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by jhancock 17y ago
Can you provide some specifics? You say you observe this trend in YC startups? Is it because people are applying as they finish school and need a different visa to stay and participate in YC? Is it because you get lots of applicants from
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by jhancock 17y ago
This is a highly uneven article. "It’s happening: Lou Dobbs’ dream come true and Silicon Valley’s worst nightmare." ok, lets start the article by sprinkling some politics on it. "We’re already seeing the reverse brain drain as smart immigra
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by jhancock 17y ago
I doubt that getting a one year jump on work will be more valuable than spending the year and doing the masters. Look at it this way: What are the odds of your first startup being a big hit? If you think its incredibly high, then I'd say
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by jhancock 17y ago
I mostly agree. There are a few corner cases where this does not apply. I'm working on a new app right now which I feel there is no value in openly exposing it prior to launch. Even after launch, I'm only going to market directly to my e
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by jhancock 17y ago
Create new tools similar to how Google, Yahoo and MS already do when leveraging this asset. I know this is somewhat a BS answer, but really what other answer is there? This is like asking the question "What new features should Google, Yah
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by jhancock 17y ago
yep, a key reason I avoid BigCorp as well. But your comparison may be off: I have read recently (I think from HN) that forcing doctors and nurses to scrub before surgery reduces disease. I know, we all like to think the docs will do this
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by jhancock 17y ago
Your response is well said. I didn't add specific examples as to not put too much politics into the discussion. I think if you look over the last decade or two of the FCC board, you will find people were chosen for their political connecti
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by jhancock 17y ago
Perhaps they are, perhaps its closer to what they claim. Hard to say. But that part should not matter much. I expect the FCC to protect the consumer in this case. I expect limits on the stranglehold a company (Apple or ATT) can have on
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by jhancock 17y ago
yep, thanks. And when I refereed to ambiguity, I was being very kind to the laws and industry that support these aspects of the DMCA. I think if our courts upheld the DMCA to throw a person in jail for hacking their own iPhone to get arou
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by jhancock 17y ago
If Apple locked down desktop OS X in the same way it has locked down the iPhone, I would switch to desktop linux in a heartbeat. I did not say Apple should distribute 3rd party software. I said they were restricting downloads. They have b
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by jhancock 17y ago
thanks for your contributions. and thanks for the heads up that you will not be around for a bit so we don't have to see posts wondering why you disappeared ;)
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by jhancock 17y ago
They wouldn't have to train so many if they easily allowed 3rd party app stores. If you don't like the wait in Apple's official store, go to the alternative. As long as they insist on being the bottleneck, this will be a problem.
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by jhancock 17y ago
I think either/both could be the answer. I see no reason why the first outweighs the second.
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by jhancock 17y ago
The questions are good. The answers may be honest or not. Hard to say. It wasn't too long ago that Apple tried to cover up their problems with backdated stock options.
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by jhancock 17y ago
The FCC certainly used to be staffed by morons. At least tech morons (the board, I don't know about the employees). We at least have a solid chairman now, lets hope its a sign of the times.
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by jhancock 17y ago
There is outstanding ambiguity in DMCA and related laws which are used to great effect by companies like Apple. Is it illegal to hack your iPhone? I think not, but one reason I believe Apple has not sued over this yet is they get benefit
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by jhancock 17y ago
uh no, I did not say anything of the sort. Go read any software license over the last 30 years. Almost all say they offer no warranty. If Apple has a bug in their core software, are they liable for support or loss of data? I'm sure they
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by jhancock 17y ago
good overview. Hopefully, the FCC will decide that the iPhone belongs to the user once its purchased and not Apple. If the user decides to change the user experience or even brick their device, that's their choice.
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by jhancock 17y ago
Certainly the best article on HN in the last 48 hours. Very cool stuff. In my part of the U.S., some public schools are talking about shortening the school week 4 days because of funding problems. I've been thinking about what kind of th
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by jhancock 17y ago
I am a great developer, so I know how to identify other great developers. Not so with designers. Sure, we work in the same economy but I'm not connected. btw, I'm not looking for "cheap". I'm looking to find someone good without going pa
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by jhancock 17y ago
yeah, at over 8x the memory, it beat an aging Smalltalk VM by 4 secs ;)
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by jhancock 17y ago
also of note: Smalltalk VisualWorks 35.86 seconds vs JRuby 6 minutes That's conceptual more of an apples-to-apples comparison.
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by jhancock 17y ago
well said. I have no idea why _why did this, but its fine and I wish him well. _why knows all his public works are easily findable. He knows he didn't remove them from the world, he just removed himself from them. Maybe he won the lotte
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by jhancock 17y ago
for all you know, we do... the U.S. has stopped measuring/publishing collateral damage for wars.
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by jhancock 17y ago
your doing a 700 split test? can't wait to see the blog post on that!!!
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by jhancock 17y ago
So how does one go about finding a great unknown designer? The only three routes I can think of to find a designer (that I could afford) are: 1 - contest site, 99designs. Might end up with a good design but much of what I see there is ave
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by jhancock 17y ago
Just started using it 2 weeks ago after a month of reviewing various options. So far its been great. Currently, I'm writing a lightweight wrapper util for models in ruby. There is mongomapper, but its an ActiveRecord-like thing and I re
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by jhancock 17y ago
* What was your decision-making process when evaluating frameworks? very clean internally framework code. not necessarily large user base. something where the original devs may likely still be using their creation within the next two year
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by jhancock 17y ago
When pg release his first RFP yesterday http://ycombinator.com/rfs1.html my first thought was everyblock has the best shot at doing something in this space. So a YC oriented plan might be to build around/on where everyblock has succeede
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by jhancock 17y ago
some users would be happy with this. but you bring the gravity back into the equation. this time putting it on the user to lift things up and down. in the vertical frig, the drawers slide out more effortlessly. I love this horizontal fri

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