brianmckenzie

Step Two: Hire a reliable private investigator to ascertain the location of the target: Creed's rehearsal space.

Step Three: Fill the sarcophagus with alligators, poop, and diseased ferrets.

Step Four: Rent several hundred industrial-grade helicopters and lower the sarcophagus onto the target.

Step Five: Construct a monument honoring the heroism of the alligators and diseased ferrets.

Great concept, guys, and best of luck!

Unless web browsers somehow become obsolete in the next ten years, you're looking at an evolved version of what we have now. HTTP, CSS, XHTML, and JS have plenty of room for improvement. It takes years for the standards to be worked out and longer for browser support, which is never 100%. Add a few more years for developers to take full advantage of the new capabilities.

What we'll have in ten years will be another iteration or two on what we have now.

The only thing I would add about the light-rail is that it can get so crowded close to downtown during rush-hour that you can't get on...so take that into consideration if you're going to live in the lower haight or duboce triangle or something.

On my first day of high school, my dad gave me a priceless piece of advice: Don't be friends with people just because they're available and easy to be friends with. Seek out the people worth befriending, and become their friend no matter how hard it is.

I didn't really understand him at the time, but 15 years later it strikes me as one of the most valuable things anyone has ever told me.

Since I already live here, I'm putting together a brief guide to bootstrapping in SF. It's not as hard as you'd think, but this is a very different kind of city and there are some things to consider before you arrive. Hopefully this will help!

Hopefully the connection of person and machine will come to be recognized not just as art, but the objective of software design. Think this is a dumb tautology? Use a Motorola phone for awhile.

Overworked? Underpaid? Yes, even if you're not making the games. My guess is that they get away with it because so many people want to work in gaming at any cost.

Yeah, I still think about hacking a game together from time to time. The emerging casual gaming market is pretty fascinating. One of the alternate ideas on my YC app was a game.

I found the same thing to be true of St. Louis, my hometown. People just aren't ready for new ideas - they'll spend hours telling you why you're an idiot when they don't understand what you're trying to do in the first place. I try not to even mention my startup while I'm there - I've even had people say they had religious objections to what I was doing. It's just nuts.

It's hard to understand the quality of the Bay Area startup environment until you actually live here for awhile - before I moved to SF I had this nebulous idea that it was where I should be, but in hindsight the difference is much more pronounced than that.

Here, you're almost in the minority if you don't have big, 'crazy' ideas.

That's another good strategy.

Just ask yourself "What are the major pains in the ass I deal with on a regular basis, and can any of them be solved with technology?"

It's probably better to go in with a high-concept, far-fetched idea than no idea at all. Just see what you can come up with.