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16y ago
pg has a PhD from Harvard.
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16y ago
http://www.thefunded.com/
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16y ago
The Catholic church has only been around for about 2,000 years. For comparison on these time scales, note that none of what we now view as "primitive" religions from the ancient world persist today. On top of that, I believe that even tho
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16y ago
The point of my comment was that the parent is no more qualified to make this statement than James Cameron was to make the original. It's like doing statistics by eyeball: you possibly say something's "pure nonsense" except for effect with
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frisco
16y ago
Are you an ecologist or other relevant professional?
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16y ago
This is a pretty condescending article. I mean, it's certainly true that your average Silicon Valley engineer or entrepreneur is of far above average intelligence, but things like knowing what a URL is isn't a good way to measure it. For
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frisco
16y ago
It's very clearly the tubes that connect Yandex to the rest of the web.
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frisco
16y ago
Wow, they're just like us !
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frisco
16y ago
Sounds like a business opportunity: moving editing and development into the cloud.
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16y ago
So my main development machine is a cluster of servers behind a firewall. Therefore, it doesn't matter what my thin client's specs are: I typically develop from a 15" MBP, but since all it's running locally is ssh / sshfs / sftp and a brow
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16y ago
Protip: Firefox is open source.
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16y ago
I do. FogBugz is great and Kiln looks awesome. I'd been hesitating on Kiln since we use git, but I honestly think I'll end up moving over eventually.
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frisco
16y ago
Uh, if you have a good reason to be asking for David Lee's time, there are easier ways of getting an hour of it than spending $500.
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16y ago
I've always wondered by YC-application-waiting chat never ends up on #startups. My first winter paying attention it was on #candyisdandy. Then somewhere else random. Is there a specific reason for this?
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This was definitely one of my favorite talks. I spent a long time looking for the video. Dalton's clearly on top of his stuff and pretty funny, too.
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16y ago
Awesome. Thanks!
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16y ago
max. 74.207.243.146
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Reading this list made me think, "wow, I could have been born in so many other countries, with such dramatically different possibilities, but I was born in the US." Just a strange thought to consider. A lot of these countries barely have
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frisco
16y ago
The page started with a gigantic headshot of Assange. That's really not a good way to start, given recent drama...
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16y ago
Not into Quora? As several people answer it opens up a community-editable answer summary to bring them all together.
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16y ago
Edit: now that I think about it, this is a perfect use-case for Quora: http://www.quora.com/What-SaaS-products-are-on-the-startups-...
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Dear Quora: I have taken the liberty of improving your logo
(quora.com)
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> The combined size of social networks that aren't Facebook is over 1.5 billion people, probably more. How much of that overlaps with Facebook? Approximately 500 million? Also, they're measuring total registrations: FB has probably cl
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16y ago
People seem to be intepreting this as "OMG now we can build a new social network and convert users easily!" Users still aren't going to leave Facebook. Facebook realizes this, which is why they can do this now. Your mother's cousin is on
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16y ago
This is Facebook's patent, not Google's.
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Clang 2.8 release now considered "production ready"
(cplusplus-soup.com)
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Not how statistics work...
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I'm confused by this title. Was being kicked out of France part of his punishment, but he's still a trader? Or is he a French ex-trader? This could be rephrased for clarity.
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Play-Doh? Calculus? At the Manhattan Free School, Anything Goes
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The advice that TC won't cover you unless you're much bigger is bad. They'll cover you however small you are as long as you give them something worth writing about.
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