If not now, eventually they must be or must have been "doing startups" because all businesses begin as startups. It's in the name, a startup is a company that is just getting started. Some eventually grow up into the titans of industry that we all know.
The parent is wondering why don't we see more entrepreneurs founding companies that look like they could become the next titans of industry. It seems to me that their companies either don't exist, or are currently invisible because they haven't begun gobbling up market share.
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Books with lots of images can become expensive but it seems like the images are likely unnecessarily big for an ebook, and that is why his costs are so disproportionately large.
I think you mean contracts or defensive coding. If someone calls my code wrong they will have to think to test that particular case themselves, which is hard. Unless I've written contracts; then when it blows up they'll know what they did wrong.
I was a little disappointed that when he talked about Jekyll blogs, he didn't mention Octopress. The default theme looks pretty good, it has a decent set of plugins and the code display looks great. It was actually pretty easy to set up too.
Yeah. In this competition collaboration was discouraged. That does keep politics/alliance building skills out of the equation at the cost of worse overall final products.
I actually used this idea from the forums and your post to get 683rd place even though I started on it with 36 hours to go before the deadline. http://aichallenge.org/profile.php?user=972
So thanks.