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by abossy 16y ago
Quora uses your Facebook friends graph to determine who you'll initially follow on Quora. It's been critical to onboarding new users and showing them relevant content immediately.
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by abossy 16y ago
This is great news. However, it's unclear how the requirement to have users subscribed to Instapaper should be communicated to the users of third-party apps. Is there an easy way to subscribe new users? Does Instapaper provide any library s
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by abossy 16y ago
This is exactly how Yammer has acquired a large percentage of their customers. It's their competitive advantage, and the reason their sales force doesn't largely subsume the rest of the company. The reason it has worked for them is that the
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by abossy 16y ago
The ranking has little to do with how effective the school is at producing startups.
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by abossy 16y ago
I agree. I'm a UTCS grad that was hell-bent on getting involved in startups, but there simply weren't many options at the time ('08). The reasons I witnessed are the following: * Austin is no longer an entrepreneurial town. * The 10% rules
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by abossy 16y ago
I also enjoyed this one: "The buildings are all more or less the same, their exteriors express very little, and they are arranged in a confusing maze... These buildings are a pretty accurate reflection of the VC business."
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by abossy 16y ago
http://whytherearenogirls.blogspot.com/
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by abossy 16y ago
Agreed. Also, how many of the 800 apartments were booked for the Denver DNC?
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by abossy 16y ago
Quora no longer forces you to log in with Facebook, nor do you need to log in at all to browse the site.
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by abossy 16y ago
Wow, this is the first time I see Startup School being announced for this year. Am I the only one who seems to have missed it? Luckily, I was able to get my application submitted within 3-4 minutes.
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by abossy 16y ago
Do you have any evidence that investors want short-term returns? This is a common misconception, and I'm not sure where it stems from. Investors would MUCH rather back Facebook than Mint, that is, investment dollars in a long-term success t
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by abossy 16y ago
Check out his LinkedIn profile for details about his work experience: http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelarrington Aside, from First Data Corp., he doesn't list which companies he founded. I would assume that he was the co-founder in those
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by abossy 16y ago
The Microsoft campus is within biking distance of the Caltrain. It's not a terrible ride, from what I can tell. Also, ask on the wiki! http://superhappydevhouse.org/SuperHappyDevHouse40 Somebody courteously offered me a ride from Noe Vall
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by abossy 16y ago
Somebody should really build a product to do this automatically.
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by abossy 16y ago
Google Instant will most likely never come to GMail search. The speed at which GMail queries are returned simply aren't fast enough for real-time search, and it's unlikely Google has a monetary incentive to improve the speed to this level.
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by abossy 16y ago
This minimalistic design has long been a cornerstone of Google's brand. That they are changing this (and why) is noteworthy to anybody who cares about design on the Internet. If you don't like the story, you can skip over it to the next one
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by abossy 16y ago
Posting a bunch of code by esteemed coders that I normally wouldn't stumble across myself would be cool. For example, some cool Peter Norvig's code snippets, pieces of Quake II, etc. I would normally have to hunt these down but your site ca
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by abossy 16y ago
Re: 2. Two social sites are clear winners: Facebook and Twitter. Delicious initially had strong adoption, hence they were acquired, but it's been downhill since then. Google Buzz can be considered a failure; Google forced their social graph
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by abossy 16y ago
If I'm understanding the video correctly, I'll have the same problem that I have with Facebook and Twitter: interesting things are either getting drowned out or not being posted at all. I agree with a few of the other posts; this feels like
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by abossy 16y ago
I had not heard of LISP at 15, either. I already knew I loved programming, but what I was doing was rudimentary. I can't imagine how a teenager finds his or her way into such advanced programming. I personally need a formal computer science
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by abossy 16y ago
Are there any input/output samples?
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by abossy 16y ago
Could you share some screenshots? The browsershots link [1] posted earlier only contains Windows XP. It's hard to tell exactly what the quality is in Windos because the browsershots images are low-res, but it looks like the edges are very n
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by abossy 16y ago
Are there plans (rumored or confirmed) to release the Half-Life series on the Mac?
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by abossy 16y ago
That's true of any company; it's a matter of reaching scale in the first place.
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by abossy 16y ago
Can you name one recommendation service that is an 11-figure business? The only company I can think of whose core business is mostly recommendation is Pandora, and they're not even that large; nine figures at best.
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by abossy 16y ago
I pursued this idea with randomwalker for about 6 months before realizing there's absolutely no business value here. My advice to Nowmov: choose another market before it's too late. We did, and it's been going much better for us. Fortunatel
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by abossy 16y ago
What's wrong with uShip?
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by abossy 17y ago
This is a duplicate of: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1255097
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by abossy 17y ago
This is the first I hear about a DoJ investigation, but this article largely comes off as FUD. It dances around a few weak claims, none with real evidence to back them up. First, there's a shortage of computer scientists [1], which has led
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by abossy 17y ago
Keep in mind that SF is highly gentrified. Lower income people get pushed out to Oakland and to the cities south of San Francisco. Additionally, lower income people have less options when choosing a place to live. Hence, a car might be the

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