emmett

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by emmett 16y ago
Unfortunately the constraints it sets make community fiber projects much less attractive. Should communities be forbidden from building out water mains or roads, because they might compete with the private version? It's not clear to me that
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by emmett 16y ago
Effectively makes it illegal, as far as I can tell, for a community to decide that internet access is similar to roads or water infrastructure and make it broadly available at low rates. It depends if you think internet access should be tre
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Work on streaming SC2, LoL, BlackOps at Justin.tv(justin.tv)
4 points by emmett 16y ago
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by emmett 16y ago
Broken on chrome, osx.
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Justin.tv is hiring hackers who love gaming(justin.tv)
2 points by emmett 16y ago
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by emmett 16y ago
If you're looking in the bay area, I'm going to be shamlessly self-promotional and suggest http://www.justin.tv/jobs/apply (the form just sends me an email). Not only do we use ruby, rails, mongodb, postgres, git, and an async framework (
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by emmett 16y ago
You can be hugely successful without YC investment (or any investor). No one seriously thinks YC is necessary - nor do I understand why you'd think Martin thinks that. However, the question is whether YC can help or not. Could the Google
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by emmett 16y ago
I did read the post. The guideline is specifically about situations like this one. You should not describe your company in relation to YC unless you are actually affiliated with YC. Being rejected is not an affiliation. Neither is being a
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by emmett 16y ago
"In titles, please don't describe things by their relation to YC unless they're actually associated with YC." http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Justin.tv - looking for hackers to work on esports(justin.tv)
65 points by emmett 16y ago
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by emmett 16y ago
But we've never done a similar project before. We're pretty good at estimating how long it takes to build websites now, because we've done it so many times before. We're not good at estimating ground-up builds of entirely new mobile produ
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Life at a startup(abstractnonsense.com)
226 points by emmett 16y ago|44 comments
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by emmett 16y ago
Being accepted as a poster in a conference is a very different thing from being published in a journal, as the comments on the article you posted point out.
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by emmett 16y ago
You would post it to Facebook...which is why we offer one-click post to facebook.
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by emmett 16y ago
In the end, isn't that the only thing you can say? Maybe you can prove something about how secure a service is, but you definitely can't prove you'll respect people's privacy. All you can do is to respect them, and ask for trust.
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by emmett 16y ago
It applies a bunch of lessons we learned making a live video broadcasting app for Justin.tv. The distance is not so large as you'd think (minus the whole "not live" part).
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by emmett 16y ago
I'm not sure why you'd think it doesn't record audio, it definitely does. You can't preview a video before upload yet, but it's in the pipeline.
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by emmett 16y ago
You are never forced to share a video on Facebook through SocialCam. We ask for the permissions so that it's one-click to share, not so that it will autoshare every time. Trust me, we use the app all the time and none of us would want it to
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by emmett 16y ago
Biggest advantage: you can tag your friends from the SocialCam app and you can't from the YouTube app.
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by emmett 16y ago
I would like to be able to edit my profile, as a YC founder. Also I would like to be able to edit my company's info.
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by emmett 16y ago
Except instead of fooling people into thinking they're going to get rich and stealing from them, it's a free game where everyone involved wins an invite!
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by emmett 16y ago
My circle of friends had started using Beluga recently, and it's really so much more than the sum of its parts. I hope Facebook doesn't kill it or break what's great about it.
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by emmett 16y ago
Some of the companies with "unknown" status are definitely no longer running. From the first batch: - Half of MemAmp was merged into reddit and half went back to gradschool. - Simmery shut down after the summer - Firecrawl shut down after t
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by emmett 16y ago
You don't need to sign your comments - your name already appears right there.
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by emmett 16y ago
Wow, impressive! And based on actual data, as opposed to numbers I made up :-)
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by emmett 16y ago
Mandalay bay does not have 100% occupancy 365 days per year. They probably don't even have 50% occupancy 365 days per year. But yes, it's about the size of a VERY large hotel.
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by emmett 16y ago
I don't know - they took down the kiko.com site a couple years ago and we haven't heard about it since.
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by emmett 16y ago
Technically, we didn't sell the assets. The company sold the assets (income), then distributed the resulting cash to shareholders (capital gains). So the money got taxed twice, once for corporate income tax and once as capital gains.
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by emmett 16y ago
I imagine so, if they were productive enough to reach 1 billion page views per month while doing so. What makes you think that their community involvement isn't the reason reddit has thrived while competitors have failed?
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by emmett 16y ago
I completely agree. Interesting and awesome code is how you grow as a programmer. And it's the interesting code that can really make your program shine. When I see an interesting bit of code it's still a warning sign though. Because for eve

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