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Want to buy Twitter? Better find $3 billion.(lewmoorman.com)
3 points by rantfoil 18y ago|0 comments
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by rantfoil 18y ago
We shoot for that much, but scaling has taken time away from just straight up feature development. One way or another, it's a great time.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Why is it that management consulting jobs seem to be regarded as some sort of wonder-job that guarantees success? It's certainly a great field and definitely helps, but I think whether or not you can become a management consultant after you
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Chat startup Chatterous (YC W08) throws gauntlet down against proprietary closed chat widgets(venturebeat.com)
52 points by rantfoil 18y ago|1 comments
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by rantfoil 18y ago
That's coming up. We're working down our list of big features, and that's high up there. Iterate fast and often, right? We're sticking to that as best we can.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Chirrup is a bit different -- looks like more of a programmable API than something for end users. Chirrup fetches all of the replies from Twitter, and sorts them by URL so you can have a comment feed for each page in your site.
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Posterous (YC S08) launches Twitter commenting/tweetback and oAuth(blog.posterous.com)
38 points by rantfoil 18y ago|11 comments
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Yikes, Meebo Rooms is a UX disaster though. I tried using it on our 'maintenance page' once when we were upgrading our servers, and it was a visual design abortion. Definitely psyched about using Chatterous in the future. Also, Campfire, wa
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by rantfoil 18y ago
I like to summarize it as: 1) Coders, to code 2) Designers, to make stuff people want (interaction / product design, NOT visual design) 3) Hustlers, to get the stuff to the people
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Rearden (Steve Perlman) unveils video game platform category-killer OnLive(kotaku.com)
3 points by rantfoil 18y ago|0 comments
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Looks like they're working hard to bring it back. http://status.cloudfiles.mosso.com/
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by rantfoil 18y ago
I know those two assumptions are wrong. Because those assumptions were made by most everyone when they first heard about either company. The point is, as others have pointed out more concisely, it's unclear what startups will be big and wha
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by rantfoil 18y ago
I suppose Google was just another me-too search engine and MS-DOS was just another copy of CP/M -- one that they didn't even write themselves. We are at a time where the Internet is changing the world in significant ways, and the biggest ch
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by rantfoil 18y ago
A good designer is a good designer. If someone holds back the company later, that's not good design. Design is way way more than logo and paint. Interaction design is just plain being able to make stuff that works well for people -- that's
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by rantfoil 18y ago
It's a metaphor for the fact that all you have is your cofounders, so choose wisely.
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Super last minute advice for startups applying for Y Combinator(garry.posterous.com)
74 points by rantfoil 18y ago|32 comments
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Pitching investors: The Two Crime Rule(aamusings.com)
1 points by rantfoil 18y ago|0 comments
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Backtype continues to focus on core tech and hard problems. They're actually the google of this commenting space -- their founders are hardcore technologists who focus specifically on that which is most useful -- while many of their compe
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Might be a better thing for backtype.com to do, since you could set up your HN profile and your Disqus profile on there already.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
There are other ways to prevent automation (JS) -- captcha is like one of the most damaging ways of fighting it, and it will always lower your conversion rate significantly. When you're starting out, lower conversion is a death sentence. My
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Check out the :include parameter to find method calls in the ActiveRecord documentation. Say you have 30 blog posts, and your views reference associations to the blog post's owners. Well, views are dumb and if you call post.user on each one
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by rantfoil 18y ago
I dunno about saving a couple engineer's worth of money -- that's why Rails is massively viable in the first place. You absolutely can iterate faster with fewer people and less wasted time. Servers are cheap. People (salaries) are expensive
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by rantfoil 18y ago
High switching cost / no competition. Yup, classic.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Rspec, Cucumber, Integrity, and a custom end-to-end testing process that runs using the daemons gem that assures all critical aspects of the site runs at all times.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
That's correct -- the load balancer passes the traffic directly to Mongrel, and each mongrel has its own internal queue / mutex. That's why you run like 4 or 8 or 12 or N many mongrels to handle additional load.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Workling has worked well for us -- Rany Keddo is a phenomenal open source guy. Tobi's deferred jobs also looked totally solid to me. That one's proven because it drives Shopify. We use his liquid plugin, which is also stellar. That underlin
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Thanks for the suggestions! Will probably explore Solr down the road. I've written search on top of Lucene before, just didn't have time to work too hard on getting search going in between all the other features we're trying to push out. Pa
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by rantfoil 18y ago
We use munin, monit and god for our monitoring. All great pieces of open source.
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Does Capital Efficiency Matter? (david.weebly.com)
33 points by rantfoil 18y ago|1 comments
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by rantfoil 18y ago
I don't think there is any animosity between founders for TS vs YC. I've intro'ed TS startups to our investors before, and if/when we need to go back and raise another round, they'll do the same.

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