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by zhyder 17y ago
Why create a new 'room' methaphor? How is the traditional 'album' one insufficient?
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by zhyder 17y ago
What would be really great is to have a 'YC of ...' in each different area. For instance, New York could be the YC of Finance (e.g. startup: private equity exchange), LA the YC of entertainment (e.g. startup: low-budget TV show delivered th
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Ask HN: Anyone using Softlayer's Cloudlayer?
8 points by zhyder 17y ago|3 comments
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by zhyder 17y ago
Agreed, it was bad enough when IM was stuck in various closed networks, but at least then no single network had a monopoly. We need to think about how to build a distributed/federated Twitter alternative. Anyone want to get together to brai
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by zhyder 17y ago
This is really cool, gives a sense for how these discussions happen at other startups. Some similarities with our startup's discussions too, makes me feel... normal .
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by zhyder 17y ago
I've heard the same argument stated as 'must be 3x better' before, but it feels overly simplified. I think how much better you need to be depends on: - How painful the status quo is for the market; do existing solutions have a perception of
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by zhyder 17y ago
"the aggregator or blogger earned enough money to survive (since what he did is not that expensive), while the news outlet who did the reporting didn't earn enough to operate." Great point! This is why I'm worried about a future without N
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by zhyder 17y ago
It depends on how much you want them versus how much they want you. If you can't attract them with just cash, you're going to have to give stock. Considering the Slinkset guys are hungry entrepreneurs who'd probably want a stake, and an all
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by zhyder 17y ago
Since the acquisition was likely done with stock, vanilla vesting would be enough to make them stick around.
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Jon Rubinstein Appointed CEO of Palm(investor.palm.com)
1 points by zhyder 17y ago|0 comments
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by zhyder 17y ago
The only extra thing I was expecting was a higher res screen. I guess they decided that would be too disruptive to the developers.
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Google Releases Dev Version Of Chrome For Mac And Linux(techcrunch.com)
2 points by zhyder 17y ago|0 comments
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by zhyder 17y ago
It'd be great if it (or v2) has one of those Pixel Qi or OLPC XO screens. Better compromise between E-Ink's (sunlight) readability & low power consumption, and LCDs' refresh rate & color production.
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by zhyder 17y ago
Your formula for sharing rooms doesn't seem to scale well to many room-sharers. How about: P = (houserent * 0.5)/numpeople + (houserent * 0.5 * a)/numrooms Where a=0.5 if you're sharing a room, else a=1. This basically assumes that half you
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by zhyder 17y ago
Working on a startup full-time. Any non-hackers looking for a startup, please send me an email.
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by zhyder 17y ago
Shouldn't it be even simpler than that? Why can't the OS control context switching at a fine grain with a policy like: 10% of time for all background apps, and 90% for either the foreground app or for the sleep state. At worst a background
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by zhyder 17y ago
P.S. we're looking for a salesperson or general 'business guy'. http://www.dabbleboard.com/join has a somewhat generic description. Willing to consider arrangements ranging from market-level salary to cofounder levels of equity; ideally s
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by zhyder 17y ago
Man I really hate Java applets.
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by zhyder 17y ago
Your HW should be more than enough. It could be an issue with the version of your Java plugin. Do you know if you have at least 1.5? The invite link should just work; no other setup is needed. Can you email me the link?
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by zhyder 17y ago
Yep, Speex at high quality, and you're right about RTMFP prioritizing audio. I'm guessing there was some temporary Internet connectivity issue. Which other services out there are using RTMFP btw? It seems to be under-utilized so far, probab
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by zhyder 17y ago
"I can't find anything that I wouldn't pay for". Had to read that a couple of times coz it sounded too good to be true :). Most consumer firewalls won't block it, but most corporate ones will. Eventually we'll implement a server-based fall-
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by zhyder 17y ago
Thanks. You're right about the lack of marketing; definitely need to write a lot more copy. I'm glad you liked the "fully save time, money & the earth" slogan. I'm still waiting for commenters here to say how much they hate the name of
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by zhyder 17y ago
Thanks. Regarding: 1. That's intentional, so the user would scroll down past the the logo and "Signed as ..." portion at the top. But I guess that's not a good design decision. 2. Sorry! Need to test more browsers. Opera has issues too btw,
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by zhyder 17y ago
Btw, the service IS live. Click "Meet" to give it a spin. The logs seem to show everyone's just checking out the video, which is unusual for HNers. No wonder there aren't any "<feature> is broken" comments.
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by zhyder 17y ago
You can use it now! Click the "Meet" link on the top. Signup isn't even needed, but helps if you want to build a library of files and drawings. Yes, using FP10's P2P tech with Stratus, with a Java applet helping for desktop sharing.
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by zhyder 17y ago
Dimdim, like WebEx, seems to be optimized for presentations. For instance, they only allow 1 or 2 people to share their webcams (I think they even pitch the 2 webcams as "2 people can present together..."). AlmostMeet is more for those inte
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by zhyder 17y ago
Thanks! Yeah, it's a pretty poorly made video. There're also too many times where I'm confused what feature I want to show next and I just waste time in the video. I didn't edit the video because that would make our webcam streams look jarr
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by zhyder 17y ago
There're still many rough edges but it's definitely time for HN feedback! Please check out the 2min tour and try out the service. We realized that many folks who use Dabbleboard (whiteboard app, also launched on HN a yr ago: http://news.yc
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Ask HN: Feedback on webapp, online meetings for group collaboration(almostmeet.com)
34 points by zhyder 17y ago|22 comments
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by zhyder 17y ago
There're still many rough edges but it's definitely time for HN feedback! Please check out the 2min tour. We realized that many folks who use Dabbleboard (whiteboard app, also launched on HN a yr ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20

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