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by leelin 17y ago
Almost every software job in the city was terrible. You had a choice of which kind of terrible. Want to wear a suit and work long hours under crummy conditions? Take a job at a bank. Interesting that Joel semi-praises Micros
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by leelin 17y ago
All true, but at least I can better predict my ability to output effort than predict my ability to output results, even if I am good at what I do.
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by leelin 17y ago
I'm guessing it's a mistake in the article. End of Summer was not too long ago, so a company with about $500K in the bank should be worth more than $270K premoney. I just thought of another explanation: Maybe the TV show only airs if a dea
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by leelin 17y ago
The article seems to contradict itself; Shark Tank gave them a $270K pre after they "walked away with $500K in investments" at the end of the Summer? Maybe they meant all investor owned equity is now 25%? Notehall.com, one of 10 ventur
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by leelin 17y ago
Even if we had unlimited computation, there are human factors that are tough to determine beforehand. For example, some originators encouraged their borrowers to lie more, and now post-meltdown some servicers are less willing to agree to lo
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by leelin 17y ago
Grats guys! There are so many times when I try pasting a shopping link to friends in chat, and when they click thru, it breaks because either (1) GTalk / chat client garbles the URL (2) something in the query string was unique to my
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by leelin 17y ago
Interesting feedback. Did you try the "search map" mode? We've struggled with a good middle ground between having all the different sub-neighborhoods vs. simply allowing people to go to where they want to live by browsing on a map.
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by leelin 17y ago
Great feedback. Square footage data is a bit too unpopulated for us to feel comfortable allowing that search (same with breaking up Brooklyn, sadly). Your other points are very valid. The map behavior in the "search map" mode seems to be
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by leelin 17y ago
It sounds like you are looking for a roommates / shares site, not an apartment search site. A Craigslist aggregator with spam/scam/bait_and_switch filtering would be really cool, but that's a different startup. At least we agree apartment h
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by leelin 17y ago
Yikes, definitely not being sarcastic here. It is an honest comparison of two transforming functions (bschool vs. seed accelerator); the preconditions and postconditions are surprisingly comparable even though the algorithms are quite diffe
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by leelin 17y ago
Maybe MBA candidates and "seed accelerator" founders aren't so different after all! Replace the top founder reasons below: Connections to future capital: 8.51 Brand/Alumni connections: 7.83 Business support: 7.42 Product support:
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by leelin 17y ago
Wow, the article's author is Michael M. Grynbaum, the same guy who first wrote about our startup! http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/08/realestate/08rent.html I hope that's a good sign. :P (Don't bother reading the article; our idea has morph
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by leelin 17y ago
FWIW, I've been talking to the author about RentHop, so he's doing a decent amount of original research for the series.
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by leelin 17y ago
Hah, nice. The only problem is, you'll get the T-shirt delivered, but it will be worn by your newest set of employees.
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by leelin 17y ago
I'll bet the YC "Make Something People Want" T-shirts would sell for lots of credits (with pickup at YC HQ)!
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by leelin 17y ago
Grats guys, you had my vote on YCPTD, btw!
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by leelin 17y ago
I should have said SOME 2br townhouses in 2004 were selling for $120K, as in, the starter homes I wound up buying. The median near MSFT campus was about $180K.
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by leelin 17y ago
The "non-computer" wording is still confusing. That seems to exclude hacks to computerized systems such as "Profited from eTrade being slow to patch the mutual fund market timing loopholes" or "Flipped laptops on eBay when lots of people us
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Microsoft Exchange Is MIT’s New Email System(tech.mit.edu)
11 points by leelin 17y ago|23 comments
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by leelin 17y ago
Every rental broker charges a fee for their services, the difference is whether the renter or landlord pays for it. It's a matter of local custom and market conditions, and New York City has traditionally been very heavily skewed towards r
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by leelin 17y ago
In other markets landlords and developers pay the broker fee, but maybe that opens the door for Redfin-like model, which touts discount brokers. I'd argue that discount rental brokers, who mainly show apartments and screen tenants, are easi
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by leelin 17y ago
If only we could post some of the comments we were getting from brokers right after the NYT article! select * from feedback; was definitely NSFW Nowadays it's our hab.la live chat that's getting all the juicy stuff.
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by leelin 17y ago
Ah, I'm glad we're not in the Wayback Machine because our site back then was pretty embarrassing! I'd say over 80% of what you see today was done after we left our jobs to do this full time.
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by leelin 17y ago
Hello HN, and thank you for the kind comments! I'm one of the founders of RentHop.com. To clarify, there are many honest brokers with exclusive no-fee listings, especially in certain neighborhoods such as West Village and Midtown East. If
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by leelin 18y ago
Interesting timing for the essay, since starting March 1st New York City seems to be attempting this exact experiment (I know there is already at least one HN thread post about it already). http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/nyregion/19bank
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by leelin 18y ago
Ah, but the algorithm only optimizes queue'ing up the plane cabin, when in fact we should optimize the entire queue + dequeue. I only skimmed the PDF, but I think it overlooks one side benefit from loading a plane back-to-front as airlines
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by leelin 18y ago
I assume that refers to dropping the F-bomb on the (lame|stupid|unappreciative|mean) boss that you toiled under pre-retirement. Now, if you got your money from doing a startup, who gets your F-bomb? :P
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by leelin 19y ago
I think the article's thesis rests on two flawed assumptions: 1.) If rich people spend as much as poor people, then their happiness must be equal because the excess income from the rich go into silly things like investments and retirement