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by dillydally 16y ago
Where's the demo?
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by dillydally 16y ago
Not allowed! Computers are serious business.
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by dillydally 16y ago
Computers are for spreadsheets, not for talking with friends!
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by dillydally 16y ago
...and a lawyer.
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by dillydally 16y ago
I've read all these IMs before. IIRC, they were in the trial transcripts. I believe at least one of the "FRIEND"s is Adam D'Angelo, former Facebook CTO and now founder of Quora. In any case, it's not as if Boing Boing hacked into Zuckerber
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by dillydally 16y ago
How this 20-something kid made millions!!! Next on Mixergy. I'd love something like TED but more informal.
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by dillydally 16y ago
Drew from Dropbox was rejected the first time he applied, IIRC.
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by dillydally 16y ago
No, in England you'd study whatever your father studied. If he was a blacksmith, you were a blacksmith. If he was an aristocrat, you were an aristocrat. What Adams is talking about is quite different.
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by dillydally 16y ago
That reads like sour grapes.
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by dillydally 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpsons_paradox
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by dillydally 16y ago
eTacts us also YC. I believe the timeline went like this: 1. eTacts launched as an email reminder service 2. eTacts gets into YC 3. Rapportive launched as a personal CRM 4. Rapportive gets major traction, eTacts launches their own personal
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by dillydally 16y ago
If you're doing web work you need to do two things: 1. Buy a Linux or Mac computer, because all the standard parts work quickly and simply on those platforms and are difficult to run on Windows. That, or have a remote computer where you do
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by dillydally 16y ago
Not true. Drew's co-founder is Arash Ferdowsi. My understanding is that he applied to YC (his second application) alone but was told to go out and find a co-founder.
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by dillydally 16y ago
The middle ground is something like iSocket or Federated Media.
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by dillydally 16y ago
In the first paragraph alone there are two huge, billowing red flags. 1. The author thinks that a technical co-founder is "a software engineer who works for no cash." 2. The author went through four "technical co-founders" inside a year. My
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by dillydally 16y ago
I'm really excited about SFPark. It's mentioned briefly in the article, but the idea is this: parking meters that can sense when a car is present and dynamically set its rate. The meters will be set so that parking is (almost) always avail
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by dillydally 16y ago
Er, more important than that (I think) are the failures of Friendster's management to manage growth and MySpace's sale to News Corp. The fact that Facebook beat MySpace in the US is astonishing, IMO.
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by dillydally 16y ago
50% is large for a web-based ad network. Unless they're highly verticalized or doing direct sales (and therefore have less competition), 20-30% is more reasonable. AdMob (Branchr also does iPhone ads), for example, has a default 60/40 spli
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by dillydally 16y ago
COO/CTO of Branchr is Mark Bao http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=markbao
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by dillydally 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1819 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1837 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1857 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1873 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1893 http://en.wiki
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by dillydally 16y ago
This is more-or-less the plot of Borges' "The Library of Babel," except he doesn't talk about binary, computers, or pi. Instead the Library is a place where you have books that contain the every string of symbols. http://jubal.westnet.com/
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by dillydally 16y ago
Yes, also true, and a very good point. This is why in the past we had three types of use: unrestricted use, fair use, and restricted (copyrighted) use. Now we only have fair use and restricted use.
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by dillydally 16y ago
"What if I "steal" your identity? Technically, you don't lose anything. I am just borrowing your information. Should this be okay too?" Identity theft is a good example because it illustrates the way we call lots of things "theft" which are
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by dillydally 16y ago
You can't "pirate" a car. If I took your car, you'd be less one car. If I copy a game, nobody is less anything. It would be as if I had a device that could duplicate your car in 10 minutes, atom-for-atom. Clearly this would spell big trou
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by dillydally 16y ago
Yodlee
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by dillydally 16y ago
Yes there is a conflict. It doesn't matter who is first. Thats worth nothing in itself. It matters who is the best at pulling the levers that get exults. VWO obviously failed at that. Optimizely, at least in this case, won. Play to your
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by dillydally 16y ago
As little as possible. You want every bit of free cash to be going back into the company. The difference between a $75k and a $150k salary is an extra employee. Peter Thiel has gone so far as to say that the best predictor of startup succe
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by dillydally 16y ago
In the US the answer is NYC. Outside the US the answer is London. Lots of startups in Soho. You also have Seedcamp and active a-list investors like Index (esp. Danny Rimer) and the Skype guys.
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by dillydally 16y ago
Sorry? YC should or shouldn't invest depending on what feathers it will ruffle on HN? Remind me never to let you invest my money.
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by dillydally 16y ago
The is is whether themes are derivative works in the first place.

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