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Interview: Y Combinator Founder Jessica Livingston(thenextwomen.com)
78 points by drm237 17y ago|21 comments
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Twitter Applications can now use Tipjoy API with Twitter OAuth credentials(tipjoys2cents.blogspot.com)
16 points by drm237 17y ago|4 comments
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Popcuts (YC S08): Buying Music Has Never Been So Profitable(hyveup.tv)
20 points by drm237 18y ago|9 comments
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Silicon Graphics Declares Bankruptcy and Sells Itself For $25 Million(techcrunchit.com)
65 points by drm237 18y ago|33 comments
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Google deal machine adjusts to slow times(reuters.com)
2 points by drm237 18y ago|0 comments
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Angels open door to cash(bizjournals.com)
1 points by drm237 18y ago|0 comments
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Californian VC (YC) wants Cambridge start-ups for new funding round(businessweekly.co.uk)
8 points by drm237 18y ago|6 comments
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by drm237 18y ago
True, two way hashing is better than nothing, but it's still less secure than one way hashing (with a per-user salt) for passwords. All you need if one rogue employee and they can decrypt everyone's password. It's just difficult to justif
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by drm237 18y ago
I disagree that not being able to tell someone their password is a usability problem. Having a password reset system is just as usable and significantly more secure than having to store passwords in plain text. And both of your arguments a
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Dawdle Invites Game Resellers To Set Up Shop(techcrunch.com)
27 points by drm237 18y ago|8 comments
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BackType Tracks the Commentsphere; Adds FriendFeed Support(mashable.com)
8 points by drm237 18y ago|0 comments
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by drm237 18y ago
only if it's your neighbors...
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Economy Pinches the Billable Hour at Law Firms(nytimes.com)
4 points by drm237 18y ago|0 comments
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by drm237 18y ago
Depending on your requirements, outsourcing the first version might be the best option. Check out http://www.plaxo.com/api/widget
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by drm237 18y ago
If you can, also move all of your static content to S3 including every image, css, and js file. You're currently serving ~47 requests per user to load the home page. If you move all of your static stuff to s3, each client makes 1 maybe 2
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Zumodrive Takes Cloud Storage And Syncing Up A Notch (YC S07)(techcrunch.com)
63 points by drm237 18y ago|51 comments
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by drm237 18y ago
They've made pretty great improvements to the availablity and reliability. It still goes down, but not nearly as often as it did. That despite virtually doubling their traffic in the last 6 months. So my guess is they have just about eve
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Why We Put On The Crunchies(techcrunch.com)
13 points by drm237 18y ago|11 comments
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by drm237 18y ago
It's absolutely amazing how polarizing evite it. Some people swear it is the absolute best webapp on the internet and would be lost without it while others find it entirely perplexing that anyone uses it at all.
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New release of Chatterous (YC W08)(chatterous.wordpress.com)
22 points by drm237 18y ago|6 comments
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Amazon Beats Out Google as Best Cloud Provider(eweek.com)
24 points by drm237 18y ago|7 comments
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by drm237 18y ago
I got a chance to talk to Jeff from Twilio over a month ago and the service looks really promising, especially once they get some speech recognition integrated. Definitely check it out!
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by drm237 18y ago
I think they're using comet for the requests so while the activity may be high when people are typing, during breaks it should be very low as opposed to ajax polling. I do think that real-time is really needed for many applications. The fe
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by drm237 18y ago
What's the difference between "something even Google hasn’t been able to do" and "their scaling requirements made it impractical"? When you get past the semantics, it's essentially the same thing. Either way, they're not doing it.
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Etherpad Shows Google Docs How It’s Done (By AppJet)(techcrunch.com)
90 points by drm237 18y ago|64 comments
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by drm237 18y ago
Of course, I appreciate you suggesting it first though!
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by drm237 18y ago
I second the Anyvite idea ;-)
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by drm237 18y ago
The message is a bit vague, but we chose that wording because it conveys the point more succinctly than a complete explanation. If someone forwards an email to a friend, that friend will be able to RSVP and comment on behalf of the forwardi
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by drm237 18y ago
There is no presentation. No powerpoint, no projector, none. This isn't a business meeting. You walk in and they fire questions at you. You respond as best you can and realize that your only ability to steer the conversation is with the
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by drm237 18y ago
Hey, sorry we didn't respond earlier, just saw this post and the Anyvite reference. Our system is very basic right now and needs to be expanded on in the future. We start by setting a return path on all emails we send. This directs any bo

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