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7,343 | daliso | 2007-03-29T17:55:01 | OpenFloodgate: Online Publishing with Control | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/29/openfloodgate-online-publishing-with-control/ | 1 | 1 | [
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7,345 | r7000 | 2007-03-29T18:05:15 | bbc startup series: Zooomr | null | http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6502611.stm | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'toString') | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T15:55:14 | null | train |
7,346 | r7000 | 2007-03-29T18:06:11 | bbc startup series: StumbleUpon | null | http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6506055.stm | 4 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
7,347 | domp | 2007-03-29T18:25:32 | Young people are just smarter | null | http://news.com.com/2061-11729_3-6171235.html | 5 | 21 | [
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7,349 | tomcat_111 | 2007-03-29T18:33:02 | If you could only read one, which would it be? | null | http://www.jslogan.com/content/view/128/106/ | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | http_404 | Page not found | Saleskick | null | null |
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7,352 | zaidf | 2007-03-29T18:38:31 | How I Sold My Idea to my Co-Founders | null | http://www.slideshare.net/zaidf/how-i-sold-my-idea-to-my-cofounders | 1 | 7 | [
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7,354 | palish | 2007-03-29T18:41:54 | A Group is its Own Worst Enemy - Social Software Design | null | http://shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html | 19 | 3 | [
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7,358 | domp | 2007-03-29T18:55:19 | Adbrite launches BritePic - "Steroids for Photos" | null | http://blogs.business2.com/beta/2007/03/not_ready_brite.html | 3 | 3 | [
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7,360 | nolbrowne | 2007-03-29T18:58:41 | Facebook meets Yahoo Answers - AnswerU | null | http://media.www.bcheights.com/media/storage/paper144/news/2007/02/22/Marketplace/Mit-Students.Centralize.answers-2736339.shtml | 2 | 2 | [
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7,386 | amichail | 2007-03-29T19:50:09 | On finding a cofounder: what is the likelihood that people will like your idea AND your proposed implementation technologies? | null | 1 | 5 | [
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7,416 | domp | 2007-03-29T21:03:47 | Craig Newmark on Net Neutrality | null | http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/345-craig-keep-the-internet-neutral-fair-and-free | 1 | 1 | [
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7,425 | Readmore | 2007-03-29T21:37:13 | Stephen King's 'On Writing' applies to software as well | null | http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/322-excerpts-from-stephen-kings-on-writing#extended | 7 | 1 | [
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Excerpts from Stephen King's "On Writing"
Even if you’re not a fan of Stephen King’s fiction, his book on writing is filled with insightful advice on the craft. (Btw, it was also the inspiration for the title of the “On Writing” posts we publish here.) Some excerpts below.
Get the first draft done quickly…
I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer and — for me, at least — the story begins to take on an odd foreign feel, like a dispatch from the Romanian Department of Public Affairs, or something broadcast on high-band shortwave duiring a period of severe sunspot activity.
On rewriting…
Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out. Once you know what the story is and get it right — as right as you can, anyway — it belongs to anyone who wants to read it. Or criticize it.
Second drafts can only help so much…
“A movie should be there in rough cut,” the film editor Paul Hirsch once told me. The same is true of books. I think it’s rare that incoherence or dull storytelling can be solved by something so minor as a second draft.
Formula for success: 2nd Draft = 1st Draft – 10%...
Mostly when I think of pacing, I go back to Elmore Leonard, who explained it so perfectly by saying he just left out the boring parts. This suggest cutting to speed the pace, and that’s what most of us end up having to do (kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings)...I got a scribbled comment that changed the way I rewrote my fiction once and forever. Jotted below the machine-generated signature of the editor was this mot: “Not bad, but PUFFY. You need to revise for length. Formula: 2nd Draft = 1st Draft – 10%. Good luck.”
Practice isn’t painful when you love what you do…
Talent renders the whole idea of rehearsal meaningless; when you find something at which you are talented, you do it (whatever it is) until your fingers bleed or your eyes are ready to fall out of your head. Even when no one is listening (or reading, or watching), every outing is a bravura performance, because you as the creator are happy. Perhaps even ecstatic.
Some meaty detective-fiction similes…
My all time favorite similes, by the way, come from the hardboiled-detective fiction of the forties and fifties, and the literary descendants of the dime-dreadful writers. These favorites include “It was darker than a carload of assholes” (George V. Higgins) and “I lit a cigarette that tasted like a plumber’s handkerchief” (Raymond Chandler).
On writing seminars and the desire for “the right writing environment”...
In truth, I’ve found that any day’s routine interruptions and distractions don’t much hurt a work in progress and may actually help it in some ways. It is, after all, the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster’s shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with other oysters.
What scares the master of fear…
The scariest moment is always just before you start.
“On Writing” at Amazon.
About Matt Linderman
Now: The creator of Vooza, "the Spinal Tap of startups." Previously: Employee #1 at 37signals and co-author of the books Rework and Getting Real.
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7,441 | python_kiss | 2007-03-29T23:11:21 | Joel Spolsky: The famous blogger on software productivity (Video) | null | http://www.podtech.net/scobleshow/technology/1414/joel-spolsky-the-famous-blogger-on-software-productivity | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
7,442 | domp | 2007-03-29T23:24:50 | Silicon Valley's middle class | null | http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN2922018620070329 | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
7,444 | bctaner | 2007-03-29T23:44:49 | My Own Successful Startup Story ... In 1984 Mar | null | http://codist.biit.com/fiche/thecodist/article/my-own-successful-startup-story--in-1984 | 4 | 2 | [
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7,449 | Elfan | 2007-03-30T00:11:28 | Ruining the User Experience with AJAX | null | http://www.alistapart.com/articles/ruininguserexperience | 11 | 7 | [
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7,450 | Elfan | 2007-03-30T00:16:52 | Google Code Review | null | http://community.livejournal.com/evan_tech/221200.html?thread=1327888 | 1 | 1 | [
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] | null | null | no_error | evan_tech -- code review is great | null | null | At Google, all code must be reviewed before you can check it in. This means that another engineer needs to look over your change and give it their approval. Traditionally we've done it via email and some wrapper scripts, but more recently people have been switching to Guido's fancy tool.When I first started doing this I was a bit skeptical. On many other projects I've worked on, you instead use post-commit emails (or equivalents) to watch what everyone is doing. You can contact the submitters if something went wrong, so it seemed to me to be more or less equivalent to review without the overhead.But in practice, I find that after-the-fact emails let a lot more shady code to get through. It's surprisingly common (both in the code I write and the code by others I review) for something to be written in a slightly messy way -- like with an unclearly named variable, or with an overlong function that could be split into two -- and even though the author knows it's not ideal they'll still submit it. Then, in a post-commit email world, others will see the commit and not be happy with it, but they won't be unhappy enough to warrant requiring a subsequent change for cleanliness.Instead, in a code-review world, nothing's been committed yet so it seems like it's not that much more trouble to just get it right in the first place. My most common sort of feedback in a review is a request to clarify a bit of code by either restructuring or with comments. Especially when you have a lot of people consuming the same code, this sort of polish is really quite nice and worth the pain of reviewing. I now fully endorse this sort of workflow.One of the things that Mondrian (linked above) adds to the process is that each attempted commit is a sort of microbranch. Perforce is actually pretty weird as compared to all the other VCSes I've used, but you can sorta map the code review process to more "normal" systems and call sending code for review just sending someone a diff. In the past, when the submitter then updates their code in response to feedback, the reviewer just gets a second diff, and doesn't get any sort of diff-diff to see what changes were actually made between the diffs.Mondrian adds this diff-diff feature by actually snapshotting the file state at different review points and (within its own UI) letting you see diffs between the files at different points in the review. In fact, what's it's done is implement its own sort of VCS outside of Perforce! It even identifies the different file states with hashes instead of changelist numbers (a Perforce-ism).Identifying file states with hashes and micro-branches are the bread and butter of monotone, and in writing this post I could immediately sorta imagine how you could implement this sort of code-review process completely within monotone: you'd add an extra cert on revisions that had passed the review process, and then make it so all the normal commands (like "update") only pull revisions that passed review. And then I remembered that they had already done exactly this. (There are a lot of details necessary to making this not be totally painful, and since I haven't looked at their implementation I can't vouch for it.)monotone is a seriously sweet piece of software, primarily in its powerful design. I wish there was some way to make it less confusing and complicated. I wonder how much of its complexity is just fundamental to the problem space it attacks... | 2024-11-08T08:25:07 | en | train |
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7,456 | danielha | 2007-03-30T01:09:33 | Make Money With Twitter! 5 Monetization Models | null | http://www.techquilashots.com/2007/03/29/make-money-with-twitter-5-monetization-models/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
7,459 | bootload | 2007-03-30T01:19:13 | Science of Business: serial entrepreneurs share qualities with street kids? | null | http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s1884704.htm | 1 | 1 | [
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7,460 | stevendavis0830 | 2007-03-30T01:27:26 | Top 25 Web 2.0 Websites By Traffic, March 2007 | null | http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/web2.html | 3 | 3 | [
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7,469 | chandrab | 2007-03-30T02:00:50 | Scaling PHP/MySQL...Presentation from Flickr (very good) | null | http://www.ludicorp.com/flickr/zend-talk.ppt | 13 | 6 | [
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7,470 | usablecontent | 2007-03-30T02:00:57 | Scribd is Youtube for documents, Literally | null | http://startupmeme.com/2007/03/29/scribd-is-youtube-for-documents-literally/ | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
7,473 | domp | 2007-03-30T02:15:03 | T9space has 4 million pageviews. Gives mobile access to the popular social networks | null | http://mashable.com/2007/03/29/t9space/ | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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7,550 | mattculbreth | 2007-03-30T13:52:45 | It's Justin, Live! (SF Chronicle story on Justin.tv) | null | http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/03/30/MNG8OOUQI81.DTL | 7 | 2 | [
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] | null | null | no_error | IT'S JUSTIN, LIVE! ALL DAY, ALL NIGHT! / S.F. startup puts camera on founder's head for real-time feed, and a star is born | 2007-03-30T11:00:00Z | Jessica Guynn | 4:44PM: Justin Kan of Justin.tv wears a video camera that's on 24/7. Her arely takes the camera off. The San Francisco startup has used the real-time feed to create an online television reality show starring Kan and his partners, roommates and friends as they deal with the explosion of fan responses and corporate offers they're receiving.
Photo by Kim Komenich/The Chronicle
**Justin KanKim KomenichJust call him Air Justin.Eleven days ago, 23-year-old Justin Kan was just another no-name startup guy with big dreams of the small screen. Then he and his friends launched Justin.tv, an Internet reality show chronicling their adventures as young San Francisco entrepreneurs that, at least for now, is proving to be a smash hit with online viewers.Kan calls it "lifecasting." The concept is simple: Using technology his team developed, Kan has strapped a camera to his head to capture every moment of his existence in live streaming video on the Internet. Viewers literally see the world through Kan's virtual eyes, which broadcast his life onto the Web 24/7. He interacts with his audience through 21 chat rooms and hundreds of e-mails each day. He even took their calls on his cell phone until he got overwhelmed.Article continues below this adThe show's slogan says it all: "Waste time watching other people waste time." And that's what tens of thousand of folks around the globe are doing, turning Kan into an online phenom by tuning in to his irreverent and uncensored world. That sudden explosion of peeping onlookers has caused so many technical difficulties that Justin.tv had to recruit volunteers from the audience to keep the show rolling.Viewers seem to delight in playing along with their new online idol, cramming chat rooms and pulling pranks on him, first calling 911 to report a stabbing in the group's apartment (prompting some friends to give Kan a bullet-proof vest for the next time officers burst in, guns drawn), then reporting a fire there. San Francisco emergency dispatchers, leery of any more false alarms, now call to confirm there's an actual emergency before responding. So fans moved on to different sorts of pranks, such as ordering $63 worth of pizza to be delivered to Justin.tv's door.Instant fame has had some pretty dramatic results. Kan's inbox overflows with praise ("please go off the air, you're ruining my life with your addictive site") and questions particularly of the personal nature, such as what will he do when he masturbates or has sex on-screen.Meanwhile, Emmett Shear, 23, and Kyle Vogt, 21, who comprise the technical team, have barely slept in a desperate effort to keep up with the ever-increasing traffic. Michael Seibel, the show's 24-year-old producer, appears to have a cell phone permanently attached to his ear.Article continues below this adKan jokes that he should hire a full-time assistant just to accept all the new friend requests on MySpace and Facebook. He's already getting noticed on the street. And he is getting flattering attention -- and even his first onscreen kiss -- from his most coveted demographic: starstruck young hotties. (He has lined up three blind dates this weekend). Coming in a close second: Fans who treat him and his cash-strapped gang to dinner. Those fan get an on-air shout-out."Eventually my ego is going to be the size of the planet Earth," Kan said.The business model centers on product placement. Already corporate sponsors are lining up to plug their products alongside Zipcar rentals and Bawls energy drink, both of which have posters on the walls of Justin.tv's headquarters in North Beach. The apartment is four blocks from where the movie "Ed TV," in which a video clerk agrees to have his life videotaped for network TV, was filmed. And Hollywood producers, charged with figuring out new strategies for delivering shows to viewers, are looking to get a piece of the action even though the production values are as crude as the Justin.tv vocabulary.Of course, Justin.tv is a new twist on an old idea, piggybacking on earlier hits such as MTV's "Real World" and Jennicam, an Internet site run by a young woman who in 1996 became one of the first to install webcams in her home so viewers could observe every aspect of her private life. Kan hopes his show's budding success will power a Justin.tv network complete with a lineup of shows, including a "Sex and the City"-inspired tale to be filmed in Manhattan.Article continues below this ad"We want to find people far more charismatic and attractive than me to go out and do this," Kan said.All the runaway hype begs the question: Will Justin.tv be fad or flop?Andrew Keen, a sharp critic of the self-broadcasting movement whose book "The Cult of the Amateur" comes out in June, says this brand of digital narcissism not only will fail, it will be recalled with shame in more sober economic times, just like the dot-coms of the late 1990s."This is the last gasp of the Web 2.0 boom," Keen said. "People are going to look back at this and say, 'This makes Second Life look like the BBC.' I think even Justin will look back on it and be embarrassed.Article continues below this ad"This (show) attracts people who are profoundly bored with their lives and are waiting for the next media fix. They will go on to the next thing when they get bored of this thing. It has no legs."Months ago, when The Chronicle first met the Justin.tv crew as they were in the early planning phase, the show certainly seemed like a gamble. Would people with lives of their own sit around and watch Kan live his, even when he's just spending face time with his laptop or going to the bathroom with the camera discreetly pointed toward the ceiling?Justin.tv is more than ready for prime time, insists Paul Graham, founder of Y Combinator, which provided seed money for the company. The business incubator usually gives the companies it sponsors about $5,000 per founder."Of the 39 startups we've funded so far, Justin.TV might have the most potential," Graham said. "Ultimately their plan is to have hundreds of people with these cameras. Each would be a channel; viewers would watch whichever was most interesting at that time. With hundreds of people, there would always be something interesting. So why would anyone even switch on their TV?Article continues below this ad"If this doesn't scare the s -- out of TV networks, it's only because they don't understand it yet. TV is moving to the Internet especially for the 18- to 35-(year-old) males the TV networks can barely hang onto now."Kan's concept is another step in rewriting the script for programming, said John Furrier, CEO of Podtech.net, a Silicon Valley podcasting network. "It's not about what it is today but what it will turn into. A lot of people will be quick to dismiss the quality of his programming. And it will be crude at first. But it will evolve very quickly."To get an idea of what Justin.tv is all about right now, picture four guys gone wild in a two-bedroom apartment littered with disheveled furniture, empty beer cans, remnants of pizza crust and randomly strewn socks and shoes. On a giant white board is the show's apparent goal: Jay Leno, 30 days or less. On another smaller white board is a long list of possible activities for Kan, from going to a shooting range to making a deposit at a sperm bank.Advertisers' banners adorn the walls. Even Hearst Castle is an unofficial sponsor. The Justin.tv crew, frustrated that the castle was closed during a recent road trip, "borrowed" one of its flags. Kan is fixated on getting Budweiser as a sponsor, which would help with the drain on the thirsty startup's budget.Article continues below this adKan, who says he grew up a shy introvert in an upper-middle-class family in Seattle, has a bona fide exhibitionist streak. A Yale physics and philosophy grad turned high-tech entrepreneur, he once posed lathered in shaving cream for a college pin-up calendar to raise money for tsunami relief, and he sold his first Internet company in an attention-getting stunt on eBay.Now his average day alternates between a blur of antics and long spells of boredom. Kan never takes the camera off unless he's sleeping. That's the only time the camera actually films him instead of his perspective on the world. Viewers, tired of waiting for him to rise, like to egg his roommates on to wake him. On a recent morning, they poured a glass of water on him.Kan likes to think and talk about himself as a man of the people, so he gets out in the world when he can. Highlights from earlier this week: a walk to pick up coffee -- Kan started drinking it a month ago to get more pep earlier in the day -- a flurry of media interviews and lunch in South Park with his No. 1 fan, friend Seeyuen Lee. Lee began watching Justin.tv before it launched. "Now that they have thousands of viewers, everyone wants to be Justin's No. 1 fan, but I am squatting on the title," she said.Later, Kan headed for the Museum of Modern Art to meet with the folks at Podtech, then to take his friend and neighbor, Steve Huffman, who became a millionaire by selling his startup Reddit to Wired Digital, shopping for a Corvette at Ellis Brooks Chevrolet.Article continues below this adNo errand is ordinary when you have a camera strapped to your head. Kan, who ran out of clean socks, walked to Fisherman's Wharf to buy some more at the Gap but was kicked out when he refused to stop shooting. Soon he got an e-mail from a viewer: "Hey Justin I gave a call to that Gap store hah. I told the guy you had 1,000 people watching the camera live and he just looked like a dick to the whole Internet."Rather than return empty-handed to the apartment, Kan wandered across the street to watch breakdancers as the sun set on the bay. As he took in the booming music and acrobatic moves, he became still for the first time all day, and, for a moment, appeared alone in the crowd. "It's nice to watch someone else perform instead of me," he said.Kan realizes there are downsides to so much notoriety. He and Seibel have to instant message each other with phone numbers and other sensitive information they don't want to go out on the air. And, despite all the attention, Kan has never before been so isolated. He spends far more time interacting with strangers than his own family.With a show that runs more on impulse than inspiration, Kan has considered banning his parents' IP addresses from accessing the site. He doesn't want them to see him acting "like an ass," he says.Article continues below this adThen the moment passes, and he's off again, drawn to the glow of an evening spent with friends over pizza and poker. When some of Vogt's friends from MIT show up, they can't believe the show is for real. So Kan tells viewers that if they send 100 e-mails in 20 minutes, the entire gang will dive into the swimming pool completely clothed. Kan clocks 300 messages.With that kind of response, Kan says he has no intention of turning off the camera anytime soon."We will keep going as long as it's fun and as long as it's relevant," he said. "I figure that will be for a long time to come. ... If I wasn't starting this company, I would be starting another company. It's my job. It's my life." | 2024-11-08T00:40:56 | en | train |
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7,644 | diggypop | 2007-03-30T18:53:39 | Paul Graham says Alexa is "behaving evilly" | null | http://ronhornbaker.com/paul-graham-says-alexa-is-behaving-evilly/ | 7 | 1 | [
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7,656 | fruscica | 2007-03-30T19:41:27 | "Open source" biz plan for leveraging media -- esp. situation comedy -- to establish the most popular online market for customized education | null | http://www.OpportuniTV.com | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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7,703 | digg | 2007-03-30T22:26:27 | spam | null | http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=13+year+old+cries+for+sanjaya | 1 | -1 | null | null | true | no_error | 13 year old cries for sanjaya | null | null | Apr 5, 2016 — Ashley Ferl — otherwise known as “Crying Girl,” the 13-year old overcome with emotion and tears after watching her beloved Sanjaya high-swivel ...The Sanjaya Girl was 13-year-old Ashley Ferl, a resident of Riverside, California. Ashley had attended a dress rehearsal for American Idol and had begin ...Apr 10, 2007 — The picture of a 13-year-old blonde girl crying helplessly in the studio audience while watching American Idol contestant Sanjaya Malakar ...May 21, 2018 — The Crying Girl, all grown-up! You remember her as the 13-year-old girl named Ashley Ferl who became a viral sensation when she could not stop ...Aug 12, 2016 — On one hand, we have 13-year-old Ashley Ferl, the Sanjaya superfan who sobbed beforefinally hugging the contestant; on the other hand we ...Missing:cries | Show results with: criesI was on a plane this year and at the end of the flight, the pilot said "Vote for Sanjaya on American Idol". 2-27Reply. Liked by creator. 10.4K.Mar 21, 2007 — The identity of Sanjaya's 'crying fan' has been revealed. According to AMERICAN IDOL producers, the 13 year old tearjerker was Ashley Ferl, ...Fun fact: Sanjaya lived in the house across the street from me, and his mom and I share the same name. I tried to sell grass from his yard in elementary school ...May 3, 2007 — Sanjaya lasted much longer than many thought he would, and in the finals, his fan base was finally given a face thanks to a 13-year-old girl ...A 13-year-old girl named Ashley Ferl was highlighted repeatedly during Malakar's performance in the Top 11 episode, crying tears of joy, although Ferl also ... | 2024-11-08T08:49:39 | en | train |
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7,748 | soulcrusher | 2007-03-31T01:44:04 | If I start a company in grad school, does the school have claim to my work? | null | 4 | 6 | [
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7,763 | escrow | 2007-03-31T03:08:09 | A Summary of Mark Zuckerberg's Speech at Startup School (comic) | null | http://www.killnine.com/comics/25.php | 23 | 12 | [
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