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by notabel 20y ago
Another possibility is that YC could maintain a higher percentage of success, at a lower individual return. Because YC attracts some of the best young talent around, is very selective in funding, and seriously optimizes their fundees chanc
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by notabel 20y ago
This is an interesting adaptation of the notion of glogging / moblogging; I have to wonder to what extent these guys were inspired by the much more theoretical work done with eyetaps (amazing technology, but not really scalable). The inter
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by notabel 20y ago
This article made me smile. Perhaps more importantly, it made me reread WhyFP, and the pastiche WhyHaskell. I'm a member of the choir, of course, but it's often good to read over a classic text to glean fresh understanding, and perhaps mo
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by notabel 20y ago
I agree with jwecker here; when I hit that part of the article, I couldn't help but think of Joel Spolsky's "The Perils of JavaSchools" essay. EDIT: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchools.html for anyone who's not fam
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by notabel 20y ago
O'Reilly clearly gets to a point that I tried to make in reference to one of the first round of articles about freebase: namely, that by adopting the ideas of web2.0, namely relying on users to generate information because it is natural and
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by notabel 20y ago
A programmer for google or yahoo, sure. A programmer for Microsoft or Adobe, not so much. Moreover, outside the big names, software companies are largely unknown; to most of us, hearing that someone works for, e.g, Fog Creek, is pretty ni
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by notabel 20y ago
This is an interesting variation on the model that Fon is using. If I'm reading it correctly, Meraki is assuming that only fraction of the routers will be hardwired to the internet, with the remainder acting only to extend the mesh. In th
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Seth Godin on why startups innovate better(sethgodin.typepad.com)
1 points by notabel 20y ago|0 comments
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by notabel 20y ago
It works, but only under the assumption that user liveness is constant or increasing over time. A liveness metric should differentiate strongly between a user who has commented 30 times in the past 4 days, and someone who commented 25 time
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by notabel 20y ago
I'd actually go one step further, and say that user interface is /more/ important than code. In almost all case with a start-up, you users don't really care about your code, they care about the functionality, and its usability. That means
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by notabel 20y ago
Even if there isn't a cut-off for adding features to software, there's probably a cut-off for where adding features is the best occupation for the founder. Either the software fails, and its moot, or it takes off, and if it takes off, ther
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by notabel 20y ago
Do we have any metrics on liveness of accounts? I've certainly felt that the community of active, thoughtful commentators is pretty small (not a bad thing!).
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by notabel 20y ago
OT: What is policy (or general understanding) regarding near-dupes, i.e. submissions of different articles that all cover the same material? (I seem to be fixating on this today--it's the metaweb/freebase thing.)
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by notabel 20y ago
Looking at old comments[1], though, indicates that the overall volume of karma flow was much higher in the early days. Of course, it could be that the bug-driven hyperkarma on posts led users to be more generous with karma on comments. [1]
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by notabel 20y ago
I run into this problem all the time--not good for diminishing by reload-addiction! It would be nice if pages included some js to rewrite history[1] via dom, so that we could always see the freshest versions of pages. [1] It pains me to ad
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by notabel 20y ago
More important, I think, than displaying the number of new comments is making it possible to /find/ them. The reordering of comments is usually a great thing, but in a relatively involved discussion, it can become quite a chore to find tha
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by notabel 20y ago
While the legal principle backing their idea (first sale rights) is pretty solid, I doubt it will hold up here. The courts have not been kind to first sale and fair use rights in the past 5 years. This case is also complicated by the fact
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by notabel 20y ago
University. In my opinion, college is the best thing to do when you don't have something better to do, if you'll pardon the tautology. Universities put you in contact with lots of other smart people, with the resources and freedom to devo
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by notabel 20y ago
Wrong, perhaps, but a necessary wrong. Smart people that you know are perhaps the most effective filter to gauge purportedly smart people you don't know. While it would be nice if connections didn't matter, such a world would be infeasibl
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by notabel 20y ago
I tend to think that it is more the result of a bit of cognitive dissonance, particularly with respect to what the points values mean. They can be viewed either as a metric of popularity, or a metric of quality. Most people { {handwaving
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by notabel 20y ago
I like the idea; this mirrors some discussion in the "Thoughts on using news.YC" thread, viz. http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=2987
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Study: Abandoning net neutrality discourages improvements in service(news.ufl.edu)
3 points by notabel 20y ago|0 comments
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by notabel 20y ago
Interesting...could someone who's been around longer than I have take a stab at assigning some of those peaks to real-world events? I'm particularly interested in the peak near the end of February, and the following trough.
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by notabel 20y ago
There was once upon a time a bit of rumbling about getting Jython going on javame. I don't think anything ever came of it, and if standard Jython is any indication, it would have been, as you said, /very/ slow.
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by notabel 20y ago
Based on the fund size they are discussing, I'd say that's a pretty good bet. For the startup community, I think that's a good thing. While competition in the seed/angel space is fine and dandy, having a VC firm headed by someone has hack
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by notabel 20y ago
You're right, of course (and I need not point out the irony that DH was in deep with AI), but I'm holding out hope (and not just because I'm bitter that the Connection Machine failed!). The main reason (in my opinion) that the semantic web
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by notabel 20y ago
I'm going to go ahead and cross-post this from the other article about freebase. Disclaimer: I admire Daniel Hillis greatly, perhaps irrationally. That said, Metaweb sounds amazing. If it takes off, it will be not so much a useful product i
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by notabel 20y ago
From an HCI standpoint this would be tricky, but it would be great to have a system for handling dupes and near-dupes by merging their comment pages. For instance, right now there are two articles about the recent demo of Metaweb/freebase.
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by notabel 20y ago
Disclaimer: I admire Daniel Hillis greatly, perhaps irrationally. That said, Metaweb sounds amazing. If it takes off, it will be not so much a useful product in itself, but an enabling technology for an entirely new class of products. Ima
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by notabel 20y ago
I'm prone to think that pg's algorithm is, to some extent, content based. I have no real evidence to support this, just the evangelism in "A Plan for Spam."

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