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by cyen 15y ago
San Francisco, Venuetastic (YC W11) Looking for a generalist engineer (intern or full-time) to be our first employee. Standard Rails stack, but candidates with experience in equivalent technologies are wholeheartedly welcome as well. http:
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Generalist engineer (employee #1) wanted at Venuetastic (YC W11)(venuetastic.com)
1 points by cyen 15y ago
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by cyen 15y ago
San Francisco (fulltime, intern) Venuetastic (YC W11, http://venuetastic.com/jobs ) is looking for generalist engineers to join the team and be part of a very early-stage, funded startup.
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by cyen 15y ago
I started playing with it because I always thought Yahoo Pipes was cool but a bit heavy-handed for light things - and I've found myself going back to add more and more tasks. Plenty of services provide some of the functionality (Twitter ale
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by cyen 15y ago
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/vrbo.com+airbnb.com+homeawa...
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by cyen 15y ago
Having to download a native app and having to create an account are two entirely separate matters. And FTR, part of the advantage of native apps is that they'll never be relegated to "just another browser tab" or lost in a sea of favicons.
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by cyen 15y ago
The #1 reason I still use post-its on my laptop and monitor (and... sometimes physically on my phone, in extreme cases): there's a real-world reminder that sticks around when you're powered off, disconnected, etc. They're brightly colored,
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by cyen 15y ago
Mobile's going to be an increasingly interesting strategy with local businesses. When these owners and workers are running their business, they're not running into the back room to check computers or laptops or websites - but they do have t
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by cyen 15y ago
Heroku / EC2 are seeing intermittent connectivity issues - try again in a bit?
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by cyen 15y ago
Grin - but you'll remember it the next time someone mentions needing a venue, won't you?
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by cyen 15y ago
Thanks! We went back and forth finding a balance between the relatively complex constraints some people have in looking for a venue, versus a cleaner interface + fewer features. This is noted :) and we'll noodle on it a bit more going forwa
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Venuetastic (YC W11) Makes Booking Event Spaces a Breeze(techcrunch.com)
118 points by cyen 15y ago|33 comments
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Xk3d - xkcd in 3D, and looking for help(xkcd.com)
6 points by cyen 16y ago|1 comments
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by cyen 16y ago
An alternative is being encouraged to go into product / management roles (read: out of engineering) because you've got "communication skills."
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by cyen 16y ago
It's a little absurd to about the simple changes / features necessary (variables? nesting? c'mon) to make CSS bearable again (if it ever was). Then you take a look at some of the additional goodies - fadeout(), desaturate(), etc - that have
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by cyen 16y ago
At the bottom of the Product Description, it has pagecount in parentheses (e.g. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004K1F9KG/ref=docs-os-doi_... says (34 pages))
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Scientist Plans to Clone Woolly Mammoth(pcmag.com)
45 points by cyen 16y ago|24 comments
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by cyen 16y ago
I'm a fan of: http://blog.jolieodell.com/2010/09/07/women-in-tech/
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by cyen 16y ago
It's lumped into Amazon.
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Toronto Public Library lets you check out humans as well as books(yongestreetmedia.ca)
2 points by cyen 16y ago|0 comments
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by cyen 16y ago
An even larger list of more in-depth post-mortems: http://foundersblock.com/featured/25-best-startup-failure-po...
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by cyen 16y ago
Max Levchin's married (and, judging by his Quora questions of late, also has a kid.) The lunch is purely professional.
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by cyen 16y ago
Duly noted. :) I'll be focusing on being rejected by women in the future.
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by cyen 16y ago
See above. I'm a startup founder as of the day before I started this posterous, and am counting on it to be excellent training.
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by cyen 16y ago
Thanks, tptacek - I'd like to clarify my motivations behind this blog. I'm not doing this to celebrate being rude, or being self-centered - it's about exploring my boundaries. I explicitly list in my rules that I shouldn't be cruel, or put
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YouTube’s CEO Quits Job to Join the Fashion World(nymag.com)
1 points by cyen 16y ago|0 comments
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by cyen 16y ago
I like this quote best - I’ve also come to loathe this mentality, at times. It’s the same mentality where someone whips up a two-page website and asks people to “review their startup!” I think startup is a phrase that’s been abused. You’ve
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by cyen 16y ago
- polish your resume, learn how to introduce yourself. Find a friend, practice if you must. To be honest, this is huge - looking at his resume, the only thing that makes it look like he did something significant is his sweet dreams/soun
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by cyen 16y ago
I wonder if it would include something like injury compensation / some law enforcement-specific hazard pay... seems like it'd fit these large payouts.
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by cyen 16y ago
Reminds me of some old (2006) Digg Labs experiments by Stamen Designs: http://stamen.com/clients/digg Too bad labs.digg.com has been taken down by now...

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