dshankar

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by dshankar 15y ago
Woot! Congrats on the launch. Time to add Testling to the StackVM site, eh? :D
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by dshankar 15y ago
Berkeley, CA or San Francisco Bay Area Flotype (creators of popular open source projects like NowJS) is hiring engineers. http://flotype.com and http://nowjs.com -(very) well-funded company tackling huge technical problems (A16Z, YC etc
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by dshankar 15y ago
Interesting concept. The people should be facing the screen though, not me.
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by dshankar 15y ago
A single server running Now can easily handle 10-15k connections. The scalable solution you mentioned is called NowCluster. It is already in production-use by several companies, but has not been made publicly available.
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by dshankar 15y ago
Ideally, winners of this contest should be posted as examples. But yeah, there will be more examples in the future. We've got a bunch created already, but the website as a whole needs to be redesigned.
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by dshankar 15y ago
Shoot me an email, darshan@flotype.com. We've got a bunch of games being built with NowJS + Node.js. You'll see a lot of hackathons having games built on that stack as well. Easy to rapidly prototype, build, scale etc.
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by dshankar 15y ago
Good luck! Tweet or email the NowJS mailing list with your progress over the next two weeks
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by dshankar 15y ago
Ah thanks for the feedback! We'll work on a better designed website to be more clear.
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Former Google Engineer Builds Turntable.fm Clone: Rolling.fm(wired.com)
13 points by dshankar 15y ago|0 comments
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by dshankar 15y ago
If I had money, I'd invest in you guys. Congrats on the funding!
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The 20 Hot Silicon Valley Startups You Need To Watch(businessinsider.com)
19 points by dshankar 15y ago|0 comments
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by dshankar 15y ago
I disagree. A complete business plan is always required...All professional investors know that entrepreneurs who start a business without a written plan almost always fail. That's not true at all! There's a difference between writing a 30
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by dshankar 15y ago
No
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by dshankar 15y ago
Olalonde: it has been posted before, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2728999
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Series FF class stock: FF, Super F and Plain Old F'd(blognewcomb.squarespace.com)
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by dshankar 15y ago
To citricsquid, hipchan and others - NowJS, and the free open source product "Now," is just one small piece of Flotype the company. We haven't launched and haven't disclosed the business-side of NowJS (tl;dr we have an enterprise product th
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by dshankar 15y ago
Yes, take a look at Yammer, Voxer, Gilt Groupe's Hummingbird, Etsy etc. The list goes on!
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by dshankar 15y ago
I still recommend Node.js. Reasons: 1. Node.js is maturing and growing by the day 2. You want to invest in something that becomes better [more reliable, mature, documented etc.] over time, and the Node.js community is going to be great ov
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Node.js From the Enterprise Java Perspective(blog.shinetech.com)
14 points by dshankar 15y ago|5 comments
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by dshankar 15y ago
The main reason I (and others) say "Ideas Don't Matter" is because there is an abundance of ideas. Too many people have too many ideas, and everyone thinks their ideas are great. This Silicon Valley 'mantra' (in my opinion) is valid in orde
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YC W2011 co hiring employee #1 and interns
132 points by dshankar 15y ago
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Video of Google All-Hands Meeting Circa 1999(techcrunch.com)
80 points by dshankar 15y ago|5 comments
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by dshankar 15y ago
The Convore team is so BALLER. I had no idea Leah was behind https://github.com/leah/PullToRefresh Or OAuth. Or everything else.
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by dshankar 15y ago
"a previous YC funded company most of us know about, Square," Last I checked, Square was not a Y Combinator company. But good writeup! I laughed at the anecdote towards the end ;-)
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Why Users Click Right Call to Actions More Than Left(uxmovement.com)
52 points by dshankar 15y ago|21 comments
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by dshankar 15y ago
This same link has been on HN three times in the past two weeks, all by the same person. Come on ...
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by dshankar 15y ago
> I wonder if we can hack the kinship part without the tuition part? Y Combinator? Seriously, it's' the future graduate school that teaches you how to be an entrepreneur and pays you to do it! You know what the kinship to fellow alums i
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by dshankar 16y ago
Just curious - is the office space at the LSVP Sandhill offices?
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by dshankar 16y ago
Shoot me an email darshan@nowjs
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by dshankar 16y ago
Company Name: NowJS Company Size: 3 founders Company URL: nowjs.com Position: Software Engineering Intern (+full time/part time positions avail), working on core development on NowJS and distributed web architectures Contact Email: team@now

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