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by drusenko 16y ago
Facebook is not selling physical goods at a loss, and the comparison is not apt. Facebook is making a bet that if it hires a bunch of really talented people while they are available, those people will eventually make more money for Facebook
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by drusenko 16y ago
You're actually on the right track! You now need to decode the string that came back...
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by drusenko 16y ago
It's clearly not. When they state user numbers, they only ever state active user numbers. And it's growing like a bat out of hell. Let that sink in for a minute. Almost 600 million people use Facebook every single month. That's not the nu
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by drusenko 16y ago
That's so unbelievably not true. Both can be difficult in their own right. Making a lot of revenue is certainly not easy. Not a lot of business models scale up to making hundreds of millions or billions of dollars of revenue per year. Achie
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by drusenko 16y ago
That's really impressive -- a $225 GeForce 9800GX2 graphics card can buy you an MD5 brute force speed of 600M tries per second.
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Weebly is hiring a Front-end Web Developer(weebly.com)
5 points by drusenko 16y ago
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by drusenko 16y ago
OK, fair enough. Eliminated the two unnecessary table-based layouts and removed the inline CSS. There is still a bit of inline CSS left, but that's generated by code.
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by drusenko 16y ago
That's not the end of the puzzle... It's also changed a bit since the last time you worked on it :)
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by drusenko 16y ago
In case anybody is confused: There is a puzzle embedded in our jobs page ( http://www.weebly.com/jobs.html ). It's not meant to be incredibly difficult, just fun and challenging enough to take 30 minutes or so.
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There is a puzzle embedded in this page...(weebly.com)
40 points by drusenko 16y ago|48 comments
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by drusenko 16y ago
That's already how it works.
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by drusenko 16y ago
The Wordpress default install is horribly slow out of the box. The sad reality is that most blog software is not tuned to serve any reasonable number of pageviews by default. It's one reason why letting someone manage all that for you makes
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by drusenko 16y ago
Whoops, you're right. It's really the same logic, though. Another factor is likely the one behind this video: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/derek_sivers_keep_your_goa... We were really nervous about getting to the interview stage, des
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by drusenko 16y ago
Acceptances are not confidential; it is up to the startup to determine when they'd like to release the news of their funding. Most startups choose (wisely) to keep the funding news secret until they can use it for press purposes.
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Weebly is hiring a Front-end Web Developer(weebly.com)
36 points by drusenko 16y ago
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by drusenko 16y ago
It's a false comparison. No companies in my round (W07) or before that I'm aware of got anywhere near as low as $1M valuations... For the $500-800k raised that is still popular, "OK" was a $2M pre valuation and "amazing" would have been $5M
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by drusenko 16y ago
I agree completely with you, and presume that, as in most things, people are different. I've personally found that intensely concentrating on what is said and actively engaging in thinking about it is the most effective way for me to not on
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by drusenko 16y ago
The reason you're being downvoted isn't that you're "biting the hand that feeds", but rather that you're being both pedantic and inaccurate. Pedantic because your point on the name certainly didn't deserve the belaboring you gave it. And in
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by drusenko 16y ago
I applied about 4 hours before the deadline, if I remember correctly. I found out about YC that day while reading a Slashdot article that said the deadline was coming up. I put together the application in about 2 hours and sent it off, and
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by drusenko 16y ago
Not quite. Chris (cofounder) works 100% on infrastructure, Dan (cofounder) works on finances and product. We have a full-time designer, a full-time analytics person, and a full-time "head of customer satisfaction". Customer support for 5 mi
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by drusenko 16y ago
http://www.weebly.com - made by a small team, 2 1/2 hackers if you count myself as 1/2 time :) we're very profitable.
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by drusenko 16y ago
not. reddit.
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by drusenko 16y ago
Starting a company is never a safe bet. Every step along the way as you build a successful company, you have opportunities to sell. By your logic, you would sell at the first opportunity in the low millions. Clearly, that wouldn't have been
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by drusenko 16y ago
unlikely. business in the valley is not done by extortion. more likely is that he doesn't want anyone to get in trouble, he's just putting them on notice.
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by drusenko 16y ago
> When you are in this position the only reason to sell is if your company is no longer growing False. Valuation is not based on a point-in-time analysis of your current revenue run rate or total size of your userbase, it tends to rely
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by drusenko 16y ago
It's helpful to define what "being late" means. My rule of thumb is 0-5 minutes late is "on time", 5-10 minutes late is "OK but not great", 10-15 minutes late is "somewhat rude" and 15+ minutes late is "very rude". One thing that annoys me
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by drusenko 16y ago
This resonates well with my experience. One of the first-time burners in our group said that the most shocking thing to her was that "everybody is doing exactly what they want to do at that particular moment". It's like vacation on steroids
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by drusenko 16y ago
Agreed. DDoS attacks (in our experience) do not originate from the religious right.
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by drusenko 16y ago
Question was meant to be: would this predicted solar storm cause data loss? If so, that seems like it would be a significant cause for concern.
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by drusenko 16y ago
Does anybody know if a solar storm of a sufficient magnitude would cause data loss on magnetic-based storage mediums safely grounded here on planet earth?

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