id
int64 0
12.9M
| type
large_stringclasses 5
values | by
large_stringlengths 2
15
⌀ | time
timestamp[us] | title
large_stringlengths 0
198
⌀ | text
large_stringlengths 0
99.1k
⌀ | url
large_stringlengths 0
6.6k
⌀ | score
int64 -1
5.77k
⌀ | parent
int64 1
30.4M
⌀ | top_level_parent
int64 0
30.4M
| descendants
int64 -1
2.53k
⌀ | kids
large list | deleted
bool 1
class | dead
bool 1
class |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
11,100 | comment | jamongkad | 2007-04-10T03:50:41 | null | I like this his post for several reasons. First I'm not the kind of guy who would like to build a business that is built-to-flip, built-to-be-acquired or any of the sort. Call me old school but I still believe that if we work hard enough at our business we can create something lasting and with value to the customer. I've read Getting Real and I too took it with a grain of salt. Granted they have good points in the form of building something customers want and not taking VC funding initially or never at all. THe point I'm driving it is I see alot of great ideas around the web for a business. But sadly I don't see what their economic engine is? nor do I think they have any idea, no sound business model, and little or no added value to the customer. Funny thing is I'm a hacker! just like most of you! I'm not a "business guy" nor will I ever want to be one. Either way I'm just trying to make sense out of all the noise I'm hearing. <p>-Mathew | null | null | 10,898 | 10,898 | null | null | null | null |
11,101 | comment | BitGeek | 2007-04-10T03:55:05 | null | Quoting yourself:<p>"When we started our startup in 1995, the first three were our biggest expenses. We had to pay $5000 for the Netscape Commerce Server, the only software that then supported secure http connections. We paid $3000 for a server with a 90 MHz processor and 32 meg of memory. And we paid a PR firm about $30,000 to promote our launch.<p>Now you could get all three for nothing. You can get the software for free; people throw away computers more powerful than our first server; and if you make something good you can generate ten times as much traffic by word of mouth online than our first PR firm got through the print media."
| null | null | 9,438 | 9,361 | null | null | null | null |
11,102 | comment | theoutlander | 2007-04-10T03:59:43 | null | I feel horrible for not giving python a chance .... but then there are only so many languages one can do mock-ups in .... before making a decision | null | null | 11,071 | 10,748 | null | null | null | null |
11,103 | comment | phurfer | 2007-04-10T04:00:03 | null | HA! cari.net/complexdrive.com has bad bandwidth quality and poor facilities. aplus.net is also bad. And for the love of fnord avoid ADN. These are all poor choices in San Diego. cari.net does have good prices though. | null | null | 10,682 | 10,526 | null | null | null | null |
11,104 | comment | theoutlander | 2007-04-10T04:01:19 | null | LMAO! | null | null | 11,045 | 10,748 | null | null | null | null |
11,105 | comment | theoutlander | 2007-04-10T04:01:55 | null | Are u considering JRuby ?? | null | null | 10,829 | 10,748 | null | [
11171
] | null | null |
11,106 | comment | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-10T04:07:03 | null | <a href="http://www.franz.com/success/">http://www.franz.com/success/</a> | null | null | 11,042 | 10,875 | null | null | null | null |
11,107 | comment | theoutlander | 2007-04-10T04:08:28 | null | What is your experience with FastCGI??? I am running ROR off it, but lighttpd throws quite a lot of 500 Internal Server Errors. | null | null | 10,770 | 10,748 | null | [
11154,
11148,
11172
] | null | null |
11,108 | comment | theoutlander | 2007-04-10T04:10:49 | null | Are you serious?? I didn't know people actually used F# ... are you using it for the Java Syntax or any other reason?? | null | null | 11,001 | 10,748 | null | null | null | null |
11,109 | story | python_kiss | 2007-04-10T04:10:55 | Wired's Interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt | null | http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/news/2007/04/mag_schmidt_trans | 10 | null | 11,109 | 1 | [
11300
] | null | null |
11,110 | story | amichail | 2007-04-10T04:11:45 | Do schools today kill creativity? (Ken Robinson, TEDTalks) | null | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY | 4 | null | 11,110 | 2 | [
11372,
11236
] | null | null |
11,111 | comment | erdos2 | 2007-04-10T04:12:18 | null | The first alternative is what I thought: that you were probably taking time away to write. The piece somehow reminded of a time when I was in the middle of doing my taxes and took 45 minutes off to solve a puzzle: dissect an 8x8x27 cubic inch parallelpiped into four pieces that can be reassembled into a cube. | null | null | 11,077 | 10,614 | null | null | null | null |
11,112 | comment | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-10T04:23:09 | null | The libraries we're currently using:<p>Portable AllegroServe: Lisp Webserver (with Webactions Session control)
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/portableaserve/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/portableaserve/</a><p>ASDF: Another System Definition Facility
<a href="http://www.cliki.net/asdf">http://www.cliki.net/asdf</a><p>CLSQL: Database interface Library
<a href="http://www.cliki.net/CLSQL">http://www.cliki.net/CLSQL</a><p>UFFI: Universal Foreign Function Interface
<a href="http://www.cliki.net/UFFI">http://www.cliki.net/UFFI</a><p>
| null | null | 10,940 | 10,875 | null | null | null | null |
11,113 | story | amichail | 2007-04-10T04:33:20 | Smart Bookmarks: Finally, you can bookmark "pages" in AJAX apps where the URL doesn't change (e.g., google reader)! [pdf] | null | http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/projects/bookmarker/bookmarks.pdf | 2 | null | 11,113 | 0 | null | null | null |
11,114 | comment | sriganesh | 2007-04-10T04:54:02 | null | Can't agree more! One of their partners in creating that world of monopoly was Intel. Remember the Wintel combo. For one, there are other chip companies (AMD esp) which has not allowed a monopoly situation. Intel itself is now available on Apple. <p>Now, MS might be loosing because slowly the rules of the game are changing. IBM - Mainframe, MS - Desktop. Get it. Cellphone/mobile - ???<p>Maybe it's still early but we may have to watch out who will be the dangerous player on mobile. That is if it becomes the device for - computing, entertainment, and communication. | null | null | 9,770 | 9,770 | null | null | null | null |
11,115 | comment | BrandonM | 2007-04-10T04:54:41 | null | Wow, this is obviously the viewpoint of someone who is not at all familiar with gift societies, someone who seems to me to be desperately clinging to a dogmatism in order to convince him- or herself that his or her life has been lived in a moral manner. The truth is that it's not all black and white. Socialist != Evil, and Capitalist != Good.<p>You speak of corporations bringing happiness to people, but I would like to point out something that I heard a month or so ago. It used to be that people had necessities and very basic desires which were fulfilled by entrepreneurs (merchants and guildworkers) in a capitalist system. In the present-day US and several other countries, however, that is no longer the case. Companies used to be in the business of manufacturing goods to fulfill needs. Nowadays, they instead manufacture needs to sell goods. Why do you think advertising is such a huge industry?<p>It's all kind of funny when you consider the cycle. The current corporate structure relies on a large amount of drone workers doing the majority of the work for a small cut of the pay. The only way to make these workers do this work that no one in their right mind would do willingly is to pay them. Why do they need that money? To buy the very things that these corporations are telling them that they need to be buying. It's all a crazy, vicious cycle, and I'm afraid that it is the inevitable result of long-term capitalist societies. Do you see anything changing for the better in these regards?<p>In an Anthropology class a few years ago, we talked about studies that some researchers had done in comparing the lives of people in developed countries to hunter-gatherer tribes in South America and Africa. The people in these tribes typically spent 2-3 hours a day to provide their food and shelter, and the rest of the time was spent chatting, telling stories, singing, dancing, sporting, and other tribal activities. I would argue that <i>that</i> is happiness, not going to work 8-10 hours a day, 5 days a week so that I can get a new car that gets me to work more comfortably.<p>To compare Open Source software to development at gunpoint is absurd. If I have an interesting idea for a piece of software that I would like to write, I am going to write the software and be very happy to share it with the open source community. This has nothing to do with violence; I have enjoyed the benefits of a completely free computing system with extensive functionality, and I am quite happy to return the favor. This is known as a gift society, not violent, immoral ideologies.<p>And this money-for-happiness equation that you are promoting looks a lot like pie in the sky. I worked for 2 years for a small grocer in a country gas station / food mart. The store had been in his family for something like 40 years, and he served a valuable need to the surrounding community in providing the only gas and groceries for 20 miles around. He and his wife worked long days and were by no means rich, but they made enough to live on. His regular customers knew him by name, and he was a regular bidder at the 4-H auctions every summer. Clearly, in this case, the exchange of money for goods is happy for everyone. Unfortunately, cutthroat companies like Wal-Mart move into town who have no concern for the well-being of the community, doing things like storing materials in parking lots which poison water supplies during rain, avoiding a golf cart security guard in their parking lot even though it has proven to reduce crime to 0%, relying on federal programs to cover worker health benefits, and driving all local businesses out and then moving out when the profit margins are no longer good. So the customers save money, yes, but they lose out in so many other ways. This is the problem with faceless corporations who do not see things at a human level.<p>In summary, my problem is not with capitalism, and I am not a socialist. I merely fear that the inevitable end of capitalism is the type of corporate society that has been steadily evolving in the U.S. and elsewhere, one in which paper and numbers are more important than people. | null | null | 10,656 | 9,770 | null | [
11121
] | null | null |
11,116 | comment | gms | 2007-04-10T04:58:28 | null | The headline is somewhat misrepresentative - this is on Mr. Norvig's personal site, so it's only from him, not from Google.
| null | null | 10,967 | 10,967 | null | null | null | null |
11,117 | comment | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-10T05:08:29 | null | About 60 Web clients (web client), servers, application servers, browsers, etc:
<a href="http://www.cliki.net/web">http://www.cliki.net/web</a> | null | null | 10,940 | 10,875 | null | null | null | null |
11,118 | story | aandreev | 2007-04-10T05:13:01 | List of things that people believed would change the world | null | http://www.google.com/search?q=going+to+change+the+world | 1 | null | 11,118 | 3 | [
11120,
11161,
11334
] | null | null |
11,119 | comment | BrandonM | 2007-04-10T05:13:01 | null | ...and of course, with that reply you actually mean that the gfx-hardware doesn't natively support osx and linux :). I, for one, marvel at the sheer number of drivers that have been written for free for hardware manufactured by companies who still think Windows is the only OS. | null | null | 10,455 | 9,770 | null | [
17454,
17453,
17452,
17451,
17450
] | null | null |
11,120 | comment | aandreev | 2007-04-10T05:16:30 | null | Seems like Amazon S3 is the top candidate for changing the world. XHTML and podcasting are close second, followed by mobile technologies and the like. No mention of any non-Web 2.0 stuff, such as medicine, energy or politics. Pretty funny.<p>PS This link is more focused: <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=technology+is+going+to+change+the+world">http://www.google.com/search?q=technology+is+going+to+change+the+world</a> | null | null | 11,118 | 11,118 | null | null | null | null |
11,121 | comment | BitGeek | 2007-04-10T05:17:20 | null | "In summary, my problem is not with capitalism, and I am not a socialist. I merely fear that the inevitable end of capitalism is the type of corporate society that has been steadily evolving in the U.S. and elsewhere, one in which paper and numbers are more important than people."<p>You contradict yourself. <p>Obviously you have a problem with capitalism because you beleive people should be forced at gunpoint to live the way you prefer. <p>This is because <i>you</i> value "paper and numbers" more than people. <p>Your idolizing of hunter gatherer societies is the kind of pseudo-science that has always been used to sell socialism. <p>Feel free to quit your job and go find food yourself. In alaska you are free to hunt to feed your family-- subsistence is prtected there (and its a good thing... nothing worse for the environment than environmentalists anyway.) <p>You talk about "Seeing things at a human level" but your idea of the "human level" <i>is</i> sticking a gun in someones face.<p>I never equated open source software wiht development at gunpoint-- so of course you had to say I did to try and make me out as crazy. People who voluntarily open source their software are <i>Capitalists</i> -- they are profiting (exploiting in your parlance) the works of thousands who decide to contribute to their open source software.<p>No, the violence ocmes in when you insist that companies must be restrained and people must be restrained from freely trading for each toher.<p>becauss of your pretend care for their spirit "So the customers save money, yes, but they lose out in so many other ways."<p>When you force walmart to stay out of your town-- you are using a gun to deny poor people the ability to feed themselves. <p>You, my freind, are a socialist. The spew of your post is pure socialist drivel. Its nonsense... and as long as socialists like you continue to spout hateful anti-human nonsense like that, I'll be asking the questiosn you can't answer.<p>Like:<p>Why not let people live in peace? Why do you insist on using violence to force people to live according to your (ignorant) ideas?<p> | null | null | 11,115 | 9,770 | null | [
29034,
13062,
11134
] | null | null |
11,122 | comment | BitGeek | 2007-04-10T05:20:18 | null |
No, it means you haven't saved up enough money. :-) <p>Good luck with getting YC funding. But there's a huge difference between YC and venture capital. When you start talking to venture capitalists, you'll see.
| null | null | 10,941 | 10,898 | null | null | null | null |
11,123 | comment | BitGeek | 2007-04-10T05:22:29 | null |
See, the problem that I think people are missing is that VC funding is no longer a means to an end.<p>Implicit in your comment is that a company without VC funding cannot grow as fast as a company with VC funding.<p>That was true ten years ago when a lot of costs were unavoidable: Server hardware ,server software, and you had to build a lot of software infrastructure from scratch.<p>Now all that is cheap, or free, and what isn't comes with lease terms. <p>Thus, lacking a big pile of money is not an inhibitor to growing big fast.<p> | null | null | 10,946 | 10,898 | null | [
11135
] | null | null |
11,124 | story | pg | 2007-04-10T05:26:12 | If you applied for summer 2007 funding, please tell us your email address | null | http://ycombinator.com/s2007announcements.html | 35 | null | 11,124 | 21 | [
11170,
11335,
11145,
11139,
11215,
11156,
11155,
11159,
11328,
11194
] | null | true |
11,125 | comment | gyro_robo | 2007-04-10T05:26:25 | null | Firefox: View-Page Style-No Style | null | null | 10,909 | 10,895 | null | [
11127
] | null | null |
11,126 | comment | johnlongawa642 | 2007-04-10T05:26:42 | null | You nailed it, Paul. The bad reaction is akin to what you'd expect from a dowager having been goosed by an upstart who crashed her stuffy fund-raiser.<p>-john longawa
| null | null | 9,770 | 9,770 | null | null | null | null |
11,127 | comment | gyro_robo | 2007-04-10T05:27:03 | null | It ate my greater-than signs.<p>-> | null | null | 11,125 | 10,895 | null | null | null | null |
11,128 | comment | BitGeek | 2007-04-10T05:29:01 | null | <i>cargo cult management strategy.</i><p>Spot on!<p>"The brand-building idea is all about casino thinking. The theory is, the minute you have a brand, you can cash out. This casino attitude is good for VCs but it's ruinous for programmers, and it's ruinous for normal investors as well. (And it isn't even really that good for VCs.)"<p>
This guy knows what he's talking about.<p>Getting Real misses the mark in a few areas... the 37signals people are (I am guessing) from a design background and often end up implemting a solution that solves the problem the way they want to solve it, but not generally... and rails suffers because of this. Some other things in the book don't make sense... but it is an excellent book and well worth reading.<p>Venture Capital is dead. Its deader than microsoft.
| null | null | 10,898 | 10,898 | null | [
11188
] | null | null |
11,129 | story | staunch | 2007-04-10T05:29:48 | "Just try to take a released feature away from customers and see how pissed off they get." | null | http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch05_Start_With_No.php | 2 | null | 11,129 | 1 | [
11132
] | null | null |
11,130 | comment | BrandonM | 2007-04-10T05:30:48 | null | Yeah, because his books so far have no substance at all... (<i>cough</i> one of the top Lisp books out there <i>cough</i>) | null | null | 10,466 | 9,770 | null | null | null | null |
11,131 | comment | yaacovtp | 2007-04-10T05:31:42 | null | There should be a rule against submitting all of a blog's posts to news.ycombinator.com. | null | null | 11,027 | 11,027 | null | null | null | null |
11,132 | comment | staunch | 2007-04-10T05:33:51 | null | Anyone have experience with removing features from a live product? What was the response -- would you do it again?<p>It seems like this advice conflicts with being experimental and releasing stuff early for user feedback. What if you release something and decide it's obtrusive to 95% of people but there's a small group who loves it? Do you hide it away somewhere -- what if it's a drag to maintain?
| null | null | 11,129 | 11,129 | null | null | null | null |
11,133 | comment | BrandonM | 2007-04-10T05:35:27 | null | Did you just say "MILLIONS of [...] hackers [...] in the Windows world"? Wow, that's pretty funny, because Windows isn't really designed for hackers, you know? I mean, sure, they can go out and buy Visual Studio and write some programs, but why not just get an OS that supports real hacking out of the box, and is free?<p>I mean, either the definition of "hacker" has expanded quite liberally, or we should start seeing a slew of awesome apps start rolling out any minute now... | null | null | 10,288 | 9,770 | null | [
11388
] | null | null |
11,134 | comment | BrandonM | 2007-04-10T05:39:00 | null | Wow, I can clearly see that it was a mistake to reply to your comment. This is pointless... | null | null | 11,121 | 9,770 | null | [
11725
] | null | null |
11,135 | comment | brett | 2007-04-10T05:39:01 | null | I never claimed VC funding is required for quick (or expansive growth). There are obvious examples where that's not the case. <p>I'm not sure how you can claim that VC funding is not a means to an end. There are clearly cases in which a lot of cash helps. Startups use money for many more things than servers.<p>If you're pursuing cash for equity for no reason and do not really need it, then yes of course that's a bad idea. If you're preemptively avoiding cash for equity without considering if it can help you get where you want to go, however, that's also a bad idea. | null | null | 11,123 | 10,898 | null | [
11724
] | null | null |
11,136 | comment | staunch | 2007-04-10T05:44:50 | null | Definitely a valid question. My guess is that they'd be fine with you building a company for the long term -- you could always buy out their shares at some point.<p>But I think most YC founders will be saying "yes" to offers that are in the millions. As pg says <i>"That first million is just worth so much more than the subsequent ones"</i><p>When you walk away with a few million dollars in your pocket there's not much stopping you from creating a new startup, if you have the drive. | null | null | 10,939 | 10,767 | null | [
11153
] | null | null |
11,137 | comment | jaggederest | 2007-04-10T05:45:06 | null | Trying to get HAppS to work. <a href="http://www.happs.org/">http://www.happs.org/</a><p>Of course, I'm about ten lines of code in, so I probably don't count.
| null | null | 10,748 | 10,748 | null | null | null | null |
11,138 | story | ivan | 2007-04-10T05:45:46 | What is your opinion guys on start a web service startup in Russia? Google and Yahoo are there. Are you? | null | null | 3 | null | 11,138 | 11 | [
11207,
11217,
11141,
11165,
11273,
11198,
11160,
11164
] | null | null |
11,139 | comment | python_kiss | 2007-04-10T05:46:10 | null | If the emails are automated, they might end up in the junk mail. Yahoo and Hotmail, in particular, have the tendency to do that.<p>Anyway, about one hour is left before it hits 10th in Mountain View. Good luck everyone! | null | null | 11,124 | 11,124 | null | null | null | null |
11,140 | comment | BrandonM | 2007-04-10T05:50:02 | null | I hope they're ready for the mad traffic rush of crazed teen girls. I mean, does anyone else watch MTV anymore?<p>It was also funny that they mentioned Flavor Flav, and being able to see how he lives. I was actually at a Hampton Inn in Covington, Kentucky (just south of Cincinnati), and he was staying there with like 1 or 2 guys (at least that's all that was with him when I saw him). This place was by no means a luxury hotel, so I got a small chuckle out of the whole thing. | null | null | 11,057 | 11,057 | null | null | null | null |
11,141 | comment | zaidf | 2007-04-10T05:51:29 | null | What I've realized about startups in international markets(specifically India/Asia) is that they are either backed by folks who understand the local culture but can't develop a great product or folks who develop a great site--but doesn't connect with the geographical audience. <p>Every now and then you get a decent startup. ie. baazee.com in India played its cards somewhat right(acquired by ebay for 50mil but took 10+mil in funding I believe).<p>That is why google and yahoo have such an edge - they usually send an American exec. at some level to oversee international markets. <p>-Zaid | null | null | 11,138 | 11,138 | null | null | null | null |
11,142 | comment | mattjaynes | 2007-04-10T05:59:04 | null | Cheesy?: Yes<p>Useful?: Yeah<p>Should more programmers learn these fluffy skills?: Too obvious to answer ;) | null | null | 11,083 | 11,083 | null | null | null | null |
11,143 | comment | zaidf | 2007-04-10T06:06:52 | null | The idea I got from reading few of the responses was that some people chose to only read the title and copy-paste random fragments totally out of context to show Microsoft's not going broke anytime soon. Doh. That was never pg's argument. | null | null | 10,802 | 10,614 | null | null | null | null |
11,144 | comment | staunch | 2007-04-10T06:08:31 | null | Works okay from .jp | null | null | 11,075 | 11,057 | null | null | null | null |
11,145 | comment | randallsquared | 2007-04-10T06:09:44 | null | Didn't the applications themselves call for email addresses, or am I misremembering? | null | null | 11,124 | 11,124 | null | [
11147
] | null | null |
11,146 | comment | ivan | 2007-04-10T06:11:15 | null | Many charming guys are here at YC too IMHO. | null | null | 11,083 | 11,083 | null | null | null | null |
11,147 | comment | dfranke | 2007-04-10T06:12:25 | null | Yes, but I assume that was just for human consumption. This probably makes it easier to automate the ~1k emails they have to send. | null | null | 11,145 | 11,124 | null | [
11238
] | null | null |
11,148 | comment | mattjaynes | 2007-04-10T06:16:11 | null | Hmm, I haven't used my current setup in production yet. Development has been fine, only time will tell. Hopefully I don't get the errors you experienced :( | null | null | 11,107 | 10,748 | null | [
11169
] | null | null |
11,149 | comment | ivan | 2007-04-10T06:16:15 | null | Karma is the law of cause and effect. Every effect has a cause and every cause follows an effect, so karma is suggestible. | null | null | 10,978 | 10,978 | null | null | null | null |
11,150 | comment | rms | 2007-04-10T06:31:17 | null | Why is lisp so sparsely documented? | null | null | 10,958 | 10,875 | null | [
11914,
11195
] | null | null |
11,151 | comment | ido | 2007-04-10T06:40:08 | null | I can't speak for the GP, but since it has been 11 hours and he haven't answered yet I'll give you my answer: it's mostly a matter of taste, or sometimes if there is a particular library/app/framework for one which you'd like to use. | null | null | 10,993 | 10,875 | null | [
11152
] | null | null |
11,152 | comment | ido | 2007-04-10T06:45:01 | null | I would also add that at least in my experience the Scheme community was much friendlier the the Common Lisp one. They don't particularly like novices over there and it is quite easy to get flamed if you're not careful enough... | null | null | 11,151 | 10,875 | null | [
11261
] | null | null |
11,153 | comment | BitGeek | 2007-04-10T06:54:40 | null | I think there's a failure to acurately calculate opportunity cost going on here.<p>At startup school they talked about (presumably VC backed) startups being a %15 chance of success. IF you have a %15 chance of building a company worth $20M in 2 years, and you'll get $2M of that-- then the opportunty value is 0.15X2M or $300,000. <p>On the other hand, if you bootstrap, and you build the same business, your chances of being a success go up to %60 (No flatline VC sitting on your board forcing bad decisions) but maybe you spend a bit less on marketing and grow more organically (really, I'm being generous here- I think the same business would grow just as fast bootstrapped.) so you end up being worth $10M in two years. Your share of that is $5M, for an opportunity value of $3,000,000.<p>In other words, you're likely to return ten times the money by forgoing venture capital. <p>While in both cases you could end up with nothing, weighting the payoff with the likihood of success lets you evaluate two very different opportunities.<p>If you take the choice tht has a %15 chance of success, odds are you won't get that first million... where as in the alternative, odds are you <i>will</i>. | null | null | 11,136 | 10,767 | null | [
11158
] | null | null |
11,154 | comment | staunch | 2007-04-10T06:58:54 | null | FastCGI is super lightweight and very powerful. If you're seeing errors like that you likely have a problem that requires fixing. Judging from your post it might involve excessive question marks in a regex. | null | null | 11,107 | 10,748 | null | [
11167
] | null | null |
11,155 | comment | theoutlander | 2007-04-10T07:04:54 | null | ETA? | null | null | 11,124 | 11,124 | null | null | null | null |
11,156 | comment | ivan | 2007-04-10T07:06:33 | null | Nice, I have my e-mail in my profile from beginning :) however I can't apply, my english is very poor and I can't relocate to the U.S., so good luck to everyone who apply! | null | null | 11,124 | 11,124 | null | [
11219
] | null | null |
11,157 | comment | BrandonM | 2007-04-10T07:12:15 | null | There is one high-selling area of software that I can never imagine being separated from the desktop: activity-monitoring anti-virus suites. So for all those people to be able to run their anti-virus programs, they are going to need Windows, and therefore, Windows will stay relevant.
| null | null | 9,770 | 9,770 | null | null | null | null |
11,158 | comment | staunch | 2007-04-10T07:17:47 | null | The biggest problem most founders have in the beginning is just being able to devote undivided attention to it. If you have to work a full-time job and do your startup on the side for the first 1-2 years that's a huge disadvantage and it
massively deceases your chances of success.<p>If you have something good and don't need a lot of money there's no reason you have to put yourself at the mercy of VCs -- you can maintain control.<p>You can't judge this kind of thing in a vacuum. What kind of scenario are you thinking of?
| null | null | 11,153 | 10,767 | null | [
11723
] | null | null |
11,159 | comment | kyro | 2007-04-10T07:21:56 | null | Best of luck to every applicant. | null | null | 11,124 | 11,124 | null | null | null | null |
11,160 | comment | staunch | 2007-04-10T07:22:08 | null | Taking a new and popular thing from the US and creating version for a different country has made more than one person rich. The reverse also works.<p>Create an MP3 company. | null | null | 11,138 | 11,138 | null | null | null | null |
11,161 | comment | staunch | 2007-04-10T07:24:22 | null | "change the way people use" is good too.<p>Where's the startup to monitor buzz by analyzing this kind of stuff? O'Reilly might buy you.
| null | null | 11,118 | 11,118 | null | null | null | null |
11,162 | comment | staunch | 2007-04-10T07:26:37 | null | Yes. Yes. Yes. No. Varies. | null | null | 11,050 | 11,049 | null | null | null | null |
11,163 | comment | staunch | 2007-04-10T07:29:09 | null | Patents are for boosting your valuation during funding/acquisition. Not doing either? Why not just keep it a trade secret.
| null | null | 10,803 | 10,803 | null | null | null | null |
11,164 | comment | theoutlander | 2007-04-10T07:29:46 | null | Hence, I am coding for Localization from the start!! | null | null | 11,138 | 11,138 | null | [
11168
] | null | null |
11,165 | comment | mukund | 2007-04-10T07:30:00 | null | As long as you are catering to needs of users, as long as its worth paying for or worth looking up, if it has a solid model, then anyplace would be fine. Its just that as zaidf pointed out, as long as it fits well with culture and profile of the place.... things will run smooth. So go ahead and start it. | null | null | 11,138 | 11,138 | null | null | null | null |
11,166 | comment | staunch | 2007-04-10T07:31:08 | null | I can't imagine many scenarios where I'd have a secretary reading emails to me. I definitely wouldn't use a text-to-speech solution.
| null | null | 11,037 | 11,035 | null | null | null | null |
11,167 | comment | theoutlander | 2007-04-10T07:32:56 | null | I am running some basic stuff ... but notice the occasional 500's ... IRC / Web states that Pound with Lighttpd and Instances of Mongrel is really the best solution ... however, mongrel's site states that Lighttpd's mod_proxy still has issues....so I am really baffled with what is a proven solution... I am just gonna run some tests before I conclude... | null | null | 11,154 | 10,748 | null | null | null | null |
11,168 | comment | ivan | 2007-04-10T07:33:03 | null | Right approach, utf-8 and separated language files :) | null | null | 11,164 | 11,138 | null | null | null | null |
11,169 | comment | theoutlander | 2007-04-10T07:33:48 | null | so you don't have a fastcgi.crash.log ... ??? | null | null | 11,148 | 10,748 | null | null | null | null |
11,170 | comment | staunch | 2007-04-10T07:37:05 | null | <i>"Sorry; perhaps we should have reminded people to do this."</i><p>translation:<p><i>"You're lucky we didn't just skip your dumb ass."</i><p>j/k | null | null | 11,124 | 11,124 | null | null | null | null |
11,171 | comment | jamongkad | 2007-04-10T07:39:42 | null | I might be. but for the mean time I'm exploring Rails :-) and gettng my Ruby skills up to match. Although I can't seem to shake Java's verbosity out my system and it reflects on my Ruby programs. :-) | null | null | 11,105 | 10,748 | null | null | null | null |
11,172 | comment | jamongkad | 2007-04-10T07:41:07 | null | Have you considered SQLite? | null | null | 11,107 | 10,748 | null | null | null | null |
11,173 | comment | gcacic | 2007-04-10T07:43:05 | null | MS dead - yes, just because it has no good moves for a long time now. In my humble opinion last turn point were the times of the first browser's wars.
BitGeek wrote this -
"That's a very sick and twisted view of the world-- and it is from Karl Marx." - it is a bit out of context here, but stil.<p>Yes M$ dying has to do somethng with Karl Marx, too - let me put aside "sick and twisted" for a moment. Not even prime flagships of economy, which of BitGeek knows about, weren't able to undermine one simple sentence from Marx's "Das Kapital" - Only (human) labour and labour only can produce new value. Not money - labour. There is no need, I presume, to point out the quantity of labour pumped into the "market" since early 1990's on radically different principals then ones driving the dead.<p>Another view could also come from the economy principals. Shortly it is a story of smart and dumb monopols. The smart ones optimize the production level - the dumb ones optimize the profit. The dead rocketed profit (and extra-profit) sky high.<p>Personally I do not thik that the future is in web-based IT. It simply is not cost effective - why the hack should I have powerfull desktop just to run application on the server. For me it server centric IT was already seen and the come back is (could be) no more than a cycle in everladting evolution of IT.
| null | null | 9,770 | 9,770 | null | null | null | null |
11,174 | comment | staunch | 2007-04-10T07:43:56 | null | I think the simple approach of raising the threshold works pretty well. Spend time improving the metric used by the threshold -- make that part smart. Think about how the reddit home page works, where there's a similar problem: too many good links. | null | null | 11,023 | 11,023 | null | null | null | null |
11,175 | comment | staunch | 2007-04-10T07:58:34 | null | I think the problem you had with "Jigg It" is that you're copying "Digg It" which is plain English, whereas yours is a made up term that doesn't mean anything. The closest phrase is "getting jiggy with it", which would be nice if shortened. <p>Another thing to consider is that "priesthood" stuff. Users feel good for knowing stuff about your product that newbies won't know right away. There may be times when it makes sense to use unfamiliar lingo on your site. | null | null | 10,979 | 10,978 | null | null | null | null |
11,176 | comment | mattjaynes | 2007-04-10T08:05:51 | null | If it's evident in the job listing that they have read and practice what's in Peopleware (a classic, be sure to read it if you haven't already).<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Tom-DeMarco/dp/0932633439">http://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Tom-DeMarco/dp/0932633439</a> | null | null | 11,024 | 11,024 | null | null | null | null |
11,177 | comment | staunch | 2007-04-10T08:09:56 | null | I don't think it's a good fit for the web. The level of abstraction is at the wrong place. The web is an OS. The home page sites like Pageflakes are much more a WebOS than the sites cloning old-style desktops in Ajax.
| null | null | 10,781 | 10,781 | null | null | null | null |
11,178 | comment | jamongkad | 2007-04-10T08:11:51 | null | On one hand I have to agree that there was more than one occasion that I would get all hot and bothered with the thought of building a WebOS. Infact I flirted with the idea of building a Mobile Phone OS. Thinking that users will become more affluent in the future that they themselves will choose the mobile OS that suits them. And like most technologists I found myself out of touch with the world and reality in general. So the idea of a WebOS, as far as I'm concerned is a pipe dream. Too many things to consider such as the limitations of existing web standards and programming languages, browser limitations and the such. To hardware dependencies that require a native platform to run off of. Although that doesn't mean I won't stop dreaming :P | null | null | 10,855 | 10,781 | null | null | null | null |
11,179 | comment | mattjaynes | 2007-04-10T08:15:33 | null | This is one of the better listings I got recently from a recruiter. When I asked her about the company and what they did, all she would tell me is "Our client is a very successful E-Commerce company. It is in the top 10 in
the world for the particular type of site that this job is for." Looks like a fairly good 'job', but to work for a non-descript ecommerce company was not in my plans. I think it's great though that they start right off with the work environment. Custom workstation with Dual 30" Apple displays would be amazing.<p>----------<p>Work environment<p>- We will custom build a workstation to your specifications using the
latest and greatest technology; Mac OS X and Linux-friendly<p>- Dual Apple 30" Cinema HD displays<p>- Join a team with a winning attitude in a fast moving, highly energetic
environment<p>- Full benefits<p>- Executive desk with your own personal choice of ergonomic chair<p>- All of our servers run GNU/Linux (Debian) or OpenBSD<p>_________________________________<p>Job Title: Senior PHP5 Developer<p>Location: Anywhere<p>Job Type: Permanent<p>Salary: $75K - 150K<p>_________________________________<p>The Opportunity<p>- Design and manage an object oriented PHP5 codebase<p>- Seeing projects through the complete software life-cycle, from design
and implementation to testing and production deployment and beyond<p>- Lots of room for growth within the company<p>- Technically challenging<p>- Highly rewarding and enthusiastic team environment<p>_________________________________<p>Getting in the door<p>- Strong object oriented PHP experience, must have operational examples
of prior PHP5 OO work<p>- Strong understanding of MySQL 4.1-5.x<p>- 8 to 10 years of experience in software development using object
oriented and procedural programming<p>- Strong background in developing for GNU/Linux or Unix-like platforms
for mission-critical production deployments<p>- Strong analytical and logical thinking capability<p>_________________________________<p>Always a plus<p>- Experience with MySQL replication, MySQL Cluster<p>- Experience with MySQL performance tuning and optimization (query
optimization, index tuning, caching, and buffer tuning)<p>- Secure coding practices<p>- High-availability and scalable network service development<p>- Expertise with interfaces, MVC, HTML, CSS2, JavaScript, AJAX,
Templating, caching, sessions, and authentication<p>- GNU/Linux optimization, security and network administration<p>- Experience with distributed architecture, design, and implementation<p>- Experience with running Apache or other Unix-based web servers in a
production environment<p>- Industry networking experience, including knowledge of fundamental
protocols, such as TCP, UDP, IPv4/6 and SSL/TLS<p>- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or other related field
| null | null | 11,024 | 11,024 | null | null | null | null |
11,180 | story | ivan | 2007-04-10T08:15:41 | Even slovak startups create interesting things from time to time :) A TextMate for Window$ | null | http://intype.info/home/index.php | 3 | null | 11,180 | 0 | null | null | null |
11,181 | comment | jamongkad | 2007-04-10T08:15:53 | null | Shmooze lessons for Hackers :-) love it! | null | null | 11,083 | 11,083 | null | null | null | null |
11,182 | story | staunch | 2007-04-10T08:23:23 | $1,000,000 Netflix Prize -- Create an Uber Recommendation Algorithm | null | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix_Prize | 3 | null | 11,182 | 0 | null | null | null |
11,183 | comment | Tichy | 2007-04-10T08:25:11 | null | Thank you for the link. I used to code in Scheme and enjoyed it very much, it would be great to get back into LISP one of these days. However, whenever I see HTML generated from within the code, as it is in that tutorial, it just feels like it is 10 years behind the state of the art. I think it is much better to use some kind of HTML templates (but maybe I am wrong?). <p>Another thing I was looking for when I last evaluated LISP was an OR-mapping library. I can't go back to executing SQL statements from within my code - that is also so 90ies. I think there is one project underway to provide OR-mapping for LISP, but I am not sure if it was ready for prime time yet. | null | null | 10,952 | 10,875 | null | [
12021,
11224
] | null | null |
11,184 | comment | kieranw | 2007-04-10T08:32:40 | null | The rest of us will just think that you are pushing your agenda, and therefore, your own view of the world. Is it a coincidence a Web 2.0 investor supports an evangelically blinkered approach to non Web 2.0 solutions.<p>I am a fantastic believer in history telling us about the future. And in this case, history says, Microsoft will always be key to a desktop centric world. And desktop centricity is cyclical. For now Web 2.0 seems to have the baton, but as we nove into a very rich multi-media world we will become constrained by the broadband pipes. This will push apps, content, and everything else back to the user device, be it a Windows PC or a Windows Pocket PC. Apple stole the march with the single purpose iPod (don't pretend video or anything else on the iPod is a killer App), but Microsoft still own the multi-purpose device.<p>DRM has been the Achilles Heel of Microsoft. As they have come back from many Anti-Trust cases they attempted to sidestep more brouhaha in the world of Digital Media, and have attempted to play fair (don't get me wrong I know they usually do not play fair). This has allowed Apple to gain the upperhand in Music Devices. But, as Apple are now breaking the mold on this to allow DRM-free sales from EMI, they in turn will have just given Microsoft the opening it will need to reinforce its position. It wont be success through intent, as I believe that the Zune player will fail. But a new competitive ecosystem of devices will lead everything back to the desktop as the hub.<p>No matter what, no-one is going to trust their personal memories, be it music, video or photo's entirely to the Web. They will share it there, but not leave it there.<p>Microsoft is back where they were when Netscape first launched, they are the slow lumbering laggard.<p>But as history shows us, they turned themselves around, and owned (however briefly) the mindset of everyone who had money to spend (and this is not typically your 15-year old Web 2.0 consumer with no money), it was the corporates, with their large cheque books.<p>Google are moving more and more to follow the Microsoft lead. Microsoft is far from dead, but like all parents who have given life to others (such as Google, albeit through removed ways), they from time to time will be less involved in their Children's lives. But, they will always retain some criticality in their lives. MS will never really die in our lifetimes. They just move from being the soul point of attention.<p>Good luck to your startups, but imagining them operating in a world where they do not know and respect the importance of Microsoft, and try to emulate or utilise them in their goals, seems like a recipe for failure to me.
| null | null | 9,770 | 9,770 | null | [
12720
] | null | null |
11,185 | comment | Tichy | 2007-04-10T08:35:24 | null | Since nobody mentioned it: I plan to at least evaluate Groovy+Grails - hoping it might be a smoother transition coming from a Java background than going to RoR directly. Also, some things just work better with Java, and Groovy might allow me to build on that (what things? Getting a database driver for example). | null | null | 10,748 | 10,748 | null | null | null | null |
11,186 | comment | Tichy | 2007-04-10T08:56:10 | null | It would be nice if you would use a more descriptive subject line... | null | null | 11,035 | 11,035 | null | null | null | null |
11,187 | comment | skp | 2007-04-10T09:11:48 | null | Super awesome !
@M$ : Web 2.0 is no Bubble.
| null | null | 9,770 | 9,770 | null | null | null | null |
11,188 | comment | nonrecursive | 2007-04-10T09:20:35 | null | "deader than microsoft" - that is great :-) | null | null | 11,128 | 10,898 | null | null | null | null |
11,189 | story | nonrecursive | 2007-04-10T09:32:48 | How often is your gut instinct right? | null | 4 | null | 11,189 | 13 | [
11213,
11445,
11216,
11256,
11190,
11253,
11202,
11222
] | null | null |
|
11,190 | comment | nonrecursive | 2007-04-10T09:38:24 | null | Does your gut instinct lead you to make good decisions more often than bad ones? Does it work better for you in some areas than in others? For example, are your decisions about marketing more often right than your decisions about strategy? Or does it work better for you with small decisions compared to large ones? | null | null | 11,189 | 11,189 | null | null | null | null |
11,191 | story | dageroth | 2007-04-10T09:54:10 | Creating a Code of Conduct for a start-up | null | http://qiss.textdriven.com/blog2/?p=8 | 1 | null | 11,191 | 0 | null | null | null |
11,192 | story | dageroth | 2007-04-10T09:57:34 | On the business plan and Neal Stephenson's blueprint | null | http://qiss.textdriven.com/blog2/?p=7 | 7 | null | 11,192 | 1 | [
11450
] | null | null |
11,193 | comment | andybourassa | 2007-04-10T10:07:57 | null | null | null | 11,091 | 10,948 | null | null | null | true |
|
11,194 | comment | theoutlander | 2007-04-10T10:21:08 | null | GN! | null | null | 11,124 | 11,124 | null | null | null | null |
11,195 | comment | jaggederest | 2007-04-10T10:24:22 | null | (because-function-names-are-so-long-and-detailed 'post) | null | null | 11,150 | 10,875 | null | null | null | null |
11,196 | comment | dageroth | 2007-04-10T10:25:04 | null | Well, agreed you get along without VC if you actually have a part-time job and which leaves you the necessary time to program on the side . It is also quite true that hardware and stuff are quite cheap by now.<p>Still, if you don't have any money and not a job then VC seems to be the only way on how to make a living and pay for all the expenses. There are lawyer fees for getting incorporated, trademark-fees, patent-fees and renting a scalable RoR server at JoyEnt costs also 125$ a month. We are now a team of three founders and work fulltime on our project. But programming is only half the things we have to do, we also have to think about the promotion of our product, things have to be designed, the userinterface gets tested a lot and we have to think about strategies how to make our service known. We will probably use GoogleAdWords, create a viral videospot etc. All these things cost money. And it would be really great to have an office where we could program instead of my 13 squaremeter room which leaves me nearly no privacy because when I go to bed someone is programming in my apartment and when I wake up someone else is already there.<p>Therefore I think that VC still covers a quite basic need of a startup, even if RoR is used and the founders have read Getting Real. Founding a company still costs money, although admittedly less than a few years ago. VC-companies investing in webprojects are not dead, but will have to adapt to the needs of founders and start investing smaller sums. | null | null | 10,898 | 10,898 | null | null | null | null |
11,197 | comment | jaggederest | 2007-04-10T10:28:05 | null | Dollar signs?<p>No, but seriously, everything depends on compensation. Everything else is simply an apology. The more you pay me, the less of my life I have to waste working for other people. | null | null | 11,024 | 11,024 | null | null | null | null |
11,198 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-10T10:40:41 | null | Why not. lots of smart young well educated people, good education levels. The one downside is the instability with the government. Of course if you are a local or have good local insight this may not be a problem.
| null | null | 11,138 | 11,138 | null | [
11201
] | null | null |
11,199 | comment | danw | 2007-04-10T10:48:58 | null | Something that shows me what kind of people the company consists of. The ad needs to show that the company is smart and fun. | null | null | 11,024 | 11,024 | null | null | null | null |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.