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by veritas 19y ago
Haha, no worries dude. Your criticism was spot on and appreciated. I don't usually submit my own writings to YC (first time I believe).
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by veritas 19y ago
I'll own up to it :) It was a 5 minute rant to be honest, not a well thought out exposition on OpenID's various shortcomings. So, apologies if it was inarticulate/verbose. I really should clean it up and edit before I submit to YC. I mod
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OpenID Sucks.(irei.wordpress.com)
13 points by veritas 19y ago|7 comments
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by veritas 19y ago
Fair point. YC exists not to be on your board or help run the business, but to help you get to the people that will do those things. Which, I consider, to be a valuable service. Have you had any contact with Sequoia? If so, what are they
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by veritas 19y ago
How insane would it be if you got a YC rejection letter, but a Sequoia interview... :D
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by veritas 19y ago
erm... why does it say 22 hours till the decisions are released? :) Check your dates perhaps? Edit: could also do without the sounds, but nice use of flash. I suck at flash/actionscript and should really put in some time to learn it.
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by veritas 19y ago
So if it isn't the users and it isn't the revenue, then Facebook's insane valuations are the product of... hype? Valuations aside, you're right in saying what really matters is monetization and this is where Google shines. I don't care how
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by veritas 19y ago
Do you think more bands/artists adopting Radiohead's model or at least selling DRM free music at low prices (much lower than iTunes .99) will make a dent in the piracy distribution model? I suppose they'd have to be in a centralized web loc
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by veritas 19y ago
My summary/opinion: http://irei.wordpress.com/2007/10/17/will-the-dollar-collaps...
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The coming dollar collapse?(telegraph.co.uk)
5 points by veritas 19y ago|4 comments
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by veritas 19y ago
Or downloading Locomotive....
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by veritas 19y ago
We've been through this :P Twitter had scaling problems because they had such a massive onslaught on their systems. Any language/framework would've buckled a little under that stress. I'm not saying RoR is perfect (its not...) and it has
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by veritas 19y ago
It gets easier and easier to tell. Spend some time on reddit, for example, and you'll gradually differentiate comments that are posted as rational arguments (and inviting discussion) and troll comments which are posted to bait users into a
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by veritas 19y ago
So because a majority doesn't care, we're not allowed to critically assess Facebook's shortcomings or voice our opinions over its policies? Winer is simply stating his opinion and pointing out the lack of openness when it comes to Facebook'
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by veritas 19y ago
That's just it... what did he do? Sure everyone knows about global warming, but there's still nothing being done. The US is standing still, the Kyoto protocol is a joke and China/India are still industrializing so their fossil fuel consu
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by veritas 19y ago
It's not a question of benefit. I'm not arguing that Gore's promotion of the Global Warming threat wasn't a great benefit, but that he did not deserve the Nobel PEACE Prize. Evangelizing the Global Warming movement doesn't promote peace in
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by veritas 19y ago
That's one way to render the Peace Prize meaningless.
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by veritas 19y ago
You mean an openID like system that doesn't suck?
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by veritas 19y ago
I agree there are slight advantages to images, but there is still something lost in translation. How would explain a concept such as searching? Or a hyperlink? Granted those are some contrived examples, but whatever problems we have with
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by veritas 19y ago
Some criticism: What would be the point? Sure it might be technically interesting to code etc. but this just introduces inefficiency to communication. There's a reason we evolved from cave paintings and hieroglyphics to written form.
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Google Buys Jaiku.(uk.techcrunch.com)
14 points by veritas 19y ago|1 comments
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by veritas 19y ago
There's a textbox on the application where you can list additional ideas. :)
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Wallstrip chats with Tariq Krim. (wallstrip.com)
1 points by veritas 19y ago|0 comments
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by veritas 19y ago
This is ridiculous. Trade Deficit = Current Accounts. Current accounts are primarily composed of a nation's trade balance, plus any interest paid/received and things such as foreign aid. Investments = Capital Accounts. Capital accounts a
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by veritas 19y ago
21 + BS in Comp Sci
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by veritas 19y ago
Never tried it, but it doesn't work so well on a shared host lol :)
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by veritas 19y ago
Acts_as_ferret works okay, but when you run into a lot of writes (the problem the poster had), you have to run it with its built in DRb server to resolve the issues.
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by veritas 19y ago
Dreamhost gives you plenty.
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by veritas 19y ago
This is my best guess too. Damn wiretapping. I've been cut off for 2 days now. At least I get more work done... or get more YC News read.
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by veritas 19y ago
Sorry, you're right... you didn't write the message. My mistake :)

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