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Ask YC: Anything like one-day or one-weekend intro classes?
4 points by aasarava 18y ago|1 comments
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by aasarava 18y ago
No, they sound an awful lot like old Microsoft interview questions -- in particular, ones collected in a book called How Would You Move Mount Fuji? I wrote an article about the book for Wired News back in 2003...: http://www.wired.com/cul
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by aasarava 18y ago
I have to laugh when I hear people say they could "build a better-looking Craigslist" in "a few months" or "a few weeks" or "a weekend" [or insert your own timeframe.] Craigslist isn't just some simple bulletin board software and forums th
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by aasarava 18y ago
Also: opportunity costs.
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by aasarava 18y ago
I've been able to get emails through to Hotmail/Live/MSN accounts from my own mail servers after explicitly notifying the Microsoft postmaster of my domain and valid SPF record. (Just having the record wasn't enough.) Here's the form I us
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by aasarava 18y ago
That's funny and sadly true in many cases. But come on, I think we all know what point the article is really trying to make: You can run off and start writing code to some spec in your head; or you can spend a little time upfront finding ou
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by aasarava 18y ago
Really? I don't know about 1808 exactly, but history is full of accomplished individuals whose names we remember many years later. Galileo? Gutenberg? Edison? Ben Franklin? Marie Curie?
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by aasarava 18y ago
Indeed, page architecture is very important in helping readers parse and comprehend the information on a page -- especially on the Web. As Jakob Neilsen's eye tracking studies have shown, most people don't read the text on a Web page linear
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by aasarava 18y ago
Even if one were to be comfortable moving (or lived in the area already), I think one of the problems for would-be YC entreprenuers with families and/or mortgage payments is that the average $5K base + $5K/partner investment comes in below
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by aasarava 18y ago
Apple is doing the minimum that the market will let it get away with. Fortunately for the company, that bar is pretty low by the alternative: Microsoft. This is a pretty good example of the power of branding. Customers (on the whole, not
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14 Ways to Deal with Email More Efficiently(returncontrol.com)
1 points by aasarava 18y ago|0 comments
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by aasarava 18y ago
I wouldn't say just yet that DRM is in it's final days. People have downloaded over 5 billion tunes from iTunes, and it's the US's biggest music retailer with something like 80%+ market share. Yes, Apple does offer DRM-free tracks, but tho
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by aasarava 18y ago
The thing is, you don't just work two days a week as a wedding photographer. As the article mentions, there's almost 20 hours of work for a single client, given the initial consultation and any other legwork you have to do. If I remember c
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by aasarava 18y ago
Wedding photographers? Huh? Most people I know paid about $2K for their wedding photographer. Let's say a really good photographer can book both days of the weekend for 40 weekends a year. So he or she brings in $160,000 -- before paying
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by aasarava 18y ago
From the article: The technique of data normalization is about correct ways of partitioning the data among tables to minimize data redundancy and maximize the speed of retrieval. The part about minimizing data redundancy is fine, but I'm
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by aasarava 18y ago
FYI, if you've just gotta get into Facebook immediately, m.facebook.com works (mobile site). ;)
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by aasarava 18y ago
Good point. She's a hacker who just happens to be female. ;)
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by aasarava 18y ago
Neat. (Although, trying to read the code makes my head hurt.) Hey, is Julia a girl, or would it be better to refer to her as a "female hacker"? Not trying to be a troll, just thinking we should be careful about using "girl" to refer to wom
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by aasarava 18y ago
Funny, I just posted about that to my blog (www.returncontrol.com). In short, the theory that I posted there is this: People who opted in to preview the new facebook profile used to be redirected to new.facebook.com, but that domain is no
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by aasarava 18y ago
I've done this a few times (C++, PHP, HTML, CSS, etc.) and it seems to work best when you treat it as if you're teaching someone to drive a car: Both of you are sitting side by side in front of the same computer, with the trainee driving. F
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by aasarava 18y ago
I know we've discussed IE6 and its myriad problems here before, and I'm strongly on the side of dropping support if your audience is tech-savvy enough to not being using it. But for sites that do have to keep supporting it, I wanted to poin
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by aasarava 18y ago
It's unclear what your startup / the site does. I took the bait and typed in a letter and got a couple options of sites to go to. But I get the feeling I'm missing something and need more explanation. Jonas, can you explain?
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Clicky: How does an upstart fee-driven service beat a giant like Google?(returncontrol.com)
2 points by aasarava 18y ago|1 comments
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by aasarava 18y ago
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but YC's model is built around working with very early-stage, yet-to-incorporated businesses. A team that had already built a product to the point of beta, or that had been working on one of the ideas on the
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by aasarava 18y ago
Definitely depends on your audience. If you have a tech-savvy audience, it's a good bet that the vast majority of your site's visitors are at 1024px. But if you're targeting, say, a certain subset of baby boomers who may not have upgraded
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by aasarava 18y ago
I'm not sure I agree that #9 (BabyCalc / automated baby progress emails) would have been a flop in and of itself; it just sounds like he had a personal reason to fold the business. BabyCenter.com right now is hugely popular among soon-to-be
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by aasarava 18y ago
I'd recommend a good CMS that has support for both fixed taxonomies and free tagging. Since it sounds like you'll also want to maintain some sort of a database of the products you're reviewing, Drupal sounds like it would be a good solutio
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by aasarava 18y ago
That's often true, but the ability to express an idea succinctly can also be a sign that the author has thought through the idea and his words very carefully. ("I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time." Blaise Pas
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by aasarava 18y ago
Not many people have to use a lathe. It's designed for specialists to use, and the knowledge of how to use it is a given prerequisite that the designer takes into account. Cellphones on the other hand are one of the most widely distributed
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by aasarava 18y ago
I'll second that recommendation. Lowe's biography of Buffett is an excellent book -- it's a biography with lessons on investing woven in.

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