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by rantfoil 18y ago
I guess online is just bizarro world in that sense... when everyone is anonymous and there are no barriers, we get YouTube-like comments. Like it or not, even Hacker News has significant barriers to new users. Arguably that's why it's such
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VCs and Startups won't be immune to the credit crunch(techcrunch.com)
2 points by rantfoil 18y ago|0 comments
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Fraud charges? This looks like a link to a proposal for cancellation of Facebook's trademark. Aaron, can you provide some commentary here?
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Yeah, it would be needlessly noisy in public form. However, it can be helpful for people to get feedback directly. Would a private reply that only the submitter can see be valuable? It would help the community give direct feedback to the su
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Just tell them you're not ready to start raising money. Start when you're ready. A professional VC or investor will never fault you for postponing your fundraising process. It's prudent and the right thing to do.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
This is really really awful for the future of the Internet. Generating random content is specifically the kind of garbage that we don't want on the web. It's the definition of 'free-ridership' -- lets create a bunch of valueless nonsense pr
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by rantfoil 18y ago
+1 -- why is this here?
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by rantfoil 18y ago
What starts as a compelling profile of Minor's business life degenerates into a puff piece on lifestyles of the rich and famous. (Skip page 3/4 ;-) ) It sounds like much of his problems stem from being at odds with the industry's heavy hitt
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Good call. Heck, the 50mm f/1.8 at $80 runs circles around any video recording lens. =) No autofocus is rough though.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
We try to iterate fast on Posterous... really with everything. =)
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Agree 100% -- these are all significant considerations.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
+100 points if I could. This is the most constructive comment in this entire thread.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
a) It was a typo to put it under 'requirement' (see above) b) Joining Posterous is actually a cool way to avoid bad culture because you'd have a key hand in creating the what the culture would become. Say if you joined us at Posterous -- it
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Haha, no you can't -- we want people who can do that and Ruby on Rails too. ;-) I know you were just trying to be flip, but JavaScript is a pretty amazing language for writing frontend code.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
100% agree -- at the end of the day, no matter what your background is, if you are interested in building something, doing something, or working with a particular team, the bullet points on a job posting are worthless. What matters is provi
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Agree 100%. We want projects and code samples... the school itself doesn't matter.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
I'm not going to deny that there are filtering systems out there that are crazy. Also: The Ivy League typically doesn't have great CS programs... ;-) ps, see my other comment -- as much as a top CS school is nice, this was essentially a typ
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Hufflepuff is the best, are you kidding? They are kind of just a vocational magic school though.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Mistake! Sorry! =/
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Hey man, not at our restaurant. ;-) JK, I kid.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
This was a total oversight by us -- we didn't really mean "REQUIREMENT" in the sense. Of course that's insane. This is something that we actually discussed with our friends (some of them from Hacker News too). The top CS school discussion D
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Posterous (YC Summer 08) seeks Rails and Java Software Engineers (San Francisco)
44 points by rantfoil 18y ago
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Note a typical film maker probably only needs 1 or 2 lenses. They probably went overboard and used 8 or 10 different lenses -- but you can get 1 good lens for about $1000.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Wait 24 hours and it should be all kosher. DNS is always a PITA.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Slinkset rocks! This is a perfect application of a totally amazing piece of software.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Religiously. ;-)
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Agree, there's already another "content gripe" thread at the top. At least this one is saying something positive, though. =)
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VC Take On Market Crash: Short-Term Bear, Long-Term Bull(bostonvcblog.typepad.com)
2 points by rantfoil 18y ago|0 comments
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by rantfoil 18y ago
I disagree. Raising $300k to $500k at a reasonable seed valuation makes a ton of sense for them -- if you get the right angels who can actually help you with connections and experience, the pie will get larger faster than the % of the pie y
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by rantfoil 18y ago
There are a few varieties of convertible debt -- one is with a discount, and another is with a pre-money cap. Lots of investors will insist on pre-money cap at a reasonable seed valuation. This basically means later when you do a series A o

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