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One of my favorite lines from Fight Club: You are not a unique and beautiful snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile

The real world is cold. It takes time, especially out of college/uni, to realize this, but you have to keep on pushing. Best of luck to you.

I think many people feel the same.

My advice: if you think you lack in some areas of the application, you need to make up for it in others. For example, if you didn't go to a top-tier school, you might make up for that by having some projects that have traction.

I don't think pg is given enough credit for his hand in reddit. I wonder how many redditors have heard of him and/or YC.

This is the first thing I thought of as well. Sounds like a normal corporation to me.

This is really interesting. How much did it cost? What was the experience like?

This is how I judge whether someone is an experienced entrepreneur or not. New entrepreneurs keep ideas to themselves. Experienced ones are much more open about them. I used to keep my ideas to myself, but learned that it does more harm than good. If you can trust people, they won't trust you.

This is just the impression that I get. Seems like the number of people that expect to get rich quick on a startup has increased. I receive a number of emails from people wanting to build the next big thing.

You're getting downvoted because of the condescending tone of your comment.

I used to work at a big consultancy and quit my job not too long ago to work on my ideas full time.

I had a comfortable paycheck, lived in a nice apartment, and drove a nice car at the age of 23. I learned that none of that matters to me. I didn't want my job and my car and my suit to define who I was.

Contrary to many people on HN, I don't do startups for the money. If I were working for the money, I would have stayed in consulting and received a guaranteed six-figures. I do it because, as a hacker, there's no better feeling in the world than creating something and seeing an idea materialize. It sure beats the feeling of waking up to the same routine every day. Turns out you can make a living at it.

The OP will probably get a job so he won't be much different from you. If I were the OP, I wouldn't regret a single thing. That's the risk you take.

Are there any plans to open source any of the code?

But he couldn't find anyone to rent the rooms. AirBnB fixes that inefficiency and fixed that problem for him.

I booked a room on AirBnB when I visited Los Angleles. I spoke with the owner of the room and he said he made $4000 in 3 months off of his 2 rooms. AirBnB is on to something.

My mother does not have any social network accounts or email. If she lived in New Zealand, how can I make sure she's okay assuming I cannot reach her by phone? I would want every possible method of checking on her available to me.

There was a 6.3 magnitude earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand.

I built a Facebook app that does this for personal use. It's broken now since they released API changes, but it's pretty easy to do. Maybe I should go back and fix it and open source it.

Not sure what Facebook's policies say about these sort of notifications though.

Congrats on launching! Just signed up. Couple of questions:

1. Love the design. Did you do it yourself?

2. Did your employer have any problems with you working on the side (do they own the IP)? If so, how did you get around this?

Yes, it's a joke. Check out the other articles. It reminds me of The Onion.

Thanks man. Best of luck to you and Ains!

People tried to talk me out of it too. They all thought I was crazy (maybe I am). But I know I would regret not seizing the opportunity. Thank you for your comment.

Thanks for the advice. I'm about 90% done with my project so I would much rather go all in at this point.

I wouldn't have quit if I had more responsibilities such as a mortgage, kids, family, etc.

Thanks! It looks like there are several people from Booz leaving to work on a startup!

Yep, I worked out of their headquarters in McLean, VA. I would definitely like to keep in touch. Good luck!

I was thinking of San Jose :)

Thanks. Yeah, I'll change the name. It's not intended to be the final name. Just until I can think of something better. I've never seen that movie.

I'm working on Project Hard Candy (http://cndy.co). It's an itch I wanted to scratch for a while. I need to come up with a better name.

San Diego is also on the list. I should've put "The Valley" in general. Thanks for the comment.

Thank you. I'm about 1 month away from having something people can use.

It created coupon codes for free licenses to TotalFinder e.g.

http://sites.fastspring.com/binaryage/product/totalfinderfre...

This does not look legit. There are 175,760 possible permutations of coupon codes, which looks to me they are trying to brute-force which coupon codes work. I'm not downloading a copy.

The author has an entire paper dedicated to this [PDF] http://www.cscs.umich.edu/documents/Luck.pdf

The first thing I thought of was that it looked strikingly similar to The Last Supper.

There is always a big debate surrounding what language to learn, and I don't think you'll get a solid answer from us. You'll have people arguing about which language is better. PHP, Python, and Ruby frameworks seem to be most popular here on HN. If you're new, my advice would be to experiment with different languages/frameworks but eventually have a "go to" one. Choosing a framework that you enjoy is a discovery process. Along the way you'll learn about language design.

By the way, GET requests are part of the HTTP protocol. Every web-based framework should support them, not just PHP-based ones. HN is written in Arc, a dialect of Lisp created by Paul Graham.

I personally use Python/Django :)