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by catch23 17y ago
I don't think compete.com is all that accurate either. I saw some numbers on twitter.com and it reports around 30k uniques per month -- a little low for a site that gets a few million tweets a day. By comparison, quantcast.com reports twi
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by catch23 17y ago
I'm crossing my fingers that Oct 22 will have a great release of windows 7 so that workplaces can finally upgrade. If they have another horrible release, then it's another 2 years of IE6 pain for us web developers!
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by catch23 17y ago
sounds identical to startupweekend
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by catch23 17y ago
You know, that's exactly how big companies treat bad PR. They'll just blame it on the employee, then fire the employee. The downside of Twestival is that it's all volunteers... sounds like the organizers need to man up and fire the volun
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by catch23 17y ago
Also, it handles time ranges, subject, verb, multiple time selections, and timezones of the person you're scheduling with. I've been using it for a long time already and it's pretty good at handling crazy stuff like: "Meet with sam@gmail.c
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by catch23 17y ago
meh, following a spammer account is like replying to a viagra email. It's easy to prune your twitter account if you don't like to receive unsolicited tweets. You can also make your account private if you don't want people following you or
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by catch23 17y ago
http://www.presdo.com has a much more powerful natural language time parser (that system handles all the timezones in the world) but they don't have a great api for extracting that info. It can't handle stuff like "seven hours before tom
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by catch23 17y ago
That's sorta like a hotel renting a room... and if you overstay your rent, they throw you out the window. Sure it's their room, they're allowed to do anything they want with it, but I wouldn't want to be that guy thrown out the window eit
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by catch23 17y ago
The Zynga founder is all about the lean startup and "going ghetto" but he says that food is really important so even his lean startup (which employs many MVP testing practices) has a good chef and good food. He'll go cheap on everything el
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by catch23 17y ago
And the competitor to this is a YC company, Virtualmin.
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by catch23 17y ago
It's more fun if we aren't restricted to some company's application platform.
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by catch23 17y ago
The YC confidence is sometimes even better than VC capital. One of my previous startups raised a round with first round capital, and I was the 4th employee there, but it didn't make us confident like YC does.
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by catch23 17y ago
Spring MVC is arguable as old as Rails, but I haven't seen anything come close to frameworks in the dynamic language space. There's a reason why there's such a big community behind frameworks like Django & Rails. You won't find a comm
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by catch23 17y ago
Loopt is supposedly profitable in 2009, which means they've had profitable quarters so far. Unless they do something that significantly causes money drain, they'll be able to continue for a long time. Hard to compare to TipJoy when the fo
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by catch23 17y ago
JRuby can call java too... We have it creating messages on a message queue. The JVM has no shortage of message queue systems unlike other languages. Any language with the enterprise stamp on it will probably have 50 something message queu
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by catch23 17y ago
We're on a JVM platform as well. Since there aren't many good web frameworks for Java, Rails makes a good fit here.
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by catch23 17y ago
Don't look for a cofounder by stating the technical requirements -- that sounds like a job posting. If you want your technical founders to feel vested in the company, they'd prefer to hear what the company is aiming to do.
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by catch23 17y ago
Well for startup school, there's limited seating, and high profile panel speakers. A founder dating session probably won't even attract 30 people if there's no indication of content.
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by catch23 17y ago
According to these sources: http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2007/08/bosto... http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/16/y-combinator-demo-day-t... There were only 10 companies launched out of 19 for the summer 2007 round in bos
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by catch23 17y ago
I think boston.com had short snippets of a previous demo day.
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by catch23 17y ago
Agreed. I met my cofounders here in the bay at SHDH. The next SHDH is this Saturday (www.shdh.org). If you want to find your next cofounder, this is the place to be.
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by catch23 17y ago
You don't need all that complexity. just use CSS: text-decoration: blink Works in FF 3.5
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by catch23 17y ago
and what are these "sources"?
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by catch23 17y ago
useful. even if you're not a blogger and your monetization strategy involves affiliate. If anyone's company relies on affiliate fees, I'd like to know your story as well. (what works, what doesn't) We just signed up for the amazon associ
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by catch23 17y ago
What it needs is a rotating shelf, it would be less space efficient, but then you could just spin the wheel to get something at the bottom. Also, it doesn't have to be a wheel, maybe just a bunch of hanging shelves on a movable track. If i
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by catch23 17y ago
How about a normal fridge, but with a small fan at the bottom that pushes the cold air into a bag before you open the fridge? Fans are relatively low power, the only issue is that we'd have to detect someone opening a door. We could have a
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by catch23 17y ago
BDD = "should equal to" TDD = assert_equals Plain and simple! ;-)
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by catch23 17y ago
the google founders were able to easily explain "PageRank" in just a few words, yet nobody considered their approach during the era of Altavista & Hotbot. There might be a simple & obvious solution out there, but nobody has attempte
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by catch23 17y ago
how true. the only thing common among entrepreneurs is their determination.
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by catch23 17y ago
could be said about facebook, myspace, or any other network. newsflash: most normal people in the world don't have ground breaking things to say every 5 minutes.

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