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lupin_sansei
2007-03-19T00:26:30
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The essence of Ajax is getting Javascript to communicate with the server without reloading the page. Although XmlHttpRequest is most convenient, there were other methods of doing this before XmlHttpRequest such as <p>- loading a 1 pixel image and sending data in the image's cookie<p>- loading server data through a tiny frame which contained XML or javascipt data<p>- Using a java applet to fetch the data on behalf of javascript
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lupin_sansei
2007-03-19T00:31:58
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Exactly. If you can't afford office space why not do your programming in a university library? Lot's of good reference materials at hand and places to hang out too.
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jward
2007-03-19T00:48:31
Pyweek 4 - Registration Open. Great coding challenge.
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jward
2007-03-19T00:48:45
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I highly recommend pyweek to anybody interested in coding. It's a one week long competition where you and a team of unlimited size build a game from scratch(mostly) in Python. To prevent cheating, or at least make it harder, a theme is voted on and announced at the beginning.<p>I'm posting this here because I competitions like this fit well with the ycombinator theme of getting something working out the door quickly. If you've never actually tried to produce something complex quickly by burning hard give this a shot. It is very inspirational to be able to look back at the end and see what you've done. If you're planning on doing a web startup I'd also recommend it as a team building activity. The stress is high, the time limiting, and the competition hectic. You'll find out quickly how well you can work with people in a crunch. And you will learn a lot both about coding and the people you work with.<p>This is the third one that Erik and I will be entering into. It's a lot of fun and I look forward to seeing some skilled competition coming from here.
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staunch
2007-03-19T00:52:58
gapingvoid: "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards": the sex & cash theory
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markfranks101
2007-03-19T00:54:37
24/7 eBusiness News Site - Finally!
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brett
2007-03-19T00:57:28
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Yeah, it's a different company with the same name (and same main investor).
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domp
2007-03-19T01:00:11
Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley are thriving as stock market is rocky
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JMiao
2007-03-19T01:14:48
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I could imagine why many startups have chosen to focus on mobile, especially when it's a space that's attracted significant investment from carriers and media conglomerates alike.<p>However, many startups underestimate the true intentions for these investments. For carriers, mobile media is an opportunity to get their foot in the door of content distribution. For media firms, it's a chance to amortize IP development costs and maximize returns by putting their franchise content on as many screens as possible.<p>For users, it generally means taking it up the backside.
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domp
2007-03-19T01:22:36
Absolutely Parents: A new digg-type Parenting site
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http://www.centernetworks.com/absolutely-parents-launches-digg-type-for-parenting
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JMiao
2007-03-19T01:24:55
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I'm very interested in this. A portion of my background is in game design at Atari and marketing at EA.<p>How does team selection work?
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domp
2007-03-19T01:26:35
Goplan launches project management and collaboration app
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http://blog.webreakstuff.com/2007/03/goplan-launches
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jward
2007-03-19T01:37:55
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Once you sign up you can create an entry which sets up your team. You just enter any team member names that happen to sign up there as well. Your entire team doesn't have to sign up officially.
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smackaysmith
2007-03-19T01:38:26
How to host a product/feature design party
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awt
2007-03-19T01:49:02
Is Refactoring Worth It for Startups?
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http://loglibrarian.blogspot.com/2007/03/is-refactoring-worth-it-for-startups.html
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rms
2007-03-19T01:54:37
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They missed the brilliant viral marketing that gave thefacebook it's start at Harvard.<p>Harvard had an intranet facebook like system, where you could browse pictures of freshmen living in your dorm. Zuckerberg went around plugging into each dorm downloading all the pictures.<p>He put the pictures up on facemash.com in a Hot-or-Not style competition. Harvard shut him down and the rest is history.<p><a href="http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=350143">http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=350143</a>
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rms
2007-03-19T01:57:04
Mark E. Zuckerberg '06 was not kicked out of Harvard for creating facemash.com and the rest is history
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http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=350143
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staunch
2007-03-19T01:58:10
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Reminds me of PG writing about how much persistence it took and pain it was for Loopt to make any headway with the carriers.<p>Steve Jobs has battled both the recording industry and the phone carriers and in both cases even _he_ has had to compromise a lot. Those massive entities seem about as geared towards innovation as banks.
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dawie
2007-03-19T02:07:23
How many users does a web 2.0 site need to take off?
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/17/business/17online.html?ex=1331784000&en=8c67e3ff3a190b78&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
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JMiao
2007-03-19T02:08:04
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I think it helps to note that Reddit didn't launch a few weeks ago.
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rms
2007-03-19T02:09:59
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Zero, as long as it is profitable.
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argon
2007-03-19T02:14:18
Popularity Might Not Be Enough -- estimates on number of users required for ad-generated revenue
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ryan
2007-03-19T02:18:54
STIRR 2.3 founders mixer on this week in Palo Alto
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http://www.stirr.net/event/12
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paul
2007-03-19T02:23:04
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Don't believe everything you read.<p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/19981111183552/http://google.stanford.edu/">http://web.archive.org/web/19981111183552/http://google.stanford.edu/</a>
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dougw
2007-03-19T02:53:19
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I wasn't implying anything about Scribd's growth. Just commenting on the obvious, continued growth of Reddit.
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domp
2007-03-19T03:04:24
Tutorlinker has a new design
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/18/find-a-tutor/
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vegashacker
2007-03-19T03:14:09
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ha, nice!
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dfranke
2007-03-19T03:28:05
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I think the common antecedent is 'winning' / 'desperate'. See if Google continues to uphold their motto once some new up-and-comer starts beating them.
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chandrab
2007-03-19T03:36:55
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A definate read for all startups is Jeremy Liew's blog: <a href="http://lsvp.wordpress.com/.">http://lsvp.wordpress.com/.</a> This lastest article is pretty sobering stats for anyone considering an eyeballs based business.
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joshwa
2007-03-19T03:42:18
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yeah, the nytimes article is pretty much a summary of his blog post:<p><a href="http://lsvp.wordpress.com/2007/02/26/three-ways-to-build-an-online-media-business-to-50m-in-revenue">http://lsvp.wordpress.com/2007/02/26/three-ways-to-build-an-online-media-business-to-50m-in-revenue</a><p>and YCN discussion here:<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=4767">http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=4767</a>
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joshwa
2007-03-19T03:42:26
Lightspeed Venture Partners Blog
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awt
2007-03-19T04:06:14
Concrete Startup Tips from Del.icio.us Founder
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acgourley
2007-03-19T05:02:07
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Supposedly a website targeted to a certain demographic needs 800 million page views a MONTH to generate 50 million dollars a YEAR. That means if you can get a million <i>active</i> users you are making maybe 6 million a year. I wonder if digg is anywhere near that?
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brett
2007-03-19T05:28:44
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he covers a bunch of this in his startup school speech: <a href="http://wiki.ycombinator.com/presentations/apr06/Joshua_Schacter.mp3">http://wiki.ycombinator.com/presentations/apr06/Joshua_Schacter.mp3</a><p>worth a listen.
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pg
2007-03-19T05:48:32
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duplicate
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awt
2007-03-19T05:49:26
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I was there :)
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pg
2007-03-19T05:49:37
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Would this work for a company designing a car? So why should we expect it to work for software?
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zkinion
2007-03-19T05:51:47
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I wonder where one can find some good data as to how well traffic actually converts, instead of just going by CPM. I know its better to worry about monetizing a site later, and getting users by giving them something that they want first, but not all startups can use this model. <p>Also, many sites, especially ones that spread virally (social networking, some dating, and basically anything that revolves around interaction with others instead of just "tools") there is an uphill battle to get the first decent size batch of users. I think linkedin is a good example of this. It took a while for them to get enough users to make it worthwhile for most professionals (those outside the valley) to want to join it.
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jrbedard
2007-03-19T05:53:21
Apollo Lands
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mikeroykoh
2007-03-19T06:14:14
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Once you upload a photo, you can never take it down.
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JMiao
2007-03-19T06:22:11
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Heheh, reminds me of "The Homer."
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JMiao
2007-03-19T06:24:18
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I'm guessing you have a team set up? Working remotely?<p>Thanks for the info, btw -- all of this sounds exciting.
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zkinion
2007-03-19T06:27:43
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I have learned to embrace myspace just as I have learned to embrace Walmart. It might be cesspool to some, but it is what it is, which is mainstream. It is just a relection of our society, not something to be hated at all. <p>As far as the cracks go, they'll have little to no impact on their operaitons at all.
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volida
2007-03-19T06:34:27
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prior to multicore cpus asuming the scaling was achieved horizontally, MySQL has been a good choice. But today, if your systems comprising the clusters are at least dual core x2 cpu, I am lead to the conclusion, as nickb points out, that is better to use PostgreSQL.
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brett
2007-03-19T06:43:13
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adobe's site: <a href="http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/apollo/">http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/apollo/</a>
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davidw
2007-03-19T07:26:56
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And yet, ycombinator is funding a mobile-platform company, Tsumobi...
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davidw
2007-03-19T07:39:33
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Hrm... Yet Another Project Management thing...<p>I think this is part of the reason I smell 'bubble' (although not as big as the last one). Like Paul has written elsewhere, there is tons of space left for startups, but what is happening is that lots of them are piling into the same spaces - depth instead of width. And that virtually guarantees some kind of shake out, especially if the economy in general turns south.
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akkartik
2007-03-19T07:57:19
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Thanks, bluishgreen. I look forward to hearing more.
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ced
2007-03-19T08:09:08
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PG writes in the Viaweb FAQ that they (and Yahoo) did not use any database, just files. It makes sense... Is there something fundamentally different about your app, so that a DB is obviously a better choice?
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davidw
2007-03-19T08:09:57
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Care to explain why this was voted this down? It's true, as far as I can tell from this article:<p><a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/09/demo-day-y-combinators-spring-chicks/">http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/09/demo-day-y-combinators-spring-chicks/</a><p>So I'm a bit curious that Paul posted something about mobile being a dud. Perhaps he thinks Tsumobi has a good answer to part of the problems with mobile?<p>I'm curious because I'm pretty interested in the mobile space, and, indeed, wrote something very similar to Tsumobi (Hecl), and was thrilled to see that ycombinator thought enough of the idea to fund it. (Ok, yeah, would be nice if someone funded <i>me</i>, but I never really pursued Hecl as a startup idea, but more as an open source platform).
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gaz
2007-03-19T08:20:52
Kiko guys back as reality tv stars
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/19/kiko-guys-back-as-reality-tv-stars/
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noisemaker
2007-03-19T08:22:52
Elusive Consumer: Music gets an 'F' Clue Score
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http://elusiveconsumer.wordpress.com/2006/12/17/music-gets-an-%e2%80%98f%e2%80%99-clue-score/
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staunch
2007-03-19T08:36:12
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It sounds like they're going to shotgun together some EVDO cards so they have enough bandwidth for a high quality stream? I wonder if they've created some kind of proxy to split up the stream and reassemble it with some hacked up cam-driver or something. Hopefully it's not too complicated a system.<p>Very interesting if it works out. Latency with EVDO isn't great, but mostly good enough. WiFi is pretty useless for mobile broadcasting because it's not very mobile.
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rms
2007-03-19T08:58:28
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Fun idea. I like it.
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brett
2007-03-19T09:03:52
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Yeah. Surprisingly compelling. Especially in the context of YC News given that right now it's a bunch of guys monitoring a recently released site that's getting a bunch of traffic.
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rms
2007-03-19T09:26:10
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Coincidentally, justin.tv succeeded in creating the only Web 2.0 chat room on the internet.
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kul
2007-03-19T10:18:10
Justin.tv is live
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http://www.kulveer.co.uk/2007/03/justintv-is-live.html
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noisemaker
2007-03-19T10:53:02
RIP Twitter (2007-2007)
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http://web1979.wordpress.com/2007/03/14/rip-twitter-2007-2007/
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sakri
2007-03-19T11:01:50
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A thorough set of free videos by the product manager which introduce the platform, how to install and get started:<p><a href="http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?id=378">http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?id=378</a><p>
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e1ven
2007-03-19T11:40:00
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One of the important points which they emphasize, which I've also heard from Guy, Seth Godin, and nearly everyone else-<p>The focus of a meeting with a VC isn't to get them to fund you. It's to get them to invite you back to a second meeting.<p>Keep it simple, focus on the hooks, and try to drive the key points home.<p>I imagine that the YC application is a similar process- They're going to read thousands of applications. I expect that the best strategy is to explain what's going on in broad strokes, so that you get the interview. Don't try to sell the entire project in one go. Focus on getting to the interview.
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staunch
2007-03-19T11:54:58
What's it like to make yourself rich on technology? No one seems to talk about it, why?
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sharpshoot
2007-03-19T11:56:15
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same reason you blog, or write comments on news.yc = self expression<p>this could be funny things you've just seen your state of mind an announcement a statement of emotion<p>also twitter allows you to have public or private interactions - so your outside twitter may be something different to strangers compared to close friends. Twitter is an extension of our human desire to express ourselves through communication. Its very interesting because of that.
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staunch
2007-03-19T11:56:41
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Thousands chase the dream to be independently wealthy through hacking. To have the FU money required to live a truly free life. So what's it like to go from stressing about an unexpectedly high phone bill to deciding where in the world you want to live and which car matches your personality best?<p>Most programmers live pretty comfortable lives, but there's a vast difference between making ends-meet and having enough money to make decisions without that being the biggest factor.<p>It seems like the few who've achieved this have all been strangely silent. I suppose they don't want to be seen as flaunting it, but I think there's plenty of room to discuss this without going over that line.<p>Have any hackers discussed this publicly?
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staunch
2007-03-19T12:14:54
CalacanisCast 17 beta -- Interview with TellMe co-founder the day after selling to Microsoft for ~$1bn
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http://www.calacanis.com/2007/03/17/calacaniscast-17-beta/
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jamongkad
2007-03-19T12:15:12
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[Prediction: Until there is widespread WiFi and 3G access to the Internet via mobile phones (in other words, mobile-based business can reach consumers by going around network operators portals) there will be limited opportunities to establish profitable mobile-based businesses. Established companies should steer clear until then.]<p>Aren't we seeing this trend already? Considering this article was written last year. Nokia has already included the SIP stack in their series 60 phones. Motorola is also working on a SIP stack for their line up of phones as well. Doesn't this say anything? Hell the Motorola A910 has Wi-Fi connectivity therefore making the possibility of IP based communications a reality.
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eli
2007-03-19T12:31:25
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PostgreSQL versus MySQL: an unbiased comparison: <a href="http://www-css.fnal.gov/dsg/external/freeware/pgsql-vs-mysql.html">http://www-css.fnal.gov/dsg/external/freeware/pgsql-vs-mysql.html</a><p>We could spend all day on this, though.
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Alex3917
2007-03-19T12:59:45
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Don't do mobile wireless. Even if you have a good idea. Especially if you have a good idea.<p>Trust me. It's just not worth it.
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danw
2007-03-19T13:00:11
The Others' Mistakes Fallacy
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http://mindpetals.com/blog/2007/03/the-%e2%80%9cothers%e2%80%99-mistakes%e2%80%9d-fallacy/
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othergoodguy
2007-03-19T13:01:43
Live Hot n' Steamy Startup Sexiness (Barely SFW)
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http://news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?t=testing&u=http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/19/kiko-guys-back-as-reality-tv-stars/
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jamongkad
2007-03-19T13:05:41
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Why would it not be worth it then? Cuz if I was presented with some compelling evidence at to why I should not pursue mobile wireless. I will be more than willing to change the direction of my start up.
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amichail
2007-03-19T13:08:50
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I think that the most important thing to learn from del.icio.us is that a web 2.0 service should be useful even if no one else is using it (or perhaps other people are using it but designating all their data as private). <p>The social aspects can be a bonus later when you have more users. But you should not depend on them to attract users initially.
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staunch
2007-03-19T13:10:45
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I could be wrong, but I think there's an auto-voting exploit here with the bookmarklet submission API. Without a preview page before submission anyone could load YC news URLs that result in auto upvotes for any number of articles.<p>Another sort of separate issue I think is with submissions that include URLs pointing to "news.ycombinator.com" in general, they should probably be disallowed completely to be safe.<p>I'm not trying to do anything abusive whatsoever, just poking around.
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jamongkad
2007-03-19T13:20:03
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I wonder if a lot of peeps here are doing the same thing as well.
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veritas
2007-03-19T13:42:28
Seth's Blog: The realistic entrepreneur's guide to venture capital
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http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2007/03/the_realistic_e.html
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immad
2007-03-19T13:43:42
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Digg provides a lot of value to people who don't bother signing up, so its 1 million signups figure doesn't actually indicate that they only have 1 million users.
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naish
2007-03-19T13:45:32
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Interesting content. Too bad it is one of the most poorly written articles I've seen in some time. It is so bad, in fact, that the meaning of some sentences has be to inferred...
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jamongkad
2007-03-19T13:50:05
How not to write a business plan
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http://whohastimeforthis.blogspot.com/2005/11/how-to-not-write-business-plan.html
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dawie
2007-03-19T13:51:15
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zkinion: here are 2 posts about this: <a href="http://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/2006/09/03/making-money-online-stats/">http://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/2006/09/03/making-money-online-stats/</a> <a href="http://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/2006/08/24/youtube-is-already-wildly-profitable/">http://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/2006/08/24/youtube-is-already-wildly-profitable/</a>
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veritas
2007-03-19T13:57:00
Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed: Google Buys Gapminder
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http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2007/03/17/google_buys_gap.html
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dpapathanasiou
2007-03-19T13:57:11
SeekSift: the Right Balance?
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http://blog.seeksift.com/2007/03/18/the-right-balance/
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dpapathanasiou
2007-03-19T13:57:32
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Disclosure: my company (a software firm in NYC) is behind SeekSift.<p>I just wanted to follow-up my prior post (<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=340)">http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=340)</a> and thank everyone who responded with comments and suggestions, particularly the apartment hunter who helped clarify how we could make it simpler and more effective.<p>And while we think we've struck the right balance now between simplicity and effectiveness, we remain open to more feedback, so please continue to let us know.
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staunch
2007-03-19T14:00:41
The Dip by Seth Godin
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http://sethgodin.typepad.com/the_dip/
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zaidf
2007-03-19T14:17:33
My Favorite Godin Post: Hitting Lows before the High
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http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2005/11/understanding_l.html
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patrick
2007-03-19T14:18:47
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I'll second the motion that the article is poorly written, but the content was valuable. Things like logging-in being a barrier for people are truths that one doesn't really think of when designing a web-based system.
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jamongkad
2007-03-19T14:36:22
It's all about the team.
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http://lsvp.wordpress.com/2007/03/05/its-all-about-the-team/
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ereldon
2007-03-19T14:39:06
"Comment order: The development and the drama..."
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http://blogs.usatoday.com/community/2007/03/rejoicing_follo.html
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jamongkad
2007-03-19T14:40:53
The Cliff
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http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2004/07/the_cliff.html
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neilc
2007-03-19T14:53:58
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Actually, pgreplicator saw its last release in 2001, and I'm not aware of anyone who uses it in production. The fact that it requires PostgreSQL 7.1 (which is ancient, buggy, and unsupported by the Postgres developers) would be a pretty big clue not to use it. The most popular choice for replication (async master-slave) with Postgres is Slony I. Commandprompt's replicator is another choice, although it is a commercial product ($1000 USD per machine).<p>When you say that "Postgres' performance advantage over MySQL on a VPS doesn't really exist.", I'm not sure what you mean: DBMS performance is a complicated subject, and significant performance differences exist between MySQL and PostgreSQL on essentially ANY hardware platform. For example, if your app uses complex queries with a lot of joins and subselects, Postgres optimizer will likely give you significantly better performance than MySQL's, regardless of whether it happens to be running on a VPS. Similarly, MyISAM's performance with an update-intensive concurrent workload is going to be pretty bad, regardless of the hardware platform.
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BioGeek
2007-03-19T14:57:22
A Comprehensive Guide to Starting your Freelance Career
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http://northxeast.com/branding-and-design/a-comprehensive-guide-to-starting-your-freelance-career/
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neilc
2007-03-19T14:58:41
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However, it is quite out of date: for example, PostgreSQL has had a native Win32 port for several years, and the "--enable-locale" / "--enable-multibyte" configure options have not been necessary (or supported) for even longer. "Large row" (TOAST) support has been around since 7.1. etc.
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BioGeek
2007-03-19T15:03:07
10 ways to create a breakthrough in your working life (and in the rest of it too).
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http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/10-ways-to-create-a-breakthrough-in-your-working-life-and-in-the-rest-of-it-too.html
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ecuzzillo
2007-03-19T15:09:13
How to Win Friends and Influence People (pdf)
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http://kebo.vlsm.org/~bobby/How%20to%20Win%20Friends%20&%20Influence%20People%20-%20Dale%20Carnegie%20(Self%20Help)%20(ebook).pdf
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ecuzzillo
2007-03-19T15:10:26
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PG recommended this in one or another essay, and I found it a rather suspect claim, but having started reading the PDF it seems like it might be helpful, if one has the strength of character to truly change.
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BioGeek
2007-03-19T15:14:30
Enviropreneur Camp - a two-week educational experience in Montana for environmental entrepreneurs
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http://www.perc.org/enviroprog/enviropreneur/camp/basics.php
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joshwa
2007-03-19T15:15:37
Ask YCN: Contextual Ads on a Personalized Dynamic Site/App?
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joshwa
2007-03-19T15:20:26
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As I'm exploring advertising solutions, I've discovered that most ad networks aren't really appropriate for a site that hides most content behind a registration or is highly personalized, like a social web app.<p>This is because most ad networks (AdSense, YPN, AdBrite) rely on spidering your content to do their targeting... and they don't log in to your site to do it. If they can't get into your site to see the content, they can only show run-of-network ads, or ads based on what you tell them explicitly about your users <i>in general</i>. <p>Is there a product out there that is more suited towards showing targeted ads based on protected page content? Or passing keywords as parameters to the ad script?<p>There are definitely privacy issues here, but I thought I'd ask here to see if anyone knew of a way to show my users relevant ads, and not just "hey I think you're a 20-something with lots of disposable income" ads...<p>Maybe I have to do another startup just to serve this market?
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dannymo2
2007-03-19T15:21:33
Why DormItem De-Ajaxified
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http://dormitem.com/blog/52
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BioGeek
2007-03-19T15:22:18
When you change (from a corporate employee to an entrepreneur), all your relationships change
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http://www.escapefromcubiclenation.com/get_a_life_blog/2007/03/when_you_change.html
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BioGeek
2007-03-19T15:22:20
The Top 7 mistakes I made at Sampa, a Startup tale.
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http://marcelo.sampasite.com/brave-tech-world/e/Top-7-mistakes-at-Sampa-a-Startu.htm
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dannymo2
2007-03-19T15:23:41
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With adbrite, you can target specific keywords for them to target their ads towards, instead of having them spider...You should also be able to do the same with YPN...<p>Dan DormItem
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