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Archive for October, 2007
I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
In: Gastronomic Woes| Vision
30 Oct 2007I used to be a healthy, happy, well-nourished young boy.
Now, as I sit here feverishly coding, my face has sunk into a waxy pallor, and my left hand trembles ever so slightly as it reaches to my tray to pick up the slice of watermelon I am eating in the hopes of gaining some measure [...]
Find a movie
25 Oct 2007Find a movie: simple, sweet, seemingly easy to do and yet we’ve all been to blockbuster or shown up at the theater and looked at the rows and rows of movies and blankly wondered which one to choose. And so you think about the marketing you’ve seen, how you liked an actor in one movie [...]
Why I love working at a start-up
In: Team
23 Oct 2007I work at a very large Silicon Valley corporation as a product manager. Being a PM at a big company is great in many ways (access to resources, serving a developed market, etc.), but at times it can be a frustrating role–mainly because the pace of work is much slower and it’s difficult to [...]
Inspiration
22 Oct 2007A colleague in the venture business recently sent me a quote:
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred [...]
Search engines
16 Oct 2007Search engines are difficult creatures. (In case you didn’t know, Steven tells me I’m “working” on the search engine for the site.) With minimal work, he’d like the algorithmic engine and database to intuit what we meant — even if it isn’t what we asked. The engine, however, lacks a critical feature that disambiguates statements. [...]
I get distracted by code, and we have a new idea
14 Oct 2007I was actually going to write this yesterday, but I somehow ended up coding instead of blogging. This happens a lot, and not just with this project. Most of the time, I procrastinate by coding. It’s awesome because I get a lot accomplished this way, but also not so great because (as you might expect [...]
Perspective of a busy college student
In: Team
12 Oct 2007As a Senior in college, I can say that the past three years have been fulfilling, fun, and incredibly busy. When you’re overwhelmed and about to collapse from your workload, its really your excitement about your current project(s) that motivates you to keep at it. It’s hard to juggle five classes (four of which are [...]
Like most other subjects on the Internet, the online movie landscape is incredibly competitive. If you take a look at MSN, Yahoo!, IMDB, Rottentomatoes, Moviefone, etc, it’s immediately obvious that there are many large players in the space who have spent years developing strong movie portals. Many of these sites are also backed by huge [...]
Inaugural Introspections
In: Overview
2 Oct 2007I’ve been asked to blog for HelloMovies, which, depending on your point of view, is either a great idea or the worst idea to ever hit the planet since movie theatres started putting trash cans far away from the bathroom door. Whether you sit with the former or the latter camp can largely be determined [...]
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