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Mark Zuckerberg: From Harvard to the Facebook (2005)(ecorner.stanford.edu)
1 points by dpe82 14y ago|0 comments
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by dpe82 14y ago
You're right, I shouldn't be so absolutist. Most of my strong reaction is to sites that abuse users by getting in the way and pushing them into an app that doesn't add anything. I guess I'm crabby about it. Don't take it personally.
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by dpe82 14y ago
Not if the content is standard text/images/video and the app gets in the way of consuming the content - which is what a user wants to do when they click on a link to an article. Can an app be superior because it allows other types of cont
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by dpe82 14y ago
> Ads, ads, glorious ads Is there something wrong with that? Total US advertising expenditures for 2011 were $144 billion[0]. UGC is of course quite difficult to monetize, but it's not impossible. [0] http://kantarmediana.com/intellige
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by dpe82 14y ago
> One anecdote can't offer any real insight. First of all, it can if it leads you to further investigation. Second, perhaps instead of only offering unhelpful criticism why don't you share what you see so we may all gain from a larger s
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by dpe82 14y ago
Facebook used to solve this (at least for college students) with class listings. That was a really killer feature for a large part of their user base that got axed when they launched the app platform and expected an app to take its place. P
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by dpe82 14y ago
> You spend the time and money developing an app, and you want your visitors to know about the app These popovers/nags/redirects are typically annoying because the apps do little to nothing to add to the content or user experience. Just
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by dpe82 14y ago
Flame of whom? The problem is being nagged, popovered, redirected, or otherwise bothered to install something that does nothing to enhance the content but takes time to install and wastes space on your phone. Apple has indeed recently intro
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Animated holiday wreath from a string of LED lights(hackaday.com)
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by dpe82 14y ago
Landing page doesn't help much. Web search engine I presume? What do you mean by "covers much more meta information"?
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by dpe82 14y ago
Mind telling us what Nuuton is?
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by dpe82 14y ago
Wisconsin faced a similarly grim[0] fiscal situation three years ago - high public union labor costs and years of structural deficits plus the recession resulted in a deficit of over 20% of the budget. It was ugly and underhanded, but as ma
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by dpe82 14y ago
HelloFax is great for this as well.
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by dpe82 14y ago
Anyone could copy-paste a news article verbatim. That's a copyright violation, and without a DMCA policy like this Y Combinator is by default liable for the infringement. The DMCA policy and registered agent gives a content creator a method
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by dpe82 14y ago
DMCA Safe Harbor protections apply to copyrighted material stored "at the direction of a user". YouTube is not making judgements about the content - if they did, it would no longer be "at the direction of a user." Instead they've set up a s
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by dpe82 14y ago
Out of curiosity, why not have it restart automatically every couple days at like 4am? One less thing to worry about...
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by dpe82 14y ago
They may, but people have been saying they'll launch NFC for a couple years now. It hasn't happened. This can help fill that void and build the NFC ecosystem for when they eventually do.
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by dpe82 14y ago
Do it yesterday. Send it registered mail. Until the copyright office receives it, YOU DO NOT HAVE DMCA SAFE HARBOR PROTECTION! It's not the only thing you have to do, but an important one. See Viacom v. YouTube: http://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by dpe82 14y ago
This has been proposed, actually: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/bill-would-force-... It's missing a critical component, however: it doesn't include a bond requirement on the part of the suing company. Therefore it only helps
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by dpe82 14y ago
Care package of candy. This was just after the first month and very much appreciated. :) It was an incredible experience - all of the founders became really close friends over the course of the program. It's probably because the class was s
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by dpe82 14y ago
Also, true story re internet camp: http://i.imgur.com/bjKtu.jpg
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by dpe82 14y ago
Brad Feld has a great blog post on what he suspects happened at OnLive, given his experience with similar situations in the past: http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2012/08/what-just-happened-w...
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by dpe82 14y ago
While that may be true, it's not germane to an RFC for "Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property Enforcement."
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by dpe82 14y ago
console.fm (500 Startups) is based on the same idea. Good stuff.
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by dpe82 14y ago
Their insurance should help, assuming they have it; but considering s/he works without a contract I find that unlikely. Further, even if the photographer has insurance it may not cover incidents arising out of situations not covered by a wr
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by dpe82 14y ago
Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
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by dpe82 14y ago
Floating point precision isn't the problem - when your output is 8 or 10 bit resolution, floating point differences aren't a big deal. The biggest blocking factor is amount of code that needs to be ported to make it work. High end SFX compa
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by dpe82 14y ago
Phoronix' benchmarking test suite has been able to detect underlying hardware: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amazo...
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by dpe82 14y ago
My company went through TechStars this Spring and on Friday closed a respectable seed round. On Sunday I was scrubbing the floor in our office. Being a startup CEO is glamorous only in the movies or in overly hyped bits and pieces. It doesn
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by dpe82 14y ago
> For example, would I receive a lower level of service than new customers if I returned after not tipping? Yes, if: 1) you had no reason not to tip 2) that person still works there 3) that person remembers you Ideally though if the per

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