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by mgummelt 14y ago
"What this means is that you should be investing just as heavily in growth-related activities as in product-related ones. We’re suggesting about half your time should be spent on traction, and half on product." What should I spend the other
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by mgummelt 14y ago
Funny that ownership change is usually considered a startup success.
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by mgummelt 14y ago
Web servers would have to be retrofitted to sign, distribute, and authenticate client certificates, so there is O(apps) work to be done. For symmetric tokens, each app would just have to store the token in the user DB, and then tell the cl
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by mgummelt 14y ago
Hmmm. I'm sure browser certs is a well-worn topic, so maybe you could just point me to a proposal/discussion about it, but I don't really see the benefit client keys have over per-user symmetric tokens if each app is its own CA. Symmetric
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by mgummelt 14y ago
I'm not sure I understand you correctly, but he's saying that startup founders tend to be young, probably due to the risk profile of startups vs small businesses. Entrepreneurs as a whole (a much larger group) may well be in their forties
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by mgummelt 14y ago
He never said the latter isn't an entrepreneur.
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by mgummelt 14y ago
I'm surprised you're pro-client certs given the privacy implications.
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by mgummelt 14y ago
Well documented -\-> Easily understandable. I'd rather read this than an RFC. Can you point me to a better summary of SSL?
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by mgummelt 14y ago
So I shouldn't use a compiler? A bug in generated app code could corrupt my kitten photos just as easily as generated DB models could.
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by mgummelt 14y ago
Why?
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by mgummelt 14y ago
Though using self-signed certs during development is a perfect way to test https without shelling out for a CA signature.
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by mgummelt 15y ago
Care to fill in the logical leap from your second to third lines?
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by mgummelt 15y ago
"Functional Systems in Haskell". I think it's still based on systems programming.
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by mgummelt 15y ago
It's a class in Haskell, not on Haskell.
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by mgummelt 16y ago
Checkins at Japanese love hotels are often fully automated. For obvious reasons.
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by mgummelt 16y ago
I made it while working there. It was originally for the twitter exporter http://twitter.com/search#search?q=fb.me I don't know what else they're using it for now.
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by mgummelt 16y ago
For YC, is E(IPO) > E(quick acquisition). The latter obviously being more likely, but less valuable. How do you have enough data to know?
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by mgummelt 16y ago
Not if you include Asia. It's huge there, especially in Japan.
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by mgummelt 16y ago
If you build on any platform that you don't control (which every software developer does), you can be cut off. The question is whether or not Facebook has a history of doing this. I'm not aware of one. A platform becoming your competitor
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by mgummelt 16y ago
That statement is too general. Obviously it's a good idea for desktop software developers to build on the Windows platform. I build websites on the "IE platform" in that I rely on IE for distribution. Does Facebook have a history of cutt
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by mgummelt 16y ago
1) I think he meant YC, in which case this new deal makes the metaphor exaggerated, but fairly appropriate. 2) That was a joke. Though I definitely would have rather coded in Arc than PHP when I was at Facebook.
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by mgummelt 16y ago
Wow. I'm moving to Tokyo on June 19th. Have fun.
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by mgummelt 17y ago
It's about 10 miles from where I grew up. No one talked about it much. I can't believe I never explored the abandoned superconducting supercollider.
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Ask HN: Stanford Startup Tours. Is your company interested?
2 points by mgummelt 18y ago|0 comments
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by mgummelt 18y ago
Yea, CS21N. It's the least technical CS class you can probably take.
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by mgummelt 18y ago
No no no. I shouldn't have said I was shooed away. I was actually invited to stay for a bit after class and talk, but I made a mistake. My professor asked me if I had a class to go to, and I told him that I did but I could skip it. He t
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by mgummelt 18y ago
I don't think this example represented his definition of "knowing". He was using it to show that there are very basic definitions of the word.
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Tell YC: Answers from John McCarthy
136 points by mgummelt 18y ago|72 comments
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by mgummelt 18y ago
There are technical AI classes here that are required for a CS major. This one is an elective called "Can Machines Think? Can Machines Feel?". We read famous AI papers (including McCarthy's "Ascribing Mental Qualities to Machines") and ta
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by mgummelt 18y ago
Luck, mainly. I'm taking an AI class at Stanford, and it turns out that the professor knows McCarthy. The class is philosophical, not technical, so I don't know how all of these technical questions are going to be received, but I can't no

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