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751.
by catch23 17y ago
If we get 40 more members, we'll be viable. Considering that we managed to get 35 members in the last month, I think it's possible to triple that number given that there's more entrepreneurs here than anywhere else. Visit any coffee shop
752.
by catch23 17y ago
I don't think hackerspaces would be considered a real business. Most of them are non-profit and community driven. If you live somewhere with enough hackers, it makes sense to have something like this. My grandmother has a "hackerspace" f
753.
by catch23 17y ago
Sure beats paying $4 to work at a coffee shop. Plus, not every coffee shop lets you bring your soldering iron or desktop computer.
754.
by catch23 17y ago
seems fine for me too. Guess Linux isn't ready for the desktop yet!
755.
by catch23 17y ago
Read Tim Burks' talk about ObjC. ObjC is what C++ should have been. It's just too bad other great fast languages like D and ObjC aren't used often.
756.
by catch23 17y ago
Some drawbacks: running on hot pavement - the thin soles enable you to feel the temperature of whatever surface you're on. It never gets unbearable, but you'll definitely know when you're standing on a hot surface. stepping on a single sma
757.
by catch23 17y ago
Probably in cities where crime rates are high. I've gotten 3 bikes stolen in SF already. The last 2 bikes used some heavy duty U-locks that almost cost as much as the bikes themselves. Some office buildings in SF don't let you carry a bi
758.
by catch23 17y ago
seems like this thing would be pretty easy to automate (aka cheating). Fire up an asterisk box and have it record, decipher, and play back the tones!
759.
by catch23 17y ago
eh, not really. most webapps visible today spent more than 5 months in development, and usually had a small team of developers. This is just 1 guy doing it for 5 months. LinkedIn didn't get any growth in it's first 5 months, and deliciou
760.
by catch23 17y ago
hah, reminds me of the $233 spider drawing...
761.
by catch23 17y ago
oh wow, this is sweet. justin.tv rocks... I can think of a dozen other cool simple ideas that could be implemented with their new api. I think you may need to tweak the randomness a little though. I got the same girl-in-pajamas 4 times in
762.
by catch23 17y ago
you can always use firefox javascript code modules to completely sandbox your javascript code, that way your jquery version won't conflict with whatever happens to be on the page. Highly useful especially if you're modifying String.prototy
763.
by catch23 17y ago
There's also the ultra complicated open source solution zoneminder.
764.
by catch23 17y ago
How do you know Apple isn't the one copying it from somewhere else?
765.
by catch23 17y ago
congrats! amazing that there's so much less negativity on TC comments recently...
766.
by catch23 17y ago
that's not so bad. clojure's past, present, and future is also java.
767.
by catch23 17y ago
yeah these guys are rich. I need to get them to fund my poor company!
768.
by catch23 17y ago
Where are you guys in the SF Bay Area? Bay Area is a big place, for all we know, you could be located in East Palo Alto.
769.
by catch23 17y ago
So protesters should all smear themselves with a similar paintball colored ink. If everyone has the ink on them, police would need a new way to separate the fakes.
770.
by catch23 17y ago
well even the hardware based drive encryption stuff comes with a bit of software that your IT department would have to support anyway, so I don't think the TrueCrypt software adds that much overhead to what you'd already have to support wit
771.
by catch23 17y ago
Why not use something like TrueCrypt? The only thing that isn't encrypted is the truecrypt bootloader, which isn't really a big deal.
772.
by catch23 17y ago
so most of twitter's 20m users are marketers & promoters? I don't consider myself a marketer and yet I'm on twitter. I'm on there because my friends are on there.
773.
by catch23 17y ago
don't tell me you run your own search and mail too...
774.
by catch23 17y ago
Flickr?
775.
by catch23 17y ago
At the minimum, it's faulty marketing on Apple's product. They shouldn't state that it supports millions of colors when it actually doesn't. Just like the CRT monitors that are 17" but only 15" viewable... sometimes that stuff doesn't ch
776.
by catch23 17y ago
Still, just think if you have code in the linux kernel, you could ask t-shirts from just about every company in the world including government agencies and non-profits. You'd have more than enough clothing to last a lifetime of never doing
777.
by catch23 17y ago
> I am assuming Xobni offers a lot more than simply search right? If it's only search... what's there to stop Microsoft from building a better built-in search tool for Outlook? I often hear great things about Xobni, but I never got to
778.
by catch23 17y ago
> I have grave doubts as to whether users of a mail client will pay $30 for an add-on to improve the indigenous search, no matter how much better it is. People sometimes pay for additional functionality that they deem necessary, especia
779.
by catch23 17y ago
Shouldn't big name VCs like Sequoia do the same? I think confidentiality is probably the biggest reason. Who else would YC trust better than their previously funded startups?
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by catch23 17y ago
I only mentioned it because another company (Intuit) has Quickbooks available online via the web, but you need a copy of Quickbooks in order to run it because it uses ActiveX objects that reference libraries from Quickbooks. Strange way to

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