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The next big thing will start out looking like a toy (2010)(cdixon.org)
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Uber Service Banned Across Germany by Frankfurt Court(mobile.nytimes.com)
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by jw2013 12y ago
For one thing, how many drivers they have matters. More data might produce better estimated ETA (at least Uber use the data from the drivers to predict future traffic congestion, etc.). Another thing is how well they control supply and dema
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by jw2013 12y ago
Did it ever happened any investor to YC startups tried to take advantage of the founders before, or this post is just an act of prevention?
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by jw2013 12y ago
As the ban of ZenMagnets's primary opponent was in 2012 [1], and the government seemed to want to ban ZenMagnets [2], I find it amazing it is still out here in the business two years later and with a record sale $700k last year (a jump
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by jw2013 12y ago
You can always talk about edge cases, which do not reflect the reality for vast majority of women. At least the window to give a birth to a child for a average woman is a lot smaller than a average man.
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by jw2013 12y ago
The context for these coding-challenges is they are the type for algorithm competition or white-board coding interview. Back then when I was still looking for job, I was asked this question by a startup. I gave out this hashset solution and
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by jw2013 12y ago
The function you wrote: a) takes O(n*lgn) time; the method in post uses O(n) time b) use extra memory; the method in post uses O(1) extra memory c) have logical error: the problem asks to find the first missing positive (in ra
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Python Multiple Assignment Is a Puzzle(jw2013.github.io)
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Twitter is acquiring CardSpring(cardspring.com)
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by jw2013 12y ago
This is all in Jeff Knupp's Writing Idiomatic Python: http://www.jeffknupp.com/blog/2012/10/04/writing-idiomatic-p... Many so-called Python Idioms are really non-intuitive and I don't really ap
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The Insider's Guide to Python Interviewing(toptal.com)
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by jw2013 12y ago
If these people are first-time founders, what (characteristics) will you or other good angel investors looking for in them? Is it convenient to ask if you invest in some decent proportion of first-time founders?
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Poll: For your startup, do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?
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Python / Django, etc.
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Ruby / Rails, etc.
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PHP / Symfony, etc.
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Node.js / Hapi, etc.
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by jw2013 12y ago
Other / .NET, Spring, Play, Compojure, Dynamo, etc.
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Uber Drivers Protest Company’s Business Practices Outside Santa Monica Office(losangeles.cbslocal.com)
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AnyPerk (YC W12) Raises $3M to Help Companies Cultivate Employee Happiness(blog.ycombinator.com)
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by jw2013 12y ago
While I do agree there should be less "activation energy" for the newbies to enter the Erlang community ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djv4C9H9yz4 ), I don't think "identify ways to expand the scope of
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Tech Conference Turns Into Shouting Match About Inequality in Silicon Valley(slate.com)
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Solving the wrong problem(joearms.github.io)
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Ask HN: Best Python Book For Advanced User?
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Online privacy: Should we have control over our Google search results?(m.theglobeandmail.com)
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The Average Successful Startup Raises $41M, Exits at $243M(techcrunch.com)
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by jw2013 12y ago
No way they are taking the traditional 7% ~ $120k deal. From Crunchbase they already got $141M fund, and let us be very conservative and say their valuation is just $400M. 7% percent of that is 400,000k*0.07 = 28,000k. I guess Quora will be
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by jw2013 12y ago
> by 2020, the biggest tech company in the world — Apple — will cease to be the most important, and won’t even be in the top three....he predicted that the top three tech companies, instead, will be Google, Facebook “and one that we’ve n
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by jw2013 12y ago
Yet another respectable move for YC. Hopefully this will spur more global interest in starting a startup. One thing I really appreciate YC in recent year is making the startup school videos online so those can't attend will not miss th

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