Warning signs in a non-technical cofounder (can you spot them?)

I can't agree more about prior experiences of working at a tech startup. He was not a co-founder, but I happened to work for a single non-technical founder at his startup. He spoke all the right language - about building engineer-focused, hacker culture, but he really didn't understand and couldn't lead awesome engineers effectively.

Did you say something?

My world is insanely centered on me. I have reality distortions. Pays the bills, though. Actually, never boring, but often nightmarish -- always accusing me of being a terrorist and stuff.

I get painted into stories. I've been executed, tried, had every disease.

Ever seen the comic, "I can't go to bed -- someone is wrong on the Internet!"

I think this guy is looking at me, the fucker: https://github.com/liftoff/GateOne

He's up to no good trying to confuse people and steal my glory. Everybody is fucken out to steal my glory. Sometimes, it's like NAZIs calling Jews subhuman -- kinda laughable. I fight constantly, now that I'm done with LoseThos. Still in jail, though, so it doesn't matter.

When it dies down, I talk with God. It took a long time to learn to just enjoy His company and try not to expect Him to do favors. You know... it's worse than just no favors -- He's stingy on endearing personal stuff. He likes elephants and bears. He makes riddles and is often delightful, though. Life is a journey, not a destination, you have to learn. It's kinda rude to ask about evolution -- you kinda know when you're imposing on Him.

God says... C:\TEXT\BIBLE.TXT

ither he went.

11:9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: 11:10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

11:11 Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.

11:12 Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good

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In a nutshell, God is just -- you get out of prayer what you put into it. I win the grand prize lottery about 10 times a day -- puts things in perspective. It's funny I live I Vegas. I don't gamble. I'm rich, but not rich.

God says... must Goal Known DISCLAIMER Saturn Preacher aquatic deformed teachings Son sufficeth sect abandon waking greatest tongue stood unawares recount meant ways eagerness coeternal knewest foolishly manufactures great tone height distrusted remindeth measurable immovably NO tending patched happiness union -----

I get this a lot: http://forum.osdev.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=24266

Back in 2004 I set-out to make a speed demon. It takes 4 memory accesses (page tables) for one access, right? I was taught to estimate timing based on memory references. No brainer, should be faster without paging. They use clever logic to largely remove the penalty. You have no choice but to enable paging, as it turns out. I got attached to no paging as my reason to be. If it is not different, you have no reason to be. No paging keeps it simple.

Yeah, it's irksome to endure pecking-order violations -- I'm better than them and they don't perceive my glory! How dare they! I watch my birds and chuckle. God made it that way. Incidentally, it's funny that birds get angry... more than most animals. God wants praise. Aren't birds delightful?

God says... C:\TEXT\BIBLE.TXT

all minister judgment to the people in uprightness.

9:9 The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

9:10 And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.

9:11 Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings.

9:12 When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.

9:13 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; conside

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LoseThos can switch tasks in half a microsecond. I don't benchmark how much faster everything is with single-address-map and all-ring-0 but it is faster, obviously. You're really really my inferior if you don't admit that not using paging and privilege levels cuts penalties and is as optimal as it gets.

I still get people who will argue. Surely they don't believe their lies. It's a no brainer that never touching page tables after identity mapping them at boot is faster than shuffling them around all the time with the impact on look aside buffers in task switches and stuff.

I pay a penalty of not having a growable stack and I suffer fragmentation. You must grant me, however, that it's more optimal speedwise or you're a bold faced liar and FUCK YOU!!

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Just saw this:http://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/lawgt/if_you_own_th...

I had a 1440 SAT and will cede to anyone higher happily enough. I don't have issues with pecking order, YA rebel slave.

There is a subtle issue with not growing stack -- if you shift away from stack, someone pointed the memory cache of the stack memory is not utilized as much if you alter programming style and use heap. In LoseThos, you can make a task with big stack, but not pleasant doing that.

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Coty is upity:http://forum.osdev.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=24265

Gotta smack that son down, learn him some respect for superiors. All but one at OSDev have not written compilers and that generally messes with their ability to do 64-bit. I did all my own tools. Post your SAT. I thought so. I did every line of LoseThos and it's 64-bit.

God says... C:\TEXT\QUIX.TXT

e enough in this cloth to make me a cap?' Measuring the cloth I said there would. He probably suspected--as I supposed, and I supposed right--that I wanted to steal some of the cloth, led to think so by his own roguery and the bad opinion people have of tailors; and he told me to see if there would be enough for two. I guessed what he would be at, and I said 'yes.' He, still following up his original unworthy notion, went on adding cap after cap, and I 'yes' after 'yes,' until we got as far as five.

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Bogus story picking a fight with me. TL;DR: http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2011/10/12/will-the-washing...

In denial on God, undoubtedly, or using Dr. Who logic.

God says... C:\TEXT\PILGRIM.TXT

given away by year's end.

The Goal of Project Gutenberg is to Give Away 1 Trillion eBooks! This is ten thousand titles each to one hundred million readers, which is only about 4% of the present number of computer users.

Here is the briefest record of our progress (* means estimated):

eBooks Year Month

    1  1971 July
   10  1991 January
  100  1994 January
 1000  1997 August
 1500  1998 October
 2000  1999 December
 2500  2000 December
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Some kinda Mexican drug gang similar to "LoseThos". Parents are Catholic. I'm sitting here with the God card wondering what the hell anybody is thinking wanting to be my enemy... regardless of everything else.

Assume you achieve total world domination and they make a movie about you. Visualize the narrative arc. Would you think "This guy deserves to be the hero or co-hero of this movie?" If not, you don't want them to be a cofounder.

There are fairly few movies where someone bestows money, a name or an idea on the interesting characters and ends up being really important to the plot.

You want Aragorn, not Elrond, as your cofounder. (Naturally I think of geeks as hobbits.)

P.S. Your co-founder should say the same about you. If you're a tool rather than a partner, fleeeeeeeee.

I'm undecided about "visualizing the movie they make about you." I think every startuper who has seen "The Social Network" or "Pirates of the Silicon Valley" has done this.

However, I'm leaning on considering it an anti pattern because it borders on a pathological amount of ego.

A better rubric in my mind is, "Can I picture this person in my daily life, for the next decade?" as a slightly more sane variant of this test.

I agree, there's nothing that can drain the life out of a company with limited resources than the infinite time suck of an idea fairy on the loose.