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Advice for Your YC Interview(myoung8.posterous.com)
35 points by myoung8 17y ago|11 comments
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by myoung8 17y ago
Brutal honesty: the site's design is terrible. There is no call to action, the page is WAY to cluttered, and there is no sense of visual consistency. UI aside, what is the goal of this site? Why would a college student use it? I couldn't fi
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by myoung8 17y ago
Seems particularly appropriate in light of Trevor's debut on MTV for Surrogates the movie :)
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Juan Enriquez Shares Mindboggling New Science(ted.com)
3 points by myoung8 17y ago|2 comments
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by myoung8 17y ago
Only took us a couple of minutes to get things set up too. Congrats on officially launching guys! Looking forward to seeing where this goes.
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by myoung8 17y ago
Unless, of course, people spend more than they earn net of taxes. But who would do that?
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Ask YC: best ISP in Bay Area?
2 points by myoung8 17y ago|2 comments
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by myoung8 17y ago
I agree that AA.com is a terrible experience, but consider the decision to redesign the site from a business perspective: will making it an order of magnitude more usable increase AA's bottom line by more than some other project they are co
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Cool Ad: Rube Goldberg machine destroys Dutch department store(producten.hema.nl)
14 points by myoung8 17y ago|11 comments
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by myoung8 17y ago
He also built YSlow...
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by myoung8 17y ago
It's spelled "Stanford", no D.
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by myoung8 17y ago
Good call, thanks for that tip.
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Ever notice how the page refreshes every time you highlight something on posterous?
17 points by myoung8 17y ago|7 comments
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by myoung8 17y ago
We do: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_(vehicle)
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by myoung8 17y ago
It's a tough economy in which to find a job and Stanford doesn't have any pre-professional majors. We should all consider ourselves lucky that we have a skill-set that is in high demand.
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by myoung8 18y ago
Also see: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200905/imf-advice for a more in-depth article about why we need more regulation and why the government is unlikely to go through with it and discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=53
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by myoung8 18y ago
They could easily only have the tags show up when a user hovers over the image or some other trigger. Just a few more lines of the javascript...
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by myoung8 18y ago
And it doesn't mean they're storing it in cleartext either. For some reason I don't think he'd understand how virtual attributes work, though...
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by myoung8 18y ago
Would not have expected that kind of tone from a Fortune 500 CEO addressing the public, but it certainly made me think "she's going to be good for Yahoo!"
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by myoung8 18y ago
What kind of money do you make off the "passive" sites? Is it just icing on the cake or enough to live comfortably?
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How do you generate passive income?
151 points by myoung8 18y ago|146 comments
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Help: Rails/DNS Question
2 points by myoung8 18y ago|3 comments
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by myoung8 18y ago
Well put.
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by myoung8 18y ago
i don't think you can call this a "startup."
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by myoung8 18y ago
michael.lawrence.young[at]gmail[dot]com
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Technology for Non-Profits
3 points by myoung8 18y ago|1 comments
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by myoung8 18y ago
it's also copyright 2001, not 1998.
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by myoung8 18y ago
If it's largely an execution play, then yes, they do. Otherwise, they don't.
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by myoung8 18y ago
didn't look like they were very scrappy from those pictures
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by myoung8 18y ago
revenue != profit

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