dcurtis

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   by dcurtis 19y ago

   The problem with this is that you are not allowing the user to decide which tier they are in, and you'd probably piss a lot of them off by automatically moving and charging them in the next higher tier. Overage fees are terrible for user re
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   by dcurtis 19y ago

   The movie is amazing, and I highly recommend it. But this is kind of ridiculous.
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   by dcurtis 19y ago

   Buy now at 3m, and you'll save 50c on each track that you'd otherwise purchase on iTunes for 99c! The joys of buying in bulk.
4. 874.▲
   by dcurtis 19y ago

   Misleading by omission. Should be"releases financial numbers... for yesterday."
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   by dcurtis 19y ago

   Wow, this is pure genius. Especially love how the shirts are ridiculously expensive and next to the "buy this shirt" button there's a "buy this company" button that actually works.
6. 876.▲
   by dcurtis 19y ago

   Well, intelligent programmers who happen to be poor!
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   by dcurtis 19y ago

   Ah. The content here is great. I'm not denying that YC is awesome. It just has a sub-par interface. Compared to other sites, it has a terrible UI. It's not very user friendly, and it could be much more so.
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   by dcurtis 19y ago

   Of course not. Craigslist has an amazing masterpiece of an interface and uses no icons/pictures at all.
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   by dcurtis 19y ago

   My favorite (upmodded 26 points as of 9pst): Regarding News.YC: "Your ancient ritual has summoned me to News.YC so those tight-assed holier-than-thou fucktards can be shown the error of their ways. Maybe the reason there aren't trolls is be
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    by dcurtis 19y ago

    So apparently Paul can't keep trolling from happening on News.YC afterall. But, as anewaccountname shows, at least the trolls here do it with style. Well played, anewaccountname.
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    by dcurtis 19y ago

    But News.YC prides itself on having both a terrible user interface and a terrible user experience. What kind of site calls a feature "noprocrast" without giving any detailed information about what it does? Only news.yc! --edit I wonder why
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    by dcurtis 19y ago

    I wonder, if you offset the losses of the Playstation 3 group at Sony with the gains of winning the format war, if Sony came out ahead after all. And of course, for anyone who missed it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywWfmRdOmJ0
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    by dcurtis 19y ago

    "Get back to Work!" ... "Or click this link to buy quality merchandise at Amazon" Something is wrong with that picture.
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    by dcurtis 19y ago

    I seem to remember paul saying something like "we accept all the good enough ideas."
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    by dcurtis 19y ago

    If you have a good idea that you are committed to, why should the statistics matter? If someone says "gee, I'm 30, i shouldn't apply," that seems pretty weak of them. Although, I think the statistics would be very interesting to read over.
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    by dcurtis 19y ago

    I've heard some people here describe finding a cofounder as analogous to finding a wife. It's not some ho-hum thing you just do; it takes time to build a relationship that can survive a startup.
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    by dcurtis 19y ago

    Haha. The longest bio I've ever seen on a News.YC profile, and yet no contact info!
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    by dcurtis 19y ago

    Vimeo is the best, you made a good choice.
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    by dcurtis 19y ago

    Of course you can't "have" RescueTime implement a certain feature, but you do have clout at y-funded companies, right? I mean, it's in your best interest to push the funded companies into success by suggesting new/complementary features. Th
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    by dcurtis 19y ago

    Too close for comfort is right-- it's pretty much exactly the same as rescuetime, only with fewer features, a worse interface, and new tools that let you interfere with your browsing (which I suppose is its distinguishing feature). This is
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    by dcurtis 19y ago

    The awesomeness of YC comes from the fame/experience of the founders. Adding people will dilute the awesomeness, thus lowering the overall success of YC companies... presumably.
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    by dcurtis 19y ago

    I think Connected Ventures has the greatest office in NYC, followed by SkinnyCorp in Chicago. Slide is packed like sardines, and Facebook has no style.
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    by dcurtis 19y ago

    So that's like 200 years of school. Does he also have a book about how to live forever?
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    by dcurtis 19y ago

    You could market that and make a ton of money. I wonder if it would be possible to do that with a rails plugin + javascript + google analytics?
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    by dcurtis 19y ago

    I think your competitor is Craigslist.
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    Outraged eBay sellers plan boycott(money.cnn.com)

    5 points by dcurtis 19y ago|8 comments
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    by dcurtis 19y ago

    I would hardly call Google's interface designers "tasteful." It seems more likely that they knew they were bad designers so they just went with the simplest possible design. Yahoo doesn't get enough credit. They are doing some pretty awesom
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    by dcurtis 19y ago

    I wonder why they did that...
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    by dcurtis 19y ago

    That is the most beautiful website ever.
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    by dcurtis 19y ago

    Yeah, I was totally dumbstruck by how well this article is written. It's one of those rare NYT gems. It's nice to read something that puts Fischer in a somewhat positive light, considering how much negative press there was around his death.