dhouston

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by dhouston 19y ago
"Additionally, we sidelined as male strippers at bachelorette parties, to pay for our university studies." i don't think i've had a sentence in a news.yc-posted article take me more by surprise :)
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by dhouston 19y ago
what's the latency like? there's no way these things can feel like local filesystems.
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by dhouston 19y ago
yeah, it's a local folder that gets watched and synced
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by dhouston 19y ago
binary diffing (rsync-like algorithm) and compression is built into the protocol. i've been using it to sync my 3gb development VM across my computers; also works great with photoshop files, big documents, etc.
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by dhouston 19y ago
great writeup -- congrats peter and immad!
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by dhouston 19y ago
we've got a new screencast up too, which isn't linked to from the tc article: http://getdropbox.com/screencast shameless reddit/digg plug: http://reddit.com/info/6boh3/comments/ http://digg.com/software/Google_Drive_killer_coming_from_
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by dhouston 19y ago
if in that 'extreme example' you're putting the wheels in motion to create that value (i.e. creating a business out of nothing that otherwise wouldn't have existed), you arguably deserve the equity. turns out it's usually not that simple in
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by dhouston 19y ago
congrats ethan & daniel!
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by dhouston 19y ago
by "supporting" other languages they mean they can compile the interpreter's c/c++ source code using their LLVM->actionscript bridge ( http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=1095 ) they came up with and then run the script on top of t
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by dhouston 19y ago
wow, time warp. (i think it was int 10h though, for the video bios, and you had to poke around different ports to change the vga palette :)) things have, um, changed significantly -- nowadays libraries like directx abstract away the details
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by dhouston 19y ago
1) algorithms and distributed systems 2) my negotiation class (although practice is more useful :P) 3) getting used to busting my ass/grinding through problems
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by dhouston 19y ago
i had the same reaction (lua resembling python but with a focus on small footprint and a much smaller standard library.) having "batteries included"/mature web frameworks often trumps the innate benefits of the language, i.e. other people w
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by dhouston 19y ago
fyi: you're probably getting modded down because you add a signature to your posts (which people avoid, by convention, on news.yc)
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by dhouston 19y ago
highest karma-per-word comment ever :)
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by dhouston 19y ago
there's an element of truth to this (freedom to use good tools, for example). i've followed both models, but one of the best things you get from outside investors is forced accountability; it's a good kick in the ass to regularly take hard
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by dhouston 19y ago
see "all marketers are liars" by seth godin for a pretty thorough treatment of this -- our satisfaction is heavily influenced by the stories we tell ourselves, e.g. that expensive wine tastes better. even just drinking out of an expensive g
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by dhouston 19y ago
- editplus is great for general text editing (non-coding) - activestate komodo for python/perl/php - visual studio for c++
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by dhouston 19y ago
great post. i think the point about the merger being a huge distraction for goog/msft/yhoo is also important for startups that cough might be making competitors to things large companies might also be working on :)
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by dhouston 19y ago
congrats nick!
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by dhouston 19y ago
I for one welcome our new black-shirted overlords. congrats, anson, lux and sachin!
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by dhouston 19y ago
- focusing on too small a niche - working on interesting technical problems that don't correspond to problems that people need solved - making something that's only slightly better than what's out there (e.g. a slightly better news site or
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by dhouston 19y ago
i.e. "disruptive innovation". for a more formal jump into this topic, "The Innovator's Dilemma" by christensen.
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by dhouston 19y ago
dropbox ( http://getdropbox.com , our yc startup) -- keeps a folder synced across pcs and to the web (with continuous syncing, an rsync-like protocol and versioning) for windows/os x. basically we had the same problem and tried the same rs
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by dhouston 19y ago
the causal link is probably UI simplicity, not bad design. survivorship bias strikes again: for every CL or POF there are thousands of ugly sites which are dead; and the vast majority of popular sites have pleasing designs.
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by dhouston 19y ago
first, find a job you enjoy -- the tech job market is good enough now where you can afford to be selective (at least in the valley/other tech hubs) -- ideally, something that you would find exciting enough to do even if you weren't getting
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by dhouston 19y ago
it warms my heart to see that someone else noticed this, and that further it was posted to news.yc and upvoted.
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by dhouston 19y ago
byte compiling offers little protection against an even slightly motivated adversary; services like http://depython.net turn bytecode into readable source for a nominal fee.
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by dhouston 19y ago
http://getdropbox.com
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by dhouston 19y ago
we: 1. picked a list of 50-60 words/prefixes/suffixes we liked 2. wrote a python script to generate permutations, and then 3. ran dig -f on the text file to see which weren't taken 4. scraped buydomains search results to see which ones were
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by dhouston 19y ago
speaking as someone who tried this route, don't bother. if you have a product named xyz, people expect it to be at xyz.com. otherwise, you will lose the traffic that assumes xyz.com is your domain. and not just from random visitors but impo

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