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I know this is mean, but you know what's really fun... undoing what people are doing in real time... someone just planted a tree.. and then I moved that tree.. (tee hee hee) - sorry. maybe this type of moves shouldn't be allowed? - but I just had the best 10 minites of my week!!!
I told you to stop using IE6....
OMG! Addicted already.
awesome....
I like it. It's simple and I guess it does what it says it does.
However, it's no different to other "minimal writers".
Plus, personally, I don't "just write". By that, I need formatting, I need bullet points. I need bold, italics, underlines if I want to emphasize, stress and make my point. It's great to just write things down and I guess this wouldn't be for heavily formatted documents, but I feel that it's just too minimal for my use.
Funny. Because I specifically remember 3 instances where I walked by people (in two different countries in fact!) and saw them checking Grindr.
relax mate. I don't think the majority of humanity is so dumb enough to be bought into the whole social hype, each time someone creates another "Facebook for ABC" online. Sure, it doesn't help when senseless media and VCs hype it up even more so, but most of us don't really buy into it. FB, Twitter etc should be just natural extensions to our real social life (plus a little bit more). Taking things too far as you did on your blog assumes that we'll just buy ourselves into these crap.
same posting again, are you spamming?
Serving 9.3M requests is impressive and if you are looking to build it into something more, have you tried getting some feedback from users? What is the reason they are using your service? I think in general, one of many ways the growth can be actualized is via feedback from those who is actually using the product/service.
you can pitch to http://www.heystartup.com and see what others would say.
Here's a question on Quora, which I found very helpful and it keeps on getting updated.
http://www.quora.com/What-startup-homepages-are-most-simple-...
I finished my PhD in Comp. Sci. three years ago, majored in data mining - was tough, but enjoyed every bit of it.
Soon as I finished, I wanted a job that wasn't fully research-based (I was a little bit tired of experimenting, coding and writing paper cycle), and I stumbled upon my current job. We are a start-up doing a fraud detection. It was all quite fortunate, since towards the end of my PhD, I got caught up in all the startup hype.
Having said that, I think one of the main reason why I enjoy my current work environment was not because of the initial reasons of why I joined (I actually had to get this job, because it was in a different city where my fiancee lived, so job was just a good excuse to move) but the things that I have been able to do at work.
When I joined it was quite terrible - writing Java 1.2 based applet on the browser with old Swing components (shudder).
But I decided to scrap the entire platform and do the entire re-design and re-development of the platform during my spare time. I was able to get the prototype ready, using the latest Web stack and I presented to my CEO, which he loved.
And ever since then, I've slowly implemented my "hacker" way of development into my work place.
I do think about going back and researching some time in the future - I also just finished a journal paper with my previous supervisor and realised I missed it.
I also sometimes think I'm 'wasting' my research or skillset I've acquired.
But, I try to read up on research papers here and there, compete in data mining competitions here and there, enter hackathons, try to work with different people.
Anyway, sorry for extending this story, but all in all, I'm happy, not necessarily because of the decision I've made, but what actually happened AFTER I've made the decision.
French designer Pierre Cardin used to toss a coin to make a really really big decision and when someone said "why do you leave that to a chance?" and he replied - "so long as I commit to my decision, I'll be ok". (I think that's roughly how the story goes).
I'm not sure if I helped. :)
clickable : http://www.heystartup.com