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   by ralph 19y ago

   YC make it clear that those that aren't picked may have the best ideas, or be the best people; i.e. that YC are perfect at picking. It seems like you depend too much on YC's verdict as a judgement on yourself. If you had more deserved con
2. 692.▲
   by ralph 19y ago

   As an outsider in the UK who has no intention of applying, I agree that there's a "clubby" feel to YC. However, I don't think that's a bad thing; that's part of the benefit of being in a good beneficial club, just like any society. Cure i
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   by ralph 19y ago

   Why do you think it's all YC companies? The article doesn't appear to claim that. Haysan appears to be missing; that's the one with Marie Brattberg in it IIRC. http://www.heysan.com/
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   by ralph 19y ago

   A proxy server running on the user's machine? It gets to see everywhere the user goes. A Javascript or plugin can communicate with the proxy for better browser integration.
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   by ralph 19y ago

   Interviews are two way things. Perhaps the interviewee isn't so keen having had more contact in person, or doesn't like the suggestion of dropping their idea and going with an alternative. Perhaps they just think the gasps of admiration a
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   by ralph 19y ago

   I'd rather they did that than just copy the off-topic stories from there to news.yc.
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   by ralph 19y ago

   So you should give YC 6% if you think we can improve your prospects by 7% Not if you think someone else will improve your prospects by a bigger ratio compared to the cut they're taking though. Don't know of anyone like that, just being pe
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   by ralph 19y ago

   The dollar recently hit a 26-year low against sterling and an all-time low against the euro. Just about everything is pointing to a lower dollar. US growth is disappointing (YC excepted ;-) and is set to underperform Europe [IMF]. US rat
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   by ralph 19y ago

   You're a little out of date. Try Ubuntu 7.04's live desktop CD on your Windows laptop and just see if it all works. If it does, install and save a bundle on overpriced Apple hardware.
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    by ralph 19y ago

    Is Flash penetration that high? Based on the few "Mum at home with laptop" type people I know they're very wary of installing anything onto their Windows XP machines and they don't know the latest Flash plugin is any different from all the
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    by ralph 19y ago

    How do you cope with many users having the Display Name "pg"? How can a reader easily tell which pg it is?
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    by ralph 19y ago

    If you "print" the article they use a fixed width font and the indentation looks better. Helps to turn off the style sheet too.
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    by ralph 19y ago

    I don't know of any reader that actually uses the comment tags rss2email does. Or at least it does after I made a slight change. http://rss2email.infogami.com/
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    by ralph 19y ago

    Originally at http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=19920 Paul, might you modify the submissions page to have some guidelines? Point people to the Feature Requests thread as they clearly don't notice the link at the bottom of the page.
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    by ralph 19y ago

    Go and read Slashdot if you want to see posts like this. This is Startup News.
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    by ralph 19y ago

    Your time counts. You are one. Our time counts. We are many. It is selfish to consume our time by making us stutter over poorly written text.
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    by ralph 19y ago

    Please use the Feature Requests link at the bottom of the page. People can vote up your post on that thread. Or find one of the many dupes and vote those up instead.
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    by ralph 19y ago

    This is Startup News, not Slashdot. Go and post this kind of thing there. Or on Digg. Or Reddit. We're here because we want something different from all of those others.
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    by ralph 19y ago

    Paul, might you modify the submissions page to have some guidelines? Point people to the Feature Requests thread as they clearly don't notice the link at the bottom of the page. Remind them that this is Startup News so it would be good if
20. 710.▲
    by ralph 19y ago

    This is design as in graphic design, not software design. Just in case anyone else didn't realise from the title.
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    by ralph 19y ago

    I'd probably be willing to learn how to interpret line noise if I only have to parse 9 lines for every 96 I'm parsing now bzip2 -9 <hellow.c | uuencode hellow.c.bz2
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    by ralph 19y ago

    Site swamped? Takes ages to display the front page, if it manages to complete.
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    by ralph 20y ago

    The redundancy of having five servers isn't helping if I'm always served by server #3, whereas an alternate method where any one of the five can answer my current request allows a machine to fail, or be taken down for upgrading, and the loa
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    by ralph 20y ago

    I wonder if they need that much financing, i.e. they have something in mind to spend it on.
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    by ralph 20y ago

    But it doesn't appear. There's this odd jigsaw piece and stuff about "plugins".
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    by ralph 20y ago

    Well, the blog has been deleted by the author now so maybe it wasn't true.
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    by ralph 20y ago

    His dad's an interesting guy. http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/crypt.html
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    by ralph 20y ago

    I'm not sure if you're joking, but I'll tell you anyway. The orange trim around the cloud edge is OK. But the orange for the bottom two-thirds of the page is way too over-powering and I'd leave the site just to give my eyes a rest. Hey, I
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    by ralph 20y ago

    Go and find this request on the Feature Requests page and upvote it there. http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=363
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    by ralph 20y ago

    I dislike clicking "parent" multiple times in a row. Can we have a "root" as well to go straight to the top.