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npk
2007-04-11T15:41:48
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You may consider posting your application on the web, and asking people here to read it. I have never applied for investor funding, but I believe that I could give constructive feedback.<p>You will expose yourself to the risk of theft. On the other hand, ideas are only half the battle. <p>Good luck.
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blader
2007-04-11T15:41:48
How to be a Good Product Manager
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rokhayakebe
2007-04-11T15:43:13
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can some 1 create a dedicatd browser IM plugin so YCNews usrs can chat EZly using their usrnm?
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pg
2007-04-11T15:43:25
Spock's New People Engine
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divia
2007-04-11T15:43:42
30 Apparent Reasons You Launched Your Startup
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entrepreneur
2007-04-11T15:44:33
Master Sex Energy, Find Your Long Tail, And Meet Other Entrepreneurs
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Alex3917
2007-04-11T15:44:43
When Better is Worse -- Thoughts on the Facebook Redesign
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blader
2007-04-11T15:46:16
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I scribble a very rough sketch on a notepad. Once I have a reasonable idea of the layout and functionality of a page, I just move right into rails and iterate from there. You get realism and real code that way. Moderate proficiency with XHTML/CSS makes iterating not that much more difficult than pen and paper.<p>I remember reading that 37signals does all their mockups directly in XHTML/CSS.
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Alex3917
2007-04-11T15:46:23
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I started a blog this morning. :-)<p>Still working on figuring out how to edit the CSS template so I can make the margins a readable width...
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BenKittrell
2007-04-11T15:48:56
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I just don't understand why everyone is so concerned about MS vs Google vs Apple. MS sells software, Google sells ads, and Apple sells hardware. Anything else they do is just to sell their core business.<p>Each company is extremely successful, and in no danger of going away anytime soon.<p>Paul saying that he's surprised to see someone running Windows is proof that this is a very big planet, and there's lots of room for all kinds of love.
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ballred
2007-04-11T15:51:58
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www.samepace.com matches runners and cyclists with training partners based on a shared workout pace, i.e. 2 people who both run 9:00 min./mile and live close by. Beta site and seed funding are in place, need a brilliant hacker to develop v1.0 of the service.<p>I'm in SLC, UT, but willing to consider cofounder in other locations. Email billallred at Google mail etc.
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fuzzyman
2007-04-11T15:52:38
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"The browser is a fantastic platform. You never have to install web apps. You never have to patch web apps."<p>Fantastic for the developer maybe - not so for the user.<p>"Remember, dumb terminals were around long before PCs."<p>Right. How was that for the user ?
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blader
2007-04-11T15:53:07
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Because if you're doing a startup, you're a PM.
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jmtame
2007-04-11T15:54:36
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Well, I'll throw myself out there, but as a willing co-founder to involve myself in someone's startup.<p>I've got a mix of biz, tech, and design skills. My core skills are in design work, such as logos, branding, identity, and web. I'll show a portfolio and mention a project I'm working on right now that involves one of the founders of YouTube, just e-mail me at jmtame at g m a i l . com.<p>I'm seeking ventures that already have angel funding or a prototype developed. I can make an ugly prototype look like a masterpiece, I favor simplicity in both software features and design, I have several VC connections in IL and CA (although seeking to relocate to CA), and I'm pretty technical (know several web languages).
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vikram
2007-04-11T15:58:46
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For me saying what a function does isn't good enough, when one is documenting an api. Examples are a must. The other problem is that the lisp packaging system is a bit weird. If a library doesn't have an ASDF definition its almost non-existent for me.
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jamongkad
2007-04-11T15:59:58
Host your own app or have it hosted remotely?
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usablecontent
2007-04-11T16:00:37
PBWiki Partners With YackPack To Offer Messaging Widget
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jamongkad
2007-04-11T16:02:08
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I was wondering what would the best move be for my web app? To have it hosted remotely? Would it depend on the nature of the app? What would put customer's minds to ease when I pitch to them? thanks!
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Laurentvw
2007-04-11T16:02:19
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Cool, looks like I'm not the only Belgian who's lurking around here. I see you're using Python for your startup. As of now, I won't be able to help you :) still in learning process.
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brett
2007-04-11T16:04:21
PhotoBucket Videos Blocked on MySpace
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pg
2007-04-11T16:09:20
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dupe <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=11764">http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=11764</a>
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inklesspen
2007-04-11T16:12:24
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I like Linode: <a href="http://www.linode.com">http://www.linode.com</a><p>They may be a little more expensive than other VPS hosts, but they make up for it with awesome, rapid service turnaround. I've been using them for three years, and I don't think I'd switch to anything except maybe EC2.
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jamongkad
2007-04-11T16:14:47
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Checked out the rest and Slicehost seems to appeal to me the most. I love their pricing plan! very simple and straight forward. Though how do they compare to RailsMachine etc. in terms of scaling Rails apps?
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jkush
2007-04-11T16:17:11
Conan O'Brien on failure
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pg
2007-04-11T16:29:02
New, much faster version of News.YC
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far33d
2007-04-11T16:30:25
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Strange. I submitted this 9 hours ago and no one upvoted it (though I found it funny). <p>It seems the morning gets more response than the evening (maybe because of east coast / west coast, evening here is already late in the night on the east?)
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samueladam
2007-04-11T16:33:00
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Belgians are everywhere, damn belgians ! ;)<p>My project is a french speaking online community with blogs and events, located in Louvain-la-Neuve.<p>My brain is exploding and i'm considering asking for some help. If someone with some free time and python/django skills would like to join in, we can have a few Kasteel Bier and see how things go.<p><a href="http://amisphere.com/">http://amisphere.com/</a><p>Where are you located and do you have some stuff to show ?
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timg
2007-04-11T16:33:38
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I started off hosting remotely, but my extremely cheep hosting plan limited my CPU time excessively. Since I was behind a NAT, I had to do some proxying tricks through my provider to serve from my home computer: <p><a href="http://programming.reddit.com/info/1e1a7/comments/c1e4ka">http://programming.reddit.com/info/1e1a7/comments/c1e4ka</a><p>That certainly worked well. Now that I have more money to burn and a big site nearing launch though, I will definitely be trying out some dedicated hosting.<p>Basically the answer is: depends how broke you are.
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gibsonf1
2007-04-11T16:37:00
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Thanks Robert Morris & PG!<p>When will ARC be available (It's looking pretty exciting)? What problems are you solving that take it beyond CL?
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cwilbur
2007-04-11T16:37:25
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You know, this whole televised life thing got old when it was Sean Patrick Live, nearly a decade ago. Is there something I'm missing about justin.tv?
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acheung
2007-04-11T16:37:44
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obviously many people either don't care or don't even realize (and thus don't care) the app takes up more memory. sure, there are opportunity costs to everything. people who use meebo or like-minded apps reap more benefits from the convenience than from the memory tradeoff. until someone comes up with something better, I don't see what the complaint is.
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Mistone
2007-04-11T16:37:54
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sounds like a possibility, I will follow up with an email later today, thanks for posting!
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imp
2007-04-11T16:37:58
Starting a Business: Advice from the Trenches
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brianculler
2007-04-11T16:40:30
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I'm in a startup with azsromej, so count me in as well. <p>As far as having meet n greets, I'd propose somewhere in Midtown. Thats where Tech is, its where Technology Square is, its where all the growth is. The Perimeter area is just full of old established insurance companies, marketing and spamming companies -- the "old school" suits. Midtown is where all the young professionals and visionaries are, plus its literally the only place centralized to all of the metro atlanta area instead of just the northern edge like Perimeter would be.<p>Just my two cents ;)
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chuck
2007-04-11T16:44:38
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Seems way to early to declare them dead. Have you never watched a basketball game where momentum shifts and the dominant team is on the ropes, but it's only halftime. There's plenty of time to come storming back. In other words, the game isn't over. It's way too early to call them dead.<p>Based on your assumptions, if they are indeed dead or headed inexorably in that direction, then why aren't we all using thin clients connected to superfast pipes running ajaxified code? Perhaps, it doesn't always work that well?<p>I guess all these web2.0 companies, y-combinator included, didn't use powerpoint for their deck? Or the execs don't run windows mobile 5.0 on their smartphone?<p>You make a lot of valid points but you omit a lot in the analysis and you get kinda religous about it all.<p>When a team declares victory just by taking the lead... you know that team is scared.
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chuck
2007-04-11T16:45:56
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Seems way to early to declare them dead. Have you never watched a basketball game where momentum shifts and the dominant team is on the ropes, but it's only halftime. There's plenty of time to come storming back. In other words, the game isn't over. It's way too early to call them dead.<p>Based on your assumptions, if they are indeed dead or headed inexorably in that direction, then why aren't we all using thin clients connected to superfast pipes running ajaxified code? Perhaps, it doesn't always work that well?<p>I guess all these web2.0 companies, y-combinator included, didn't use powerpoint for their deck? Or the execs don't run windows mobile 5.0 on their smartphone?<p>You make a lot of valid points but you omit a lot in the analysis and you get kinda religous about it all.<p>When a team declares victory just by taking the lead... you know that team is scared.
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juwo
2007-04-11T16:46:12
Which forums or discussion group host would you use for your product. Recommendations?
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juwo
2007-04-11T16:47:52
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Would you recommend Google Groups? Or is there something better?
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yaacovtp
2007-04-11T16:59:15
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Host your own forum and introduce your product to any relevant forums whether they be independent site or a google/yahoo/other group.
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jmtame
2007-04-11T17:01:13
What if I didn't get any e-mail from YC at all?
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jmtame
2007-04-11T17:02:36
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Ah, spam filter caught it ;)
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rokhayakebe
2007-04-11T17:03:08
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What's up. That sounds ok. Guys can you all send in your email addresses so we can round up. Your profile does not show your email addresses. Or everybody can just throw in a place to meet and time and we vote for the best. That way no one will spam noone in the future.
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pg
2007-04-11T17:03:30
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wireless
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juwo
2007-04-11T17:10:05
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"Host your own forum" can you please clarify why you would prefer this? And which forum product?
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nandan
2007-04-11T17:10:41
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i second midtown! :) perimeter is a little too far for me to be able to make it on a consistent basis. my email address is nandan.naik (at) gmail.com
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tbone
2007-04-11T17:11:31
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Ok, but are we trading Microsoft's monopoly for Google's? Google essentially controls (or plans to control) search and online advertising, which of course feed off each other like Windows and Office did. Just becuase Google has Web 2.0 street cred doesn't mean they are benign.
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pixcavator
2007-04-11T17:18:28
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As far as I understand, your provisional patent will come into play only if a priority issue arises. For example, someone files a related patent after your provisional but before your full application. That's the way my lawyer explained it to me.
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juwo
2007-04-11T17:19:51
What mistakes of yours do you really regret. Why?
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brett
2007-04-11T17:21:56
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Odd the bookmarklet did not redirect me to the existing one. Looks like the exact same url...
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pg
2007-04-11T17:22:45
The Unintended Consequences of Rogers' Packet Shaping
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nurall
2007-04-11T17:24:04
Founders Vs Early Employees
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pg
2007-04-11T17:24:12
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the op used a different url originally
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far33d
2007-04-11T17:24:57
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People say this about every software innovation when it first appears. It's too heavy. It uses too much CPU. It's bloated.<p>There's always a subset of computer-savvy people who don't think it's hard to install software, configure machines, use text-only interfaces, monitor their CPU and Memory usage closely... but often they forget that they aren't the majority.
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ecuzzillo
2007-04-11T17:27:54
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I am as big an Arc fan as the next guy, but I can't say it <i>looks</i> any more exciting than PHP. I am highly interested in it being released, however. It seems to me that if you're at the point where you're rewriting internals for speed, you're at the point where it works well enough to be released. If you just release it without any guarantees or claims about its goodness, sure you might get bashed all over the internet, but also a lot of people would use it and modify it for themselves, and maybe some of said improvements might be useful to you. The YC admissions cycle is over, so maybe you have time to do this now.
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nurall
2007-04-11T17:28:05
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If the Founders' hands are FULL, how do you get work done from a non-founder/prospective early employee, with PROMISES and VISION sharing? <p>Basically, my question is how do you get someone else other than the Founders to work for you without any monetary benefits and just based on promises? Or do any of you take this route at all?
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Laurentvw
2007-04-11T17:30:05
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I live in Brussels, so as you might expect, I know French and Dutch. I'm currently developing a startup, though I can't really disclose much about it. I wouldn't want someone to launch a website with the exact same idea before mine is launched. It's basically a news website similar to Newsvine, Topix, etc. but different :)
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byrneseyeview
2007-04-11T17:30:28
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Maybe he's running a billion-dollar company because he cares more about the company than about where he sleeps.
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brianculler
2007-04-11T17:38:34
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Send in our email addresses to whom? We need to elect one person to be the organizer of all of this or something.<p>Just as a note, we (azsromej and I) registered the domain startup20.com a few months ago. Never really did anything with it except put up a logo. I'd be happy to put a wiki or something just to keep track of meet up dates / locations.<p>The ATL entrepreneurs link that was already posted would have worked but they are charging $10? Whats up with that? Just meet somewhere and have some sushi or drinks or something.<p>I have a friend who is originally from brazil who has a lot of VC contacts down there, and according to him they are all itching to get their claws into some american startups, because there's simply not much entrepreneuriship going on in brazil outside of banana stands. He lives in tennessee though, but he said he is very very interested in coming down for some of these meet n greets with atlanta area startups. So I'll see if I can get him to tag along to one or two.
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chuck
2007-04-11T17:38:34
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there's no comment link for your cliff notes (<a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/cliffsnotes.html)">http://www.paulgraham.com/cliffsnotes.html)</a> followup so i will comment here.<p>you seem to be back-pedaling with this cliff-notes post. so you are going to be the first to "call it"... call what exactly? that seems to be your cliff notes discussion... it required several paragraphs to define what you mean. nobody is going to remember what you exactly called.<p>you say the following... "When I said that Microsoft was dead, I meant they had, like IBM before them, passed across into this underworld."<p>so you are basically saying now that ibm is dead... in which you define it as "people at the leading edge of the software business no longer have to think about them."<p>i guess many would disagree with you on what "leading edge" or relevance in software is about. if you think these web2.0 companies, then perhaps, then many will disagree with you whether there's much new tech coming out of these web 2.0 companies.
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far33d
2007-04-11T17:40:51
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Wow. That is amazing. If you don't have time to read it all, just read the last 3 paragraphs. <p>Terry Semel was my high school graduation speaker (this was way before he was at Yahoo) and he was boring and uninspiring....
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mukund
2007-04-11T17:40:56
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For that you must catch hold of someone who trusts u or u trust someone like your classmate or friends. Everyone needs to pay the bill at end of the month and it would be rather difficult for you to convince a stranger
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mattculbreth
2007-04-11T17:42:31
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If Arc ends up looking like PHP then I think it's fair to say that Paul's going to get bashed pretty badly indeed.
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danielha
2007-04-11T17:42:45
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<i>This has led to a technical "cat and mouse" game, with Rogers now one of the only ISPs in the world to simply degrade encrypted traffic. </i><p>Wow; that is so stupid. <p>Reading something like this always sparks some net neutrality support inside of me, but otherwise I'm still on the fence (leaning either way depending on the time of day). The principles of net neutrality are sound, but increased regulation always makes me wary. There may be high costs associated with "a packet is a packet" philosophy; for example, preserving the current nature of the Internet with legislation could stifle major overhauls to its core. And it just seems that some packet bias is necessary to ensure quality services for specific protocols.<p>I'd be less hesitant about neutrality if the proposed legislations was truly fine tuned to just prevent the ISPs from screwing the customers.
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gibsonf1
2007-04-11T17:43:07
Facebook goes under the knife
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gibsonf1
2007-04-11T17:45:03
Palm touts stability of Linux-based Treos
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gibsonf1
2007-04-11T17:45:58
Google backs character-recognition research
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zach
2007-04-11T17:46:23
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Well, the YC funding process has just moved from application to interview stage, so they have a little while to go there.<p>You're right about the expectations, though. I mischievously wonder if it should be initially released in a source form that requires a lot of work to get it running. That way you skew things away from casual users who aren't going to get much out of it, and towards enthusiasts who will be congratulating themselves for building it or finding some weird RPM of it on BitTorrent.
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ecuzzillo
2007-04-11T17:48:46
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I know Arc is way better than PHP and was even before it existed (IMO a language that doesn't exist is better than PHP). My point in the first sentence was that all we can <i>see</i> of Arc is this web page, a replica of which could be created in PHP with little or no change in the user experience. <p>Anyway, the bashing part would presumably be because some of it isn't finished, or because people don't understand some of his decisions that he didn't explain, not because the language is bad. I theorize based on what's been written about it that Arc is a quite nice language to use, particularly for Lispers.
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Leonidas
2007-04-11T17:50:52
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Current team: 2 graduating doctors, 1 programmer (xml protocol web development, statistical programming)<p>Need: Programmer who wants to take a risk for the summer and apply with us to the Boston summer VC program for students and graduating 2007 students; need to be quirky, fun, passionate about programming; strength (.php)<p>What: Creating medical related application that is internet related<p>Applying for: Boston Summer VC Program for 3 months<p>Contact: email me (email in profile) and lets talk :)<p>Deadline is April 19th so you need to respond by April 15th
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nurall
2007-04-11T17:51:21
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How long does one wait before they start considering equity sharing other than the Founders' equity? Or in other words, when does one know that you can start sharing equity, AFTER the number of Founders has been decided?
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mattculbreth
2007-04-11T17:53:00
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Did you hear that the Inkling guys are rewriting their entire site in it? It must be ok.
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jey
2007-04-11T17:54:40
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Is arc self-hosting, a bunch of Common Lisp macros, or implemented in some other language? How long until arc is self-hosting? :)
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rokhayakebe
2007-04-11T17:59:29
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What's up Brian. I posted this thread. Send us (our team) an email at [email protected] and we can make sure that the round up works for all of us. You can also leave your address and we will send you an email.
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nostrademons
2007-04-11T17:59:37
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I actually kinda like the concept. Some feedback:<p>1.) Every alpha test should have an easily acceptable "Feedback" link <i>in the layout</i>. I know you've got "Contact Us" on the about page, but most people won't look that far (I wouldn't have had someone not commented about ads on the About page). Feedback is for your benefit, not really your users, so users will not jump through hoops to give it to you.<p>2.) The front page is too cluttered. A lot of sites try to give a taste of every bit of functionality on the front page, but it doesn't work well. Which do you go to: Google or Yahoo? Why did AltaVista die (hint: it had something to do with "portal")? I'd take the Most Active and Last Registered users off the front page and onto a separate "Stats" page.<p>3.) You need to display more than a couple sentences of each story in the summary. Typically, readers decide whether they'll read a book after the first 2 paragraphs or so (that's an oft-quoted statistic from the dead-tree publishing world). I'd display about that much, and avoid cutting stories off in mid-sentence.<p>4.) The language links should also filter the stories visible to a casual browser. I can't read Italian, and so have no interest in Italian stories. Also, duplicate the language links on the story box itself. I was looking for some way to filter the languages and didn't see any until my eyes moved up to the top left corner.
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ecuzzillo
2007-04-11T18:03:35
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It's written in mzscheme. I don't know exactly what self-hosting means, but PG did write his own web server, and he said he very much wouldn't want to deal with Reddit-sized traffic, so I expect he runs everything on his own computers.
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gibsonf1
2007-04-11T18:04:56
YCSN Feature Request: Add Classifications
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entelarust
2007-04-11T18:05:57
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ajax apps like meebo/gmail/netvibes etc do take up a lot of memory, but the convenience makes them worthwhile alone.
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pg
2007-04-11T18:08:04
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feature requests go here: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=363">http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=363</a>
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gibsonf1
2007-04-11T18:09:21
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kogir
2007-04-11T18:10:33
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C++, C#, ASP.NET 2.0, MS SQL 2005, IIS 6 on Windows C++, PHP, Ruby, MySQL, Memcache, Apache on Linux<p>I try to pick the best tool for the job and run with it.
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gibsonf1
2007-04-11T18:11:50
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Add Classifications:<p>With the speed that articles drop from the system, and the probable increase in discussions that may have already happened, it sure would be nice if articles could be classified (i.e.: Funding, Infrastructure, Programming, Startups, etc etc), so that users could hit on the class their interested in to see what was discussed in the past. The startup bar could get an added heading like "categories" that would then let the user select. You could allow user based classification at the article and comment level to feed the categories. Maybe you could let the leaders add new categories (preferably a hierarchical structure)
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gibsonf1
2007-04-11T18:12:32
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Sorry - I moved the article there
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zaidf
2007-04-11T18:16:13
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This is well in their interest:) More images that are turned into text documents, bigger the google index gets and more traffic goog gets. Makes total sense.
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brianculler
2007-04-11T18:17:40
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Done and done, sent it off. Put it in my profile as well.<p>Want to post up a compiled list so far?
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BrandonM
2007-04-11T18:19:05
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Those aren't my concerns. My concerns are seeing numerous such questions that don't really add a whole lot to the site, but seem to keep getting submitted regardless. Sure, some of them promote interesting discussions, but I think that if they somehow didn't give karma (obviously a hard problem), submissions like this wouldn't pop up as much.
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far33d
2007-04-11T18:22:33
Google - Ultimate Money Machine
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awt
2007-04-11T18:25:26
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Voodoopad. Use tables and links to layout your site very quickly.
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startupdaze
2007-04-11T18:25:33
What is the Answer to 99 of 100 Questions?
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juwo
2007-04-11T18:25:44
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Originally posted here: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=6108">http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=6108</a><p>I am looking for a co-founder Qualities:<p>-ability to get things done.<p>-integrity. honest and fair, but also being able to recognize the truth/reality (critical for business success, I believe).<p>-determination to dig out of a hole; perseverance but not stubbornness.<p>-humility; accepting the possibility you could be wrong even when you think you are right. willing to learn from others and situations<p>-admit responsibility when you screw up.<p>Skills:<p>Either business skills or the stuff I am deficient in: flash (seems like cool demos cant exist without them), javascript (to manipulate different media players), and able to design nice web pages.<p>If you are a developer, I expect you to be very competent.<p>I have an application that IMHO is different. It is close to beta, and I wrote it in Swing, Java. However, people say it is not user friendly. I have also lost a lot of time (in part, because I am cautious and also had bad advice. I should have released it long ago).<p>I am willing to give you a one hour online demo/presentation. However I would need some kind of assurance from you that the ideas will not be copied nor given or divulged to potential competitors.<p>Please email me and tell me more about yourself and if you think there might be a good match.<p>thanks,<p>Anil Philip<p>[email protected]<p><a href="http://juwo-works.blogspot.com/">http://juwo-works.blogspot.com/</a><p><a href="http://juwo.com">http://juwo.com</a> <p>I am in Kansas City. Yes, ideally cofounders should live close by. But cant we work remotely?
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usablecontent
2007-04-11T18:28:09
Photobucket Got Blocked on MySpace, Yet Again
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BrandonM
2007-04-11T18:33:14
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I loved that essay. I especially liked his jokes about what Harvard students would be doing after graduation. Although I'm sure that's not true for even the majority of students, it's still something that I can't help but chuckle at.
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pg
2007-04-11T18:33:53
never mind
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far33d
2007-04-11T18:35:30
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More importantly, one of two things will happen as they become more common: either computers will just come with more memory, or browsers will become optimized for these particular tasks. The market rules, not the limits of the machine.
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jslogan
2007-04-11T18:37:52
8 Tips to Writing Great Personal Thank You Notes
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pg
2007-04-11T18:39:59
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It "compiles" into mzscheme. But the compilation is more like macroexpansion.
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mattculbreth
2007-04-11T18:40:10
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That's terrific, good find! Yeah you definitely have to fail a few times to start dialing in on success, and most of all you can't be afraid to try things.
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rokhayakebe
2007-04-11T18:42:24
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So far we got contacts from Brian, Matt and Nandan.
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mattculbreth
2007-04-11T18:42:30
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Completely depends on what you're doing--what kind of app you're building. A very good middle step is a VPS, which looks like your own server (full root, shell access) but is actually a virtual server on another box. With the latest virtualization in Linux this is a really good way to get cheap computing power.<p>You can even get hosting companies to provide fully managed servers, which means you just give them the app and they make sure it's always running and healthy.
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nostrademons
2007-04-11T18:43:50
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Self hosting = interpreter/compiler for the language written in the language itself.
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notabel
2007-04-11T18:47:17
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The extra speed would have been nice yesterday, while the emails were going out. I doubt I was the only one who noticed the site slow down as we all refreshed compulsively. :-)
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