lux

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721.
by lux 19y ago
Off topic, but I read your profile description and I had actually thought of doing something similar a few years ago. At the time bandwidth was still prohibitively expensive though. Nowadays, I don't think that's been adequately solved ye
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by lux 19y ago
If you mean screen-scraping, isn't this roughly what you're looking for? http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
723.
by lux 19y ago
That's a decent analogy. I remember all my friends almost simultaneously dumping Myspace for Facebook fairly quickly once they perceived the crowd's momentum in that direction. Now, no one I know uses Myspace, except to post band updates
724.
by lux 19y ago
That does seem nasty. Although from their perspective it makes a twisted sense that since they can't compete with YC on benefits to the startup groups, at least they can pressure them into accepting, and not lose out on the investment oppo
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by lux 19y ago
Very true. I doubt PG and co were losing sleep over a copied application form ;) They're probably watching their competition with much interest. It's not like there's room for only one after all.
726.
by lux 19y ago
I'm not putting the idea itself down at all. In my other comment I saw the likelihood of these types of investment companies increasing since YC proved the concept viable. This one here was blatant plagiarism though, which make it look li
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by lux 19y ago
Another thing is trust -- would you trust a knock-off to have that much experience and insight, when you can verify via PG's essays the insight they'll bring to the table? Hard sell if you ask me.
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by lux 19y ago
These all seem so blatant at this point, but if the trend is moving towards early-stage/micro-investments like this, then most likely we'll be seeing lots more where this came from. But when YC has all the cred which serves to give a nice p
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by lux 19y ago
Exactly! That's what we're doing in our own niche right now (launching in 1.5 months). Our first phase is targeting businesses exclusively, although for now not the larger ones because those take mega time and $$$ to sell to (which is why
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by lux 19y ago
That was a great interview. I really liked his point about how North American culture is so accepting of failures, which ends up leading to a greater chance of success and innovation. I never really thought of it that way, but it gives a
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by lux 19y ago
Honestly, if you do a good job, a customer is likely to recommend you anyway. They don't need a monetary incentive to, and I know a few customers of mine that feel that this would cheapen their word of mouth. But if you want to increase t
732.
by lux 19y ago
Lucky for me, my dad has been self-employed since I can remember, so I've always had a very central influence in my life that said much the same thing PG does about working for someone else versus yourself. I got lucky on my first business
733.
by lux 19y ago
Interesting. So maybe people who call themselves "night owls" are maybe just hacking their body's cycle to their temporary advantage... Most of my family consider themselves night owls, but maybe we've just been habituated to staying up l
734.
by lux 19y ago
Since I work for myself (from home), no one sees when I work. So I code at night when they're not calling and emailing. I often just stick to communication and getting menial stuff done during the day. Sometimes people start to notice th
735.
by lux 19y ago
What would take browsershots.org to this level would be to include any JS/console errors and warnings and attach them as text to the screenshot. This would let someone test faster without having to load up a virtual OS. Put an API on that
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by lux 19y ago
For me, OSX + VMWare is my ideal testing environment. As virtualization comes into play more on desktops, that could marginalize the utility of a browser-based solution for this, although presently I think it's an idea that is definitely u
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by lux 19y ago
Seems like Debian/Ubuntu is the popular choice around here. Same with me. OS X on my dev box, Ubuntu on our backup server and Debian on our live server. I've used Fedora/Red Hat for a while as well, but just don't like/trust the package
738.
by lux 19y ago
Exactly!
739.
by lux 19y ago
We've been developing parallel plans so the 'no' just means we take plan B now. We've already got a 4-city tour planned to showcase the app this summer, a promo video with a local new media/technology group, and lots of press planned, amon
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by lux 19y ago
I hear you! And doesn't it feel great to be able to say you've done that? I'm in the same boat: been working for myself for 7 years, now just trying to duplicate that success on a (much) larger scale :) We're far enough along, and we have
741.
by lux 19y ago
Forgot to add a big congratulations to those who got accepted for interviews! See you guys at the top! ;)
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by lux 19y ago
No for us too. But hey, to be honest I thought I'd be disappointed but I'm totally relieved because at least now we can plan our summer, and we'll be launching soon enough anyway! We had a huge design meeting today going over how all our u
743.
by lux 19y ago
Is your MBP old? Why can't you just save that money and put a bit of it towards VMWare Fusion? The extra savings could come in handy for something else, especially if you're in the startup game :)
744.
by lux 19y ago
We're in Canada and we're wondering the same thing. People here we've talked to don't know much about it, but we're assuming there must be something available since YC has funded Canadians before I'm pretty sure. I figure they'll let ever
745.
by lux 19y ago
We applied with what we think is a pretty big idea related to learning. We've been working on it since last Sept and we can probably launch an initial version around the start of the YC summer session. Our initial launch won't contain the
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by lux 19y ago
Isn't this just a rephrasing of the startup acquisition cycle? Only now, Google provides tools to help... Seems fairly win-win to me.
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by lux 19y ago
That's pretty funny! I got a good laugh out of the chimps image :) I actually started in Perl about 8 years ago (well, before that it was just little Galaga and Snake clones in DOS :), so it's kinda my first love. But Perl was eventually
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by lux 19y ago
Feature-wise, yes it's obviously closer to those, but what PHP did originally was wrap a Perl-esque syntax and dynamic environment (dynamic typing, interpreted code, GC, etc.) around C libraries as its "standard library". It's grown a lot
749.
by lux 19y ago
Years ago when I was switching from Perl to something else (I ended up on PHP mainly, and others where needed), I did look at Python but documentation was something that seemed lacking at that time. It just made me think at that point that
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by lux 19y ago
Not quite ;) I just mean that really if you look at PHP's function list, it really is just a wrapper around C libraries. Many functions map 1-1 from the C lib to the PHP function. That's where it gets its string function names, many of th

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