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16,900 | comment | mxh | 2007-04-26T06:24:11 | null | "and 99% of what we program"<p>That seems consistent w/the "95% of what we teach" number. As Douglas Adams wrote, a computer "...was, on the other hand, very good at being a slow and dim-witted pupil. ... And the more slow, and dim-witted the pupil, the more you have to break things down into more and more simple ideas. And that's really the essence of programming." | null | null | 16,441 | 16,375 | null | null | null | null |
16,901 | story | davidw | 2007-04-26T06:43:26 | Founders at work - who would you like to have seen? | null | http://journal.dedasys.com/articles/2007/04/25/founders-at-work-whos-missing | 6 | null | 16,901 | 8 | [
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16,902 | story | matt | 2007-04-26T06:49:09 | Google: A tale of two graphs | null | http://andrewchen.typepad.com/andrew_chens_blog/2007/04/google_a_tale_o.html | 4 | null | 16,902 | 0 | null | null | null |
16,903 | comment | whacked_new | 2007-04-26T06:55:31 | null | Just to play smartypants, small teams are the ones that can afford loose deadlines for the gain in versatility. You have to agree that YC's program schedule results in better resource management, is needed, and so, your claim of "never setting deadlines" as a general statement is false. To make it true, you would need to accept applicants off the timetable. (Actually, how much was the YC program schedule influenced by university calendars?)<p>As a personal statement though, I totally agree. Assuming a startup team or artist isn't starving, not setting deadlines makes total sense. I remember somebody in high school was required to build up a portfolio of artwork during the semester. It's a rather preposterous requirement, because if there is no inspiration, there is no art. Churning out a portfolio of unimpressive drawings is easy, but nothing is genuine. Alas, people who operate off of schedules cannot accommodate the uncertainty. Universities, for example.<p>Hell, if I owned a school, I'd try to recruit good students whenever they appear, any time of the year. If you can finish a course in one day, great. If it takes you 10 semesters, great, as long as it's worth it. | null | null | 16,704 | 16,686 | null | null | null | null |
16,904 | comment | staunch | 2007-04-26T07:06:28 | null | Anyone care to go undercover and unmask them? :-)
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16,905 | story | raburmester | 2007-04-26T07:17:17 | why to not not start a startup | null | http://www.scribd.com/doc/20684/why-to-not-not-start-a-startup | 4 | null | 16,905 | 4 | [
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16,906 | story | russ | 2007-04-26T07:18:22 | 25 Things @ Google to see before you die | null | http://valleywag.com/tech/google/25-things-to-see-at-the-googleplex-before-you-die-234103.php | 2 | null | 16,906 | 0 | null | null | null |
16,907 | comment | ecuzzillo | 2007-04-26T07:24:27 | null | Why? It's already on his website, and there's already some hack if you don't like narrow lines. | null | null | 16,905 | 16,905 | null | [
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16,908 | comment | ecuzzillo | 2007-04-26T07:28:19 | null | Google, of course. I might also have been interested in Microsoft, just out of morbidity. Intel. Akamai. | null | null | 16,901 | 16,901 | null | [
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16,909 | comment | NonEUCitizen | 2007-04-26T07:29:40 | null | EU's immigration policy <i>might</i> be changing...<p><a href="http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2398020,00.html">http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2398020,00.html</a> | null | null | 16,671 | 16,597 | null | null | null | null |
16,910 | comment | NonEUCitizen | 2007-04-26T07:32:52 | null | How did you move to the EU? Thanks. | null | null | 16,721 | 16,597 | null | [
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16,911 | story | staunch | 2007-04-26T07:36:03 | Doom-like Proof of Concept FPS in Javascript | null | http://canvex.lazyilluminati.com/83/play.xhtml | 16 | null | 16,911 | 2 | [
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16,912 | story | michelson01 | 2007-04-26T07:41:26 | why can't i delete this test post? just edit, no delete feature? | null | http://www.techcrunch.com | 1 | null | 16,912 | -1 | null | null | true |
16,913 | comment | zach | 2007-04-26T07:49:49 | null | I know everything's negotiable, but are acquirers really willing to allow the most liberal kinds of golden ejector seats?<p>It seems way too easy for someone whose attitude undergoes a Swartzian transform to just Office Space it after the deal is done. And it would seem like the more you press for it, the more they suspect it's going to happen. | null | null | 16,689 | 16,689 | null | null | null | null |
16,914 | comment | wc | 2007-04-26T07:50:38 | null | test | null | null | 16,764 | 16,764 | null | null | null | null |
16,915 | story | staunch | 2007-04-26T07:59:50 | Building Catalyst Applications Presentation [video] | null | http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5854960129518644625 | 1 | null | 16,915 | 0 | null | null | null |
16,916 | comment | ido | 2007-04-26T08:22:54 | null | I came here on a tourist visa (valid for 3 months), then found a part time job & registered to university (M.Sc. in Mathematics & Computer Science).<p>Once I was registered to university I got a student's visa (valid for 1 year & renewable as long as I am still a student).<p>Once you manage to get a decent full time job and earn enough money (more then ~43,000 USD/year for Austria) getting an unrestricted work permission and a residency permit is not a problem. | null | null | 16,910 | 16,597 | null | null | null | null |
16,917 | comment | staunch | 2007-04-26T08:24:22 | null | If your goal is to really to communicate and not just insult (which isn't clear) I suggest using something like "elitism", "snobbery", or anything else that doesn't have so much historical baggage. | null | null | 16,631 | 15,554 | null | null | null | null |
16,918 | comment | ced | 2007-04-26T08:35:33 | null | Interesting concept, but Yikes, is their site low on details. <p>"working remotely and independently"<p>"Let us know your funding / salary requirements"<p>"with help of an offshore engineering team"<p>I think that having a "guild" of some sort, to share the risks and the success, is a good idea. But their particular implementation seems so impersonal. | null | null | 16,833 | 16,833 | null | null | null | null |
16,919 | comment | staunch | 2007-04-26T08:40:22 | null | Juwo: You're clearly hurt by the feedback you got from your announcement. You were brave to put yourself out there and solicit feedback, it was very respectable and ballsy. But you did a very poor job of accepting the <i>honest</i> criticism (that <i>you</i> solicited) gracefully.<p>Your outbursts are disruptive and you shouldn't be surprised that people don't enjoy being disrupted. For example: Did you really need to call Livingston a thief? How does that relate to startups -- even if it was remotely true?<p>Please just stop the bitterness and the lashing out. Put that energy into your product, where it belongs. This is a place of learning, not politics and grudges.
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16,920 | comment | staunch | 2007-04-26T08:47:57 | null | <i>"...felt somehow bad for getting karma for his achievement..."</i><p>You're getting YCNews points (karma) for giving us a link to good content, not for the content itself. And of course it's not like they mean much or there's a limited supply.
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16,921 | comment | ralph | 2007-04-26T09:14:22 | null | And I also made the request nine days ago. <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=13273">http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=13273</a> We need more feedback in that feature request thread really.<p>Perhaps the problem is due to the code starting to emit HTML very early on, before it knows what the title should be, in order to start providing data to the browser. As opposed to building all the HTML for the page before sending a byte. | null | null | 16,868 | 16,703 | null | null | null | null |
16,922 | comment | ralph | 2007-04-26T09:19:19 | null | As I said on the feature request thread, "The HTML header's title should have more page context in it so the browser's Back menu isn't a list of identical titles making selection difficult."<p>So if I'm viewing a comment, e.g. <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=13273">http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=13273</a> , the title could be "ralph's comment #13273 on Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator". Just sticking to the thread's title isn't sufficient since I'll still end up with many Back menu items the same as I traverse the "parent" links. Each different page should ideally have a distinct title. | null | null | 16,706 | 16,703 | null | null | null | null |
16,923 | comment | danw | 2007-04-26T09:28:00 | null | That 'world class intellect' gets stuff done so much more efficiently that it works out cheaper than several weaker coders. | null | null | 16,844 | 16,803 | null | [
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16,924 | comment | ced | 2007-04-26T09:42:29 | null | "think about what happens to the 99 people you turn away. They don't give up and go into plumbing. They apply for another job."<p>I want to know if that applies to YC. Specifically, how many applicants keep reapplying at every round? <p>People keep saying that there are "hundreds of great teams" and that your chances of being chosen are correspondingly low, but it might not be really true. | null | null | 16,803 | 16,803 | null | null | null | null |
16,925 | comment | ced | 2007-04-26T09:53:51 | null | What class would that be? | null | null | 16,756 | 16,714 | null | null | null | null |
16,926 | comment | Tichy | 2007-04-26T10:04:26 | null | How do you get "world class intellect" to work on a proprietary bug tracking software, though? I think it is written in ASP, too? (Could be mistaken, though). | null | null | 16,923 | 16,803 | null | [
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16,927 | comment | Tichy | 2007-04-26T10:05:09 | null | Maybe it just boils down to the benefits of advertising: we see the advertiser can afford the advertising, so he can't be a total loser. | null | null | 16,845 | 16,803 | null | [
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16,928 | comment | Tichy | 2007-04-26T10:10:21 | null | It highlights one aspect of Scribd, though: so far all links to Scribd I have seen were to pirated content (I don't think pg's essays are open source). That seems to be a huge difference to YouTube to me. At least YouTube enables people to share their homemade videos, which wasn't so easy to do before. For sharing homemade texts, there already lots of other established mechanisms (ie blogs). <p>What they have in common is the neat user experience (YouTube videos are the only ones that almost always work). I wish them the best anyway - though I'd rather see PDF and other bloated text formats disappear (and flash, too, for that matter - I don't want to be forced to keep the flash plugin just because all texts and videos come through YouTube or Scrib). | null | null | 16,905 | 16,905 | null | [
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16,929 | comment | Tichy | 2007-04-26T10:16:54 | null | Another possible interpretation would be that being rich makes you dumb... (I hope not) | null | null | 16,806 | 16,806 | null | null | null | null |
16,930 | comment | mmiller | 2007-04-26T10:18:41 | null | Your thesis is based on the idea that Microsoft is dead because nobody fears them anymore. I think this is the wrong way to look at it. Does fear = relevance? It can, but how many people fear IBM? I doubt many. IBM is not dead. It's come back from the ashes of the late 1980s. They used to be feared, but I don't think that's the case anymore. Probably the only company that does fear them is Sun.<p>I think one reason people are less afraid of Microsoft is they're doing things that are less scary. I agree with one commenter that customers might fear them more than entreprenuers do. They're gradually making their client technologies more cross-platform, not Windows specific. Customer requests were probably a big part of that, but it may reflect a change of consciousness on the part of Microsoft's workforce, too.<p>I think Microsoft will remain relevant, just less scary.<p>I think Google's gotten a little scary with the deal they made to censor search results in China. They found an exception to their "don't be evil" motto.
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16,931 | comment | jamongkad | 2007-04-26T10:22:12 | null | From what I gather "YES!", but I hope Loopt can change that behavior for the better. | null | null | 16,863 | 16,863 | null | null | null | null |
16,932 | comment | spazmatic | 2007-04-26T10:25:15 | null | seed (angel) funding in 1996: I wrote UNIX. I got rich enough to fly my jet to visit you. Here's $200K, I want 10% of the company.<p>seed (angel) funding in 2006: We wrote a web store. We got rich enough to fly you in a jet to visit us. Here's $10K, we want 20% of the company.<p>seed (angel) funding in 2007 and beyond: We hired some guys in india to make a web site. We got rich enough to buy a jetta. We can't tell you how much money we will give you, we want all of the company. (but only if it all works out in a couple of months.)
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16,933 | comment | davidw | 2007-04-26T10:34:05 | null | I think in some ways, I'm more interested in the "mere mortals" in that they seem more realistic, more attainable somehow. | null | null | 16,908 | 16,901 | null | null | null | null |
16,934 | comment | davidw | 2007-04-26T11:41:23 | null | My wife's post doc. I tried to send you some email, but didn't see an answer. I'm at davidw -[at]- dedasys.com | null | null | 16,043 | 15,628 | null | null | null | null |
16,935 | comment | presto10 | 2007-04-26T11:50:31 | null | RSS of best list, not only new. Thanks.
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16,936 | comment | dpapathanasiou | 2007-04-26T12:47:14 | null | The reception this gets from the market will be an interesting indicator for all you bubble watchers out there (ok, so it's the LSE, but it should still tell us something).<p>Blinkx looks like it has revenues, though, so even if the market reception is positive, it doesn't mean you can slap a "Web 2.0" label on something and IPO it (yet).
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16,937 | story | Sam_Odio | 2007-04-26T12:49:04 | Steve Jobs - is he not being investigated because everyone loves him? | null | http://gigaom.com/2007/04/26/apple-jobs-1q-2007-earnings/ | 8 | null | 16,937 | 10 | [
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16,938 | comment | youngnh | 2007-04-26T12:49:10 | null | On the flip side, it keeps you up on what your competition is working on. | null | null | 16,528 | 16,270 | null | null | null | null |
16,939 | comment | dpapathanasiou | 2007-04-26T12:49:41 | null | I hope we don't start seeing long threads about people checking their email every minute, wondering what to do if they don't get accepted, etc.<p>;) | null | null | 16,785 | 16,764 | null | [
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16,940 | comment | Sam_Odio | 2007-04-26T12:51:03 | null | Agreed. This has been already submitted guys: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=6668">http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=6668</a> | null | null | 16,907 | 16,905 | null | null | null | null |
16,941 | comment | dpapathanasiou | 2007-04-26T12:54:27 | null | There was a story in NY magazine a few months ago analyzing the option back-dating scandal at Apple.<p>The author of the piece concluded that because Jobs was so important to the company's worth (the estimate was that if Jobs had to leave the CEO post b/c of legal trouble, the stock price would lose up to half its value in one day), he was not going to be prosecuted, and other executives would take the fall instead. | null | null | 16,937 | 16,937 | null | [
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16,942 | comment | Sam_Odio | 2007-04-26T12:57:47 | null | You're right, by removing Jobs the SEC would be punishing the very people they claim to protect - the shareholders. However, the SEC doesn't seem to have a problem with this. After all, the massive fines they levy against companies (reducing future shareholder returns) accomplish the same thing.<p>Regardless, just because Jobs is valuable to the company shouldn't mean he's above the law. It's my understanding that CEOs convicted of securities fraud can still serve their post, assuming their not in jail. | null | null | 16,941 | 16,937 | null | [
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16,943 | comment | mojuba | 2007-04-26T13:00:59 | null | Looks like TheBusinessExperiment.com is currently down. Can you tell us please what was that about? | null | null | 16,794 | 15,748 | null | [
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16,944 | comment | jey | 2007-04-26T13:02:36 | null | Me too! ;-) | null | null | 16,858 | 16,714 | null | [
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16,945 | comment | dpapathanasiou | 2007-04-26T13:07:47 | null | <i>"Startups" seem to have that Get Big Fast mentality, where you're either the next YouTube in 18 months, or you're a failure. But it doesn't have to be that way...</i><p>That's exactly the point I was trying to make; well said. | null | null | 16,793 | 15,684 | null | null | null | null |
16,946 | comment | dpapathanasiou | 2007-04-26T13:10:17 | null | Sounds good; remember to announce when it's up and running. | null | null | 16,422 | 16,234 | null | null | null | null |
16,947 | comment | dpapathanasiou | 2007-04-26T13:10:46 | null | <i>If you want to call it WhyCombinator, you're going to have to buy the domain off me ;-)</i><p>Ha! | null | null | 16,458 | 16,234 | null | null | null | null |
16,948 | story | veritas | 2007-04-26T13:23:33 | Dupe... delete please! Thanks | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/26/adobe-open-sources-parts-of-flex-platform/ | 1 | null | 16,948 | -1 | null | null | true |
16,949 | story | jkush | 2007-04-26T13:26:26 | A Brave New Revenue Sharing World | null | http://danielhaggard.com/33/a-brave-new-revenue-sharing-world-part-2/ | 2 | null | 16,949 | 0 | null | null | null |
16,950 | story | veritas | 2007-04-26T13:26:49 | Paul Kedrosky: VC Investing Factoids from Q1 | null | http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2007/04/25/vc_investing_fa.html | 5 | null | 16,950 | 3 | [
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16,951 | comment | jkush | 2007-04-26T13:28:23 | null | Thanks for posting. Interesting stats. | null | null | 16,950 | 16,950 | null | [
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16,952 | comment | jkush | 2007-04-26T13:30:48 | null | What's most interesting is they ask what your revenue goals are. Does that mean in addition to spamming your site with traffic they'll click on some ads too? <p>Sounds like a disaster if you ask me. | null | null | 16,897 | 16,867 | null | null | null | null |
16,953 | comment | hhall | 2007-04-26T13:31:56 | null | Microsoft feels secure because of its momentum. How many complacent companies have lost their markets to more agile and inventive competitors? <p>Microsoft is not a technology inventor; it notices a growing market and comes in late. This worked in the past because its operating system and office systems lived on virtually every desk top and because it could undercut competitor prices. <p>Now they are facing a competitor that is also on every desktop and offers its products for free. Hard to undercut that. Even worse, this competitor is very inventive and is a comparable size.<p>"Take away their oxygen" is the phrase Bill Gates once described as the way of handling competitors. Whose oxygen is going to be taken away this time?
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16,954 | story | rokhayakebe | 2007-04-26T13:33:34 | Eharmony & Match.com for Co-founders. | null | 2 | null | 16,954 | 2 | [
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16,955 | comment | rokhayakebe | 2007-04-26T13:34:38 | null | Can someone build a match.com for people looking for co-founders. We are having a hell of hard time finding one. Please don't tell me craigslist. | null | null | 16,954 | 16,954 | null | [
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16,956 | comment | iamwil | 2007-04-26T13:43:32 | null | I've been lamenting about this for a long while. I think the openness of the mobile platform is starting to gain momentum, although it's a trickle right now. | null | null | 16,863 | 16,863 | null | null | null | null |
16,957 | story | dawie | 2007-04-26T13:49:14 | ThemBid.com - Make Companies Bid For Your Business | null | http://franticindustries.com/blog/2007/04/26/thembidcom-make-companies-bid-for-your-business/ | 2 | null | 16,957 | 1 | [
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16,958 | story | jslogan | 2007-04-26T14:02:24 | 10 tips to manage a customer crisis | null | http://www.jslogan.com/content/view/158/ | 1 | null | 16,958 | 0 | null | null | null |
16,959 | comment | yaacovtp | 2007-04-26T14:02:56 | null | Ha, I'll apply with a fake paid membership site. At $25/yr, the 100,000 registrations they guarantee will make me an instant millionaire! | null | null | 16,897 | 16,867 | null | null | null | null |
16,960 | comment | startupper | 2007-04-26T14:04:47 | null | Someone from the communications world. Chips, systems, etc.<p>Maybe the founders of cisco, qualcomm, juniper... The value and impact of these companies is significant, revolutionary. <p><p><p> | null | null | 16,901 | 16,901 | null | null | null | null |
16,961 | comment | veritas | 2007-04-26T14:04:50 | null | Yea... the numbers are pretty interesting. I wonder if the figures are just US based or for VCs across the globe. I figure the bio tech industry will keep getting more and more of the VC attention as the green wave rolls on. | null | null | 16,951 | 16,950 | null | null | null | null |
16,962 | comment | veritas | 2007-04-26T14:06:23 | null | Skype founders. Someone from India (Reliance or Infosys). Just a couple to see the experience outside of the US as well. | null | null | 16,901 | 16,901 | null | null | null | null |
16,963 | story | byrneseyeview | 2007-04-26T14:06:25 | TheStreet.com acquires Stockpickr | null | http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070425/20070425006226.html?.v=1 | 3 | null | 16,963 | 0 | null | null | null |
16,964 | comment | Elfan | 2007-04-26T14:11:27 | null | "FogBugz is written in Wasabi, a very advanced, functional-programming dialect of Basic with closures and lambdas and Rails-like active records that can be compiled down to VBScript, JavaScript, PHP4 or PHP5. Wasabi is a private, in-house language written by one of our best developers that is optimized specifically for developing FogBugz; the Wasabi compiler itself is written in C#."
<a href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/09/01.html">http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/09/01.html</a> | null | null | 16,926 | 16,803 | null | [
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16,965 | story | juwo | 2007-04-26T14:12:24 | Anyone want to collaborate on juwo? Looking for a good hacker. | null | http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=6108 | 1 | null | 16,965 | 0 | null | null | null |
16,966 | comment | juwo | 2007-04-26T14:13:11 | null | Please visit <a href="http://juwo.com">http://juwo.com</a> | null | null | 6,108 | 6,108 | null | [
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16,967 | story | juwo | 2007-04-26T14:15:35 | news.YC, Thanks for your website feedback! Mostly implemented here. Looking to make juwo more intuitive and easier to use. | null | http://juwo.com/earn_money.html#feedback | 3 | null | 16,967 | 28 | [
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16,968 | comment | omouse | 2007-04-26T14:17:20 | null | Is it me or have the TechCrunch comments gotten worse over the last month or two?
<a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/25/scribd-rocking-along-rumored-financing/#comment-1351566">http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/25/scribd-rocking-along-rumored-financing/#comment-1351566</a>
<a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/25/scribd-rocking-along-rumored-financing/#comment-1351732">http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/25/scribd-rocking-along-rumored-financing/#comment-1351732</a><p>Congratulations Scribd! You're popular and awesome enough to have haters :D | null | null | 16,870 | 16,870 | null | null | null | null |
16,969 | story | mattculbreth | 2007-04-26T14:38:37 | Mozy goes Mac--First really useful Mac Backup solution | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/25/mozy-goes-mac-first-really-useful-mac-hard-drive-backup-solution/ | 2 | null | 16,969 | 1 | [
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16,970 | story | omouse | 2007-04-26T14:38:46 | 16 year old college student's dream: exit with $1billion before 25 | null | http://valleywag.com/tech/pre_op/id-love-to-exit-with-a-good-1-billion-hopefully-by-25-255408.php | 2 | null | 16,970 | 6 | [
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16,971 | comment | mattculbreth | 2007-04-26T14:44:27 | null | I've been looking for a good backup solution, so this is cool. I'd looked at Carbonite before but it had a Windows version only.
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16,972 | story | pissedoff | 2007-04-26T14:44:44 | Advice needed: "friend" stole my idea...what to do? | null | 21 | null | 16,972 | 78 | [
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16,973 | story | rjam | 2007-04-26T14:45:26 | Has your credit card been STOLEN on the Internet? [PIC] Hilarious :) | null | http://don.antville.org/static/Don/images/cc.jpg | 2 | null | 16,973 | -1 | null | null | true |
16,974 | comment | krischan68 | 2007-04-26T14:45:47 | null | I didn't read all 411 comments, but I think saying that the desktop was dead in a general sense (due to AJAX) and cite Apple with OS X (core asset besides the iPod is OS X as desktop!) as a nail in Microsoft's coffin seems somewhat contradictory to me.<p>Btw.: I don't think that desktop apps are really dead. System file assets/album/playlist integration (iLife suite) or the comfort of a desktop UI (e.g. better shortcut integration - which pro doesn't work with time-saving Photoshop shortcuts) will be hard to mimick in an AJAX, browser-based setting.
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16,975 | comment | omouse | 2007-04-26T14:46:07 | null | She seems to dig making money, "I was running C's in school, but I didn't think much of it because I was making more than my teachers were." | null | null | 16,970 | 16,970 | null | [
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16,976 | story | sharpshoot | 2007-04-26T14:52:32 | Youtube prepares to serve ads | null | http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=22095&hed=YouTube+Lining+Up+Summer+Ads | 3 | null | 16,976 | 1 | [
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16,977 | comment | zaidf | 2007-04-26T14:52:56 | null | If your idea was so simple that a friend could steal AND execute as YOU envisioned, your friend isn't he problem--your idea is. | null | null | 16,972 | 16,972 | null | [
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16,978 | comment | sharpshoot | 2007-04-26T14:53:38 | null | how about partnering with your friend, seeing as you are the originator of the idea. Does he need you to execute upon this idea?<p>Has he launched yet? | null | null | 16,972 | 16,972 | null | null | null | null |
16,979 | comment | sharpshoot | 2007-04-26T14:54:47 | null | depends on what he told the friend. Having a long drawn out chat over several weeks could be possible. But i guess its the idea itself which is to be questioned | null | null | 16,977 | 16,972 | null | [
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16,980 | comment | pissedoff | 2007-04-26T14:56:01 | null | Back in Jan I went to a person well respected in the startup community (PG knows her) in BOS. She was a friend of a friend, I've known her for years..she previously had a high profile startup that crashed in the dotcom era. I wanted to bounce the idea off her and get her feedback. So I sent a presentation (marked confidential) and followed up with an hour long chat, which was helpful. She moved to the west coast the day after we talked and 2 weeks later I find that she taken my 90% of my idea, mixed it up with social network and gotten seed funding from a small west coast VC. I've been developing this idea on a shoestring and on the side for 6 months. I've got a lot invested in this. She's hired a indian development firm and been spamming blogs with her site name to get registrations. I've applied for a patent, but not sure it can be of any help right now. What action should I be taking? (besides wanting to run her over) | null | null | 16,972 | 16,972 | null | [
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16,981 | comment | pissedoff | 2007-04-26T14:56:49 | null | sorry...read the story below | null | null | 16,979 | 16,972 | null | null | null | null |
16,982 | comment | veritas | 2007-04-26T15:00:36 | null | Hmm... nothing about revenue sharing that I can see in the article. | null | null | 16,976 | 16,976 | null | null | null | null |
16,983 | comment | bobb | 2007-04-26T15:02:01 | null | This is really silly stuff. Microsoft is successful because they deal with all the messy stuff around a platform - 3rd party vendors, APIs, integration, training, blah blah blah...Just take a look at Google's online software and you will see that it sorely lacks competitive features. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Google says "I give up" when it comes to providing a platform for the proliferation of devices that will not end soon. Add to it the scattershot nature of their search engine (still based on text search, unable to find stuff such as "middle aged female authors from the 13th century") and you see Google for what it is - a company that has made a huge amount of money from advertising - period. Do they have some cool technology - yes. So did Ashton Tate - does anyone remember the company that was the worlds largest software vendor in 1990? Not really...
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16,984 | story | dawie | 2007-04-26T15:02:51 | Brainstorming Ways to Get Attention Online - Funny | null | http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/brainstorming-ways-to-get-attention-online/ | 2 | null | 16,984 | 2 | [
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16,985 | comment | jkush | 2007-04-26T15:04:01 | null | Doesn't help much, but one thing you can do is feel good that you have good ideas. The second thing you can do is launch a competitor immediately. If she's using an outsourcing firm and isn't actually doing the development herself you've got a huge advantage. Use it.<p>I'd be willing to bet that since it was your idea, you have a much better understanding of the problem and how you're solving it than she does. Use that too. See where she falls down in her offering and exploit it. <p>Just my two cents. | null | null | 16,980 | 16,972 | null | [
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16,986 | comment | bobb | 2007-04-26T15:05:17 | null | C# is so much better than Java it's not funny - sorry - I guess you would have to try it out to know... | null | null | 10,337 | 9,770 | null | null | null | null |
16,987 | comment | whacked_new | 2007-04-26T15:06:31 | null | Wow. Planning to hit the Forbes billion list within a decade. Even Brin and Page wouldn't have had the balls to claim that in 1998. Respect for the ambition, but a bad role model nonetheless. | null | null | 16,970 | 16,970 | null | [
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16,988 | comment | veritas | 2007-04-26T15:06:35 | null | Well...<p>1. Partner with her if possible.<p>2. Get a lawyer's opinion. There may be legal actions you can take, but I can't provide any advice on this.<p>3. Build faster and launch faster than her. | null | null | 16,972 | 16,972 | null | [
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16,989 | comment | omouse | 2007-04-26T15:09:08 | null | Did she take your presentation too? | null | null | 16,980 | 16,972 | null | [
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16,990 | comment | pissedoff | 2007-04-26T15:09:39 | null | Yes, it's still sitting in her gmail account. :-( | null | null | 16,989 | 16,972 | null | [
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16,991 | comment | omouse | 2007-04-26T15:12:26 | null | I'd go straight to #3. #1 won't work because he trusts her much less than before. #2 isn't bad, but lawyers = $$$ right? and that $$$ and time could be spent doing #3 no? | null | null | 16,988 | 16,972 | null | [
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16,992 | comment | jkush | 2007-04-26T15:14:25 | null | Your navigation links are broken. They still have the 8080 port reference from your development code.
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16,993 | comment | sharpshoot | 2007-04-26T15:14:56 | null | While i think the principle is great, the key to building successful marketplaces is in building liquidity. Seeding the site with a restricted type of service e.g. automotive repair while asking many people in that sector to come and bid for business would have been a sensible way to seed it.<p>Thats very important to make this idea work.
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16,994 | comment | sharpshoot | 2007-04-26T15:17:35 | null | y2's a joke? I feel its getting close to getting acquired. Patrick - $10? | null | null | 16,885 | 16,869 | null | null | null | null |
16,995 | comment | eposts | 2007-04-26T15:21:04 | null | Do you have a working prototype? If not got one out there ASAP, otherwise your startup might die before it starts. <p><a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html">http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html</a>
8. Slowness in Launching<p>
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16,996 | comment | omouse | 2007-04-26T15:24:30 | null | What the heck does she even <i>do</i>? | null | null | 16,987 | 16,970 | null | null | null | null |
16,997 | comment | JMiao | 2007-04-26T15:27:51 | null | I guess, at the very least, more YC clones means more business for Heysan. | null | null | 16,764 | 16,764 | null | [
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16,998 | story | dawie | 2007-04-26T15:27:54 | 11 Almost Perfect Business Layouts | Smashing Magazine | null | http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/04/26/11-almost-perfect-business-layouts/ | 9 | null | 16,998 | 2 | [
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16,999 | story | eposts | 2007-04-26T15:28:17 | At what point do you share your idea/prototye with others? | null | 5 | null | 16,999 | 9 | [
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