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16,400 | comment | darragjm | 2007-04-24T18:22:58 | null | I agree. There have been many times I'm sure where we've all had ideas that could be very successful, but not something that you would want to work on personally. This could be a great resource for those types of ideas. Down the road you could even begin to categorize them and, once you get some graphic designers on board, create themed pages for each category ;) | null | null | 16,347 | 16,270 | null | null | null | null |
16,401 | comment | dpapathanasiou | 2007-04-24T18:31:15 | null | That's essentially what I was thinking: the whole equity-instead-of-rent phenomenon is a holdover from the last bubble.<p>While I'm glad to see they've done well for themselves, I'm not quite sure I'd welcome them as investors. | null | null | 16,379 | 16,352 | null | null | null | null |
16,402 | comment | nostrademons | 2007-04-24T18:35:42 | null | It depends on the market - some markets seem to support 3 major players, while others only support two. Think GM, Ford, and Chrysler for the U.S. car market; Toyota; Honda, and Nissan for the Japanese car market; ExxonMobil, ChevronTexaco, and ConocoPhillips for the domestic oil market; Apple, Commodore, and Tandy for the 1970s PC market; and Nokia, Motorola, and Samsung for the cell phone market.<p>Oftentimes that equilibrium is unstable, too. Chrysler got bought up by Daimler-Benz, Nissan seems to have disappeared, <i>all</i> the 1970s PC manufacturers ended up as bit-players when IBM and clones took over the market, and ConocoPhillips is clearly doing its best to become the #2 U.S. oil company instead of the #3. So they're both right, it just depends on what time horizon you're looking at. | null | null | 16,374 | 16,358 | null | null | null | null |
16,403 | comment | mattjaynes | 2007-04-24T18:37:20 | null | Amen to that ;) <p>Once I get my app launched it'll be mostly free accounts w/ advertising and some pro accounts. With competition I'll have to get quite a few users to make anywhere near what they were making! | null | null | 16,345 | 16,265 | null | null | null | null |
16,404 | comment | mattjaynes | 2007-04-24T18:43:35 | null | Good point :) I've never really used textmate, but have heard great things about it. What's your take on it? | null | null | 16,398 | 16,212 | null | [
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16,405 | comment | far33d | 2007-04-24T18:46:55 | null | I learned the most as an undergrad when TAing CS classes (a benefit of brown is the undergrad TA program). Not only do you learn the material at a deeper level, you have an opportunity to teach at that deeper level too. <p>There's nothing more satisfying than explaining something to someone and seeing the "aha!" moment.
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16,406 | comment | nostrademons | 2007-04-24T18:47:04 | null | YSI really is a good service - I use it all the time to send stuff to friends, or did before I switched to SendSpace. Many of my friends don't understand FTP, don't want to download a client, and just want to click on a link and get the file.<p>Only problem is they have basically no barriers to entry, so it'll be hard for them to ever become more than a commodity. If they're lucky, they may be able to make a tiny profit by charging or advertising just above their costs, but if they ever get decent margins they'll be swamped by the competition. | null | null | 16,382 | 16,341 | null | null | null | null |
16,407 | story | zaidf | 2007-04-24T18:50:43 | What do you take out of a story such as this? | null | http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/04/30/8405482/index.htm | 16 | null | 16,407 | 13 | [
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16,408 | comment | aquateen | 2007-04-24T18:52:50 | null | Who would pay for file sharing? Who would invest $10 mil in something like this?<p>I've always wondered... if you raise millions through venture funding etc, are you allowed to just put it in your personal bank account? | null | null | 16,341 | 16,341 | null | [
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16,409 | story | paul | 2007-04-24T18:56:39 | Paul Buchheit: The secret to making things easy: avoid hard problems | null | http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2007/04/secret-to-making-things-easy-avoid-hard.html | 33 | null | 16,409 | 32 | [
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16,410 | comment | zaidf | 2007-04-24T18:56:40 | null | I love what he says about Steve Jobs:<p>"By the way," says Charan, "the last time I talked about Steve Jobs, remember? I've now verified from two directors of Apple, and they say it's right on the button." Gomber and Bartridge perk up their ears. "I asked, Well, tell me his three God's gifts. And they think about it, and they say first thing, this human being has a talent to figure out what the consumer really wants. This is a very valuable thing! No. 2, he has the will and the talent to find - no matter where it is! - the right technology that will deliver what they want. Nobody said he invented one! And third, he has the talent to create demand at the right time. I say, Where do you find those human beings? But he is one."
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16,411 | comment | elviejo | 2007-04-24T18:57:56 | null | "Ningun hombre fracasa
mientras no deja de luchar" Ma. Eugenia Solari<p>(No man is defeated
as long as he is still fighting.)
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16,412 | story | dawie | 2007-04-24T18:58:15 | A new report finds that U.S. demand for IT professionals in 2006 reached levels not seen since before the dot-com bust | null | http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2007/tc20070424_967747.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_top+story | 2 | null | 16,412 | 0 | null | null | null |
16,413 | comment | Readmore | 2007-04-24T18:59:06 | null | I love it when people talk about how you 'won't be able to dial a number without looking at the phone' Who dials numbers on a cell phone? I don't know anyone's number I just pick them out of my stored numbers list. I'm surprised they aren't asking why it doesn't have a rotary interface. | null | null | 16,394 | 16,394 | null | [
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16,414 | story | jkush | 2007-04-24T19:06:25 | Deriving your demand curve using exchange rate fluctuations | null | http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/04/24.html | 10 | null | 16,414 | 2 | [
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16,415 | comment | brlewis | 2007-04-24T19:12:25 | null | An even better secret to making things easy: only try to solve problems that exist.<p>This is a nonexistent problem: "The problem? Most databases are still storing my name using the same techniques that they did 15 or more years ago -- they seek the disk head to some specific location and then read or write my name to that location. These databases rely on the one operation that DID NOT dramatically improve in the past 15 years! They still perform like it's 1991."<p>I don't think PostgreSQL is the only database that uses write-ahead logging. | null | null | 16,409 | 16,409 | null | [
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16,416 | story | dawie | 2007-04-24T19:15:53 | Get Psyched! - Why understanding your right brain will help you succeed. | null | http://www.foundread.com/view/get-psyched | 5 | null | 16,416 | 1 | [
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16,417 | comment | paul | 2007-04-24T19:16:15 | null | Post some numbers. How many updates per second can you do? | null | null | 16,415 | 16,409 | null | [
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16,418 | comment | brett | 2007-04-24T19:24:31 | null | That's pretty interesting. I'm pretty enamored with rails but just last week I wrote a ruby script for a client to pull some stats out of apache logs and it took forever to run so I'm sympathetic to a lot of his arguments. <p>His mild attempt at the end to give rails its due suggests it's less black and white than he paints it. There's good reason to have both languages in your toolbox. | null | null | 16,331 | 16,331 | null | [
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16,419 | story | jsjenkins168 | 2007-04-24T19:25:42 | Lawyer recommendations? (with startup experience) | null | 11 | null | 16,419 | 12 | [
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16,420 | comment | jsjenkins168 | 2007-04-24T19:26:15 | null | I am seeking a good lawyer to help us with the legal side of our startup. Initially I'll just need assistance with incorporating and drafting an IP release statement from my current employer, but I'd like to establish a long term relationship for future legal advice. So for this reason I'd prefer someone who has had experience dealing with tech startups specifically.<p>We'd like someone who is good but our limited funding wont allow for a firm who charges a lot.. I know, I know, these goals are mutually exclusive but I was hoping someone on this forum might have some recommendations.<p>Any general lawyer-searching advice is also appreciated. I know many here have been through this process..<p>Please feel free to contact me off list at jsjenkins168 (at) gmail.com too. Thanks.
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16,421 | story | mattjaynes | 2007-04-24T19:26:26 | Economics 101 for Web 2.0+ | null | http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2007/04/economics-101-for-web-20.html | 2 | null | 16,421 | 0 | null | null | null |
16,422 | comment | nostrademons | 2007-04-24T19:26:31 | null | So, I was talking with my cofounder, and we came up with Bootstrapacitor.com. It has "bootstrap" in the name and also has the capacitor connotations of storing energy and letting it build up until it escapes like a lightning bolt. Also, there're tons of flux-capacitor jokes we could include (we - meaning the site users - are collectively inventing the future, after all), and the flux capacitor is even shaped like a Y!<p>What do you think? | null | null | 16,320 | 16,234 | null | [
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16,423 | comment | brlewis | 2007-04-24T19:29:16 | null | I don't know. If that becomes a problem I'll put the write-ahead log on a faster disk to buy time to look into it. | null | null | 16,417 | 16,409 | null | [
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16,424 | comment | gms | 2007-04-24T19:29:37 | null | I'm sure there are 50 million strings attached to this amount. | null | null | 16,408 | 16,341 | null | null | null | null |
16,425 | comment | jkush | 2007-04-24T19:33:32 | null | It's a strange portrait. The way he's described, I picture a character from an Ayn Rand novel.<p> | null | null | 16,407 | 16,407 | null | [
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16,426 | comment | mattculbreth | 2007-04-24T19:33:45 | null | Why can't you just succumb to peer pressure and get rid of that database? :) | null | null | 16,423 | 16,409 | null | [
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16,427 | comment | mattjaynes | 2007-04-24T19:33:56 | null | Loved this point:<p>"The thing is, a lot of those difficult problems are irrelevant for 99% of products. For example, "real" databases can handle transactions that are too large to fit in memory. That was probably a really important feature in 1980. Today, you can buy a computer with 32GB of memory for around $5000. How many GB transactions do you suppose Twitter performs? My guess is zero -- I suspect that their average transaction size is closer to 0.0000002 GB (messages are limited to 140 characters)." | null | null | 16,409 | 16,409 | null | null | null | null |
16,428 | comment | mattculbreth | 2007-04-24T19:36:11 | null | Those guys from Goodwin Procter that spoke at Startup School seemed really good to me, and I've traded a few emails with Mark. | null | null | 16,419 | 16,419 | null | null | null | null |
16,429 | story | Sam_Odio | 2007-04-24T19:38:29 | SEC won't fine apple for options backdating | null | http://valleywag.com/tech/breaking/sec-wont-fine-apple-254919.php | 1 | null | 16,429 | 0 | null | null | null |
16,430 | comment | rtm | 2007-04-24T19:39:03 | null | 167 small transactions per second on MySQL 4.1 / InnoDB / FreeBSD / FFS / SCSI, which looks like one per rotation.
Presumably the time required to write a block at the
end of the write-ahead log.<p>5000 per second with --innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit=0, which only writes the log to disk once per second.<p>The MySQL documentation claims that this configuration does crash-recovery correctly, though you may lose the last second's worth of transactions. | null | null | 16,417 | 16,409 | null | [
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16,431 | comment | Sam_Odio | 2007-04-24T19:51:25 | null | Good point. Knowing Apple, I also have a feeling they'll come up with some innovative solutions to the no-number-pad problem.<p>Some ideas:<p>- Automatically complete phone numbers, as you dial them<p>- Spotlight-type search for contacts. I.e, I dial "442" and the phone displays all contacts with 442 in the number, address, etc. I could then press the contact I want to call.<p>- Better voice recognition technology. For example, if I say "Call Mike," the phone displays the top 3 contacts it thinks match my request, I then confirm the default choice or select one out of the list. Maybe the phone even learns?<p>Obviously, this is all speculation. But the point is, it should be easy to come up with solutions to this problem that actually make the phone easier to use. | null | null | 16,413 | 16,394 | null | [
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16,432 | comment | Sam_Odio | 2007-04-24T20:00:25 | null | <i>Want an example of "simple but less reliable"? Here's one (in one or two easy steps): 1. All updates go in to memcached, but not the database 2. (optional) A background process occasionally copies entries from memcached to the db. Without this, the values will be completely lost when memcached restarts.</i><p>
Paul - here's an interesting take on your recommended solution: Use solid state ram and forget about step two. You get fast a read/write, without the risk of data loss if the machine restarts.<p>Here's a pretty cool board that will take DDR SDRAM, and supply it with a constant source of power (imitating solid-state memory):
<a href="http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q1/gigabyte-iram/index.x?pg=1">http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q1/gigabyte-iram/index.x?pg=1</a><p>Those who insist on a database, could even store the database on this board. Best of both worlds.<p>Here's an insane graph showing the database transaction rate for the board vs. a conventional hard drive:
<a href="http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q1/gigabyte-iram/index.x?pg=7">http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q1/gigabyte-iram/index.x?pg=7</a>
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16,433 | story | ereldon | 2007-04-24T20:09:22 | VentureBeat: Southern Cal overtakes New England in start-up activity | null | http://venturebeat.com/2007/04/24/southern-cal-overtakes-new-england-in-start-up-activity/ | 11 | null | 16,433 | 1 | [
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16,434 | comment | wastedbrains | 2007-04-24T20:14:29 | null | We went through this question awhile ago, and found a local lawyer in Denver CO that we are happy with. If you want to read the post we made on finding a lawyer it can be found here, <a href="http://blog.pretheory.com/arch/000431.php">http://blog.pretheory.com/arch/000431.php</a> | null | null | 16,419 | 16,419 | null | null | null | null |
16,435 | comment | nickb | 2007-04-24T20:14:44 | null | You don't really know how well you know something until you try to explain it to someone. This is why at my startup we require that:<p>1) At least once a week you explain something you've learned in the past week to everyone else<p>2) To keep an internal/external blog/wiki going. Blogging/Wiki editing forces you to put your thoughts down on 'paper' and you can distill a lot of your ideas this way. | null | null | 16,375 | 16,375 | null | null | null | null |
16,436 | comment | aristus | 2007-04-24T20:15:45 | null | Solid-state drives greater than 128GB are in OEM testing now. Expect server economics to turn upside-down in about 12 months, when persistent storage seek times get 100X faster. | null | null | 16,432 | 16,409 | null | [
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16,437 | story | usablecontent | 2007-04-24T20:24:34 | CastTV Raises $3.1 Million To Revolutionize Video Search | null | http://corp.casttv.com/news/2007/04/23/casttv-closes-series-a-led-by-dfj/ | 2 | null | 16,437 | 1 | [
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16,438 | story | rjam | 2007-04-24T20:31:36 | How to sell Cafepress items with a blog | null | http://www.robertoalamos.com/wordpress-monetizing-plugins-sell-cafepress-items-through-your-blog | 4 | null | 16,438 | 0 | null | null | null |
16,439 | comment | pg | 2007-04-24T20:33:36 | null | We use WSGR in CA and Goodwin Procter in MA. | null | null | 16,419 | 16,419 | null | [
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16,440 | story | mattjaynes | 2007-04-24T20:39:23 | Screw your "dream job" (Email w/ Seth Godin and Zaid360) | null | http://www.zaid360.com/?p=153 | 2 | null | 16,440 | 0 | null | null | null |
16,441 | comment | sri | 2007-04-24T20:44:31 | null | and 99% of what we program
(from GJS or Knuth or someone like that)<p>link: <a href="http://www.oopsla.org/2005/ShowEvent.do?id=403">http://www.oopsla.org/2005/ShowEvent.do?id=403</a><p>this google video is also cool:
<a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2726904509434151616&q=gerald+sussman">http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2726904509434151616&q=gerald+sussman</a><p>
anyone have any sussman stories they'll like to share?
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16,442 | comment | zach | 2007-04-24T20:44:51 | null | "When something is too hard it means that you're not cheating enough." - David Heinemeier Hansson | null | null | 16,031 | 16,031 | null | null | null | null |
16,443 | comment | paul | 2007-04-24T20:57:54 | null | But wait, didn't you say it was a non-existent problem? | null | null | 16,423 | 16,409 | null | [
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16,444 | comment | paul | 2007-04-24T20:57:55 | null | null | null | 16,423 | 16,409 | null | null | null | true |
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16,445 | comment | mojuba | 2007-04-24T21:11:43 | null | You can't really vary the price of your product to carry such experiments, so Joel found a way to do it indirectly. Just great.<p>The results are pretty much predictable though. | null | null | 16,414 | 16,414 | null | [
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16,446 | comment | vlad | 2007-04-24T21:18:37 | null | This is how I would solve the problem after just a minute of thinking about it:<p>You may tap twice, and the iPhone makes a noise letting you know that the dial-pad is activated, at which point you can touch any square in a 3x3 grid of numbers, with a voice telling you which number you just pressed.<p>A problem is if you're holding it upside down. If you're holding it upside down in your hand, the built-in orientation sensor would simply rotate the grid correctly. The less thinking a user has to do, the better.<p>In other words, it could actually work better than the treo (another phone with a touchscreen), which you definitely can't use to enter a new number blindfolded with its tiny keyboard. And, you could hold the phone upside down and dial the same way, which no conventional phones let you do. A voice announcing the keys is a great idea, as well, since most phones use tones for keypushes.<p>This would be great in an additional way, because whenever somebody tells you a phone number, they can follow along. "My cell is 111.2345. " "Ok (enters it on the iPhone, and a voice speaks each number.) One. One. One. Three. Four.." "NO, no, I said 2345." | null | null | 16,431 | 16,394 | null | null | null | null |
16,447 | story | mhidalgo | 2007-04-24T21:20:12 | Expansion of Social Networks | null | http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_expansion_of_social_networks.php#more | 1 | null | 16,447 | 0 | null | null | null |
16,448 | story | usablecontent | 2007-04-24T21:29:29 | AmazonTunes Set To Launch In May | null | http://startupmeme.com/2007/04/24/amazontunes-set-to-launch-in-may/ | 1 | null | 16,448 | 0 | null | null | null |
16,449 | story | brett | 2007-04-24T21:41:20 | Newsvine Relaunch: Build Your Own News Site | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/24/newsvine-relaunch-today-build-your-own-news-site/ | 5 | null | 16,449 | 3 | [
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16,450 | comment | akkartik | 2007-04-24T22:02:36 | null | Yup. It didn't go to YC, and I'm not sure it's a startup, but I should have a website to show people in a day or two. | null | null | 16,316 | 16,234 | null | null | null | null |
16,451 | story | catfish | 2007-04-24T22:08:13 | Finding a Marketing Partner | null | 1 | null | 16,451 | 1 | [
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16,452 | comment | catfish | 2007-04-24T22:12:02 | null | So you have built the dream machine and your up and running. What steps do you take to find the business guys who can hook you up with other companies who sell accessories for your widget. Say you want to include coupons, introductory material for accessories, or some other insert in your package, for a fee. Where do you go to solve that problem. Is this an inhouse executive job, or a partnership arrangement with marketing companies who sell in this space? | null | null | 16,451 | 16,451 | null | null | null | null |
16,453 | comment | nivi | 2007-04-24T22:14:27 | null | On the topic of "general lawyer-searching advice", here are some useful links from Venture Hacks:<p><a href="http://www.venturehacks.com/articles/term-sheet-hacks#comment-24">http://www.venturehacks.com/articles/term-sheet-hacks#comment-24</a> :<p>"There are plenty of lawyers who know VC terms and VC deals very well, yet are not in the VC's back pockets. Ask around your business community - you will quickly learn which lawyers you can trust as being more company/entrepeneur focused, and which ones will be good VC lawyers but too cozy with VC's for a smart entrepeneur to really trust. Doing VC deals on the investor side is a low-margin business given the severe downward fee pressure from the VC's - some firms stock up on VC deals and go for quantity over quality; others will do a VC deal <i>for the Company</i> but will generally only occasionally work with VC's. Also, many VC-back-pocket lawyers will sell themselves to you as having all the connections to the VC's and can get your company in front of all the big players, but that should be an alarm bell. There is a difference - ask around with people who have been there and whose opinion you value and trust, and you will find it."<p><a href="http://www.venturehacks.com/articles/term-sheet-hacks#lawyers">http://www.venturehacks.com/articles/term-sheet-hacks#lawyers</a> :<p>"Most law firms do a lot more business with VCs than they are likely to do with you. VCs refer new clients to the law firms, hire the law firms regularly, and know the attorneys socially. Where do you think the law firms' loyalty lies? <p>The basic incentives between you, your law firm, and your prospective investors are not in your favor. Your lawyers make money by executing transactions and your investors simply bring more transactions to your lawyers than you do."<p><a href="http://www.venturehacks.com/articles/term-sheet-hacks#comment-49">http://www.venturehacks.com/articles/term-sheet-hacks#comment-49</a> :<p>"We have always said at our firm that you can represent VCs or entrepreneurs, but not both, for the very reason you identify. You can't aggressively protect a founder if you are concerned that it might cost you the legal work for raising a VC's next fund. The VC community is simply too small, and business matter are too personal. You hit the nail on the head, regardless of what my colleagues say." | null | null | 16,419 | 16,419 | null | null | null | null |
16,454 | comment | dfranke | 2007-04-24T22:26:13 | null | Fast disks are only faster by a factor of two. | null | null | 16,423 | 16,409 | null | [
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16,455 | comment | russ | 2007-04-24T22:26:51 | null | Part of the reason that Ruby didn't gain that much traction early on was due to the the lack of English documentation. | null | null | 16,387 | 16,331 | null | null | null | null |
16,456 | comment | zach | 2007-04-24T22:27:05 | null | Well all right then. I'll consider it revolutionized. | null | null | 16,329 | 16,329 | null | null | null | null |
16,457 | comment | russ | 2007-04-24T22:29:45 | null | Textmate is the shizzle. | null | null | 16,404 | 16,212 | null | [
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16,458 | comment | russ | 2007-04-24T22:33:11 | null | If you want to call it WhyCombinator, you're going to have to buy the domain off me ;-) Also, the red logo reads that you were <i>not</i> rejected. | null | null | 16,311 | 16,234 | null | [
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16,459 | comment | madanella | 2007-04-24T22:37:32 | null | This is satire, right? | null | null | 16,349 | 16,349 | null | [
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16,460 | comment | imp | 2007-04-24T22:37:39 | null | For those who prefer a nice pretty graph to their black-and-white table:<p><a href="http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pduUBxhjbJPfWKalnsvFaew">http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pduUBxhjbJPfWKalnsvFaew</a>
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16,461 | comment | naish | 2007-04-24T22:44:05 | null | For the Canadians in the crowd: Do you have any recommendations for a Canadian firm, preferably in Ontario?
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16,462 | story | crxnamja | 2007-04-24T22:48:29 | How to Get a Book Deal with the World's Largest Publisher | null | http://okdork.com/2007/04/24/how-to-get-a-book-deal-with-world%e2%80%99s-largest-publisher/ | 1 | null | 16,462 | 0 | null | null | null |
16,463 | story | michele | 2007-04-24T22:54:58 | Do you really need an NDA? | null | http://blog.wonsys.net/posts/11-nda-no-thanks/ | 3 | null | 16,463 | 0 | null | null | null |
16,464 | comment | madanella | 2007-04-24T22:55:13 | null | A lot like the VC game in many ways. | null | null | 16,355 | 16,355 | null | null | null | null |
16,465 | story | usablecontent | 2007-04-24T22:56:26 | Salesforce Pitches Startups With RealEstate, Almost Competes with Y Combinator | null | http://startupmeme.com/2007/04/24/salesforce-pitches-startups-with-realestate/ | 7 | null | 16,465 | 3 | [
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16,466 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-24T22:59:23 | null | interesting bit was RTML ~ <a href="http://oldvw.stores.yahoo.net/ov.html">http://oldvw.stores.yahoo.net/ov.html</a> | null | null | 16,265 | 16,265 | null | null | null | null |
16,467 | comment | inklesspen | 2007-04-24T23:04:00 | null | Well, it _is_ the Onion. | null | null | 16,459 | 16,349 | null | null | null | null |
16,468 | comment | madanella | 2007-04-24T23:17:48 | null | Would you pay 20K to be a part of an incubator? | null | null | 16,465 | 16,465 | null | [
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16,469 | comment | vegashacker | 2007-04-24T23:18:16 | null | I too think it's silly to remember phone numbers...I speed dial or directory dial everything. But the only two people who's cell habits I happen to know, are very often guilty of snail dialing. I don't understand it, but I'd guess that this is a real use case for a lot of people. | null | null | 16,413 | 16,394 | null | null | null | null |
16,470 | comment | wyday | 2007-04-24T23:29:38 | null | Is Goodwin Procter what Y Combinator as a company uses, or what you guys recommend for the companies that sprout from YC? | null | null | 16,439 | 16,419 | null | [
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16,471 | story | mhidalgo | 2007-04-24T23:32:23 | Interesting article about how Google "works" | null | http://www.baselinemag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=182560,00.asp | 1 | null | 16,471 | 0 | null | null | null |
16,472 | comment | paul | 2007-04-24T23:34:14 | null | BTW, in case anyone is thinking, "why would I need more than 167 transactions per second", imagine that you have a web site that displays everyone's "last active" time (for chat maybe). If users are performing some activity once every 30 sec, then you will be pretty much be at your limit with about 5000 simultaneous users.<p>Robert, did you test MySQL with a parallel load? To give it the best chance at maximizing tps, it will need to be able to combine multiple pending transactions in a single write. Also, can you tell if it's updating it's b-trees? (if not, it may not be able to sustain these rates) | null | null | 16,430 | 16,409 | null | [
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16,473 | comment | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-24T23:35:01 | null | He is extreme in a sense that is really hard to imagine.<p>He clearly makes a great deal of money, but according to the article, he doesn't use it at all. His life is his work - no romance, no home. Does he ever take a vacation?<p>He focuses on purpose to explain his lifestyle, and has clearly achieved incredible success at his business. But what about forging intimate personal relationships, both romantic and with friends? <p>I get such great value from having close relationships, a "home", an "office" that to imagine life without them is almost impossible. Of course he has 30+ year relationships with his clients, so maybe he has developed close friendships with some of them.<p>If Rand had created him as a character, maybe the purpose would be to show the downside of total focus on only business. Life without romance - never! | null | null | 16,425 | 16,407 | null | null | null | null |
16,474 | story | startupdaze | 2007-04-24T23:40:28 | BuyYourFriendaDrink.com | null | http://startupdaze.com/post/1203249 | 1 | null | 16,474 | 0 | [
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16,475 | comment | paul | 2007-04-24T23:43:10 | null | Yeah, solid-state storage is clearly the future for most apps. Flash is over 10x cheaper than DRAM though, so it'd be nice to see some high-performance flash drives as well. It's also nice to not have to worry about losing data during a prolonged power outage. | null | null | 16,436 | 16,409 | null | [
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16,476 | story | danw | 2007-04-24T23:56:15 | The natural choice for search, advertising and everything else | null | http://www.mobileuserexperience.com/?p=402 | 1 | null | 16,476 | 0 | null | null | null |
16,477 | comment | falsestprophet | 2007-04-24T23:57:39 | null | It is a caricature of failure despite epic success; his life is a dire warning. | null | null | 16,407 | 16,407 | null | [
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16,478 | comment | startupper | 2007-04-24T23:57:53 | null | no. | null | null | 16,468 | 16,465 | null | null | null | null |
16,479 | comment | startupper | 2007-04-24T23:59:11 | null | Wow. That is a lot of money. | null | null | 16,437 | 16,437 | null | null | null | null |
16,480 | story | jcwentz | 2007-04-24T23:59:35 | Salesforce.com starting a startup incubator | null | http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2007/tc20070424_574670.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_businessweek+exclusives | 1 | null | 16,480 | 0 | null | null | null |
16,481 | comment | pg | 2007-04-25T00:06:10 | null | null | null | 16,449 | 16,449 | null | null | null | true |
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16,482 | comment | RyanGWU82 | 2007-04-25T00:08:13 | null | Just in case you're not all up on the inside-the-valley lingo: WSGR is Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. From their website, I see they're offering a private (?) seminar series called "Entrepreneurs College". That sounds vaguely familiar... ;-) | null | null | 16,439 | 16,419 | null | [
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16,483 | comment | pg | 2007-04-25T00:10:15 | null | Both. | null | null | 16,470 | 16,419 | null | null | null | null |
16,484 | story | pg | 2007-04-25T00:14:44 | Amazon set to launch online music store | null | http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/media/article1690305.ece | 2 | null | 16,484 | 2 | [
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16,485 | comment | madanella | 2007-04-25T00:20:57 | null | I hope my startup can someday make similar announcements about the open source tools we use. | null | null | 16,360 | 16,360 | null | null | null | null |
16,486 | story | waleedka | 2007-04-25T00:28:52 | Anyone applied to TechStars? How was it like? | null | 2 | null | 16,486 | 2 | [
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16,487 | comment | waleedka | 2007-04-25T00:29:50 | null | I know they selected the finalists on 4/10. But their blog doesn't mention details. <p><a href="http://www.techstars.org/site/page/pg5899-as1290.html">http://www.techstars.org/site/page/pg5899-as1290.html</a> | null | null | 16,486 | 16,486 | null | null | null | null |
16,488 | comment | jward | 2007-04-25T00:31:30 | null | We just code fast. | null | null | 16,346 | 16,270 | null | null | null | null |
16,489 | story | usablecontent | 2007-04-25T00:32:40 | Yahoo Music Adds Music Lyrics, Becomes Worlds First Music Lyrics Store | null | http://startupmeme.com/2007/04/24/yahoo-music-adds-music-lyrics-becomes-worlds-first-music-lyrics-store/ | 1 | null | 16,489 | 0 | null | null | null |
16,490 | comment | pg | 2007-04-25T00:32:42 | null | I think I was saying something improper. | null | null | 16,301 | 16,284 | null | null | null | null |
16,491 | comment | nivi | 2007-04-25T00:33:32 | null | I don't know this person or firm but check out Suzie Dingwall Williams: <a href="http://www.venturehacks.com/articles/term-sheet-hacks#comment-49">http://www.venturehacks.com/articles/term-sheet-hacks#comment-49</a> | null | null | 16,461 | 16,419 | null | null | null | null |
16,492 | comment | usablecontent | 2007-04-25T00:34:08 | null | You got late on this one PG, I posted about Amazontunes a while back
<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=16448">http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=16448</a> | null | null | 16,484 | 16,484 | null | [
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16,493 | story | jslogan | 2007-04-25T00:38:44 | Making sense of what, why, and how | null | http://www.jslogan.com/content/view/156/ | 1 | null | 16,493 | 0 | null | null | null |
16,494 | comment | kyro | 2007-04-25T00:39:21 | null | Yes, I applied.<p>How was it like?<p>Rejection!<p>But I am very curious to hear about how that program turns out and what's the current status of interviews, etc., perhaps from the people who were actually selected. | null | null | 16,486 | 16,486 | null | null | null | null |
16,495 | story | Sam_Odio | 2007-04-25T00:41:16 | Thinking Small - Inc.com article on YC & Loopt | null | http://www.inc.com/magazine/20070501/finance-raising-funds.html | 1 | null | 16,495 | 0 | [
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16,496 | comment | pg | 2007-04-25T00:48:17 | null | dupe <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=16261">http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=16261</a> | null | null | 16,495 | 16,495 | null | null | null | null |
16,497 | comment | danielha | 2007-04-25T00:50:24 | null | dupe.<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=15530">http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=15530</a> | null | null | 16,474 | 16,474 | null | null | null | null |
16,498 | story | danielha | 2007-04-25T01:01:49 | Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS) | null | http://sramanamitra.com/blog/572 | 2 | null | 16,498 | 1 | [
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16,499 | comment | eli | 2007-04-25T01:03:49 | null | Ok, this is topic I know a little bit about. Here goes...<p>1. Samsung & BlackBerry browsers? That's not a fair comparison at all! Opera Mobile and Nokia's S60 browser are the clear market leaders (and, yes, both of them render full web pages with JavaScript/AJAX as a thumbnail that you can then zoom in on) See: <a href="http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/">http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/</a> and <a href="http://www.s60.com/browser/">http://www.s60.com/browser/</a> (btw, the S60 browser is open-source and based on webkit). The iPhone browser is <i>supposed</i> to be very good, but no one's really seen it yet. And it took many years of work for Nokia and Opera to get where they are today (Microsoft still isn't there, and they've really been trying).<p>2. Touchscreens. If all you want is a touchscreen, you can pick up, say, the LG Prada phone or the Samsung Ultra Smart F700. They both sport full-screen touchscreens like the iPhone. There are others.<p>3. Mobile fonts: please. Virtually all modern smartphones have nice, antialiased fonts. Take any cheap Windows Mobile phone for example.<p>4. Big Screens: You <i>can</i> get phones with bigger screens than the iPhone. (But until they invent fold-away screens, they're gonna be bulky)<p>5. Mobile interfaces suck. Ok, I'll give you this one. But I've got a bonus anti-feature of the iPhone for the YComb audience: The iPhone is bad news for developers! <a href="http://www.fiercedeveloper.com/story/editor-s-corner/2007-01-16">http://www.fiercedeveloper.com/story/editor-s-corner/2007-01-16</a>
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