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by fbuilesv 15y ago
Because the default font for most browsers (Times [New Roman]) looks ugly and the number of people who customizes their own styles is abysmally low.
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Knyle Style Sheets(warpspire.com)
267 points by fbuilesv 15y ago|26 comments
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How GitHub uses GitHub to build GitHub (video)(zachholman.com)
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The Pummeling Pages(inessential.com)
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by fbuilesv 15y ago
I think I should clarify that I'm opposed to most record labels on principle. I think what Triple J Unearthed is doing is awesome and that's where I think a new player can come in, hopefully someone unrelated to the established industry.
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by fbuilesv 15y ago
I'd say if all you're seeing is Soulja Boy and Chocolate Rain, you need to get around the net more and seek out some of the great independent music that's out there That's exactly the problem. If I have to out of my way looking for it the
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by fbuilesv 15y ago
I might be totally lying here but I think I remember seeing something like that promoting Angry Birds for Chrome. My memory's not great so it might've been somewhere else.
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by fbuilesv 15y ago
Robert X. Cringely has two documentaries that cheered me up a lot: Triumph of the Nerds and Nerds 2.0.1. There's also Pirates of Silicon Valley. There are also two movies documenting the creation of Linux and open source (I forget the names
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by fbuilesv 15y ago
I don't think that only the artist and the bands will be the ones who survive in this new media ecosystem. We need to fix the problem of getting tens of thousands of bands to the potential millions of customers. If every band's expected to
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by fbuilesv 15y ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but you have to commit locally before pushing to Github so that is not a problem (you do it on your machine before the `git push` to Github).
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by fbuilesv 15y ago
Take the phrase: "This piece of software is fucking useless". What word would you replace "fucking" with that conveys the same emotion, despair and rage that the word has in that sentence? I'm not a native speaker so my vocabulary is pretty
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by fbuilesv 15y ago
Swearing, as shown by many presenters, can also have a positive effect on your talks. Zach mentions most of the reasons why in his article. Attacking a person instead of the content of his talk for using a word is ridiculous. Would someon
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by fbuilesv 15y ago
Zach Holman (the author of this post) uploaded his slides for a talk he gave at a Ruby conference a couple of weeks ago. Some people, including Scott Hanselman, complained about talks including profanities (especifically the word "fucking"
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Swearing(zachholman.com)
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by fbuilesv 15y ago
Am I experiencing some bug here or is the author of this really expecting us to read something like this: http://cl.ly/0Q1b0i2t191F0R2L0B0t ?
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by fbuilesv 15y ago
I don't think for a second that Adobe's decision was motivated by the open nature of HTML5 itself. If anything being open is a downside for Adobe in their current market position. I don't think the "poor technical choices" of their product
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by fbuilesv 15y ago
A lot more informative, thanks Chris.
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by fbuilesv 15y ago
Awesome article overall, I'm thankful for the founders taking the time to answer this. I only wish the Like.fm guys had been a bit more concise: There are things you do that lets them know you really are committed, all-in, focused, and det
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by fbuilesv 15y ago
I'm a believer in reading someone else's code to improve your own skills, and in Ruby more than in other languages it's easy to get started. I don't know how much you know right now, but the simplest way I've found ways to contribute is by
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by fbuilesv 15y ago
I can't recommend a Hacker House (we didn't find one), but if you end up considering a hotel, take a look at AirBnB. We ended up paying $100/day for a house for 4 in Mountain View, instead of the $80+ per person you'd have to pay for a hote
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by fbuilesv 15y ago
A couple of questions/comments: 1) Something we've heard a lot from PG: Is this your biggest problem? 2) What prevents random Hacker McHack from reproducing your company in a couple of weeks and releasing it as open source? 3) You don't wan
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by fbuilesv 15y ago
Acceptances were sent already :)
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by fbuilesv 15y ago
B1/B2 visas will get you in for 3-6 months initially but you can't work for your company under this type of visas. Depending on your situation you might be able to apply to a EB visa (but the requirements are strict). You don't need any typ
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by fbuilesv 15y ago
I wonder if I'm the only person that thinks that Xcode is the problem, not ObjC. Having experience with C I feel just fine writing code in Objective-C, but only the thought of trying to use Xcode instead of Emacs is painful. I'd love to kno
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Startups, Seed Funding, And Avoiding Empty Pockets(techcrunch.com)
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Ask PG: How to do well at the YC interview document
4 points by fbuilesv 15y ago|1 comments
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by fbuilesv 15y ago
This. No mention or link in any of the public facing pages (I think I've done everything but sign up) is something that I as a consumer will see as: "They're trying to hide it, they must be super expensive". I know my company would be willi
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by fbuilesv 15y ago
Palantir has some big names in the industry. Its investors include Peter Thiel from Paypal. Their CEO is Alexander Karp and Michael Lopp (a.k.a. rands) is also working there. I'm glad to see the high valuation, from what I've heard their re
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by fbuilesv 15y ago
One interesting point I hadn't seen before is the following recommendation: Have someone in YC vouch for you Is this common? How's it transmitted to YC, through the application or do they specifically write PG and crew to let them know ab
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by fbuilesv 15y ago
" Startups at this stage need to be building their product and talking to their users " What happens when a startup like ours is not building their product (due to complicated legal issues) but they're talking to customers? How can we show

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