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by fhub 17y ago
We're sorry to say we couldn't accept your proposal for funding. Please don't take it personally. The applications we receive get better every funding cycle, and since there's a limit on the number of startups we can interview in person, w
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by fhub 17y ago
More interesting than the rejection letter - http://ycombinator.com/whynot.html
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by fhub 17y ago
Survey for those rejected... might give some insight into how close to the cut teams got. 1. How many questions did YC ask your team? 2. How many views did you get on your video? 3. How many unique visits to your prototype from YC? 4. How m
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by fhub 17y ago
I suggest you add more country names to your incremental search e.g. England, Canada, Australia. If the country has more than one timezone, list them. Worth logging all the things people type that get zero auto-completions. Otherwise spot
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by fhub 17y ago
short behaves the same as char. int, long and long long all implicitly cast. Very odd. gcc v4.4.1, x86
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by fhub 17y ago
Expanding on the idea of the 'classic' link, you could add a user selectable/configurable threshold for who's votes count based on age of registration. Newer users up voting meretricious comments would not impact those with a high set thre
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by fhub 17y ago
For those that are interested in Linux on mobile phones, Nokia's Maemo 5 mobile platform offers a more traditional GNU/Linux environment. It even allows the enduser to gain root access using "sudo gainroot".
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by fhub 17y ago
Slightly off topic, but I think its always wise to check argc before assuming argv[0] is populated. Its convention only that argv[0] is the name of the program. Got me once when using execve. if(argv[1] == NULL)
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by fhub 17y ago
For 'drop in code', it would be nice if they cleaned it up a bit... Removed redundant whitespace in css, redundant white space between divs and used better quoting e.g. the following <a href='#' onclick='javascript:this.parentNode.paren
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by fhub 17y ago
Although booking travel was the catalyst for the idea (and used to give background), I see this as more general social collaboration. I often send people links via instant messenger, but why not go one step further and 'share' the browsing
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Ask HN: Firefox Collaborative Browsing Plugin - Good idea?
8 points by fhub 17y ago|3 comments
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by fhub 17y ago
Robert Love ended an opinionated discussion on goto in the linux kernel in '03. His pseudo code demonstrates a neat error stack unwind technique for c. http://kerneltrap.org/node/553/2131 (Scroll to bottom for pseudo code)