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14,100 | comment | nickb | 2007-04-18T15:44:04 | null | There's actually two startups that have working demos of this... | null | null | 13,954 | 13,608 | null | null | null | null |
14,101 | story | usablecontent | 2007-04-18T15:46:43 | ThinkFree Launches API, Builds Partnerships | null | http://startupmeme.com/2007/04/18/thinkfree-launches-api-builds-partnerships/ | 1 | null | 14,101 | 0 | null | null | null |
14,102 | comment | cwilbur | 2007-04-18T15:48:37 | null | As someone with a bit of technical skill: when the greatest motivation to work on a project is the money you'll pay me, I have a 9-5 mentality, because that's what you're paying for.<p>When the greatest motivation to work on a project is the insane coolness of the project itself, things are different. Then, the money is just a bonus.<p>Can you figure out something about your idea that hackers will find <i>cool</i>? | null | null | 14,039 | 13,822 | null | [
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14,103 | comment | mauricecheeks | 2007-04-18T15:49:46 | null | clever plug...<p>but i'm pretty sure they're aiming @ us with <a href="http://revvu.com">http://revvu.com</a> | null | null | 14,072 | 13,868 | null | null | null | null |
14,104 | comment | cwilbur | 2007-04-18T15:53:15 | null | Rentacoder and eLance are neat ideas, but they have the same problem that the job market as a whole does: you want good code from good hackers, and if you're not technically inclined yourself, you will have a very hard time determining who is a good hacker and who just talks the talk.<p>If you want a technical startup, you need a technical cofounder. "I'll just outsource the development" will doom you to failure. I know this because I am an employee of a startup that thought that way, and learned the hard way that execution matters; and spending umpty-million dollars in the first year on outsourced projects that you wind up needing to pay umpty-thousand-dollars in the first year of operation to replace -- well, let's just say that, even with venture capitalists involved, burn rate matters, and money you spend stupidly still counts as an expense. | null | null | 14,055 | 13,822 | null | [
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14,105 | comment | dfranke | 2007-04-18T15:55:07 | null | Work free for a <i>month</i>? That's insane. Steer clear of any company that expects that. | null | null | 14,032 | 13,968 | null | null | null | null |
14,106 | comment | cwilbur | 2007-04-18T16:01:45 | null | Learning the basics? A weekend.<p>Learning the idioms? A month.<p>Mastery? Heck, I've been programming in C for 15 years and Perl for 10, and I don't think I'm a master in either. <p>And at this point I can pick up a new language (Javascript, say, which is my current sort-of project) and it's just a matter of learning syntax because I've used that concept in another language before.
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14,107 | comment | ballred | 2007-04-18T16:01:47 | null | A single isolated incident and your guesses do not constitute facts. | null | null | 14,098 | 14,046 | null | null | null | null |
14,108 | comment | nickb | 2007-04-18T16:01:57 | null | Idea: Start a website that connect/matches founders! | null | null | 13,968 | 13,968 | null | [
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14,109 | story | Tichy | 2007-04-18T16:23:28 | Why do webpages direct me to localised pages based on my IP address? | null | 2 | null | 14,109 | 2 | [
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14,110 | comment | python_kiss | 2007-04-18T16:26:39 | null | TS accepted startup teams before YC announced who's been accepted to the interviews. I, for one, received a phone interview from TS by April 1st. | null | null | 14,044 | 14,042 | null | null | null | null |
14,111 | comment | Tichy | 2007-04-18T16:27:05 | null | It annoys me to no end - I already switched back to Yahoo as my primary search engine because Google sends me to the German page all the time. But Yahoo does the same with their mail service (luckily I hardly ever do it). <p>Why? It seems like the worst idea ever! Are programmers just sitting around thinking "let's do something really cool" and add this anti-feature? For the record: if I wanted the german Google, I would be clever enough to type google.DE instead of google.COM.<p>P.S.: I know there are ways to make Google show me the english page, but they either involve enabling permanent cookies or typing a longer URL. | null | null | 14,109 | 14,109 | null | null | null | null |
14,112 | story | Readmore | 2007-04-18T16:28:29 | Can Zenter compete with Google? | null | http://www.scrapages.com/scraps/show/192 | 4 | null | 14,112 | 2 | [
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14,113 | comment | zaidf | 2007-04-18T16:36:48 | null | What is more important is where the trend is going rather than where it is right now. <p>From personal experience, I'd say this has good chance of not being accurate. Almost everyone I've run into has uploaded or thought of uploading a video or picture to YouTube or Flickr or Facebook.<p>--Zaid | null | null | 14,095 | 14,095 | null | [
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14,114 | comment | pg | 2007-04-18T16:37:19 | null | It seems to be a Utah thing. I hadn't heard of them. I doubt it would work very well. | null | null | 14,046 | 14,046 | null | null | null | null |
14,115 | comment | whacked_new | 2007-04-18T16:40:04 | null | Certainly there are different strategies for different markets. I believe Facebook is a bit different from Virb; it started with a relatively new niche. In a way it still serves mostly the same niche, except that the niche it attacked proved to be extremely large, popular, and profitable.<p>If Virb is marketed as a MySpace killer, it's entering crowded arena and cannot escape a feature-by-feature comparison with MySpace. Assuming they are trying to grab defects from MySpace, it seems reasonable to sport a features galore -- as long as MySpace users can feel right at home. If they want blinky text, they got it. Embedded music? Got it. Want more than MySpace? Have more than MySpace. Stuff like that.<p>That said, I think it's more about being clear about your target market and your product goals. Considering iJigg though, I am not so sure about aiming for a similar userbase is what you meant by "similar goals". The reason I bring this up is because I'm interested in how you are planning the next steps for your product. I'm nobody to give suggestions here, but I would be cautious about aligning myself with Virb if that's what you're talking about. | null | null | 13,943 | 13,924 | null | [
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14,116 | story | Readmore | 2007-04-18T16:45:49 | Dekoh - an open-source challenger to Adobe's Apollo, launches | null | http://www.dekoh.com/index.jsp | 6 | null | 14,116 | 4 | [
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14,117 | comment | Sam_Odio | 2007-04-18T16:47:43 | null | Also, I was able to find my job this summer by just checking out the websites of startups I'd want to work for. The first thing most startups do when trying to hire is post job descriptions on their site. | null | null | 14,080 | 13,968 | null | null | null | null |
14,118 | comment | neurokinetikz | 2007-04-18T16:48:37 | null | For me, it's been a combination of craigslist and the network of people that I have worked with in the past.<p>Having worked for 9 companies in the last 10 years, I've found that it's more about who you know than what you know.<p>And if you are well connected in the internet industry AND talented, startups will find you.<p>Also, get your resume on the web and let the search engines index it. You'd be surprised at how many random searches will lead people to it. | null | null | 13,968 | 13,968 | null | null | null | null |
14,119 | comment | npk | 2007-04-18T16:50:32 | null | My personal experience is the contrary. In fact, I found this article eye-opening, which is funny, because the result seems so obvious.<p>It seems most people who join social networking sites are essentially voyeurs, and this has consequences for the kind of business I'd like to start.<p>What is the trend? I bet it's pretty constant, or slowly increasing. -But I have no data to back any of my statements up :)- | null | null | 14,113 | 14,095 | null | null | null | null |
14,120 | comment | nickb | 2007-04-18T16:51:30 | null | "Similarly, only two-tenths of one percent of visits to Flickr, a popular photo-editing site owned by Yahoo, are to upload new photos, the Hitwise study found."<p>Wow! That surprised me. This is very, very low. For a while, blogs were quoting various stats saying that 1% of users are creators, 10% are participators/aggregators (people who vote, comment etc) and rest are lurkers. New numbers are really unnerving since I have so much energy currently invested in a social/participant site. I think it's time to seriously start planning for a plan B.. "what if" situations. | null | null | 14,095 | 14,095 | null | [
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14,121 | comment | eli | 2007-04-18T16:54:52 | null | Looks cool, but I worry about all these incompatible widget engines. It seems like a step backwards ("This widget best viewed with X"). | null | null | 14,116 | 14,116 | null | null | null | null |
14,122 | comment | nickb | 2007-04-18T16:56:01 | null | Never heard of any of these people. From the high-tech "smart money" standpoint, this is not that attractive. | null | null | 14,046 | 14,046 | null | [
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14,123 | comment | pg | 2007-04-18T16:56:34 | null | The robot is the one with wheels:<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluesmoon/432175003/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluesmoon/432175003/</a> | null | null | 14,093 | 14,093 | null | [
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14,124 | comment | nickb | 2007-04-18T16:58:57 | null | Zenter guys, launch NOW! Launch as soon as you can! Launch BEFORE Google and create some buzz before Google launches so that when people see Google's Presentations, they will think it's old and has been done before. | null | null | 13,720 | 13,720 | null | null | null | null |
14,125 | comment | transburgh | 2007-04-18T17:01:48 | null | What is the "high-tech "smart money" standpoint"? | null | null | 14,122 | 14,046 | null | [
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14,126 | comment | JohnN | 2007-04-18T17:04:20 | null | yer, definitely, and thats how im sellin it, in fact ive sold it to one technical person and he is willin to come onboard. prob is our site is php he is a c# man. i think he will be able to pick it up though. its quite strange really, i work for a technology company but there are no coders! lol | null | null | 14,102 | 13,822 | null | null | null | null |
14,127 | comment | eli | 2007-04-18T17:04:21 | null | I doubt that microformats will be implemented in any meaningful way out of the box, and Apple has been somewhat hostile towards would-be third party iPhone developers, so I wouldn't hole out much hope.<p>Also, as cool as a mobile version of Safari is (and it is cool), but it's not quite as revolutionary as soom people seem to think. Opera Mobile/Mini and the S60 browser both do a solid job of rendering regular XHTML web pages for many months, yet there hasn't exactly been an explosion in Mobile Web 2.0 content (or microcontent). | null | null | 14,010 | 14,010 | null | null | null | null |
14,128 | comment | geebee | 2007-04-18T17:08:45 | null | Would most founders be interested in finding programmers through the traditional job posting/resume/interview process? I'm thinking that to get a crack at working with really excellent programmers and founders, you probably need to be connected through a network and known a bit by reputation. No, you don't have to be famous, just respected and known by a group of good peers. <p>I take a particular interst in this question because I'm working on a project (that doesn't deserve to be called a startup, but maybe it could be), and I need someone with kick-ass UI design and graphics skills (I wrote the backend myself, but it looks lame). I'll go through my blurred social/professional networks to see who would be into it. <p>Then again, I'm just looking for someone I already know and like who would dig the project and maybe want to make something of it. An actual job job, the kind that pays money, can probably afford to be more formal about this sort of thing. But would you want to be? Seems safer to go through those blurry networks at an early stage, where one bad programmer can drag everything down. and one good one can rev it up fast. <p>
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14,129 | comment | BrandonM | 2007-04-18T17:09:30 | null | Perhaps I'm too simple-minded, but paying bloggers to talk about your site just sits wrong with me. I thought that part of the reason blogging has become so popular is because the traditional media outlets were getting to be too influenced by money and politics, so blogs were inherently more honest and interesting. To see some of the same practices occurring in blogs spells decline in my opinion; if enough of them succumb to these mechanisms, blogging will lose its credibility or honesty just as other media outlets have.<p></rant><p>I still thought the article had some good suggestions, and I'll be sure to keep it in mind when launching my own site.
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14,130 | comment | timg | 2007-04-18T17:18:10 | null | No kidding. As much as some people around here hate to hear it, sometimes you have to FORCE your users <i>provide</i> content before they can <i>receive</i> their fill of content from your app. What are the benefits/costs of each approach?<p>Allowing users to receive without giving content:<p>1. Good: Maximizes the impact of your PR/ Lets you grow really fast over a short period of time.<p>2. Bad: Easy come, easy go. Since the users have no role as a content creator, they will be out of there the second your competitor has the slightest feature improvements over you.<p>Requiring every user to be a creator (edit- to receive full benefit from your app):<p>1. Bad: The start can be rough. Expect to have to really have to use some marketing ingenuity.<p>2. Good: Users will be locked in.<p>3. Good: Your site will (should) be far more valuable if more people are contributing. This, along with #1 will lead to exponential growth.<p>4. Maybe bad: With this abundance of content, it will be mandatory that you find a way to present the user with the content that is most relevant to him.<p>5. Good: You are monopolizing access to a lot of content. You can probably charge users directly for this access.<p>Thoughts? | null | null | 14,095 | 14,095 | null | [
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14,131 | story | usablecontent | 2007-04-18T17:21:34 | Google Docs & Spreadsheets Adds Graphs, Inches Even Further On Office Trough | null | http://startupmeme.com/2007/04/18/google-docs-spreadsheets-adds-graphs-inches-even-further-on-office-trough/ | 4 | null | 14,131 | 0 | null | null | null |
14,132 | comment | Goladus | 2007-04-18T17:22:20 | null | However low it might be, as a ratio, isn't something I'd really be too concerned with. The ratio of Steven Spielberg to everyone who sees his movies is pretty low, for example. I don't think that's a problem.<p>Only 0.2% of users upload photos to flikr, probably because the number of lurkers has skyrocketed. The number of quality contributors only needs to grow fast enough to keep the lurkers and voters growing. | null | null | 14,095 | 14,095 | null | null | null | null |
14,133 | comment | Goladus | 2007-04-18T17:26:30 | null | Another bad of requiring everyone to be a creator, which depends on the sort of site you are making:<p>-Not everyone wants to or has the skills to be a creator.<p>I'm not a photographer. My pictures are barely good enough for myspace photo albums. No amount of coercion is going to get me to take and upload photos to flikr. It's only going to make me not use the site at all. | null | null | 14,130 | 14,095 | null | [
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14,134 | comment | Sam_Odio | 2007-04-18T17:31:29 | null | Ok, I might've over reacted there. I should've said I LOVE everything about News.YC except the censoring of down-voted comments :)<p>Regardless, it looks like other comments w/ negative karma are grayed out (like <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=13764">http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=13764</a> ). So I imagine this comment was probably deleted by the author... | null | null | 12,417 | 12,158 | null | null | null | null |
14,135 | story | rfrey | 2007-04-18T17:35:06 | The Craftsmanship of Code | null | http://rodfrey.wordpress.com/2007/04/18/the-craftsmanship-of-code/ | 3 | null | 14,135 | 1 | [
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14,136 | comment | timg | 2007-04-18T17:36:46 | null | But in your example, the absence of photo albums on myspace is punished quite heavily in practice.<p>Right up until they were sitting on a billion dollar valuation, you could not even make your photos private to just your friends. Sharing was mandatory.<p>Note that I am not saying that zero content should be available until the user has made a contribution to the site, just that the site should at least keep something special for people who do. Most importantly, I am not saying that this practice is best for all sites or even the majority. | null | null | 14,133 | 14,095 | null | [
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14,137 | comment | pixcavator | 2007-04-18T17:37:31 | null | When I have "umpty-million dollars", I'll start worrying about that. | null | null | 14,104 | 13,822 | null | null | null | null |
14,138 | comment | pg | 2007-04-18T17:38:18 | null | Odd spin to the title. The ratios they quote sound about what I'd predict. What standard are they weak in comparison to? Presumably whatever uneducated guess the writer of this article already had in his head. This kind of thing is exactly why traditional journalism sucks. | null | null | 14,095 | 14,095 | null | null | null | null |
14,139 | story | yaacovtp | 2007-04-18T17:38:44 | iminlikewithyou invites - first 5 emails get one (NONE LEFT) | null | 4 | null | 14,139 | 22 | [
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14,140 | comment | pg | 2007-04-18T17:40:07 | null | Probably the best answer is to learn enough about hacking to recognize people who are good at it, like Jobs did. | null | null | 14,025 | 13,822 | null | null | null | null |
14,141 | story | shara | 2007-04-18T17:40:12 | Guide to Buying and Selling Land in Second Life | null | http://www.work.com/second-life-real-estate-buying-and-selling-land-in-second-life-1599/ | 1 | null | 14,141 | 0 | null | null | null |
14,142 | comment | yaacovtp | 2007-04-18T17:40:31 | null | null | null | 14,139 | 14,139 | null | null | null | true |
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14,143 | comment | yaacovtp | 2007-04-18T17:40:32 | null | Thanks to Sam_Odio for giving out the first round of invites here. | null | null | 14,139 | 14,139 | null | [
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14,144 | comment | jamiequint | 2007-04-18T17:43:41 | null | This was one of the main points of Jackie Huba and Ben McConnell in "Citizen Marketers" where they talk introduced what they called "The 1 Percenters", named for the average contribution rate of the sites they studied.
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14,145 | story | Readmore | 2007-04-18T17:44:45 | Amazon Daily Launches | null | http://www.amazon.com/gp/daily/ref=cm_plog_open/002-0953987-3316012 | 1 | null | 14,145 | 1 | [
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14,146 | comment | rms | 2007-04-18T17:45:41 | null | iminlikewithyou (at) kfischer (dot) com<p>
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14,147 | comment | jamiequint | 2007-04-18T17:46:52 | null | 31. complete step 13 then submit to demomyapp.com | null | null | 14,090 | 14,090 | null | [
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14,148 | comment | Readmore | 2007-04-18T17:46:56 | null | I'm not sure I get where they are going with this. | null | null | 14,145 | 14,145 | null | null | null | null |
14,149 | comment | aandreev | 2007-04-18T17:47:07 | null | this is nothing like Apollo. it's a local web server/app, which syncs to web sites
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14,150 | comment | yaacovtp | 2007-04-18T17:48:44 | null | Sent | null | null | 14,146 | 14,139 | null | null | null | null |
14,151 | comment | jamiequint | 2007-04-18T17:49:40 | null | You don't just want cash, you want cash & brains. You want smart people with knowledge of your market and the ability to help you succeed not just through money, but through advice, connections, etc. | null | null | 14,125 | 14,046 | null | [
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14,152 | comment | nivi | 2007-04-18T17:50:45 | null | 1. Mark all items as read.
2. Avatars. | null | null | 363 | 363 | null | null | null | null |
14,153 | comment | zaidf | 2007-04-18T17:50:58 | null | zaid
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14,154 | story | rms | 2007-04-18T17:51:50 | Paul Graham is Hurting the Children | null | http://buzzboston.wordpress.com/2007/04/17/paul-graham-is-recruiting-the-children/ | 7 | null | 14,154 | 15 | [
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14,155 | comment | shara | 2007-04-18T17:52:09 | null | skarasic at work dot com | null | null | 14,139 | 14,139 | null | [
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14,156 | comment | rms | 2007-04-18T17:52:16 | null | Please, somebody think of the children! | null | null | 14,154 | 14,154 | null | [
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14,157 | comment | zaidf | 2007-04-18T17:55:45 | null | Only thing Virb and us may share is our love for music.<p>We're headed towards a system where we can recommend people indie music that they may like. Most of what we do comes from our users(ie. we did a survey last month) so hopefully we shouldn't have a big gap from what we make and what our users want. | null | null | 14,115 | 13,924 | null | null | null | null |
14,158 | comment | yaacovtp | 2007-04-18T17:57:18 | null | sent | null | null | 14,153 | 14,139 | null | null | null | null |
14,159 | comment | nostrademons | 2007-04-18T17:57:28 | null | Take a careful look at the number they're measuring. They say that only 0.2% of <i>visits</i> to Flickr are uploads.<p>That's very different from saying that only 0.2% of <i>users</i> upload content. Even someone who regularly uploads photos to Flickr probably views 10 photos for every one they upload. Think about news.YC: in a typical day, I probably post 3-4 comments and submit one article, yet I read about two dozen articles and 50+ comments. And I'm #13 on the leader list, so most people would probably consider me a participant.<p>IMHO, the article chose a very meaningless number and then reported it as a big find. Reads <i>always</i> outnumber writes, by a large margin. Your top contributors don't just post things, they're also usually voracious consumers, probably reading dozens of items for every one they submit.<p>It's like saying that novelists read 100 books for every one that they write, and therefore they aren't really contributing anything to literature. | null | null | 14,120 | 14,095 | null | null | null | null |
14,160 | comment | yaacovtp | 2007-04-18T17:57:31 | null | sent | null | null | 14,155 | 14,139 | null | null | null | null |
14,161 | story | blader | 2007-04-18T17:58:05 | 5 IILWY Invites (Nevermind... all out) | null | 2 | null | 14,161 | 14 | [
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14,162 | comment | blader | 2007-04-18T17:58:31 | null | Thanks go to Sam_Odio for mine. First five emails gets one. | null | null | 14,161 | 14,161 | null | null | null | null |
14,163 | comment | bkmrkr | 2007-04-18T18:01:49 | null | bkmrkr at@ yahoo.com Thanks!
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14,164 | story | jmtame | 2007-04-18T18:03:24 | List of cool frameworks | null | 1 | null | 14,164 | 3 | [
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14,165 | comment | zaatar | 2007-04-18T18:03:53 | null | [email protected]<p>please? thanks!
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14,166 | comment | RyanGWU82 | 2007-04-18T18:04:41 | null | ryan [@] ryanpark dot orgy.<p>Well, not actually orgy. No Y.<p>Thanks!
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14,167 | comment | jmtame | 2007-04-18T18:05:13 | null | Anyone know where I can find a compiled list of frameworks for typical Web 2.0 applications? I'm interested in building something, but there's so much crap out there ;)<p>Examples would include scriptaculous, delicious, YUI. I was hoping for a matrix comparison list or something.. | null | null | 14,164 | 14,164 | null | [
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14,168 | comment | Alex3917 | 2007-04-18T18:07:23 | null | I sent you one. | null | null | 14,165 | 14,139 | null | [
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14,169 | comment | Alex3917 | 2007-04-18T18:07:52 | null | I sent you one also. | null | null | 14,166 | 14,139 | null | [
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14,170 | comment | zaatar | 2007-04-18T18:08:04 | null | Thanks much, got it! :) | null | null | 14,168 | 14,139 | null | null | null | null |
14,171 | comment | RyanGWU82 | 2007-04-18T18:09:12 | null | Thanks Alex, got it! | null | null | 14,169 | 14,139 | null | null | null | null |
14,172 | comment | nostrademons | 2007-04-18T18:09:27 | null | Of course. I had Reddit blocked at work for a while so I could finish up my previous project.<p>Alas, I find that taking away distractions really doesn't help that much. I usually just find something else to distract myself. I need to find something that's more engrossing than the distraction for this to work well.<p>Unfortunately, my workplace is interruption-central. Open-plan office, cubemate working on the same project, frequent calls to help out on something. Makes me feel important, but hard to get anything done. Ah well, it's my employer's problem. If my startup ever gets big enough to hire, though, I think I'm going to splurge for private offices. | null | null | 14,051 | 14,051 | null | null | null | null |
14,173 | comment | nostrademons | 2007-04-18T18:11:34 | null | nostrademons AT gmail DOT com | null | null | 14,161 | 14,161 | null | [
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14,174 | comment | jkush | 2007-04-18T18:15:30 | null | john at todotoh dot com | null | null | 14,161 | 14,161 | null | [
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14,175 | comment | omouse | 2007-04-18T18:16:06 | null | Argh, and I <i>just</i> came home! Can everyone who's in tell me what it's like? :P | null | null | 14,139 | 14,139 | null | null | null | null |
14,176 | comment | pg | 2007-04-18T18:16:06 | null | This guy has not thought things through. Sure, hundreds of people apply to YC every cycle, but we only develop a relationship with the few we fund. In fact the thing I like least of all about YC is that it's effectively a machine for making hundreds of smart hackers dislike us, or at least feel somewhat hurt, every six months.<p>Also, like nearly everyone (including, fortunately, most imitators) he's stuck on this idea that we like to fund undergrads. In fact the median founder is around 25; it's harder to get funded as an undergrad than not. | null | null | 14,154 | 14,154 | null | [
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14,177 | comment | grahamr | 2007-04-18T18:17:11 | null | grahamspam at gmail dot com
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14,178 | comment | nostrademons | 2007-04-18T18:17:45 | null | As opposed to Random Big Company, who would otherwise be getting this $1million+ talent and paying them $50-60K? | null | null | 14,154 | 14,154 | null | null | null | null |
14,179 | comment | phony_identity | 2007-04-18T18:20:04 | null | null | null | 14,161 | 14,161 | null | null | null | true |
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14,180 | comment | Alex3917 | 2007-04-18T18:20:31 | null | Wow, the site is looking much better now. It's gone from being an interesting technology demo to something that is starting to look useful. | null | null | 14,139 | 14,139 | null | null | null | null |
14,181 | comment | herdrick | 2007-04-18T18:20:35 | null | info at reatlas.com<p>thanks! | null | null | 14,161 | 14,161 | null | [
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14,182 | comment | timg | 2007-04-18T18:21:02 | null | timg.is.here at gmail
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14,183 | story | jmtame | 2007-04-18T18:25:53 | What salary/equity do I ask for? | null | 4 | null | 14,183 | 14 | [
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14,184 | comment | jmtame | 2007-04-18T18:29:42 | null | So, let's say this is all "theoretical" for now. A startup in CA (Stanford or Palo Alto likely) wants to fly me over to discuss salary/equity. They gave me a demo of their product and I think it has a lot of potential.<p>Here's my situation: I'm a college student (sophomore), been writing websites in html since age 9, very comfortable with many open, web-based languages, and very skilled in graphic design and marketing. I have most Adobe/Macromedia programs down. I would also be the first 'employee' at this startup (would prefer a co-founder position, but I'm not sure if it's reasonable to negotiate on that level).<p>I've calculated it may cost me $2,000 a month to get a studio apartment. Aside from that, I'll have to start paying my financial aid 6 months after leaving school. Does anyone know what ballpark number I should be negotiating under? | null | null | 14,183 | 14,183 | null | [
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14,185 | comment | ryanpc | 2007-04-18T18:31:15 | null | Aww, barely missed it!
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14,186 | comment | mattculbreth | 2007-04-18T18:31:20 | null | Yeah, not so clear what he means. It's not as if your fundees work for you after all, they merely trade a bit of equity for your connections and mentoring. Not really sure where this guy is going.<p>And besides, I don't think anyone dislikes you when you can't fund them. They just get really determined to prove you wrong. :)
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14,187 | story | transburgh | 2007-04-18T18:35:06 | Please Delete | null | http://www.weather.com/weather/local/43202?from=yest_topnav_undeclared | 9 | null | 14,187 | 6 | [
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14,188 | comment | transburgh | 2007-04-18T18:35:24 | null | PLEASE DELETE | null | null | 14,187 | 14,187 | null | null | null | null |
14,189 | comment | mattculbreth | 2007-04-18T18:36:29 | null | I don't like it either. I've talked clients out of doing that and doing something instead with some of the content in the page. Just a portion though, not the entire thing. In my view Google should be Google.
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14,190 | comment | yaacovtp | 2007-04-18T18:38:13 | null | sent | null | null | 14,163 | 14,139 | null | null | null | null |
14,191 | comment | blader | 2007-04-18T18:38:30 | null | sent | null | null | 14,182 | 14,161 | null | null | null | null |
14,192 | comment | blader | 2007-04-18T18:38:32 | null | sent | null | null | 14,174 | 14,161 | null | [
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14,193 | comment | blader | 2007-04-18T18:38:35 | null | sent | null | null | 14,173 | 14,161 | null | null | null | null |
14,194 | comment | blader | 2007-04-18T18:38:38 | null | sent | null | null | 14,177 | 14,161 | null | null | null | null |
14,195 | comment | blader | 2007-04-18T18:38:40 | null | sent | null | null | 14,181 | 14,161 | null | null | null | null |
14,196 | comment | omouse | 2007-04-18T18:39:07 | null | Similar to .mac accounts then? | null | null | 14,149 | 14,116 | null | null | null | null |
14,197 | comment | curio | 2007-04-18T18:40:11 | null | joshfraz AT gmail DOT come
cheers :)
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14,198 | comment | mattculbreth | 2007-04-18T18:42:05 | null | I'd suggest asking for 90% of a first-year salary for CS majors in the area (I'm guessing $55k or so?), plus 5% equity. Take it from there. You might get beat up on the 5% but if you're employee #1 it sounds reasonable.<p>Think hard though about leaving school. Not saying it's a bad idea, just think it through.
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14,199 | comment | jaggederest | 2007-04-18T18:45:06 | null | Well, adblock. But no, I have enough problems distracting myself from work, without blocking sites.<p>It comes down to the fact that, when I'm 'in the zone' I don't bother to read websites, and when I'm not, there's nothing that's going to take me there, so I might as well enjoy the internet. | null | null | 14,051 | 14,051 | null | null | null | null |
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