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by gailees 12y ago
Still not sure how I feel about tech giants acquiring startups like Parse and Firebase. Is there some market explanation for why this tends to happen?
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by gailees 12y ago
Check meetup.com, challenge post, and hacker league. Hackathons are taking over the world.
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by gailees 12y ago
Facebook Messenger will eclipse email. Social network is the perfect spam filter.
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by gailees 12y ago
The expo definitely has it's tradeoffs, but I've been to dozens of hackathons now, and before we switched to the expo, the endings were significantly lower energy: https://medium.com/how-to-throw-a-hackathon/6
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by gailees 12y ago
This year, our theme for MHacks ( http://mhacks.org ) is that "Hackathons are for everone." We've changed our advertising to focus on the first time hacker experience rather than competition, lowered the prize amoun
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by gailees 12y ago
YC is #STACKED
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by gailees 12y ago
to let hashtags continue existing?
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by gailees 12y ago
Isn't this map different than the original discussion though?
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by gailees 12y ago
Why do you lose the benefits as soon as it becomes competitive? Sports are competitive but people still play sports because they love them. I imagine most attendees will be there for the same reason though the prizes are a great plus.
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by gailees 12y ago
Does YC actually expect a hack built in a weekend to be on par with some of the startups they take for interviews?
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by gailees 12y ago
This is HUGE. There are so many learn2code sites, but only Treehouse does a decent job of teaching mobile development. Awesome to see another competitor enter the ring!
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by gailees 12y ago
The really cool startup kids hangout in http://www.sanktoberholz.de/
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by gailees 12y ago
I'm here. Shoot me an message: bit.ly/hellllyeah
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by gailees 12y ago
Mattan Griffel of One Month Rails gives a great use case for Anki in his recent post "How to never forget anything ever again" https://medium.com/medium-redef/5481606b087a
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by gailees 12y ago
Always.
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by gailees 13y ago
I've been saying this for a few months now. Although I love what the learn2code movement is trying to do, what people really want is to learn how to build things. To facilitate this, we started Major League Hacking ( http://m
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by gailees 13y ago
When was that image taken? It would be interesting to see a collection of images from each batch to see a lot of the YC founders when they were just getting started in the accelerator.
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by gailees 13y ago
who'd you go with?
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by gailees 13y ago
We need this for hackathons. Why do they need to take a selfie rather than just using their facebook profile picture?
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by gailees 13y ago
Marc Andreessen kind of touches on this in Why Software is Eating The World: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405311190348090... The barriers to entry for startups have gone down, and thus there's
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Hackathons Taking Center Stage, The Transformation Of The Computer Scientist(techcrunch.com)
4 points by gailees 13y ago|3 comments
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by gailees 13y ago
I wonder in 10 years how many students will participate in hackathons. I think it could be a majority by then.
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by gailees 13y ago
...or facebook is trying to own messaging. I already have shifted a lot of the work I do on email to facebook messaging.
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by gailees 13y ago
Email is dead.
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by gailees 13y ago
I think everyone is wondering this haha
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by gailees 13y ago
HOLY SHIT!
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by gailees 13y ago
Do any startups do it right?
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by gailees 13y ago
Funny that it's a site for mobile streaming but the site isn't very responsive.
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by gailees 13y ago
Lol
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by gailees 13y ago
I thought Path was dead already?

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