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code177 | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: a human-friendly, people-centric social discovery platform

A little background: this is the culmination of a year's hard work on our startup, picostorm code labs. I'm proud to present it to HN for your viewing pleasure. The photos you see are that of a fully functional technology demo - not mockups.

The core of the project is a personal content relevancy engine, an ergonomic intergace and a unique personas system.

code177 | 15 years ago | on: Why PHP is better than Ruby

I am tired of the never ceasing language wars. It's true that some languages are more elegant than others, but at the end of the day the only thing that really matters to any person other than the programmer is whether or not they create something inspiring and/or useful.

All this time railing against other languages could be spent making awesome things, rather getting the proverbial tape measure out (yet again).

code177 | 15 years ago | on: Trouble with Diaspora

I wholeheartedly agree with you, if the fact was as simple. As it stands, the paragraph should have read: "a startup [with $200,000 funding of other people's money] was probably the worst endeavor for them", as that more accurately represents the reality of the situation.

code177 | 15 years ago | on: The call to decentralize social networking

It's a nice idea, but it won't happen. There's simply no business incentive for the big players to even think about integrating in this way.

Additionally, once you set up a data exchange you're relying on an honour system to ensure content items are edited or removed, and that whoever is hosting nodes that your traffic goes through isn't snooping.

code177 | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is it possible to raise money without a working prototype?

Thanks PG. I have previously considered YC, unfortunately the cost of living far exceeds the amount of capital YC could provide initially.

Looking around the industry lately it seems that you can't do a startup unless you're fresh out of college with not a care in the world.

On the other hand, if you actually have industry experience (even if you are under 30), you can't "drop out" of "real life" because of implicit responsibilities (socially - such as dependents, and financially - such as rent/bills).

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