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by vlad 19y ago
The headline is a sad mark on our schools... Especially as they talk about young children, any faults lie with their parents--the same generations who think they were tougher when they were kids, are creating problems by never saying no to
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by vlad 19y ago
I am reading this on my iPhone. I scrolled through 10 "pages" and didn't see any tips. All I learned was that google must hate apple.
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by vlad 19y ago
Congrats! +1 also goes out to everybody on Hacker.News for being positive about new startups mentioned on this site.
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by vlad 19y ago
Congrats! What's ironic is that I was lucky to record a video of Drew coding an early version of Dropbox last March, but as I didn't have a painless solution for backing up, I don't have a copy of it anymore. :)
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by vlad 19y ago
Somebody at last year's Startup School said he had a very successful quiz site (widgets for myspace.) Is that the same person?
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by vlad 19y ago
There are more than two reasons a user might upvote another user's post. Some of the many situations one might click the up arrow: - to thank others for posting to one's thread in order to create a positive feedback loop - to increase visib
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by vlad 19y ago
On a different note: PG, here's a bug I found. The text under the submission form says: "Leave url blank to submit a question for discussion. If there is no url, the text (if any) will appear at the top of the comments page. If there is a
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Creating a web startup functionality in a department in a big corporation?
2 points by vlad 19y ago|3 comments
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by vlad 19y ago
I don't know why, but I've seen many good comments on YCombinator this weekend. Yours is one of them. Someone is labeled arrogant when they're successful enough that others have to pay attention to them, yet those same people are jealous i
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by vlad 19y ago
Which rap song is this?
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by vlad 19y ago
I feel like I had heard of RescueTime many years ago...could that be possible?
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by vlad 19y ago
Really cool. I thought of something related yesterday, which would be a place where people could submit code to get comments and feedback from the community about how they would have coded something differently. It would be useful for bot
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by vlad 19y ago
The number one rule of poker is to play with people worse than you are.
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by vlad 19y ago
http://biographicon.com/view/l966v There's somebody named Hairy Beaver linked to from a home-page featured profile listing.
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by vlad 19y ago
A web app to split your bills between friends was selected by YCombinator...
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by vlad 19y ago
Perfectly twittery. Excellent user design. I love it. All you need to do is 1) spread the word to non-developers and 2) solicit feedback from registered users (most important source) as well as those who aren't ready to register yet (a f
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by vlad 19y ago
I disagree. Every startup, except a few, can only hope to target maybe 5% of anyone who ever stumbles on the site. So, the only opinions that matter are those of the 5% who sign up and use the service. Everybody else is just thinking up
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by vlad 19y ago
I turn 25 in exactly one month on the 25th. So confusing. And I have 25 kids but I don't know where they are.
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by vlad 19y ago
I think this is a bug: different users can keep voting down the author of a deleted post by visiting this URL for that post, where "username" is your name, even though the post no longer appears. http://news.ycombinator.com/vote?by=usernam
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by vlad 19y ago
I want to work at every YCombinator startup at once! It's not fair!
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Gates Says Goodbye to Keyboards(biz.yahoo.com)
2 points by vlad 19y ago|1 comments
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Microsoft E-mails Employees About Yahoo! Takeover(afp.google.com)
2 points by vlad 19y ago|0 comments
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by vlad 19y ago
There are a few examples of online communities expanding so fast that original users no longer find them intellectually stimulating. Is there a single root cause? Are users so overconfident in their mutual abilities to discuss off-topic c
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by vlad 19y ago
I respect the time PB has taken to write this post, but think this advice is aimed at beginners. In my opinion, the most important thing about new startups is to do it in an area with others your age trying to accomplish similar feats, man
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by vlad 19y ago
Edw has a great story from personal experience. Why not respectfully ask how Ford's quote fits with this story rather than post a sarcastic reply?
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by vlad 19y ago
Wow, I thought of the same thing...
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by vlad 19y ago
I remember an article from last year or so that said Google Mail users were far fewer in number than Yahoo! or Hotmail users but were wealthier. This makes sense as GMail was still relatively new two years ago, and more tech savvy (and hig
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by vlad 19y ago
What you're doing is arguing semantics. Whoever feels like replying to a reply of a reply long enough that all meaning has been lost and the other person stops posting, is the "winner." Whover is smarter and can come up with great example
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by vlad 19y ago
"Right now" doesn't and will never matter. "Right now" is incompetence, lazyness, lack of awareness, comfort, and politics all rolled into one. That's the definition of "right now." It is a horrible, horrible measure of what can or shoul
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by vlad 19y ago
I had a similar understanding of what YCombinator could be like last spring, with the same TV show format and YCombinator company involvement as you've thought.

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