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by andr 18y ago
Go get some Indian food and some beers, come back in 2 hours and you'll get the gist of it in a few minutes.
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by andr 18y ago
Does it work on the iPhone?
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by andr 18y ago
People have been known to do much worse things with strangers to save money for gas ;)
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by andr 18y ago
I'm sure Yelp's logfiles show that enough people think the opposite.
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by andr 18y ago
Probably because Microsoft has enormous amounts of documentation online, organized in a single library, while Google and Yahoo don't...
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by andr 18y ago
funny, I always thought that Y Combinator had a hidden meaning of combining Y chromosomes, as most geeks are guys Update: This is not a homosexual joke. Combining is meant in a business sense.
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by andr 18y ago
If you want to be the next eBay you need to be radically different from the current one. You can't just one-up them. One thing I've been thinking about is using double-sided auctions instead of the typical second-price English auction you f
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by andr 18y ago
Excellent! I've been looking for one of those for ages. Only problem I found so far: I started a drawing, clicked sign up to share it and it was gone.
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by andr 18y ago
Oh how I long for the downvote button!
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by andr 18y ago
congrats, that is the most abstract question in HN history!
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by andr 18y ago
I do the same, except that I usually use my iPhone as my "distraction" PC. Even better, because it's more tiring to use.
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by andr 18y ago
Get a hacker who didn't get in YC.
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by andr 18y ago
I read an article a few days ago about how distracting listening to audiobooks or talking is when driving.
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by andr 18y ago
As a person that has been on both the positive and the negative side of the sum, I can tell you that most people don't really think about this when they get into the speculation. 1) Serious quant trader types are rarely good at anything oth
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by andr 18y ago
yes and no. i know what all the words mean, but when i read it and reread it, i didn't get an idea of what's actually unique about the site.
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by andr 18y ago
i'd say change your pitch. "semantic social bookmarking tool" sounds like it came from a random startup idea generator.
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by andr 18y ago
Actually I've never spent a summer in Boston although I've spent 4 dreadful winters here. You could drop in on summer classes in MIT. You could go to the beach - Crane Beach is pretty good, Revere Beach can be a little white trash. Unfortun
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by andr 18y ago
start publishing the same data for other sites and you'd have a pretty good business going ;)
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by andr 18y ago
What I do is keep on programming, etc., but mostly keep non-geeks as friends. I also tried the "hide your inner geek" thing, but in the end I seem to do better socially when I'm open about my interests (although I did lose a few people tha
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by andr 18y ago
eat smart... when hungry
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by andr 18y ago
http://buxfer.com/yc/
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by andr 18y ago
PHP is my preference for web development. However, you can do anything with any language. The part that has the most influence on how easy or hard it is usually the framework, not the language. On that note, I am tired of articles comparing
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by andr 18y ago
Weren't faxes around in 1989? That's what the mailslot really is.
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Ask YC: Early morning brain exercise?
1 points by andr 18y ago|5 comments
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by andr 18y ago
Yes, by the end of the clip you see a person in the back with VR goggles on.
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Video of Anybots robot using a Roomba(youtube.com)
23 points by andr 18y ago|9 comments
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by andr 18y ago
In the next episode of "The Bold and the Beautiful"...
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by andr 18y ago
ev: FWIW: Twitter currently has no plans to abandon RoR. Lots of our code is not in RoR, already, though. Maybe that's why people are confused. http://twitter.com/ev/statuses/801530348 (Ironically, Twitter was down when I first tried to g
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by andr 18y ago
+1 for PHP + memcache + Thrift.
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by andr 18y ago
Proof that labels are effectively delegating their R&D to startups, and letting them find ways to make money off music.

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