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by zach 15y ago
Even following best practices, the top priority of the project should be to fulfill the players' expectations and realize the designers' vision. That's not as compatible with technical excellence at every stage of the project as you'd hope
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by zach 15y ago
Sweet, laser-targeted idea. The quality of the business concepts coming out of YC have increased even as their quantity has exploded. It could be survivorship bias, but in any case I'm impressed.
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DoubleRecall (YC S11) turns paywalls into advertising dollars(gigaom.com)
2 points by zach 15y ago|1 comments
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by zach 15y ago
A great counterpoint experiment would be to similarly expose young men to images, verbal cues and goals of physical fitness and competitiveness and then measure their interest in STEM achievement. If there is no negative impact, you overtur
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by zach 15y ago
I can vouch for the agreeableness of this system. I received a bonus from a similar pool when the company I was working at was sold. It came across to me and everyone else who received it as a genuine and thoughtful act. That may have been
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by zach 15y ago
The current state of the art that I've noticed for App Store review spam is to: 1) Create accounts well ahead of time 2) Use the accounts to give nearly-always-five-star reviews to several highly-rated and frequently-reviewed free apps, suc
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by zach 15y ago
There are generally three kinds of mission statement. The plain mission statement which comes out and tells you what the company does, as if you'd never heard of them before. This is best typified by the Five Guys fast food chain's mission
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by zach 15y ago
I know I happily streamed .au music from the sounds.sdsu.edu FTP server into /dev/audio (late at night, of course) in that era. Since it was an FTP server, I suppose there was a rough sort of DRM (maximum connections allowed) and metadata (
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by zach 15y ago
Original discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1020130 Original discussion on follow-up article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1023232
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by zach 15y ago
Good stuff. I had some long-form thoughts so I posted a full-length reply on my blog: http://zachbaker.com/revenge-of-the-futurists
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by zach 15y ago
That's actually the message the BBC video says.
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by zach 15y ago
More versions of the story and many others: http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/where.asp
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by zach 15y ago
Looks like the same UI as on Android. Does Android have a UITabBar equivalent?
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by zach 15y ago
I distinctly remember being surprised at this turn of events. It didn't seem natural, but then again I understood startup hiring was a challenge (for different reasons then versus now). I haven't heard of much YC intermerging since then.
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by zach 15y ago
Gotta agree the comment on the article by acitrano - they probably do own copyright to the picture, but to reveal why outside of court would needlessly undermine the trope which has made it famous. Indeed, I presume that surfacing "the lega
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by zach 15y ago
The ultimate app finder: announcing on HN you're launching an app that does the thing you want.
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The Fridge (YC S10) Is Going Dark(zachbaker.com)
73 points by zach 15y ago|48 comments
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by zach 15y ago
Absolutely agree. We're all passionate about great products here, right? And stories where great products win despite all odds are what I want to tell my kids at night. But I'm going to be honest, given a lone founder, I'd prefer to invest
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by zach 15y ago
I hesitate to recommend the Steve Martin line to non-performers. I've known several entrepreneurs who have sunk a year or years of their lives into codebases and eternally-half-built products instead of businesses. Including myself at 20!
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by zach 15y ago
What is true for getting acquired is about as true for acquiring customers. If people don't know about you or haven't heard of your product from other means, you have to break through a wall of indifference. This is the real value of cover
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by zach 15y ago
I'm sure it's presumably the usual Google continuity scenario, as made famous by Writely, GrandCentral, JotSpot, and many others. The site goes dark, there's a series of huge planning and strategy sessions, the project gets staffed up and t
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by zach 15y ago
The replacement for SparkBuy is clearly going to be Google Product Search's next major iteration. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of our lives... well, at least for a few years.
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Google has wiped Twitter off the map (not with Google+, on Google Maps)(maps.google.com)
5 points by zach 15y ago|0 comments
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by zach 15y ago
A real victory for YC as well as the founders (congrats to them - great software!) This is the best example yet of YC's considerable ability to take a very deep tech, non-consumer startup, help vet and guide its technology and marketability
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by zach 15y ago
Is there any current wisdom out there on this? It does seem reasonable to start some patent paperwork if it increases our company's leverage. But how interested are larger companies in this sort of thing? Is patentability a criterion to th
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by zach 15y ago
I was wondering why I saw someone retweet "We have NOT been acquired." from Punchd's account last week. Now comes the rest of the story. https://twitter.com/punchd And as always, congratulations! Great and fun business and I'm glad for
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Yeah, your game sucks. Now make people play it.(videogameartist.wordpress.com)
3 points by zach 15y ago|0 comments
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by zach 15y ago
A healthy amount of the writing of the world still begins life in a word processor. Any string born of this heritage is likely to have single and double (curved) quotation marks. OpenOffice, Word, Pages – they all do it and are expected to
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by zach 15y ago
Proof that even completely ordinary string data used in the most USA-centric domain imaginable STILL needs proper encoding.
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by zach 15y ago
This is a development that fascinates me as well. Upper middle class families no longer employing a host of household help (i.e. the Mary Poppins household) seems like an effect of increased productivity and job opportunity. It is difficul

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