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17,800 | comment | timg | 2007-04-29T01:15:34 | null | "Tell her about how she can now call her cousin for free [..] It fulfills a need that most humans have - the need to interact socially with others."<p>But the same could be said of gmail - a definite web2.0 app. | null | null | 17,773 | 17,773 | null | [
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17,801 | comment | juwo | 2007-04-29T01:19:59 | null | Never heard of them. (heard of ruby only here, in YC).<p>old wine in new bottles.<p>if-then-else by any other name... is just as tedious.<p> | null | null | 17,756 | 17,679 | null | [
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17,802 | story | pg | 2007-04-29T01:40:17 | Trend expert says probability of a recession this year is 17% | null | http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2007/04/28/jim_hamilton_do.html | 5 | null | 17,802 | 8 | [
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17,803 | comment | pg | 2007-04-29T01:41:40 | null | ...which is probably only a little higher than the average year. | null | null | 17,802 | 17,802 | null | null | null | null |
17,804 | comment | pg | 2007-04-29T01:44:03 | null | How much Ajax do you see on this site? (The answer is that I don't know, because I haven't tried.) | null | null | 17,793 | 17,669 | null | null | null | null |
17,805 | story | jkopelman | 2007-04-29T02:15:53 | Google - The next vertical search engine? | null | http://redeye.firstround.com/2006/11/google_the_next.html | 4 | null | 17,805 | 0 | null | null | null |
17,806 | comment | yaacovtp | 2007-04-29T02:26:13 | null | The guy at my hardware store who sold dozens of new paver driveways last year said that business has practically shut down this year. Housing is definitely affecting consumer spending.<p>The Dow always sets records before going into a recession.
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17,807 | comment | yaacovtp | 2007-04-29T02:28:41 | null | All I use is email, weather, finance, groups, search and news when I'm bored (already read 3 papers). The rest can go. | null | null | 17,745 | 17,745 | null | null | null | null |
17,808 | comment | jward | 2007-04-29T02:53:59 | null | I don't myspace and such people who I can just go for a beer with. A meetup would be best, but I'm not of the mind to spend a grand or so to fly to another country. Not even counting the travel time, I'd probably spend more time just in security than talking to other people.<p>Technology is a poor replacement for human interaction, but I take what I can get. | null | null | 17,727 | 17,711 | null | null | null | null |
17,809 | story | jkopelman | 2007-04-29T03:00:52 | YouTube - Supermarket 2.0 | null | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9MgHuitMwU | 3 | null | 17,809 | 1 | [
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17,810 | story | bootload | 2007-04-29T03:28:27 | A little about Meraki | null | http://meraki.net/about/ | 6 | null | 17,810 | 2 | [
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17,811 | comment | nostrademons | 2007-04-29T03:41:43 | null | 'Course, the Dow also sets records roughly half the time that the U.S. is <i>not</i> in a recession.<p>I do see some worrying signs - real estate for suburban Boston really is a bloodbath for sellers, the numbers on consumer debt remind me a lot of 1929, and some local restaurants seem to have reduced business lately. But if I had to make a call, I'd guess that we're midcycle now, at the beginning of a large boom. | null | null | 17,806 | 17,802 | null | [
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17,812 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-29T03:42:06 | null | <i>'... focused on changing the economics of access ...'</i><p>interesting little bit of hardware. Rtm gives technical advise. | null | null | 17,810 | 17,810 | null | null | null | null |
17,813 | comment | jaggederest | 2007-04-29T04:03:41 | null | heh, that's what you think. Try building anything substantial in one of the languages I named and then going back to java.<p>Ruby programs are maybe a tenth the size, give or take, <p>Python similarly small. <p>Haskell will blow your mind because you basically never use control structures or type declarations. <p>Continuation-passing scheme, smalltalk, erlang... <p>Any of these things will change the way you develop, probably immensely for the better. | null | null | 17,801 | 17,679 | null | [
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17,814 | comment | gyro_robo | 2007-04-29T04:51:21 | null | I think present-day Latin speakers have a stronger correlation with bad fashion sense (funny robes and stupid hats) and scandals than with "smarts". | null | null | 17,761 | 17,701 | null | null | null | null |
17,815 | comment | gyro_robo | 2007-04-29T04:51:40 | null | I know about Lisp. | null | null | 17,763 | 17,701 | null | null | null | null |
17,816 | story | jaggederest | 2007-04-29T04:55:21 | Scheme in Haskell: write a parser, learn two fascinating languages | null | http://halogen.note.amherst.edu/~jdtang/scheme_in_48/tutorial/overview.html | 8 | null | 17,816 | 2 | [
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17,817 | comment | vlad | 2007-04-29T05:02:04 | null | I don't see how Xobni, written in C#, is more Web 2.0 than Skype is. I disagree that Web 2.0 means stuff for nerds, as well. Xobni isn't for nerds. | null | null | 17,773 | 17,773 | null | null | null | null |
17,818 | comment | rms | 2007-04-29T05:20:07 | null | But how long do we have until the dollar falls through the floor?<p>If I had some significant assets I would be starting a company in Europe so I can afford to rebuy America once it is dirt cheap. | null | null | 17,811 | 17,802 | null | [
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17,819 | story | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-29T06:10:52 | Mouse brain simulated on computer | null | http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6600965.stm | 3 | null | 17,819 | 0 | null | null | null |
17,820 | comment | woot | 2007-04-29T06:23:03 | null | Romans 12:19 | null | null | 16,972 | 16,972 | null | null | null | null |
17,821 | comment | SwellJoe | 2007-04-29T06:28:19 | null | Not much meat in that article.
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17,822 | comment | jayliew | 2007-04-29T06:32:16 | null | May I ask what the point of this post is? Can anyone here vouch for their service, or this is post really a viral ad campaign? | null | null | 17,737 | 17,737 | null | [
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17,823 | comment | byrneseyeview | 2007-04-29T06:37:46 | null | I'd put in a link to Google and some adsense ads.
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17,824 | story | rwalker | 2007-04-29T06:42:11 | Hasta la Vista, Vista | null | http://drraw.blogspot.com/2007/04/hasta-la-vista-vista.html | 20 | null | 17,824 | 5 | [
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17,825 | comment | b00radley | 2007-04-29T06:45:22 | null | Whoa, and their advisor is <i>the</i> Robert Morris, who made the "Great Worm": <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm</a>
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17,826 | comment | kevinrose | 2007-04-29T06:50:23 | null | Twice. Once with an Indian development team through Getafreelancer and then another project with an individual from Romania.
The Indian team did real good job and still provide quality support. The Romanian guy took my money and left. Doesn't reply to my mails anymore.<p>A friend of mine hired an Indian firm for one of his projects, but he got ripped off.<p>If you get a good offshore team, its definitely an asset. I am lucky i have one. <p>Advice[not suggestion]: as far as possible get someone from local area. Outsource to offshore teams only if skills required are not locally available.Taking chances would result in real good waste of time.
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17,827 | comment | gyro_robo | 2007-04-29T07:00:41 | null | One thing to remember is if it works in Firefox, it works on every platform. Windows people can still use your site even if they need to click another icon first...<p>IE-only means you lose all the Mac people, all the Linux people, and probably turn off the majority of the more clued-in Windows people. <p>Early adopters -- your target audience I assume -- don't tend to use IE.
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17,828 | comment | dhouston | 2007-04-29T07:13:11 | null | i think another factor that distinguishes skype (and joost, and xobni, etc.) as not inherently "web 2.0" is serious secret sauce/engineering under the hood (protocols, algorithms, search, scalability, etc.) see <a href="http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-europe-06/bh-eu-06-biondi/bh-eu-06-biondi-up.pdf">http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-europe-06/bh-eu-06-biondi/bh-eu-06-biondi-up.pdf</a> -- very cool stuff (anti-reversing protection, crypto, clever protocols, etc.)<p>one of the biggest drawbacks in the web 2.0 world from a business perspective is that often the technology provides little barrier to entry. with the typical web 2.0 idea you're not competing on technology but rather on distribution/PR/marketing/engineering user adoption -- things most hackers aren't inherently good at. <p>one critical point of leverage that good hackers have is the ability to provide solutions to hard engineering problems that are usable and valued by normal people (google, skype, kazaa, bittorrent, etc.) conversely, if you're not solving hard problems, or are solving hard problems that normal people don't care about, your advantage as a good hacker is diminished. | null | null | 17,773 | 17,773 | null | [
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17,829 | comment | markovich | 2007-04-29T07:31:45 | null | Gmail is not really a Web 2.0 application. It's just email, but done right. There is no attempt towards buzzword compliance in gmail. Don't confuse synchronous XML requests with Web 2.0 | null | null | 17,800 | 17,773 | null | [
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17,830 | comment | Powerscroft | 2007-04-29T07:32:07 | null | Not much meat in hte article but it is there though so we can take a view of what is going on.
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17,831 | comment | maxklein | 2007-04-29T07:39:57 | null | That is a very interesting perspective, and I think that it is something that should seriously be considered by anyone working on a startup. If you solve a complex problem, and package it for the end user as easy-to-use, you have a huge advantage, because any competitor will require at least 6 months to copy your concept, giving you a comfortable head start.<p>But if you make an online todo list, clones will appear in weeks and it will turn into a grueling marketing task. And considering the size of most web startups, investing time in marketing takes away from development time. So you cannot release new features as quickly, and sooner or later, your users start drifting away.<p>Good programmers _should_ work on complex problems. Good marketers should hire a cheap indian team to quickly create their web app concept. | null | null | 17,828 | 17,773 | null | null | null | null |
17,832 | comment | rms | 2007-04-29T07:44:23 | null | the upper class? | null | null | 17,774 | 17,774 | null | null | null | null |
17,833 | story | brett | 2007-04-29T08:06:44 | Interactive Q&A: Dick Costolo, Co-Founder and CEO of FeedBurner - Seeking Alpha | null | http://internet.seekingalpha.com/article/33232 | 1 | null | 17,833 | 0 | null | null | null |
17,834 | story | danielha | 2007-04-29T08:13:25 | Losing weight the Web 2.0 way - Fat-Off challenge | null | http://www.centernetworks.com/web-2-0-fat-off-challenge | 1 | null | 17,834 | 0 | null | null | null |
17,835 | comment | danielha | 2007-04-29T08:22:31 | null | Arguably the point of all Web 2.0 apps is just <i>X</i>, but done right.<p>The label's association with buzzwords, pastel colors, and flashy JavaScript is a side consequence. | null | null | 17,829 | 17,773 | null | null | null | null |
17,836 | comment | danielha | 2007-04-29T08:33:28 | null | Can't comment on mozy, but getdropbox.com is pretty cool.<p>(how's that for viral?) | null | null | 17,822 | 17,737 | null | null | null | null |
17,837 | comment | danielha | 2007-04-29T08:39:50 | null | Do you think rewriting it in Flex will provide you new users? | null | null | 17,799 | 17,679 | null | [
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17,838 | comment | ralph | 2007-04-29T08:43:33 | null | What extra data is in the closure for "reply" that means it isn't a simple URL? Is it just what to do after the reply is complete, i.e. what post to return to viewing? Is there a reason this isn't taken from the Referer instead?<p>I guess this technique doesn't scale too well unless the hash table is either shared across servers or a user is kept on one server, which then causes problems of its own.<p>I'm guessing 20,000 closures is plenty and I've been bitten by server restarts. Out of curiosity, do you keep track of the minimum age of the 20,000th hash entry prior to deleting to make room for another? If that's something huge, it would confirm server restarts are the normal reason the "unknown fnid" message is seen. | null | null | 17,705 | 17,669 | null | [
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17,839 | comment | ralph | 2007-04-29T08:45:53 | null | What other languages do you think don't rise to this level? | null | null | 17,758 | 17,701 | null | [
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17,840 | story | petervandijck | 2007-04-29T08:58:46 | The top 10 presentations on scaling websites: twitter, Flickr, Bloglines, Vox and more. | null | http://poorbuthappy.com/ease/archives/2007/04/29/3616/the-top-10-presentation-on-scaling-websites-twitter-flickr-bloglines-vox-and-more | 19 | null | 17,840 | 0 | null | null | null |
17,841 | comment | npk | 2007-04-29T08:59:13 | null | I love this kind of site. Target user: anyone who is interested in trading. Heck, I don't know, but say they do a good job at attracting users.<p>Think about the power of the data they can collect. If they get a statistically significant sample of traders, stockalicious could start their own hedge fund. (see <a href="http://www.predictwallstreet.com">http://www.predictwallstreet.com</a> as another example.)<p> | null | null | 17,774 | 17,774 | null | null | null | null |
17,842 | comment | ashu | 2007-04-29T09:10:57 | null | Awesome post. Thanks! Let us know your Mac experiences as well... I got my Dell desktop pre-loaded with Vista. Reading your post, I am glad I installed and dual booted into Ubuntu right away. <p>Also, about 10 days later, I erased the Vista partition, since I needed the disk space. Why did I need disk space so urgently in a newly bought machine? Well, Vista "apparently" (at least according to its partition resizer) needs at least 32 gigs of disk space and wouldn't let you resize the primary partition below that number. WTF! <p>I can't believe how dumb the top-level technical people at Microsoft have become.
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17,843 | story | andrew_null | 2007-04-29T09:13:41 | Andrew Chen: 10 obvious strategies to ruthlessly acquire users | null | http://andrewchen.typepad.com/andrew_chens_blog/2007/04/10_obvious_stra.html | 12 | null | 17,843 | 1 | [
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17,844 | story | Laurentvw | 2007-04-29T09:33:02 | Looking for the perfect DB storage array for your hot Web 2.0 company? | null | http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2007/04/27/the-perfect-db-storage-array | 5 | null | 17,844 | 0 | null | null | null |
17,845 | comment | ralph | 2007-04-29T09:40:52 | null | This is a dupe. Someone else pointed us to his ACM award paper, <i>Reflections on Trusting Trust</i>.<p>And it isn't Startup News, or anything related to their technology.<p>I can go and dig out a hundred interesting but irrelevant URLs, but refrain because I don't want news.y becoming another Slashdot, etc. | null | null | 17,782 | 17,782 | null | null | null | null |
17,846 | comment | ralph | 2007-04-29T10:11:57 | null | This is not Startup News-worthy. Startup News is not Slashdot. | null | null | 17,792 | 17,792 | null | null | null | null |
17,847 | comment | davidw | 2007-04-29T10:12:32 | null | Anyone up for a freenode one? Reason: that's where the other channels I visit are. | null | null | 17,717 | 17,711 | null | [
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17,848 | story | rms | 2007-04-29T10:40:32 | Anyone tried a service like this to boost signups/sales? | null | http://www.offermatica.com/sales.html | 1 | null | 17,848 | 0 | null | null | null |
17,849 | story | danw | 2007-04-29T10:50:06 | Google Lays Out Its Mobile User Experience Strategy | null | http://informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/04/google_lays_out.html | 2 | null | 17,849 | 0 | null | null | null |
17,850 | story | MEHOM | 2007-04-29T11:01:06 | In order to collaborate, is it important to be close to each other? | null | 2 | null | 17,850 | 7 | [
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17,851 | comment | petervandijck | 2007-04-29T11:10:44 | null | Not at all. It's important to have trust, but I've had great collaborations with people I've never met.<p>Timezone's do come into play, but they're not much of a problem either. | null | null | 17,850 | 17,850 | null | [
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17,852 | story | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-29T11:13:27 | Vudu casts its spell on Hollywood | null | http://news.com.com/Vudu+casts+its+spell+on+Hollywood/2100-1026_3-6180048.html?tag=nefd.top | 2 | null | 17,852 | 0 | null | null | null |
17,853 | story | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-29T11:14:52 | Design your own watch without leaving home | null | http://news.com.com/Design+your+own+watch+without+leaving+home/2100-1038_3-6180031.html?tag=nefd.top | 1 | null | 17,853 | 0 | null | null | null |
17,854 | story | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-29T11:18:54 | VMware IPO could raise $100 million | null | http://news.com.com/VMware+IPO+could+raise+100+million/2100-1012_3-6180017.html?tag=nefd.top | 1 | null | 17,854 | 0 | null | null | null |
17,855 | story | kevinrose | 2007-04-29T11:22:36 | Common Lisp lexical closure [video] | null | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFhPot-bgtI | 5 | null | 17,855 | 1 | [
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17,856 | story | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-29T11:23:57 | Enhanced Virtualization on Intel Architecture-based Servers [pdf] | null | http://www.intel.com/business/bss/products/server/virtualization_wp.pdf?ppc_cid=EntMul1H07us_229 | 1 | null | 17,856 | 0 | null | null | null |
17,857 | story | danw | 2007-04-29T11:38:33 | . | null | http://www.b3tards.com/u/c62383b2fb0dc7237700/manuel3.jpg | 2 | null | 17,857 | -1 | null | null | true |
17,858 | story | Dianna | 2007-04-29T11:40:53 | Here you have got two interesting players showing us all that we may not have reached the limit just yet | null | http://www.elsua.net/2007/04/25/quintura-now-on-to-visualise-video-search-where-is-the-limit/ | 7 | null | 17,858 | 1 | [
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17,859 | story | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-29T11:43:12 | Improving citizen tech in the city by the bay [video with ad] | null | http://video.zdnet.com/CIOSessions/?p=130 | 1 | null | 17,859 | 0 | null | null | null |
17,860 | story | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-29T11:53:26 | Virtual becomes reality at Stanford | null | http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/04/29/MNGFPPGVPF1.DTL | 3 | null | 17,860 | 0 | null | null | null |
17,861 | story | sharpshoot | 2007-04-29T11:53:32 | Lessons from scaling MySpace (inside Myspace.com) | null | http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0%2C1397%2C2082921%2C00.asp | 1 | null | 17,861 | 0 | null | null | null |
17,862 | story | danw | 2007-04-29T12:31:25 | Time for an Internet File System? | null | http://techfold.com/2007/04/18/time-for-an-internet-file-system-ifs/ | 3 | null | 17,862 | 1 | [
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17,863 | story | ankit | 2007-04-29T12:49:17 | How much hacking one should know before starting a startup? | null | 1 | null | 17,863 | 10 | [
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17,864 | comment | ankit | 2007-04-29T12:52:15 | null | Just wondering if there is a certain level of hacking one should cross before starting a startup. | null | null | 17,863 | 17,863 | null | [
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17,865 | comment | sharpshoot | 2007-04-29T13:06:18 | null | once you've decided on your idea build it. If you can sustain the amount of product innovation without reaching your limits as a hacker you'll then know thats the level you need to be at.<p>Start building and then take it from there.. | null | null | 17,863 | 17,863 | null | null | null | null |
17,866 | story | sharpshoot | 2007-04-29T13:07:22 | Who's new to news.yc? Say hello here | null | 3 | null | 17,866 | 5 | [
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17,867 | comment | sharpshoot | 2007-04-29T13:08:44 | null | Just noticed we've got a lot of new folk on news.yc. Welcome! Introduce yourself and say hello to the community.<p>I'm Sumon, check out my profile if you want to know more. | null | null | 17,866 | 17,866 | null | null | null | null |
17,868 | comment | whacked_new | 2007-04-29T13:24:41 | null | Valid point. But also look at it this way.<p>An English speaker who has mastered Japanese will have gone from an SVO (subject verb object) language to an SOV language (Chinese is not as convenient an example, because it is also SVO). This is a completely different "paradigm of thinking," just for the comparison. Your brain needs to sort the order of concepts before your initiate your utterance. You need to match particles to their respective concepts. For anybody who never learned such a system, it doesn't come easily. But those who have gone to a sufficient level will become more perceptive of the nuances and particulars of "language" as a whole. This knowledge is far less accessible to those who only know one language. A linguist who only speaks one language will not be taken seriously.<p>Similarly, a competent programmer is likely to be versed in several languages, and likely they will fall into different paradigms. A programmer who only does LISP is likely to not have the same level of knowledge about the computer system than one who knows several languages. After all, you are looking at multiple ways of generating 1s and 0s. As such, knowing LISP certainly cannot imply anything. Of course, the author anticipated this response, and added a loophole in the article, which I consider a bit too wide, hence the criticism.<p>There are visible reasons why LISP trains your thinking. My post above is pretty poorly written, but the reference to spaghetti code is like the BASIC example you mention. Supposedly, good programming practice discourages spaghetti code, and BASIC was taken as the bad example. But people think in spaghetti code. If you pry open von Neumann's brain, it would probably be uber-spaghetti code. It would probably decompile into something more BASIC-like than LISP-like, but he's insanely smart.<p>Yes, it's the logic training. But if that was the theme, the article should have addressed it clearly. I just felt like pointing out how the current topic in the blog does a rather weak generalization, which helps more to propagate misconceptions than it does to educate. | null | null | 17,738 | 17,701 | null | [
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17,869 | comment | juwo | 2007-04-29T13:36:02 | null | Have you downloaded and run juwo?<p>Why not? Please tell us frankly.<p>The answer can be revealing. | null | null | 17,837 | 17,679 | null | null | null | null |
17,870 | comment | whacked_new | 2007-04-29T13:41:56 | null | 11. as seen on news.yc: get famous person to participate. the rest will trickle down. :) | null | null | 17,843 | 17,843 | null | null | null | null |
17,871 | comment | juwo | 2007-04-29T13:43:40 | null | 1) Is this a jobs board?<p>2) What competitive advantage do you have? Over the dozens (more?) already out there?<p>Suggestion: Is it possible to write a meta bot, so that when a visitor to your site types in the job keywords, then your bot will log in (using <i>your</i> login), to say, monster.com and retrieve the relevant 'records', then log in to dice, then log in to....?<p>Then you can post the <i>summarized</i> results. "Go to dice for Usability analyst. OR, Post your resume at npost.com/founderfinder.com for a cofounder"<p>IMHO, that will be very useful. Monster et. al. wont sue you either, because you arent cloaking their stuff in yours'.<p>
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17,872 | comment | juwo | 2007-04-29T13:45:29 | null | can I write a standalone desktop program in Ruby? (I dont know).<p>BTW my feedback on your work <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=17871">http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=17871</a> | null | null | 17,813 | 17,679 | null | [
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17,873 | comment | ankit | 2007-04-29T13:49:15 | null | I have had ppl suggesting that one should sit and learn as much skills before starting out, but somehow it did'nt seem right to me....
That was a gud suggestion though | null | null | 17,863 | 17,863 | null | null | null | null |
17,874 | comment | sharpshoot | 2007-04-29T14:08:40 | null | Here's a quote i live by "action is a powerful drug". Momentum builds momentum, procrastinating that you haven't got the right skills is baseless. You don't know until you actually start doing it.<p>Remember, a startup is the only job you can do without being qualified for it :) You'll never have enough skills and everything opens up a new can of worms. | null | null | 17,863 | 17,863 | null | null | null | null |
17,875 | comment | fpgibson | 2007-04-29T14:09:30 | null | Trust can be harder to establish online. Online collaborations work when there are measurable indications of commitment.
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17,876 | comment | danw | 2007-04-29T14:14:36 | null | Just get started as soon as you can! The best way to figure out if you have the right level of ability is to try to build it, you can learn the bits you're missing as you go along. | null | null | 17,864 | 17,863 | null | null | null | null |
17,877 | story | deborah | 2007-04-29T14:27:54 | Searching For An Encore To Skype | null | http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_48/b4011067.htm | 5 | null | 17,877 | 0 | null | null | null |
17,878 | comment | nonrecursive | 2007-04-29T14:28:04 | null | I wonder how many people here like Ayn Rand's work? | null | null | 17,790 | 17,674 | null | [
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17,879 | story | mattjaynes | 2007-04-29T14:34:16 | JavaScript and HTML: Forgiveness by Default | null | http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000848.html | 5 | null | 17,879 | 0 | null | null | null |
17,880 | story | usablecontent | 2007-04-29T14:34:47 | Skype Steals PR Ordeal from Amazon | null | http://startupmeme.com/2007/04/29/skype-steals-pr-ordeal-from-amazon/ | 3 | null | 17,880 | 0 | [
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17,881 | story | mattjaynes | 2007-04-29T14:40:10 | Wikipedia: Special Treatment for Wikia and some other Wikis | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/28/wikipedia-special-treatment-for-wikia-and-other-wikis/ | 2 | null | 17,881 | 0 | null | null | null |
17,882 | comment | omouse | 2007-04-29T14:42:38 | null | Confirms that Microsoft is dead/irrelevant. People should be scared of Google now. I've already set a Google News alert for "Cyberdyne Systems Google", "Skynet Google" and "Cyberdyne Systems Skynet" ;P | null | null | 17,734 | 17,683 | null | null | null | null |
17,883 | comment | vlad | 2007-04-29T14:45:23 | null | null | null | 17,880 | 17,880 | null | null | null | true |
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17,884 | comment | omouse | 2007-04-29T14:45:49 | null | Yes: <a href="http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubyscript2exe/index.html">http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubyscript2exe/index.html</a><p>Next time just Google for "Ruby standalone". Saves me the trouble of doing it for you ;) | null | null | 17,872 | 17,679 | null | [
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17,885 | comment | jey | 2007-04-29T15:05:22 | null | Who cares whether product X fits nebulous poorly defined hype-generating buzzword Y? | null | null | 17,773 | 17,773 | null | null | null | null |
17,886 | story | jslogan | 2007-04-29T15:06:52 | Noboby cares about your business | null | http://www.jslogan.com/content/view/163/ | 1 | null | 17,886 | 0 | null | null | null |
17,887 | comment | iamwil | 2007-04-29T15:14:51 | null | This sounds like a PR submarine that pg talked about. I only tried it out briefly, and Quinat<i> shows a web of related searches, much like another one...Brain..something. Perhaps it's simply because I'm not use to that way of searching, so I should give it a go again. <p>However, their search results are from Google. It's not really doing anything innovating in the search part of search, but rather the visualization of search. It's good to put a finger on the pulse, but I nearly confused one with the other. | null | null | 17,858 | 17,858 | null | null | null | null |
17,888 | comment | mdakin | 2007-04-29T15:19:55 | null | A cool aspect of closures not stressed in the video is that they end up capturing all enclosing lexical environments (not just the parameter environments), even those you make using let! For example in Common Lisp:<p>(let ((x 0)) (defun counter () (setq x (+ x 1)) x))<p>Or in Scheme:<p>(define counter (let ((x 0)) (lambda () (set! x (+ x 1)) x)))<p>You can make a closure named "counter" that has access to the environment containing "x" so that every time you call those functions they return the next "x".<p>If you really want to understand closures I recommend reading Section 3.2 of SICP [1] and learning how to draw environment diagrams.<p>[1] <a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-21.html#%25_sec_3.2">http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-21.html#%25_sec_3.2</a>
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17,889 | story | Sam_Odio | 2007-04-29T15:34:46 | Integration Is The Killer App | null | http://startupmeme.com/2007/04/29/integration-is-the-killer-app/ | 10 | null | 17,889 | 12 | [
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17,890 | story | mojuba | 2007-04-29T15:40:18 | A bit of future Lisp [fiction] | null | http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/robotandbaby/robotandbaby.html | 6 | null | 17,890 | 1 | [
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17,891 | comment | bsaunder | 2007-04-29T15:42:45 | null | Let me reconsider (I had forgotten about Paul Graham's, Python article). I suspect there are other langauges (not many) that reach this same level of intelligence tagging.<p>I think the second paragraph of his Python article captures much of my intent. But still, there seems to be something just a bit different about LISP than most other langauges.<p>Perhaps it is LISP's durribility or the fact that over time different (smart) people develop new lanuages and eventually begin to incorporate more and more features of LISP. LISP clearly got some things right in a fundamental way that every one seems to be rediscovering every decade. This leads me to believe that if you understand LISP, you have a deeper understanding of how things really fit together.<p>With specific regards to your question, I'd include most main stream programming languages (but that's kinda obvious). At this point, I'd include Ruby in this list, but may not Python. Although even in the case of Python, it strikes me as being very similar to other OO languages (better perhaps, but similar none-the-less).<p> | null | null | 17,839 | 17,701 | null | null | null | null |
17,892 | comment | ced | 2007-04-29T15:43:17 | null | How do recessions affect the market for startups? | null | null | 17,802 | 17,802 | null | [
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17,893 | comment | ecuzzillo | 2007-04-29T15:46:57 | null | I doubt the top-level people (responsible for things like the 32 G requirement) at MS are really that dumb, because if they were, we would probably hear more horror stories. Ballmer is dumb, but he's a little high-level for that kind of misfeature. No, I think the problem is an emergent property of the MS bureaucracy system; everybody in it hates it and hates the products it produces, but it has too much inertia for anybody who wants to fix it to do so. | null | null | 17,842 | 17,824 | null | null | null | null |
17,894 | comment | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-29T16:12:14 | null | What a great piece of techno fiction. | null | null | 17,890 | 17,890 | null | null | null | null |
17,895 | story | msgbeepa | 2007-04-29T16:17:41 | New Web 2.0 Links For Weekend | null | http://www.wikio.com/webinfo?id=17912390 | 1 | null | 17,895 | -1 | null | null | true |
17,896 | story | BrianK | 2007-04-29T16:18:36 | New partnership for Eastern European startups | null | http://openviewpartners.com/news/070410ov.html | 1 | null | 17,896 | 0 | null | null | null |
17,897 | comment | TMR | 2007-04-29T16:28:17 | null | I've worked on two Vista machines. Both have responsive GUIs, nothing like what this blog post describes.<p>This is probably just a faulty installation, especially considering he went the upgrade path, instead of a fresh install. | null | null | 17,824 | 17,824 | null | [
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17,898 | comment | TMR | 2007-04-29T16:34:39 | null | For projects with well defined goals and methods of acheiving those goals, it can work.<p>For more nebulous, complex projects where decisions frequently come down to judgment calls, it doesn't work so well. For instance, startup founders need to work together, literally elbow-to-elbow to give the best chance of success. | null | null | 17,850 | 17,850 | null | null | null | null |
17,899 | comment | pg | 2007-04-29T16:37:26 | null | Stop the sockpuppet upvotes or we will ban this site. | null | null | 17,858 | 17,858 | null | null | null | null |
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