TheMakeA

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How to get in to Y Combinator(medium.com)
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by TheMakeA 13y ago
Thousands of groups applied for S13. Only 255 groups were selected for interviews. Only 53 companies ended up getting funded. My advice: Stop worrying about perfecting your application or trying to game it. Stop worrying about trying to get
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by TheMakeA 13y ago
Competition means there's likely to be an actual market for what you're making. Entering a market vs. creating a new one.
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by TheMakeA 13y ago
I am working on a similar tool in Node, called bon[1]. I'm glad to see so much interest in Docker lately, it's a very exciting technology. [1] https://github.com/strapper/bon
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I seem to recall them raising money on Wefunder. In fact, a number of S13 companies appear to be[1]. Unfortunately, it looks like most of the companies are having trouble raising even small sums of money. I wonder if some investors might ta
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Show HN: Scripted deployment with Docker containers(github.com)
2 points by TheMakeA 13y ago|0 comments
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Honestly, if I were going to try to solve one problem with keyboards it would be to make cleaning them easier. This seems like a good keyboard and I may consider picking one up if both of my Das Keyboards fail me, but I'm not rushing t
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Y Combinator Summer 2013 Demo Day, Batch 3(techcrunch.com)
100 points by TheMakeA 13y ago|31 comments
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Y Combinator Summer 2013 Demo Day, Batch 2(techcrunch.com)
103 points by TheMakeA 13y ago|30 comments
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by TheMakeA 13y ago
We've been a customer for a few months now and use it to power the runtime for our App-Development-In-The-Cloud[1] startup. Very cool, and Chris et al are very nice and helpful guys! [1] http://www.cloupp.com
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by TheMakeA 13y ago
You make very good points but I got the impression that Shopping Express may work a little differently. It seems like Google might actually call the store and have the store employees prepare the order, or at least confirm that some items a
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by TheMakeA 13y ago
I've used it a couple of times but it still has some flaws. For instance, you can only buy things that are listed on the website. I decided to give it a shot to get a new PS3 game delivered. The item would be located no more than 3 fee
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by TheMakeA 13y ago
It's an interesting design problem for sure. Do they make it a USB dongle and have an HDMI cable going out? Or an HDMI dongle with a USB cable going out?
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by TheMakeA 13y ago
There are a number of options. For instance, each build could run on a freshly provisioned virtual machine (like Travis CI), or using a carefully crafted sandbox-exec setup.
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I wonder how much Sam Lantinga is responsible for the existence. As far as I know he joined Blizzard after coming off of porting games to Linux at Loki Software. Interestingly, he's now at Valve.
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by TheMakeA 13y ago
There would definitely be some pains going from huge monitors to a small tablet. The bigger side of our plan was that it wouldn't just be possible to develop from a tablet, but really, from anywhere. Develop iPhone apps on your Windows
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by TheMakeA 13y ago
We mostly expected people to attach a bluetooth keyboard to their tablet or phone. For people who insisted on using a touch screen, we were working on a graphical context sensitive system like you describe -- except for existing languages (
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by TheMakeA 13y ago
It's possible. The given reason for our rejection was the market size for our product. Really, we were caught heavily off guard by having to explain why it would be useful. We thought, "It's an RFS, so they already know it co
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by TheMakeA 13y ago
From personal experience, it seems like YC may no longer have an interest in funding RFS #5. Our entire interview was spent trying to explain why someone would possibly want to code on a handheld. Full disclosure: Our demo and Altair BASIC
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by TheMakeA 13y ago
I was under the impression that the main concern is theft of HTML/CSS/JS sources without payment. Anything that allows access to those files would still be vulnerable. The idea was to have the site rendered real-time in the cloud
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by TheMakeA 13y ago
Think of something like VNC over WebRTC or Flash. Just rendered frames, no raw access to the source.
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by TheMakeA 13y ago
I wonder if there could be a service to protect freelancers. What if you could just go to a page, enter a URL, and you get another URL back. You send your client the 2nd URL and it's essentially a live stream of the first URL that they
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by TheMakeA 13y ago
Do a search for parallax javascript libraries.
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by TheMakeA 13y ago
PG discussed this a bit over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5464451
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by TheMakeA 13y ago
The Visual Studio IDE and Expression Blend are (or at least were) WPF... I guess there's a pretty good chance it was C# rather than VB.NET. Not sure if there is anything else though.
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Definitely not a unique idea (see also: http://www.threadless.com ), but I wonder if it could be bigger if it were more community oriented (Get your weekly r/pics or r/WTF shirts!), somewhere between the Shirt Derby (we
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by TheMakeA 13y ago
Since you get a bulk discount, would you pay a service say, $3 - $6 a week for such a t-shirt? Alternative idea: Reddit for t-shirts. Everyone can create and upvote shirts. At the end of each week, everyone gets the highest upvoted shirt fo
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by TheMakeA 13y ago
One of the cooler projects I've worked on involved modeling city road networks using splines. We'd convert them to Bezier curves and split them along rectangular boundaries using deCasteljau's algorithm for LOD. Lots of fun!
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I think the points that you bring up are mostly true for well established and common platforms and architectures, but the author, Mike Acton, focuses mostly on the PS3, where it is more conceivable that a compiler would not e.g. optimize a
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by TheMakeA 13y ago
Valve is (was) very open with their publications. There are more available on their website[1]. I definitely recommend taking a little time to look through them. [1] http://www.valvesoftware.com/publications.html

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