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541.
by drusenko 17y ago
Actually, I've found TechCrunch's stories to be incredibly more factual than most in the traditional media -- the illusion of 100% factual reporting isn't the same, though, as they don't bullshit you about their process.
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by drusenko 17y ago
That would work well for the press, but poorly for startups. Reason being: press is like raising money -- you have to get a lot of excitement to get the best coverage. Putting the news out on your blog fails on multiple points: - No deadli
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by drusenko 17y ago
This is bad for startups (although we don't have any evidence yet that TechCrunch is intending to break all startup embargoes). Part of a successful launch is getting the news out to several outlets -- you hit one particular reader on TechC
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by drusenko 17y ago
In the case of a person clicking the check box when uploading, that person is responsible. Scribd most certainly stores their IP address, which can be traced back to identify the infringer. In the case of "auto-importing" feature, things ar
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by drusenko 17y ago
even if they manually approved all uploaded documents (clearly, a financially impossible proposition), they would still undoubtedly miss some works where copyright information wasn't easily publicly accessible, and be liable for "infringe
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by drusenko 17y ago
There are many things you don't need to be focused on at the start, but monitoring is something you should set up from the very, very beginning. Knowing when you're open for business and when you're not is absolutely crucial. Plus, it's che
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by drusenko 17y ago
it's only unexpected if you've been solely listening to the "facebook sucks" and "facebook is a bubble" bandwagon that seems to be particularly prominent here on HN. there's been tons of news about their high revenue numbers lately and they
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by drusenko 17y ago
the majority of websites quote user numbers as the total number of users who have signed up (ourselves and myspace included, if i remember correctly) -- it's pretty standard. facebook goes out of their way to understate their numbers (compa
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by drusenko 17y ago
with efax you can send a fax with an email, so really sending an email to a person and having a fax sent is the same amount of work.
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by drusenko 17y ago
i would think it's exactly the opposite -- being individually signaled out and pranked by facebook is more a sign of TechCrunch's importance...
551.
by drusenko 17y ago
They didn't say that the code from candidates that weren't accepted was used, just the code from the one that was. I suppose you prefer that interview coding tasks be arbitrary and wasted effort rather than put to good use?
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by drusenko 17y ago
I could be wrong, but that doesn't sound like the type of thing YC would advise...
553.
by drusenko 17y ago
Sorry to hear the news -- wish you both the best of luck going forward!
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by drusenko 17y ago
What's your definition of popular? I can't find any stats on your site that show any reasonable levels of traffic that would allow it to be either ad or freemium supported.
555.
by drusenko 17y ago
By practicing writing good code, getting better, and then having a portfolio to show. This type of contest really is just the same for designers: If you don't need practice, don't participate. If you do, it's a great way to hone your talent
556.
by drusenko 17y ago
Really? Have you seen their financial statements? How do you know they're far away from that? Because everybody else says so? Last I heard, they were expected to post $550M of revenue in 2009. Any insider you talk to says it would be trivia
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by drusenko 17y ago
“Friendfeed’s core values, portability and aggregation of content created everywhere, will happen at an accelerated pace at Facebook.” If that's actually true, that would be an exciting turn of events at Facebook...
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by drusenko 17y ago
Vesting. Nearly all startups grant equity options to employees, and these options vest over a certain period of time (usually 4 years). While employment is usually at-will, if you leave, you lose all of your unvested stock (hence, the incen
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by drusenko 17y ago
No. Down the line, maybe a cap on the very top end (tens of millions of pageviews per month) -- if that becomes a problem (it hasn't yet). But we have absolutely no problem serving high traffic sites (millions of pageviews per month) for fr
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by drusenko 17y ago
s/GoDaddy/TuCows/
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by drusenko 17y ago
We don't :) (Weebly)
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by drusenko 17y ago
wow, that's completely ridiculous. searching through their help center, they won't even tell you what the limit is, but it seems to be pretty low. just. wow.
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by drusenko 17y ago
Eh, there are some "free speech" registrars focused on not responding to such nonsense. I believe a Google search should turn them up. For general purpose registrars, both Register.com and GoDaddy have been pretty good for us.
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by drusenko 17y ago
No. They field abuse requests for phishing sites, DMCA requests, etc. When notified, we take them down promptly. However, whenever someone makes a phishing abuse request on the .weebly.com subdomain to GoDaddy, they don't even look at your
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by drusenko 17y ago
If you are running a user-generated content site and you get to a large enough size, it's near certain that GoDaddy will shut off your domain. We had a very, very close call with Weebly where someone from GoDaddy called at 10am on a Saturda
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by drusenko 17y ago
Thanks for the story -- perfect validation for what we are trying to do!
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Web citizens trying to kill Internet Explorer 6(cnn.com)
69 points by drusenko 17y ago|11 comments
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by drusenko 17y ago
well, yes, that's sort of the whole purpose :)
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by drusenko 17y ago
They don't -- we're trying to give them a reason to care.
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by drusenko 17y ago
It's as good a place to start as any. Once we can get the percentage of users using IE 6 down a little bit more, we'll be able to ditch support completely. Also, there's no reason the browser decision has to be binary: custom legacy apps co

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