wensing

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1. 931.▲
   by wensing 20y ago

   What do you mean by functionality? If you think the shiny surface of your product can be that much of an after-thought (i.e. not considered alongside the functionality you choose to code), you either have wonderfully abstracted code (or lo
2. 932.▲
   by wensing 20y ago

   Up until now, Google Maps was entirely one-size-fits-all mapping software. Now they are adding some customization tools to go a little beyond that (and touch into more of the long tail). That said, I think the Geoff fellow put it best when
3. 933.▲
   by wensing 20y ago

   I used to check YC News every time I exported a new .swf with the Flash IDE (because it's so horrendously slow and sometimes even crashes the IDE--I figured I'd make use of those 10-20 seconds [which unfortunately often turned into 5-10 min
4. 934.▲
   by wensing 20y ago

   The relevance of the content--its startup-centricity.
5. 935.▲
   by wensing 20y ago

   I really enjoyed reading this, especially given the fact that one of my lingering ideas has to do with catalog generation (but performed much more dynamically than Viaweb).
6. 936.▲
   by wensing 20y ago

   True. But we're not encouraging anyone to go work at those companies just to meet dissatisfied hackers, are we? :-) Incidentally, that's how I met my co-founder--although that's not why I joined the company in the first place (that was
7. 937.▲
   by wensing 20y ago

   Exactly my point. The hacker clique was born in college, and it will take something to break into it once it has been established and relocates to SF. My point is this--I suspect that relocating yourself to San Francisco with an idea but w
8. 938.▲
   by wensing 20y ago

   I see the biggest risks for our little startup are "Marginal Niche" and "Too Little Funding". I don't know that I'm really convinced that we suffer from the first--in fact, I consider being vertical as a virtue and don't believe we've cros
9. 939.▲
   by wensing 20y ago

   We have yet to get any VC money and are going to be depending on S3 + EC2 for our startup. Our biggest reason is because we are going to have extremely spiky traffic (it is a website centered on hurricanes and tropical cyclones), so it is
10. 940.▲
    by wensing 20y ago

    Shouldn't be hard to match me up either. my $me; my $last_name = $ynews_uid; our @facebook_names = importNames('Startup School 2007'); for my $facebook_name (@facebook_names) { if ($facebook_name ~= /Matthew $last_name/) { $
11. 941.▲
    by wensing 20y ago

    See you there (from Florida).
12. 942.▲
    by wensing 20y ago

    This seems like a good suggestion. If I get an invite to the Startup School, I'll be there.
13. 943.▲
    by wensing 20y ago

    Exactly. You have control over the read-access permissions on any content on S3. Anything set to 'private' cannot be accessed by the outside world without a URL with an encrypted key salted with your private key and an expiration date. I
14. 944.▲
    by wensing 20y ago

    Exactly. You have control over the read-access permissions on any content on S3. Anything set to 'private' cannot be accessed by the outside world without a URL with an encrypted key salted with your private key and an expiration date. I
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    by wensing 20y ago

    I have friends that work at Y! that are the most talented programmers I know--however, when they recently had a startup idea, there was definitely a 'should we tell our parents?' consideration that wasn't shaken off until the startup had al