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by babul 18y ago
In a crowded market or where there is limited resource (VC money, media attention, etc.), people need to promote themselves. Unfortunately this often results in hype.
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by babul 18y ago
Though all I know about Jawed Karim is what I’ve read about him on the internet over the years, or what he has written, I really respect his level-headedness and disposition to hype. The fact he is not a media-whore, went back to academia e
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by babul 18y ago
After reading this, it sounds like they both TC50 and DEMO need to take a leaf out of SeedCamp/YC's book and have (free) demo days actually geared towards startups rather than as a conference-type event focused on making them profit.
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by babul 18y ago
Strange, was able to submit the same item twice... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=278560 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=278541
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by babul 18y ago
Okay :) If we ever meet in person, I'll buy you a beer/coffee/meal, and we can debate such things as in general I'm liking the comments you make on a multitude of topics. An IDE is just a tool and like any good tool can help those that don'
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by babul 18y ago
> What magical feature of an IDE "allows you more freedom to explore ideas and experiment faster"? Refactoring. Code completion/validation/formatting (make fewer errors, and reformat external code to suit you). GUI design (a lot of ti
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by babul 18y ago
Using a good IDE does make you more productive. Taking the java example, most people will accomplish more using IntelliJ-IDEA than Notepad. A good IDE allows you more freedom to explore ideas and experiment faster (especially when doing s
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by babul 18y ago
You are right. Thanks.
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by babul 18y ago
Teams that play together, stay together. It is all about the relationship people have with one another. We all have different strengths and weaknesses and essentially it is about knowing each other well enough to compensate for one and othe
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by babul 18y ago
The HN points system is an efficient way of filtering articles and comments - valued items quickly reach the top of a page/thread (usually). Even if it is broken in some ways, it is better to have it than not.
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by babul 18y ago
URL is same ( http://brizzled.clapper.org/id/75 ). Also, I have experienced this myself. Submitted an article and found it had been submitted ~1-2hr before/after by another (so usually would delete article I submitted).
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by babul 18y ago
Offer both (monthly billing and annual invoicing) and see which one works better for you. Neither are hard or expensive to setup. Until you have a proven and reliable service that adds value to business owners, I expect most people will opt
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by babul 18y ago
PayPal are convenient to start with but are too expensive compared to a merchant account or other card processors (protex et al). Also, PayPal offer little or no protection to chargebacks (even blatantly false ones) so I would be wary of us
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by babul 18y ago
Deja vu. ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=260014 ) p.s. I thought a dupe post got credited to its predecessor. Is there a time limit on this check?
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by babul 18y ago
Very nice logo. Simple and elegant. Also works well in black and white. Ideally, it is good to have a logo that works in monochrome (for laser prints, photocopies, embossing/engraving, etc.) and if possible includes the company name.
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by babul 18y ago
I thought he had read... http://blog.dougpetkanics.com/the-404-test-wildly-brilliant ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=275168 )
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by babul 18y ago
When people are learning something new, they often go through an opinion-forming phase where they internally argue the merits (or not) of what they do. Hence, the need for vocalisation? Once they know something well, or are happy with what
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by babul 18y ago
Basically reiterates Adams points. But at least Adam and Heroku get more exposure via the 37Signals blog. Perhaps all startups should do this - disagree with 37Signals/DHH, post on YC, await blog attention.
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by babul 18y ago
Be it sports, education, startups, or life, the pattern is similar. Move fast. Develop iteratively. Fail quickly. Learn. Rinse. Repeat. Over time you will improve and be able to remove the fail quickly step. Since knowing when to quit is ha
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by babul 18y ago
Congrats on the launch guys! Awesome product. One simple suggestion that seems to be missing and can add a lot of value for very little cost... Allow the frames to be personalised with custom messages engraved on the wood/glass. Finding a g
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by babul 18y ago
Specialist investors (e.g. technology angels or firms such as Sequoia Capital et al) usually have a very good appreciation of what will or will not work. They possess sophisticated, and often surprisingly accurate, tools/models/instruments/
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by babul 18y ago
> I got bored after three or four years on the same venture. But if you want the upside, you have to stick around, because it only pays out over the long term. I would call 3-4 years long term , especially in the internet world, and
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by babul 18y ago
Being into Django+AWS development at the moment (and using http://eucalyptus.cs.ucsb.edu/ for a private cloud with AWS as an extension as AWS is not cost effective in many ways), I find this a good article to improve performance in a basi
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by babul 18y ago
In bricks-and-mortar businesses that have real overheads (rents, wages, taxes, utility bills) and need real customers paying real money in order to sustain them, you could never say you were profitable unless your balance sheet is consisten
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by babul 18y ago
Have you tried http://www.songkick.com , also a YC startup? They are now doing music and concert tickets.
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Is Google's Organic Growth Topping Out? Chris Sacca talks(finance.yahoo.com)
11 points by babul 18y ago|0 comments
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by babul 18y ago
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=275328
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by babul 18y ago
Hopefully this will provide more transparency and uniformity to the process and help all concerned get a better deal, especially startups who cannot afford decent lawyers and hence often more vunerable.
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by babul 18y ago
"Fool me once Shame on you. Fool me twice Shame on me." --Chinese Proverb.
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by babul 18y ago
On a lot of sites, especially those with a set navigation layout (where a new link/button is more obvious) and regular user-base, users will often click on a new link/button just to see what it is and not always because they want it. I cann

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