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by mlinsey 15y ago
I used Facebook video chat this morning, and it required a download that you then had to run in order to proceed.
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by mlinsey 15y ago
Žižek is a brilliant writer, and Perceval doesn't really understand Žižek at all if he thinks he's a "postmodernist", but I have to agree that it's easy to waste a lot of your life and mental energy studying Žižek and not get very much out
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by mlinsey 15y ago
Lots and lots of people here read TechCrunch. It's still essentially the paper of record for the startup scene. Consequently, when major interesting news breaks, several different people see it on TechCrunch first and all submit the articl
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by mlinsey 15y ago
This could very well be true, but there are a couple different things that could happen as well. Google has had a lot of experience in the past several years monetizing YouTube much more effectively, so it's possible they could do a better
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by mlinsey 15y ago
The reaction in all the other replies to your comment astounds me. I am reminded of a comment from PG earlier today, which he made in a thread on a totally different topic: "Your comment is a classic instance of people on a forum rushing t
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by mlinsey 15y ago
As with other ads, the difference between ads that hurt the UX and ads that help it is relevancy. I certainly wouldn't mind hearing sponsored songs that Earbits can algorithmically determine I am likely to like based on my tastes and use of
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by mlinsey 15y ago
Doubtful. The last time I was privy to accurate data on the top search terms at a major search engine was almost five years ago, but at that time the most searched-for terms were all names of popular websites. Lots of people use search boxe
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by mlinsey 15y ago
staunch's estimates were using CPM, not CPC, so click throughs are irrelevant (CPM - cost per 1,000 impressions displayed). That said, $2-3 CPM sounds high to me. But I don't know anything about the YouTube ad market.
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by mlinsey 15y ago
Thanks to Safari's reading list, I'll likely stop using the Instapaper bookmarklet on my iPad. But the most common use case I have for Intapaper is when I see an article on my laptop in Chrome and want to read it later on my Kindle 3. So I
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by mlinsey 15y ago
Opening remarks start at 7:50 Presentations start at 20:10 with the Summer Companies (ie, the companies who are about to be in the just-starting batch) Presentations for the companies in the batch that just ended start at 37:40.
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Video of StartX Demo Day (formerly SSE Labs)(justin.tv)
5 points by mlinsey 15y ago|1 comments
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by mlinsey 15y ago
This is pretty mild as "calling outs" go. I would summarize your first two points as "there is tremendous demand for this concept". Your first point is that this basic concept has been so successful that governments have felt the need to re
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by mlinsey 15y ago
" If the response is never received, or if there is a redirect, then a DNS request for dns.msftncsi.com is made. If DNS resolves properly but the page is inaccessible, then it is assumed that there is a working internet connection, but an i
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by mlinsey 15y ago
Microsoft's own online office site (docs.com) is underrated. Ironically enough it might become the killer app on Chrome OS.
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Infiltrating Any Startup(startupsopensourced.com)
66 points by mlinsey 15y ago|19 comments
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Of course Earth must have some finite carrying capacity, but that's only terrifying if you assume that "The Crunch" is the only way to bring population growth to a halt. Population growth is already zero or negative in most developed countr
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by mlinsey 15y ago
It's a big deal because: (a) It's a proxy for traction. Greplin indexes data that can't be crawled; users have to authorize it to index their data. So aside from how hard of an engineering feat it is, the fact that they've indexed this muc
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by mlinsey 15y ago
I was hired with no college degree, when Microsoft and Google would not even consider me on that basis. Also, for Amazon and other companies, there is a world of difference going through their public-facing recruiting process and getting to
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by mlinsey 15y ago
Their lead in casual gaming isn't so massive if you consider that their competitors in the "casual gaming" space include not just Xbox and PlayStation but also iOS, Android, and Facebook games. That's just in the American market, too. In eq
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What was the code quality of the initial version of Google?(quora.com)
295 points by mlinsey 16y ago|73 comments
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The comeback is identical.
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The Data Viz Whizzes From Mint Are Launching A New Startup, Visual.ly(businessinsider.com)
4 points by mlinsey 16y ago|0 comments
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by mlinsey 16y ago
Your post seems to be implying that Facebook hasn't found a business model, and that a day of reckoning will come "the second they start charging". However, Facebook is already charging for advertisements, that's how they earned about $355
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by mlinsey 16y ago
What's with the editorializing in the title? In any case, taking no equity in companies is not necessarily a good way to compete with YC; in fact it makes the two programs complimentary by making it easy to do both programs, as Indinero did
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by mlinsey 16y ago
This is why I did terribly in quantum mechanics; I was never able to generate a whiff of insight about anything that was going on. The thing is, I'm not sure the top students really did either.
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by mlinsey 16y ago
I attended the alumni preview of demo day along with a bunch of other founders from my batch (Summer 2010). We were told after our demo day that we were universally acclaimed as the best YC batch ever. All of us were completely blown away a
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by mlinsey 16y ago
FYI: I can't speak for other batches, but the spreadsheet here has a few companies from the S10 batch that were missing from citizenkeys' list.
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by mlinsey 16y ago
Definitely not clueless. Stateless. Big difference.
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There have always been startups whose first products seemed like quick hacks (including some that went on to be extremely successful). There have always been startups that seemed more derivative than inspired. (And a few of these turned out
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by mlinsey 16y ago
Another example from the video is that a 10M valuation for a startup isn't really saying the startup is worth 10 million, but rather that it has a 1% chance of reaching 1 Billion. One can actually look at Facebook the same way. One could ar

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