The last one likely matters the most, at least in my case. Ambitious ideas take more time than just product development/implementation. Marketing and business development run on much lengthier schedules. At half a year in on savings, I'm being pulled away from full-time on my startup back into contract work, where I'm constantly encouraged to just go full-time instead with these companies (mostly founding-stage startups with funding). Meanwhile, my entrepreneur friends who come from exceptionally wealthy backgrounds have no such constraints or risk of going homeless if their startup doesn't get funding or start making revenue. I'm not sure if I'll be able to make rent next month, short of a loan, unless I get a contract invoice paid in full within two weeks. I'll be just fine, but that fear of not making it on the basics is not weightless. I suspect I'll be looked at differently when it shows that it took me N months to get to X revenue, instead of 0.25N, as a result of just needing to survive.
The "fallback option" matters in so much and is something that's, IMHO, extremely underdiscussed in society. I see politicians rail about how poor people don't risk anything without themselves realizing that they come from middle-class/rich backgrounds and could risk more in their lives.
In my case, I've moved from Germany to Australia without many prospects and still managed to land on my feet. Friends with less money always asked me "aren't you scared?", after a while the realization hit me - I wasn't particularly scared because if things wouldn't have worked out, I could've just used my parents' credit card for a $2000 flight back, no need to worry. My "poorer" friends don't have that option so they're naturally scared of something I didn't even consider, an "unknown unknown" for me.
As someone who tried to run such a service years ago, I mostly agree. Even the very best stories written through this method were troublingly self-inconsistent. On the other hand, they were often hilarious a well. We published a few anthologies of short stories written with this method here: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dap...
The experience for writers was surprisingly rewarding, but the end result was not for mass consumption. Still, as a writing tool, it showed great value.
Emailed YC and asked if late applications will be read and given responses. This is what they said:
Yes. We can't give out a precise date of when we will be getting back to everyone about late applications, but we'll respond to everyone before the cycle starts.
Didn't you know that all "space" footage is actually from a government sponsored set where they invented chroma-key compositing? Kubrik was in on all of it. Take my word for it...
I spent an unfortunate chunk of time trying to auto-click all the red square via jquery in chrome console. After a lot of reading and experimenting, I can verify that the exploit is thoroughly addressed (so far), and I cannot achieve my goal because of it :(.
The most promising workaround would be to find a JS screenshot tool that doesn't rely on the DOM, and then run some client-side image analysis to get the index values of the red squares, and then go from there to click the things. Well played, exploit fixers, well played.
Think I just found a way using canvas with a semi transparent element inside of it, then overlaying that on each square, grabbing the computed/resulting color of the canvas to decipher which block is what. S O O N
It appears as though Chrome (37-dev) will not receive any data from behind the canvas, while IE11 and FF(29) will allow me to see pixels behind the canvas, but only see the unvisited color.
I don't believe there is another method to receive the color of a pixel from a canvas except through getImageData(), but I could be wrong.
If someone built one of these mobile webapp frameworks using famo.us, but exposed it to the developer as something much less alien vs actual famo.us... I would be so happy.
I winced, because it seemed like the kind of pep-talk speech you might have to hear over and over again when you get called into a very high-level meeting without any discussion about execution, in the middle of a workday where you have code to build and ship instead. There's little here that appeals to my actual intelligence or abilities that screams "challenge". We can say we're in it for the social impact and "meaning", but if there's no succinctly-stated technical challenge to face and succeed over, there's no food on that fishing hook.
totally, at first the post mentions all the benefits that come from high paying top flight places like google, and those same benefits are actually designed to keep you working. Though instead of saying what they offer, they transition to the fundamentals of their business (structured communication and involvement with business practices)... so what sets this place apart from others?
Glad to see this out. I've been waiting on famo.us to become available for quite a while now. Exciting stuff.
Now, where is the documentation? The readme from the repo points to a docs folder that does not exist, and links to the online versions of documentation lead me to login-only pages... registering only puts me in line for access.
> Really? Yeah, I get that it not being a microtransaction-pile-of-garbage probably helped, but did you play it? Seriously, nobody at the beginning could have thought it was good. After the buzz, quality isn't relevant.
I learned about it through a girl I'm currently seeing. She is very far removed from the whole tech scene. Her cousin told her to try it, and then she told me to try it and impress her by getting a high score. So I tried it, enjoyed it (masochism involved here), and the very next day my roommate asked me if I knew of the game. We've been competing with each other for high scores ever since.
