fiftyone

Joined 19 years ago

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Jan 31
My name is James Gray, 30 years old born in Ohio but traveled and lived all over the US in my younger years. I have a BA in Education and some other teaching degrees.

I love to travel I have lived all over the world. India, Saudi Arabia, Oman, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Germany, Holland ect.

I'm a family man I have 2 kids and a third on the way. I Love my family.

My dream is just to live well doing what I love. Nothing more.

Contact information: -------------------------------------------------------------- [email protected] Yahoo Messenger : fiftyon3 Phone ( if you feel like racking up your phone bill. 002 010 434 9833 ( that would be in Egypt )

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Recent submissions

Comment · 16 years ago
Partner is not synonymous with "Programmer". At least not in English not sure where you come from. Learn to read and stop being an asshole.
Comment · 16 years ago
Please help me to understand what makes you think I came in here to beg for a programmer?
Comment · 16 years ago
Yea, I made the mistake of asking you people for advice years ago, you think I would have leaned better than to come back ask a site fill of trolls for help.
Comment · 16 years ago
I think he was referring to you. I came in her and politely asked a question you called me a lazy good-for-nothing because my degree is different than yours.
Comment · 16 years ago
If you were not such an asshole to me in the first place there would be no problem. I came here to ask a simple question and you instantly assumed I am some stupid child coming here to beg for your 1337 skillz. yes, I am angry you insulted me and spoke to me like i'm an idiot because I'm not a programmer. You need to work on your people skills friend, seriously.
Comment · 16 years ago
I came in here to ask a simple question, was attacked and insulted and now I'm being called a troll. Amazing. You people really need to get out more.
Comment · 16 years ago
Sorry, but in the real world no one cares how beautiful your code is. Do you think any one of the 500,000,000 facebook users cares how beautiful the code is? I don't think so. So, coming back the the real world I have an idea for a BUSINESS, not a piece of art.
Comment · 16 years ago
I am going to consider from now on that you don't understand how to read.

I don't, nor did I ever say that I need YC funding you tool. I have money I don't want anything from anyone, I am not looking

for a handout, if you could read you would understand that from my first post.

I understand that sub-par programmers like you are a dime a dozen these days and that makes you pissed but you think twice

before you criticize someone for no reason it's impolite and makes you look like a real asshole.

Comment · 16 years ago
Comment · 16 years ago
So what you're saying is basically anyone who is not a programmer is a lazy idiot and has no place in this world

Wow, I understand now why you sleep with a book, because no human being in their right mind would ever do so without the use of force.

Comment · 16 years ago
I am not a programmer by trade. This does not make me lazy, it makes me a school teacher, and a geek with an idea.

Nothing more nothing less. And I never said I was looking for technical people there are half a billion Indians I can hire to build something for me.

It's a partner in crime I seek young Padawan not a programmer. I honestly don't even care if the person can program "hello world" as long as I have someone to work with me to implement my ideas and to make them better.

I suppose I could go to school for another 4 years and try and learn how to program but I really have no desire to learn programming, nor do I have the time. But that far from makes me lazy.

Comment · 16 years ago
Well, I think that the idea is the most important part of any project.

If your ideas suck then your product will suck as well. Any monkey can bang out code, if there is not a good idea behind it then it's just a bunch of useless text on a screen. A person has to have a vision.

I am not a programmer, It's not my trade, however, I don't think that you have to sleep with CSS3 book in order to have a revolutionary idea. Not to mention I am not asking anyone for anything, and I am not offering anyone anything. Outsourcing is cheap these days so finding a person to build it is not a problem for me; the problem is I doubt myself and I doubt my ideas. I think I have an awesome idea, yet I don't completely trust my own judgement enough to sink my life savings into.

Which is why I need a partner. That is all I was getting at. I am not looking to throw an idea at someone and say "Build it while I sit on the couch and throw out ideas like our friend above suggested."

Comment · 17 years ago
Well, lately I have been working on a "next-gen" social news website. I have done a lot of research over the last year or so into what is wrong with social news and what can be done about it.

I started out saying to myself "I wish Reddit had this, or I wish Digg could do this... I wish, I wish, I wish" until I decided that I would fix it myself. "Digg is like so last year"

If there are two things I can't live without in my life it's my RSS reader and my social news sites (Reddit primarily, but only because it uses direct links in Google Reader.I used to love the community as well but it seems to have gone down hill lately (IMHO), I rarely ever visit the actual site anymore.)

So, like I said I started doing research, reading what other thought about social news and its strengths and weaknesses and I set out to try and fix it as well as implementing a lot of my own unique ideas as well. I'm still working on it it's a constant work in progress I always getting new ideas.

Since I'm not a programmer, and i'm pretty good with Photoshop I decided to do a pretty detailed mockup of what I want my site to look like, how I want it to behave and what features I want in hopes that I can find a hacker or someone with some skills that would be willing help me take my ideas further. One of my biggest problems is I don't have someone to chat with to improve on my ideas or to offer their own to make a good idea really kick ass.

Anyhow, if anyone is interested in this kinda thing send me an email and maybe we can get these YC guys to give us some loot! :D

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