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Y Combinator(daltoncaldwell.com)
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by nudist 16y ago
I don't know if this is true for content producers... Why would you care about the file itself if you can create and manipulate the content easily?
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by nudist 17y ago
That is absolutely untrue. It's pretty clear that Buzz was inspired by Brightkite. I'm not going to pass judgement on the similarity, but the inspiration is clear.
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by nudist 17y ago
Depends on the instigator, of course.
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by nudist 17y ago
Oh come on, he's a teenager, and it's pretty obvious he's the intern in question. You didn't have to submit this as a story. Also, if you think this is an isolated incident in this industry, you are sorely mistaken.
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by nudist 17y ago
Interesting, anecdote, but user tests show that you are in the minority. About 80% of people immediately scroll down when they reach a new page with sparse content at the top of the page.
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by nudist 17y ago
You can use an Apple keyboard to play JamLegend. It's awesome and works great: http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/jamlegend2...
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by nudist 17y ago
Almost all of these things are not Amazon's fault. The fault should be placed on the stupidly idiotic actions of the publisher.
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by nudist 17y ago
He mentioned somewhere that he designed elements of the iPad's Maps UI.
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by nudist 17y ago
Incidentally, not knowing what's going on with the lower levels is also the primary benefit of cloud computing.
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by nudist 17y ago
Just curious, but have you ever driven in Boston? I think Northern California's signage is decent or better than most places.
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by nudist 17y ago
Definitely agreed. TC editors by and large are terrible writers, but Paul Carr is a real journalist. I love his stuff.
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by nudist 17y ago
If they had a dedicated server stack, they would probably have done the same thing as a hardware RAID anyway. They just replicated in software what they would have done in hardware.
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by nudist 17y ago
How does one catalyze mass behavior change to improve society?
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by nudist 17y ago
Pain? When you poke a Euglena[1] with a pin while looking at it under a microscope, its sensors detect an intrusion and immediately start flapping the flagella (the thing it uses for locomotion, analogous to a leg) to get out of the way. Th
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by nudist 17y ago
It's not a scientific judgement? How can you say it's OK to kill plants but not "animals," considering they are made of essentially the same thing? Where is the line? It's fairly easy to trace the evolution of the nervous system from simple
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by nudist 17y ago
I love YC, but this is false. TechStars, actually, has a better track record of exits when compared to YC. YC has some bigger companies that are still growing, but the TechStars scorecard right now is looking pretty good.
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by nudist 17y ago
More valuable than all that is the fact that Yelp is the de-facto real-world review site. Its brand is powerful, about as powerful as YouTube's was when Google bought them.
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by nudist 17y ago
Yes. Have you used reMail? The product is awesome and it sells itself. I highly doubt YC was even part of the consideration. Honestly, I feel like having YC backing you might actually end up putting a bad taste in the mouths of some compani
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by nudist 17y ago
I think he is arguing that healthcare is just a commodity.
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by nudist 17y ago
This is definitely anti government-run healthcare.
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by nudist 17y ago
Are you suggesting that this is a ruse to lower the price of Overstock's shares? On a Saturday? By using an obscure blog?
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by nudist 17y ago
Wow, Japan has more US debt than I thought. Anyone know how that happened? US companies don't tend to build stuff in Japan, do they?
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by nudist 17y ago
Actually -- and this is new in 2009 -- gift cards cannot expire by law in California.
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by nudist 17y ago
My point is that most companies, like Dell, sell their consumer machines at a horrendously low profit margin. They make it up in enterprise sales. Apple, however, sells consumer machines at a tremendous profit. The value you think Apple sho
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by nudist 17y ago
And an Apple MP3 player must have an FM radio built-in because all the other companies put them in their players.
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by nudist 17y ago
Apple applies the same principles to customer service that they do to their products. Rather than tier service -- and by design treat some people badly and some people amazingly -- like many companies do, they work hard to find a good middl
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by nudist 17y ago
Neat list, but just keep in mind that many of these (20-40%?) are inaccurate. Many startups listed as active have actually failed, but they kept their site up. Also, a vast majority of the acquisitions shown here were for talent. They gener
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by nudist 17y ago
At one point, Starbucks was a local coffee shop. One of the reasons it was successful was because it made its drinks unique-- it puts a tiny amount of caramel into Mochas, which give them a distinct taste that people feel they can't find an