fuelfive

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   Congrats, Dropbox (YC S07)(siteanalytics.compete.com)

   84 points by fuelfive 18y ago|51 comments
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   by fuelfive 18y ago

   This is incredible, excellent work guys
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   by fuelfive 18y ago

   This was one of the reasons why we started frogmetrics. :)
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   by fuelfive 18y ago

   Note that the guy who Apple hired to build their retail empire is Ron Johnson, a veteran of Target. Transformers, indeed. http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/ronjohnson.html
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   by fuelfive 18y ago

   Congrats! Same with the frog. Posterous and CO2Stats are up to 6 now, wtg guys.
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   by fuelfive 18y ago

   Next time I need to change cubes with chinese characters from clear to red or rearrange alphabet letters with a friend, this will be a viable option. I always find it unsettling when I see demos of "new user interface technology" that invol
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   by fuelfive 18y ago

   No such thing as too far along. Speaking as a YC founder who had angel money and a product going in, you'd have to be post-series A for YC not to make sense. The YC logo on your slide deck alone is probably enough to boost your valuation by
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   Try your hand at monetary policy with the Fed Chairman game(frbsf.org)

   1 points by fuelfive 18y ago|0 comments
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   by fuelfive 18y ago

   SafeType vertical keyboard. The MS Natural Elite was giving me RSI until I switched. http://safetype.com/
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    by fuelfive 18y ago

    How well does this scale to big data sets (like millions of rows)? My impression was that companies who get the most value out of this type of product are very large, and deal with lots of transactions.
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    by fuelfive 18y ago

    I would love to come to this, but I will be in Mountain View for my team's YC interview then. Can't we make it a different day? I don't want to have to wait another seven months to meet some local hackers!
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    by fuelfive 18y ago

    http://www.overnightprints.com Used them for years. Fantastic quality, inexpensive.
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    by fuelfive 19y ago

    What happens to edits you make after 10pm? We noticed at 10:15 that we had omitted my username from the list of people who can move to boston for the summer. I fixed the typo, saved, and resubmitted, but did it count?
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    by fuelfive 19y ago

    d.scott.brown _ gmail
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    by fuelfive 19y ago

    email me at the address in my profile and we can talk
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    by fuelfive 19y ago

    My startup has similar data volumes and reporting needs to rescuetime, and also runs rails on the backend. We found that traditional data warehousing techniques, and specifically running a MOLAP parallel to the SQL database, solved the perf
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    by fuelfive 19y ago

    I hang out on freenode #fauna. there are a bunch of rails hackers and startup people there.
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    by fuelfive 19y ago

    The ZUI was the worst idea in Raskin's book. You can't use muscle memory for the system because the target x,y positions and sizes change based on how zoomed in you are. Worse, the ZUI doesn't solve the biggest bottleneck in the existing GU
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    by fuelfive 19y ago

    Time. We discovered that we were generating so much data that Rails and MySQL wouldn't cut it. We need to rearchitect our backend in data warehouse + MOLAP terms, and ActiveWarehouse is too young to bet a company on. So, time to learn a new
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    by fuelfive 19y ago

    3by5.net cloudrocket.com liquidmarket.org insum.net / org momentumapp.com trackmomentum.com wikiphi.com fuel5.com fuelfive.com vrabbits.com feedocracy.com drytest.com
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    by fuelfive 19y ago

    25 + BAS in CS
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    by fuelfive 19y ago

    Oddly enough - game and movie soundtracks. Mostly game though, because it's music designed to be ignored. I knew a coder who listened to the Muppets Christmas Sing-Along on repeat for about 10 hours during a marathon coding session. At abou
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    by fuelfive 19y ago

    If you're pre-revenue, offer them convertible debt.
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    by fuelfive 19y ago

    Yes
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    by fuelfive 19y ago

    I hang out with a bunch of other startup hackers in #polymorphs on niven.freenode.net
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    by fuelfive 19y ago

    In my experience, startups are like life. You go it alone, but it sucks less if you have a partner. Just make sure you pick the partner carefully. I think we've all had partners that were worse than nothing.
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    by fuelfive 19y ago

    I keep a file of these. Here are some of my favorites: "In the long run, we only hit what we aim at." - Henry David Thorou "The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war." - Asian proverb "No battle plan survives contact with the