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by rantfoil 17y ago
There's two issues here -- one is that there's a brain drain in the United States. The best and the brightest are leaving. They can't stay, because we won't let them. The fix is letting them, by reforming H1B policies. Second is H1B abuse b
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by rantfoil 17y ago
Propel ICT looks like a good way to get in touch with other entrepreneurs in New Brunswick. http://propelict.com/ Dan Martell, an angel investor out here in the Valley, also is from New Brunswick and he's a phenomenal resource too.
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by rantfoil 17y ago
Summary: Twitter is in maturity / value discovery phase. Show standard product life cycle graph. Then blatant plug for gist.com, which "Twitter needs in order to filter lots of content".
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by rantfoil 17y ago
Yeah, seriously -- there are ways to tell gmaps to show a limited number of points based on zoom level. Recommended.
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Things that will kill your site(carsonified.com)
5 points by rantfoil 17y ago|0 comments
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by rantfoil 17y ago
Yup, agree completely. But that's precisely why teams should be small. Apple is living proof. Some large chunks of the iPhone are actually done by half a dozen engineers. When I was a PM at Microsoft, our whole team was something like 40 pe
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by rantfoil 17y ago
What punch did we get beaten to, exactly?
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Political Chart Wars: Health-Care Reform Obfuscated by Infographics(infosthetics.com)
2 points by rantfoil 17y ago|0 comments
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by rantfoil 17y ago
Really impressive work -- the beat detection and game generation logic is top notch. I haven't seen any other rhythm game execute this well on uploaded songs.
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by rantfoil 17y ago
I have to say Jeff and the polleverywhere guys are some of the funniest guys I've ever met.
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by rantfoil 17y ago
Creative endeavor is so similar. The auteur model fits so well. It's a business, but it's also a craft. There's tech and art and communication all rolled into one. The last part spoke to me the most -- it is HARD to start these days, but
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by rantfoil 17y ago
I've said this before and I will say it again -- any list of Canadian entrepreneurs without backtype.com on it is a sorely incomplete list. They're building real core tech that is powering dozens of other sites.
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by rantfoil 17y ago
It's easy to frame the marketplace as a zero sum game. Someone's win equals your loss and vice versa. The reality is that model is a massive oversimplification, and thinking that way is value destructive.
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by rantfoil 17y ago
Many sites have email as a feature. We're thrilled to see more attention being paid to that feature. But our vision is quite a bit more than just that feature.
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Why Does Time Go Faster As We Get Older?(acm.org)
100 points by rantfoil 17y ago|51 comments
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by rantfoil 17y ago
We actually already support oEmbed -- the big problem with it is discovery. We have to hard code lists of sites that support oembed -- which really defeats the purpose.
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Posterous now supports Github Gist code drops(blog.posterous.com)
50 points by rantfoil 17y ago|6 comments
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Backtype (YC08) releases Tweetcount, far more accurate than Tweetmeme(mashable.com)
19 points by rantfoil 17y ago|4 comments
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by rantfoil 17y ago
Wow, Ezra Roizen really shows he doesn't get it in that interview. He thinks he's boiled down realtime search to merely an abstraction of existing search. Scoopler (and the entire space) is not a mere rehash of Google and/or
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by rantfoil 17y ago
Hopefully we'll be able to woo you over soon. raised eyebrow
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by rantfoil 17y ago
I tried to log in to Tarpipe using my Google credentials just now and it completely failed. =/
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by rantfoil 17y ago
This type-centric redesign fails to account for information architecture. What's the most important thing on the page? Probably the tweet and the picture. The left column with ragged right justified time and twitter client stamp draws far t
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Resurrect your dead blog by importing it to Posterous(digital.venturebeat.com)
43 points by rantfoil 17y ago|13 comments
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$23.3 Million invested in 11 Twitter-Based Startups(chubbybrain.com)
22 points by rantfoil 17y ago|13 comments
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Secrets of Simplicity, explained thoroughly in 145 slides(slideshare.net)
9 points by rantfoil 17y ago|3 comments
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by rantfoil 17y ago
Slicehost support is top notch -- also getting started on a box is absurdly simple with PickledOnion's tutorials.
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by rantfoil 17y ago
It's absurd that this list is missing backtype.com, run by two of our favorite Canadians from our YC Summer 08 batch.
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by rantfoil 17y ago
Dupe of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=605207 This is the printer friendly version of the same article.
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by rantfoil 17y ago
Two serious lessons learned: 1) Don't try to get through a Boston summer without AC 2) Don't try to code 18 hours a day on a 12" laptop sub lesson to point #2: Don't try to code Rails 18 hours a day on a Windows laptop. It's a joke.
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by rantfoil 17y ago
Only if you're digg, or Google Groups. Honeytokens work incredibly well for everyone else -- spamming is a game of finding easy marks. And there are enough easy marks out there that spammers would rather pack up and move on to the next targ

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