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by paul 16y ago
It's sad that this troll gets more upvotes here than the original announcement did. Obviously every startup needs to be mindful of the potential for competition from larger, more established companies, but avoiding all the opportunities the
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by paul 16y ago
What does it mean for "Google itself" to have created Android? The product they acquired was fairly different from what's out there today. To me, this is a good example of a very successful talent acquisition.
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by paul 16y ago
When did Google have great enterprise search?
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by paul 16y ago
I love the food at Facebook. People underestimate how important good food is.
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by paul 16y ago
At one time, Google itself was thought to be a Yahoo feature. It's sad that these "it's a feature" comments keep getting voted up.
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by paul 16y ago
It'd difficult for me to imagine anyone at Google (at least in that era) using the term "fuddy-duddy". None of the quotes sound like anything I ever heard or over-heard, which of course doesn't prove anything, but it's not the culture that
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by paul 16y ago
False.
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by paul 16y ago
Google _was_ a web startup, and there's no reason that it couldn't have come out of yc. Also, a fair number of yc startups are not "web startups", whatever that means. (do you have to make hardware to not be a "web startup"?)
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by paul 16y ago
It's also full of inaccuracies. The "interesting details" are largely wrong. Unfortunately it's written in an authoratative style, so people assume it's true and upvote, demonstrating one of the major flaws in vote based systems.
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by paul 16y ago
Exactly. Async is very important when you're blocking on an external event (such as fetching a page doing doing hanging-GET), but local db or filesystem blocking can most easily be handled by just running more Tornado instances (because the
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by paul 16y ago
That's actually the most accurate answer here.
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by paul 16y ago
>> Raise Revenue, Not Funding > Thank you, thank you, thank you. Why "thank you"? Are you looking for the truth, or just something that repeats what you wish were true?
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by paul 16y ago
The important feature is that on the iPhone it will actually work. Also, there will be enough distribution to actually establish video calls on a regular basis (because both ends have an iPhone).
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by paul 16y ago
I'm pretty sure that wasn't my advice though.
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by paul 16y ago
That's a pretty difficult topic of its own. Philanthropy is like investing, except much more difficult. The good news is, like investing, you have time to think and learn. Philip Greenspun has some interesting thoughts: http://philip.green
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by paul 16y ago
I know, but lacking a how or why, I thought perhaps there was another explanation :)
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by paul 16y ago
We rely on the machines as much as they rely on us.
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by paul 16y ago
Is that a good thing, or a bad thing?
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by paul 16y ago
Not a lot of details. Is this a story about the HTTP referrer header? (aka "Referer") But don't let facts get in the way of a good story...
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by paul 17y ago
If you're addicted to crack, getting rid of your crack supply might be a good way to help break the addiction. You may think money and crack are completely different, but you would be wrong.
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by paul 17y ago
They should have included astrological information ;)
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by paul 17y ago
How can Ron Conway not be at #1?
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by paul 17y ago
What make you think that the placebo effect is not "valid"?
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by paul 17y ago
If the "cliché" is so outdated, why was I building apps from source just earlier this weak? Perhaps I'm just dumb, but I've never found myself doing that on the iPhone... It's amazing to me that people here would think that Linux has anywhe
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by paul 17y ago
Easy wins. As much as I love downloading and building everything from source... actually, no, I hate that. Apple built that first easy app install experience, and that's the reason people love it, not because of some ideological preference.
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by paul 17y ago
Not really -- we didn't know the Facebook team all that well. Your argument would make more sense if we had sold to Google, but even then it would be false. If your point is that people can build future success on top of past success, yes o
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by paul 17y ago
That problem exists regardless. Who can truly judge "merit"? However, investing has a built-in selective pressure. The people who are good at spotting things that will make money get more money -- the ones that aren't good at it lose money.
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by paul 17y ago
How so?
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by paul 17y ago
What am I a case of?
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by paul 17y ago
No, it's completely meaningless unless your programs are only 10 lines long. You have no idea what part of it is slower.

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