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Ask YC: Recording the Startup School talks?
30 points by edgeztv 19y ago|10 comments
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by edgeztv 19y ago
Yeah, unfortunately most of us here were turned down and most of those who got interviews will be turned down as well. That's just how the numbers are. The more interesting question is how many of you expected to be turned down but applied
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by edgeztv 19y ago
Cutting these exams certainly won't get more minority students involved in these subjects. Seems like a crude hack to improve the College Board's diversity ratings. One is led to believe that they do not care about the students at all fro
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by edgeztv 19y ago
Actually, waiting until the last minute to apply for a summer internship is often a good idea. You'll be competing against fewer applicants if a new spot opens up at the company. It worked for me both times I applied late much better than
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by edgeztv 19y ago
Why not just flood their mailbox with fake leads from hundreds of fake email addresses instead? Is that possible?
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Why Myspace sucks
1 points by edgeztv 19y ago|0 comments
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by edgeztv 19y ago
Using an example from a benchmarking suite to illustrate language conciseness doesn't make any sense. We all know that conciseness is inversely proportional to speed. Whoever wrote that Java code was trying to write the most performant, n
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by edgeztv 19y ago
There are so many things wrong with your example! You basically wrote the ugliest Java code you could possibly think of for this simple program. First, in order to get an objective comparison of code length you should at least use the same
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by edgeztv 19y ago
Check out http://www.techdo.com/firefox-wonder-edition/ It's a super slim, zero-install (you can use it side-by side with your current FF installation), modded FF 1.5. I've been using it for a week and it's a huge relief after putting up
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by edgeztv 19y ago
Here's the letter on Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?id=HpgNSVS6fUYC&pg=PA390&#...
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by edgeztv 19y ago
I hear this one a lot, but no one ever explains why. Would someone like to explain their reasons for suggesting to get a lawyer?
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by edgeztv 19y ago
Can you share what your fees are for authorize.net? They don't disclosing anything on their website...
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by edgeztv 19y ago
I interned for the company that provided Accoona's search engine software. This same software has been deployed successfully in many enterprise environments, is based on solid IR theory and research, and had powered a large web search engi
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by edgeztv 19y ago
Sounds good. I just wanted to suggest Andala Coffee House nearbly because they have free WiFi in contrast to 1369. Here's the link: http://www.yelp.com/biz/QAbqOn5VhO4k15_wfSQdvg
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by edgeztv 19y ago
Adobe Flex a very different approach to the rich client model. GWT will be on the same side as Prototype, Dojo, etc. if there is a showdown with Flex. Flex is not an alternative to GWT but rather an alternative to AJAX. I suspect both sid
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by edgeztv 19y ago
There are a few misconceptions about GWT in the above comment: "most frameworks are evolving FAR quicker than GWT is." GWT is only a year old and has had 4 major releases. It just went open-source recently, so it's too early to tell how fa
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by edgeztv 19y ago
Viaweb 2.0 :) I'd be happy to discuss in more detail. Email: alex "at" mystorespace.com
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by edgeztv 19y ago
When I was a kid growing up in the USSR, "stuff" was really important to everyone because everything was really hard to get. Those who grew up in the West can't possibly understand how valuable even the most insignificant stuff seemed there
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by edgeztv 19y ago
Hey Kul, it was good running into you guys at eBay Live. Unlike Auctomatic, we (mystorespace.com) went the guerrilla route that day :) Our story is at mystorespace.blogspot.com. We also got swamped with requests for accounts the week af
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by edgeztv 19y ago
Their form also asks for like 7 different URLs (canvas, ToS, unistall, install, etc), while many FB apps don't care about all these URLs. It would be nice if they had an option "use the same URL for everything", or, better yet, made everyt
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by edgeztv 19y ago
I think this is the way to go. I am taking this approach for a multi-player game I'm developing - you can play without registering, but you can register afterwards to save your score. My primary project, mystorespace.com, takes a similar a
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by edgeztv 19y ago
What kind of application takes 15 minutes to fully build? (I'm genuinely curious - not sarcasm).
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Robot Replay: Watch your users via Ajax(ajaxian.com)
1 points by edgeztv 19y ago|0 comments
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by edgeztv 19y ago
I hear you. Right after grad school, I turned down an offer to work in a small (and very profitable) CAD company with good people mainly because I didn't want to code in C++ (and wanted to work with the web). A year later I chose a smalle
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by edgeztv 19y ago
Well said. I was just pondering this the other day - how did did I manage to get really cool/hard coding projects (AI, systems, etc.) done in school in just under a week while it takes many months to get a decent web application built. I
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by edgeztv 19y ago
If I was a potential buyer I'd see someone selling a site just 4 days after launch as a big red flag. Was the developer's confidence in it's potential so low that they chose to take a sum equivalent to 4 months' salaray (assuming they're n
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How to Gracefully Take a Site Down For Maintenance?
2 points by edgeztv 19y ago|7 comments
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Boston Startup Housing
3 points by edgeztv 19y ago|1 comments
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by edgeztv 19y ago
Migpwr, you sound jealous and negative for no apparent reason. I don't see how my article could have offended you personally to warrant your string of hateful replies. Let me repeat - I didn't go to eBay Live to start a controversy. I w
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by edgeztv 19y ago
You're right, I wore my Google shirt because our product uses Google Checkout and I wanted to show support for it as I felt it was dealt an unfair blow by eBay. However, I didn't expect to get thrown out of the convention for it.

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