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Y Combinator Unloads Massive New Batch of Start-Ups(allthingsd.com)
155 points by dbul 15y ago|56 comments
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Boston Venture Firms Search for Next Facebook(bloomberg.com)
1 points by dbul 15y ago|0 comments
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Tech from Plextronics Could Replace Lightbulbs, ’Do Away With iPads’(bloomberg.com)
1 points by dbul 15y ago|0 comments
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Open(code) finding new public github projects(opencode.us)
3 points by dbul 16y ago|0 comments
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A VC: Something I Want To Be Able To Do(avc.com)
13 points by dbul 16y ago|4 comments
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by dbul 16y ago
Someone I know recently told me about her nightmare when she was collecting money for a class reunion via PayPal last month: she had to register as a non-profit, and PayPal wanted her water bill to prove that they were indeed a non-profit d
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Brain Research Using Online Data Repositories: Network Structure of the Brain(actionpotential.com)
1 points by dbul 16y ago|0 comments
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How to Fuel Start-ups and Keep Talent in Pittsburgh(popcitymedia.com)
1 points by dbul 16y ago|0 comments
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Six ways to build robots that do humans no harm(newscientist.com)
1 points by dbul 17y ago|0 comments
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by dbul 17y ago
http://www.jewelryluv.com/WebObjects/Jewelry.woa/Contents/We... Bing images (where I found that) and Bing maps have been a great resource for me. Google is still empirically top for web search, though.
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Google to add space, jobs in Pittsburgh(post-gazette.com)
1 points by dbul 17y ago|0 comments
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by dbul 17y ago
I saw a CNN story last week about Google's free energy monitoring software. Then at the end of the story was a huge let down: you need special hardware to get it running. I checked Wattvision right after that and there were no updates, so t
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Wattvision (YC W09) Shows The Power Of Simple, Realtime Energy Monitoring(techcrunch.com)
67 points by dbul 17y ago|87 comments
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by dbul 17y ago
Another person who wants this (and quite possibly would provide funding): http://blogmaverick.com/2009/02/25/will-mobile-pdas-phones-r...
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by dbul 17y ago
Man, I'm going through the routine right now. I wanted to become an iTunes affiliate for an iPhone app I'm about to submit. Apple a) does not clearly state what iPhone developers need to do since affiliates are typically websites b) sends y
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by dbul 17y ago
Concise answer: MTurk was an obvious, yet too simple solution. Long answer: My imagination was something designed specifically for pushing websites to some degree of success. So without me having to think of all of the different dimensions
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by dbul 17y ago
But your point does stand for websites. Politely asking people to review your site on HN will allow for some great feedback, but you really only get one shot at it. Anyone know if a service exists (-MTurk) where you can pay people to consta
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by dbul 17y ago
For the email situation, why wouldn't you just send it out to 100 customers to get a sample of confusion? Reply to the 10 people who were confused, fix the problems, repeat. Same goes for websites. People send in "HN please review my site"
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by dbul 17y ago
The point of that app is simplicity. It's not innovative in the least, just simplifying what may be complex to people. At first I thought you were being facetious, but then I saw your app. It would be interesting if you compared sales of 1.
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by dbul 17y ago
It depends on what you mean by broken even. I bought a Mac Air for $1900, spent xx hours learning the Cocoa framework, spent 10 hours writing the app. At this rate, it makes $75 / month post-royalty, and it probably will never need to be up
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by dbul 17y ago
As I said, C was my first language. As for Cocoa, it wasn't that bad considering by the time I really got into it there were plenty of examples out there (chances are, if you have a question about Cocoa for iPhone, it has been answered by n
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by dbul 17y ago
My advice? Pick another platform to program for. The Mac is pretty nice. If you absolutely must develop for a mobile platform, try Android. I've never had a Mac until last year, and I've been programming in Java for 10 years. Java is my l
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Photo site Shutterfly goes mobile, acquires Tiny Pictures for $1.3M(digital.venturebeat.com)
6 points by dbul 17y ago|2 comments
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by dbul 17y ago
You can very roughly divide techies into a few groups: people who would rather work for a salary, people who are ambivalent about a salary job and starting a startup, and people who have made it their mission to start a startup. For the fir
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by dbul 17y ago
Me, too! What a coincidence.
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by dbul 17y ago
I've only skimmed the arc code, but there is a list of exceptions for domains. The major blogs are on this list. OK, I checked: (= long-domains* '("blogspot" "wordpress" "livejournal" "blogs" "typepad" "weebly" "blog
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by dbul 17y ago
Check out Dave McClure's advice on the pitch if you haven't already: http://500hats.typepad.com/500blogs/2009/08/your-solution-is...
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by dbul 17y ago
Where did you go to school? It sounds very much like you have a symbolic background. There are many approaches and people are attacking them from different angles. Here are just a couple of resources worth looking at off the top of my head:
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by dbul 17y ago
Learning lessons from mistakes I can understand. Failure? What's that?
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by dbul 17y ago
To get a better picture of the whole, there is other material available: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~jwmills/ANALOG.NOTEBOOK/klm/klm.h... http://www.cs.indiana.edu/classes/b443/notes/EmptySpace.pdf

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