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by emmett 15y ago
If a 1 offset under the system the guy advocates means what a 0 normally does, that implies that a +1 vote means the same thing as a +0 vote. So Guido is "agreeing" that it deserves +1, but only if you use 1-indexing so +1 is the lowest pos
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by emmett 15y ago
Who says developers can't be CEOs? Zuckerberg, Gates, Page, ...
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by emmett 15y ago
Do they need more than one CEO? Sounds like you should have said "they still have someone within who could do it!"
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by emmett 15y ago
Sure, but "they might start declining someday" can be said about literally any large web property. It's not something MORE true about Reddit.
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by emmett 15y ago
Consistent exponential growth (which is what Reddit has been experiencing since launch, in 2005) always looks explosive once the base gets big enough.
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by emmett 15y ago
The thing is, Reddit started at the same time Digg did. It's been growing slowly and consistently ever since. Their growth rate actually hasn't changed much over time. Reddit figured out how to support subcommunities in a way that those oth
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by emmett 15y ago
Sad to see them hiring an outside CEO instead of promoting from within. I don't think hired CEOs work so well for products that are still at the stage Reddit is at. They need someone with deep, intimate knowledge of the community and the pr
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by emmett 15y ago
Not every startup which seems to have a limited first product goes on to do great things. But of the startups which have gone on to do great things, many have had limited first products. Therefore, it's not much of a commentary on a new sta
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by emmett 15y ago
If I had to guess, I'd say that they have a larger vision that what you see today is just the first step of. Remember that Microsoft started with Basic on the Altair. Just because a startup seems unimpressive when they release their first p
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by emmett 15y ago
Incorporation is basically free because YC does it in bulk, and uses their own in-house lawyer for it. Equipment is free because all you really need is your own laptop and Amazon EC2. YC companies are usually started by hackers who don't ou
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by emmett 15y ago
Just watch on twitch where there are no limits.
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by emmett 15y ago
This is not true for gaming streams, and hasn't been for some time.
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by emmett 15y ago
Streaming on Justin.tv is free. Also on TwitchTV. We reached out.
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by emmett 15y ago
We're offering him 100% free service on TwitchTV. In fact, he'll MAKE money through our partner program. Since we already have a massive Minecraft casting community, I think it's a logical place for him to do it: http://twitch.tv/directory
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by emmett 15y ago
Hm, I don't understand what you mean by "niche"...codeacademy is much MORE niche than Can't Wait, at least right now...a lot more people watch movies than program. Remember, what the startup does when it begins is not what it will grow into
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by emmett 15y ago
No, I mean bad comments. I've seen only a very few comments which both whine about downvotes AND have other interesting content. The comment I replied to ("You're right that ... You can draw your own conclusions from this.") is a bad commen
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by emmett 15y ago
Anyone complaining about getting downvoted gets a nearly automatic downvote from me at this point; it's extremely highly correlated with bad comments. It also violates the site guidelines: "Resist complaining about being downmodded. It neve
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by emmett 15y ago
I clicked through that same authorization step and it was very clear they were syncing your contacts to their service. However, this is kind of irrelevant because 99% of users are not going to read this kind of a warning no matter WHAT it s
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by emmett 15y ago
Wait, isn't that an awesome feature? How is it creepy? I like the idea that I'd appear in the "remember when?" section of Facebook, it's fun. As for suggesting a name, isn't that just automating the tedious tagging work you do on Facebook?
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by emmett 15y ago
Yes, of course I knew - they had a big flashing warning sign that they were syncing your contacts to their cloud that you have to click through. I actually like this a lot. If they then shared those phone numbers publicly I would complain..
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by emmett 15y ago
Not to put words in Paul's mouth, but I believe his statement was: 1. It's relatively rare to get an angry mob 2. It's even more rare for that angry mob to target YC companies because YC companies are a small % of total companies 3. Therefo
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by emmett 15y ago
How do you restart a system which holds open long-lived connections without kicking everyone off? If you want to be kind to your users, you stop accepting connections on a new server, wait a period of time (the longer the better), and then
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by emmett 15y ago
We are always working really hard on quality of service for video. For example, note the button we have added to report video problems. The biggest problem here is measuring quality - none of the obvious metrics really correlate. That said,
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by emmett 15y ago
That's very strange. Maybe it's a flash version issue? Because I watch NASL all the time on my air (which sounds like the same hardware as yours but maybe slightly worse) and it runs great. Well, flash drains my battery like nothing else, b
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by emmett 15y ago
1) We've started introducing tests - as you grow I think they're essential. I would say though, not all bugs can be caught by tests (and in fact, I once went over the last 10 bugs we had fixed and discovered that none of them could have bee
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by emmett 15y ago
We're not the wild west we once were, but neither are we a paragon of testing. When I started Justin.tv, I had 1.5 years of software development experience, never on a team larger than 2 developers; I've now been at it for almost 7 years an
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by emmett 15y ago
We use almost 100% OSX at the office (with smatterings of Ubuntu) so I have to say: yes, we have a lot of happy OSX users. If anything it's the IE users on Windows who should be annoyed. I watch from home on my macbook air constantly and fr
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by emmett 15y ago
> High school geometry might as well be wizardry. And yet does anyone doubt that they could learn highschool geometry if motivated to do so?
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by emmett 15y ago
Yes, this is true. They'd only be a passable programmer after 3 years, not a good one. But the main point is that a very junior developer position is actually a really good job for most people.
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by emmett 15y ago
This is completely true. I took a 1 year drawing course in highschool and was shocked by just how good I got, practicing 5 hours a week. Most skills are not as difficult as people think they are with consistent effort over time. People ar

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