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by dglassan 15y ago
I'm the exact same way. I'm not sure why but I have a few topics at a time that I am interested in and want to learn more about. Sometimes learning a new angle or way of thinking about topics in real life are more fascinating than fiction b
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by dglassan 15y ago
It really does do a great job of explaining all the events leading up to the financial crisis. It really made me wonder how some people (both wall street and main street) could make such stupid decisions.
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by dglassan 15y ago
Completely agree here. We'll have a much better picture of where the startup industry stands once we find out the real market value of all these companies set to go public.
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by dglassan 16y ago
Your LLC may give you a net worth over $1MM, but that does not mean you have liquid assets (cash) to invest in a company. How would you invest in a startup using your LLC? You can't. You need cash to invest in a startup. I'm not sure as to
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by dglassan 16y ago
I'm familiar with web scraping...hasn't it always been looked down upon though? It just seems like it's got a negative connotation or something.
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Ask HN: How do Mint and Hipmunk grab their data from external sites?
2 points by dglassan 16y ago|6 comments
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SEC is considering easing limitations on the sale of stock by private companies(blogs.wsj.com)
1 points by dglassan 16y ago|0 comments
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by dglassan 16y ago
Please read the guidelines http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by dglassan 16y ago
I agree with "Founders At Work" It really gives you an insight into the ups and downs and events that lead to the beginning of some well known companies.
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by dglassan 16y ago
I had an idea of something exactly like this a few years ago. I wonder if it just calculates calories or if it can calculate carbs too? My brother is diabetic and I can see this being extremely helpful for anyone needing to calculate their
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by dglassan 16y ago
probably not the answer you're looking for but I've been very happy since moving to MediaTemple 24 hour support and they've been able to help me every single time I've called them. Their GridService scales with traffic bursts so you don't h
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by dglassan 16y ago
Have you considered adding a down vote button like Reddit has? I know you can flag comments above a certain karma level but I think that either giving everyone the option to down vote or having a lower karma threshold to down vote would all
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by dglassan 16y ago
I would say no. For a while now Apple/Twitter/Facebook have dominated TC. TechCrunch has shifted from startup/funding focused stories to more mainstream tech news. HN will always have an awesome community that TechCrunch never had. HN is a
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by dglassan 16y ago
I'm not sure it's such a good idea to be associating your site to Digg. People's views on Digg have declined lately. I agree with benofsky too, the site just feels like a link farm.
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Social Music Startup Looking For Marketing Savvy Co-Founder
1 points by dglassan 16y ago|1 comments
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by dglassan 16y ago
I see what you mean about how it makes it more interesting. It's good that you put some thought into it though...my first impression was that you just went with it just cuz
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by dglassan 16y ago
"The goal is not to promote hatred, but rather to help people identity their weaknesses so that they can work on them and hopefully become a better a person." If the goal is not to promote hatred then why did you call it WhatYouHateAbout.Me
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by dglassan 16y ago
50% no questions. You need him or else you do not have a product. No product means no company. No reasonable developer would take anything less than this...If they're going to be putting their energy into developing your product for the nex
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by dglassan 16y ago
ya, it applies to a team of founders living off their savings who need to push their product out and get quick feedback from initial users to set their product/service in the right direction. A team of 20+ people with $41 million in the ban
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by dglassan 16y ago
The value of a stock is whatever people are willing to pay for it
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by dglassan 16y ago
Just curious...are investors allowed to sit in on all of the sessions or are there different investors for each session?
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by dglassan 16y ago
I really want to know why they didn't launch at SXSW....it would have been the perfect place to launch this
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by dglassan 16y ago
You'll like Startup Junkies http://www.hulu.com/start-up-junkies It only went one season but you get to watch the day-in-day-out activities of a startup for 8 full episodes. It's kind of a hybrid startup in that they operate online but th
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by dglassan 16y ago
I spent a while trying to figure out why the PHP getFile method wouldn't work with files that had spaces in them. I finally figured out that the filename has to be rawurlencoded which the API wasn't doing.
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Ask HN: What API's do you like to work with?
2 points by dglassan 16y ago|4 comments
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by dglassan 16y ago
Techcrunch has changed over the years and does not cover a whole lot of the early stage funding that I used to love reading about. The dominant topics on Techcrunch now are Twitter, Facebook, Apple, Groupon, etc.... It's a shame that smalle
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by dglassan 16y ago
You need to label your input field better....all it is is an input field with a button that says submit. It's not very clear to people that they need to enter an email address
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by dglassan 16y ago
Do you have programming skills? If you do, just start building small things like your own CMS or a simple social news site. This will help get the creative juices flowing and pretty soon you'll be thinking of other cool things to add to the
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by dglassan 16y ago
I had an idea similar to this a few years ago when my brother was diagnosed with diabetes. I thought it would be a good way for diabetics and anyone else that needs to track what and how much they eat. It could analyze eating habits and rec
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Japan's tragedy could shape policies for decades to come(news.yahoo.com)
2 points by dglassan 16y ago|0 comments

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