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by markbao 17y ago
Oh, wow, cool. So the post was talking about how they decided to change from free to paid. He was talking about how they had an initial sharp downard turn in meetups, but eventually recovered. Thank you!
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Chinese Firm Exhibits Kindle Look-alike(techon.nikkeibp.co.jp)
10 points by markbao 17y ago|3 comments
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by markbao 17y ago
Hey, thanks! I was actually looking for a post where one of the founders discussed their metrics after taking their startup 100% paid. He was talking about their process and the amount of setback they experienced.
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Ask HN: Article where a Meetup.com guy was talking about taking it 100% paid?
8 points by markbao 17y ago|8 comments
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Google Stealing Apple’s Ideas, And Tales Of Accidental Corporate Espionage(techcrunch.com)
1 points by markbao 17y ago|0 comments
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by markbao 17y ago
I don't see that anywhere except for the part where they talk about the hard drive holding 1000GB. That's the standard way of measuring hard drive space for most drive manufacturers.
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by markbao 17y ago
Is there anything better than X to render stuff to using Qt?
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by markbao 17y ago
I wonder if people will be able to take this new windowing system and use it for their own purposes. That would be fantastic, if the new windowing system is good.
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by markbao 17y ago
If you're a Mac user, you can also download the latest nightly build here: http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-ma... (scroll all the way down to the latest build directory) And yes, it is wicked fast . On my system,
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Back To Basics: Ditch Delicious, Use Pinboard (techcrunch.com)
1 points by markbao 17y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What kind of fresh ideas does advertising need?
9 points by markbao 17y ago|6 comments
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Some Insights into Marc Andreessen's New VC Firm, Andreessen Horowitz(markjournal.com)
4 points by markbao 17y ago|0 comments
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by markbao 17y ago
Now we need Startup Hacker News.
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by markbao 17y ago
Really? I've experienced the opposite, that people are smarter than I initially expect. Is there an age trend here, perhaps?
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by markbao 17y ago
I'm a 17-year-old student that, at the age of 5, immigrated from the People's Republic of China to the United States (originally settling in the suburbs of west Philadelphia (not born, but raised) then New Jersey and lastly Massachusetts.)
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by markbao 17y ago
Hard work, discipline, and luck . Bill Gates didn't become rich just because he worked his ass off. He also had crucial connections (including his parents) that landed him contracts with IBM and others.
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by markbao 17y ago
Sure, another website's API is fine. And may even be preferable, since they already have the infrastructure. We've taken a look at Viddler's API, and while it's possible to record, it requires a Viddler account to record. There could be a b
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by markbao 17y ago
This article is from November 2006. Ross's startup, Parakey, was acquired by Facebook in 2007. http://www.crunchbase.com/company/parakey
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by markbao 17y ago
http://news.google.com/news?pz=1&ned=us&hl=en&q=... Click first link for full article.
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iPhone 3.0 Released(apple.com)
68 points by markbao 17y ago|25 comments
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by markbao 17y ago
You know, I actually feel the contrary: Hacker News has gone the way of more hacker than startups. shrug
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Ustream's Audience For Apple's iPhone Announcement: Bigger Than Cable News(businessinsider.com)
18 points by markbao 17y ago|1 comments
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What Telemarketing Taught Me About Websites(rememberthisguy.com)
2 points by markbao 17y ago|0 comments
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The Future Of Media: Facebook, Ustream, The Jonas Brothers And 974,000 Tweens(businessinsider.com)
11 points by markbao 17y ago|1 comments
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Hackers claim $10,000 prize for breaking into StrongWebmail(thestandard.com)
71 points by markbao 17y ago|34 comments
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by markbao 17y ago
How do you guys do code obfuscation and allow your service to be packaged into a downloadable, well, package? One of my startups is thinking about doing something of the sort, for academic institutions to throw our software on their own ser
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by markbao 17y ago
Blood, sweat, and tears.
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by markbao 17y ago
Hmm. It's a very beautiful app, but its user experience is iffy. Case in point: http://screenshots.markbao.com/43208b3dcc19bd9cf1a8e8864459e... Perhaps it's just my tendency as a developer, but I hate having this "view" part and an "edit"
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by markbao 17y ago
Took care of most of the spam on the page.
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by markbao 17y ago
Hmm. One of my startups Classleaf ( http://classleaf.com/ ) is a semi-Blackboard competitor, which is based on the idea of a lighter learning management system. Since those that read this article might be familiar with the learning manageme

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