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Monthly Archives: August 2011
“蛋疼”英文怎么说?
国内一个比较流行的词汇是“蛋疼”,特别是最近和90后同学交流的时候,这个词汇是不停的出现,频率是相当的高啊。今天在吃晚饭的时候,我们的90后CEO朱朱同学尝试给Matt解释这个“蛋疼”的意思,所以他说出了以下一段经典的解释: When you are extremely bored, you play with your egg, so it hurts!
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Status Update: Week #4
Looking back over this shorter week, it been more of a “people” week than previous. We didn’t get as much concrete (by which I mean engineering, ha) work in as I would have liked, but we put in time and … Continue reading
A Random Mobile App idea
Today I took written test for my driving license transfer, unfortunately I failed =( (in China, you need to get 90 out of 100 questions correct to pass the written test). On my way back, I was thinking about building … Continue reading
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Milestone 1!
Yesterday, we finished what we’re calling the first milestone: for the first time, we showed off (parts of…) the product to someone other than ourselves! (BTW, Ben’s thoughts are here.) As part of the programme, there are a total of … Continue reading
Prototype Day
昨晚是3个月活动的第一个milestone:Prototype Day 原型日。就是每个团队利用10分钟时间(5分钟demo,5分钟问答)向在场的所有团队介绍他们的产品,然后把目前为止做好的原型展示一下,每个团队会对其他团队的项目进行投票:如果你是VC,你会不会投这个项目。 因为之前的2个半星期,我们都是按照一个很好的计划在进行我们的开发,所以从产品原型角度而言,我们已经做好了充分的准备,但是我们还是比较犹豫是不是要相对正式地做Slides。活动是6点半开始,我们在近5点半的时候决定还是需要做一个简单的Slides,这样可以很好的帮助我们整理思路,毕竟5分钟的Demo并不是非常充裕。我们三下五除二的把一些基本的信息和重点放在一起,做了一个大概5页左右的Slides。 活动开始后,到场的除了团队所有人,还有家属,2个VC的代表,科技博客的代表,还有一些杭州本地创业公司的CEO,人气很旺,房间里面的温度陡然上升。我们是第7号,当我在演示电脑上准备我们的slides的时候,Matt用夹生的中文介绍了自己,希望能找个中文的tutor,帮助带动了整个气氛,当我开始说的时候,因为小紧张,语速还是有点快 ,但是还是花了将近7分钟时间才完成了Demo和Slides,期间因为我们还没有备案,为了找到我们的网站的ip地址小耽搁了一会;在问答环节,我们还是很好的控制了时间,基本上在刚过10分钟的时候结束了整个流程。下场后,觉得我们在控制时间方面还是不错,亏得Matt在旁边计时。 经过近3个小时,所有团队完成了演示,每个团队都把他们想做什么告诉了大家,一些团队进度比较快,产品已经很具规模了,一些团队可能还在刚起步的阶段。大家都有很不错的想法,我对其中一支立志做互联网基础应用,针对程序员需求的团队非常佩服,大部分的团队可能都是做面对最终用户的产品,不论是Social,Local还是Mobile,很多这样的公司一旦抓对了用户的需求,可能都会得到比较多的媒体的青睐,你可以看到你的名字出现在各大媒体;但是对于做互联网基础应用,特别是针对开发人员的应用,可能更有点像无名英雄,在技术上其实这样的应用需要更强大的技术背景(比如像AWS和GAE),特别是在中国这样一个互联网基础落后美国至少10年的情况下,这个不仅仅只是阿里云和盛大云应该做的事情,我们更需要有创业的团队敢于去做这样一件事情,在此向他们致敬。 昨天的演讲是我很长时间内的第一次,以后会有更多这样的场合,我想说的是,这些年来所积累的些许对于做slides和演讲的经验,都要感谢本科时候俞勇老师从大一就开始培养我们,饮水当思源。
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Startup Finance 101
For the past two and half weeks, we have been working on the technical part of the project. However startup is not just about technology and there are other stuff like marketing, recruiting and etc. As a two-week-old startup/project, we … Continue reading
Status Update: Week #3
Ok, so this week’s update is already a day late, but I have an excuse: we went to Shanghai for 2 days! More on that later. The last week was pretty chaotic for some reason, but instead of this long … Continue reading
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Check that you got what you paid for!
After doing all our initial development on a VPS from http://www.linode.com, we’re now transitioning to a locally hosted machine. Linode’s not a bad provider (in particular, their management tools and documentation seem pretty good), but the latency of crossing the … Continue reading
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IE Conditional Comments with HAML
I am using HAML, SASS with Rails for most of the front end code. I was trying to add some IE conditional CSS include in the header and HTML should look like this: <!–[if (!IE)|(gte IE 8)]><!–> <link href=”some.css” media=”screen” rel=”stylesheet” … Continue reading
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1st Milestone for Our Blog
Yesterday page view of our blog was over 100, 1st milestone for the blog! And finally we are able to check our traffic on Quantcast.
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