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by portLAN 19y ago
> The San Francisco company announced in March a first round of $4.2 million in capital, naming only Khosla Ventures and Y Combinator. Is that $4.18 million from Khosla and $0.02 million from YC?
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by portLAN 19y ago
Owner?
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by portLAN 19y ago
"We used to have a joke in college, that the definition of a college man was somebody who couldn't count up to 70 without laughing." -- Don Knuth, after recommending a 69-bit processor design http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3147833
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by portLAN 19y ago
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by portLAN 19y ago
When I get rich I'm going to take YC's approach and fund about 40 different girlfriends a year with a little money rather than just one with millions. The economics have changed. With a recession looming, it will be less expensive than eve
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by portLAN 19y ago
"Good" colleges are a self-fulfilling prophecy. If the best students organized online and randomly picked some backwoods institution and applied there, it would instantly become the place to be. Meanwhile the previous top schools would
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by portLAN 19y ago
This is why people like dogs better than other humans. They have more tact.
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by portLAN 19y ago
Just add it to your monthly expenses -- apply to eHealthInsurance.com and get either short-term insurance (cheaper, doesn't cover normal visits) or one of the PPOs. The only trick is you don't know exactly where you'll be living at first, s
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by portLAN 19y ago
I detect a start-up opportunity.
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by portLAN 19y ago
CSS is ugly. For anyone who's used it throughout the years, it was consistently poorly-documented and incompatible across different browsers. Standards compliance? What's that? A lot of deprecated methods are still used because they wo
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by portLAN 19y ago
> 2. Windows NT4 Downarrow for blog spam needed.
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by portLAN 19y ago
Responding to Richard Dawkins's pestering his fellow atheists to "come out", I mention that I am indeed an atheist. To count oneself as an atheist one need not claim to have a proof that no gods exist. One need merely think that the eviden
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by portLAN 19y ago
Is this a YC applicant/winner?
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by portLAN 19y ago
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that it's all learned. -- Bruce Ediger (pedantry: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.editors/msg/882fd4ef853e... ) It's definitely intuitive for marsupials. http://en.wikipedia.org
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by portLAN 19y ago
10 PRINT "LARRY RULES" 20 GOTO 10 RUN Acquisition offers will be entertained: (288) 555-0153
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by portLAN 19y ago
I bought that issue for the articles.
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by portLAN 19y ago
Someone posted a perfect set-up for this and I nailed it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48652 Apparently there are still some people who haven't seen the clip yet. They must be working harder on their start-ups.
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by portLAN 19y ago
Good for them. If you're pissing people off, you're probably doing something right. The funny part is, for most people here, Aaron and Matt aren't reading your blog -- but you're reading theirs! This is like a Denial-Of-Service attack a
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by portLAN 19y ago
> Still, it's too much to call their decision making progress a whim, because there is much more to it than completely arbitrary choice. I didn't say the process was completely arbitrary or only whim. I said not to leave your fat
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by portLAN 19y ago
> Taking two days to reply makes you automatically lose the debate. Sorry. It might occur to you that some people are busy working on their start-ups rather than spending all their time debating points of little consequence on YC news
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by portLAN 19y ago
> I think it also has a lot to do with the way Americans view failure (versus Europeans and a few Asian countries). U.S. Americans don't view failure the same as the Iraq and the Asian countries. South Africa, such as.
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by portLAN 19y ago
> If you follow a long enough chain of definitions in this way you can prove white = black. That's pretty amusing. Whim -> arbitrary doesn't exactly constitute a long chain. Might want to start employing your proofreading team for
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by portLAN 19y ago
> Many great things have come of "failure." Especially condom failure.
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by portLAN 19y ago
Data is clear, individuals don't succeed. The larger the founding team, the higher the chance of success - Solo entrepreneurs seldom succeed, 2 are more likely to succeed, 3 are even more likely, 4 are even more likely, and 5 are even more
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by portLAN 19y ago
That's a bit like George Burns's famous saying, "If you live to the age of a hundred you have made it because very few people die past the age of a hundred."
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by portLAN 19y ago
> True, but advising dozens of startups, some of which became highly successful, does. I would be surprised if anyone on YC news couldn't get a few successes out of 60 start-ups. YC's had its share of duds as well. And various time
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by portLAN 19y ago
> In the definition of "whim", the meaning of "arbitrary" is not one you mentioned It most certainly is: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/whim > Why would it, if its meaning was the same? You may as well ask, "Why do w
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by portLAN 19y ago
> I DO want to work on what I want to work on That's funny, you just spent several messages reiterating that you didn't care what project you worked on. To me, "please give me money and great people to work with" is not a convincing p
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by portLAN 19y ago
You might find it helpful to check the definition. Amer. Heritage: whim: "Arbitrary thought or impulse". Arbitrary: "Based on or subject to individual judgment or preference". > that doesn't sound quite so undeniably prudent anymore,
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by portLAN 19y ago
That's a misinterpretation. Maybe this quote will explain it better: "I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your

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