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by chengmi 19y ago
How about this: http://www.diyseotools.com/images/site/yahoo_logo_white.gif
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by chengmi 19y ago
The article isn't saying that all standing presentations are bad, just ones with VC. With that said, I think that people should present however they're most comfortable.
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by chengmi 19y ago
1. This method wouldn't work in heavy traffic. 2. That "nearly constant 10mph breeze" is improving fuel efficiency for the cars behind you through reduced wind resistance. 3. A similar idea for generating power from traffic is through the u
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MediaTemple DOS Attack
5 points by chengmi 19y ago|2 comments
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by chengmi 19y ago
That's not happiness... that's smiling. Ever had your boss come in to work with a camera? What do you do? You smile.
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by chengmi 19y ago
I'm actually kind of surprised so many people are asking this question. There's really no reason to cut off your response after 120 words (we're talking words, not characters). To implement something like that would require splitting the re
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by chengmi 19y ago
Too bad you can't use Google Maps for that: http://www.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html Read the last bullet point...
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by chengmi 19y ago
Ever been to Davis, CA? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis%2C_ca#Bicycling The city logo is a bicycle, and there's a bicycle statue too... http://daviswiki.org/Bicycling
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by chengmi 19y ago
or, you could estimate it fairly accurately using the following formula: (fuel tank capacity - gallons needed to fill tank when gas light turns on) * (average miles per gallon) I have about 4 gallons left when the light turns on. 2 gallons
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by chengmi 19y ago
Does this even matter? How many bots actually respect robots.txt?
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by chengmi 19y ago
$35,000 is a lot of iPods...
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by chengmi 19y ago
Agreed. I've known my co-founder for ten years! In "A Student's Guide to Startups," pg writes: Most of the questions people ask Y Combinator we have some kind of answer for, but not the co-founder question. There is no good answer. Co-found
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by chengmi 19y ago
Of the four obstacles addressed in the paper (Latency, Lack of privacy, Convenience, and Reliance on a 3rd party), I think Convenience is the main killer of this technology. Chase Bank implements something similar to SAW. Whenever I log int
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by chengmi 19y ago
I wonder if any ad hoc teams have been funded through yc. And if so, how many? Most (all?) of the startups I know have had founders who met in college or had otherwise worked together previously.
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by chengmi 19y ago
I agree that we agree in our interpretation... =) I thought of this analogy in terms of existing code (rather than being able to deliver, because OP's partner could take the idea and find someone else to do the code). The OP wrote the exist
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by chengmi 19y ago
As I understand it, ConnectU brought Mark Zuckerberg onto the existing project. From there, Zuckerberg allegedly forked the code into what is now known as Facebook. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook ) So assuming OP=Conne
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by chengmi 19y ago
For part c), I suspect he's thinking he's going to be ConnectU trying to prove that the idea was his to begin with. My suggestion is to try to find something that he's good at, and let him work on that. Otherwise, before you incorporate, si
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by chengmi 19y ago
Does that warm and fuzzy feeling pay the bills every month? =) In all seriousness, I agree that having happy clients is a strong indicator of success. But for myself, success is more than just being at the front of the pack. Success is havi
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by chengmi 19y ago
...and if you're listing a cell phone number, make sure your phone is charged and not silent!
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by chengmi 19y ago
The reason I say to enumerate the links is not so much for ranking purposes, but to reinforce the visual aspect of the page. For me at least, it's much easier to parse the page if there's some kind of visual cue to help me keep track of whe
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by chengmi 19y ago
I'd like to see the numeric rank next to the link.
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by chengmi 19y ago
String, of course.