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13,900 | story | mattjaynes | 2007-04-18T00:57:13 | Make New Friends, But Keep The Old | null | http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2007/04/make-new-friends-but-keep-old.html | 1 | null | 13,900 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,901 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-18T01:03:40 | null | I added this because it's n-gram [0] data is useful for spell checking (among other things) as highlighted in the post on writing a word processor in 20 lines of python. [1]<p>Reference<p>[0] wikipedia, 'n-gram: sub-sequence of n items from a given sequence'<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-gram">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-gram</a><p>[1] chandrab, news.yc, 'From Google (Norvig): How to write a spelling check in 20 lines (very cool) ' <p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=10967">http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=10967</a> | null | null | 13,805 | 13,805 | null | null | null | null |
13,902 | comment | zaidf | 2007-04-18T01:07:38 | null | You really have to understand the bubble of '99. Such a bubble isn't even possible today. Yes there are few odd investments here and there but that is vastly different from having deadbeat IPOs of '99 era that were based on pure hype. <p>Closest bubble bursting we might see this time around may be IF adsense/adwords collapse. Even then it will be on a much smaller scale than before. And to be honest, knowing the smart folks behind google, I don't see such a thing happening overnight. At the helm of '99 bubble were young grads and hype filled underwriters; at the helm of the bubble today(if you can even call it a bubble) are a buncha PhDs and a very smart CEO(Eric Schmidt).<p> | null | null | 13,807 | 13,660 | null | [
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13,903 | story | usablecontent | 2007-04-18T01:09:12 | Yahoo Fails to Click, As Google Double Clicks | null | http://startupmeme.com/2007/04/17/yahoo-fails-to-click-as-google-double-clicks/ | 1 | null | 13,903 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,904 | comment | zaidf | 2007-04-18T01:09:45 | null | Point taken. If that's the case then I guess there is nothing broken here and I'm assuming folks behind the site did their homework when creating the logo. <p>I do love the overall site design. | null | null | 13,694 | 13,384 | null | null | null | null |
13,905 | comment | Readmore | 2007-04-18T01:10:29 | null | I had this same idea about 6 months ago (right around the time I got engaged ;). What is going to set you apart from theknot.com? I don't disagree that you could do it better than the knot but competing what that marketing machine is right up there with fighting Google. | null | null | 13,384 | 13,384 | null | null | null | null |
13,906 | comment | rms | 2007-04-18T01:10:44 | null | Yes. Yes it is. | null | null | 13,890 | 13,890 | null | null | null | null |
13,907 | comment | zaidf | 2007-04-18T01:13:57 | null | Exactly. <p>That is why I have a tough time recommending even people on campus that know little about website design to goto RAC or elance to find a designer or a coder. I've seen it from both perspectives. From the lowball bidding most people on such sites do, as a designer I don't really expect a $100 website to take me a month and for me to think about it all day. So if you don't know exactly what you want you'll get some very average work.<p> | null | null | 13,139 | 12,988 | null | null | null | null |
13,908 | comment | nickb | 2007-04-18T01:14:34 | null | VCs want to invest into a C-corp because it allows them to have a flexible share structure so if you're seeking VC money, C-corp will be a must. But, in the mean time, you CAN use S-corp since it is easy to set up and gives you some protections. S-corp can be easily converted into a C-corp (a single supplemental form!). LLC is not as easy to convert to a C-corp and paperwork is fairly complex and will cost you several K.<p>Thing to note about S-corps is that all founders _MUST_ be American citizens. | null | null | 13,752 | 13,752 | null | [
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13,909 | comment | blader | 2007-04-18T01:15:12 | null | a. Learn to hack.<p>or<p>b. Learn to find good hackers (this not easy), then:
1. Pay them lots of money, or -
2. Learn from Steve Jobs and be a walking RDF. | null | null | 13,822 | 13,822 | null | null | null | null |
13,910 | comment | prakster | 2007-04-18T01:24:06 | null | Paul - re common/preferred issue - as an entrepreneur, it's a huge deal to me and my co-founders. <p>Here's a relevant excerpt from Venturebeat:<p>"...VentureBeat thus believes Y Combinator's approach offers an advantage to entrepreneurs because they are not held hostage by the often onerous privileged rights that preferred shareholders often demand, such as minimum payouts upon acquisition or dissolution, rights to receive compensation before common, or anti-dilution rights. Common stock aligns the interests of Y Combinator with the interests of the founders and employees, who also hold common." | null | null | 13,533 | 13,524 | null | [
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13,911 | comment | blader | 2007-04-18T01:25:34 | null | Like a lot of others have said here, it depends on where you define your threshold for having "learned" a language. To get reasonably productive in a language to the point where you can (eventually) build most things shouldn't take more than week if you have a few under your belt.<p>Then there is the long process learning the right idioms, keeping up with the latest changes in newer languages, familiarizing yourself with the universe of libraries, etc, etc - I think all of these things are required to really claim fluency in a language. So I would answer "a long, long ass time." | null | null | 13,775 | 13,775 | null | [
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13,912 | comment | yaacovtp | 2007-04-18T01:35:57 | null | don't forget to check out ihavehundredsofmyspacefriends.fotoroll.com | null | null | 13,868 | 13,868 | null | null | null | null |
13,913 | comment | pg | 2007-04-18T01:36:30 | null | Get a hacker cofounder. | null | null | 13,822 | 13,822 | null | [
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13,914 | comment | jaggederest | 2007-04-18T01:37:53 | null | Try just asking. <p>Present yourself in a reasonable light, have coffee with one of the people in charge, and just mention that you feel you're getting something of a raw deal on equity. If they're decent, they'll fix it, and if not, you don't want to be there anyway. | null | null | 13,801 | 13,801 | null | [
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13,915 | comment | zeph | 2007-04-18T01:38:22 | null | wantrepreneurs? they desperately want to see themselves as entrepreneurs, but bring nothing to the table other than self-promotion skills :) I worked for one of those once... these guys sound positively sane compared to that guy. | null | null | 13,709 | 13,575 | null | null | null | null |
13,916 | comment | jaggederest | 2007-04-18T01:39:57 | null | Ask someone you do trust to recommend someone to...<p>Build a chain of trust to someone with technical knowledge, and use them to assess possible technical people. | null | null | 13,871 | 13,822 | null | [
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13,917 | comment | timg | 2007-04-18T01:42:09 | null | edit: you are correct. | null | null | 13,793 | 13,752 | null | [
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13,918 | comment | mattjaynes | 2007-04-18T01:42:49 | null | Wow. Yes, this is a scary development. This could easily be built by a couple of hackers with a few thousand dollars. I wrote about taking unnecessary money like this a few weeks ago at: <p>Outside Money and Irritable Bowel Syndrome<p><a href="http://blog.nanobeepers.com/2007/02/20/outside-money-and-irritable-bowel-syndrome/">http://blog.nanobeepers.com/2007/02/20/outside-money-and-irritable-bowel-syndrome/</a> | null | null | 13,660 | 13,660 | null | null | null | null |
13,919 | comment | papersmith | 2007-04-18T01:43:06 | null | There seems to be stereotype that high performance geeks rely on caffeine drinks to stay alive. In reality only regular sleep cycles and adequate exercises can keep you at your peak performance over the long term. Meditations can help you to control your focus and weed out distractions, so you waste less of your time when the environment doesn't fit you.<p>If you really need to pull a few all-nighters, consider taking something on a measurable dosage, so when you decide to rehabilitate, you can adjust your intake on a decay curve. | null | null | 13,383 | 13,383 | null | null | null | null |
13,920 | comment | pg | 2007-04-18T01:43:34 | null | These multi-company organizations are almost always a bad plan. And even if they weren't, all investors think they are, so this sort of thing is a big red flag. | null | null | 13,879 | 13,752 | null | [
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13,921 | comment | vlad | 2007-04-18T01:43:46 | null | Thanks for the info about Zenter.<p>Vlad | null | null | 13,885 | 13,818 | null | null | null | null |
13,922 | comment | pg | 2007-04-18T01:44:55 | null | I saw the original Bubble, and that was still a bubble. | null | null | 13,765 | 13,660 | null | null | null | null |
13,923 | comment | zeph | 2007-04-18T01:45:51 | null | They could also deal with learning that if top hackers wanted to work for mostly equity, they'd be doing their own thing and taking 100%<p>I'm not saying that equity compensation isn't worth considering, just that for every startup that flips and pays out a nice chunk, there are plenty that don't. | null | null | 13,707 | 13,575 | null | null | null | null |
13,924 | story | mattjaynes | 2007-04-18T01:46:48 | What are the most confusing 'top' websites you've seen? | null | 2 | null | 13,924 | 6 | [
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13,925 | comment | zeph | 2007-04-18T01:49:51 | null | I'm looking for what the exit is if you're offering equity, or what the path to profitability is if this is going to be a salaried job. <p>If you can't sell me on your idea and business case, there's no point in talking about 1-4 above. | null | null | 13,714 | 13,575 | null | [
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13,926 | comment | mattjaynes | 2007-04-18T01:51:24 | null | As I've been looking at some of these heavily funded startups, I am often left asking myself - what do they do? Even after five minutes of poking around, it's often such a mess that I still can't figure out how I would explain it to someone else.<p>37Signals discussed this about Virb.com at the bottom of this post:<p><a href="http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/374-designcopy-ups-and-downs-at-virb">http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/374-designcopy-ups-and-downs-at-virb</a><p>Virb's 'About' page:<p><a href="http://www.virb.com/is">http://www.virb.com/is</a><p>What other sites have you come across where it takes more than a reasonable amount of time to figure out what they do? | null | null | 13,924 | 13,924 | null | [
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13,927 | comment | papersmith | 2007-04-18T01:52:22 | null | Usenet. | null | null | 13,610 | 13,610 | null | null | null | null |
13,928 | comment | extantproject | 2007-04-18T01:56:14 | null | I agree. This post isn't relevant. | null | null | 13,852 | 13,763 | null | null | null | null |
13,929 | story | mattjaynes | 2007-04-18T01:58:59 | Getting the message in - (37signals) | null | http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/380-getting-the-message-in | 4 | null | 13,929 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,930 | comment | staunch | 2007-04-18T02:00:51 | null | I think the biggest question is how much does the company need <i>you</i>. If it wouldn't hurt much to lose you, you don't have much room to negotiate and pretty much have to rely on generosity.<p> | null | null | 13,815 | 13,801 | null | null | null | null |
13,931 | comment | extantproject | 2007-04-18T02:01:50 | null | see also: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=6139">http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=6139</a> | null | null | 10,889 | 363 | null | null | null | null |
13,932 | comment | zaidf | 2007-04-18T02:17:42 | null | I think Virb and our start-up have very similar goals. Except from the beginning we knew we wanted to do few things and do it well; seems like Virb is committing the trademark mistake of packaging in too many functions too quickly. <p> | null | null | 13,926 | 13,924 | null | [
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13,933 | comment | yaacovtp | 2007-04-18T02:22:41 | null | And a limiter on spam from self promoting blogs. And a filter for web 2.0 gossip blogs. | null | null | 13,894 | 13,763 | null | null | null | null |
13,934 | comment | Alex3917 | 2007-04-18T02:24:50 | null | I have a proposed unifying theory that covers the beauty of both simplicity and excess.<p>Humans appreciate intelligence. Showing how much you can do with so little is one way to show intelligence. For example, if you can create a brilliant artistic masterpiece with only a single line then this is clearly a work of amazing intelligence. The other easy way to demonstrate intelligence is by doing the absolute most that you can with every resource you have available to you. This explains the beauty of things like H2G2, where the beauty comes from incorporating all of these random plot elements and linguistic tropes into these beautiful sentences and descriptions. | null | null | 13,608 | 13,608 | null | null | null | null |
13,935 | comment | lindsayrgwatt | 2007-04-18T02:30:55 | null | I'm interested that you'd even consider a salary-only job. Why would you ever work for a startup if it was only salary? (Honestly-I'd like to hear your opinion) Wouldn't you want equity?<p>Also, let me ask you why I'd ever want to hire you on as salary-only; you'd have no incentive to stay (I'm a big fan of splitting the equity pie to make sure everyone shares in the upside and have incentives aligned).<p>Thoughts? | null | null | 13,925 | 13,575 | null | [
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13,936 | comment | lindsayrgwatt | 2007-04-18T02:37:07 | null | Maybe I'm wrong, but I read the page above differently from you. The $200 fee applies to LLCs, Limited Partnerships or General Partnerships.<p>You're a C-Class Corp right? Therefore you pay the corporate franchise tax. If you go to the link on the page entitled "Franchise Taxes Here":
<a href="http://corp.delaware.gov/frtaxcalc.shtml">http://corp.delaware.gov/frtaxcalc.shtml</a><p>it tells you what it should be. Your fee will vary depending upon how many shares you have outstanding, but I'm guessing you have less than 3,000 therefore it will be $35. | null | null | 13,917 | 13,752 | null | null | null | null |
13,937 | comment | jey | 2007-04-18T02:39:33 | null | I was part of Google SoC in 2005, and it was Miguel de Icaza of the Mono Project who reviewed and decided to accept my application. NOT Google. Google just gives each project a certain number of slots to fill. So at least in 2005, it was the Open Source project that picked which applicants to fill their slots with.<p>How would Google be able to judge the worth and merits of each proposal to the OS project anyway? :)<p>I also did <i>not</i> mean that being an established Open Source project meant that the project automatically gets SoC slots. But it does seem to me like established Open Source projects can pretty easily get slots for SoC. In other words, Google isn't too picky, nor are they only looking for contributors to the projects that Google finds useful. | null | null | 13,808 | 13,742 | null | [
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13,938 | comment | Alex3917 | 2007-04-18T02:43:05 | null | I think one of the biggest factors fueling the initial bubble was the misconception that the costs of doing business online would rapidly drop to zero, so it didn't matter if companies were spending way more than they were making in the short term. The bubble burst because investors figured out that:<p>A) The cost of hardware wasn't dropping to zero because companies needed to upgrade hardware to keep up with the competition, rather than doing the same thing at a lower cost.<p>B) By far the biggest costs of doing business were the people and not the hardware, and those costs were going to remain fixed.<p>Do you see any underlying ideas fueling this bubble that will ultimately be proven false, leading the bubble to pop? To my thinking this reunion.com thing is just a case of stupid business, rather than some underlying common fallacy that's pervading the web. (The closest thing I can think of is that we are all just overvaluing the ability of startups to create wealth, but if this is true then the bubble also has a lot more room to grow before it pops.) | null | null | 13,727 | 13,660 | null | [
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13,939 | comment | prakster | 2007-04-18T02:48:30 | null | jaggederest is right. Sometimes we get too bogged down with planning, researching, positioning, etc. Just have an open discussion. This will save you a lot of time and will get you to a happier state of mind. | null | null | 13,914 | 13,801 | null | null | null | null |
13,940 | comment | whacked_new | 2007-04-18T02:49:54 | null | Would you elaborate on what you mean by "similar goals"?<p>I'm not a MySpace nor a Virb user, but I'm under the impression that Virb is a "MySpace killer," erring more on the social networking side, rather than music sharing.<p>If you look at it that way, I would think it makes sense to pack a lot of auxiliary features (blogs, video, music) revolving around a central function (friend tracking). It's like creating an amusement park. After you have people coming in, you put rides here and there. iJigg would be more like an open concert hall. Does that seem right? | null | null | 13,932 | 13,924 | null | [
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13,941 | comment | akkartik | 2007-04-18T02:58:00 | null | You mean a manual crawl through <a href="http://paulgraham.com/ind.html">http://paulgraham.com/ind.html</a> ? I've often wondered how all the stuff there is organized. New essays we can find out about, but how is one to know when something else is added to this index?<p>There's no date on the link, so it's not clear how recent it is. | null | null | 13,553 | 13,465 | null | [
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13,942 | comment | pixcavator | 2007-04-18T03:01:33 | null | I am in the same position as you. All suggestions here seem reasonable but my advice is don't wait until you have a hacker cofounder. Use rentacoder and try to create a prototype.
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13,943 | comment | zaidf | 2007-04-18T03:01:49 | null | If you goto Virb, ~75% of the homepage is dedicated to music. So whatever they may say, I think the idea of Virb originated with music and then they got too mixed up with the fad of packing all the other "web 2.0" features like videos, blogs etc. <p>Of course I can't be against such features as they are critical to growth but I think the idea of "pack all the features you can" is a bad one and encourages lynching as 37signals folks have pointed out. Instead start small and focused then grow the features. Like facebook. | null | null | 13,940 | 13,924 | null | [
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13,944 | story | budu3 | 2007-04-18T03:05:14 | Java the SUV of web deveopment tools | null | http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2006/02/26/java-is-fading-as-a-web-development-tool-along-with-the-suv/ | 9 | null | 13,944 | 24 | [
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13,945 | story | interfun | 2007-04-18T03:06:45 | Intelligent online task management | Smartsheet.com | null | http://www.smartsheet.com/home | 6 | null | 13,945 | 1 | [
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13,946 | story | zaidf | 2007-04-18T03:08:46 | (delete please) | null | http://www.ijigg.com/admin/cgi-bin/vitalstats.cgi | 1 | null | 13,946 | -1 | null | null | true |
13,947 | comment | vo0do0 | 2007-04-18T03:11:29 | null | well I think I was very agressive (just because I'm not that a big Java fan), but I was intended to say that the java language is beautiful by itself, all that OO stuff and the fact that you don't have many ways to do the same thing (like you do when using those intepreted and crazy languages like perl) makes any code looks better.<p>But concerning that "only will code what you let them" I'm saying that Java lets you define the interfaces (I'm talking about MVC now) and your coder MUST implement that no matter what.<p>I'm sure that the distance between a bad code and a good code in java is nothing compared with a bad php code and a good php code not to say perl where you can write the same thing in many ways. | null | null | 13,773 | 13,457 | null | null | null | null |
13,948 | comment | zeph | 2007-04-18T03:20:13 | null | Thoughts? That I can't pay the bills with equity perhaps? :) If there's no liquidity event on the near horizon, I have no incentive to even join, let alone stay. <p>Colour me bitter, but if I'm going to work for peanuts, I'd rather do my own thing and have more control than I would as an optioned employee.<p>Minor equity (as opposed to the founder's equity) in a company that isn't going to flip (something built 37signals style) is of limited use to me, unless it's wildly profitable and paying out a considerable share of the profits. | null | null | 13,935 | 13,575 | null | null | null | null |
13,949 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-18T03:26:32 | null | Of course the problem is, not being technical you are always prone to the <i>'Warren Harding'</i> error. [0] You know, someone who dresses badly, uses a mac notebook, talks real fast about <i>technical things</i> that has all the attributes of the hacker except they are crap at building product.<p>Some suggestions for finding a co-founder can be found reading, <i>Students guide to Startups</i>. [1]<p>Reference<p>[0] Warren Harding was 29th President of the United States and had the distinction of being pushed forward because he had the perceived <i>traits</i> of a leader and turned out not to be so good. I picked this up reading the Malcom Gladwell book <i>'Blink'</i>, 0-7139-9844-X.<p>[1] pg, 'A students guide to startups'<p><a href="http://paulgraham.com/mit.html">http://paulgraham.com/mit.html</a> | null | null | 13,916 | 13,822 | null | null | null | null |
13,950 | comment | dfranke | 2007-04-18T03:41:20 | null | Blub languages just take me a few hours. Haskell took me several months to really grok. | null | null | 13,775 | 13,775 | null | null | null | null |
13,951 | story | lupin_sansei | 2007-04-18T03:46:50 | Will cPanel be the next IDE? | null | http://mattlock.blogspot.com/2007/04/will-cpanel-be-next-ide.html | 2 | null | 13,951 | 3 | [
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13,952 | comment | fraXis | 2007-04-18T03:58:02 | null | What are you guys thinking? Of course this is another Kiko situation. Google's new app is going to be the talk of the town when it launches. And Zenter is not even public yet.<p>I would think Zenter had a chance if they were already available for public use, but think about it. They are still closed beta with no customers, etc.... <p>This is a prime example when you have a good idea (such as Zenter) but take way too long to execute. Zenter should of went from concept to public app in 3 months time. Then they might of had a chance against Google.
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13,953 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-18T03:59:50 | null | Of course you could not watch it [0] or download the mp3 [1]. <p>
Reference<p>[0] Virtual consoles are great for this, just switch to another console.<p>[1] mediaberkman, 'Web of Ideas with Paul Graham, 9, November 2006, 1Hr.19m"<p><a href="http://media-cyber.law.harvard.edu/AudioBerkman/paul_graham_2006-11-08.mp3">http://media-cyber.law.harvard.edu/AudioBerkman/paul_graham_2006-11-08.mp3</a>
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13,954 | comment | elviejo | 2007-04-18T04:06:21 | null | Wow actually this is the idea I applied with to YC.
thanks for the link
It will help me improve my own product.<p>I'll just need to refresh my japanise ;) | null | null | 13,634 | 13,608 | null | [
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13,955 | comment | JMiao | 2007-04-18T04:06:56 | null | Not that I have an opinion on whether there's a bubble going on today, but I'd like to point out that there can be more than one "Bubble," you know. I'm just saying it's very difficult to <i></i><i>really</i><i></i> identify and act on a bubble when you yourself are entrenched in the middle of it. | null | null | 13,902 | 13,660 | null | null | null | null |
13,956 | comment | rms | 2007-04-18T04:07:41 | null | Yeah, I just went through most of the index by hand, mostly for the purpose of submitting here. I'm an addict. | null | null | 13,941 | 13,465 | null | null | null | null |
13,957 | comment | rmason | 2007-04-18T04:14:54 | null | Well back in 1984 four guys decided to start a software company called Nantucket. The two developers first ever C project was writing a dBase compiler. That compiler became a full fledged dBase dialect that even spawned an active third party tools market. Not to bad for a first project.
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13,958 | story | TimothyFitz | 2007-04-18T04:19:23 | 10 Things I Learned From Startup School | null | http://www.nickpeters.net/2007/04/02/10-things-i-learned-from-startup-school/ | 8 | null | 13,958 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,959 | story | staunch | 2007-04-18T04:31:37 | Scoble.TV Shuts Down. "Justin.TV is safe from being cloned." | null | http://scobleizer.com/2007/04/17/always-on-isnt-for-me/ | 6 | null | 13,959 | 1 | [
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13,960 | story | interfun | 2007-04-18T04:34:33 | ConceptShare | Web-Based Idea and Design Sharing and Collaboration | null | http://www.conceptshare.com/ | 2 | null | 13,960 | 2 | [
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13,961 | comment | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-18T04:35:29 | null | Actually, the guy seemed more like a manager/business type than a hacker. The first thing I asked him was "are you spying for Google", and he hemmed and hawed actually. He gave no indication at all that he was interested in doing a startup himself, but wanted to figure out what we were doing. | null | null | 13,893 | 13,720 | null | [
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13,962 | comment | staunch | 2007-04-18T04:35:37 | null | Shouting at people to use your product may work, but I think long-term you're better off making something users want!!!<p>
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13,963 | comment | timg | 2007-04-18T04:45:04 | null | I can't help but to think that the founders can be made to act more like needy girls. Make them want you, make them think that they are about to lose because everyone else recognizes how valuable you are. Make them <i>think</i> that they could not go on without you.<p>More importantly though, working like a dog for years just to impress your for your employer!?! This is not the startup way. | null | null | 13,860 | 13,801 | null | null | null | null |
13,964 | comment | jmak | 2007-04-18T04:47:33 | null | jmak at sbcglobal dot net | null | null | 12,556 | 12,556 | null | null | null | null |
13,965 | comment | akkartik | 2007-04-18T04:47:53 | null | I disagree. It is true that:<p>1. Video is a slow way to process information in the internet era.<p>2. Weinberger doesn't come off well. The frequent interruptions at the start are irritating. What starts out seeming like a talk turns into a debate between two people, and the change in format is jarring for a bit. And it is hard to understand what Weinberger is getting at. This might have to do with our disparate vocabularies, and the wide disparity in the worlds he and I live in.<p>In spite of these, W does have a point. It is non-trivial to separate the fashionable from the timeless in a thing of beauty. 'Space aliens' may require a human-like visual cortex to appreciate the Mona Lisa. Does that make it just a narrow fad as well, or is a visual cortex a protocol prerequisite to evaluating it? As I asked PG over email, where does fashion end and convention begin?<p>A lot of the ancient philosophical arguments are between polar opposites like these. Should we find out about the world with reason or the senses? Is mind or matter supreme? Is it ok to abort foetuses or not? We know that one can exaggerate anything to make a point, and yet it is easy to fall into the trap of ending up with an extreme viewpoint because one can't decide where to draw the line. Eventually we (will) figure out for each of these issues that there can be richer answers than the obvious black-or-white.<p>So beauty can be timeless, but also tightly bound to a context. It is not clear that all of the latter is bad. How to separate the two? Open question. Relativism is no worse than believing passionately in the wrong anwer.<p>---<p>So much for the academic debate; PG's outlook is more utilitarian[1]. The problem of building beautiful things is a hard one, and it makes more sense for a builder to 'flow timeless' rather than to follow fashions. The alternative may work too, but there's less percentage in it. This is perfectly reasonable, it's just not the same question W is grappling with. Both of them are right, they're just asking slightly different questions. They don't ever figure this out in the video, IMO.<p>BTW, I believe this conversation contributed to a PG essay:
<a href="http://reddit.com/info/ufsk/comments/cugnx">http://reddit.com/info/ufsk/comments/cugnx</a><p>[1] A utilitarian philosophy of aesthetics, heh. | null | null | 13,609 | 13,608 | null | null | null | null |
13,966 | comment | rms | 2007-04-18T04:47:57 | null | I made the interview! My team was one of the "We're doing X but easy to use" people. We didn't have a functioning demo but we did have graphical mockups of the design. I thought we nailed it, but apparently Paul didn't get it because we didn't have an animated demo. I've been kicking around an essay for a while about just how trivial easy-to-use design can be, it'll be on here eventually. | null | null | 13,608 | 13,608 | null | [
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13,967 | comment | RyanGWU82 | 2007-04-18T04:51:21 | null | I thought the interview was pretty interesting. Good to see some critical thinking and conflict over one of PG's essays -- much more interesting than just a biographical interview or unnecessary flattery.<p>My favorite part:<p>"If you want to date a painting -- like in the sense of to identify its origin, not to have a relationship with it..."<p>Thanks for the clarification there... ;-) | null | null | 13,608 | 13,608 | null | null | null | null |
13,968 | story | dfranke | 2007-04-18T05:11:38 | Finding jobs with startups | null | 17 | null | 13,968 | 26 | [
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13,969 | comment | dfranke | 2007-04-18T05:11:57 | null | A hacker friend asked me a while ago how to find a job with a startup, and it bothers me that I've never been able to give him a satisfactory answer. I wanted to respond "through friends" but that's not very helpful to someone who isn't as well-connected, which he isn't because he made the mistake of taking a mind-numbing job when he left college and losing touch with his classmates.<p>Startups don't often hire recruiters, and most of the "startup" job ads on the internet job boards seem to be either a) established companies claiming to be startups in order to sound trendy, or b) Ponzi schemes. So what's left?
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13,970 | story | nickb | 2007-04-18T05:12:42 | McKinsey: Companies Remain Wary of Web 2.0 | null | http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/apr2007/id20070417_670567.htm?campaign_id=rss_innovate | 2 | null | 13,970 | 2 | [
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13,971 | comment | nickb | 2007-04-18T05:13:58 | null | I hate Snap. They're worse than useless. Luckily, you can easily opt out (just click options). | null | null | 13,888 | 13,888 | null | null | null | null |
13,972 | comment | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-18T05:15:52 | null | Pricey - but it does look interesting. | null | null | 13,960 | 13,960 | null | null | null | null |
13,973 | comment | bls | 2007-04-18T05:21:49 | null | From what I've read about Tonic, they have a lot of tech for Powerpoint compatibility--in particular, reading Powerpoint files, writing powerpoint files, and converting them into file formats which do not require powerpoint. <p>Slide.com doesn't do anything with PowerPoint. If you go yo Slide.com, you can see that they are not a presentation software company; they are a social networking widget company. Slide.com is not about technology--in fact, their tech looks downright trivial. They are all about branding. Slide.com has no technology to buy; they only (maybe will sometime) have customers to buy.
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13,974 | comment | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-18T05:21:55 | null | Thanks, that is good to know. So if we create a new C corp with our new application and build in an API, then create an add-on service with our original LLC later that can add value to the new application, the investors would be less worried? | null | null | 13,920 | 13,752 | null | [
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13,975 | comment | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-18T05:29:35 | null | Its not the big businesses that are the big market for web 2.0, it is the small businesses that have the most to gain. If small and medium sized businesses can get the IT infrastructure of the big companies without having to worry about and pay for the upkeep at a reasonable price, web based application adoption will be huge. Also, once a business invests their time to create data in a given environment, they will stay as long as that app continues to provide the value they need as switching to something else can be very expensive. | null | null | 13,970 | 13,970 | null | null | null | null |
13,976 | comment | Readmore | 2007-04-18T05:30:11 | null | Google doesn't have managers! Everyone there is 10 feet tall, types 200 words a minute, codes in a new version of Lisp called GLisp and can beat up Chuck Norris. You must have been mistaken. | null | null | 13,961 | 13,720 | null | null | null | null |
13,977 | comment | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-18T05:41:35 | null | From the demo, it doesn't seem intelligent at all - just nice formatting of folder based task lists. And for those who have tried task list project management, which my firm did a couple years ago with ACE project, it is hopeless as soon as you have a complex job with a lot of tasks - especially when the task system does not integrate with all the other data for the business. In fact, it started to slow us down. (Hence my "hair on fire" for actual intelligent project management and my startup)<p> | null | null | 13,945 | 13,945 | null | null | null | null |
13,978 | comment | pg | 2007-04-18T05:43:10 | null | The startups we've seeded are more likely to get funding than to consult on the side. When they do consult on the side they do it as individuals, not as the company. | null | null | 13,880 | 13,752 | null | null | null | null |
13,979 | comment | jackdied | 2007-04-18T05:44:18 | null | Agreed, a week for basic literacy and years for mastery. Based on my own experience I'd say it takes two years of using a language every day and following news groups to be able to write it idiomatically. Every year after that helps you get stuff done (knowledge of tool chains, packages, and the dustiest corners of the language) but the returns are diminishing.<p>Code from those early days of basic literacy are the thoughest to look back on. "Hey, why does this perl code look like it is trying to be C++?" | null | null | 13,911 | 13,775 | null | null | null | null |
13,980 | comment | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-18T05:44:53 | null | And learn Lisp :) | null | null | 13,913 | 13,822 | null | null | null | null |
13,981 | comment | pg | 2007-04-18T05:45:50 | null | To the extent this deal is bubbly, it's not because it reflects some conceptual misunderstanding but more that some VC firm has too much money to invest. That was a big cause of the original Bubble too. | null | null | 13,938 | 13,660 | null | null | null | null |
13,982 | comment | pg | 2007-04-18T05:49:01 | null | Preferred stock is only as bad as the terms that come with it. And that's a continuum. If you have preferred stock with no particularly onerous special rights, as for example we bought from Justin.TV, then it's no worse for the founders than common. Better, in fact, because you can claim a lower value for common shares when you give them to new hires. | null | null | 13,910 | 13,524 | null | null | null | null |
13,983 | comment | pg | 2007-04-18T05:51:35 | null | I do wonder what we'd do if the weather suddenly got worse. We might have to encourage companies to be more self-funding. Maybe we'd accept fewer. | null | null | 13,760 | 13,660 | null | [
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13,984 | comment | felipe | 2007-04-18T05:54:01 | null | I've never used Grails, but I've used JBoss Seam in a couple of projects and I love it! <p><a href="http://labs.jboss.com/portal/jbossseam/">http://labs.jboss.com/portal/jbossseam/</a>
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13,985 | comment | adamsmith | 2007-04-18T06:27:53 | null | Howdy,<p>The good news is that startups are actively looking for good hackers. Investors are also looking too, since that's one way they can really help their companies. So he can find cool startups and email them, or find cool investors (like YC) and work from higher up in the stream.<p>My startup, Xobni, is very actively looking for great hackers. We are YC alumni and recently raised a series A financing from Khosla Ventures. We're still a small team, too, so all of the benefits of working for a startup are in full force here. You can email jobs foo at xobni dot com (remove foo)!<p>
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13,986 | comment | brett | 2007-04-18T06:28:28 | null | Email them! | null | null | 13,969 | 13,968 | null | [
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13,987 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-18T06:31:02 | null | Businessweek stories are placed by suits, for suits. [0] I wear shorts &
ripped shirts so I don't take to these stories so well. I'm really not surprised about blogs, wikis not being customer faced in old economy companies but the enlightened hi-tech companies are catching on. [1], [2]<p>How long is it until an application or combinations of applications allow a company to build new products & generate profit that cannot be done the old way ? [3]<p>
Reference <p>[0] pg, 'The submarine ~ <i>suits are back</i>'<p><a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html">http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html</a><p>[1] Matt Mullenweg , "Sun isn't relevant to startups"<p><a href="http://photomatt.net/2007/01/18/relevant-sun/">http://photomatt.net/2007/01/18/relevant-sun/</a><p>[2] Jonathon Swartz, "Courage is Relative"<p><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/good_bad_and_brave">http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/good_bad_and_brave</a><p>[3] Old ways means communicate by phone, don't use wiki's, blogs etc. | null | null | 13,970 | 13,970 | null | null | null | null |
13,988 | comment | ido | 2007-04-18T06:36:12 | null | Thanks for your input, but that's not really the same. | null | null | 13,984 | 13,739 | null | null | null | null |
13,989 | comment | brett | 2007-04-18T06:36:33 | null | Seriously though. If you're a good hacker then other good hackers and entrepreneurs want to talk to you. Find an in. Sell yourself. Figure out a way to get a conversation. Start with startups likely to be using technologies you know. It does not need to lead immediately to a job, just get the ball rolling. Founders know other startup founders.<p>It definitely helps if you're genuinely interested in startups and what they're doing and look forward to talking to good hackers yourself. | null | null | 13,986 | 13,968 | null | null | null | null |
13,990 | story | annreynolds | 2007-04-18T06:39:25 | 10 tips to a successful B2B direct mail sales letter and marketing campaign | null | http://www.jslogan.com/content/view/143/ | 1 | null | 13,990 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,991 | story | annreynolds | 2007-04-18T06:42:05 | great tips on business management | null | http://www.kisstheorygoodbye.com/blog/2006/11/22/top-ten-tips-for-giving-the-big-kiss-off-to-theory/ | 1 | null | 13,991 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,992 | story | annreynolds | 2007-04-18T06:44:50 | Should you write a business book? | null | http://nhartsock.typepad.com/nettie_hartsock/2007/04/top_10_reasons_.html | 1 | null | 13,992 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,993 | story | bootload | 2007-04-18T06:45:24 | The Submarine | null | http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html | 9 | null | 13,993 | 5 | [
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13,994 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-18T06:46:09 | null | It's worth reading to put this post, <i>'Companies Remain Wary of Web 2.0 '</i> [0] in perspective. A lot of technical articles originate as PR or paid placement. Thats why if you find an original post written by someone on a blog it can be superior than the drivel placed.<p>Reference<p>[0] news.yc, 'McKinsey: Companies Remain Wary of Web 2.0 '<p><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/apr2007/id20070417_670567.htm?campaign_id=rss_innovate">http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/apr2007/id20070417_670567.htm?campaign_id=rss_innovate</a> | null | null | 13,993 | 13,993 | null | null | null | null |
13,995 | comment | felipe | 2007-04-18T06:48:48 | null | I'd recommend your friend to attend to as many start-up events as possible. First, many start-ups use such events to recruit. Second, he may be able to find a matching partner looking for his expertise. WorkIt.com is an excellent resource if your friend is in Bay Area.<p>Another idea is to tell your friend to provide contracting services for start-ups. That way, he/she can test-drive the company while making a few bucks on the side. | null | null | 13,969 | 13,968 | null | null | null | null |
13,996 | comment | AF | 2007-04-18T06:57:43 | null | I'm not a huge fan of it, but my immediate thought was 'emacs'. | null | null | 13,951 | 13,951 | null | [
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13,997 | comment | dfranke | 2007-04-18T07:01:57 | null | One of the four rules of gun safety: never let your muzzle cover anything that you are not prepared to destroy.<p>Hard to do when the muzzle is mounted to a camera that's surveying a crowded square. | null | null | 13,763 | 13,763 | null | [
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13,998 | comment | Tichy | 2007-04-18T07:04:27 | null | Before I picked up Java I was programming in Perl and C. I remember that amazing feeling with Java that things just worked as I expected them to. A few years later I worked on another Perl project and spent two days chasing a bug that I could never even have made with Java (due to default initialization of variables, weird scopes and stuff like that).<p>I think Java still has a lot of things going for it, and my most favorite aspect is the documentation. I never spent a dime on Java books because there is so much excellent documentation available online (starting with the Java Tutorial for beginners). Compare that to Ruby, where you can't even get a specification of the current state of the language for free. <p>Also it seems most of the new developments in IT are being developed for Java first these days, like Aspect Oriented Programming, Dependency Injection and whatever (granted, maybe some of these things would be superfluous in other languages to begin with, I don't know). You get a really good IDE for free (Eclipse), and new add-ons and frameworks for Java are almost forced to also provide plugins for the IDE to work with. For LISP you are still supposed to use Emacs. What do you use for Ruby on Rails?<p>That said, it seems to me the problem with Java is not the language but the people using it. There is a lot of overengineering going on, that just isn't fun anymore. Many people (especially the bosses in the large corporations) have become dogmatic about certain ways to design applications, that are often inappropriate (in my opinion). <p>I also long for a faster way to prototype, and I am putting a lot of hopes on Groovy+Grails or even Ruby. But I have the impression that many people who bash Java don't really know it. | null | null | 13,944 | 13,944 | null | [
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13,999 | comment | gustaf | 2007-04-18T07:05:35 | null | I've used this a couple of times, its been very useful, would be great with a visio-like integration. collaborate and create simple flowcharts | null | null | 13,960 | 13,960 | null | null | null | null |
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