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by jnovek 13y ago
" But the track record, well it is hard to get a better indicator that you are a good team than a successfull previous startup." While this was probably true for Amir, YC routinely rejects founders who have previously built startu
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by jnovek 14y ago
LOOKIN' FOR WORK -- Austin, TX or remote. Ruby on Rails. AWS/Linux sysadmin. http://www.linkedin.com/in/jnovek
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by jnovek 14y ago
"I had sympathy yesterday, but this is turning in to hero martyr worship." Isn't that how causes start? I feel like I can think of far more effective, mainstream causes that centered around the cult of a person (or a small group of people)
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by jnovek 14y ago
I don't know about your family, but there's no way I would expect my parents, my sisters, their spouses and their kids to pay $10/ea for a service like this. Someone just wouldn't show up, which kind of defeats the purpose. If it was valua
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by jnovek 14y ago
The rules are different on each provider of digital media, but as I recall iTunes in particular allows you to authorize up to five devices to playback media, and you can deauthorize devices you no longer own.
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by jnovek 14y ago
An option that you missed was, "let it pass, but have no regrets." Every opportunity followed comes at the cost of 100 others.
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by jnovek 14y ago
This looks really nice, but what I would like even more would be to just jump out into a minimal multi line edit mode between the "def" and "end" of a method.
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by jnovek 15y ago
When I go to startup events I frequently encounter people who know me that I can't remember ever meeting. When that happens, if my wife is with me she will discreetly remind me, "She's the technical founder of such-and-such." You see, I'm
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by jnovek 15y ago
Rapporative is such a fundamental part of how I get work done that I often forget that it isn't just part of GMail. While I am really excited that these guys had an exit -- founders who make really great products deserve to get paid -- I ho
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by jnovek 15y ago
What, in particular, stands out to you? Aside from vesting, everything suggested seems pretty standard to me (for a quality investor, that is).
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by jnovek 15y ago
Austin, TX - OwnLocal (YC W10) - INTERN, FULL-TIME OwnLocal is looking for a full-time web designer as well as a full-time software engineer. We're also looking for paid and unpaid software engineering interns in Austin. We have full health
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Austin's OwnLocal is looking for a web designer.(ownlocal.com)
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by jnovek 15y ago
Tom, what do you do for a living? You might consider targeting this application to specific professions that would benefit from it, i.e. "CampaignBar: A sophisticated bookmark and contact manager for blogging professionals" or whatever. Whe
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by jnovek 15y ago
OwnLocal (YC W10) in Austin, TX Working through newspapers, we make the web less scary for small businesses. We're looking for: - A full-time Web Designer with a strong portfolio that indicates a bold and consistent style. This designer sh
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by jnovek 15y ago
I'm guessing this isn't really a message for HN; it's a message for ASSHOLE VC -- "I saw what you did, and you won't be in any of my deals in the future." Or alternatively, it's a message for founders -- "I'm the kind of guy who doesn't do
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by jnovek 15y ago
"My standard for sexism is: would it be OK to do it if the situations were reversed?" This might not actually be a good test because, as a society, we have different social standards for men and women. While Kagan's actions could be consid
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by jnovek 15y ago
OwnLocal in Austin, TX Working through newspapers, we make the web less scary for small businesses. We're hiring: - Ruby systems engineer ( http://ownlocal.com/company/jobs/ruby-systems-engineer/ ) - Web UI Designer ( http://ownlocal.com/co
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OwnLocal (YC W10) seeks Ruby Systems Engineer for great justice. (Austin, TX)(ownlocal.com)
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by jnovek 15y ago
"Gut feeling" is not intended to be a source of evidence, here -- he's trying to describe a sensation that the audience feels. The sensation that, "this isn't as good as it used to be, but I don't know why." He's proposing that the cause (
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by jnovek 16y ago
This reminds me of the Slashdot lameness filter, which IIRC just caused (causes? I haven't been there in a while) lots of posts ending in, "La la la la, adding some content to get past the lameness filter." and the like.
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by jnovek 16y ago
We didn't pay a dime for any of the legal help that YC gave us.
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by jnovek 16y ago
My co-founder had two kids -- he moved his family into a cheap rental in Nebraska while we did YC out here. He ate into his savings. We put stuff on credit cards. We had to be hyperfocused on early revenue. It was stressful as hell for
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by jnovek 16y ago
So, what do you do (or have you done) if your boss is a fairly rational geek-type? I'm a geek and am sympathetic to the problems you've described, but for me negotiating salaries is every bit as miserable from the other side of the fence (I
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by jnovek 16y ago
First and foremost -- focus building your company and put together a great application! Have "the talk" about what you'll do if you are funded after you get an interview. That being said, Lloyd's family stayed home and Rachel came with me.
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by jnovek 16y ago
You're right, I didn't literally mean CS 101. In fact, at my university I believe the class was CS 1511. What I mean is, "Things that a CS major probably should have been exposed to in his or her first year of college."
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by jnovek 16y ago
Suit yourself, but Y-Combinator was a big help for us. I personally wouldn't place my startup at a disadvantage just to prove that I'm a "real man".
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by jnovek 16y ago
It's old enough to have the problems that someone older than 30 might have, for example: kids, a mortgage, health care, a retirement plan.
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by jnovek 16y ago
Public code repositories are the first place I go when I look at applicants. Surprisingly, however, public code rarely tells you anything about a user's CS fundamentals. Can they tell me the time complexity of a method they just wrote? Do
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by jnovek 16y ago
My co-founder and I are approaching 30, married and my co-founder has 2 kids. We were in the W2010 YC group. Neither of us had anyone to "sponsor" our living expenses. Yes, we were at a disadvantage compared to younger founders when it c
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by jnovek 16y ago
At SI, we follow the Joel Spolsky tiered structure that Sebastian mentions -- you're hired at a salary based on your experience and talent and you can be promoted into a higher salary, but we only give cost-of-living raises; no performance

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