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Ask HN: How complete must a demo be for YC application at submission time?
2 points by badmash69 15y ago|3 comments
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by badmash69 15y ago
I don't use Scala but I appreciate the fresh ideas it has brought to the Java /JVM ecosystem. Think Jetlang Actors modeled after Scala actors or Functional Java library etc. or even Google Guava ,which although has nothing to do with S
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by badmash69 15y ago
Looks Nice and clean but I for one would not be touching JDK7 unless the issues mentioned here ( http://markmail.org/thread/kulrw4sm2nsshrta )are resolved .
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by badmash69 15y ago
This is a very good thing for Android. The BRIC nations have a faster growth rate, a burgeoning middle class that can't yet afford Apple IPADs or other premium tablets. They would definitely buy these low cost and yet highly functional dev
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by badmash69 15y ago
There are two distinct issues here : (a) throughput (b) concurrency -- how many concurrent incoming requests you can handle. Event I/O based frameworks help you with maximizing concurrency.
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by badmash69 15y ago
I would be interested in hearing how LinkedIn gets around Node.js issues .For example Isn't Node.js single threaded ? Would it not under-perform , say compared to Erlang or Netty, in a multi-core CPU.
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by badmash69 15y ago
We were using TIBCO with JMS API to process data as a part of batch job. The batch job would send a message to a JMS Queue; the listener would then process the message and insert it into a db. Replace the system with Netty based RPC server
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by badmash69 15y ago
I've often thought of doing a high volume messaging project with Node.js but I seem to be addicted to jBoss Netty.
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by badmash69 15y ago
The counter argument to MVP that Charlie O'Donnell (First Round Capital) provides in this blog post resonates with me: I am an engineer and I like to solve problems first by my own insights. Perhaps customer development should happen only
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Live in the problem, not in the solution: How customer development has gone awry(thisisgoingtobebig.com)
3 points by badmash69 15y ago|2 comments
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by badmash69 15y ago
To be fair to Facebook, this is how vulnerable any one's content is if they host it at a hosting provider that is outside the jurisdiction of their nation and subject to third party pressures. Very few large and profitable hosting provide
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by badmash69 15y ago
Funny -- I had never heard of the "Teacher" caste before. But by the same measure of anecdotal evidence, there must exist a "Hollywood caste” in US -- how else would you explain Will Smith's kids going into entertainment biz. Or may be th
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by badmash69 15y ago
Twitter can afford the to have multiple languages in their stack but most start-ups simple don't have that luxury. If you have a early stage start up with about 10 developers and you need to quickly build a set of server side component or s
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by badmash69 15y ago
I think the best programming language introdution book I read was the " C programming language book" by Ritchie and Kerningham. What made this book stick in my head was that almost very chapter had a bunch of non-trivial exercises at the en
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by badmash69 15y ago
@gorkemcetin, I would probably pay an arm and a leg for cross-platform API for mobile for access to audio/video recorders. Like what Flash does for desktops' webcam.
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by badmash69 15y ago
I think blaming schools is the wrong thing to do. I have an MBA and I did not consider entrepreneurship when I graduated as I was up to my eyeballs in debt. So were most of my classmates. Finding a STABLE job was the uppermost concern in m
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by badmash69 15y ago
I never thought I would defend Cobol but I have found that Greenscreen terminal based programs written in Cobol and Powerhouse are amazingly fast compared to equivalent web based applications. (I speak from my experience in Financial indust
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by badmash69 15y ago
As Tony Montana ( Scarface) said: In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women. In a start up context ,it means that first get some tra
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by badmash69 15y ago
A long tome ago when I was an MBA student, I asked my prof and peers why does company X buy company Y, when both X and Y are healthy companies, in the context of techology companies. The most common answer is "synergy" or cost savings .
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by badmash69 15y ago
What I find most inspirational about FogCreek is that they have managed to survive and thrive in even in the face of powerful "incumbents" i.e. free solutions that have a longer history.By that I mean that when the sales person for Fogcree
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by badmash69 15y ago
I would guess I am the "old" guy you mention buying the Blackberry. I own a Blackberry Bold and I love it. It does only a few things and it does them really well for me. And I really like the feel of the keypad while typing --- I do a lot
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by badmash69 15y ago
Maybe I am not in the right demographic category to appreciate this. I like using cash for small purchases. I like the anonymity, the convenience and easy availability ( I typically carry some in my wallet). Most of all , I would not feel
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by badmash69 15y ago
Interesting application. But it begs the question : how comfortable would you be handing over your credit card to a small business like a hot dog stand or a farmer's market vendor ? My credit card was "cloned" once and since then I never u
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by badmash69 16y ago
Sure from the western perspective, it looks hopeless. But as an Indian, I am hopeful and not too displeased with the progress. Let me tell you why. One of the central government cabinet minister may even do jail time -- now that is a good
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by badmash69 16y ago
In my experience , there are two kinds of deployment -- ones without DB changes and ones that are accompanies with DB changes. The deployments that do not require DB changes are easy -- mirror the prod box(non db) onto a smaller box, , de
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by badmash69 16y ago
Kudos to the Hipmunk team !! The fact that a talented young developer sought them out with his vision of a product for them as opposed to the safe/usual choices like facebook/Google etc. , speaks volumes for the excitement they have crea
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by badmash69 16y ago
I am not a fan of Quora -- but you can't outdo Quora for entrepreneurs as so many of the VCs seem to be on Quora. Entrepreneurs will always go to where the VCs are.
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by badmash69 16y ago
Can I not defer paying homage to the LISP cult until I achieve a fair amount of productivity in Clojure ? I am learning Clojure as I work through "Clojure in Action".(Thanks to Manning's promotions-- I also have the "Joy of Clojure" ebook
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by badmash69 16y ago
Thank you all for your suggestions!! I am going with Seagate Data recovery; they have inofrmade me that the Seagate Barracuda Drive that I have has a known firmware issue. They will fix it(firmware flash ) for free in approximately 4 week
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by badmash69 16y ago
Your suggestion is awesome . I have never done motherboard swapping on a haddrive-- but could you please blog about it and post a link here. Right now, given the state of mind I am in, I am too nervous to try it on my own.

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