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by ratsbane 19y ago
PG explained some of that here http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html but I'd like to hear more.
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by ratsbane 19y ago
That article didn't mention PARC's incubator program, although I think by contrast PARC's program shows what YC can do right. Before you even read much about PARC's deal you have to agree to a page of over-capitalized legalese: http://www
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by ratsbane 19y ago
So true. It actually does matter, though. I know it matters when I see a 10-year-old kid sleeping on the floor of an office because his mom has to work until 1am because some awful enterprise software doesn't work right. I know it matters w
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by ratsbane 19y ago
You're right. I see that now. I would like to understand better how many Yahoo stores there are, how many are inactive, how many use the different services Y provides (shipping, inventory, etc.) Is it fair to say that Yahoo hasn't added
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by ratsbane 19y ago
Joel just hit the nail right on the thumb. His hypothetical NewSDK doesn't give javascript any new abilities nor would his NewSDK provide any new ways of using those abilities which couldn't be duplicated in other ways.
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by ratsbane 19y ago
Now I'm curious about this. They list 71,245 under "shop by store."(1) However, I think this number may be low. Are inactive stores listed in that directory? I'm sure Yahoo is billing for more than a few stores which never got beyond int
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by ratsbane 19y ago
At the first Startup School in Boston someone mentioned that Yahoo Store had about 235,000 stores and $5 billion/year in store revenue, if I'm remembering correctly. The smallest available monthly fee(1) is currently $40 and the smallest
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by ratsbane 19y ago
Yes, thanks. I see that now. Perhaps if you made the fonts smaller and separated the questions from the answers?
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by ratsbane 19y ago
Yes. PG is famous for writing pithy and insightful comic essays about the indolent British upper classes(1). He speaks with a slight lisp(2), having once bitten his tongue while eating breakfast(3). His writings are also noted for abunda
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by ratsbane 19y ago
[sigh] I wish we had technical challenges. That's what I enjoy too. Instead the challenges are about managing people and money and completing insurance company audits and IRS filings and dealing with idiot bureaucrats at the State Unemplo
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by ratsbane 19y ago
I just looked at eser.org. Neat-o. Have you thought about adding a comments/ratings system or features matrix?
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by ratsbane 19y ago
I'm a little disappointed in Mossberg with this. He's right about some things - it is too much trouble to get DVDs, Flash, etc. working with Ubuntu, especially when so many things work so well. I've been strongly recommending Ubuntu or OS
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by ratsbane 19y ago
The YC way seems to be working rather well. I think grad student housing does help focus. You can get meal plan and not have to spend time going to the grocery store so much; you tend to interact much more with other people who are also fo
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by ratsbane 19y ago
PG, have you thought of buying or leasing an entire apartment or condo complex and putting YC founders up in that? Besides economies of scale there would be efficiencies in putting together people with common goals. There's a reason so man
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by ratsbane 19y ago
Bad link? Korean carp are a becoming a huge problem on the Mississippi and related rivers. Here's a video clip I shot in 2005 of carp jumping around a boat on the Mississippi. (I'm the one holding the camera.) We tinkered with plans to
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by ratsbane 19y ago
http. The article succinctly described several problems with ftp which http doesn't share: 1) bin/ascii modes (bytes are bytes, right?) 2) multiple ports make a mess of NAT 3) plaintext credentials.
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by ratsbane 19y ago
http can do that too although I agree that mod_autoindex doesn't.
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by ratsbane 19y ago
I strongly agree with the article and with mdakin's point; scp is good but rsync is better. ftp is awkward, flawed, and obsolete. I am amazed that it is still used as much as it is. Perhaps the problem is largely due to Windows admins.
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by ratsbane 19y ago
Now YOU are the inspiration. Good luck!
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by ratsbane 19y ago
That's just the sort of thing I was thinking about. Would you be interested in selling it, bringing in new partners, or something like that? I'm not saying I'm interested myself (I shouldn't be; plenty of other stuff I am/should be worki
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by ratsbane 19y ago
Good answer. I think you might be right. I'm afraid you might be right.
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Recycling startups?
4 points by ratsbane 19y ago|7 comments
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by ratsbane 19y ago
But does it matter what college you DIDN'T graduate from?
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by ratsbane 19y ago
I'm voting up all of both of your comments because they made me laugh and I spit a bit of the Hershey bar I was eating on my keyboard.
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by ratsbane 19y ago
Changing the way people work or behave - for the better - or give them more understanding about things they can change. - Meetup.com is getting people out and into social situations with lots of benefits - Google maps helps people to find t
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by ratsbane 19y ago
wowow. I just finished googling "kratom." Now I'll wait six minutes and try googling "wowow."
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by ratsbane 19y ago
Or if you can make 10,000 people in Silicon Valley call their lawyers and say "BUT I DID THINK OF THAT..."
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by ratsbane 19y ago
That's a good distinction. I had to look up the HTTP 1.1 RFC, 2616 and read section 9.1.1 "Safe Methods" to note that while what you're saying is correct, the RFC does strongly discourage... well, here: In particular, the convention has be
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by ratsbane 19y ago
One might also wonder why the vote URL contains the username? The cookie identifies the user so the url can either match that, in which case the vote is recorded, or not, in which case it returns "user error." But I do note the board doe
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by ratsbane 19y ago
Good article. I particularly liked this line: "First and foremost, almost nothing is that complicated when you get down to what it actually is."

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