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by johnrob 18y ago
JSON.js does something similar. It puts methods in the javascript object prototype for generating and parsing json strings. WTF? Is it so inconvenient to just expose two functions to do this? This was a problem because it broke some jque
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I have to mouse over the picture of the shoe in order to see the price. That is extremely inefficient, and requires the user to have stellar short term memory.
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Great point. There seems to be an assumption that companies want founder types as employees. Fact is, they probably do make good employees, but only for the 1 year they actually stick around before starting up on their own.
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by johnrob 18y ago
It's not over until you give up. Maybe you can get into the next group at TechStars. Alternatively, if you can grow in your current form perhaps these guys will help you in a series A (if that's part of the long term plan). One of the mos
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by johnrob 18y ago
Is copyright violation the new guerrilla marketing technique du jour? A decade ago, hotmail taught us the power of viral marketing. Now it seems like the youtubes of the world are teaching us the power of "controversy marketing": 1) Build
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by johnrob 18y ago
Dude, it's like 75 and sunny where I am. Not going outside, hacking to be done :)
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by johnrob 18y ago
Does anyone know how much of that is essentially pirated content? The reason I ask is that I have trouble imagining there are 15 million people watching live streams of random people (i.e. the original stream of Justin's). It's more belie
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Apple iPhone Makes Up Half Of U.S. Smart Phone Web Traffic(mysmartrend.com)
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by johnrob 18y ago
Success can be a big burden. The biggest advantage a startup has is no legacy.
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Plaxo? Am I the only one who thinks that doesn't fit in with the rest of the companies in that grid?
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... get a billion or die trying! I don't buy the "create big companies to create many jobs" mantra. A one man company creates one job, and leaves one more job available in the market for someone else. That's a contribution in my book.
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Just downloaded Founders at Work - Excellent!
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"I then suggested that perhaps they might work for companies that made things. Actual things." Honestly, has anyone ever seen a better description of our problems right now?
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Substitute "reckless greed" for narcissism and this article would be more acceptable for me.
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by johnrob 18y ago
Facebook has the right to use your picture in an advertisement. I find that disturbing. I'd imagine Barack Obama's account might have some useful images (they'd never do that, but it drives home my point).
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by johnrob 18y ago
Here is a feature request that is relevant only because you are already archiving hackernews: Send a notification to my email __________ whenever: (checkbox) Someone replies to a comment from user _________ (checkbox) User _________ makes a
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by johnrob 18y ago
For all the comments about twitter being a money burning machine, you have to admit they are in many ways "upstream of revenue" ( http://www.paulgraham.com/good.html - second paragraph under examples). They have a lot of users. That's on
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by johnrob 18y ago
I'd love to finally know how to tell if a startup will succeed! Please post the knowledge afterwards.
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by johnrob 18y ago
I am in the Django camp, but I am still interested in using ActiveMerchant. Anyone have ideas what the best way to use both would be? Perhaps one approach would be running a Ruby instance internally, dedicated to exposing ActiveMerchant fu
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by johnrob 18y ago
That problem (or lack thereof) is not what they are addressing now. Companies who are hiring have little to complain about right now, because there are tons of candidates and little competition. Who does have stuff to complain about? Can
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by johnrob 18y ago
The real world requires verbal communication. You definitely aren't the only person whose been annoyed by this (I'm one of them). However, it's essential and YC probably wants to see some ability/willingness to do it.
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Great idea. Appealing to employers who want to hire was more relevant 1 year ago. Now they are appealing to job seekers. The best part is that when the tide turns again, they can simply re-launch their original idea!
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by johnrob 18y ago
I was just saying you could have a place to paste in a url, and leave it at that (let the user figure out how to get their video url-accessible). If an applicant can't figure that out, it's probably a worthwhile filter. [Edit]: Validation
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by johnrob 18y ago
It seems like any service that lets you post a video and access it from a fixed url would be sufficient (so long as the video is as private as the submitter wants it to be). S3 could work just fine, if you made the file public and put it o
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by johnrob 18y ago
It's a waste of money in the same way that the interest portion of a loan payment is wasted. When home prices are not rising astronomically, that "wasted" interest will be a larger drag on the overall investment.
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by johnrob 18y ago
What's worth noting is that if the bank did nothing with its cows, its net worth would have still moved from 200 down to 4. To some degree, we are all to blame because our society is what allowed cows to become so expensive. Everyone who
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by johnrob 18y ago
How will this help us pay the 45 trillion dollars of combined public and private debt? Keep in mind our GDP is 13 trillion.
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It's all relative. Expanding the money supply has an inflationary effect, even if the absolute effect is simply to slow deflation (which is still relative inflation).
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Inflation is one way to solve a debt crisis. What ends up sacrificed is the reputation of the currency (dollar in this case). Our spending power as a nation will decline when the rest of the world demands more dollars for their goods. I h
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by johnrob 18y ago
Great idea! What distinguishes this from the 'Notes' app that comes with the iPhone is that now your tasks are editable in gmail as well. For those who don't know, go to settings->labs in gmail, and you can activate tasks. Then a task

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