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13,700 | comment | phony_identity | 2007-04-17T17:52:45 | null | Idiot. <p>People, we need a succinct term for non-technical people who think they have a lot to contribute to startups. You can't call them suits or MBAs because most of them didn't go to B-school and don't wear suits. Any thoughts? | null | null | 13,548 | 13,548 | null | null | null | null |
13,701 | comment | JMiao | 2007-04-17T18:05:16 | null | Zaid, it's not about whether people will notice it -- they WILL notice it because it's catchy and memorable. Calling the logo out is irrelevant because the logo works in regards to weddings. | null | null | 13,620 | 13,384 | null | null | null | null |
13,702 | story | usablecontent | 2007-04-17T18:07:18 | Youtube Soon To Launch Claim Your Content | null | http://startupmeme.com/2007/04/17/youtube-soon-to-launch-claim-your-content/ | 1 | null | 13,702 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,703 | comment | omouse | 2007-04-17T18:08:18 | null | AJAX login wouldn't be bad, but I'd prefer AJAX voting. A page reload forces you to hunt down the comment thread you were just reading. | null | null | 13,592 | 13,592 | null | [
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13,704 | comment | Readmore | 2007-04-17T18:10:56 | null | null | null | 13,653 | 13,653 | null | null | null | true |
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13,705 | comment | brlewis | 2007-04-17T18:14:05 | null | There are at least two good Scheme implementations on the Java platform: the Kawa compiler and the SISC interpreter. I have substantial experience with the former and hear only good things about the latter. | null | null | 13,699 | 13,289 | null | null | null | null |
13,706 | comment | lindsayrgwatt | 2007-04-17T18:15:17 | null | I totally agree with you that it's idiotic to say that all the tools have been created. I think that all the obvious tools have been created and the challenge is now to find the new ones that we've always wanted but weren't previously able to build.<p>I-and I suspect everyone else reading YC News-can probably think of dozens of tools that I'd love to see (and if you're a reader you've probably thought about this too and are thinking of starting a company to build this tool). | null | null | 13,684 | 13,548 | null | [
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13,707 | comment | patryn20 | 2007-04-17T18:17:43 | null | Maybe a lot of startups also need to realize that an enthusiastic person with years of experience and an incomplete degree is better than most college graduates with no real-world experience. <p>Seriously. The amount of degree snobbery in these startups founded by Stanford (and other top-level school) graduates is ridiculous. They are turning down tons of great developers everyday, most likely. | null | null | 13,575 | 13,575 | null | [
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13,708 | comment | lindsayrgwatt | 2007-04-17T18:26:30 | null | I totally agree with this. Think about how much it cost to start a business even seven years ago: you had to buy servers and dev tools, etc.<p>Now you can test an idea for a few thousand dollars and a couple of weeks time by a few people; the market will tell you if it works or not and you're off.<p>If it doesn't work, who cares-at least you tried and didn't waste too long at it. | null | null | 13,565 | 13,565 | null | null | null | null |
13,709 | comment | phony_identity | 2007-04-17T18:27:51 | null | These guys are doomed.<p>To repeat what I've said elsewhere: we need a succinct term for non-technical people who think they should be doing startups and just have to find some programmers to realize their visions. You can't call them suits or MBAs because most of them didn't go to B-school and don't wear suits. What to call them? | null | null | 13,575 | 13,575 | null | [
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13,710 | comment | jamongkad | 2007-04-17T18:29:13 | null | Let me rephrase my question....would you rather have your own web server for your app? Or would you rather have it hosted remotely? which is cheaper? which is better in the in long run? | null | null | 11,915 | 11,915 | null | null | null | null |
13,711 | comment | lindsayrgwatt | 2007-04-17T18:30:13 | null | It'll be interesting to see if OpenMoko can make a start of it. I used to work in the wireless business and nobody is going to put their operating systems on their phone.<p>What will be interesting is whether they can be the operating system that a bunch of the Taiwanese ODMs use to become serious players in branded handsets (rather than just making them for other people). | null | null | 13,509 | 13,465 | null | [
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13,712 | comment | lindsayrgwatt | 2007-04-17T18:32:01 | null | I love my Blackberry interace-and it does multi app support no problem (I frequently flip between GMail, my browser, Google Maps and my email inbox).<p>Anyone else here love their Blackberry interace or hate it? Anyone here have an interface they like (and why)? | null | null | 13,465 | 13,465 | null | null | null | null |
13,713 | comment | jey | 2007-04-17T18:40:25 | null | How? there isn't any link on juwo.com to the actual product. | null | null | 13,654 | 13,608 | null | [
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13,714 | comment | lindsayrgwatt | 2007-04-17T18:40:26 | null | As someone who's looking for talent, let me ask you what you'd be looking for. Here's what I think high quality developers are looking for; I'd love your thoughts on whether I'm out to lunch or not:
1) Chance to be part of a great engineering team
2) Chance to solve complex problems facing users
3) Opportunity to push the limits of what's possible with technology
4) Ability to influence company's strategy and design<p>Let me know your thoughts. | null | null | 13,674 | 13,575 | null | [
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13,715 | comment | lindsayrgwatt | 2007-04-17T18:42:22 | null | What about "Free Lunchers"? They think that it's a hot market so they can easily create a company and then flip it for some cash? | null | null | 13,709 | 13,575 | null | [
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13,716 | comment | Wintermute | 2007-04-17T19:00:11 | null | Post your Beta to Ycombinator news.
No shortage of strong opinions here. | null | null | 13,690 | 13,650 | null | [
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13,717 | comment | Alex3917 | 2007-04-17T19:05:32 | null | I agree too. :-)<p>When I said: "Today, all the good tools already been taken."<p>I meant for obvious to be included as part of good. Of course there are literally more tools to be made, but there are probably easier ways to create value than finding the one perfect tool that no one's thought of yet. | null | null | 13,706 | 13,548 | null | null | null | null |
13,718 | comment | __ | 2007-04-17T19:11:05 | null | A strong tea, like Irish breakfast or lapsang souchong. | null | null | 13,383 | 13,383 | null | null | null | null |
13,719 | comment | ericesquire | 2007-04-17T19:11:25 | null | By reading some of the comments there...it created quite the stir. Lot's of varied opinions. | null | null | 13,646 | 13,646 | null | null | null | null |
13,720 | story | Readmore | 2007-04-17T19:11:39 | Google launching an Online Presentation App at Web 2.0 | null | http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9709593-2.html?tag=blog | 17 | null | 13,720 | 34 | [
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13,721 | story | Readmore | 2007-04-17T19:13:18 | Vidoop - Passwords in a Picture | null | http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9709341-2.html?tag=blog | 3 | null | 13,721 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,722 | comment | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-17T19:13:56 | null | A fascinating company. Their use of teams created based on interest and need is a great idea, especially for retaining top talent and keeping them engaged. The one issue is how they decide on what to pursue - the article makes it sound like they invent things and then try to sell them rather than having their inventions driven by the values people are looking for. Actually, I guess their model is to make a better version of existing products: Gore-tex, a better version in fabrics, Glide, a better version of dental floss, Elixir, a better version of guitar strings. | null | null | 13,686 | 13,686 | null | null | null | null |
13,723 | comment | aston | 2007-04-17T19:14:50 | null | I think your list cuts across the spectrum too broadly. Younger, more inexperienced developers should be looking, number one, to work with people who know a ton more than they do so that they can learn from the greats. Older, more experienced devs will want more influence on design (although maybe not strategy). <p>I think the solving complex problems part is not a real factor. Every business has its problems, and most of them are non-trivial (otherwise, everyone would be in the business), so while it's maybe your job to convince someone that your problems are worth solving, it's not necessary to prove that your problems are hard.<p>I also think most hackers get less joy out of pushing technology to the limits and more joy out of doing something well. Sometimes those may coincide (scaling Rails, for example) but often times pushing technology to the limits means you're not solving the problem elegantly/economically. Take Google for example; they've got the most powerful distributed computation system in the world, but it's done on some really crappy PC's. | null | null | 13,714 | 13,575 | null | [
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13,724 | comment | jkush | 2007-04-17T19:16:04 | null | What does this do for zenter.com? | null | null | 13,720 | 13,720 | null | null | null | null |
13,725 | comment | Readmore | 2007-04-17T19:18:52 | null | This is a big blow to all the online presentation apps just like Google Calendar was to all the Web 2.0 Calendars. It won't be an 'Office Killer' however, until all of their apps can work together well. When you can make a chart in Google Spreadsheets and then copy it into Google Docs or Google Pres(??) easily. Then we'll have an interesting fight on our hands. | null | null | 13,720 | 13,720 | null | null | null | null |
13,726 | comment | mattculbreth | 2007-04-17T19:19:13 | null | Ugh. I really hope Zenter doesn't get Kikoed. Hopefully they've got some additional features over the Google offering.
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13,727 | comment | pg | 2007-04-17T19:26:01 | null | I've been resisting the idea, but I have to say that this is starting to feel like another Bubble. | null | null | 13,660 | 13,660 | null | [
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13,728 | comment | bls | 2007-04-17T19:28:36 | null | Scribd managed to get 9 front-page links on Digg, and a couple on Reddit, in the last month. That is why their traffic is up so fast. Personally, I assumed that the Scribd guys were posting these high-traffic pages themselves in order to get noticed by diggers and redditers.<p>Every scribd page that I looked at (from Reddit and Digg) could have been done just as well (and in some cases, substantially better) as HTML, using any blogging software (e.g. WordPress, blogger.com) instead of Scribd. The value-added features it offers (basically, a worse-is-better reimplementation of Adobe Acrobat, and collaborative editing) only caused me discomfort.<p> | null | null | 13,555 | 13,248 | null | null | null | null |
13,729 | comment | JMiao | 2007-04-17T19:31:01 | null | Mozilla's been extending the functionality of Firefox in a unique direction. First you have The Coop (user avatars, stepping on the toes of the Flock browser) and now eBay tools. | null | null | 13,607 | 13,607 | null | null | null | null |
13,730 | comment | phony_identity | 2007-04-17T19:38:44 | null | "...YC seemed almost like the Medici of Florence... bringing all the great minds together from many fields created an unstoppable momentum of achievement." <p>Wow. That's really a great comparison. Given Paul's experience with Florence and knowledge of history, that might have crossed his mind too. | null | null | 13,644 | 13,640 | null | null | null | null |
13,731 | comment | richcollins | 2007-04-17T19:40:44 | null | How is it different? Click - Enter Auth info - Press Submit.<p>If you let the browser save your password then you only have to click once.<p>What we do need is a remember me feature. | null | null | 13,594 | 13,592 | null | null | null | null |
13,732 | comment | veritas | 2007-04-17T19:44:48 | null | Initial reaction: Zenter is dead in the water even if it has more features. Google's brand name alone will be enough to propel it to the top and Google obviously has the technical muscle to make up ground pretty damn fast. | null | null | 13,720 | 13,720 | null | [
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13,733 | comment | brlewis | 2007-04-17T19:48:40 | null | I disagree. Calendars have a large social component; creating presentations does not. If Zenter has features that appeal to people who create presentations, then it will do well.<p>Using the same calendar system others use helps. Using the same presentation system mostly doesn't.
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13,734 | comment | Alex3917 | 2007-04-17T19:49:04 | null | completely irrelevant. :-) | null | null | 13,590 | 13,384 | null | null | null | null |
13,735 | comment | jkush | 2007-04-17T19:56:30 | null | Great point. I hope it's true for Zenter. | null | null | 13,733 | 13,720 | null | null | null | null |
13,736 | story | jslogan | 2007-04-17T19:57:50 | Here's what a real marketing and sales campagin looks like | null | http://www.jslogan.com/content/view/153/ | 4 | null | 13,736 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,737 | comment | Readmore | 2007-04-17T20:00:07 | null | I agree but I don't think we'll see the same kind of fallout as last time. The fact that we (app devs), can maintain sites with much less cost means that even if people go bust with stupid ideas it should be much easier for good ones to weather the storm. | null | null | 13,660 | 13,660 | null | null | null | null |
13,738 | comment | brett | 2007-04-17T20:13:21 | null | That may be true of how people currently use presentation software, but inside of organizations people share decks and slides very frequently and it's a pain. Presentation software probably <i>should</i> be highly collaborative even if existing options are not. | null | null | 13,733 | 13,720 | null | [
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13,739 | story | ido | 2007-04-17T20:13:51 | Your Opinion on Groovy on Grails? | null | 3 | null | 13,739 | 4 | [
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13,740 | comment | ido | 2007-04-17T20:14:20 | null | Anybody using it and has some tips & pointers? | null | null | 13,739 | 13,739 | null | null | null | null |
13,741 | comment | brett | 2007-04-17T20:15:24 | null | I hope the same and believe they've still got a shot. They could not have entered the space without knowing this is something Google's probably working on. | null | null | 13,726 | 13,720 | null | [
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13,742 | story | amichail | 2007-04-17T20:16:46 | How Google could get thousands of open-source developers working for free | null | 2 | null | 13,742 | 10 | [
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13,743 | comment | mdakin | 2007-04-17T20:17:51 | null | The reason to use XHTML is simple: high-quality open source tools for processing XML documents exist and work well. You can find good XML processing tools for whatever language/platform you want. High quality SGML processing tools are much less common. I'm willing to take the overhead associated with doing an XHTML to HTML 4.01 conversion as the last step of the process in order to be able to use clean, high-quality, reliable tools for the harder parts. | null | null | 13,679 | 13,679 | null | null | null | null |
13,744 | comment | amichail | 2007-04-17T20:18:16 | null | The idea is to use a social news site whereby developers would submit their open-source projects and only Google employees would be able to vote although the results would be made public.<p>If you are working on something that Google cares about, then you will be encouraged to pursue it harder to increase your chances of landing a job at Google.<p> | null | null | 13,742 | 13,742 | null | [
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13,745 | story | jcwentz | 2007-04-17T20:21:12 | Poll results: 50.4% of respondents maximise browser windows | null | http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200704/poll_results_504_of_respondents_maximise_windows/ | 1 | null | 13,745 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,746 | comment | brett | 2007-04-17T20:21:40 | null | 28 million users? Has anyone even heard of them before?<p>The premium account seems to add features that are anti-community fostering. If you're working on a social network I would think it's a bad thing if a writeup about you includes the phrase "snooping features". | null | null | 13,660 | 13,660 | null | [
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13,747 | comment | dpapathanasiou | 2007-04-17T20:21:51 | null | Not yet, because the exit isn't as obvious.<p>In the last bubble, you had some control over the process (there was a brief window when anything "Internet" could be sold to institutional buyers via an IPO).<p>Right now it's all acquisitions: dumb deals will get made, but in general, the buyers tend to be much savvier (and warier).<p>Also funding does not equal payoff. <p>If anything, they've just created a huge burden for themselves because the payoff has to be orders of magnitude higher to satisfy their investors. | null | null | 13,727 | 13,660 | null | null | null | null |
13,748 | comment | jcwentz | 2007-04-17T20:23:43 | null | That is very fishy. Where can that 28m number come from? From some popular widget they bought or something? | null | null | 13,746 | 13,660 | null | null | null | null |
13,749 | comment | dpapathanasiou | 2007-04-17T20:25:29 | null | Have you heard of Summer of Code? | null | null | 13,742 | 13,742 | null | [
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13,750 | comment | gyro_robo | 2007-04-17T20:26:36 | null | Imagine if someone had jumped in 5-7 years ago... | null | null | 13,591 | 13,465 | null | [
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13,751 | comment | Tichy | 2007-04-17T20:28:13 | null | Whereas you are in the market for the hard work, I suppose? | null | null | 13,715 | 13,575 | null | [
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13,752 | story | sabat | 2007-04-17T20:28:22 | Startup Company Form: LLC or S-Corp? Which is easier and which is better? | null | null | 22 | null | 13,752 | 31 | [
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13,753 | comment | sabat | 2007-04-17T20:29:22 | null | An LLC has less overhead, from what I understand, but maybe there are buyout/VC implications? What do most startups do these days? | null | null | 13,752 | 13,752 | null | [
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13,754 | comment | sabat | 2007-04-17T20:30:46 | null | Search! Search! | null | null | 363 | 363 | null | [
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13,755 | comment | cyu | 2007-04-17T20:31:27 | null | You shouldn't blindly implement features just because your users are telling you to do so. While it is important to listen and react to your user's concerns, it's also your responsibility to maintain the integrity/consistency of the application. Also, if you don't believe that the feature you're building is going to have any effect, then it's already heading towards failure because you're not going to be committed to its success.<p>I agree with jkush -- if you don't agree with the user, you should engage the user and see if you can get the feature to a common ground that you can agree with.<p>Also, if your feedback loop is just an email, maybe you should add a forum to make the loop more interactive. | null | null | 13,693 | 13,650 | null | [
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13,756 | story | sabat | 2007-04-17T20:31:49 | Amazon EC2:doing for VMs what S3 did for storage | null | http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=201590011 | 2 | null | 13,756 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,757 | comment | dawie | 2007-04-17T20:34:02 | null | Interesting how google announces these days and not just release like before.. | null | null | 13,720 | 13,720 | null | null | null | null |
13,758 | comment | veritas | 2007-04-17T20:34:56 | null | Good point, but as long as Google provides the essentials for creating online presentations, it will win easily. Just ask someone out on the street who they'd trust more to do a good job with their presentations: Google or Zenter? My money is that the majority (by a large amount) will say Google simply because of the name. In reality, everyone on YCNews and TechCrunch are startup obsessed, tech obsessed early adopters. We have no problem choosing Zenter over Google if Zenter is a good product. Normal people, however, will, more often than not, gravitate towards Google. | null | null | 13,733 | 13,720 | null | [
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13,759 | comment | amichail | 2007-04-17T20:37:34 | null | Yes, but that would not be getting people to work for free. | null | null | 13,749 | 13,742 | null | [
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13,760 | comment | abstractbill | 2007-04-17T20:38:29 | null | Out of interest, do you think anything about YC would be likely to change if this did turn out to be Bubble2.0? Would you be likely to scale it back, or to continue funding companies and hope that some of them could ride out the storm for however many years it takes? | null | null | 13,727 | 13,660 | null | [
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13,761 | comment | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-17T20:40:49 | null | We went for a California LLC after doing a few weeks of research. It is the easiest structure we could find with the least expense. We don't know what the future funding implications are for it though. | null | null | 13,753 | 13,752 | null | [
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13,762 | comment | ramen | 2007-04-17T20:44:58 | null | Beware of hyperbole. | null | null | 13,679 | 13,679 | null | null | null | null |
13,763 | story | amichail | 2007-04-17T20:47:40 | Making America safer: survellance cameras with guns | null | null | 4 | null | 13,763 | 18 | [
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13,764 | comment | amichail | 2007-04-17T20:48:33 | null | Like in London, you could have surveillance cameras everywhere. But add guns on them as well to prevent/limit crime. | null | null | 13,763 | 13,763 | null | [
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13,765 | comment | zaidf | 2007-04-17T20:52:02 | null | That is precisely why it isn't a bubble:) When you can see a bubble, you can avoid it while others go down when it bursts. | null | null | 13,727 | 13,660 | null | [
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13,766 | comment | veritas | 2007-04-17T20:53:24 | null | Yep... and all those CCTV cameras are doing wonders in London right? | null | null | 13,764 | 13,763 | null | null | null | null |
13,767 | comment | felipe | 2007-04-17T20:54:25 | null | I heard that a LLC can be converted to a Corp when you get funded. I'm not a lawyer, so I'm not 100% sure about it. | null | null | 13,761 | 13,752 | null | null | null | null |
13,768 | comment | jason13 | 2007-04-17T20:55:14 | null | It is not that the average person will trust google over zenter, as much as the average person, will not even know that zenter exists. Its hard to give someone a chance, if you don't even know they exist. | null | null | 13,758 | 13,720 | null | null | null | null |
13,769 | comment | Mistone | 2007-04-17T20:57:33 | null | if you take money from investors they will require you to be a C-Corp. If this path is in your plans, it is probably easiest to start off this way.
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13,770 | comment | zaidf | 2007-04-17T20:58:02 | null | I hope to be dead before such a thing is put in place. | null | null | 13,763 | 13,763 | null | [
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13,771 | comment | JMiao | 2007-04-17T20:58:25 | null | I think you're thinking in the right direction. You may also consider how e-mail and calendar use cases are tied closely together.<p>I'm not sold on how Google can leverage their offerings (aside from better image searching) to make as strong of a case in presentation software as they did with online calendars. | null | null | 13,733 | 13,720 | null | null | null | null |
13,772 | comment | dpapathanasiou | 2007-04-17T20:59:46 | null | Ok, strictly speaking, SoC is not free.<p>But SoC stipends are tiny, <i>almost</i> free.<p>Also, remember that Google vets each proposal, so they're funding those projects they'll be able to leverage in code, people (SoC is a great recruiting tool), or both.<p>The result of SoC is not so different from what you've suggested. | null | null | 13,759 | 13,742 | null | [
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13,773 | comment | Tichy | 2007-04-17T20:59:57 | null | Believe me, it is possible to write very bad code with Java, and you can see the (huge) differences between Java code written by good and bad programmers.<p>I don't understand "people will only code what you let them code", how is that? | null | null | 13,695 | 13,457 | null | [
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13,774 | comment | dpapathanasiou | 2007-04-17T21:00:35 | null | Dharmesh Shah wrote about this recently: <a href="http://onstartups.com/home/tabid/3339/bid/1303/Startup-101-Should-You-Form-An-Inc-or-LLC.aspx">http://onstartups.com/home/tabid/3339/bid/1303/Startup-101-Should-You-Form-An-Inc-or-LLC.aspx</a> | null | null | 13,752 | 13,752 | null | [
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13,775 | story | Tichy | 2007-04-17T21:00:46 | How long does it take you to learn a new programming language (on average)? | null | 8 | null | 13,775 | 16 | [
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13,776 | comment | davidw | 2007-04-17T21:03:52 | null | startupping.com has had some chatter about this in its forums as well. That site tends to have some good practical discussions like this, and other things as well. It's a nice complement to this one. | null | null | 13,774 | 13,752 | null | null | null | null |
13,777 | comment | JMiao | 2007-04-17T21:04:13 | null | Interesting to see if that's what people were thinking in 1999. | null | null | 13,765 | 13,660 | null | [
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13,778 | comment | dpapathanasiou | 2007-04-17T21:04:53 | null | Hmmm... Didn't you say something about a Web 2.0 bubble? | null | null | 13,131 | 13,125 | null | null | null | null |
13,779 | comment | MobileDigit | 2007-04-17T21:06:00 | null | Isn't it going to depend on what programming languages you already know as well as what programming language it is?<p>Even if you took the average I don't know if it would lead to a useful statistic. | null | null | 13,775 | 13,775 | null | [
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13,780 | comment | dpapathanasiou | 2007-04-17T21:07:04 | null | This is a joke, right? | null | null | 13,764 | 13,763 | null | [
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13,781 | comment | amichail | 2007-04-17T21:07:43 | null | Do you have any better ideas? | null | null | 13,780 | 13,763 | null | [
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13,782 | comment | JMiao | 2007-04-17T21:08:04 | null | It's very possible you're missing the point, unless the users are spamming you guys, which, in that case, would be your fault for not wisely selecting a private beta.<p>What do you mean by bad feedback? In most cases, "bad feedback" occurs when startups disagree with their users. "You'll see," they say. Well, you know how that story ends. | null | null | 13,650 | 13,650 | null | null | null | null |
13,783 | comment | timg | 2007-04-17T21:08:31 | null | I went for a Delaware C-Corp. Costed me $300 to incorporate + 30 in annual fees, so far for the first year. This was a relatively large expense for me so let's hope it was worth it. | null | null | 13,769 | 13,752 | null | [
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13,784 | comment | pg | 2007-04-17T21:11:37 | null | Ordinarily a startup should be a C corp. It's cheaper to be an LLC, but if you plan to succeed, you may as well do things right from the start.<p>With an LLC profits don't get taxed twice like in a regular corporation. So it makes sense to be an LLC if you expect to have substantial profits, but don't expect to grant options, sell shares, or get bought. Consulting firms and law partnerships are often LLCs. YC is an LLC.
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13,785 | comment | timg | 2007-04-17T21:17:27 | null | "engage the user and see if you can get the feature to a common ground"<p>Yes, this is what I'm asking. In direct marketing for example, there are ways that success can be scientifically measured. I am wondering if any of you have used more methodical approaches to improving applications -- or if it's just guess and find out if it worked 2 months from now.<p>The reason for this is that I just don't always trust users to think deeply enough of the problem for them to know what they want. | null | null | 13,755 | 13,650 | null | [
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13,786 | story | usablecontent | 2007-04-17T21:18:19 | Google Acquires Tonic Systems, Announces Presentation App | null | http://startupmeme.com/2007/04/17/google-acquires-tonic-systems-announces-presentation-app/ | 3 | null | 13,786 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,787 | comment | ashu | 2007-04-17T21:21:08 | null | I have no idea what features this app from Google has, but from what I have seen so far, Zenter kicks ass! It's not about which app has "more" features, it's about how effectively one can present using such an app. | null | null | 13,720 | 13,720 | null | [
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13,788 | comment | Tichy | 2007-04-17T21:24:31 | null | Maybe I shouldn't have written "average" then, perhaps we can get an impression. And I am not sure if it depends on the programming languages you already know - maybe it mostly depends on knowing at least one language? I know it is all very fuzzy, for example what does it mean to know Java - surely not to know all available libraries by heart. But maybe people here can give an intuitive answer to the question?<p>My own estimate would be about a week (I can program after a few hours of course, but not with as much confidence as after a week). | null | null | 13,779 | 13,775 | null | [
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13,789 | story | bootload | 2007-04-17T21:27:16 | User generated content biggest threat to media | null | http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070417-survey-user-generated-content-biggest-worry-opportunity-for-media-companies.html | 1 | null | 13,789 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,790 | story | bootload | 2007-04-17T21:29:27 | Wisdom of unhealthy crowds | null | http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070416-the-wisdom-of-unhealthy-crowds-web-2-0-takes-on-the-flu.html | 2 | null | 13,790 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,791 | story | bootload | 2007-04-17T21:30:09 | Data on Participatory Web | null | http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/web_20_expo_data.php | 1 | null | 13,791 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,792 | story | bootload | 2007-04-17T21:32:21 | Eric Schmidt Interview
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13,793 | comment | lindsayrgwatt | 2007-04-17T21:33:01 | null | You should be able to get your annual fees down below $300 - it should only be about 1/2 that | null | null | 13,783 | 13,752 | null | [
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13,794 | comment | danw | 2007-04-17T21:34:28 | null | I would imagine they would still be trying to get operators to adopt the OS. Mobile is tricky and slow, it's only now starting to open up. | null | null | 13,750 | 13,465 | null | null | null | null |
13,795 | comment | lindsayrgwatt | 2007-04-17T21:34:34 | null | I prefer to think of it as being in the market because you've a passion to solve a problem. There's going to be hard work involved in solving a real problem that people are facing and solving it in a way that's pleasant for the average user. | null | null | 13,751 | 13,575 | null | null | null | null |
13,796 | story | bootload | 2007-04-17T21:35:01 | Google Prepares a Presentation Tool (Presently) | null | http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/02/google-presently.html | 1 | null | 13,796 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,797 | comment | gyro_robo | 2007-04-17T21:36:28 | null | Also the links keep expiring. If I open multiple tabs, by the time I get to some of them all the links are invalidated. IIRC, same thing if taking "too long" to write a comment. | null | null | 13,703 | 13,592 | null | null | null | null |
13,798 | comment | JMiao | 2007-04-17T21:37:40 | null | I agree, but how does Google leverage their existing products and promote collaboration with presentation software? Google Calendar worked because planning and sharing events/meetings makes sense to be integrated with GMail.<p>As I've said before, I think this is going to be a different story because, while collaboration brings a lot of value to presentation software users, I can't see a killer app that Google can leverage beyond Image Search that would make their product a must-have. Zenter has done a great job making a connected presentation app with a very slick Google Search-based image import tool.<p>Pound for pound, I think Zenter has a fighting chance as long as it keeps innovating on the feature front. Don't forget that collaborative presentations will likely give rise to a slide sharing community (i.e. slideshare.net), so there's more to online presentation software than the app itself. | null | null | 13,738 | 13,720 | null | [
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13,799 | comment | edgeztv | 2007-04-17T21:39:37 | null | What exactly is the reporting/paperwork required for a C-corp (which people mention as more overhead than LLC)? | null | null | 13,752 | 13,752 | null | [
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