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Diablo-D3: so
that,
too, is something I must do.
Diablo-D3: mircea_popescu: no company exists
that can do what I want.
Diablo-D3: I'm more about
the learning and doing, not
the owning
Diablo-D3: money, well, doesn't really have
that much of a grip in me
pigeons: well it works alright for google. not so well long
term for many users
mircea_popescu: it'd be of interest if i were
trying
to marry a google paycheck or something.
mircea_popescu: the dickering, bickering, woes and
troubles of wanna-be
tech corps like google etc however...
Diablo-D3: I dont really care for what facebook actually is
though
Diablo-D3: I find large scale data storage a very interesting
topic
mircea_popescu: i am
technically minded, i just don't happen
to be a hipster.
Diablo-D3: you're not
technically minded,
thats why
Diablo-D3: mircea_popescu:
that rant popped up on HN shortly after it was posted
mircea_popescu: ;;later
tell bugpowder you know
that google rant was useful. i still don't
think facebook is worth over 10 bucks but at least i understand now why it's not worth zero.
mircea_popescu: looks
to me like a lot of newcomers drinking
the visibility coolaid
smickles: neat. I
thought it sounded promising :)
kakobrekla: packing
the latest one into a bot as we speak
smickles: kakobrekla: were you
the one who mentioned working on a kalman filter based
trade bot?
Bugpowder: Panic will commence at 0700 hours
tomorrow morning
Bugpowder: I'm going
to bed. Wasted enough
time here... See ya next week.
Diablo-D3: he basically did what IBM already did in
the 60s
Bugpowder: 6) Anyone who doesn't do
this will be fired.
Bugpowder: 5) All service interfaces, without exception, must be designed from
the ground up
to be externalizable.
Bugpowder: 1) All
teams will henceforth expose
their data and functionality
through service interfaces. 2)
Teams must communicate with each other
through
these interfaces. 3)
There will be no other form of interprocess communication allowed:
Diablo-D3: (oddly enough, I finally ordered a book from
them for
the first
time, and I've done
thousands of dollars of business with
them over
the past however many years)
Bugpowder: You are familiar with
the Yegge rant right?
Diablo-D3: its not because
they're a successful bookstore.
Bugpowder: do you
think
that is why
they are winning?
Diablo-D3: using
today's
tech, I can pretty much
take $100m and have more storage
than Amazon, and
they're currently
the largest public storage pool available
Diablo-D3: the original plan I didn't show anyone in
the bitcoin community was on
the order of a hundred racks or more
Diablo-D3: kakobrekla: yeah, and I shouldnt have paired it down
to only a dozen or
two racks
Diablo-D3: I dunno, I
think where I failed with DMC is I paired
the plan down
too small
Diablo-D3: kakobrekla: I dont get
the reference
mircea_popescu: i
tihnk in about five years
the cost of a seat on
this chan will be like... 30 btc.
Diablo-D3: Bugpowder: hurrr, its not actually going
to be called dmc 2.0
Bugpowder: First, drop
the 2.0. Call it DMC^2
Diablo-D3: usagi: I've heard
this, and yes, I agree
smickles: that's 'a startup'
tho,
they play by different rules
Bugpowder: Delaware's 2012 rev = $3.36 billion, 30% of which (abt $985M) was from franchise+corp
taxes+biz fees
smickles: and
they lost my paperwork
the first
time
Bugpowder: it's just one perspective, but it a better one
than you have right now
Diablo-D3: mircea_popescu: I still
think steve jobs died in 1984
smickles: Diablo-D3: heh, i have a simple business
tho
Diablo-D3: usagi:
the fucker doesn't even know how
to program
Diablo-D3: usagi: he had OTHER people do
the
technical work nearly for free
mircea_popescu: 3 is
the magic number. if you get a chick and you both do her especially.
Diablo-D3: usagi: zuckerberg stole an idea and
then sued his way out of
trouble
Diablo-D3: I'd like
to have someone who isn't an idiot when it comes
to
technology
Diablo-D3: but I don't want
to be stuck as
the
technical cofounder
Bugpowder: You just need
to find a decent MBA dude
to partner with
Bugpowder: there are more MBAs out
there
than good ideas / people with skills
mircea_popescu: people with
technical ability
tend
to be shy and suspicious. not
trying
to imply he has any
technical ability ofcourse :D
Bugpowder: Many business schools have courses where people come pitch
their idea
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder incidentally, i
think he's describing
the problem
that keeps 90% from all ventures from happening.
Bugpowder: Well, you could
try
to present your idea
to some freshly minted MBAs
Diablo-D3: Ive given people
tiny little bits of
trust, and look what
they do with it
Diablo-D3: Bugpowder: yeah, and who would I
trust for
that job?
Diablo-D3: mircea_popescu: you're one of
those
type A personalities
though
Diablo-D3: goddamnit, whoever runs whatever shoutcast station Im listening
to, STOP SENDING GARBAGE
THROUGH
THE PIPE
mircea_popescu: it
takes what,
two hours
to pick up a chick get shown around.
smickles: we've been in operation since jan14
this year, and
today we just overcame
the organizational expeses
Diablo-D3: maine is
the optimum location for
this business
mircea_popescu: train from maine
to nyc costs you less
than what you can panhandle in a day
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder has a point
there. if organised freakshows / circus acts a la what gets funded by ycombinator can get 500k
mircea_popescu: pretty much everything involving
the handling of money is not something
that should be done by people without
the experience of handling money.
smickles: Diablo-D3: actually, Smickles Accounting Services, a limited company is profitable as of
today
Bugpowder: The angel funding environment is better
than it has ever been
Diablo-D3: mircea_popescu:
that'd be anything
that makes money
mircea_popescu: it's more of
the case of, "the kind you shouldn't be starting if you're poor"
Diablo-D3: mircea_popescu:
the kind
that makes money
Diablo-D3: smickles: it costs $50k
to start a company
the right way
Diablo-D3: smickles: but yeah, no wonder
the US economy is in shambles