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phil
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8.3% of what they did in 2005: wow.
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What algorithm does news.YC use to filter spam?
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volida
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Ebay bought its Chinese clone for hundreds of millions of dollars, which afterwards collapsed because after moving the servers outside China the service's data were going through word filtering (e.g. during login) and there were failures...
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msgbeepa
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http://www.wikio.com/webinfo?id=13628228
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Great Way To Find New Job And Career
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rms
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It's bad if you come out of the Techstars program without any funding and a non-sustainable company, but then you're probably screwed anyways. VCs are infamously inscrutable; we hear that they are always out to take advantage of naive or underfunded companies.<p>If you're good enough to get further investment after Tec...
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volida
1,172,413,405
Bug: I think there is a bug when you edit one of your comments. Instead updating seems there is a new entry?
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Alex3917
1,172,413,671
That is actually what a guy I know from Wilson Sonsini says: Sell the product, design the product, build the product.<p>I think it is the best strategy provided that A) you are targeting businesses B) your software fills a need of a very specific niche.<p>Regardless of whether you literally sell the product first thoug...
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python_kiss
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http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2007/tc20070220_828216.htm?campaign_id=rss_daily
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The Battle for Mobile Search
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Alex3917
1,172,413,316
You know your country doesn't have many role models when Alex Tew is considered the poster child for a successful Internet entrepreneur.
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volida
1,172,413,280
Probably they dislike the content and not the posting itself.
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python_kiss
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http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=21355
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Wireless: India's Hot, China's Not
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rms
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http://www.crv.com/AboutCRV/QuickStart.html
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CRV Quickstart: $250,000 in seed stage financing. How does an 18 year old entrepreneur find references to list on the application?
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volida
1,172,413,027
Ebay bought its Chinese clone for hundreds of millions of dollars
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dngrmouse
1,172,400,507
1. Have it so you can be automatically logged in. I have to manually log in every time I visit the site (using Safari here).<p>2. Just like Reddit does, show the domain each link belongs to. Reddit has this in brackets after the headline, which works fine. Since I don't have much free time, there are some sites that ha...
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Nick_Smith
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http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1397,2082921,00.asp
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Inside Myspace.com - (great info on how they scaled)
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Chingy
1,172,415,642
why is this here
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Chingy
1,172,415,820
You should be able to vote down bad stories. I thought this wouldn't be needed but we're starting to get off-topic submissions, so we need to be able to bury them.
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http://ycombinator.com/faq.html
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volida
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volida
1,172,417,184
xobni.com, reddit.com, pollground.com, loopt.com, weebly.com<p>which else?
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amichail
1,172,414,452
Just to take one example, one might build a service where users invent board games. This could be done using human-based genetic algorithms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-based_genetic_algorithm. Users of the service would be able to modify rules to try to make a game more fun. A fitness function would take into ...
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amichail
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Any thoughts on collaborative invention (e.g., using human-based genetic algorithms)?
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Nick_Smith
1,172,420,242
50 percent of their traffic is for their mail service at this point, according to Alexa. If they ever get beaten on that, it'll be lights out for them.
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amichail
1,172,419,336
One might imagine having a service lie to, for example, make it look more busy (so as to attract more users) and/or to detect cheating. Is this a reasonable thing to do? See for example how the ESP game lies: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~biglou/ESP.pdf. In particular, take a look at the sections on Pre-Recorded Game Play and...
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Trusted human editors.
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1,172,420,274
Am debugging it now.
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&#34;Remember Me&#34; Feature Would Be Nice
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amichail
1,172,419,656
If you think that it would be morally wrong to lie in this way, would it be better if the service told you that it may lie at times to enhance the user experience?
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Alex3917
1,172,417,637
Use your customers as references. If you don't have customers, use the people who said they'd probably buy your product if it existed.<p>Also, you aren't going to get 250k without at the very least a bunch of informal advisors, so list those people too.
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amichail
1,172,420,126
As another example, consider using human-based genetic algorithms to create daily news shows, perhaps in the style of this site (but using people rather than computers): http://www.newsatseven.com
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amichail
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Is it acceptable for software to lie (like in the ESP Game say)?
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wioota
1,172,416,109
This was a great read and the patterns of growth and strategies they used hold true even for much less extreme scaling.
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Nick_Smith
1,172,420,141
This seems like a great time-waster idea. It would probably be very addictive if it ever got critical mass. Naturally I think it will be impossible to monetize on its own, but it will be awesome when a profitable company buys them out.
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dpapathanasiou
1,172,421,335
True, but does that imply that companies should be formed with the sole purpose/goal of getting acquired?
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ratlaw
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http://webstartup.info/
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A quick place to list your startup and see others
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msgbeepa
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http://www.wikio.com/webinfo?id=13633186
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Make Money From Making Comments!
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dangrsmind
1,172,422,244
&#34;Attachment creates delusion.&#34;<p>-- Buddhist saying
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1,172,420,521
More that you can't count on any given acquirer.
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Myspace preparing to block all widgets?
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joshwa
1,172,424,879
a YC company
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dpapathanasiou
1,172,418,895
Just another reminder that acquisition cannot be your only exit strategy.
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danielha
1,172,429,557
Of course it&#39;d be ideal to create a company with a sustaining business model; there&#39;s no question about that. <p>Is that the only time a company should be formed? That may be akin to only purchasing shares in long-term growth companies. Sometimes it&#39;s in your best interest to just ride the short-term explos...
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Alex3917
1,172,424,000
Can you change the CSS so that the links that have already been visited turn a different color?
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lupin_sansei
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Couldn't they just put Adsense on the sidebar to monetise it?
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Nick_Smith
1,172,427,260
I'm not much of an expert on this stuff... what do you all think about their chances?
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farmer
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http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/02/24/OpenID
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Tim Bray: &#34;The buzz around OpenID is becoming impossible to ignore.&#34;
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danielha
1,172,428,636
It shouldn't be a problem as long as they have a business model this time around. :)<p>Good article, thanks.
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danielha
1,172,428,565
I've been trying out their beta for the last couple weeks, and while some may find it nice, it doesn't hook me at all.<p>
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onebeerdave
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/business/yourmoney/25slip.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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Millions of Videos, and Now a Way to Search Inside Them
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bradn
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http://ajaxian.com/archives/yahoo-announces-hosting-of-yui-libraries-on-their-edge-network
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Yahoo! Announces Hosting of YUI libraries on their edge network
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joao
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Freedom of choice, and how entrepreneurs relate to it
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danielha
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I can see this resulting in mass abuse very soon.
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danielha
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All I know is that it works. I tried out a few terms and got what I had in mind every time.<p>They heavily emphasize speech recognition, I think. For what this is, it&#39;s very cool. The technology is there and the product works. I think this is going places.
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danielha
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Thanks, I&#39;ll be watching this soon.
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omarish
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People trying to delete their posts. Erasing the text == deleting the post.
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Harj
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http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2007/02/silicon_valley_20.php
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Silicon Valley has become Media Valley - someone should tell NYC
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omarish
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People trying to delete their posts. Erasing the text == deleting the post.
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ottawastart
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Interesting that two of these companies had NO co-founder. Hmmm... There seems to be a lot of emphasis in the YC companies on finding a co-founder, a partner, etc.
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danielha
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A lot of you would-be entrepreneurs should give this a read. There are many things to consider in the crucial first steps.
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danielha
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Humans have too much compassion. We need cold, hard algorithms! Indiscriminating, zero-tolerant machines! ;)
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gaz
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myspace arn&#39;t given enough credit, supporting a site with that many users is no easy task.
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python_kiss
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Patience pays for VCs too. It was my understanding that many quick sell outs were a result of VC pressure. MySpace former ceo, for example, filed a lawsuit against its investors (VantagePoint) for pressuring them into sell out for a quick $580 million. VCs are much like shareholders in corporations; they often vote for...
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python_kiss
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I pointed out in an earlier article (http://m4th.com/Articles/Article.php?Article-Title=Anatomy-of-a-Successful-Social-Network) that MySpace owes much of its success to the countless choices it offers to its users. Over the past couple of months, however, MySpace has turned greedy. Rupert Murdoch feels that online widg...
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danielha
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I did a search and didn&#39;t see this mentioned. <p>In any case, a very useful feature would be a way to track your comments in the different submissions and the stories that you voted up.<p>There are a lot of really great stories on here and sometimes I don&#39;t have the time to finish reading some. I&#39;d like to ...
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omarish
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So i&#39;m not the only young one pursuing a startup. Good to know.<p>Good luck.
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joshwa
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option to open articles/comments in a new tab by default?<p>bookmarklet set (I often use my &#34;reddit this&#34; bookmarklet to get back to the comments page for an article I&#39;ve clicked)
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vikram
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It was bound to happen. All the known ones will probably have to pay some sort of a toll. I wonder if the community will care enough to fight back?
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jwecker
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Nice. A network of hierarchical bayes inference machines without a line of code.
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joshwa
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I&#39;ve been thinking about this in relation to my startup-- it would be great to have a really low-friction way for my users to create accounts, and to say, &#34;well, if you already have an AIM account or a LiveJournal account, just use those credentials&#34;.<p>But I think the average user might need some education...
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ashu
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How to handle security bugs in your code
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rms
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Thanks for the solid advice.
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eli
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It doesn&#39;t even really have to be AJAX. You could solve the problem just by setting up an #anchor so that when the screen reloads after voting, it just the user back to where they left off.
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really? which ones?
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Harj
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Facebook is Stickier than Peanut Butter
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eli
1,172,443,382
Maybe the rules could even be tweaked to keep good stories with a minority viewpoint from being buried. At the very least, maybe have down votes count as only 1/2 a vote. (So there would have to be greater than 2:1 of people against a story to bring it down below 0 points)
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Slife: displays graphically what you do with your computer
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joshwa
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Would love to see the &#34;inbox&#34; feature of reddit, so I can see when one of my comments has been replied to. <p>Or simply an email or RSS notification... you wanted to spark the discussion, right? So give me a way of knowing if I&#39;ve sparked anything!<p>Also, it&#39;d be nice to see on the list pages something...
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Startup School Wiki - Wiki inc videos of startup school 2006 and 2005
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joshwa
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downvotes on articles might help... There are a bunch of posts from an adsense farm that I&#39;d like to flag/downvote.
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bluemoo
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This problem is firefox specific. For whatever reason, IE does The Right Thing. Actually, the whole site just looks better in IE, so maybe this should be a request for better Firefox support :)
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jcwentz
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How to Waste a Lot of Money in Software Development
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danw
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Theres a list at:<p>http://yrumors.infogami.com/OldHomePage
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jwecker
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Make sure and post this comment in the &#34;Features you want&#34; section if you haven&#39;t already. http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=363
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Ok, from now on, restarting the server shouldn&#39;t log anyone out. Form submissions will still be lost if a restart happens in the middle, though.
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sharpshoot
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boso.com (now auctomatic), socialmoth, justin.tv?
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jwecker
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How to Waste a Lot of Money in Software Development: _Neglect to fire_ people who need to be fired and/or neglect to have a little bit of new blood flowing into the program- especially if it&#39;s a long-lived program. If there is a programmer not pulling their weight or not passionate about the project or programmin...
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dangrsmind
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In my experience the acquiring company will require an NDA since as a public company they would not want early acquisition discussions disclosed. I&#39;ve only done one such transaction but I understand this requirement is typical.<p>The company to be acquired also wants to have an NDA in this case since in the event ...
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jwecker
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can&#39;t speak for joshwa, but I thought this one was spammy. http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=1040
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jwecker
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I can&#39;t get it to pull up. google cache http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:Kzhj8Oi5868J:www.slifelabs.com/&#38;strip=1<p>Good heavens, there&#39;s not a news.YC effect, is there? I guess it&#39;s on digg...
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mmcgrana
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From an engineering perspective, I enjoyed the inside look at how Myspace scaled their infrastructure. Scaling is certainly a critical issue for these big sites; one of the reasons that Friendster waned in popularity was that they used algorithms and a back-end infrastructure that were painfully slow for their once-ma...
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http://mashable.com/2007/02/25/facebook-query-language/
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Facebook Launches Facebook Query Language
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Nick_Smith
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Since the NYT demands your info:<p>THE World Wide Web is awash in digital video, but too often we can’t find the videos we want or browse for what we might like.<p>That’s a loss, because if we could search for Internet videos, they might become the content of a global television station, just as the Web’s hypertext, on...
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dangrsmind
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Many NDAs require the disclosing party to describe, list, or specify the confidential items disclosed. But often I find when very early stage inventors ask people to sign NDAs they often fail to specify what is disclosed even though their agreements require it. If you ever have to enforce an NDA, trying to argue that...
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immad
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http://developers.facebook.com/documentation.php?v=1.0&#38;doc=fql &#60;- thats the facebook docs on it.<p>Maybe a bit bland but I was thinking of using the facebook api so i found it interesting. Also I was thinking how the facebook api is a genius move by facebook. The friends network is a barrier to entry for any ne...
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immad
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$8 billion for 18 million users values each user at $440. Assuming that the technology can be reasonably coppied in less than $100k, apart from users what else does facebook have? They also have a very powerful brand. Given that myspace went for $440m (correct?) then the facebook valuation probably is reasonably fair.<...
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http://ricksegal.typepad.com/pmv/2007/02/a_fatal_paper_c.html
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A Fatal Paper Cut - Too many shareholders and bad shareholders agreement
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immad
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Story is not that interesting but the advice is.
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eli
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Hmm, the second Top 10 list about running a forum from seorefugee.com. Something tells me their real strength lies in Google rankings, not forums.
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eli
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This has been attempted a few times before without a whole lot of success. There was one plugin launched fairly recently that added a sidebar user-contributed Wiki to every site. And there was another before that where you could add virtual &#34;graffiti&#34; to sites. It&#39;s a neat idea, but I think it&#39;ll be pre...
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