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by rantfoil 18y ago
Slinkset is a fantastic option. Brett and John have built really the dead simple easiest way to create amazing online communities just like Hacker News. It's a perfect fit.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Thank you! That was exactly what I was looking for.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
I like that too. markdown@posterous.com -- that kind of change is going to take a little more than an hour's worth of work, though... might have to wait til morning.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Sunday night is like ideal coding time!
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by rantfoil 18y ago
I could use some feedback on this, actually. I was thinking of just adding a [code] [/code] bbcode-like syntax for it, so you can totally still do it from email. Otherwise if you're using the web editor in html mode you'll be able to throw
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by rantfoil 18y ago
swombat, thanks for the suggestion! Hm, I'll whip something up and post back here when it's ready (hopefully in the next hour). ==================== UPDATE: It's taking a little longer since I'd like to get some really slick syntax highligh
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by rantfoil 18y ago
For most hacker founders though -- $500k is a much better sum to raise than $5 million. Do you really want to have to hire marketing people, give up board seats, give up more of your company than you should, and significantly reduce the % p
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by rantfoil 18y ago
The web is a great repository of HTML documents with hypertext. But there is so much more to it than that. So much content is locked away in PDF and DOC. I think Scribd is still a valuable service because for 90% of computer users out there
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Controlling robots with your mind(nikhil.superfacts.org)
1 points by rantfoil 18y ago|0 comments
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Clayvalet in Hindsight: Founder Mikhail Seregine dispenses lessons learned(seregine.com)
5 points by rantfoil 18y ago|0 comments
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by rantfoil 18y ago
lol getting better every day is a tough mantra to live up to. getting better every other week -- now that's realistic. =)
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Posterous.com (YC Summer 2008) launches Autopost to Facebook(blog.posterous.com)
40 points by rantfoil 18y ago|10 comments
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Looking for Mr. Goodtweet: How to Pick Up Followers on Twitter(blog.guykawasaki.com)
1 points by rantfoil 18y ago|0 comments
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Agree. I love YC, and I love our colleagues at other YC-funded companies (both the companies listed and the companies not listed), but I think this is one of the most poorly reasoned, poorly researched blog posts about YC yet. Please know w
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Chatterous rocks!
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Techcrunch comments could be a great launch pad for an anti-comment-troll API/service. Ultimately it does come down to trust networks. Couldn't pagerank methods be applied to the 'trustworthiness' of commenters, and therefore people who con
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Makes a lot of sense. This is a very important lesson to share -- and learn from.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
This identifies a larger trend that will just continue to find more uses online. Web pages are fundamentally high latency pieces of information. Expansive coverflows like windowshop make it easy to explore information spaces very fast. If y
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Derek, thanks for chiming in and clarifying. This is super helpful. It'd be interesting to hear what the reaction was. Honestly I've often wondered what would happen if you had a "gilded-company" style compensation -- everyone gets paid twi
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Obviously a great story and he does sound like quite a class act. However, I strongly disagree with building a company that lacks proper equity distribution for employees. A lot of the culture problems he alluded to could have been prevente
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by rantfoil 18y ago
AND they rolled out 8 GB and 15.5GB slices. AWESOME. AND Rackspace also bought Jungledisk. Rackspace is suddenly a whole lot more compelling.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Thanks for the support, you guys.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
No, but everything that is novel and clever is a "hack."
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Uncov has been funny in the past, but is pretty much value-less at this point. The personal attacks are pretty weak sauce.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Of course -- a beta is infinitely better than a powerpoint slide. Lots of real users are infinitely better than a beta site. Etc. We're in the business of turning ideas into reality. The farther you get, the better off you are.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Good luck to all the new YC applicants. As it mentions on the YC site, you should definitely bounce your applications off YC alums. Email us-- it can only help.
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Do it yourself first(37signals.com)
55 points by rantfoil 18y ago|9 comments
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by rantfoil 18y ago
If you run HN with "showdead" you'll see the cruft that gets killed. This stuff actually really represents a real danger to every online community. Point is, there are real people who edit HN, and these people use karma score as a major det
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Depends on how bad the flame is... or flaming is just the first level. What about spam? What about hate speech?
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Backtype (YC Summer 08) launches blog widgets for your blog comments(blog.backtype.com)
22 points by rantfoil 18y ago|0 comments

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