kineticac

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by kineticac 16y ago
All day! If I can, I try to only set timers for 8 hours. Not that I always sleep 8 hours, just that I goto bed whenever I'm tired, and wakeup when I'm well rested. The rest of the time I work. That being said, I also take a day off, an a
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by kineticac 16y ago
What if what you really hate is getting other opinions on how good it is? You say "in my opinion at least," and you hate trying to convince people, and finding a winning strategy. What if instead of trying to force yourself in, you figure
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by kineticac 16y ago
For hiring, sometimes I just want to see the candidate's github account and tech blog. That will say more than the old school resumes.
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by kineticac 16y ago
Fanvibe (YCs10) was a late application. We interviewed at the late interview weekend round. Joe and I had applied the year before with an idea that didn't make it. We were a bit discouraged, and our next venture, which was Fanvibe, was al
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by kineticac 16y ago
it will fail when you realize you aren't 100% passionate about what you're doing. we fail every day, maybe every hour. If you realize you're failing, that actually translates to you being aware enough to know what's going wrong. By knowing
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Quick rails fix for using mobile_fu and restful_authentication(artchang.com)
1 points by kineticac 16y ago|0 comments
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by kineticac 16y ago
Load Olark and really any other third party script after the DOM is ready!
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Hack Olark (s09) to load after document ready(artchang.com)
2 points by kineticac 16y ago|1 comments
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by kineticac 16y ago
it's another source of motivation. we each push each other to do more and more. of course the best source is a regular set of users telling you want they want, but the need to show new improvements each week is akin to making parents/frie
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by kineticac 16y ago
who knew so many of us were trying for it again!
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by kineticac 16y ago
I think you should reapply. Joe and I applied the year before and got an interview, but it was on a totally different idea, and we were rejected. We came back again with a much better product, and it showed that even though that first idea
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by kineticac 16y ago
there's a video at the end that's worth watching btw ;)
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Do you want to be in Y Combinator? Summer 2010 experience.(artchang.com)
48 points by kineticac 16y ago|27 comments
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by kineticac 16y ago
never thought about using it as a tool for flirting or breaking the ice. but sounds like a perfect way for geeks to have fun!
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by kineticac 16y ago
There's often a lot more under the surface of what goes on at a YC company. Sure it's just a few more iPad games, but the unique aspects of them were not accidental.
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by kineticac 16y ago
awesome coverage everywhere for inDinero! Looks to really be catching on as something people need and want to use.
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by kineticac 16y ago
It's really rare to see a 1 founder startup do so well, but if you ever meet Ray in person, you'll know he's completely capable! Ray's helped Fanvibe's SEO out so far, we're loving his tools! Try out Ginzametrics, it's really slick.
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by kineticac 16y ago
This is really nice. I love how it's easily integrated UNO third parties!
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by kineticac 16y ago
Definitely going to be using the YCommonApp in the near future for hiring to Fanvibe! This is an awesome way to find potential hires. Nice work guys.
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by kineticac 16y ago
Someone put together a pretty good google spreadsheet of YCombinator (and other early stage investment groups) startups at least: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkkhSN3vaY4jdF90b1l1... As you can see, this list gets ridiculously
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by kineticac 16y ago
Awesome, I've yet to meet any of the Justin.tv guys in person.
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by kineticac 16y ago
When I hire, I want to see the hacker's github account =) Projects they work on, the community of hackers they're connected to, their insight to technology, that's all extremely important. I'm less about the "code challenges" that some com
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Different kinds of photographers, analogous to different types of hackers(artchang.com)
1 points by kineticac 16y ago|0 comments
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by kineticac 16y ago
I agree that IE6 is a huge pain point... but just know that users on IE6 already have a horrible experience with the web, that your crappy and broken pages probably look and work just as well as anything else.
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by kineticac 16y ago
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned developing and hacking the crap out of view code in order to support Internet Explorer 6. It's a waste of time. People who use IE6 already see the internet as a horrible experience, so trying to make you
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by kineticac 16y ago
This is where Fanvibe first started, in my living room: http://flickr.com/gp/kinetic/Y2ceC3 Check out the photos! our first purchase was a foosball table ;) We also had one of our interns working with us in the "office" We since moved o
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by kineticac 16y ago
the porn industry is basically an "industry" built upon a deadly sin that has a very powerful innate emotional grasp on some (maybe most) people. Any company you build upon that taps into some impulsive emotion is going to be pretty cool,
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by kineticac 16y ago
parse out the facts like everyone says. if you already know bias exists, then you don't have too much to worry about. seeing bias shouldn't be a worry for some people, especially HN users. Here we always read and analyze everything carefu
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by kineticac 16y ago
I believe there are "aliens" of some sort out there. At least some kind of life. What kind of life, I'm not too sure, but there's just too many possibilities for there NOT to be any life. Who knows really how big our galaxy is? How many
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by kineticac 16y ago
haha, if you could discern one cheer from another, you'd basically know the results ;)

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