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Microryza (YC W13) - crowdfund science that changes history(wefunder.com)
29 points by gbelote 14y ago|8 comments
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by gbelote 14y ago
I'm seeing an indefinite "Loading: Soundfont..." spinner. Looking at the console, it looks like a few assets take a long time to download and then fail before finishing. Could it be your server is serving assets itself and killing the conne
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by gbelote 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback, anateus (and everyone else). I made a few quick tweaks to the page that hopefully makes it feel less like their homepage. Let me know what you think. We want to be careful about making our branding too strong, becau
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by gbelote 14y ago
This actually isn't the homepage of Wevorce, which you can find here: http://wevorce.com/ We (Wefunder) are featuring Wevorce as startup of the week. We focus on the founders because we love the team and want to present the company from t
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by gbelote 14y ago
Divorce is one of the most stressful events that can happen in your life, as a kid or as a spouse. It's great to see companies like Wevorce work towards solving real and important problems.
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by gbelote 14y ago
I would love to read that book - I've always found domain negotiation fascinating.
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by gbelote 14y ago
It is unfortunate that the SEC is moving slowly with this. One thing to be careful with state law is that you still need to be mindful of general solicitation regulations. Right now it's illegal to publicly announce that you're actively rai
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by gbelote 14y ago
But that is an overreaction. The find_by_* dynamic handlers have always accepted strings and integers, by design. What's insecure about User.find_by_id("27")? What people seem to be reacting to is the idea that User.find_by_id(params[:id])
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How important was blogging to OkCupid's success?(quora.com)
5 points by gbelote 14y ago|0 comments
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by gbelote 14y ago
Some don't - they use the honor system. I think that's a reasonable choice depending on the spirit and intent of the hackathon. If your goal is to get a bunch of great people together to work on cool things, with a token contest prize and b
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Wefunder Raises $500K To Help Unaccredited Investors Put Money Into Startups(techcrunch.com)
2 points by gbelote 14y ago|0 comments
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by gbelote 14y ago
It's probably tough to measure. I imagine most of the bottlenecking comes from communicating with external entities, which may not scale well by adding more Stripers to the task. I would be surprised if they could just pull a developer asid
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by gbelote 14y ago
Performance is more dominated by latency than file size, and folks usually care about this more for page load time of a page than bandwidth cost. CDNs are usually better than hosting on your server directly, because they have better latency
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by gbelote 14y ago
Looking at the source, he uses jQuery under the hood for (at least) element manipulation, event handling, and the ui-slider. So the effort is non-trivial, although it probably wouldn't be too difficult for someone to rewrite it if motivated
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by gbelote 14y ago
If you're a fan of Settlers of Catan, my previous startup built a clone with integrated video chat: http://gameroom.io/ Our goal was to build a social place around board games and video chat. The video chat was to make it feel like you we
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by gbelote 14y ago
It'd be nice to have an explicit "save" link for stories and comments. I know that every story I upvote gets saved (and can be retrieved via my profile), but I'd like to be able to save things I find interesting w/o giving it an upvote/endo
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by gbelote 14y ago
> Time to stop using Skype Eh, I don't see it as that big of a deal. They're providing a free service, it looks like it's only there when you're not video chatting, it uses real estate that isn't already used, and (at least the first ve
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by gbelote 14y ago
I think the potential relationship between Dunbar's number and online communities is interesting - I had never thought about it that way before. But certainly online communities don't break down after a few hundred people. Why must everyone
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by gbelote 14y ago
This has been true in my experience. I'm not sure if this approach is always better, but over time I've been gradually reducing carb intake and what used to feel impossible without being miserable (50-60 net carbs/day) is now painless. Howe
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by gbelote 14y ago
My impression from the page is that they send you a code specific to a threat (or whatever they end up calling them) when it happens, then you make a decision to add it to your site or not. Rather than dropping in a code and letting them ad
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by gbelote 15y ago
Link to kickstarter page: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1331941187/the-tube-open...
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by gbelote 15y ago
I'm getting a "503 Over Quota" error :P Edit: Not anymore!
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by gbelote 15y ago
I don't identify as an absolutist and I agree it's not a black-and-white situation. It sucks for the reasons you mention. But even if it's their legal obligation to follow, I still believe it's morally wrong for them to do so. Their positio
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by gbelote 15y ago
I believe Google has a moral responsibility to fight censorship. I understand your stance, and it makes sense under the assumption that Google should do what's best for themselves (and shareholders), but that's wrong. Following local law do
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by gbelote 15y ago
That's a good point. I was thinking about it as a direct replacement of SO, but like you said it doesn't have to be. Good luck!
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by gbelote 15y ago
I believe that's part of the motivation behind bounties: if I've invested a lot of time and accumulated karma, I can spend that karma to improve the quality/speed of answering my question. Re: TwoToReal. It's an interesting idea, although i
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by gbelote 15y ago
What a beautiful landing page. I like how there's a silent video demoing the product. So much better than a few screenshots.
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by gbelote 15y ago
I don't disagree with OP's point, but I don't think he does a good job at making it. He name-drops several popular startups that were bought out then implies they wouldn't be bought if they were making more money. Etherpad, for example, cha
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by gbelote 15y ago
That surprised me too. When trying myself I wasn't able to reach that method. I could be "doing it wrong", it could be no longer active, or may not work with an account tied to gmail. Has anyone else been able to do it?
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by gbelote 15y ago
One thing to watch out for is JavaScript performance on the iPhone, it's abysmal. This makes it hard to do physics games, but not necessarily a show-stopper. For instance, you could probably make a good Scrabble-like game in HTML5.

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