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841.
A Greener Apple(apple.com)
2 points by far33d 20y ago|1 comments
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by far33d 20y ago
Screwed if they ban (community leaves, crisis, etc). Screwed if they don't (DMCA). They made the right choice: It's better to be taken down by the MPAA than to take yourself down by antagonizing your users.
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Murdoch going after the WSJ(online.wsj.com)
7 points by far33d 20y ago|1 comments
844.
by far33d 20y ago
Any idea how many of these are uniques or how many registered users the site has? Certainly there are at least about 300 users that check the site many times a day (that's how many hits a post on my blog that got 7 upvotes received).
845.
by far33d 20y ago
Instead of spending 10 pages describing why it's actually OUR fault that metadata isn't well supported (we have an open API you could write it yourself) a la 37 signals, he admits the problem and says they will address it. Class act.
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Amazon, VCs Woo Seattle-area Developers(readwriteweb.com)
6 points by far33d 20y ago|0 comments
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by far33d 20y ago
The way they use S3 for cold storage and their local servers for hot storage is really interesting.... A lot like some of the things people have been discussing regarding memory vs. DB (yes, this link was grabbed from inside the jamglue art
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SmugMug on Amazon S3: Outages, slowdowns, and problems(blogs.smugmug.com)
5 points by far33d 20y ago|2 comments
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by far33d 20y ago
I imagine they aren't very excited about all the press they got about people running businesses out of the building.
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by far33d 20y ago
the decrease in early stage dollars... I wonder if this is because there are less early stage deals, or that the value of each early deal has gotten lower.
851.
by far33d 20y ago
I'll be 100th person to predict utter suckiness.
852.
by far33d 20y ago
There are at least 10 startup ideas inside this post.
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Top Ten Reasons Why Web 2.0 Sucks(thisisgoingtobebig.com)
9 points by far33d 20y ago|5 comments
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Helio's Halo starting to dim(thebrowser.blogs.fortune.com)
2 points by far33d 20y ago|0 comments
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Dodgeball dead.(valleywag.com)
4 points by far33d 20y ago|2 comments
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by far33d 20y ago
Presented as a corollary to the Why Smart People Have Dumb Ideas essay http://paulgraham.com/bronze.html
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Paul Kedrosky: If You're So Dumb, Why Aren't You Rich?(paul.kedrosky.com)
4 points by far33d 20y ago|3 comments
858.
by far33d 20y ago
Looks like the ycombinator (the company) has been ycombinator'd (the function)
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by far33d 20y ago
Come on people use the feature request link!!!!
860.
by far33d 20y ago
I learned the most as an undergrad when TAing CS classes (a benefit of brown is the undergrad TA program). Not only do you learn the material at a deeper level, you have an opportunity to teach at that deeper level too. There's nothing mor
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Why iPhone Will Win(paul.kedrosky.com)
15 points by far33d 20y ago|7 comments
862.
by far33d 20y ago
Steve Albini is the man. A great producer and musician, and his analysis here is dead on.
863.
by far33d 20y ago
Funny... GE's policy was that they wouldn't be in any business they couldn't be first or second in. But suddenly, we've added third. Because MSFT is 3rd in search. hah.
864.
by far33d 20y ago
Marshall: What's the new startup you funded from the Kiko team? Paul: I can't say yet, but it is certainly the most entertaining idea we've ever funded. In fact, insane might be a better word. But it's what they wanted to do.
865.
by far33d 20y ago
It looks a lot like the yc site.
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Kyte.tv puts user video anywhere(sfgate.com)
4 points by far33d 20y ago|0 comments
867.
by far33d 20y ago
This is called ycombinator STARTUP news.
868.
by far33d 20y ago
use the feature request link at the bottom of the main page.
869.
by far33d 20y ago
Nazi-ism? Congratulations, you've just godwin'd YC News. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_Law
870.
by far33d 20y ago
That's the stupidest thing I've ever seen someone attach their name to.

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