ph0rque

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4141.
by ph0rque 19y ago
"What would you rather own, 100% of something or 5% of a dream?" This goes directly against what I've heard before: "a small piece of a big pie is better than a large piece of nothing."
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by ph0rque 19y ago
Let's hope it'll happen in 5 years, not 15.
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by ph0rque 19y ago
Yes, it's really annoying to be shopping for an airline ticket, make a significant amount of requests (10-20) with different parameters (dates, airports, etc) only to see your first quote rise when enter it again :-/.
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How does debuting your app on news.yc affect a possible future application to yc?
6 points by ph0rque 19y ago|7 comments
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by ph0rque 19y ago
Looks good! Random thoughts: -I know I've been docked for saying this before, but a facebook app that ties in with your site might be a good way to virally grow the user base. -My first reaction to the site's name was a play on Cthulhu: you
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by ph0rque 19y ago
Well, I understand the differentiation, but I don't see the value-add for me. But that's just my personal opinion.
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An Entrepreneurial Take on Health Care(tompaine.com)
1 points by ph0rque 19y ago|1 comments
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by ph0rque 19y ago
It isn't surprising that FB apps are not very serious, since FB is in its formative stages as a "real" website (one that is used for serious things, for arbitrary values of serious). I think that if facebook keeps growing like it is now, we
4149.
by ph0rque 19y ago
_Thumbs down on this. Facebook is not the new internet._ No, it isn't. However, if one's site is depends on social networking behaviors, like community-generated content, like this one is, it wouldn't hurt to use facebook's social graph to
4150.
by ph0rque 19y ago
to (mis)quote reddit: facebook app or it didn't happen :).
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by ph0rque 19y ago
Sounds like a great facebook app.
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by ph0rque 19y ago
I think I get the marshmallows (beaurocracy?), but how do the wolves relate to the marshmallows, and why do they make sheep look like marshmallows with ketchup?
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by ph0rque 19y ago
Nothing (yet :-) ). I took a solid-state physics course in undergrad; the course was unoficially labeled "the mathematica course". We derived a 3D model of an H atom using Heisenberg's equations. So when I recently saw mathematica in the ne
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by ph0rque 19y ago
After reading this article [1], I did a bit of looking around on the internet, and found out that Mathematica can be and is used as a programming language/environment [2]. Have any of the news.YC readers used Mathematica as a development en
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Has anyone used mathematica as a programming language/environment?
2 points by ph0rque 19y ago|6 comments
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by ph0rque 19y ago
I believe xobni uses C# in at least some of their code: http://www.xobni.com/blog/2007/01/31/kevins-thoughts/
4157.
by ph0rque 19y ago
Actually, 90% of crap is crap. The rest is diarrhea, which is latin for "flavored water". (Can't find the quote on the web right now)
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by ph0rque 19y ago
There's a guy, known as "bug-fixer", who has over 2000 points: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pg
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by ph0rque 20y ago
please, please, PLEASE write you as you, not u. That's a definite turn-off for me.
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by ph0rque 20y ago
That got me thinking: why not use bayesian filtering for trollish comments?
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by ph0rque 20y ago
Do both: use QB to keep the books, and have an account check it over quarterly (monthly, yearly, whatever works best for you) to make sure you're not doing anything that will really cost you down the road. That's what my start-up did. btw,
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by ph0rque 20y ago
Speaking of CAD software, how long until we will have an online version? (I would guess CAD software is on the same order of complexity as photoshop.) Are any perspective YCers working on it?
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by ph0rque 20y ago
How about making up to X GB free, and come up with a tiered charging plan for more than X?
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by ph0rque 20y ago
You know, your app is something that I've been wishing someone would make for some time now. Congrats! Here's a suggestion for a future revision: give the ability for office documents to open with online office apps when clicked on in the p
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by ph0rque 20y ago
Our start-up (i-conserve.com) looked around on the web, saw that most were partial copies of each other (as in, whole paragraphs verbatim), and decided to write our own, based on 4 or 5 we liked. We really liked the bare-bones approach most
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by ph0rque 20y ago
The idea at the end sounds very similar to http://stikkit.com/. How will this be different?