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by brett 19y ago
Joe Kraus argues that if you are going to charge it's helpful to do it in beta to get feedback on how well you model is going to work. #6 in http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/2006/04/30/joe-kraus-confe...
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Anyone have thoughts on the viability of a firefox os?
6 points by brett 19y ago|6 comments
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by brett 19y ago
Ha. Do you have a take on the "let's have all the startups work in one big room" decision?
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Thoughts on 'The Equity Equation'(venturehacks.com)
13 points by brett 19y ago|4 comments
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by brett 19y ago
YES!
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by brett 19y ago
I'm starting to feel either invisible or grossly inarticulate on this one. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19842 A lot of readers will render (xml escaped) html put in a description tag for each item , including a tags pointing
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by brett 19y ago
Did this come up after reading the "Kids say e-mail is, like, soooo dead" article on the front page now?
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What should the vesting terms of founder stock be before a venture financing?(startupcompanylawyer.com)
2 points by brett 19y ago|0 comments
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by brett 19y ago
ABC7 is pushing this pretty hard. Every time I see one of their news shows (which is not very often) there is an ad for their futures market or they are quoting futures market results. There's never any mention of Inkling which is probably
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Real world Rails, Part 3: Optimizing ActiveRecord(ibm.com)
3 points by brett 19y ago|0 comments
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by brett 19y ago
DHH responds in the commments: http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.309321....
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by brett 19y ago
That's not necessarily significant unless you want to take it a step further and claim C++ and/or Java have a causal relationship with those market capitalizations. There could be a lot of reasons why very large software companies are using
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by brett 19y ago
Definitely. If your main goal is joining a startup with a chance of success then you should be evaluating the people involved. Their language choice should be a data point, but ought to be taken strongly in context of their backgrounds and
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Critical Marketing Activites For A Startup(askthevc.com)
2 points by brett 19y ago|1 comments
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by brett 19y ago
That really interesting; your emphasis on community custom is not something I'd really thought about. You could even go so far as to classify reddit's innovations as an attempt to programatically encourage or enforce such customs. I wonder
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by brett 19y ago
Incidentally I came across this while trying to find information about how reddit stores threaded comments. I've read they use postgres and while I've also read about many workable techniques to force hierarchical (and frequently reordered)
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by brett 19y ago
While reddit's comment system is obviously an improvement over Slashdot's, I'm increasingly convinced that community makeup is far more important than the tool it uses.
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PG: What's your current take on reddit's comment system?(reddit.com)
21 points by brett 19y ago|64 comments
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The Verizon guy who turned down the iPhone(sethgodin.typepad.com)
9 points by brett 19y ago|5 comments
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Reinventing HOTorNOT, Part II(james.hotornot.com)
11 points by brett 19y ago|3 comments
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by brett 19y ago
Looks like I was a little mixed up on the context here. I'd be deleting this comment if I still could. Safe to ignore it.
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by brett 19y ago
At that point it's not so much a comment as a description field for the link. You'd probably want to implement it as such and the question becomes, "Do you want to add descriptions for all links?"
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by brett 19y ago
good, i guess; i was sort of having fun with that one.
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by brett 19y ago
and http://ycombinator.com "style="font-size:30px ?
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by brett 19y ago
"But Mr. Sinegal warned that if Costco increased markups to 16 or 18 percent, the company might slip down a dangerous slope and lose discipline in minimizing costs and prices." Costco's strict attitude toward product markup reminds me of 37
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How Costco Became the Anti-Wal-Mart(nytimes.com)
19 points by brett 19y ago|10 comments
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by brett 19y ago
Time. Older comments are not editable.
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Apple Developer Connection - iPhone for Web Developers - Optimizing Web Applications and Content for iPhone(developer.apple.com)
7 points by brett 19y ago|1 comments
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by brett 19y ago
With 50+ teams now funded I wonder how much potential competition with existing YC companies will play a factor in acceptance. Especially given that it's likely many YC companies will not have launched by the app deadline.
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by brett 19y ago
His analysis makes a lot of sense. I wonder if ads "make the web suck" enough for general users to switch if some browser made ad blocking a priority out of the box. It seems likes a pretty powerful feature, but people are conditioned to h

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