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by sachinag 17y ago
It's a save, not a single, but yeah: http://twitter.com/danprimack/status/13026332506
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by sachinag 17y ago
Really? They should be grateful that they look to still have jobs. If Apple or Microsoft or Google bought them, a bunch of them would have been laid off.
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by sachinag 17y ago
Ha, I love that CrunchBase has the updated logo but the post itself does not. Congrats, folks!
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by sachinag 17y ago
I'd like to point out that Mark Hendrickson, CEO of Plancast, was previously a TC hacker. If you have a half-decent idea, expect the TC brand to help you get networked. Oh, and you're guaranteed to get multiple hits of positive coverage i
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by sachinag 17y ago
There's a reason that the standard equity vesting schedule is four years with a one year cliff. Great people will stick around if they feel that their equity is valuable even if they can get more cash/benefits/perks/responsibility/credit/f
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by sachinag 17y ago
Here's Drew's original submission referenced in the presentation: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
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by sachinag 17y ago
Whatever they did to get the @wtf account, it was worth it. Best brand name launch all year, hands down, game over, go home.
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by sachinag 17y ago
That's what Palm thought, and their shitty, unreliable hardware has helped to kill their company (in addition to the woefully late SDK).
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by sachinag 17y ago
I'm not sure it was that hard to be like, "you know what, I'll do Farecast for sports and concerts" as an idea. It's the execution that impresses me, but the idea was obvious the day Farecast proved that you could pull it off.
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by sachinag 17y ago
I would love a cite for this. It seems plausible, but if there's a cite, I'd be very grateful.
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by sachinag 17y ago
The takeaways are in the last few slides (the text is on SS if you scroll down). Sadly, this BarCamp didn't record anything. :(
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by sachinag 17y ago
I get into this in some level of detail in the presentation, but the PVP mechanic of leaderboards inhibits new players/users because it's another barrier to entry. Remember why Digg killed their leaderboard - you end up with a hypercompe
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by sachinag 17y ago
Sigh. "The most important aspect of this laptop is its display. It has a 1920 x 1200 15.4” TFT LCD." The new 15" MBPs max out 1680x1050 even with the additional option.
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by sachinag 17y ago
Are there any chips out there that do hardware decoding of VP8? That's a critical path item to get Apple on board - they've learned from Nintendo; battery life is too precious to sacrifice for a mere codec.
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by sachinag 17y ago
Can I just say that having grellas active here on HN is one of the best developments of the last year for this community? Thanks, sir.
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by sachinag 17y ago
The Fortune 400 are generally people who found an early niche and exploited it in a way that created barriers to entry. That could be in software, but it could be in dominating natural resources in a country, government-sanctioned monopoli
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by sachinag 17y ago
Did you e-mail the developers before posting this? I mean, it's really kind of mean to post something like this without trying to resolve your issues with the developers directly first. In this case, Jay happened to be around to respond,
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by sachinag 17y ago
Mainly because Martell is an investor and it's fun to mess with him a little: oneforty is also looking for a front-end/UI designer/developer, and we have fewer hoops than Ethan: https://www.jobscore.com/jobs/onefortyinc/frontenddesignerde.
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by sachinag 17y ago
The problem is the mandatory requirements for full service in unprofitable areas. The USPS literally has a plane that goes weekly to the most isolated part of Idaho: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/30/us/30idaho.html There's no way a priv
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by sachinag 17y ago
You should see Thesis. Dude's minting it.
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by sachinag 17y ago
Is this more Awesome Foundation, where it's $1,000 to just build something or is it a mini-YC where it's $1,000 to really do a company?
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by sachinag 17y ago
This is beautiful and navigable. Well done. A few product suggestions: * Accounting is really important; Meetings less so. Think about your main headers. * Make it clearer what the order is you're listing the apps: alphabetical, by ratin
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by sachinag 17y ago
This is a large part of why I advocate waiting to incorporate until you can do it right. The instacorp LLC won't really protect you when you need it most.
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by sachinag 17y ago
Sadly, Olin's endowment took a rather major hit and is no longer tuition-free. It's actually almost $39,000: http://olin.edu/admission/costs.asp
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by sachinag 17y ago
The point wasn't "don't do this"; the point was "why haven't you started here?" Asking for a crowdsourced list of apps strikes me as not having done one's homework.
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by sachinag 17y ago
Canada finally fixed their laws to make it easy for US-based VCs to invest up there. Couple that with the pretty easy visa requirements for people with technical degrees, and we should see a flock of serious startup entrepreneurs moving to
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by sachinag 17y ago
Not to be a dick, but http://thesmallbusinessweb.com/directory already exists.
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by sachinag 17y ago
Ah, OK, I thought that was just a representative sample since there were only five datasets. I'd recommend you find, package, and sell other datasets that exist out there (Freebase, etc.). I disagree with the registration requirement - if I
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by sachinag 17y ago
I would love the ability to browse available datasets without having to register. And I'd really love to be able to request a dataset without having to register. Structured datasets are hard, and the hardest part is finding one that update
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by sachinag 17y ago
Saying WePay promotes illegal gambling is like saying ESPN promotes illegal gambling for having Barack Obama unveil his picks and running his bracket in their contest. The only person who's ever gotten hurt in an NCAA pool is Rick Neuheisel

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