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E-commerce Giants Amazon and eBay Add Pinterest Buttons(clickz.com)
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Some Thoughts on the Instagram Valuation(continuations.com)
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by wheels 15y ago
This is passionate, noble and wrong. Or at least a false-dichotomy. This is a defense of pure mathematics. Pure mathematics can certainly be a thing of beauty and that elegance is the draw which pulls in most mathematicians. But applied m
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by wheels 15y ago
"Not trying to hire Linus" is a bit of a straw-man. There are a lot of folks that fall between "Linus" and "have to actively look for a job". Probably tens of thousands of people in the programming field. The important point that I'm gett
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by wheels 15y ago
I can't tell if you're being intentionally dense or just naive. Linus copied the kernel tree to GitHub when the kernel git repo was compromised. It is not the main repo. Of the others, only Rails and JQuery could even be reasonably be cal
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by wheels 15y ago
I call BS on this one. I'd even say that this will filter out the top level of folks (†). If you give me a synthetic puzzle to solve I wouldn't bother applying to your organization. It's much better to craft a problem to the specific doma
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by wheels 15y ago
From a week after your account was created: http://web.archive.org/web/20100615085453/http://news.ycombi... Forbes, Financial Times, New York Times
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Earlybird closes $100 million fund focused on Berlin(venturevillage.eu)
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Groupon restates Q4 earnings after audit (revenue reduced $14.3 million)(internetretailer.com)
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by wheels 15y ago
There are a lot of errors in there. I only looked at the S09 batch and e.g. Gabriel Weinberg (DuckDuckGo founder) is listed as a WakeMate founder and some companies are listed as "live" whose domains are dead, plus there's a company I've
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by wheels 15y ago
> I bet Cash4Gold has a ton of friendly ethical people working the lower ranks What you did there is the anti-thesis to my point though: if your job requires you to make specific decisions that you feel are hurting others, you are no
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by wheels 15y ago
> So what is "evil"? Can a company be evil? An interesting point, made by a friend [1] recently at dinner: companies can't be evil. Companies can't love, they can't be loyal or caring; they can't be malevolent or heartless. Only peo
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by wheels 15y ago
> "That is, C is little more than a portable assembly language." I know it's not really the point, but this is a pet peeve. No, C is nothing like assembly language. I seriously question whether anyone who repeats that frequently has
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by wheels 15y ago
That's orthogonal to what waxy said. Public stock can vest as well. The liquidity of the stock is only relevant at which point it vests. So, if, as suggested, ZNGA were to lose some percent of its value before the first cliff hits, the e
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by wheels 15y ago
You're confusing YC with a charity. It is not. Trying to invest in teams that will succeed is the modus operandi of virtually all venture investors, YC included. YC is trying to rewrite a lot of the rules of venture investing, and has
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Revenue by segment for Apple, Microsoft and Google(asymco.com)
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by wheels 15y ago
It's only been two weeks since we had exactly this discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3649828
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Web Platform Makes Professor Most Powerful Pirate(spiegel.de)
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by wheels 15y ago
Actually not. Just use a loopback cypto FS to store the sensitive stuff. The reason they had to reboot the machine is that they just had access to the HDD where they could change the password, as opposed to having live root access.
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by wheels 15y ago
The app store is 3.5 years old, not one, and has been so successful that the original poster mentioned that "practically everyone buying software does it that way." Nobody is suggesting that the app store should sell software the way that O
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by wheels 15y ago
Yes, you are misunderstanding what an email course is. An email course is a daily or weekly reminder to you to keep using the product so that you'll be primed for the sales process. Given that your viewing of images will be tracked, it wi
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by wheels 15y ago
> Practically everyone who’s paying for software is doing so through an app store And how well's that working for them? • All of the revenue for the thousands of vendors in the Apple App Store together for 2011: $3.6 billion • Oracle'
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by wheels 15y ago
Amazon has sites all over the world, including the UK, for which it also offers fulfillment services. I suspect the larger reason this hasn't been done yet is that it allows them to first take the orders and then scale the production run si
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by wheels 15y ago
> It sounds like post-hoc rationalizing to apply this logic to humans. With the complexity of human social interactions, it would bewildering were it not the case that there are at least some small instances of genetic advantage bei
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by wheels 15y ago
> For evolution, the person who died at the age of 29, with six children, and the person who lived for two hundred years and won six dozen Nobel prizes, but never had children, it considers the latter person to have failed. That's not
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by wheels 15y ago
Best to avoid the US altogether. Police over-reacting is totally [1] unheard [2] of in Europe [3]. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A683tiFk6tM [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii_Kx-mExBg [3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI0S-A
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by wheels 15y ago
Sorry, but you're just wrong on this. Here's an example of parsing a string like the one in there: http://pastie.org/3429643 It parses that string and reads it into a struct at a rate of about 3 million per second on a single core on my
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by wheels 15y ago
Moreover, as someone who's spent a significant chunk of my career basically being a professional optimizer, one of the worst things to fight against is code infected with a plethora of micro-optimizations. Micro-optimizations tend to be ba
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by wheels 15y ago
LaunchBox Digital started there, then moved to Durham, then moved back to traditional angel investing. In fact, most of the programs that I listed above at this point are defunct, which was kind of what I was getting at.
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by wheels 15y ago
There have been a lot of places that have tried it recently. There have been startup "accelerators" and seed funding thingers in non-hub cities popping up like wildfire. I know of programs that have run in Toronto, DC, Chicago, Atlanta, E

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