africans if they were highly educated, handsome and wealthy.

"what it is that makes black-white marriages taboo"

Black Americans are a lower caste - Unfortunately. How many wealthy intellectual white-black marriages do you see? Few. But now Hispanics are the new ------ in America today. (a certain word that I wont use)

juwoon $200M market for a product catering to prejudice. If you had a similar product idea or implementation that could make you rich; would you still execute?

the people you met were simply making excuses and misleading you. (there is always scope for corruption in school admissions everywhere).

It is like saying, if you studied in public school in small town america, you cannot get into Harvard.

juwoon $200M market for a product catering to prejudice. If you had a similar product idea or implementation that could make you rich; would you still execute?

"it is impossible to make it into the best schools without a great deal of personal wealth"

you are mistaken. The best Universities are almost free - subsidized by the government. (However in high schools, those that are English speaking Western schools do require wealth). Only brains counts. The IIT Math entrance exam is said to be the toughest in the world (google for past qs papers).

juwoon $200M market for a product catering to prejudice. If you had a similar product idea or implementation that could make you rich; would you still execute?

1) I hate to say it but often lower castes have dark skin and african features. You will also find most of the brightest students in a University are brahmins - the highest caste - just ask your friends their caste and correlate with their intelligence. The caste system is racist. You cannot change your caste. Period. You were born with it. It is interesting but sad. Forced hereditary occupations lead to differences in appearance and even IQ across thousands of years. Low castes clean toilets - high castes are priests in temples (translation: the intellectual leaders today).

2) The caste system is very prevalent. It also leads to corruption similarly as Rick Warren found tribalism was the cause of corruption in Africa.

3) How many white-black mixed marriages do you see in America? Not many. Most kids up for adoption are biracial black-white. The prejudices remain over here in the USA - at least in relationships. Read the chapter on preferences in interracial dating in the book Freakonomics.

juwoon CMU professor gives his last lesson on life

someone tried to give you an answer here

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14926

juwoon Why you (entrepreneurs) should trust your gut. Always.

here's why it is dead wrong - have you heard of the word 'prejudice'?

juwoon cold fusion deja vu? "Radio frequencies can ignite saltwater, making it a potential fuel"

My opinion: it should have been observed in nature if it really exists.

juwoon Researchers show that liberals and conservatives approach everyday decisions differently.

I upmodded you, mojuba. Divided America is stupid - it is tragic.

juwoon You might be able to get a tax credit for your prototyping

1) This was an IRS benefit and guideline. As I understand it, every state likely offers it.

The form is at http://www.ksrevenue.org/pdf/forms/k-53.pdf

2) If you were using your savings to live on so that you could do prototyping, can that be treated as an expense? (payroll or other). This assumes you were incorporated.

juwoon Suggestion: YC should provide its founders with W2 benefits for one year. Healthcare, Life insurance...

It is a benefit that YC being a fairly large entity, can provide to their founders to reduce some of the stress and worry.

What about employees who own their business - would that still mess things up for them vis-a-vis VCs?

YC would be a loose umbrella of organizations.

juwoon Suggestion: YC should provide its founders with W2 benefits for one year. Healthcare, Life insurance...

the $100/month individual plan doesnt get you anything. However a group plan gets you much cheaper coverage and much wider benefits.

I know it too well - been on both sides of the fence with the same provider (Blue Cross Blue Shield).

juwoon Java-based Startups, do they exist?

I am using java for juwo. Swing looks kludgy compared with flash, but Apollo Flash that lets it run offline is in beta - and Java Web Start has been running for 4-6 years.

juwoon Why is the violin so hard to play?

the article deals only with the mechanics but surprisingly, omits the really hard part - getting emotion to be depicted in the violin tone. that's why I gave up the violin after 3 years.

juwoon How Not to Die

before you follow the herd and blindly down mod my comment:

you dont have to get into YC to succeed, but understand he was talking at an exclusive event - the final YC dinner.

Also understand the odds. He picks teams most likely to succeed. If he rates odds of success as 1/2 (or whatever the article said), and the odds of getting in are 20/400, then the odds of success for you and me, those who didnt get in, is 1/40. Which is 2.5% and vibes with I recall that people generally say that startup odds are 2%.

juwoon How Not to Die

How about this: If you are in the YC club, you and your cofounders, the idea, prototype, business model, user base have passed muster. Your team is in a startup hub like SFO/BOS. You will have the backing, connections and resources of YC.

Otherwise, the qualifiers that apply to any other startup in general, apply.

juwoon How Not to Die

Before you get too excited about this article, realize that if you are not in the YC club, this article was not intended for you.

In other words, the warm encouraging phrases have qualifiers - you have to figure out what they are and if they apply to you.

juwoon How to keep the lid on a good idea

it is highly possible you may get the idea first but an experienced larger company will almost always execute better than you.

No easy answers.

BTW ideas are worthless only if you dont want to allocate a value to them.

http://juwo-works.blogspot.com/2007/05/ideas-are-worthless-w...

juwoon What system do you use for bug tracking?

still poor thinking (sorry again).

- what about bugs that dont belong to one file; and those that are across modules?

- to edit or reprioritise, you must open up the files again. Imagine making a Project Manager or business guy learn vi, not to mention messing up your code!

I work defects into my status report. It is just another heading - and move them around the categories. (template: http://juwo-works.blogspot.com/2007/08/my-status-report-temp... ).

juwoon What system do you use for bug tracking?

IMHO, poor thinking. (sorry)

how will you prioritise and track them - open up all the files?

juwoon Indian outsourcing is killing IT

The programmers below, are white American - so what does that say?

see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36900