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by ladon86 16y ago
That's a great tech dating resumé!
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by ladon86 16y ago
Let's say you're writing an app like Google Docs, which does a lot of work on the client. Before long you're going to have a real mess of Javascript variables, DOM elements and arrays of stuff, which is why it's useful to have MVC structure
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I think if he had been technical the damage would be seriously mitigated. It's the kind of FML-clone site a lot of hackers would put up after a weekend sprint. It looks reasonably polished, but not 3 years polished. What was the revenue pla
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by ladon86 16y ago
Are you kidding? Raw source code has huge utility! Many companies build businesses upon open source software, and this is really no different except they're paying for the code. Understanding the API and integrating it into the current syst
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by ladon86 16y ago
The perfect example of a fresh upstart being acquired by an incumbent dinosaur; I hope they can maintain their culture and spirit. Congrats to the team, but I find this quite disappointing.
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by ladon86 16y ago
And here I am about to launch a service on Thursday with PayPal as my payment processor. I didn't really want to, but for my customers it's basically a requirement. I'm expecting to take about £2k in the first few days, so I'm almost certai
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Ah, crap. :)
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OK guys, this smells like a challenge. Can anyone think of a tool which has been made extinct?
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by ladon86 16y ago
"Graham is known for his 'pizza profitable' mantra". It seems ramen isn't even a conceivable foodstuff for WSJ's readership. 'Pizza profitable' has a nice onomatopoeic quality though.
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by ladon86 16y ago
I love this project, congrats on reaching 1.0. One question - do you have any plans to support replica sets, or can I currently specify a connection to a set of servers rather than one master? Thanks!
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Does anyone know what the new features of this version are? I can't wait for the blog post and haven't been following development closely :)
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Generally not, and I'm quite sure they wouldn't have to for this deal. Obviously any exit event would be a valuation and Yuri would get a cut. But in case of failure, everyone walks away empty-handed.
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by ladon86 16y ago
Quick answer - he does get equity at the next funding round. What he gets is the amount of equity that $150,000 would buy at that valuation. So if someone else invests $250,000 for 25%, that's a valuation of $1m. Yuri would get 15% at that
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by ladon86 16y ago
You're right, and I have done my best. I suspect that the majority of strong candidates would have applied anyway, and my application is just as strong today as it was yesterday. We'll see!
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The only thing I'm upset about is that I put in my application yesterday and now the competition is going to skyrocket! But overall I think this is great for YC, and great for their startups. It's everyone else that should be worried.
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by ladon86 16y ago
I think that this is correct. Looking beyond money, this also means that he won't view you as an equal partner when it comes to strategic decisions either. He is the boss, and you are the employee with some stock. I would only take the job
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by ladon86 16y ago
I've just been building a large app with Backbone.js, and I can tell you that it is seriously versatile. I don't use the routing at all, I just move objects around and save and load them from and to the server. The great advantage is in the
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by ladon86 16y ago
The first comment is correct - this is the UK scene more than the european scene. My real problem with the UK scene is the relative lack of talent available to startups. Where do talented graduates from the UK want to work? Banks, consultan
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by ladon86 16y ago
I think rule 1 of working at Apple is you don't talk about working at Apple. Also rule 2, iirc.
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by ladon86 16y ago
It's about time.
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I think that there is a scale depending on how far you've got with the startup. The pain of a rewrite rises the further along you are, which is why it's important to: a) Make good architectural decisions (good luck) b) Rewrite a lot as earl
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by ladon86 16y ago
You get a daily quota of 2000 messages if you're an EC2 customer. That's pretty competitive, and nicely within the limit of what I'm sending at this stage of my startup. Sold, well played once again Amazon.
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by ladon86 16y ago
I hate to say it, but the site isn't loading for me.
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by ladon86 16y ago
That's what I do every time I'm on a bus :)
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That's awesome! Does anyone (Gabriel...) know if there has been a noticeable bump in traffic as a result?
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by ladon86 16y ago
That's exactly what they have done with the new version of messages.
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by ladon86 16y ago
Anything that lowers the barriers to entry, at least for submitting patches, is fantastic in my book. My contributions are certainly going to increase. +1 for GitHub support!
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by ladon86 16y ago
Does anyone recommend any SendGrid alternatives? They look good, I'm just wondering if anyone has had success with another provider also.
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I've used them and had some good results. By "good results" I mean a 1% CTR, which is actually an order of magnitude higher than a typical Facebook CTR. But because you can choose to pay CPM or CPC, for a high performing ad like mine I mig
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And yet the rate of innovation was glacial. Hours aren't always the answer, they might be the problem.

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