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12,300 | story | ClintonKarr | 2007-04-12T18:28:51 | Paul Gillin Invites You To Come hear David Weinberger's social media insights on April 24. It's free! | null | http://www.paulgillin.com/2007/04/come-here-david-weinbergerss-social.html#links | 1 | null | 12,300 | 0 | null | null | null |
12,301 | comment | mattculbreth | 2007-04-12T18:39:35 | null | We're in stealth mode so we're not saying a whole bunch right now about the product itself. Technically though we're building a portal for our users. We then have different kinds of content and actions they can do from the portal. I've been modeling after Netvibes/Pageflakes/etc. | null | null | 12,238 | 12,228 | null | null | null | null |
12,302 | comment | mattculbreth | 2007-04-12T18:40:23 | null | Did Paul use Zenter again? | null | null | 12,282 | 12,282 | null | [
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12,303 | comment | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-12T18:45:49 | null | I own a car, but use it only for driving to meetings (where a bike jersey is not the appropriate attire), shopping, or leaving town. The transit system here is very good, and the bike lane system is getting better all the time (the bike lobby has growing political clout in the city). Also, parking is a <i></i>&^<i>^ as the city uses tickets as a big revenue stream, so if you are illegal for only a few minutes, you'll get a ticket. You will also save time by not having to park.<p>The downside is that the Muni rail system is not entirely reliable. Normally it takes me 30 minutes from door to door via Muni (N line - when it's raining which isn't that often), but it can take up to 50 if there is a problem which is about 20% of the time. (Biking takes me 20 minutes or less). Of course if you work out of your apartment, commuting is a non issue. | null | null | 12,297 | 12,290 | null | null | null | null |
12,304 | story | Readmore | 2007-04-12T18:48:44 | Wikipedia founder (Jimbo Wales) sets his sites on Google | null | http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/114/features-why-is-this-man-smiling.html | 3 | null | 12,304 | 2 | [
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12,305 | comment | zach | 2007-04-12T18:48:49 | null | It's no secret if you watch justin.tv a little:<p><a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=crystal+tower%2C+san+francisco">http://www.google.com/search?q=crystal+tower%2C+san+francisco</a> | null | null | 12,295 | 12,290 | null | [
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12,306 | comment | comatose_kid | 2007-04-12T18:56:30 | null | No, not this time. | null | null | 12,302 | 12,282 | null | null | null | null |
12,307 | comment | zaidf | 2007-04-12T18:57:06 | null | I would personally hate for my start-up to be positioned in this way in media during its starting stages. Another example is Powerset which has raised millions, has been touted as a google killer and hosted cool Valley parties--and is yet to launch. <p>My BS meter just shoots up when I know more about a start-up's PR success than its product.
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12,308 | comment | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-12T18:59:57 | null | Go for San Francisco:<p>1. <i>Space</i> The rents are actually in many cases less here than in other parts of the valley. (My office is $1 per s.f. per month!) A huge building boom is finishing up in the SOMA area of the City with hundreds (maybe 1000+) new apartments entering the market. This is good news for downward pressure on rental prices.<p>2. <i>Convenience</i>: Within walking distance of both my office and my apartment are countless restaurants, markets, office supplies, banks, etc etc. You can simply walk to what you need saving <i>so</i> much time over driving around on errands in rush hour traffic in the South Bay. There are countless take-out food restaurants open until late at night to keep you coding with a reasonable diet, with many delivering to your door. (Chinese takeout costs about $7 for a main item - roughly $10 for a meal)<p>3. <i>Coolness</i>: There are a lot of web companies in the city because it is such a great place to live. Attracting hackers to work for you may be easier here.
Even the Large Corporate Web companies are setting up major operations in the City:<p><a href="http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2007/01/15/story22.html">http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2007/01/15/story22.html</a>
<a href="http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/archives/2005/08/yahoo_leasing_san_francisco_of.html">http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/archives/2005/08/yahoo_leasing_san_francisco_of.html</a><p>4. <i>Life Style</i>: For those moments when you're not all-nightering on a problem, you have many options here:
a. Sailing in the Bay
b. Biking - across the Golden Gate and you are into nature in no time.
c. Beach - Many beaches in the area
d. Skiing - As close as 2.5 - 3 hours away for some great slopes.
d. Symphony/Opera/Theater/Movies galore, etc etc etc
e. Night Life - Live music, etc etc etc.
f. Wine Country - Only an hour drive to Napa County/Sonoma County - countless vineyards - great wine.<p>5. <i>Variety</i>: San Francisco has many different neighborhoods that have entirely different cultures. A few blocks in different directions will let you experience the unexpected. (Usually good, ocassionally bad)<p>6. Ok, you're right, I'm biased. I love living in the City.<p>7. Downside: The VC's and many angels are in the South Bay, but thats only a 30-40 min. drive away - or Caltrain ride. | null | null | 12,290 | 12,290 | null | null | null | null |
12,309 | comment | budu3 | 2007-04-12T19:00:11 | null | As far a languages go, there's no silver bullet, go with whatever your team is comfortable with. | null | null | 12,141 | 11,551 | null | null | null | null |
12,310 | comment | yaacovtp | 2007-04-12T19:00:13 | null | add in "justin" to that search and it gets a whole lot more fun. | null | null | 12,305 | 12,290 | null | null | null | null |
12,311 | comment | abstractbill | 2007-04-12T19:02:05 | null | I live in Mountain View and go to SF for fun, of which there is plenty to be had.<p>Rent is a factor of course. I'm currently in a nice 2-bed town-house close to downtown mv, for $1700/month. | null | null | 12,290 | 12,290 | null | null | null | null |
12,312 | comment | nostrademons | 2007-04-12T19:06:18 | null | We're also on GoDaddy, and haven't had any problems so far (granted, we're pre-launch, so we haven't had a chance for any of the really taxing stuff to occur). We haven't ruled out switching services if there's a problem, but we might as well start simple.<p>You have to take into account company size when weighing complaints. The bigger hosting providers - GoDaddy and DreamHost - will necessarily have more negative opinions, simply because of sheer numbers. But there are many, many satisfied customers of them. | null | null | 12,220 | 11,687 | null | null | null | null |
12,313 | story | danw | 2007-04-12T19:09:51 | YouOS: YouHave To Be Kidding Me (ajax, youos) | null | http://www.uncov.com/2007/4/12/youos-youhave-to-be-kidding-me | 3 | null | 12,313 | 0 | null | null | null |
12,314 | comment | queenpolyanna | 2007-04-12T19:14:31 | null | Of course the advertising is forgettable there is no advertising.
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12,315 | comment | natrius | 2007-04-12T19:16:17 | null | Django gives you the benefits of speed and an easy to use framework. Rails just seems to have more hype around it.<p>The people who constantly say that the poor performance of Ruby and Rails isn't an issue are the same people who don't have large spikes in traffic, since their apps are subscription-based. For most of the typical Web 2.0 stuff getting built these days, huge spikes in traffic are exactly what you want, but using Rails is setting you up to have scaling issues once you get the press you're hoping for. You're likely to run into those same issues regardless, but why make things worse? Assuming Rails is better than Django, it's not so much better that it'll make up for the poor performance. The improvements in ease of development aren't unique to Rails, they're a byproduct of the philosophy that Django, Rails, and similar frameworks all share.<p>I'm far more likely to trust the opinion of the Twitter folks than that of people who have something to gain from my choice of framework. | null | null | 12,286 | 12,242 | null | [
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12,316 | comment | jkush | 2007-04-12T19:19:50 | null | I agree with you. I've been debating whether to focus on using Django or Rails - and I think I'm going with Django. If Rails has known speed limitations, why work with it if there's another option? | null | null | 12,315 | 12,242 | null | null | null | null |
12,317 | comment | andreyf | 2007-04-12T19:38:22 | null | The rates start in 2008. It's free 'till the end of the year. | null | null | 12,110 | 12,010 | null | null | null | null |
12,318 | story | brett | 2007-04-12T19:40:02 | What I Learned From Friendster: Jonathan Abrams' New Startup - | null | http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/news/2007/04/abramsqa_0411 | 2 | null | 12,318 | 0 | null | null | null |
12,319 | comment | erik | 2007-04-12T19:42:45 | null | Paul talks about the YC admission process. "At YCombinator we go through and rank all of the applications, then we take the top 30 for interviews."<p>I bet there are a few people around here who would like to know where they placed in the last round.
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12,320 | comment | mattculbreth | 2007-04-12T19:43:19 | null | Yeah, but then he went ahead and created Wasabi. Kinda lost points there. | null | null | 12,281 | 12,242 | null | [
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12,321 | story | knewjax | 2007-04-12T19:46:50 | Y Combinator Interviewees | null | 11 | null | 12,321 | 9 | [
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12,322 | comment | knewjax | 2007-04-12T19:50:12 | null | It would be interesting for the REJECTS to see what the pool of accepted interview companies consist of. <p>VoteUp if you would be interested in this.
And if you made the cut please post in the replies the following information: <p>Your Company Name:
Small Public Description:
Demo, Screencast, or Company Link if applicable: | null | null | 12,321 | 12,321 | null | [
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12,323 | comment | jaed | 2007-04-12T19:58:43 | null | I don't know how "radical" the idea is. Justin.tv is "Web 2.0" for Jennicam (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JenniCam).">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JenniCam).</a> | null | null | 12,213 | 12,158 | null | [
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12,324 | comment | ido | 2007-04-12T19:59:18 | null | Can anyone explain what is exactly so great about this idea?<p>It's the 90's all over again... | null | null | 12,193 | 12,158 | null | null | null | null |
12,325 | comment | felipe | 2007-04-12T19:59:19 | null | I think it depends on the focus of your startup. My perception is that SF is more media-centric, with lots of designers and media professionals, while South Bay is more "nerdy" and enterprise-centric, with lots of hardcore hackers. <p>Regarding "where to live": I currently live in Mountain View, but I would move to SF if I could afford (although MV is not that cheap either!). SF is an awesome city. | null | null | 12,290 | 12,290 | null | null | null | null |
12,326 | story | ericc | 2007-04-12T20:10:48 | Executive management decision for your Startup - When/How? | null | 1 | null | 12,326 | 1 | [
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12,327 | comment | ericc | 2007-04-12T20:12:28 | null | When is the latest that a startup needs to think about the executive management? When does one decide on who the CEO should be? And what is the best way to go about it? Thanks! | null | null | 12,326 | 12,326 | null | null | null | null |
12,328 | story | rfrey | 2007-04-12T20:13:34 | M&A Trends | null | 2 | null | 12,328 | 1 | [
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12,329 | comment | rfrey | 2007-04-12T20:15:10 | null | There have been some discussions here and elsewhere about how larger companies are more interested in acquiring earlier-stage startups than they used to be. The gist is that they are beginning to cut out the VC middleman by going after promising companies before they grow too big (and expensive).<p>Is anyone aware of any data that backs this up? I'm not sure how to present this idea to folks who aren't in tune with valley trends. | null | null | 12,328 | 12,328 | null | null | null | null |
12,330 | story | dawie | 2007-04-12T20:19:56 | Y Combinator's WriteWith Launches - Collaborative Blogging | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/writewith-launches-makes-shared-blogging-easier/ | 20 | null | 12,330 | 9 | [
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12,331 | comment | nickb | 2007-04-12T20:20:57 | null | Justin.tv is not Jennicam. Justin.tv is a business and has a business plan that can be executed. Think reality TV... think internet television. | null | null | 12,323 | 12,158 | null | null | null | null |
12,332 | comment | natrius | 2007-04-12T20:21:43 | null | I really don't understand why you've gotten nothing but positive comments on this. This is not an original idea. If I'm wrong, what is original about it? For the use case you describe, having a saved set of Firefox tabs would do a far better job.<p>Let's say you do come up with some new twist on the whole web desktop thing. There is absolutely no technological barrier to entry for that market. Any of the existing products can add on your differentiating feature in a week, and then crush you.<p>If you're working on this as a neat hack, I'm all for it, but if you think this is going to turn into a viable business somehow, I think you're probably mistaken. | null | null | 12,228 | 12,228 | null | null | null | null |
12,333 | comment | Laurentvw | 2007-04-12T20:22:22 | null | A beta version of the news website will probably be available in about 2 weeks. I can notify you about it, if you want to, same for c1sc0, but you'll have to give me your email address then, I guess.<p>Funny, I thought starting the international version first would be better, as I find it easier to get the word out (lots of english web 2.0 blogs and such). I have very little knowledge on how to get your site promoted in Belgium.<p>Belgian community? You're giving me an idea :) Wouldn't it be awesome to gather belgian webmasters all in 1 place (a website.. obviously), create a commmunity and call it "Silicon Valley in Belgium". Not that I'm going to do that, it's just a cool idea :) | null | null | 12,210 | 11,665 | null | null | null | null |
12,334 | comment | yaacovtp | 2007-04-12T20:33:04 | null | I'm playing around with it. It saves every 20 seconds. Great for forgetful people. | null | null | 12,330 | 12,330 | null | null | null | null |
12,335 | story | ACSparks | 2007-04-12T20:34:59 | What exactly do you dislike about PHP? and Why is your web language of choice better? | null | 6 | null | 12,335 | 20 | [
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12,336 | comment | ACSparks | 2007-04-12T20:36:54 | null | There seems to be much talk thrashing the web language incumbent PHP. What exactly bums you out? and why is your language better? | null | null | 12,335 | 12,335 | null | [
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12,337 | comment | casta | 2007-04-12T20:39:01 | null | Thanks for the feedback.
Good advice, definitetly.<p>The only problem is about the language filter: we already thought about it, but now we have only one story in english, so you wouldn't have seen anything. This is one of the first things we'll fix in the next days. | null | null | 11,973 | 11,285 | null | null | null | null |
12,338 | comment | nurall | 2007-04-12T20:46:45 | null | Interesting to see that WriteWith seems to take GoogleDocs head on! There seems to be a few parallels between what Kiko attempted and how they were hosed by Google Calender and what WriteWith is attempting. <p>The difference here being WriteWith launching after GoogleDocs and it being marketed differently. Looks like WriteWith is creating a niche within collaborative doc editing, by catering to and marketing as a collaborative blogging platform. Brilliant concept! Truly catering to the long tail of bloggers!! | null | null | 12,330 | 12,330 | null | [
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12,339 | story | bootload | 2007-04-12T20:47:07 | brain drain vs. brain circulation | null | http://arstechnica.com/journals/science.ars/2007/04/12/international-science-brain-drain-vs-brain-circulation | 3 | null | 12,339 | 0 | null | null | null |
12,340 | comment | yaacovtp | 2007-04-12T20:49:54 | null | But it can't be for google to do the exact same thing with blogs. The ebay auction countdown begins...what will they come up with next? | null | null | 12,338 | 12,330 | null | [
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12,341 | story | wschroter | 2007-04-12T20:50:33 | How Startups Get Funded Before Investors Show Up | null | http://www.gobignetwork.com/wil/2007/4/12/how-startups-get-funded-before-investors-show-up/10130/view.aspx | 2 | null | 12,341 | 0 | null | null | null |
12,342 | comment | timg | 2007-04-12T20:57:05 | null | Don't forget to check the content policy,<p><a href="http://checkout.google.com/seller/content_policies.html">http://checkout.google.com/seller/content_policies.html</a><p>Google's looks straight-forward, but sometimes providers have uncommon restrictions in there. eg, the "Travel packages and offers" wouldn't be immediately obvious. | null | null | 12,035 | 12,010 | null | null | null | null |
12,343 | comment | nurall | 2007-04-12T21:02:25 | null | Although not part of his talk, Paul had something interesting to say, when posed with the question about how anal investors are, about 'domain expertise' of the team they would be willing to fund.<p>The point to take home from Paul's response to this question was that, as long as the investors are convinced that the 'hackers' have enough domain knowledge to realize an important need and they have a relevant and popular solution to the problem, then the product/prototype/system should silence the critics/cynics, if any.<p>Paul used Mark Zuckerberg as an example as a facilitator of 'inter-personal networking' through facebook. The domain here being 'inter-personal networking' ;-) and how much Mark sucks at it! <p>Go HACKERS!! | null | null | 12,282 | 12,282 | null | null | null | null |
12,344 | story | bootload | 2007-04-12T21:05:00 | Our way or the highway | null | http://www.uncov.com/2007/4/9/37signals-our-way-or-the-highway | 1 | null | 12,344 | 0 | null | null | null |
12,345 | story | bootload | 2007-04-12T21:06:41 | Distributed file storage: MogileFS | null | http://www.uncov.com/2007/4/4/distributed-file-storage-with-mogilefs | 6 | null | 12,345 | 6 | [
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12,346 | comment | nurall | 2007-04-12T21:16:14 | null | Well, I definitely feel its not hard to picture Google looking at WriteWith and realizing that there is an opportunity there for them to leverage from their existing systems and just establish a connection between GoogleDocs and Blogger. <p>The incremental effort required to bridge the gap, seems minuscule, especially on the Google scale. One of the possible Google efforts would be, WriteWith getting an irresistible offer from Google. I am sure the founders won't be complaining then! | null | null | 12,340 | 12,330 | null | [
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12,347 | story | eduardoflores | 2007-04-12T21:20:30 | Software Startup Myths Debunked | null | http://www.miketaber.net/articles/SoftwareStartupMythsDebunked.aspx | 3 | null | 12,347 | 1 | [
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12,348 | story | zaidf | 2007-04-12T21:20:52 | What was the first venture you tried? Tell your story. | null | 6 | null | 12,348 | 14 | [
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12,349 | comment | zaidf | 2007-04-12T21:22:25 | null | I had this idea in 8th grade to build something similar to what Yahoo Answers! is today.<p>I developed much of the site in ASP and partnered with a designer to do the logo design(I sucked at designing back then). Once high school started and I discovered freelancing I lost focus and never really went live. <p>The site was called HelpersSeekers.com. This was in 2001. | null | null | 12,348 | 12,348 | null | null | null | null |
12,350 | story | usablecontent | 2007-04-12T21:24:15 | MGM Partners with iTunes | null | http://startupmeme.com/2007/04/12/mgm-partners-with-itunes/ | 1 | null | 12,350 | 0 | null | null | null |
12,351 | comment | eduardoflores | 2007-04-12T21:26:51 | null | Kaleidoscopes. About 3rd. grade. Sold a couple :D | null | null | 12,348 | 12,348 | null | null | null | null |
12,352 | comment | walesmd | 2007-04-12T21:31:34 | null | I actually see the PHP bashing as dieing down quite a bit, Now that the Ruby on Rails craze is over with (the language is awesome, but I'm glad to see some of the hype go away).<p>I think people are finally understanding that there is room for both languages (and more) and each language has it's strengths and weaknesses than can only be leveraged (or overcome) by someone truly comfortable with that language.
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12,353 | story | vlad | 2007-04-12T21:32:44 | CMU mini-robot dancing to a song on YouTube | null | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g-yrjh58ms | 1 | null | 12,353 | 0 | null | null | null |
12,354 | comment | nurall | 2007-04-12T21:38:26 | null | Unfortunately, not everybody can realize this. Most people are so connected to their physical environment in their conscious state that they just can't let go of their conscious connections. I guess all of us are caught up some way or the other. | null | null | 12,285 | 12,269 | null | [
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12,355 | comment | ryantmulligan | 2007-04-12T21:38:29 | null | I totally agree. This is a classic example of an Innovator's Dilemma incremental improvement (i.e. what big slow companies are really good at)<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Dilemma-Revolutionary-Business-Essentials/dp/0060521996/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-9893482-5829762?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1176413849&sr=8-1">http://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Dilemma-Revolutionary-Business-Essentials/dp/0060521996/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-9893482-5829762?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1176413849&sr=8-1</a> | null | null | 12,346 | 12,330 | null | [
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12,356 | story | usablecontent | 2007-04-12T21:44:10 | Yahoo in Talks To Buy Rivals.com for About $100 Million | null | http://startupmeme.com/2007/04/12/yahoo-in-talks-to-buy-rivalscom-for-about-100-million/ | 1 | null | 12,356 | 0 | null | null | null |
12,357 | comment | ericc | 2007-04-12T21:47:00 | null | Nice!! The book looks interesting! Thanks for the recommendation!! | null | null | 12,355 | 12,330 | null | [
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12,358 | comment | comatose_kid | 2007-04-12T21:47:35 | null | Disagree. It seems more like they've optimized one part of their infrastructure, so now a new bottleneck has popped up. Par for the course when you're optimizing anything...<p>Oh, and this interview was discussed by DHH on his blog:<p><a href="http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000608.html">http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000608.html</a> <p>The comments were interesting, especially one from Alex Payne (the Twitter dev himself). Here is an excerpt. Visit the link above to read the full comment (which is kind of long to post fully inline here).<p>"...We'd be running into scaling issues on Django or any other platform. We're happiest scaling on Rails." | null | null | 12,270 | 12,242 | null | null | null | null |
12,359 | comment | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-12T21:49:51 | null | This is definitely a Karmactic idea. | null | null | 12,322 | 12,321 | null | [
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12,360 | comment | omouse | 2007-04-12T21:55:31 | null | Is this done with Ruby On Rails? It looks like it, very 37signals-ish. | null | null | 12,330 | 12,330 | null | null | null | null |
12,361 | comment | dawie | 2007-04-12T21:56:31 | null | I like how you can start using it right away and save your work later.
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12,362 | story | usablecontent | 2007-04-12T22:07:07 | Google Maps Now Show Data in 2.5D | null | http://startupmeme.com/2007/04/12/google-maps-now-show-data-in-25d/ | 1 | null | 12,362 | 0 | null | null | null |
12,363 | comment | omouse | 2007-04-12T22:07:24 | null | Lemonade stand. 3rd or 4th grade. Not many people walk by in my neighbourhood so it was a loooooong wait before we sold anything :( | null | null | 12,348 | 12,348 | null | null | null | null |
12,364 | comment | aantix | 2007-04-12T22:09:46 | null | Have you seen the function list?
<a href="http://www.php.net/quickref.php">http://www.php.net/quickref.php</a><p>It's a nightmare. How about some organization? How about a hierarchy? How about some terseness?
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12,365 | comment | SwellJoe | 2007-04-12T22:13:44 | null | PHP is pragmatic and pretty fast, but everything, everything, everything, beyond the "HTML template language" bits, are bolted on with whatever tools were handy at the moment. I'd be stunned if more than a couple hours of design work went into the object system, the type system (where == and === are used for evil rather than good), or even the standard library function names.<p>It has some strengths: Big library (not as big or as high quality as CPAN, so if library support is what you need, go for Perl), a lot of example code (but it's mostly horrible quality...even good examples are pretty bad in spots), and really easy deployment. So, if you're building an Open Source project that you want a lot of people to use, it's a great choice--PHP is available on every hosting server on the planet. Or, if you need a "blank-plus-this-widget" you can probably find the "blank" already written in PHP and then build your "widget" on top.<p>But, if you're starting from scratch, why commit yourself to working with a shoddy language for the months or years it'll take to finish? There are good imperative languages out there for web app development: Ruby and Python, in particular. Though the frameworks craze for these languages are partly to bridge the gap that they have with PHP (they're all missing a "view" layer for the web, because PHP is a reasonably powerful, if ugly, template system), and a lot of the other crap just makes things ugly...they get built for one particular application and then stretched for general-purpose use, and in the stretching they get a bit misshapen and hard to fit into any specific task.<p>Anyway, Ruby and Python are pretty and reasonably consistent languages that are nice to work with. PHP is neither. Perl...well, it ain't necessarily pretty, but CPAN is hard to beat when you just want to get the job done...and you can treat it as a functional language pretty effectively, which is all the rage around these parts (and you'll probably want to after you see the bolted on object system). | null | null | 12,335 | 12,335 | null | null | null | null |
12,366 | comment | jaggederest | 2007-04-12T22:14:54 | null | Well, mostly just that PHP has been extended far beyond the simple templating language it was designed as.<p>My language of choice (ruby or haskell, take your pick) was designed for more general tasks, and so is simpler to write the more general web apps people are building now. I would still like to use PHP as my template language, though.<p>PHP is still very fast when it comes to templating, but it's not very fast at all when doing any sort of number crunching. Ruby suffers here, too, which is why I'm trying to use haskell for my current project. | null | null | 12,335 | 12,335 | null | null | null | null |
12,367 | comment | dshah | 2007-04-12T22:26:09 | null | Are you sure the Ruby on Rails craze is over?<p>I didn't get that memo. | null | null | 12,352 | 12,335 | null | null | null | null |
12,368 | comment | danielha | 2007-04-12T22:31:48 | null | 30 was just the number they invited for the Winter batch. It's not their standard cutoff number. | null | null | 12,319 | 12,282 | null | [
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12,369 | story | usablecontent | 2007-04-12T22:32:56 | Akamai Bags P2P Tech Provider RedSwoosh for $15 Million | null | http://startupmeme.com/2007/04/12/akamai-bags-p2p-tech-provider-redswoosh-for-15-million/ | 1 | null | 12,369 | 0 | null | null | null |
12,370 | comment | mattdorey | 2007-04-12T22:33:31 | null | I saved up and bought a CD burner ($800) when they first came out(grade 7) and started making mix CDs. At the time it was an untapped market because people only had mixed tapes, not CDs!! I had prepackaged Hip Hop, Rock, Alternative, etc. CDs and believe it or not, I charged $20 per CD. It turned into a pretty successful business just at school but then about 1-2 years later when prices came down on burners, the market became comodotized and I had to get out! <p>I'm now 21 and run a successful web-based start up based in Calgary. Curve Dental, check me out at curvedental.com or
<a href="http://www.curvedental.com/docs/resources/april07_matt_calgaryinc-2.pdf">http://www.curvedental.com/docs/resources/april07_matt_calgaryinc-2.pdf</a>
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12,371 | comment | ramen | 2007-04-12T22:33:40 | null | I often find myself defending PHP. It seems to be very unpopular lately, at least by some very vocal individuals on the web. I like PHP, and here's why:<p>It runs everywhere, has lots of libraries, and most of my friends know it.<p>That, for me, is huge. It's enough for me to forgive, tolerate, and even enjoy programming in the language.<p>Anyway, here's what I don't like:<p>The lack of a decent module system.<p>The lack of closures.<p>The weird reference semantics of objects in PHP4. PHP5 is way better in this regard, but now I have to worry about whether my code will still run on PHP4, and whether or not I will need it to.<p>The clumsy templating syntax. Short tags help, but I'm supposed to feel guilty if I use them.<p>The need to use unreliable third-party software to get bytecode precompilation, causing me to worry about the performance costs of modularity. (!)<p>Magic quotes. And the fact that I may need to undo them depending on the whims of system administrators.<p>Arrays. I wish dictionaries and lists were separate concepts like they are in Python and many other languages I want to interoperate with.<p>The name. I hate when I have to explain what PHP stands for. I feel like enough of a geek as it is. | null | null | 12,335 | 12,335 | null | null | null | null |
12,372 | comment | danielha | 2007-04-12T22:34:52 | null | Thanks for the notes. I was caught up in traffic and missed the first couple.<p>The best part was Paul imitating a giant cockroach riding atop an imaginary muzzled VC like a horse, furiously cracking a whip. Definitely one of those "had to be there" moments. | null | null | 12,282 | 12,282 | null | null | null | null |
12,373 | comment | acheung | 2007-04-12T22:38:09 | null | In 2nd grade ... attempting to outdo the local brownie troop by selling girl scout cookie knockoffs. Damn thin mints! You ruined my business!! | null | null | 12,348 | 12,348 | null | null | null | null |
12,374 | comment | ramen | 2007-04-12T22:39:10 | null | If you think that's bad, you should try C sometime. | null | null | 12,364 | 12,335 | null | [
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12,375 | comment | patryn20 | 2007-04-12T22:46:32 | null | I started selling collectibles from my desk in 4th grade during recess and other down periods.<p>Continued it until 6th grade, when the school principal shut it down.<p>My first "adult" business was a web design consultancy I started freshman year of college.<p>My first "startup" was a company that ran a network of drop-shipping sites hosted on their own virtual domains with unique templates, etc. We never really got it fully off the ground before founder issues blew it apart.<p>Currently have tagsrc.com running, though the first widget is still buggy. Trying to find time around work to do more. | null | null | 12,348 | 12,348 | null | null | null | null |
12,376 | comment | gyro_robo | 2007-04-12T22:47:03 | null | This is fairly well-trod territory:<p><a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=why+php+sucks">http://www.google.com/search?q=why+php+sucks</a><p>A good resource for comparing languages is the shootout:<p><a href="http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4sandbox/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=all">http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4sandbox/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=all</a><p>Most people just refer to the overall scores, but what's more interesting is seeing the same program done in different languages.<p>This one is pretty straightforward:<p><a href="http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4sandbox/benchmark.php?test=nbody&lang=php&id=0">http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4sandbox/benchmark.php?test=nbody&lang=php&id=0</a><p>Compare to the same thing in Python, Ruby, Scheme, Common Lisp, and Haskell:<p><a href="http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4sandbox/benchmark.php?test=nbody&lang=python&id=0">http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4sandbox/benchmark.php?test=nbody&lang=python&id=0</a><p><a href="http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4sandbox/benchmark.php?test=nbody&lang=ruby">http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4sandbox/benchmark.php?test=nbody&lang=ruby</a><p><a href="http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4sandbox/benchmark.php?test=nbody&lang=chicken&id=3">http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4sandbox/benchmark.php?test=nbody&lang=chicken&id=3</a><p><a href="http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4sandbox/benchmark.php?test=nbody&lang=sbcl">http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4sandbox/benchmark.php?test=nbody&lang=sbcl</a><p><a href="http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4sandbox/benchmark.php?test=nbody&lang=ghc">http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4sandbox/benchmark.php?test=nbody&lang=ghc</a>
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12,377 | comment | Tichy | 2007-04-12T22:47:57 | null | So what is the ass-wipe algorithm mentioned in the article? It is not patented, or is it?
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12,378 | comment | dfranke | 2007-04-12T22:49:51 | null | I paid my caffeine bills in high school by doing computer-repair housecalls. I got a decent amount of business at $20/hr. | null | null | 12,348 | 12,348 | null | null | null | null |
12,379 | comment | pg | 2007-04-12T22:57:01 | null | This is fairly accurate as on-the-fly notes from a talk go, but certainly nothing like a transcription. There's a lot missing and a few things that have been misunderstood. | null | null | 12,282 | 12,282 | null | [
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12,380 | comment | pg | 2007-04-12T23:00:13 | null | There are comments links in the feed (view source on it) but for some reason they get ignored by feed readers. If anyone has a better suggestion, include it in this thread. | null | null | 12,261 | 12,260 | null | [
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12,381 | comment | jward | 2007-04-12T23:05:26 | null | As I said, rich is subjective. My last job paid just shy of your quoted salary and I would not consider that to be rich. Very well off, yes, but not rich. Rich, to me, is what you have behind you in your savings and investments, not what you have to look forward to in salary and the like.<p>I agree with everything else that you said though. | null | null | 12,267 | 12,201 | null | null | null | null |
12,382 | story | usablecontent | 2007-04-12T23:11:17 | ChoiceStream Raises $25.79 Million For Personalized Recommendation Service | null | http://startupmeme.com/2007/04/12/choicestream-raises-2579-million-for-personalized-recommendation-service/ | 1 | null | 12,382 | 0 | null | null | null |
12,383 | comment | IMorgothI12 | 2007-04-12T23:12:49 | null | Actually one thing I would look for is something like the WARF program at university of wisconsin. <p>I think what you want from a University is a place that help you with your invention. If you have an idea they can help you get a patent (Unlike Andrews) and then you as the inventor can share some of the profit. Not all Universities do that and this is the one thing I would emphasize from a University. This can also help you establish a better record for jobs or startups.<p><a href="http://www.warf.org/about/index.jsp?cid=26">http://www.warf.org/about/index.jsp?cid=26</a>
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12,384 | comment | Stiennon | 2007-04-12T23:13:34 | null | A friend at work and I pooled our resources and borrowed $6K from a bank to purchase a PC AT in 1982. It had a 30 MB hard drive and amber screen. We created the first PC based finite element analysis program. We had to write it in FORTH because that was the only language that could address a full megabyte of memory.
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12,385 | comment | IMorgothI12 | 2007-04-12T23:21:15 | null | A University should provide support in nurturing the invention process or providing patent and invention support.
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12,386 | comment | pg | 2007-04-12T23:22:08 | null | On paper you're close to rich, in the sense that your stock in the company is worth a lot. But it's illiquid, and most of it may not legally be yours yet because of vesting. On the other hand, after a series A round you'll be able to pay yourself a decent salary-- maybe 1/2 or 2/3 of market rate, which will probably be a great improvement.<p>In a startup you generally want to make your salary as low as possible. You're not going to get rich from salary but from the company scoring, so why take money out of it? | null | null | 12,201 | 12,201 | null | null | null | null |
12,387 | comment | timach | 2007-04-12T23:26:29 | null | YOU WROTE: "When I did my app, I really liked the last question which was to tell about something 'surprising' or 'amusing' that you had discovered. So I asked if they had had many good answers to that one. Paul said that there were some really good ones, but that inexplicably many had left that question blank! Then he chuckled and said "Actually, there was a guy who submitted this wonderful algorithm for wiping his ass."" <p>My co-founder and I answered the question as follows. "timach notes that time is expanding between The Big Bang and The Advent of Human Consciousness. These are the opposite poles of existence. This means that the mathematical model of physical time using the complete ordered field of real numbers is a misleading metaphor. What is great about mathematics is that it is a tinkertoy of metaphor, and thus offers unlimited possibilities for new metaphors. Rigor is the window through which intuition shines. <p>erdos2 discovered an enumeration formula for a class of combinatorial objects (the "almost-injective" functions) with the following decomposition: the formula is a sum of two terms, the first of which has a closed form representation as fixed sum of generalized hypergeometric functions and which is asymptotically significant; the second is provably not representable in closed form (hence there is no closed form enumeration formula for the almost injective functions), and asymptotically negligible. Moreover, the significant term is asymptotically equivalent to a simpler hypergeometric function, from which a limit probability distribution for the almost injective functions can be derived."<p>I wonder if these responses are far less memorable than a high quality ass wiping algorithm. | null | null | 12,282 | 12,282 | null | [
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12,388 | comment | jward | 2007-04-12T23:28:30 | null | When I was six I wanted a remote controlled truck. It was bright blue and in the Sears catalog. I wanted it real bad but my parents told me they wouldn't buy it for me. I had to buy it myself. It was a hundred dollars. That much money to me seemed insane.<p>My parents both made crafts and went to craft shows to sell their wares. I asked if I could sell stuff too and they were overjoyed. I made little fluffy things out of Fun Fur: little snake with googly eyes that rose up when you petted it and tufts glued to the end of pencils to look like those little troll dolls. Each one was priced at a dollar and my mom subsidized my venture by buying all the materials. I had to sell a hundred of them to buy my truck. I was an ADD kid so I couldn't even count that high without getting distracted.<p>Time rolled on and slowly over the course of a dozen or so craft sales my pile of cash grew and grew until I had enough. Just for me my parents made the three hour long (round trip)journey into the city. I was so excited. I had worked so hard and now I was getting what I wanted.<p>Life rarely works out as planned unfortunately. The truck also required one of those fancy batteries that wasn't included. The kind that cost another $40. My parents didn't come to my rescue. They just told me I'd have to work harder to afford the new cost. On the way back I was in tears, my heart broken. My mother then told me that I shouldn't be sad, and to remember the smiles of the people I sold my stuff to. Money was just a way to say thank you, but the real reward was in making other people happy. | null | null | 12,348 | 12,348 | null | null | null | null |
12,389 | story | pg | 2007-04-12T23:28:40 | Rolling Stone Says They'll Launch Social Network | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/rolling-stone-says-theyll-launch-social-network/ | 2 | null | 12,389 | 1 | [
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12,390 | comment | far33d | 2007-04-12T23:29:26 | null | Let's settle the VC debate once and for all: <p>If you can generate enough revenue on day one to keep your product development alive and not starve, and grow that revenue at the same pace as your expenditures, then you don't need VC. <p>If you need to spend significant upfront R+D costs to generate any revenue, and you don't have rich parents, you need VC. <p>As for generating 95% of your revenue from consulting... that's fine. But it doesn't scale. To make twice as much you need twice as many people. <p>
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12,391 | story | far33d | 2007-04-12T23:33:23 | Is there a robot in your future? | null | http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_5648709?nclick_check=1 | 1 | null | 12,391 | 0 | null | null | null |
12,392 | comment | IMorgothI12 | 2007-04-12T23:35:54 | null | They looked at my demo. I still got rejected thought.
A better question is how many demos they looked at that still got rejected.<p>
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12,393 | comment | jward | 2007-04-12T23:45:15 | null | PHP is ugly.<p>Really, I could go on a rant about speed and security, but it's just ugly. I do most of my coding in Python now days which spoils me. I look at php and it's a nasty mashup of code, data, and structure all rubbed into one nasty little steaming pile. Python is pretty and that's why I like it. It's easy to read, easy to understand, and does not explode into a visual cacophony like I've seen most php projects do.<p>I'd use php for a small simple one off thing because it is stupidly simple to get a page working with no fuss. I also have no issue using php products like Wordpress or PHPBB. My first web startup I wrote in php and it was a pain to maintain after a while. Anything large I'll stay away.<p>Just because it's ugly and I have to stare at it. | null | null | 12,335 | 12,335 | null | [
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12,394 | story | pg | 2007-04-12T23:45:24 | How Writewith got started | null | http://blog.writewith.com/2007/04/11/writewith-who-what-why-when-where-and-how/ | 10 | null | 12,394 | 1 | [
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12,395 | story | far33d | 2007-04-12T23:46:09 | How VC's make money | null | 1 | null | 12,395 | 1 | [
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12,396 | comment | far33d | 2007-04-12T23:48:38 | null | VC's make money, even if you don't. Their fee structure is much like hedge funds: They make 2% of all assets committed PER YEAR (how much is actually invested) and 20% of any monetized gains, as they close. <p>That 2% is a lot of money, and makes a lot of self interest around investing a lot of money as soon as possible after the fund has been raised. I'd even go as far as to say that most VC funds only make money off the 2%. <p>So remember that when you are talking to them. They make money even when you and the LP's don't.
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12,397 | story | danielha | 2007-04-12T23:49:16 | Investopedia Acquired by Forbes | null | http://mashable.com/2007/04/12/investopedia/ | 3 | null | 12,397 | 1 | [
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12,398 | story | jcwentz | 2007-04-12T23:49:55 | Microsoft: First dead, then dropped | null | http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2007/04/11/msft-dead-then-dropped | 4 | null | 12,398 | 1 | [
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12,399 | comment | danielha | 2007-04-12T23:54:16 | null | Even more "traditional media" companies are discovering value in popular web destinations -- many with no obvious big-money making schemes, but has untapped potential. I found this one interesting because Investopedia is one of those sites that has always been around which I've found incredibly useful (I used it to teach myself about investing sometime in high school), but never thought it to be an acquisition target. | null | null | 12,397 | 12,397 | null | null | null | null |
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