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8,000 | comment | gms | 2007-04-01T15:06:05 | null | You'd do well to look at today's date. | null | null | 7,998 | 7,993 | null | [
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8,001 | comment | amichail | 2007-04-01T15:09:11 | null | BTW, if you are looking for a superstar coder, it's probably more important to find someone who has been programming since the age of 12 than to find someone who is young. <p>I suspect that even older programmers who started young are much more productive than younger programmers who started years later.
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8,002 | comment | dpapathanasiou | 2007-04-01T15:09:36 | null | It's a joke, and I'll bet some older people (e.g. who have their secretaries print off their emails for them -- no kidding, I know people like that) will think it's real, at least until the part about the "96% post-consumer organic soybean sputum". | null | null | 7,965 | 7,954 | null | null | null | null |
8,003 | comment | dpapathanasiou | 2007-04-01T15:11:16 | null | Ah, you need to join my YC founder's team first...<p>(Actually, I'm not applying to YC, but I am working on something in this area.) | null | null | 7,834 | 7,775 | null | [
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8,004 | comment | amichail | 2007-04-01T15:12:35 | null | Speaking of April fools, I convinced some people that I was giving up on startups and computing altogether to pursue a career in law.
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8,005 | story | usablecontent | 2007-04-01T15:26:40 | Startup Meme: Tahiti is Microsoft's Answer to Desktop Collaboration | null | http://startupmeme.com/2007/04/01/tahiti-is-microsoft%c2%b4s-answer-to-desktop-collaboration/ | 1 | null | 8,005 | 0 | null | null | null |
8,006 | story | graham-miln | 2007-04-01T15:41:44 | Launch Traditions: Let them eat cake | null | http://www.dssw.co.uk/blog/2007/04/01/launch-traditions-let-them-eat-cake/ | 2 | null | 8,006 | 1 | [
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8,007 | comment | sf2007 | 2007-04-01T16:24:23 | null | I for one do not understand why FlickR sold itself so cheap. perhaps because the M&A had not picked up by the time Yahoo! bought them? | null | null | 7,857 | 7,857 | null | null | null | null |
8,008 | story | sf2007 | 2007-04-01T16:26:26 | What's Caterina Fake doing in Yahoo! | null | 5 | null | 8,008 | 8 | [
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8,009 | comment | sf2007 | 2007-04-01T16:28:40 | null | I really think people like her create a lot more value when they are starting a new company, and not when they are working for a giant like Yahoo! | null | null | 8,008 | 8,008 | null | [
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8,010 | story | sf2007 | 2007-04-01T16:29:19 | Web Application Framework - PHP vs Java? | null | 1 | null | 8,010 | 6 | [
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8,011 | comment | nostrademons | 2007-04-01T16:34:06 | null | They tell a compelling story that's interesting & new and fits in with the zeitgeist. That's really all that PR is.<p>Right after I graduated high school, I worked for an all-teenage dot com. We were a dozen or so high schoolers, ages ranging from 15 through 19, building a "teen content" site with indirect venture funding (we were a wholly-owned subsidiary of a venture-funded startup). This was the summer of 2000, at the height of the dot-com boom. The NASDAQ had just peaked, but nobody knew it yet.<p>We got picked up first by the local community newspapers, then the Boston Herald, then the local TV news. Then we ran out of funding, but we continued getting press inquiries for several months after we were technically out of business. <p>We had a $20k PR budget (which we inflated to $50k whenever we talked to people), but we never spent any of it. Instead, our (18 year old) PR guy would just cold call newspaper editors with "Hi, this is Trip Guray, I'm at an all-teenage startup called inAsphere.com, and we have a story you might be interested in." If they weren't interested, fine, we'd say thanks for your time and try someone else. If they were, we'd send them a press release over e-mail or arrange for an interview.<p>Press coverage tends to snowball: if you get a story published in a community newspaper, you're much more likely to get picked up by a major metropolitan newspaper. If you get picked up by a major newspaper, other major newspapers will go after you. If a bunch of newspapers are interested, TV will soon be too. | null | null | 7,932 | 7,900 | null | null | null | null |
8,012 | comment | sf2007 | 2007-04-01T16:37:02 | null | I know this can get into a hot debate - like anything else there are pros and cons for each. But my question is really simple. When building a web-based application/service, would you use PHP even when you know that the application can potentially become huge and scalability and maintainability can become a nightmare if the application is written in PHP? | null | null | 8,010 | 8,010 | null | null | null | null |
8,013 | story | sf2007 | 2007-04-01T16:38:34 | Test - my posts are not showing up.. | null | 1 | null | 8,013 | 0 | [
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8,014 | comment | sf2007 | 2007-04-01T16:40:34 | null | Ok - I think there was some delay, that's all. <p>How do I delete a post? | null | null | 8,013 | 8,013 | null | null | null | null |
8,015 | comment | sf2007 | 2007-04-01T16:44:13 | null | Why would a VC firm specializing in oil/energy invest in an internet startup? VCs generally have specific areas they invest in.. if they don't "Specialize" in internet, they won't invest in you. | null | null | 7,957 | 7,955 | null | [
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8,016 | comment | sf2007 | 2007-04-01T16:51:04 | null | Is there a separate holder for reporting bugs?<p>Here is the problem I am facing. I m trying to post a link to <a href="http://earlystagevc.typepad.com/earlystagevc/2007/03/web_20.html">http://earlystagevc.typepad.com/earlystagevc/2007/03/web_20.html</a> - but when I submit, it takes me to another posting for which the URL is <a href="http://earlystagevc.typepad.com.">http://earlystagevc.typepad.com.</a> So, baasically othe system thinks that I'm trying to update the old posting or something, and it ends up not showing my post.<p>Try submitting this.:<p>URL: <a href="http://earlystagevc.typepad.com/earlystagevc/2007/03/web_20.html">http://earlystagevc.typepad.com/earlystagevc/2007/03/web_20.html</a>
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8,017 | comment | leoc | 2007-04-01T16:51:23 | null | If you need a beta tester... <a href="http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html">http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html</a> | null | null | 7,961 | 7,954 | null | [
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8,018 | story | domp | 2007-04-01T16:52:29 | Clipperz: New password storage application | null | http://www.centernetworks.com/review-of-clipperz-com-password-storage-app | 2 | null | 8,018 | 0 | null | null | null |
8,019 | comment | mattculbreth | 2007-04-01T17:00:35 | null | Next year on April 1st they'll follow Reddit and rewrite in Python. | null | null | 7,993 | 7,993 | null | null | null | null |
8,020 | story | sharpshoot | 2007-04-01T17:00:52 | What is viral marketing? (original article by Steve Jurvetson) | null | http://www.dfj.com/cgi-bin/artman/publish/steve_may00.shtml | 1 | null | 8,020 | 3 | [
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8,021 | story | sharpshoot | 2007-04-01T17:04:51 | How do you market your startup? (VentureVoice Startup Workshop) | null | http://ripple.radiotail.com/54/venturevoice44-venture_voice_startup_workshop-part2.mp3 | 1 | null | 8,021 | 0 | null | null | null |
8,022 | comment | danielha | 2007-04-01T17:14:55 | null | Funny you say that. She's currently leading Yahoo!'s technology development group, and is behind their internal "startup" incubator, Brickhouse. Their first product was Pipes, which is actually quite cool.<p>So the "giant" seems to agree with you there. | null | null | 8,009 | 8,008 | null | [
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8,023 | comment | schoudha | 2007-04-01T17:17:08 | null | One thing that's not clear to me is if the internet communities still work if you take away some of the inherent anonymity that's associated with someone's online persona. <p>In the extreme case, where every online community is tied to facebook, imagine being able to click a user name and find out "real' information about a person and his friends. It might make people less willing to post. | null | null | 7,671 | 7,671 | null | null | null | null |
8,024 | comment | danielha | 2007-04-01T17:17:14 | null | Why are those your only two options? | null | null | 8,010 | 8,010 | null | [
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8,025 | comment | jamongkad | 2007-04-01T17:22:15 | null | My point exactly | null | null | 8,015 | 7,955 | null | null | null | null |
8,026 | story | Sam_Odio | 2007-04-01T17:23:32 | TISP - The wireless, broadband, nanobot supported ISP of the future. Today. Through your toilet. | null | http://www.google.com/tisp/ | 3 | null | 8,026 | 0 | null | null | null |
8,027 | comment | pg | 2007-04-01T17:30:40 | null | null | null | 8,020 | 8,020 | null | null | null | true |
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8,028 | comment | danielha | 2007-04-01T17:32:06 | null | I can't read anything on the web today without being completely skeptical. Argh!<p>This is one of the better ones though. | null | null | 7,993 | 7,993 | null | [
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8,029 | comment | rsynnott | 2007-04-01T17:34:17 | null | Well, lots of people learned Logo fairly young. :) | null | null | 7,998 | 7,993 | null | null | null | null |
8,030 | story | usablecontent | 2007-04-01T17:39:52 | Startup Meme: MSN Live Earth Becomes Livelier | null | http://startupmeme.com/2007/04/01/msn-live-earth-becomes-livelier/ | 1 | null | 8,030 | 0 | null | null | null |
8,031 | comment | pg | 2007-04-01T17:40:39 | null | The seed business is national. Almost everyone who applies to Techstars will apply to YC as well. Since I honestly can't see any reason anyone would prefer them to us, that means their destiny is to fund people we reject. The best startups we reject are the ones that make it to the interview stage. | null | null | 7,984 | 7,829 | null | [
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8,032 | comment | jamongkad | 2007-04-01T17:47:00 | null | What's that? | null | null | 8,003 | 7,775 | null | [
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8,033 | comment | domp | 2007-04-01T17:50:59 | null | Yeah sorry about the Jajah/Vonage hoax. It's all in good fun though. No need for smacks. | null | null | 7,934 | 7,934 | null | null | null | null |
8,034 | comment | e1ven | 2007-04-01T18:07:56 | null | This is a very useful piece of software!<p>While doing usuability tests is a great way to try to figure out what people are going to do with your software, the users are always going to be acting differently because they know their being watched. They know that they're supposed to be figuring it out, so they try to be "smarter" about how to do things.. As a result, they end up not giving you the sort of real usage information that you'd like.<p>
The real problem with this is the privacy- While you have all of this information anyway- You're not learning anything new, it's corrolates it in a way that users are unlikely to be comfortable with. Image if the headline read "Microsoft secretly recording all users who use it's site"<p>It would get major play, even though they already have all that information in logs.<p>I think that something like TF is certainly useful-
Hell, imagine being able to forward Dev specific users gettng confused, to try to prove a UI point..
We (service providers) just need to come up with a way to make it fair.
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8,035 | comment | sf2007 | 2007-04-01T18:09:51 | null | Don''t get me wrong - I didn't mean to say she isn't doing anything "cool". However, the fact remains that one can be so much more innovative and nimble in a "real" startup. Given a choice, a truly smart person would prefer to work for a cool starup vs Yahoo! Brickhouse. <p>The level of motivation one has in a startup is simply not there in a public company. | null | null | 8,008 | 8,008 | null | [
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8,036 | comment | sf2007 | 2007-04-01T18:13:54 | null | You have to start somewhere. .NET is out because IMO Java is more open standards based than .NET. PHP - because it's fairly quick to learn and write in addition to being fast.<p>I haven't looked at all options yet, but I'd like to get more opinions on Java vs PHP first. You are welcome to suggets more.<p>PS: Friendster rewrote their site in PHP (from Java) | null | null | 8,024 | 8,010 | null | [
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8,037 | comment | e1ven | 2007-04-01T18:18:42 | null | Update: It doesn't track people across multiple pages. That makes it -substantially- less useful. | null | null | 8,034 | 7,903 | null | null | null | null |
8,038 | comment | Elfan | 2007-04-01T18:44:57 | null | If they had left out Arc more people would have fallen for it. | null | null | 8,028 | 7,993 | null | [
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8,039 | comment | nickb | 2007-04-01T18:55:45 | null | This is in the same category as astrology. 'The Brain' got less than 50% things about me correct. It said that I like dogs better than cats, not true. It said I like to work individually, not true... I prefer working as a part of a team.<p>The premise that pictures and the choice of pictures determine anything about yourself is simply silly. I have different experiences than someone else. I have been to and seen different places than someone else. Different imagery will provoke different emotion in different people. | null | null | 7,684 | 7,684 | null | null | null | null |
8,040 | comment | zaidf | 2007-04-01T18:56:01 | null | Unfortunately, usability is as much about practical use as anything else and so if green text on yellow increases readability but bores most users to leave the site it's bad usability:)<p>-Zaid
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8,041 | comment | nickb | 2007-04-01T18:57:41 | null | What scientific proof do Pairwise folks have that this works? They should test it and verify it before you use it for something important. <p>You might as well hire a psychic to test potential cofounders... I think you'll have the same success rate. | null | null | 7,698 | 7,684 | null | null | null | null |
8,042 | comment | notabel | 2007-04-01T19:10:22 | null | I had a Logo class in 4th grade (10yrs), which led me to Scheme the next year. So, yes, it does happen. | null | null | 7,998 | 7,993 | null | null | null | null |
8,043 | story | ewheeler | 2007-04-01T19:23:33 | Will grant $ from a non-profit foundation preclude profitability? | null | 3 | null | 8,043 | 2 | [
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8,044 | comment | ewheeler | 2007-04-01T19:27:40 | null | I have no experience with grant proposals or grant stipulations and nobody I've spoken with seems to have an answer.
Would it be possible to get a grant with terms for developing a software tool that I could then sell as a commercial product?
One suggestion was to apply for a grant with language only about researching the effectiveness of a tool, and then use the funds to develop the tool. | null | null | 8,043 | 8,043 | null | null | null | null |
8,045 | comment | pg | 2007-04-01T19:28:57 | null | If they had left out Arc, it would have actually been a good idea. | null | null | 8,038 | 7,993 | null | null | null | null |
8,046 | comment | inklesspen | 2007-04-01T19:48:17 | null | You can't run a database?<p>What's the point of this, then: <a href="http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry!default.jspa?categoryID=101&externalID=519&fromSearchPage=true">http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry!default.jspa?categoryID=101&externalID=519&fromSearchPage=true</a> | null | null | 7,951 | 7,935 | null | [
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8,047 | story | mattculbreth | 2007-04-01T19:52:09 | Salesforce.com Apex--Similar in concept to AWS | null | http://www.salesforce.com/developer/ | 1 | null | 8,047 | 1 | [
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8,048 | story | domp | 2007-04-01T20:00:58 | Reaching critical mass is becoming harder. What are some innovative ways to expand your user base? | null | http://www.socialdegree.com/2007/03/30/gaining-critical-mass-is-increasing-in-difficulty/ | 1 | null | 8,048 | 1 | [
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8,049 | story | amichail | 2007-04-01T20:08:31 | startup matchmaker: build a service to recommend and facilitate startup mergers to make it more likely they would succeed | null | 1 | null | 8,049 | 2 | [
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8,050 | comment | amichail | 2007-04-01T20:09:00 | null | Does such a thing exist?
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8,051 | comment | ulfstein | 2007-04-01T20:17:42 | null | I did come across such a site but can't remember where - didn't bookmark it as it hadn't been executed very well. | null | null | 8,049 | 8,049 | null | null | null | null |
8,052 | story | omarish | 2007-04-01T20:32:00 | Using JS to detect exit page? | null | 1 | null | 8,052 | 1 | [
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8,053 | comment | omarish | 2007-04-01T20:33:20 | null | I was going to post this at Dev Shed, but I figured out that we probably have a lot of really smart people here, too.<p>Does anybody have a clue on how to figure out where a user went to after they left your site; basically a way to figure out the user's exit page? | null | null | 8,052 | 8,052 | null | null | null | null |
8,054 | comment | mattculbreth | 2007-04-01T20:38:06 | null | The problem here is that it's much more tightly couple to their platform. They have a "Java-like" language and a SQL dialect that goes against their Oracle database. Still cool though--and another example of a way to lower development and operation costs.
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8,055 | comment | jadams | 2007-04-01T20:59:35 | null | This reminds me of the business card scene from American Psycho. God, I love that movie! | null | null | 7,618 | 7,618 | null | null | null | null |
8,056 | comment | python_kiss | 2007-04-01T21:13:44 | null | About 300+ teams have applied to TechStars so far. I am guessing for YC the number is at least 500. From this large pool, only about 13 teams will be selected by Y Combinator. So I am sure there will be some good startups even within the ones that are rejected by Y Combinator.<p>TechStars could also judge their applicants on a criteria different from Y Combinator and catch good startups where YC might not.<p>The word on the street is that most startups, however, wouldn't choose TechStars over Y Combinator. First, the initial investment is lower. Second, they aren't original nor do they have the reputation that Paul does. In the end, though, it all comes down to which program maximizes success for startups. For that, David had this to say in an e-mail "Our investors have funded several hundred companies over the years, far more than Y Combinator has done. Y Combinator has Reddit to point out. Our founders point at Newsgator, Technorati, Feedburner, Dogster, and tons more as examples of our past experience."<p>
I don't think anyone hates TechStars, but startup's would have had more respect for them if they had at least taken Paul's permission for rewording and copy-pasting the questions :) | null | null | 8,031 | 7,829 | null | [
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8,057 | story | Tichy | 2007-04-01T21:18:18 | Issues in Structuring Relationships Among Members of the Founder Team | null | http://web.mit.edu/e-club/hadzima/founders-memo.html | 11 | null | 8,057 | 6 | [
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8,058 | story | dawie | 2007-04-01T21:48:31 | G4 Acquires TWiT | null | http://leoville.vox.com/library/post/g4-acquires-twit.html | 1 | null | 8,058 | 1 | [
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8,059 | comment | dawie | 2007-04-01T21:48:51 | null | Some April fools fun. | null | null | 8,058 | 8,058 | null | null | null | null |
8,060 | story | dawie | 2007-04-01T22:01:26 | I want to charge for my service. Should I take the time to integrate with Authorize .NET or should I just use RightCart? | null | 1 | null | 8,060 | 11 | [
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8,061 | comment | nickb | 2007-04-01T22:02:07 | null | This past week I listened in on Werner Vogels' ETech 2007 speech and he said, explicitly, that EC2 is not suitable for high performance, large scale, databases. My database is more than 10Gb in size. You can't have that large image on EC2. I guess you could get away by hosting some tables there that:<p>a) don't take up much space,<p>b) don't change much and<p>c) don't have to have the latest data. | null | null | 8,046 | 7,935 | null | [
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8,062 | comment | dawie | 2007-04-01T22:02:34 | null | Using RightCart will allow me to release sooner, but I will be locked into RightCart | null | null | 8,060 | 8,060 | null | null | null | null |
8,063 | comment | nickb | 2007-04-01T22:04:24 | null | Beautifully said! Fully agree with your assessment. <p>PS: Wish PG would implement friends feature so I could track your comments. | null | null | 7,971 | 7,763 | null | null | null | null |
8,064 | comment | pyc | 2007-04-01T22:08:32 | null | <a href="http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4sandbox/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=sbcl&lang2=java">http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4sandbox/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=sbcl&lang2=java</a><p>It varies but SBCL has an edge. | null | null | 7,933 | 7,859 | null | null | null | null |
8,065 | comment | pyc | 2007-04-01T22:08:47 | null | <a href="http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4sandbox/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=sbcl&lang2=java">http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4sandbox/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=sbcl&lang2=java</a><p>It varies but SBCL has an edge. | null | null | 7,933 | 7,859 | null | null | null | null |
8,066 | comment | zaidf | 2007-04-01T22:24:59 | null | Integrating Authorize.net shouldn't be that much work. Usually getting the account approved and setup is as much work as the integration. Without knowing too much about RightCart, I'd say go with Auth.net if you want to do it for the long haul and want more control.
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8,067 | comment | jayliew | 2007-04-01T22:34:35 | null | I love the comment about telling an adult from a kid. I'm 25 and many a times I just feel my peers are clueless, or should be more mature than they should. Maybe I'm just thinking too far ahead, but the same goes for dates that I go on. Dumb clueless girls actually turn me off (even if pretty). My friends think I am kidding when I say I am attracted to women a little older than me because they assume I am a gold-digger. But I'm not, I just like their maturity over girls my age.<p>Anyway, for the longest time, I couldn't really describe, I didn't have any solid metrics on how to explain to a friend, why I think a girl is mature/inmature. It's not about the age. <p>I think your point about pulling the "I'm just a kid" card totally makes sense. Kids tend to wait for something to happen (reactive) -- wait for their mom/dad/boss to tell them to do something, they need to be prodded, at which they will say "do I really need to brush my teeth now?" and groan. Adults are they ones who anticipate the next move, planning the strategy of where to go next, looking out for potential pitfalls and coming up with ideas of mitigating (proactive).<p>I guess I just am attracted to driven people, and dislike pessimists. I've seen plenty of people in college and in corporate who pessimists/downers like that, because they can't come up with new ideas/strategies. So by shooting at ideas of their peers, and bringing their peers down to their level -- they get to maintain the status-quo.
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8,068 | comment | jayliew | 2007-04-01T22:38:28 | null | Not to nitpick or anything, but in the essay:<p>"If you're smart enough to worry that you might not be smart enough to start a startup, you probably are"<p>I understood what the last line meant, although it may seem ambiguous to some. It could easily have been interpreted to mean that if you think you are stupid, that means you are probably correct that you are stupid, and shouldn't start a startup.<p>But what do I know, I'm no linguistics expert ;P | null | null | 6,668 | 6,668 | null | [
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8,069 | comment | zach | 2007-04-01T22:41:57 | null | If it involves story and gameplay, I'm interested. If it's just virtual worlds and interaction, then no. But I'll check it out, thanks for the tip. | null | null | 7,969 | 7,916 | null | null | null | null |
8,070 | comment | zach | 2007-04-01T22:44:05 | null | Dude, you were already voted down when I saw you. I ain't mad atcha. To prove it, I've upvoted you to cancel it out (you can't change existing votes on News.YC currently). And don't forget to visit begthequestion.info! | null | null | 7,968 | 7,916 | null | [
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8,071 | comment | BitGeek | 2007-04-01T22:44:42 | null | Older programmers are more productive than younger programmers. I think the perception that goes the other way is based on teh confusion of measurements of productivity.<p>Zuckerman measurs productivity as lines of code generated, or worse, new classes generated. Kapor (I presume) would measure productivity as number and difficulty of new features correctly implemented.<p>It seems that in the late 1990s, and since, the number of "programmers" who are not hackers has risen dramatically. Hackers started programming at 12 because they were technophiles.<p>I have actually worked with a jock "programmer" who was proud of the facct that he didn't have a computer at home-- he left all his work at work. He was an extreme case (And he produced lots of lines of code, but not a lot of functionality)... but the trend seems clearly there.<p>Apparently programming has become a prestigous career- and this has led to the rise of defensive tecniques like unit tests, and otherwise organizing projects around the assumption that your "engineers" are idiots. <p>FWIW, all the job adverts that say "Rockstar" or "superstar" or "coder" in them - I immediately filter out because I assume they were written by someone who had no clue what a strong engineer looks like. No engineer worth their salt wants to be called a "Coder"- this is a derogatory term. Hacker is the word that they really should use, but the people who say "rockstart" are people who do not know that "hacker" means something other than one who breaks security on systems.<p>I see the word "rockstar" and I immediately know they are looking for someone with lower skill than I have. This is not arrogance-- its just experience with HR types.
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8,072 | comment | dawie | 2007-04-01T22:46:45 | null | My gut feels the same. But its also easy not to worry about ssl and certificates and stuff | null | null | 8,066 | 8,060 | null | [
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8,073 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-01T23:00:59 | null | <i>'... Given a choice, a truly smart person would prefer to work for a cool starup vs Yahoo! Brickhouse. ...'</i><p>Probably making the choice of sticking around for the stock vesting period. If you are ever asking yourself a question about someone, especially web/software related go to the source [0]. Here is what 'Fake' had to say not long ago about startups v's the SoftCo's of the world ...<p> <i>'... Having worked at startups for my entire career, I had never worked at a company larger than 100-150 people. On a normal day, we would walk around patting ourselves on the back for how brilliant we were, how innovative, how fast we could ship, how much attention we paid to our customers, how WE were the rock stars and the people at those big companies? slow, dull, stupid wankers! ...'</i> [1]<p>and goes on to explain that innovation is happening at large companies but needs to build a process withing the corporate framework.<p> <i>'... But then I started working at a 10,000 person company and began to realize we weren't all that after all, the real Peter Framptons were the ones innovating at big companies. You build something brilliant while simultaneously serving literally billions of customers? Party on, you TRULY rock. ...'</i> [2]<p>So this is what Fake is up to. Working out a process within the context of a large company to allow continual innovation. After doing a startup, waiting for vesting and having access to working capital and authority to execute it seems a natural progression.<p>Reference<p>[0]
Katerina Fake, 'Big Companies, Small Companies, Innovation and Brickhouse'<p><a href="http://www.caterina.net/archive/001049.html">http://www.caterina.net/archive/001049.html</a><p>[1] Katerina Fake, 'Big Companies, Small Companies, Innovation and Brickhouse', Ibid.<p>[2] Katerina Fake, 'Big Companies, Small Companies, Innovation and Brickhouse', Ibid. | null | null | 8,035 | 8,008 | null | [
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8,074 | comment | vlad | 2007-04-01T23:04:53 | null | Great minds think alike! | null | null | 8,017 | 7,954 | null | null | null | null |
8,075 | comment | vlad | 2007-04-01T23:14:07 | null | null | null | 7,971 | 7,763 | null | null | null | true |
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8,076 | comment | vlad | 2007-04-01T23:26:20 | null | I wanted to try to submit some links to this site, but decided to pass on this one because of FOUR major problems with their study:<p>1) although the study excluded color-blind people from participating (???), they mislead people into thinking it's a great color scheme for the general population<p>2) they said the color combinations differ for common fonts besides Arial, so it's not a good rule of thumb<p>3) computer LCD monitors could very well make green text on a yellow background very hard to read even for people with normal vision<p>4) The effects of reading very long pieces of text were not tested<p>Reasons #1 or #3 alone means I would not use that color combination without further testing with color-blind people as well as on older LCD screens. (Note, the study is down at the moment so I can't double-check what I said.) | null | null | 7,990 | 7,990 | null | null | null | null |
8,077 | comment | vlad | 2007-04-01T23:40:23 | null | Go with RightCart so you can release sooner and charge as soon as you can. (I don't know anything about the product.) | null | null | 8,060 | 8,060 | null | [
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8,078 | comment | dawie | 2007-04-01T23:44:59 | null | Thats all good, but I can't move paying customers from RightCart to another platform. I will have to get them to re-enter their billing information when I swop to the new billing system. I guess I could run two concurrent billing systems and just stop using the one the first one for new customers and keep billing old customers using rightcart. | null | null | 8,077 | 8,060 | null | [
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8,079 | story | Tichy | 2007-04-02T00:08:50 | So, is anybody applying to YC with a plan for a business in Second Life? | null | 1 | null | 8,079 | 1 | [
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8,080 | story | amichail | 2007-04-02T00:11:01 | Glimpse Inside a Metaverse: The Virtual World of Second Life | null | http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-5182759758975402950 | 1 | null | 8,080 | 1 | [
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8,081 | comment | amichail | 2007-04-02T00:11:51 | null | ABSTRACT <p>Linden Lab is the producer of Second Life, an online world with a growing population of subscribers (or "residents"); currently, the community has well over 140,000 residents from 91 countries. By providing residents with robust building and scripting tools, Linden Lab enables them to create a vast array of in-world objects, installations and programs. Since its early stages, Linden Lab has allowed its residents to retain full IP rights over their own creations, thereby insuring that their contributions to the community remain truly their own.
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8,082 | comment | Alex3917 | 2007-04-02T00:37:04 | null | I noticed that news.YC isn't letting me log in using opera 9.1 on OS X. I can't figure it out.
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8,083 | story | amichail | 2007-04-02T00:39:33 | The costs of annoying advertising | null | http://glinden.blogspot.com/2007/04/costs-of-annoying-advertising.html | 3 | null | 8,083 | 3 | [
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8,084 | comment | pyc | 2007-04-02T00:44:05 | null | I think this is going to backfire. Some of the start-ups they want will say no just because they are waiting on YC, then when YC turns them down, TS will have missed out on one of their top choices who now will have to seek a THIRD source of funding.<p>Smart money is for that third VC to pick up YC's 9th through 16th choices, and any of TS's top 8 that turned them down waiting on a YC acceptance that never came through.
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8,085 | comment | pashle | 2007-04-02T00:50:09 | null | This memo is very enlightening! <p>I've just read a book where the author is a successful entrepreneur, but a greedy sod too. He stresses that ownership is not the important thing, but the ONLY thing that matters. Taking into account that he started up in the 70s and it wasn't a technology company, he got away with owning 100% of the company's equity - and still does today. <p>I've never heard of this happening: all the best technology companies (Google, Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo, HP etc.) split the equity at the very beginning fairly evenly.<p>Is this even possible today to own a company outright with web startups, or is it even a good idea? | null | null | 8,057 | 8,057 | null | [
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8,086 | comment | lupin_sansei | 2007-04-02T01:05:23 | null | Could you provide some links to this? I'd be interested in reading about it. | null | null | 7,642 | 7,463 | null | [
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8,087 | story | lupin_sansei | 2007-04-02T01:12:12 | About Gmail Paper | null | http://mail.google.com/mail/help/paper/more.html | 1 | null | 8,087 | 0 | null | null | null |
8,088 | story | chandrab | 2007-04-02T01:15:40 | Performance Tuning MySQL Server Environments | null | http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2006/09/29/what-to-tune-in-mysql-server-after-installation/ | 1 | null | 8,088 | 0 | null | null | null |
8,089 | story | chandrab | 2007-04-02T01:18:49 | How To Set Up A Load-Balanced MySQL Cluster | null | http://www.howtoforge.com/loadbalanced_mysql_cluster_debian | 1 | null | 8,089 | 0 | null | null | null |
8,090 | story | chandrab | 2007-04-02T01:22:19 | Ruby Engines Performance Benchmarks (Yarv,Jruby & others) | null | http://antoniocangiano.com/articles/2007/02/19/ruby-implementations-shootout-ruby-vs-yarv-vs-jruby-vs-gardens-point-ruby-net-vs-rubinius-vs-cardinal | 1 | null | 8,090 | 0 | null | null | null |
8,091 | comment | zaidf | 2007-04-02T01:27:52 | null | I think this is as hard as you make it. Only key for me when I start a venture with multiple people is how trustable and logical the partners are. That way you know if you ever have to re-do the ownership at any point, you might not get exactly what you want but you will still get something very close to fair.<p> | null | null | 8,057 | 8,057 | null | null | null | null |
8,092 | comment | vlad | 2007-04-02T01:32:07 | null | Why not ask them to re-enter their billing information? | null | null | 8,078 | 8,060 | null | [
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8,093 | comment | dawie | 2007-04-02T01:36:21 | null | I think this could cause me to loose customers | null | null | 8,092 | 8,060 | null | [
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8,094 | comment | anil | 2007-04-02T01:45:51 | null | I would tend to stick with PHP if it was a web based service or application. PHP is a lot simpler to work with when you compare it with java. PHP 5 has started filling in all those gaps in programming which often gave it the aura of a script kiddie language. Its leaning a lot more towards object oriented programming. PHP was designed for the web... java was modified for the web. | null | null | 8,010 | 8,010 | null | null | null | null |
8,095 | story | anil | 2007-04-02T01:49:54 | Distributed Apps Framework | null | 1 | null | 8,095 | 1 | [
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8,096 | comment | nickb | 2007-04-02T01:51:27 | null | It just looks horrible. Usability is not plan readability. There's an esthetic component to it as well.
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8,097 | comment | anil | 2007-04-02T01:51:56 | null | I have been working with Distributeds for a while .. ever since the RPC, the arrival of Java RMI , CORBA DCOM and now .NET. I dont know but for some reason I like working with .NET a lot more than I would have liked working with JAVA's RMI. I admit its been a while since I worked with RMI in java but I dont think it still matches up with the lease manager idea in .NET. anyone care to comment on that? | null | null | 8,095 | 8,095 | null | null | null | null |
8,098 | comment | nickb | 2007-04-02T01:51:58 | null | No she's not. Salim Ismail is leading Brickhouse: <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/14/salim-ismail-to-head-yahoo-brickhouse/">http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/14/salim-ismail-to-head-yahoo-brickhouse/</a><p>She'll lead 'strategy'... whatever that means. I think she'll leave very soon. She was demoted afterall. | null | null | 8,022 | 8,008 | null | [
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8,099 | story | tw1sted | 2007-04-02T02:11:04 | YC Deadline: Does the "midnight" mean between April 1st and 2nd...or 2nd and 3rd? | null | null | 5 | null | 8,099 | 14 | [
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