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151.
by mpc 19y ago
click interface in practice: "click, oops, wait. click, oops again, wait"
152.
by mpc 19y ago
Have you considered re-architecting to leverage the processing power of the client? Shifting where some of the computation takes place can help you get over some serious scaling problem. Case study from past experience: imagine a nested co
153.
by mpc 19y ago
The funny thing to me is that he doesn't know that "desktop in a browser" functionality is not an incredibly complex thing for web apps anymore. It's a matter of having good enough client side development skills to implement it. Also, with
154.
by mpc 19y ago
why?
155.
by mpc 19y ago
Stop relying on a server-side framework to do everything. Leverage the client!
156.
by mpc 19y ago
I agree. I'm surprised YC didn't suggest building some consumer facing app that makes use of your comet stuff. There are many application areas that could benefit from real-time capabilities. Also, Paul has talked about how turning a luxury
157.
by mpc 19y ago
I think that anyone with a technical background would agree that technologies like comet are useful. But it seems like yc wanted you to differentiate comet from the other approaches. How would you even make money off comet based widgets or
158.
by mpc 19y ago
how much would wikipedia be worth then?
159.
by mpc 19y ago
That doesn't seem to make much sense. Does your app target the IPhone?
160.
by mpc 19y ago
Damn it. They stole the idea right out of my skull and implemented it.
161.
by mpc 19y ago
Rockin Soup: 3 cups of water one chopped onion 1tblspn garlic powder 1 stick of pepperoni 1 large rock boil, eat
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Ask YC: How could this be useful?
1 points by mpc 19y ago|2 comments
163.
by mpc 19y ago
Interesting, basically the opposite of rent-a-coder type sites
164.
by mpc 19y ago
Someone should make a web based RDBMS on top of one of these data drops.
165.
by mpc 19y ago
My guess is that they want to get acquired by msft or any huge company that uses outlook and would have a use for inbox analytics (theres probably 1000's). In other words, I don't think they care about gentoo geeks and gmail users.
166.
by mpc 19y ago
I totally agree with what you're saying. However, this is sort of surprising because the ceo is so outspoken about how msft products are such crap and are 2nd rate rip-offs. It's also funny because of the general Apple snobbery towards all
167.
by mpc 19y ago
That's definitely an asp.net error. What is even more mind blowing is the fact that Apple deployed this with debug output turned on.
168.
by mpc 19y ago
There is a learning curve no matter what. Otherwise you have a tutorial and not an OS.
169.
by mpc 19y ago
It's called OSX. What could be better than a powerful unix machine with a beautiful and intuitive GUI? And also "just works" out of the box.
170.
by mpc 19y ago
I was asked: "How many mini shampoo bottles should you order annually if you owned every hotel in California." The reason for questions like these is not to see what answer you come up with, but how you reach it. It's also a cool hack becau
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Ask YC: what is the approximate percentage of applicants with a working demo or prototype?
15 points by mpc 19y ago|11 comments
172.
by mpc 19y ago
I'll take a guess, just for fun.... maybe 5 to 10 million, since they were acquired 6 months in and without a public version-1 out
173.
by mpc 19y ago
Bad move. Why in the world do they need 16.6 mil? I just cannot understand what kind of overhead is associated with another social-net, at their stage, that would require 16.6mm in capital!
174.
by mpc 19y ago
35 .....interesting
175.
by mpc 19y ago
Check out South Korea and North Korea. Yikes, what a difference.
176.
by mpc 19y ago
Gotcha, title changed
177.
by mpc 19y ago
Done purposely
178.
by mpc 19y ago
blah blah blah
179.
by mpc 19y ago
I'm not sure either. Flickr is far superior to this app... I'm amazed at the amount of photos and users on this site. 90 million sounds crazy for this
180.
by mpc 19y ago
Bingo. Check out my comments below.

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