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10,600 | comment | pbreit | 2007-04-09T01:22:16 | null | We. | null | null | 10,407 | 10,407 | null | null | null | null |
10,601 | comment | danw | 2007-04-09T01:32:28 | null | <i>"[the data centres are] on track to be consuming half of all the world's output of electricity by the end of this decade."</i><p>Yikes! | null | null | 10,540 | 10,540 | null | null | null | null |
10,602 | comment | nostrademons | 2007-04-09T01:33:34 | null | I dunno about bots, but almost every social website I know is bootstrapped by having the founders comment back and forth with each other. There was an interview with Reddit where they said their first 2 months basically consisted of the two of them submitting every link they could find to their own site.<p>When I was at inAsphere.com, the first thing we did after launch was "Okay, I want every staff member to create at least 5 fake personas, and have conversations with yourselves." So we created accounts and came up with backgrounds and personalities and stuff, and had mock arguments with ourselves on the forums.<p>I know cross-x.com started the same way, since it was by the same founder.<p>The only website I've been involved with which <i>didn't</i> seed things with a bunch of fake usernames was FictionAlley. That was largely because the site was intended to be personal, for a few friends only, and only randomly happened to catch on among the general fandom. Since it was started with more than a dozen founders, they had ample material to begin with. | null | null | 10,573 | 10,502 | null | [
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10,603 | comment | dfranke | 2007-04-09T01:35:13 | null | This would stop working once the ratio of total submitted articles to current active users got too high. Articles would start to appear on the random page so rarely that nothing could get a statistically significant number of votes. | null | null | 9,677 | 9,677 | null | null | null | null |
10,604 | comment | raganwald | 2007-04-09T01:35:32 | null | I agree, my first thought was that how KP defines a <i>good investment</i> is somewhat orthogonal to how someone defines a good business.<p>You mentioned that a small exit is a home run for three guys in a room. Likewise, three guys in a room can be financed by Visa and Mastercard, they don't need KP. | null | null | 10,539 | 10,515 | null | [
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10,605 | comment | zaidf | 2007-04-09T01:39:12 | null | True. I can relate to that. I personally have launched quite a few sites but if I can't get initial traction, I usually go back to the drawing board and figure out why or fold them - so clearly I have a bias against this business of fake personas and bots.<p>I was involved with a dot com back in 2001 where I did an internship. Our first week consisted of all the staff members(there were about 10 of them) creating accounts and contributing. BUT THAT WASN'T THE SITE'S MAIN MARKETING PLAN. That is what you have to understand. Bots and fake personas have very limited lifetime; at the end you have to get real users to make your site of some worth. | null | null | 10,602 | 10,502 | null | [
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10,606 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-09T01:40:32 | null | delete, by going to edit and removing the url & title. hit tab, then
enter. | null | null | 10,599 | 10,574 | null | null | null | null |
10,607 | story | chandrab | 2007-04-09T01:45:17 | Recommendation on hardware configuration to get started? (1 or 2 boxes?) | null | 1 | null | 10,607 | 4 | [
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10,608 | comment | nostrademons | 2007-04-09T01:45:31 | null | Of course; a site that's just the staff commenting back and forth to each other is really a circlejerk, not a webapp. That's what killed inAsphere: it really wasn't all that interesting. Even after getting all sorts of publicity, we weren't retaining visitors. And our existing userbase (we folded cross-x.com into it) was <i>leaving</i> not bringing their friends in.<p>But there's a difference between a site that sucks no matter what you do and a site that could survive on its own if only it passed the initial attracting-users hurdle. Reddit's a good example of the latter: I checked it out about a week after it launched, and it was really quite boring. I came back a few months later, and it actually had a thriving community. If the Reddit founders hadn't stuck with it and just folded the site, they'd be out a few million dollars. | null | null | 10,605 | 10,502 | null | null | null | null |
10,609 | comment | chandrab | 2007-04-09T01:47:02 | null | I wanted to get some thoughts on what sort of hardware configuration I would need to get kicked off (1U colo). Do I need 1 web+1 db server day 1? firewall box? | null | null | 10,607 | 10,607 | null | [
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10,610 | comment | jwp | 2007-04-09T01:48:23 | null | This begs the question, how do you define a bot? From my understanding of the talk, they replay one person's session and don't use composites. But, point taken. | null | null | 10,597 | 10,502 | null | [
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10,611 | comment | blader | 2007-04-09T01:50:39 | null | Useful for people evaluating whether to use a tag cloud as navigation<p>
"We analyzed a popular social tagging site, del.icio.us, using
information theory. By analyzing various kinds of entropy,
which is a traditional information theory metric, we found
that, over time, del.icio.us is becoming harder to navigate.
Moreover, the collective of users (the crowd) is having a
harder time in tagging documents as the collection of
bookmarks grows unabated. This is somewhat intuitive,
since the amount of information being bookmarked is
growing extremely fast, and the usage and growth of the
Indeed, design changes and tools for social tagging are
tagging vocabulary become much more saturated.
Entropy,
as a metric, can also be used to drive system design choices.
We discussed several social tagging tools or modifications
to social tagging that could benefit from using entropy to
evaluate the effects. It is our hope that HCI researchers will
utilize this methodology to characterize future social and
collaborative information systems."<p> | null | null | 10,448 | 10,448 | null | null | null | null |
10,612 | comment | amichail | 2007-04-09T01:53:15 | null | For the ESP Game, it might be the case that they replay one person's session.<p>But for Phetch:<p>"Emulating Seekers in a convincing manner is more difficult. If a real player enters useless
descriptions of the image, we do not want the emulated Seekers to find it. Although this is not a significant
problem since most Describers enter accurate descriptions of images, we nevertheless address it to protect
the illusion that a real game is being played. The solution to the problem relies on the fact that we are using
images from the ESP Game database, so the keywords associated with the images in the search engine are
already known. Therefore, we emulate Seekers by not guessing the right image until a certain number of
the ESP keywords have been entered by the Describer."<p><a href="http://reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu/anon/2005/CMU-CS-05-193.pdf#page=56">http://reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu/anon/2005/CMU-CS-05-193.pdf#page=56</a>
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10,613 | comment | nostrademons | 2007-04-09T01:54:12 | null | We're basically starting with the cheapest dedicated server we could find (single $79/month Celeron from GoDaddy). No, it won't stand up to any significant load. However, there's really no reason to pay a lot of money upfront when you have no idea whether your idea will even be popular at all. Might as well save the cash up front, and expand once you know what sort of load you'll be facing.<p>We keep all our config files in Subversion and try to automate as much of the setup process as is possible. Hopefully that'll let us expand quickly if we need to upgrade to a bigger box or split over multiple machines. | null | null | 10,609 | 10,607 | null | null | null | null |
10,614 | story | pg | 2007-04-09T01:54:40 | Microsoft is Dead: The Cliffs Notes | null | http://www.paulgraham.com/cliffsnotes.html | 29 | null | 10,614 | 25 | [
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10,615 | story | blader | 2007-04-09T01:57:41 | The Personal MBA (DIY MBA) | null | http://joshkaufman.net/personalmba/ | 1 | null | 10,615 | 1 | [
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10,616 | comment | noisemaker | 2007-04-09T02:01:58 | null | I'm not really a founder or an involved person, but has helped out on the project quite a bit. I'd be glad to give out an invite, but currently I do not have any more. <p>But Just in response, the nature of the limitations are to address real problems that exist in real dating sites at the moment. Also the social structure of the site is targeted more towards users who do not necessarily use such dating or social networking sites to find a mate, but to play it like a kind of social game.<p>It's definitely not for everyone, but it seems to be catching someones attention.<p>Regardless of that, they have a number of interesting pieces of technology in their site and groundbreaking ways to integrate them in useful ways. Whether or not the actual site is successful, it will be a point for many to learn about what a web service can be. | null | null | 7,261 | 7,136 | null | null | null | null |
10,617 | story | noisemaker | 2007-04-09T02:02:28 | Response to "Note to content owners: DRM doesn't work" | null | http://noisepost.com/2007/4/9/note-to-content-owners-drm-doesnt-work | 1 | null | 10,617 | 0 | null | null | null |
10,618 | story | raganwald | 2007-04-09T02:03:38 | The Casino Or The Bureaucracy | null | http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2007/04/casino-or-beauraucracy.html | 12 | null | 10,618 | 4 | [
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10,619 | comment | Adler | 2007-04-09T02:05:04 | null | I get a kick out of these articles.<p>But, Google is my friend. I tell evey one that. Power beyond belief. <p>Meanwhile, when will MAC die?<p>I believe in opensource, and all the goodness there.<p>It is a global village. The MAC is too expensive hardware-wise, and well we don't call it M$ for nothing.<p>Adler
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10,620 | story | bootload | 2007-04-09T02:08:20 | Interview with Jaiku co-founder Jyri Engestrom | null | http://www.606tech.com/fullarticle.php?artid=492 | 3 | null | 10,620 | 1 | [
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10,621 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-09T02:09:16 | null | news.yc can't handle unicode :( | null | null | 10,620 | 10,620 | null | null | null | null |
10,622 | comment | yaacovtp | 2007-04-09T02:18:04 | null | It's a good thing people react and then look. Google "microsoft is dead" and the number 2 result is headlined "Eight signs Microsoft is dead in the water - MarketWatch" dated May 3, 2006.<p>Is Dow Jones also irrelevant if no one is paying attention to it? | null | null | 10,614 | 10,614 | null | null | null | null |
10,623 | comment | jdavid_net | 2007-04-09T02:23:35 | null | Just thought I would chime in here, from socialhelix.com<p>we are looking for a good deal too in the midwest, we are located in Milwaukee, WI and it seems like chicago is cheaper than Milwaukee area colocation services.<p>For now we are making use of a speakeasy 6/768 dsl line for our beta servers.<p>If barcampUSA panned out, we were going to offer our service to the public earlier and we were looking at getting a dedicated colo for 1-2 servers, but for now, our dsl is fine.
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10,624 | story | danw | 2007-04-09T02:35:33 | double post- delete | null | http://demomyapp.com/ | 1 | null | 10,624 | -1 | null | null | true |
10,625 | comment | rokhayakebe | 2007-04-09T02:35:46 | null | Financial Times, NY Times and local news papers may help. | null | null | 10,499 | 10,499 | null | null | null | null |
10,626 | comment | Sam_Odio | 2007-04-09T02:46:45 | null | Wamily.com actually switched off MT because of downtime & mysql problems.<p>MT will definitely be one of my first choices when they get all that sorted out, though. | null | null | 10,598 | 10,526 | null | null | null | null |
10,627 | comment | iamwil | 2007-04-09T02:51:34 | null | PG, Why did you wish to be the first one to call it, btw? | null | null | 10,614 | 10,614 | null | [
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10,628 | comment | BrandonM | 2007-04-09T02:56:30 | null | ...and Microsoft's software isn't? | null | null | 10,472 | 9,770 | null | null | null | null |
10,629 | story | jamongkad | 2007-04-09T02:59:56 | Are Desktop Apps Dead? | null | http://gigaom.com/2006/09/10/are-desktop-apps-dead/ | 2 | null | 10,629 | 0 | null | null | null |
10,630 | comment | culix | 2007-04-09T03:00:35 | null | I think the most interesting thing about article is that people who fall into the "old news" camp probably didn't need the Cliffs Notes to understand what Paul meant. Once I understood what the original essay was about, I wasn't reminded of Microsoft's balance sheet, nor did I think they would be going out of business. The fact that they aren't non-existent but are no longer relevant just seems... intuitive. | null | null | 10,614 | 10,614 | null | [
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10,631 | comment | coalincash | 2007-04-09T03:01:07 | null | As a heavy Google user I would have to strongly disagree with you. Why? Microsoft might be trying to play catch-up with Google all the time, but there are more important things than Google. Sure I use Google and Linux all the time for all my docs, e-mail and just about all my work as well. Here's the thing though, a PC is still cheaper than a Mac even with Vista.
PC makers won't want to switch to Linux either because of tech support.
Microsoft still has a very big share of the market and no one can deny it. Sure the iPod helps Macs sell, but not enough for Microsoft to care.
Here's the argument, everyone needs an operating system and something that just works. Linux is still not for the average human, and PC makers won't resell something from Apple. Right now Microsoft wins, and probably will for the next five to ten years. Sure there are Firefox, Google, Linux, but people just want something that works and to be honest Microsoft offerings are good enough.<p>P.S. We need to remember that Microsoft has Xbox 360 and the Zune. All which work with Windows.
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10,632 | story | jamongkad | 2007-04-09T03:01:29 | Jajah misleads the media with news on iPhone, LG Prada and Sony PSP | null | http://www.goebel.net/technews/2007/04/jajah-misleads-media-with-news-on.html | 1 | null | 10,632 | 0 | null | null | null |
10,633 | story | noisemaker | 2007-04-09T03:02:29 | Internet leaks help independent labels and artists grow | null | http://noisepost.com/2007/4/9/leaks-help-independent-artists-grow | 1 | null | 10,633 | 0 | null | null | null |
10,634 | comment | Goladus | 2007-04-09T03:05:57 | null | Nice. I was in middle school 1993 and didn't get the references. | null | null | 10,511 | 10,511 | null | null | null | null |
10,635 | comment | marcell | 2007-04-09T03:06:54 | null | I wouldn't say PG is the first to call it. Joel Spolsky wrote an article with same jist a few years back (<a href="http://joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html),">http://joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html),</a> and I'm sure less known authors have been calling it before that. It's different when a big name with reputation on the line calls it, but Microsoft's being "dead" has been an open secret for a while.<p>I'm guessing I fall into this crowd: "The other half, the younger half, will complain that this is old news." | null | null | 10,627 | 10,614 | null | null | null | null |
10,636 | comment | patryn20 | 2007-04-09T03:14:50 | null | It saddens me that people needed the Cliff's Notes (Registered, Trademark, OMG WE PWNZ YOU) to understand what Paul was getting at. <p>I didn't actively think about it; however, when I submitted my YC app, Microsoft didn't even enter my mind as a potential competitor. I guess they COULD be, but it is a remote concern. Paul basically just put into words what was being subconsciously realized in the minds of web-geeks everywhere.<p>After reading comments on Slashdot (not generally a source for enlightened comments, I know), I also can't believe how people fixated on the "everyone uses Apples" remark. It should be obvious that Paul was referring to the group of innovative, young people that are developing the next wave of software.<p>And I am writing this from a Mac. (Yay!) | null | null | 10,614 | 10,614 | null | null | null | null |
10,637 | comment | pg | 2007-04-09T03:20:24 | null | We don't have a PR firm. I think that reporter was introduced to the Justin.TVs by another YC startup. That's probably the reason there's so much press: each startup introduces reporters to the other YC startups. There are now 39 of them, so that's a lot of introducing. | null | null | 10,470 | 10,460 | null | null | null | null |
10,638 | comment | zaidf | 2007-04-09T03:21:54 | null | Yep, this interview told me more about the changes that VCs worldwide are having to adapt to; learned very little about where web2.0 is and headed. | null | null | 10,604 | 10,515 | null | null | null | null |
10,639 | comment | whacked_new | 2007-04-09T03:28:01 | null | i don't think this move was necessary; people who didn't get the last article won't be placated by this article. people who did get it, will think as they have.<p>pg, it seems like you took the bait from the angry bloggers. | null | null | 10,614 | 10,614 | null | null | null | null |
10,640 | comment | rebecca_d | 2007-04-09T03:28:53 | null | Sitting out on the infancy of web 2.0 (Kleiner Perkins/Microsoft) if you don't have eyeballs to appease (Google) makes heaps of sense.
User-generated content (I speak primarily of video as that is my research/startup focus) will be history in many niches as more and more companies get into the business of making excellent, interactive web video content. This superior content will have many unique and unobtrusive ways to be monetized, and in none of the ways (pre-roll, post-roll) ad companies are trying to fit to user-generated content. <p>I think, as this natural evolution occurs, we will see the likes of Kleiner Perkins and Microsoft bidding high and wide, as the next five years will be very kind to professional content providers. <p>They are skeptical right now because they should be. The attention span of the average web surfer is short as is his loyalty. A major content revolution is about to occur and it will be fascinating to see who the major players will be, and who (Youtube?) the major players won't be.<p>I am making a huge and possibly erroneous assumption that these early-stage 2.0 companies can't evolve into what I describe above. I base that assumption on inflexible attachments to branding (hangover from advertising 1.0). Much like a first impression, a brand is a difficult thing to change. | null | null | 10,515 | 10,515 | null | null | null | null |
10,641 | comment | erdos2 | 2007-04-09T03:30:10 | null | Apropos of Microsoft versus Google<p>A senior researcher from Google gave a talk at the compter science colloquium at my institution in December 2005. It was supposed to be about such things as the Google Maps API, but it really was a talk about how great it was to work at Google. <p>At the time, while doing research for my Strategic Defenestration Initiative (another story), I had read an editorial (URL: <a href="http://linux.sys-con.com/read/84967.htm">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/84967.htm</a> -- the editor could use some editing) in Linux SYS CON which argued that LAMP and open source technology enabled Google and Amazon.com to grow "...quickly into industry leaders." The author pointed out that Amazon and Google were successful partly because LAMP technology allowed them to compete on an equal footing with Fortune 500 companies. And now they were successful enough to replace their open source Linux and Apache infrastructure with proprietary software systems (Windows) if they wanted, but they had not done so. <p>
During the question and answer period, I asked the speaker whether Google had the financial and technical means to migrate their servers from Linux to Windows. He replied that they could do this. I couldn't resist: I then asked the speaker whether Google would go ahead and migrate all their servers to Windows. <p>
His reply brought down the house: "if we did that, 90 percent of our engineers would quit on the spot." | null | null | 10,614 | 10,614 | null | [
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10,642 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-09T03:30:59 | null | thats not a bug ,,, it's a feature ~ <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/bootload/398269769">http://flickr.com/photos/bootload/398269769</a> | null | null | 10,548 | 10,533 | null | null | null | null |
10,643 | comment | aristus | 2007-04-09T03:31:18 | null | NAP of the Americas in Miami. World-class facility. It houses one of the root DNS nodes and also a lot of E911 equipment. Expen$ive but it's the only place in the States with good ping times to both Europe and SA. They handled the 2004-5 hurricane season with no downtime. It takes some cojones to put a datacenter 100 meters from the ocean. | null | null | 10,526 | 10,526 | null | [
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10,644 | comment | rms | 2007-04-09T03:31:23 | null | I like the use of (sometimes completely inappropriate) pictures. It makes the blog post a lot more visually appealing. | null | null | 10,618 | 10,618 | null | [
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10,645 | comment | patryn20 | 2007-04-09T03:31:44 | null | I feel your pain. Was a CI Host customer for YEARS and then left them. They got BAD. An old company of mine still has a half-rack with them, but only because of cross-connects in place we don't want to pay to move. We also put gaming servers up there on occasion, since we are paying for it.<p>Took a lot of customers with me when I left. I couldn't afford to support them on CI Host anymore. Too many problems. They pulled the power on our servers without warning and pulled out the power backup to upgrade it (without warning, mind you), then realized they didn't have a spare unit and left the whole rack unplugged. Had to drive out there and fix it myself.<p>Moved my stuff to The Planet, but have had problems with them after the merger with EV1. The support panel has slightly reduced functionality and some broken pages. Their support team takes up to thirty minutes to respond to issues. Just sad. It used to be great.<p>Colo4Dallas has pretty much non-responsive support teams. My employer is moving our remaining servers out of there. Took them forty-five minutes to get around to a down production box. That wasn't even to fix it, just to check it.<p>Have GREAT luck with Rackspace at work, but definitely more expensive. Very responsive. Preemptive maintenance. Prompt notifications of hardware issues, often before we notice them. IMMEDIATE support.<p>After they resolved some network instability issues, Sagonet was really good for an old venture of mine. Good prices too.<p>Geez.....I feel like an unfaithful lover after listing off all these hosts I have used. Probably even a couple more I can't remember. | null | null | 10,547 | 10,526 | null | null | null | null |
10,646 | comment | reitzensteinm | 2007-04-09T03:32:32 | null | Well, I certainly didn't think he was, but that's an odd thing to ask considering the article we are discussing is basically some guy refuting the literal interpretation. | null | null | 10,372 | 10,319 | null | null | null | null |
10,647 | comment | rhmason | 2007-04-09T03:33:42 | null | I think the truth is that Microsoft is not dead but simply no longer relevant. Eight years ago you would expect a VC to ask you why Microsoft would not choose to compete against you. Or alternately you would make the case that Microsoft might buy you out as an exit strategy. Today you would substitute Google or Yahoo for Microsoft. So in effect to startups Microsoft has truly become irrelevant.
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10,648 | comment | reitzensteinm | 2007-04-09T03:42:44 | null | 'In fact "Microsoft is Dead" was what we in the trade call a metaphor.'<p>It kind of saddens me that this clarification was necessary, but at least I got a good laugh out of it :) | null | null | 10,614 | 10,614 | null | [
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10,649 | comment | culix | 2007-04-09T03:48:53 | null | I would like to second, third, or fourth this. Having the page jump around when I vote on something really makes me not want to use the site.<p>Normally I hate "me too" posts, but I feel this feature is important enough that I wouldn't want you to think other people didn't agree. Thanks. | null | null | 1,085 | 363 | null | [
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10,650 | story | whacked_new | 2007-04-09T03:48:55 | Self policing for "delete me" posts | null | 3 | null | 10,650 | 4 | [
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10,651 | comment | whacked_new | 2007-04-09T03:50:42 | null | There were some mistake submissions which got deleted from the front page. They were immediately obvious as mistakes, but what if a dupe was submitted a week later? a month later? ten years later? A dupe may leave and re-enter relevance given the circumstances. In a different context, a dupe may not be a dupe, even if it references the same information.<p>For the last two cases I saw, "delete me" works, but I find this self-policing idea suboptimal. There will inevitably be users in the future who make mistake submissions. If they are completely irrelevant, or carbon copies, fine. But if they are submissions like "AMAZING PHOTO!", what if the user finds it personally significant? As the size of the crowd grows, no matter how focused your initial crowd is, or how you intially positioned your product, there will be a scattering of interest. Unless you follow an editor and moderator model, slashdot for example, you will be unable to filter your content to a specific standard. In the case of an open-participation community, enforcing focus may be excessive: after all, the community is defined by itself, not the application it uses. If you gather more and more forgetful users, they may appreciate dupes.<p>After you hit some sort of critical mass of users, many new users will arrive by friend recommendations, or mere interest in the community size, rather than independent discovery. Independent users join after searching for and spotting something tailored to their specific interests, but there is no guarantee that referred users fall under the same profile.<p>In interest of monetization, it should be hard for popular sites to escape changing to accomodate a more diverse userbase. I believe this has hit both digg and reddit. Sooner or later, with the rapid growth seen here, news.yc also (which seems to evolve faster than the other news sites). In this regard, plus 1 for slashdot model (editors plus moderators). python_kiss also observed this on his project (interested in your thoughts). This also makes me question the strategy of pre-defining and then trying to self-enforce a niche in an open and user-driven website. Of course you can use subgroupings by topic, or do something like Ning, but lurkers that never bother to customize their preferences, whose numbers are probably significant, will be hard to please. You might even have better luck with them by showing random stories than by showing the most popular or most active.<p>Maybe the popularity measure has shown its limit in usefulness. Users come for content quality, be that quality of information or emotion (flamewars give belligerent folks an adrenaline boost); the quality is driven by a few. I would come back here just to read the comments from a couple amazingly good commenters. Those comments could spawn complete discussions by themselves, like the questions from good panel moderators in conferences. More than popularity, then, the submission rating should be influenced more by the overall "quality" measure of the discussion. For example, in slashdot, you look at the number of comments, then the total number of, say, +5 comments. Usually it's something like, say, 10 percent. When it's significantly higher, I anticipate a good read.<p>That reminds me again. Topic Karma is an interesting attempt. python_kiss? :) | null | null | 10,650 | 10,650 | null | [
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10,652 | comment | khodabakchian | 2007-04-09T04:01:55 | null | 7 years ago, we started a company called Collaxa. At that time, all our intranet servers and developer machines where dell/windows with a couple of linux machines only (CVS, build). Most people where using Office.<p>This year, we are starting a new venture. This time, all the developers run on Mac and all the servers are either hosted or running linux. All the presentations are make using Keynote, the intranet is a wiki (no more word) and some google spreadsheets. No one is using Office. The end result: we have not payed a single dollar to Microsoft.<p>Although big corporations are locked in, the trend is clear. MSFT is going to need a major turn around to get back on their feet.
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10,653 | comment | culix | 2007-04-09T04:06:44 | null | It seems like this guy is a big fan of the [Ben and Jerry's] (<a href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000056.html)">http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000056.html)</a> organic company model, and is deriding YC for being more of the "amazon" big burst type model (or at least accusing YC of creating small startup companies that follow the Amazon model). This analogy is slightly flawed, because, like ViaWeb, most of the startups that YC funds don't really seem like Amazon model companies. I would say that the author of this article is drawing the line between "organic startup" and "explosive funded company" much closer to the side of startups that start small, and including YC funded companies on the "explosive funded" side. That may account for some of his anger.<p>FWIW, his piece does have a good point: that a viable startup should be able to continue along a successful path even if they get rejected by YC. But as other people have noted there are benefits to being funded by YC: firstly they can [remove some of your distractions](<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=9439)">http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=9439)</a> and give you good advice; and secondly, applying to and being rejected by YC might just [force you to step up and improve your company](<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=9486).">http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=9486).</a> While there certainly are (and should be) companies that don't need YC to become successful, I think if you can get ahead by getting funded, then you should do it, and that's why YC really matters. | null | null | 9,361 | 9,361 | null | null | null | null |
10,654 | comment | carboncat | 2007-04-09T04:12:48 | null | I think you're thinking too much in sort of "playground politics" and not about capitalist systems. It doesn't matter who is afraid of who, or who the big mean kid is. Microsoft dominates the charts in the Amazon software bestsellers: google doesn't have anything in that list. What does that tell you? You're comparing apples and oranges. The "IT industry" is no longer a single industry, so it's no longer about getting a bigger slice of a single cake.
When Microsoft does a major product launch that bombs (in the sense of Battleship Earth), then I'll take this proposition seriously. While they have chart topper after chart topper, there isn's a case.
I can see that your response to the "well they sell lots of software" argument is dismissive, but the fact that they do says a lot. It speaks to: market dominance due to historical monopoly; continued product development and support; and continued acceptance of Microsoft products by the marketplace.
This might sound simplistic, but these are the hard, cold facts. It's fun to predict the demise of a giant (and exciting and controversial). It's boring to predict that they'll lumber on, giant-like, for years to come. That's not interesting or newsworthy!
But sometimes the boring predictions are the most likely ones to occur.
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10,655 | comment | mattjaynes | 2007-04-09T04:15:14 | null | Ironically, the fact that Microsoft apologists didn't even understand pg's explicitly clear article in the first place is yet another HUGE indicator of why they're dead: <p><i>They just don't GET IT</i>. ;) | null | null | 10,614 | 10,614 | null | null | null | null |
10,656 | comment | BitGeek | 2007-04-09T04:22:52 | null |
That's a very sick and twisted view of the world-- and it is from Karl Marx.<p>The reality is, you make money when you bring happiness to people. You make people happy and they want to give you money they want to buy more of your products because they want to keep being made happy again, or made even more happy.<p>Thus, the happier you make your customers the more money you make. <p>Further, making people happy, and making money are intrinsically <i>moral</i> things. Trading with people is honest and moral.<p>Those who talk of <i>altruism</i> speak of violence. Altruism is the destruction of your self to benefit others. (Literally). Thus socialists throw around the word "altruism" (and "Sacrifice" and a lot of other code words) to try and make it seem moral-- but at the root of it, what they are doing or advocating is putting a gun to your head and taking your money (and your money is just a representation of the labor you put in to earn it.)<p>So, don't you talk to me about morals-- when its clear you are advocating an immoral ideology.<p>The bottom line is this: Free people trade with each other and profit by trades that make people happy. This trade is moral, it is honest, and it is right. It is intrinsically peaceful.<p>Socialists oppose free trade, they believe in forcing people at gun point to "trade" on terms that the socialist approve of. This is not peaceful, this is not moral, and obviously the people who are having their lives threatened are acting under duress--- duress is not compatible with happines.<p>So, the next time you hear "sacrifice" come out of the mouth of a politician -- realize its not <i>him</i> that will be sacrificing-- its <i>you</i> and he's putting a gun to your head to get richer.<p>That is the language of the thief and the looter, the socialist and the immoral. <p>This is so obvious that I shouldn't have to say it-- but its amazing how twisted people's minds get when they are subjected to socialist propaganda day in and day out.<p>To think you just said people doing things that make them happy, because they make them happy is immoral!<p> | null | null | 10,579 | 9,770 | null | [
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10,657 | comment | imperator | 2007-04-09T04:25:09 | null | San Jose and San Luis Obispo, CA; 2; 24,25 | null | null | 9,986 | 9,986 | null | null | null | null |
10,658 | comment | staunch | 2007-04-09T04:27:41 | null | It was a running joke on Slashdot for years to say "FreeBSD is dead".<p><p> | null | null | 10,614 | 10,614 | null | null | null | null |
10,659 | comment | benknight | 2007-04-09T04:35:25 | null | I have always enjoyed reading Paul's articles/blogs. I was enjoying reading this till I got to the line "All the computer people use Macs or Linux now. Windows is for grandmas, like Macs used to be in the 90s." <p>Having used gmail since March 28, 05, gcal since it came out, and other web software as appropriate for a while, I'm a big believer in software-as-a-service because I hate the idea of having desktop software on one computer and not the other. I also own both, an Apple PowerBook and a Dell laptop. I find Windows a lot more keyboard friendly, since I like to fly around with both shortcut keys and the Mac just can't keep up with me. On the other hand, I love Mac's Zen-like environment and the rock solid BSD underneath it -- Windows can seem pretty cheesy with all its pop-up baloons and MS-DOS prompt. However, given the apps and hardware available for Windows, I still prefer Windows because I'm a developer and business guy. I also disagree that Windows is for grandmas. I mean, Paul, which world do you live in? Just because a niche of designers, developers and a few affluent folks use Apple, doesn't mean EVERYONE is using Macs. Your bias clearly shows through here.<p>I personally am not biased to any particular hardware/OS because I use them all (even Ubuntu/Linux for servers). Having worked with 5 flavors of Unix since 1991, I feel equally comfortable with the <i>nix world, Windows and Mac OS.<p>In the end, Apple is a cult -- it always has been. Apple isn't any better of a company than Microsoft and neither is Google. I've always had a love-hate relationship with Microsoft. I hate how they try to break stuff (e.g. Java, JavaScript) but I absolutely don't mind using MS Office to get stuff done. And, the fact that I almost entirely use open source for my development/deployment and not feel hampered on Windows combined with the fact that most of my personal information management is done using gmail/gcal, I can use Microsoft to get the best of all world: i.e. MS Office, web 2.0 apps through Firefox, anything open source (e.g. eclipse, rails, mysql), etc., etc. I strongly believe OS will eventually become less relevant for desktops, whether it is Microsoft, Mac, or Linux.<p>In the end, consumers have personal preferences and corporation want to make money. That's as simple as it gets. <p>On June 2, 2006 (thanks to gmail's quick search engine for locating the email/date), I sent an email to a bunch of folks pointing them to Paul's "How to start a startup" article (<a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html)">http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html)</a> because I absolutely loved it! On this article, I have to agree with the previous commenter that "Paul Graham is the Ann Coulter of the Web 2.0 world." :-( | null | null | 9,770 | 9,770 | null | [
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10,660 | comment | MikeC | 2007-04-09T04:47:42 | null | Paul says he wanted to be the first to call MS's decline.<p>I think John Walker did this more than 10 years ago:
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10,661 | comment | danielha | 2007-04-09T05:07:30 | null | I was a bit surprised at so many people jumping up in arms over the declaration of Microsoft's death. The article was quite clear in what it was getting at -- I could only guess that people are inferring the wrong things because they didn't actually read it. And even then, when I first read the article title, I thought: Yep, sounds about right. | null | null | 10,614 | 10,614 | null | null | null | null |
10,662 | comment | danielha | 2007-04-09T05:17:10 | null | Oh man, that commercial is pure cheese.<p>If you guys ever somehow drunkenly decide to blow $2.5M on a commercial, make sure to include gratuitous explosions and an extended car chase sequence. Then, of course, relate it back to email somehow at the end. | null | null | 10,563 | 10,489 | null | null | null | null |
10,663 | comment | jward | 2007-04-09T05:35:04 | null | You would really be surprised how many people don't know how to do certain things. I spent one year working as a floor coordinator (RA to most people) in the dorm and it boggled me. I don't know why, and I don't blame them for it, but things I took for granted like knowing how to do laundry or cook were not skills known by the majority.<p>On the subject of food in particular, I love to cook. I've held down two cooking jobs, and one of my plans for after I become a startup millionaire is to open a restaurant. Cooking is a lot like hacking. You build up from very simple frameworks, experimenting as you go. Also like coding, if you've never tried it, it looks scary and foreign. Have confidence and just do it. | null | null | 10,504 | 10,460 | null | null | null | null |
10,664 | comment | celoyd | 2007-04-09T05:37:19 | null | Wow, they changed it since I said that. Good for them. Their robots.txt blocks the Wayback Machine, but the current Google cache has it (search for "The main - usually whiny - argument"): <a href="http://tinyurl.com/26o3nq">http://tinyurl.com/26o3nq</a><p>Edit: link syntax. | null | null | 10,595 | 10,034 | null | null | null | null |
10,665 | comment | jward | 2007-04-09T05:42:18 | null | The less pieces you have the lower the complexity. The lower the complexity the easier it is to fix when stuff breaks. The easier it is to fix bugs the faster you can get a real product shipped. You would be amazed how much load a single box can handle. I wouldn't split until I had to.<p>My current setup is a single FreeBSD box sitting in a colo downtown that putters along without a hitch. | null | null | 10,609 | 10,607 | null | null | null | null |
10,666 | comment | Roybatty | 2007-04-09T06:07:38 | null | I'll pass on whatever Paul is smoking. I guess there's a psychological condition (I'll coin it Slashdotitis), where the downfall of Microsoft is just right around the corner - or in Paul's case it has already happened.<p>Here's a cluestick. HTML (even with AJAX) is not a freaking platform. Wake me up when Google has an actual platform. Until then, Paul can go live in the fantasy world with Larry Ellison where the networked thin client was going to take over years ago. Yawn.
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10,667 | story | dhouston | 2007-04-09T06:08:24 | Students: yet another summer founders program (due 4/19): Highland Capital Partners | null | http://www.hcp.com/news/newsdetails.php/id/49812 | 7 | null | 10,667 | 18 | [
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10,668 | comment | volida | 2007-04-09T06:22:55 | null | Someone saying 8 years ago that web apps would take the majority of desktop applications out of the picture people would say she is crazy.
If today you accept that fact, then possibly u accept that Microsoft has at least been minimized as a potential threat. <p>But, if someone even today haven't seen the move away desktop apps, then they will never understand what PG meant.<p>If you compare the 17 acquisitons Vs the 9 that Google did in 2006, the conclusions are obvious...<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_acquired_by_Microsoft_Corporation#2006">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_acquired_by_Microsoft_Corporation#2006</a><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_acquisitions">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_acquisitions</a> | null | null | 10,614 | 10,614 | null | null | null | null |
10,669 | comment | lee | 2007-04-09T06:25:46 | null | Boston, MA 3 22, 28, 45 | null | null | 9,986 | 9,986 | null | null | null | null |
10,670 | comment | cK | 2007-04-09T06:41:46 | null | You're a moron with an MBA. There is very little substance in what you said, just speculation. You clearly do not understand the Software and IT Services space.
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10,671 | comment | tijaska | 2007-04-09T06:48:25 | null | Very insightful! Microsoft will become completely irrelevant once the desktop/laptop becomes history, which may take another 5 years. Mobile phones will have enough smarts to run the apps that most folks need, wherever they need them, and will be able to deliver them to big screen docking stations via Ajax web apps when we need to see the detail. Check my blog at <a href="http://trevors-trinkets.blogspot.com/2007/02/after-desktop-what.html">http://trevors-trinkets.blogspot.com/2007/02/after-desktop-what.html</a> and <a href="http://trevors-trinkets.blogspot.com/2007/03/mobilizing-mobiles.html">http://trevors-trinkets.blogspot.com/2007/03/mobilizing-mobiles.html</a>
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10,672 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-09T06:51:21 | null | Highland was one of the VC's that ripped into govWorks (startup.com) in 2000 If I remember correctly ~ <a href="http://www.phfilms.com/index.php/phf/film/startupcom">http://www.phfilms.com/index.php/phf/film/startupcom</a> | null | null | 10,667 | 10,667 | null | null | null | null |
10,673 | comment | aston | 2007-04-09T06:53:45 | null | Like I said, Yscraper makes sense. The article says "scaper." | null | null | 10,520 | 10,460 | null | null | null | null |
10,674 | comment | pg | 2007-04-09T06:58:26 | null | Good God, another one. At least these guys didn't copy our application form.<p>The funny thing is, both Highland and Lightspeed are copying an aspect of YC that we later realized was a mistake: focusing on people currently in school. <p>People who copy you always end up copying a slightly old version of you. I noticed that with Viaweb. That's one reason all these imitations don't freak me out too much. Viaweb must have had at least 10 of them-- many of which copied stuff nearly verbatim from our site. | null | null | 10,667 | 10,667 | null | [
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10,675 | comment | jward | 2007-04-09T07:02:07 | null | I'd like to make a difference in the world, and have enough money.<p>I first started hawking things to old ladies when I was six. Both my parents have owned several businesses over the years. Finance, law, and business have always fascinated me. Aside from a brief stint where I wanted to be an astronaut, every single ideal future I've seen for myself has had me working for myself.<p>I also really don't like 'working'. I like being in control of my own destiny, having a boss isn't good for that. I like feeling useful, most jobs I've had I didn't get that feeling. I want to be exemplary, but doing tech support made me feel mediocre at best.<p>As for web startups, it's a simple matter of math. I can't be passionate about something I don't care about and it costs less to start a startup than a restaurant. I'm not a genius by any stretch, and reading about some of the people who have been picked for YC... I'm a little in awe. But I do get computers and coding very well. It's something I know how to do and is hard enough to be challenging.<p>I want it for the freedom, the challenge, and a chance to make a difference in the world. A pile of cash would be a nice bonus, but isn't needed. Just as long as I have enough to live comfortably. | null | null | 10,379 | 10,171 | null | null | null | null |
10,676 | story | jcwentz | 2007-04-09T07:02:07 | Product Reviews: Everyone Wants A Piece Of The Market, But PowerReviews May Get It | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/08/product-reviews-everyone-wants-a-piece-of-the-market-but-powerreviews-may-get-it/ | 4 | null | 10,676 | 8 | [
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10,677 | comment | jward | 2007-04-09T07:04:30 | null | Most of my ideas come out of things in my life, or from friends and family, that I want to make easier or in some cases possible. I don't really using reading as a resource for this. | null | null | 10,499 | 10,499 | null | null | null | null |
10,678 | comment | roark | 2007-04-09T07:06:28 | null | If being "not feared" means being dead, then Google was never born. Who is afraid of Google anyways, except that they might misuse our trust by breaching our privacy ! <p>People are no longer afraid of MS because technology has now grown into areas (e.g. web) where they can work without competing with MS.
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10,679 | comment | zach | 2007-04-09T07:07:01 | null | Important question: what state are you in? California has some limitations (not the strictest, but some) on what employers can lay claim to. Still, yeesh. | null | null | 10,494 | 10,493 | null | [
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10,680 | comment | zach | 2007-04-09T07:11:38 | null | Nice to see Poor Charlie's Almanack on there, I was wondering how many people bother to order it. I went to the Huntington Library on Friday and was reminded to pick the book up there from a link I saw on News.YC which you should read to get a great taste of Charlie Munger:<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=9364">http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=9364</a> | null | null | 10,615 | 10,615 | null | null | null | null |
10,681 | comment | BrandonM | 2007-04-09T07:18:45 | null | "In most cases, though, it's better to work with people's illogical expectations.... Perhaps that's why Lisp never caught on."<p>I appreciate the insight here. I think that if the goal is to create a general-purpose programming language for consumption by the average population, it might be better to meet the expectations of the average person. I'm not saying that it needs to be C-like necessarily, but I think that you're right that things like order of operations and other expectations should probably be properly preserved, at least for mathematical operations.<p>I also realized that my approach was still wrong. If the goal is to be able to build <i>any</i> programming language, the left-to-right approach would already be limited to building a language which evaluates from left-to-right. So it seems that I still have work to do in order to figure out how best to design a language which is able to look like whatever the user desires it to.<p>One possibility is to sacrifice ease of macro-writing for making other areas of the language more consistent (but not Lisp-like). That is, I would like to keep the expressive power of macros high (even if it involves modifying the read table in some way) while keeping the language intuitive for a beginner. This would likely make it a bit more difficult to write macros, but by the time you are using macros a lot, you are probably a bit more advanced, anyways.<p>I'm thinking that there has to be some kind of grammar theory that I can leverage here, where the programmer could actually modify the language's parser in the program while maintaining consistency and lack of ambiguity, or being alerted to the potential ambiguity in case they fail to.<p>In any case, I am quite convinced that Lisp is probably one of the most ideal languages. This means that my hypothetical language may be an example of the phenomenon pg describes, where the best languages are those which are designed for use by the designer, and languages like Java and Cobol are the result of designing for others. I would like to hope that's not the case here, since I'm approaching this with a use-case in mind: to design a language which can be used to design any other language. | null | null | 10,132 | 9,172 | null | null | null | null |
10,682 | comment | henryw | 2007-04-09T07:20:43 | null | I've used cari.net/complexdrive.com in san diego. They are pretty good. | null | null | 10,526 | 10,526 | null | [
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10,683 | comment | BrandonM | 2007-04-09T07:26:46 | null | Right now, the threads page is sorted by the creation time of the leftmost comment (I think). Could it instead be sorted by the creation time of the most recent comment in the thread?<p>Example:<p>I write a comment (1)<p>I write another comment (2)<p>I write another comment (3)<p>I write another comment (4)<p>Someone replies to (1)<p>I write another comment (5)<p>
Current sort order:<p>5<p>4<p>3<p>2<p>1<p>- reply to 1<p>
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10,684 | comment | JMiao | 2007-04-09T07:30:24 | null | People can copy what's out in the open, so the important thing is to make sure that you're the one who's constantly setting the pace. | null | null | 10,674 | 10,667 | null | null | null | null |
10,685 | comment | anonymoustroll | 2007-04-09T07:31:14 | null | Microsoft may be dead, but it's also a zombie and it wants your brainesszzz....
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10,686 | comment | mukund | 2007-04-09T07:31:51 | null | People always copy that which is popular. Only difference being that they are giving space. This is so obvious that they are pushing to attract the crowd. But there is one thing they missed out, anyone with solid idea and attitude will get into YC, whoever lost their chance of YC will be gobbled by immitators. This explicitly means they are always 1 step behind. | null | null | 10,667 | 10,667 | null | null | null | null |
10,687 | comment | rms | 2007-04-09T07:33:27 | null | While there's some overlap, Lightspeed and Highland aren't directly copying YC in the same way as the complete plagiarism of Techstars.<p>Lightspeed and Highland are doing this more for marketing than profit. They're not even taking any equity. It gets their name out to entrepreneurial students at colleges and that's about it. Anyone that gets a grant will pitch future startups to the VC that helped them get started. To the VCs, it's worth spending a mere $150,000 to build a strong relationship with some of the best young entrepreneurs. Sure, most of the startups will go back to school after the summer program instead of dropping out and being successful but they'll come back to Lightspeed or Highland for funding after they get their degree.<p>Highland also funds biotech and provides lab space in their incubator. Neither one is targeting the same uber-hacker that YC prefers.<p>I think you should be flattered you began this trend of micro-investment. It's a great idea. I'm grateful because it's better for all us young entrepreneurs to have as many options as possible. | null | null | 10,674 | 10,667 | null | null | null | null |
10,688 | comment | keven | 2007-04-09T07:35:57 | null | (Submitted under comment in Don's blog. Hopefully it will be approved.)<p>Don,<p>I believe Microsoft's demise is more closely related to Apple and Google than you have thought. <p>Google - easy one, GMail and Google Doc basically replaced the MS office suite I purchased in '98<p>Apple - based on Paul Kedrosky's observations, Vista sales is highly correlated to PC sales and once those numbers are normalized, "it looks like Vista sales are tracking on par with XP, and no better than that" (<a href="http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2007/03/26/playing_parse_t.html).">http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2007/03/26/playing_parse_t.html).</a> <p>So from the indications of recent AAPL stock price - what if Apple continues to gain shares in the PC market? Upon purchasing a new iMac, my dad (retired) have found out that switching to Os X is easy as long as solitaire is installed. | null | null | 10,614 | 10,614 | null | null | null | null |
10,689 | comment | BrandonM | 2007-04-09T07:40:13 | null | This could be possible with a mouseover description, simply throw the description into the "title" property of the <a> element.<p>e.g.<p>url: <a href="http://howtowriteagoodemo.com/consider.html">http://howtowriteagoodemo.com/consider.html</a><p>title: How to make a demo that people will truly consider<p>description: Gives good tips on the small things that keep people interested in your demo.<p>This would result in --<p><a href="<a href="http://howtowriteagoodemo.com/consider.html"">http://howtowriteagoodemo.com/consider.html"</a> title="Gives good tips on the small things that keep people interested in your demo.">How to make a demo that people will truly consider</a> | null | null | 377 | 363 | null | null | null | null |
10,690 | comment | rms | 2007-04-09T07:40:15 | null | I mean, I've seen a commodity dating site script available that came with an option for generating fake profiles. | null | null | 10,516 | 10,502 | null | null | null | null |
10,691 | comment | BrandonM | 2007-04-09T07:49:18 | null | Bug report: In order to include a < or > sign in your post, you have to write &lt; or &gt;. This is fine (although a bit cumbersome), but when you later want to edit the comment, instead of placing &lt; in the text box, < shows up instead, so that every time you want to edit the comment, you have to change every < to &lt;. (The same thing occurs with >, too.)<p>I'm thinking this problem would be easy to fix, but I'm also curious: why can't we just write e.g. < and have it be converted to &lt; at post-time? Of course, it would still need to be converted back at edit time, but I think it would make posting code or html snippets much simpler.<p>Ironically, I just edited this post for about the 3rd time. | null | null | 363 | 363 | null | null | null | null |
10,692 | story | BrandonM | 2007-04-09T07:50:33 | Are the feature requests checked anymore? | null | 4 | null | 10,692 | 5 | [
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10,693 | comment | BrandonM | 2007-04-09T07:53:35 | null | I haven't seen a pg reply to a feature request in about 3 weeks, so I just wanted to give a gentle reminder. I understand that he is probably busy right now, so there is no rush, really.<p>I have given 2 suggestions (shortcut icon and new display order for threads page) and 1 bug-fix/suggestion (regarding < and >), in addition to adding a simple suggestion to a feature request proposed regarding allowing descriptions for submissions (by using the title property of <a> elements). I think that at least 3 of these issues would be somewhat trivial to implement (everything except changing display order of threads page). | null | null | 10,692 | 10,692 | null | [
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10,694 | comment | dhouston | 2007-04-09T07:54:10 | null | there are some other signs they don't really get it, as far as dealing with students. the most obvious one to me is requiring teams to be on site in lexington. first, commuting from boston or cambridge is a pain if you don't have a car (there's certainly no T or commuter rail, maybe bus or bike if you're extraordinarily motivated), and second, the hours of a VC certainly aren't compatible with the hours of a startup hacker unless they plan to have kids roaming around the office park at 2am (right..)<p>it'll be interesting to see how these summer programs continue to segment themselves to accommodate niches that are generally excluded by yc (techstars/single founders, highland/students, etc., ) most amusingly the "mistakes" :) | null | null | 10,674 | 10,667 | null | null | null | null |
10,695 | comment | pg | 2007-04-09T07:55:04 | null | Calling me a moron is one thing, but accusing me of having an MBA is really too much. | null | null | 10,670 | 9,770 | null | [
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10,696 | comment | sumedh_inamdar | 2007-04-09T07:56:23 | null | <a href="http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/macosx_leopard_preview.asp">http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/macosx_leopard_preview.asp</a><p>As far as I see around (in India) we hardly see any Mac PC's or laptops here...
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10,697 | comment | ivan | 2007-04-09T08:04:07 | null | I can't understand why you Mr. Graham must again explain you thoughts. If someone don't want to understand, he won't understand even after ten explanations.
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10,698 | comment | BrandonM | 2007-04-09T08:09:48 | null | I completely agree with this sentiment, because I feel the same way. This means that the Cliffs Notes response was "old old news" :) | null | null | 10,630 | 10,614 | null | null | null | null |
10,699 | comment | staunch | 2007-04-09T08:13:19 | null | Start with one machine but always communicate with services over TCP/IP and not local IPC mechanisms (unix domain sockets). This way everything is easy to split up, just change the IP from "127.0.0.1" to your new database server, etc.<p>Also stuff like not storing sessions locally (put them in DB) makes it easy to scale out to multiple web servers.<p>With some decent memory (1GB+) even a single processor server is plenty to run a sizable site. It's really amazingly what can be done from a single machine these days, given their power and the efficiency of the available tools. | null | null | 10,609 | 10,607 | null | null | null | null |
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