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by far33d 19y ago
If my guess at what this "big" company's identity is is correct.... The standard advice that is true for google/msft/oracle/yahoo/etc doesn't apply.
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by far33d 19y ago
@njoubert - could you email me please? I'm about 120% certain I can help you a lot w/ this decision. Email is in my profile.
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by far33d 19y ago
That's great! USV seems to really like investing in services they use themselves instead of "trends".
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by far33d 19y ago
"If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians." - Warren Buffett.
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by far33d 19y ago
I hated spotlight on 10.4, but with my new machine with 10.5 I've found spotlight good enough that I haven't bothered downloading QS.
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by far33d 19y ago
How about "reel" instead of "portfolio"? Reel is a much more common word in the business for anything that moves (film, animation, etc), whereas portfolio implies static imagery.
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by far33d 19y ago
Very cool! Glad to see someone trying to bring animation to the masses
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by far33d 19y ago
Currently, you can vote for more than one choice...
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by far33d 19y ago
I went to brown - I loved it, it had a really great CS department, especially for an undergrad, and was overall an amazing social and academic experience. Not a big entrepreneurship culture in the CS department, but I think you can make tha
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by far33d 19y ago
OS X == (UI niceness > windows) + (coding tools like unix) I don't see how you can argue with that much. I prefer to code on linux. I prefer to have a window manager and desktop apps that work @ home. Add the fact that the macs
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by far33d 19y ago
I don't get it - posting xkcd is too "reddit". But complaining about how people are posting xkcd comics isn't?
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by far33d 19y ago
I think that's a dig at Harvard...
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by far33d 19y ago
If your parents make $101k, they don't charge you full price.
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by far33d 19y ago
what exactly is going to be left for MSFT to buy?
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by far33d 19y ago
I added up the elements of that graph that seemed essential, I even left out ones that might be skewed (transportation, clothing, etc) because it's possible to spend money there in excessive ways - for the bottom 20% it was $11,033, which i
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by far33d 19y ago
The fact is, tickets are incredibly under-priced if the secondary market is able to do this profitably. If tickets were sold direct by the venues with some kind of demand or time based auction model, every single one of these brokers would
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by far33d 19y ago
This is ultimately why consumption taxes are a dangerous thing, despite how logical they seem. They are designed to create incentives for saving, but will merely punish those who have no ability to save in the first place. At the same time,
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by far33d 19y ago
"In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter tr
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by far33d 19y ago
I think it's a great concept - the web and digital tools are making both distribution and production costs much cheaper. However, no one (well, not until now) has really been tackling the middlemen - producers, talent agencies, etc. that st
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by far33d 19y ago
http://blogs.sun.com/ahl/date/20080118 It's not quite DTrace.
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by far33d 19y ago
Wait, I thought I was your grandma? I'm not a Dane.
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by far33d 19y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49006
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by far33d 19y ago
Seconding Providence, RI. Though I live in the bay area now, I loved Providence. Lots of smart people for such a small town, and if you really wanted to, you could commute to the biotechs and tech companies on the 128, but as KB says, there
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by far33d 19y ago
OOoooh a cryptic foreshadow of a YC company launch?
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by far33d 19y ago
A surprisingly large percentage of great programmers I know are Danish.
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by far33d 19y ago
So. A note to all the "unicode makes this unusable" people - Apparently, while you were complaining, someone else was solving.
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by far33d 19y ago
Now, after asking for this feature, I realized I won't even be anywhere near california on that day. Argh.
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by far33d 19y ago
No spot on the app for yc.news usernames? You know - in case you think our comments here might be proof enough of technical ability and worthiness :)
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by far33d 19y ago
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/28/new-group-at-disney-to-... Ah yes. Now I remember... It will be very interesting to see where they go with this.
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by far33d 19y ago
Except you'd have to sell to the government. And convince technophobes that it's secure. And safe. And reliable.

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