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by dewitt 10y ago
I'd be very interested in better understanding what it takes to make something like YC work remotely. Indeed, if I ever left my own job to start a company again, this is the space I'd like to explore most. It feels to me that the
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by dewitt 10y ago
Does YC still require founders move to the Bay Area? That is a significant burden for say, older founders with families. I mention that because the pitch says: "We know that great founders can come from anywhere — any city, school, cou
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by dewitt 10y ago
I take it you don't know who either of the two authors are? - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Laurie - https://github.com/tarcieri They know about protocol buffers.
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by dewitt 10y ago
MP3 encoding (Fraunhofer Institute) and the Arcos Jukebox (Arcos). Both paved the technical way for the huge usability and ergonomic improvements offered by the iPod. Edit: And HDD density / price per MB reaching a point where storing
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by dewitt 10y ago
That's a strange reaction. Hasn't the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation been one of the most successful philanthropic organizations of all time? I thought they've saved millions of lives fighting malaria alone? https:/&
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by dewitt 10y ago
"You must log in first." Sigh. Edit: The reason I mention this is the disappointing incongruity of announcing a project for the global, public good hidden behind a self-serving walled-garden approach to media. Facebook Zero is a m
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by dewitt 10y ago
That was my original thought as well, though I can see the other reading now, too. So while the title could perhaps have been better worded, I can believe no conscious bias was intended.
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by dewitt 10y ago
*Or her time.
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by dewitt 10y ago
After learning a few years ago about the large-scale fraud involved in the export olive oil industry, I started trying domestic olive oil instead (I'm in the US). My favorite domestic oil, which is available everywhere now, is Californ
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by dewitt 10y ago
I don't know the math behind ZKP, but how does this statement work: > If Peggy didn’t have a solution, there was a chance she’d be caught in this round if Victor had asked for the right set of 9 squares to be revealed. Doesn'
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by dewitt 10y ago
You probably can't. The IPO price is what's being shopped around to private institutional investors via the underwriting bank. You can get in early in public trading, however, though that's historically at a higher price.
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by dewitt 10y ago
"I've seen instances in some departments where the police just stand on the victim until all the life is gone, or the paramedics never arrive, or the paramedics just nonchalantly go through motions but never attempt resuscitating
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by dewitt 11y ago
Once we get past the predictable schadenfreude, it's crazy to think how easily this could happy to, or because even of, any one of us. Do you think you'd think twice before responding to a mail from your manager asking for informa
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by dewitt 11y ago
> … there should just be one full time engineer on it … Agree with everything you just said, except , please make it two engineers. Speaking as a prototypical eng manager who typically inherits these types of projects when "that
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by dewitt 11y ago
I don't know why the author's tone is so mean and snarky. Yes, the web won (inevitable and thank goodness), but it's not like many 19-year-old web pages are still around and serving working links either. And for all its funda
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by dewitt 11y ago
Real data is good, but that's not a good way to get real data. I'm not a stats person, but it would seem to suffer from both an extremely small potential sample (those who read your post), a self-selection bias (those who gain an
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by dewitt 11y ago
I think that people here are way overestimating the importance of Product Hunt.
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by dewitt 11y ago
FWIW, Google Calendar does support CalDAV: https://developers.google.com/google-apps/calendar/caldav/v2... It also supports a richer API, for features that don't fit into CalDAV: https://devel
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by dewitt 11y ago
If that's an exercise in irony, you nailed it, "killface".
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by dewitt 11y ago
I put in an order when Jet launched. No joke, from the best I can tell, they sent someone to a physical Walmart, where they purchased the product at full retail, for more than they charged me , packaged it up, and shipped it to me with fre
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by dewitt 11y ago
> Facebook won the war on Twitter by making ludicrously large offers through proxy bidders on all of the well-established twitter clients. Citation needed.
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by dewitt 11y ago
> "To start off, I’m going to personally donate $10 million..." Holy cow. That's real money. Sincerely very impressed by the commitment.
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by dewitt 11y ago
Sure, it does have cons, but your second argument wasn't a sequence. Try: > (cons 'a ['b]) (a b) > (doc cons) ------------------------- clojure.core/cons ([x seq]) Returns a new seq where x is the
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by dewitt 11y ago
This post is probably the best reason I've seen yet to be a YC startup. The investor who can call you out on stuff like this is the investor you want.
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by dewitt 11y ago
Amazing how much of that post was about the CEO's personal relationship with the layoffs, considering the #1 bit of advice in every comment on yesterday's thread about layoffs was "whatever you do, don't make it about yo
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by dewitt 11y ago
You might be also interested in https://myaccount.google.com , which offers full visibility and fine-grained control into everything in one place. I wasn't personally involved in building it, but in my opinion it's real
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by dewitt 11y ago
Google has a one-click opt-out as well: http://www.google.com/settings/ads I remain opted in, fwiw.
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by dewitt 11y ago
I read this expecting something super shady, but to be totally fair to BuzzFeed, the incidents cited (all three of them) were surprisingly benign. According to the NYT, one of the articles was taken down because it accused Axe (the body spr
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by dewitt 11y ago
Thank you for the thoughtful response. I concur on a number of your points. In particular, I would be significantly more swayed by the argument that WikiLeaks is press (even responsible press) if the did indeed selectively publish only docu
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by dewitt 11y ago
As a hypothetical, if you started a one-person side project, or freelanced or something, would you feel it equally appropriate for your work emails to be published, in bulk, unredacted, without your permission or consent, by people who hack

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