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by jnovek 16y ago
I didn't claim that film was inferior or superior to digital -- in fact, I shoot mostly film and run a color darkroom in my home. You may not recall, but at the time, 2006, there were many articles declaring the death of film. The film mar
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by jnovek 16y ago
Not to mention that most glass plates are hand coated and very slow. However, the media and the camera that shoots it is a tool. Large format glass plates are not the right tool for a wedding. They are better suited to portraiture or land
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by jnovek 16y ago
Some context for those unfamiliar -- Ken Rockwell is considered to be a bit of an agitator in some photography circles and this particular post is comparable to Zed Shaw's "Rails is a Ghetto" in infamy. At the time there was a lot of sensat
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by jnovek 16y ago
"The longest was 12 months at [Redacted], and that was only because I wanted my options to vest. I handed them my resignation on my 366th day." This made me livid. I don't hire engineers with the intention of firing them the day before the
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by jnovek 16y ago
I wouldn't sweat it. I think I had almost no karma when we applied. I don't think it hurts you as much as it can possibly help you. If you have lots of intelligent comments, it's one more reason to put you in the "interview" pile. I thin
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by jnovek 16y ago
Neither one of these things should impede you from applying. (2) could even work in your favor.
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by jnovek 16y ago
I don't think "better" is really a consideration at the Holga or LOMO factories. :-) A guy that knew who was very serious about doing sharpness testing on lenses pointed out that lens resolution doesn't really matter that much. He claimed
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by jnovek 16y ago
I've read this complaint many times on HN, but my real world experience just doesn't match. All the employees from startups in our YC round, that I've met at parties, meetups and other events seem to be pretty amped about what they're work
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by jnovek 16y ago
I'm not entirely certain that Holga is a 35mm lens on a 6x6 film transport, but it is plausible. I have never looked to closely at a Holga -- it's not my preferred tool. I suspect that the chromatic and anastigmatic aberration that are cha
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by jnovek 16y ago
Before the days of the iris diaphragm, interchangeable stops were all you could get! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterhouse_stop
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Help save the newspapers -- Seeing Interactive (YC W10) needs Ruby hackers.
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by jnovek 16y ago
Don't you mean that we should have gone with "Newspaperly"? The .net is available!
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by jnovek 17y ago
How is being so popular that you can churn your product out fast enough a disaster? Sounds like a resounding success to me! If you make something that people are desperate to own, time heals all wounds.
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by jnovek 17y ago
"Hispanics are more obese than average." Is that really true? The areas of the country that I most often associate Latino Hispanic immigrants seem to have the lowest obesity rates on this map.
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by jnovek 17y ago
"also, "ls" lists files in your current directory." It's fantastic that you're very comfortable with Unix-based operating systems! Unfortunately, there are lots of people that aren't. There was a time when you weren't. This is probably the
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by jnovek 17y ago
"After a while, the economy would be seriously harmed" I would imagine that the economy would be immediately harmed as the meaning of value is contextual -- how much is a banana worth if everyone suddenly has the same amount of money? In t
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by jnovek 17y ago
I would say that regardless of where you live, you should shed 2/3 of your cars. Cars are very expensive to own, and if you're a pre-money startup, you need to save money. Everything takes longer than you think.
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by jnovek 17y ago
We're in Sunnyvale; South Bay IS boring. And very cost effective. If you plan to spend all your time working on your startup (why else are you bringing your startup here?) you should live somewhere boring and cost effective. You can live
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by jnovek 17y ago
"I assume this problem doesn't only apply to people in a big corporation but even more so for people in a startup, where time is scarce and execution is king." I found that I stopped learning things when I started working for someone else.
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by jnovek 17y ago
Substitute Google with Microsoft and the products with MS products (say, Windows and Office) and you would have a common doomsday monopoly prediction ca. 1998. You can probably do the same with IBM before MS, but I'm too young to know. 20
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by jnovek 17y ago
A lot of YC companies have trendy names and designs, but the phenomenon is in no way limited to YC. You see that all over the valley.
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by jnovek 17y ago
Do you do what you love? Then you must be very lucky. I know that I thank my lucky stars every day that what I love doing also happens to be fabulously lucrative. It disgusts me that we live in one of the most wealthy societies in the worl
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by jnovek 17y ago
Agreed, doing what you love should be a privilege reserved for the affluent! She was a fool to dream beyond her class; thankfully, she's paying for it now. I hope it stands as a lesson to others.
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by jnovek 17y ago
Well, our customers are newspapers who are remarkably collaborative. They aren't usually competitors because they're geographically bound. I'm not sure if there's a magic formula to turn a customer into an evangelist. For us, a big part o
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by jnovek 17y ago
Well, we're a SaaS company that sells business-to-business so things are probably different. One paying customer for us is probably like 10 or 100 for you. We entered what you might call a "saturated" market about 10 months ago. What we d
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by jnovek 17y ago
"Can jnovek can do some of lloydarmbrust's work so that lloyd can get more time to sell and/or survive at his current job?" This is a discussion that we haven't had and should. There may be things that I can do to optimize Lloyd's lunch-ho
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by jnovek 17y ago
That's a great question. Certainly, we're not the first company to receive investment from F&F -- how do "normal" small businesses do it? As loans? We want to give our friends who choose to help us out some kind of return on their in
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Ask HN: Raising a friends And family round?
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by jnovek 17y ago
What if you had one with both -- a normal bottle bin on one side, and a game on the other?
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by jnovek 17y ago
It may be totally irrational, but my gut reaction is, "Some young founder who can't think outside of his or her space is going to read our application and toss it away." Although I think our company will be massively profitable, our proposa

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