Great idea! I'm looking for the same situation but in NYC (and because I'm homeless).
I'm actually looking in NYC right now as well. We should chat!
Hacker/Designer Roommates
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
IMO: 1. You should not live with your co-founder(s). It's important that you can take breaks from the startup/each other by going home . 2. You should be friends with your co-founder(s), but not "best friends". A startup is a bussiness relationship which is incompatible with "best friendship". This is my experience based on doing my own startup and watching others.
I don't have to look far for a counter-example: reddit. From the articles and interviews I've seen, I think rooming together was a very important part of reddit culture early on.
Excellent example!
Re: Hacker/Designer Roommates
#53Sounds like you might like living in one of the Hacker Houses? http://hackerhouse.bluwiki.com
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have to disagree here. A good example is StarCraft. If you play StarCraft by yourself, you can become a good player. If all of your friends play StarCraft, however, then they can help you become a great player. The sheer popularity of the game in Korea is largely responsible for Korean dominance at the professional level. Right now I'm a programmer living with a mechanical engineer, a finance major, and two biologi…
Thank you :) I completely agree. StarCraft Two is coming out soon!
You're doomed unless you move in with somebody who hates StarCraft
Re: Hacker/Designer Roommates
#55It looks like while this says "roommate" it really means "RoR project-mate"? Sounds like the implicit expectation is that you'll end up working on RoR projects with the poster of the ad? I might as well mention that I want to move in with some free spirited artsy sciencey hackery types. (Currently living in a 1BR in Berkeley.)
Don't get me wrong: First and foremost, it's about making like-minded friends and reliable roommates. Ideally, the goal is the create a valuable development team in the process - and then take on fun and creative projects through opportunities like ycombinator and kickstarter. That being said, I am a Ruby developer. I do think that anyone I pair-program with should be familiar with Ruby. However, I am not tied to the…
Learning a new technology isn't really that big of a deal anyway. What if somebody introduces you to a technology that is better suited to solve a problem?
Re: Hacker/Designer Roommates
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#57Sounds like you might like living in one of the Hacker Houses? http://hackerhouse.bluwiki.com
That's exactly what I need! Thank you so much, am looking into it.
Re: Hacker/Designer Roommates
#58>bdd
binary decision diagrams? Who wants to live with a static analysis researcher? They're not exactly the life of the CS party...
Re: Hacker/Designer Roommates
#59>bdd binary decision diagrams? Who wants to live with a static analysis researcher? They're not exactly the life of the CS party...
no not binary decision diagrams... behavior driven development.
i am a huge fan of the agile manifesto.
Re: Hacker/Designer Roommates
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I am not looking for "2 copies" of myself... There are a lot of people on this thread who think what I'm doing is a good idea. Please explain why that moving in with a physics major and a poet is a better idea than what I have proposed?
You're looking for someone who is a fan of the same progr. lang. as you are, who uses the same text editor, the same VCS, and even the same libraries/frameworks. You're looking for a designer who uses the same version of Photoshop that you're using, or at least uses the version you think he/she should be using.
Yes, agree with both posts. You shouldn't care what language or library he's using.
There aren't "Ruby programmers", there are just programmers. I honestly try to stay away from people who claim they are language x programmers and those who think one language is superior, because quite frankly they're often not that good.
Honestly are Ruby programmers really better than those who code in C or haskell and honestly what does it matter which text editor I choose to use?!
What would you learn if he knows and use the same things as you? Wouldn't it be a lot better, and a lot cooler, if your roommate could teach you about compilers, creating games or advanced algorithms or something that you don't know already?
It's a great idea to get a roommate with similar interests, but really I think you're focusing on the wrong things.