TheMakeA

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   by TheMakeA 13y ago

   They went through YC S11 as Yardsale, and pivoted to FOBO.
2. 92.▲
   by TheMakeA 13y ago

   Any plans for a WebFlow style editor for e-mail? That would be awesome.
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   by TheMakeA 13y ago

   Awesome post. Thanks Zac!
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   by TheMakeA 13y ago

   Got a chance to meet Randall at the YC interviews. Great guy. Congrats and good luck!
5. 95.▲
   by TheMakeA 13y ago

   The page only lists full time partners. There are many more part timers.
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   by TheMakeA 13y ago

   pg, it seems like switching from non-profit to for-profit doesn't work.
7. 97.▲
   by TheMakeA 13y ago

   Congratulations Sam! Can you share a little bit about how you plan on growing YC?
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   Sam Altman for President(blog.ycombinator.com)

   790 points by TheMakeA 13y ago|153 comments
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   by TheMakeA 13y ago

   If you're curious how this works, check out this blog post: https://www.makegameswith.us/gamernews/330/how-we-compiled-4...
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    by TheMakeA 13y ago

    If you're interested in how this works, we also released a blog post about it: https://www.makegameswith.us/gamernews/330/how-we-compiled-4...
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    Show HN: Build your own Flappy Bird in your browser(makegameswith.us)

    16 points by TheMakeA 13y ago|2 comments
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    by TheMakeA 13y ago

    My only concern is Apple's patent for this: http://www.google.com/patents/US20100153929
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    by TheMakeA 13y ago

    What if we started netneutrality.js? Something that shows a banner on sites for people using Verizon/Comcast. Perhaps that will raise more awareness for the issue?
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    by TheMakeA 13y ago

    There appear to be a lot of people knowledgeable on money transmitters here so maybe someone can shine some light on this: How are app stores/online marketplaces/AirBnb/Kickstarter not also money transmitters?
15. 105.▲
    by TheMakeA 13y ago

    YC funded a startup (Double Robotics) that competed with a YC partner's co (Anybots). Just apply.
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    by TheMakeA 13y ago

    https://twitter.com/paulg/status/403183731449413632/photo/1
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    by TheMakeA 13y ago

    They don't get anything. http://ycombinator.com/np.html
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    Algolia (YC W14) launches Apple Spotlight-like search for your app or service(blog.ycombinator.com)

    4 points by TheMakeA 13y ago|0 comments
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    by TheMakeA 13y ago

    http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:online.... p.s: I thought this behavior was against Google's ToS...
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    by TheMakeA 13y ago

    No native font rendering True, but you can render some pretty good looking fonts[0]. no right-clicking text selection to choose from a dozen OS-provided services, no user-based keyboard shortcuts in text fields like this commen
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    by TheMakeA 13y ago

    Excellent read, thank you.
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    by TheMakeA 13y ago

    You could probably reduce the browser to just WebGL + BSD Sockets JS APIs. Far less surface area for vendors to screw up.
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    by TheMakeA 13y ago

    I may be the only one excited about this, but I think it's awesome. I imagine a future where a "web browser" is just a WebGL + Networking + JS API, and you just load in HTML5.js. The benefit of something like this is that it
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    by TheMakeA 13y ago

    I may be the only one excited about this, but I think it's awesome. I imagine a future where a "web browser" is just a WebGL + Networking + JS API, and you just load in HTML5.js. The benefit of something like this is that it
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    Airware (S13) Demos Its Drone Platform By Protecting Rhinos From Poachers(techcrunch.com)

    2 points by TheMakeA 13y ago|0 comments
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    by TheMakeA 13y ago

    What are people using these days for compiling their static assets (js minification + concatenation, etc)? We have been using django-pipeline but it has been a nightmare.
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    Razer's Project Christine: a new modular PC design(razerzone.com)

    3 points by TheMakeA 13y ago|0 comments
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    by TheMakeA 13y ago

    I was using socket.io until about two weeks ago when I ran into some reconnecting issues that weren't fixed. I decided to use Primus + Multiplex + Emitter. I have only run into one issue so far with Multiplex on IE10, but that was fixe
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    by TheMakeA 13y ago

    Also check out https://github.com/primus/primus It's an abstraction layer over sockjs, socket.io, etc.
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    by TheMakeA 13y ago

    Thanks! To make it a little more clear just how much the hack helped: wait times went from around a minute (often many minutes) to ~5 seconds.