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by nir 16y ago
Airbnb is a great company (I'm a user and like it a lot) but not a typical web startup. Take all YC startups and divide by number of employees, what's the average?
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by nir 16y ago
Let's say YC's most prominent success so far is Reddit (or choose Heroku, or whatever you prefer). How many jobs did it create?
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by nir 16y ago
Hello Reddit! :) (If I was American I'd probably vote for Democrats most of the time, but it's funny how users seem to know exactly what did or didn't cause the fall of the Eastern Bloc)
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by nir 16y ago
This is becoming an increasingly common mistake for tech CEOs: adopt Steve Jobs' attitude without being Steve Jobs.
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by nir 16y ago
Is there a free option for those who don't mind downloading it outside the app store?
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by nir 16y ago
What is a legal vs. illegal attack? Is there an authority that determines legality in this case? If it rules the attack is illegal, how is the attack prevented of the perpetrator punished? If we have all that what's up with Gaddafi or Myana
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by nir 16y ago
His worldview isn't binary. He's merely providing some perspective by pointing out the system has been similarly broken for a while and apparently startups have still been starting up all the while. As a non-American without Green Card, I s
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by nir 16y ago
I can understand Americans who move to places like Brazil or India in search of opportunity, but it's surprising to see central Europe as a destination. (I'm not American nor European, but live in NYC and worked in the EU). I doubt Germany,
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by nir 16y ago
But the US Is Bad, what don't you understand?! (Seriously, I was expecting some relativist argument, but this is not even that. I'm surprised there's no mention of obesity rates as well, while we're at it)
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by nir 16y ago
The NBA example is exactly what I meant. I'm not really referring to PG or YC specifically, more to the general attitude in the startup community: it's becoming increasingly becoming Hollywood-like, with founder profiles in Vanity Fair and
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by nir 16y ago
I wouldn't say easy, but there seems to be an underlying message that it is a deterministic, repeatable process - if you're willing to endure the stress, are smart and hard working you'll succeed - when in reality luck plays a pretty big pa
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by nir 16y ago
If "real programming language" advocates spent more time creating equivalient/better alternatives to projects like Drupal or Wordpress in their preferred environments, they'd advance their goals much more than any HN/Proggit comment could.
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Trade School – Barter for Instruction in New York City(tradeschool.ourgoods.org)
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by nir 16y ago
For most users I suspect it's better than Quora's, actually.
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by nir 16y ago
What's the deal with the negative comments? You basically get this feature as a gift. If you don't use it, you won't be affected by it in any way. If you do, you get to enjoy the author's labor for free. Where's the problem here? Any idiot
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by nir 16y ago
It's a very big deal for new projects, if it means Django will run out of the box. GAE is a pretty awesome platform for small projects, a clear migration path in/out will make it much more attractive for bigger projects.
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by nir 16y ago
I guess we're still not Reddit as long as "fuck" is not all caps.
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by nir 16y ago
I don't get the criticism. Actually seems like one of the most interesting YC startups yet, IMHO. A simple proposition for the user and the charity, and a simple revenue model built in.
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by nir 16y ago
For most OSS devs, the benefit is having a more interesting portfolio, especially skills they don't get to use in their day job. Wouldn't this work the same way for designers?
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by nir 16y ago
That's peanuts. At my local bar we're now evaluating Facebook at $250B at least.
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by nir 16y ago
Off topic, a sentence that really stood out for me: "Now what if Delicious, Feedster, or Technorati goes down for 30 minutes?" The article was written just six years ago, and these were the examples of popular sites that came to the autho
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by nir 16y ago
Consider the Air. At least the full-spec one ($1800) is fine for web dev (some Eclipse/XCode as well) and the form factor is unbeatable.
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by nir 16y ago
So what? What makes this a #1 story in HN?
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by nir 16y ago
From what I understand, it's harder to actually sell on Android: there isn't (yet - Amazon are working on one) a store comparable to the App Store, and, perhaps related, the average user seems to be more reluctant to pay for apps.
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by nir 16y ago
I am not a US citizen, I don't see what TSA or US immigration officials' incompetence (which is certainly real) has to do with US politics - certainly not what it has to do with Hacker News.
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by nir 16y ago
>Any suggestions for how to get back to having hacker news on Hacker News? I try to go to http://news.ycombinator.com/newest and upmod tech-related submissions once in a while. I should probably do it more often. Also, flagging stuff
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by nir 16y ago
No, you're actually right. The comment above links to a list of visa-waiver countries, whose citizens automatically get a 3-month (IIRC) visa on entry to the US. Tourist visas are NOT limited to these nations, it just means that if you're f
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by nir 16y ago
Yes, and what useful relevant information did you gather from this submission? That immigration officers are often incompetent? That once they damaged some guy's camera? Let me inform you further: the airplane food usually sucks and US time
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by nir 16y ago
Any NYC Druaplists around? We're looking for front/backend devs to work on a product that will have a real, positive impact on people's health around the world. 4 person startup (all grown ups), funded by great VCs. nir@healthvillageinc.com
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by nir 16y ago
Arab Al Jazeera is very much like Fox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samir_Kuntar#Reception_in_Leban...

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