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4,199 | null | comment | staunch | 1,173,901,733 | He claims to agree with the move, but considering the timing of that investment it seems unlikely the decision was his.<p>If he hasn't quit by '08 I will be surprised. Time to launch a LinkedIn competitor? | null | 4,198 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
4,204 | null | story | r0b | 1,173,902,504 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.feld.com/blog/archives/002234.html | 1 | Looking for Web-based Political News Infrastructure | null | 0 |
4,203 | null | comment | staunch | 1,173,902,185 | When I'm learning something new I tend to switch back and forth between practice and study. Neither alone seems foster growth as fast as the combination. I think working on your startup counts as practice and this site counts as studying.<p> | null | 4,202 | null | [
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4,205 | null | comment | xx | 1,173,902,977 | Ok, you "learned tons". How much money did you make of it. Or by what measure was it valuable? <p>Maybe you *think* you learned something, while in fact you just spent time entertaining yourself? | null | 4,203 | null | [
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4,202 | null | comment | xx | 1,173,901,958 | Im kind of a startup person. I run a young company. Lately im reading the news here on a regular basis. Apart from being fun, i dont know if its of any use. What do you think? Did you ever learn something that had a positive impact on your business by reading stuff on the net? Is reading of any use? Or is it all about ... | null | 4,200 | null | [
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4,206 | null | comment | eli | 1,173,903,130 | I think the more interesting issue is that they're charging money for beta software.<p>(Of course, most things are more interesting than a Vi/Emacs/whatever holy war)
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4,207 | null | comment | brett | 1,173,903,221 | #2 is pretty helpful for me in terms of thinking about the problem. It seems really obvious now, but I tended to think of performance and usability as different buckets each to be optimized on their own. I just thought of better performance of an end to its own (faster stuff is JUST better, right?). Of course the reaso... | null | 4,144 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
4,208 | null | comment | jwecker | 1,173,903,266 | ctrl-scrollwheel | null | 4,109 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
4,209 | null | comment | iamwil | 1,173,903,463 | Like everything, it's a balance, right? All study and no practice is just as bad as all practice with no study. And sometimes, if you internalize something that you read, you won't often remember where you read it from, so you think you came up with it yourself.<p>That said, I think it's good to keep yourself in chec... | null | 4,200 | null | [
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4,210 | null | comment | far33d | 1,173,903,508 | However, a 2003 vintage fund probably has had very few (if any) exits. I would like to understand what exactly the y-axis of this graph models, and how it accounts for performance. Is performance based on the value actually returned to investors (in which case, 2003 and newer funds would be expected to have little or z... | null | 4,164 | null | [
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4,212 | null | story | staunch | 1,173,903,826 | null | null | null | null | null | http://danbricklin.com/podcast.html | 4 | Dan Bricklin's Log Podcast | null | 0 |
4,215 | null | comment | xx | 1,173,904,174 | Maybe. But maybe the opposite of all you said is true.<p>Balance might be not good to be "beating the averages". Practice to the extreme might be better. How do you know that balance is better? | null | 4,209 | null | [
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4,213 | null | comment | eli | 1,173,904,027 | Piece of cake.<p>Ok everybody, split into to equal groups. Now, group 2, you're going to have to stop reading. Check back in a year and we'll see which group does better.<p>Edit: On a less snarky note... I don't see how reading different viewpoints about startups could be a bad thing. | null | 4,200 | null | [
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4,214 | null | comment | zkinion | 1,173,904,121 | I like the site. I don't know if its a good place to think up ideas, or to even check if "somebody else is doing it" which doesn't really matter. It is a nice resource to quickly see stuff thats out there. Try to find some good in everything :)<p> | null | 3,635 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
4,211 | null | story | epi0Bauqu | 1,173,903,534 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.ivegotafang.com/Internet_Startup_Company_Links | 1 | Internet Startup Company Links | null | 0 |
4,218 | null | comment | ynot | 1,173,904,366 | I love you, eli! You think like me.<p>But one would have to pay me to join the "stop reading" group =) | null | 4,213 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
4,217 | null | comment | iamwil | 1,173,904,347 | That's kinda funny. I've always read that passage to mean, those are the types of armies you don't want to be fighting against, since the best victory is victory where you don't have to fight at all and the opposing side just gives up. I never thought of it as advice to put your own people in a corner, so they have n... | null | 3,928 | null | [
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4,216 | null | comment | naish | 1,173,904,343 | or for Mac users: Shift-⌘+ | null | 4,109 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
4,220 | null | comment | eli | 1,173,904,694 | Digitized voice calls *are* data. So they might as well run over an IP network. | null | 4,097 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
4,219 | null | comment | staunch | 1,173,904,640 | I know because I am consistently running up against real issues that involve things I've learned. It has been very helpful, even in the minimal case of providing a frame of reference for making decisions.
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4,221 | null | story | eli | 1,173,904,863 | null | null | null | null | [
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4,226 | null | comment | dawie | 1,173,905,405 | It doesn't lower your changes.. | null | 4,200 | null | [
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4,223 | null | comment | eli | 1,173,905,309 | Admittedly it's not quite the same without, ya know, the audio. But Paul knows his stuff. He also wrote the new Web Developers Best Practices Guide for dotMobi domains: http://www.blueflavor.com/blog/mobile/dotmobi_mobile_web_developers_guide.php | null | 4,221 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
4,228 | null | comment | staunch | 1,173,905,587 | Joe Kraus' emphasis on "make what you measure" convinced me to start measuring some specific metrics in more detail. The end result was boosted numbers in some of my performance/growth stats.<p>The most valuable things I've learned from other entrepreneurs are principles and methodologies. I apply them over and over ag... | null | 4,222 | null | [
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4,227 | null | comment | veritas | 1,173,905,520 | Not true. Practicing incessantly will make you excellent in one category. Reading, learning and continually evolving will make you better across several. <p>I can stick my head in the sand and keep programming PHP, but thanks to the web and reading, I have an interest in design, AJAX, and most of all Ruby on Rails. ... | null | 4,215 | null | [
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4,222 | null | comment | xx | 1,173,905,065 | Can you give an example? | null | 4,219 | null | [
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4,225 | null | story | semigeek | 1,173,905,370 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.manager-tools.com/ | 1 | Manager Tools - Helping you become a more effective manager and leader | null | 0 |
4,224 | null | comment | Readmore | 1,173,905,342 | Agreed. Storing more email helps to target their ads, and most users will never use the full amount of space. Also, at the rate that storage gets cheaper they are able to continually increase the limits. It's like the problem that Amazon had with excess servers, they had so much infrastructure that they needed somethin... | null | 4,146 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
4,234 | null | comment | staunch | 1,173,906,646 | Guy said Garage is a $20 million fund. Other VCs do single deals for more than that. I think he's a straight shooter with upper VC stardom written all over him.<p>His interview with Venture Voice talked a lot about Garage and he was very candid:<p>http://www.venturevoice.com/2006/10/vv_show_39_guy_kawasaki_of_gar.html
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4,229 | null | story | msgbeepa | 1,173,905,597 | null | null | null | null | [
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4,230 | null | comment | Readmore | 1,173,906,017 | Oh no. Don't let this be what keeps you in Windows land. Switch to Mac just because it's better in every way, you won't regret it. | null | 4,142 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
4,233 | null | comment | bluemoo | 1,173,906,287 | If the text looks grey on a grey background, you might be using firefox. The site is much more readable on IE. Not that you should have to change. | null | 4,109 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
4,237 | null | comment | python_kiss | 1,173,906,964 | Variety of ideas are indicative of the plasticity of mind. Rest assured, this is something YC will see as a good thing. Go ahead and list them. | null | 4,236 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
4,241 | null | comment | domp | 1,173,907,236 | I loved this article. It covers how a website can start with no clear vision and have the social community direct what it ultimately becomes <p>They also have a pretty positive outlook on their biggest competitor, Pandora, who they also see as a friend in spreading their products reach. | null | 4,238 | null | [
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4,232 | null | comment | xx | 1,173,906,126 | Proof? | null | 4,226 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
4,231 | null | comment | xx | 1,173,906,102 | Being excellent in one thing is often cited as a key factor to success. For example by Google:
www.google.com/corporate/tenthings.html
"It's best to do one thing really, really well"<p>What insights do you have to proove the makers of the most successful tech startup wrong? | null | 4,227 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
4,238 | null | story | domp | 1,173,906,981 | null | null | null | null | [
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4,236 | null | comment | ginn | 1,173,906,895 | My team members enjoy creating things for the hell of it because it's fun. The application asked if we had built anything else. A lot of the things we are building is almost entering beta stage. I would say maybe 3 of the projects. We built it because it was fun to build.<p>We're concerned that Y combinator may think... | null | 4,235 | null | [
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4,239 | null | comment | xx | 1,173,907,025 | Ok, there we have a first example! | null | 4,228 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
4,240 | null | comment | xx | 1,173,907,099 | Well, it costs time, right? | null | 4,213 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
4,242 | null | comment | PindaxDotCom | 1,173,907,317 | Raises your chances of success? Don't leave your success to chance. Hardwork and perserverance. Sure, a lil luck wouldn't hurt, but don't count on it.<p>As for this site, its fun to read. Keep a critical mind though, because there simply is no magic formula, no hard and fast rules. As Morpheus might say "The rules can ... | null | 4,200 | null | [
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4,248 | null | comment | jamiequint | 1,173,908,626 | Reading opens your mind to new things. Just because you can't see the direct effect reading has on your thoughts doesn't mean it has no effect. It gives you better perspective so you can see things from a different point of view.<p>Reading has different values other than perspective as well, it gives you conversation c... | null | 4,200 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
4,247 | null | comment | xx | 1,173,908,479 | Well, this is a manifesto to do stuff. You give examples, how stuff can lead to other stuff. Thats fine. But its not specific to reading startupblogs, is it? | null | 4,244 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
4,250 | null | comment | richcollins | 1,173,908,967 | People don't usually know what they want. It is your job to figure it out based on the available information and then give it to them.<p>Perhaps this would be useful to those ends; but I would not take what people say to be what they literally want.
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4,243 | null | comment | sszhou | 1,173,907,547 | I must say I was pleasantly surprised to find my startup profiled :) thx for the find msgbeepa | null | 4,229 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
4,245 | null | comment | xx | 1,173,907,637 | You can start a startup without chance of failure? How many did you do so far? | null | 4,242 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
4,244 | null | comment | nostrademons | 1,173,907,581 | Reading and keeping up with the news is kinda odd. 99% of what you read is absolutely useless. It will never make a difference in what you do, and you'll probably never use it. However, that remaining 1% can save you *huge* amounts of time or open up massive opportunities.<p>Just a couple examples where procrastinat... | null | 4,202 | null | [
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4,246 | null | comment | paul | 1,173,908,237 | What is your startup? | null | 4,244 | null | [
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4,253 | null | comment | davidw | 1,173,910,556 | What's the cool way, "be 37 signals" ?
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4,255 | null | comment | jasonyan | 1,173,912,766 | I had been using Komodo for the last few months which is a nice IDE, but this looks promising.<p>I've tarballed the latest bundles from their repository and renamed all ":?*\\|" characters to DOS friendly characters, if you want to try out a bundle that isn't included with E. You can grab it from: http://www.bigheadla... | null | 4,102 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
4,251 | null | comment | Leonidas | 1,173,909,981 | I would say list them because it shows your team's ability to innovate. Besides, if Y doesn't like the one you submitted, they might like the other ones.<p>Cheers | null | 4,235 | null | [
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4,249 | null | story | sethjohn | 1,173,908,791 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.thefrankpetersshow.com/ | 1 | Frank Peters Show 100th episode; podcast interviews with entrepreneurs, VCs, etc.; more useful than an MBA! | null | 0 |
4,254 | null | comment | greendestiny | 1,173,911,370 | As long as the 53,651 are actually interested in using it, not just having a look or thinking about the startup behind it. I imagine thats the problem with traffic from places like techcrunch. | null | 4,150 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
4,257 | null | comment | groksoup | 1,173,913,597 | Because you rarely have a full team.
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4,260 | null | comment | bootload | 1,173,915,362 | '... I would say list them because it shows your team's ability to innovate. ...'<p>And I would say put a watch on them because their focus on their prime tasks may drop. If you are putting in your 100% where will you get the extra time? | null | 4,251 | null | [
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4,252 | null | comment | Leonidas | 1,173,910,050 | Maybe the outsiders can add value to what your team lacks. | null | 4,193 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
4,259 | null | story | Readmore | 1,173,915,232 | null | null | null | null | null | http://nubyonrails.com/articles/2007/02/24/the-host-with-the-most | 3 | Overview of Rails hosting options from a Rails dev | null | 0 |
4,261 | null | comment | brett | 1,173,916,085 | It can't be that cut and dry. Creative people tinker with stuff. You want creative people. Obviously there is a point where side projects interfere with what you are trying to get done, but a "if you're working on anything else you're not giving 100%" attitude seems very short sighted. | null | 4,260 | null | [
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4,258 | null | comment | amichail | 1,173,913,625 | "Well, of course you sometimes have to exaggerate. If you think there are three places where you can get a lease, then you just say you have a lease so you can move to the next step. You've got to say you are a step ahead of where you actually are to move to the step that you want to be at.<p>To move to step two, peo... | null | 4,256 | null | [
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4,262 | null | comment | bootload | 1,173,916,133 | '... fonts bigger ...'<p>In Fox, "Ctrl +' for bigger and 'Ctrl -' for smaller<p>'... and visited links darker ...'<p>good point in Fox de-select, "Edit-Firefox preferences-Content-Colors-Allow pages to choose their own colors, instead of my selections" will change the link colours but also the background.<p> | null | 4,149 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
4,265 | null | comment | pg | 1,173,916,861 | We like people who work on things for fun because it shows they really like hacking. That's why we have a question on the application form asking "what cool things have you built?" On the other hand, if someone were spending time on side projects during the first few months of their startup, that would be a bad sign. | null | 4,235 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
4,272 | null | comment | AlfredNgeno | 1,173,918,851 | I'll be there Dan,...so thats 2 of us...anyone else??
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4,267 | null | story | smackemsJohnson | 1,173,917,420 | null | null | null | null | null | http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/070126/odds/odd_malaysia_python_dc_1 | 2 | dogs not supportive of open source | null | 0 |
4,266 | null | comment | pg | 1,173,917,025 | It ought to. Among other things, one ought to get first wind of new trends (including potential competitors) on a site like this. | null | 4,200 | null | [
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4,268 | null | comment | benatkin | 1,173,917,461 | I think it's a good idea to target the early adopters. If you don't, you risk basing your product on old technology. | null | 4,101 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
4,270 | null | comment | nickb | 1,173,918,487 | On the surface it might look like TextMate but after trying to use it for about 10 min, it fails to live up to this moniker. It doesn't do 20% of what TM does. <p>Note: I use TM to edit the RoR files. | null | 4,102 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
4,271 | null | comment | danw | 1,173,918,651 | I'll be at opencoffee club and London 2.0 later today (March 15th). If any YC news users are in London and feel like meeting up then come along!<p>Open coffee: http://entrepreneur.meetup.com/1056/?gj=sj3<p>London 2.0: http://upcoming.org/event/154671/ | null | 4,269 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
4,263 | null | comment | brett | 1,173,916,438 | yeah i could have phrased that title better. | null | 4,105 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
4,273 | null | story | amichail | 1,173,919,825 | null | null | null | null | [
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4,269 | null | story | danw | 1,173,918,302 | null | null | null | null | [
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4,276 | null | story | msgbeepa | 1,173,920,496 | null | null | null | null | null | http://avinio.blogspot.com/2007/01/animate-loading-of-your-site-like-it.html | 1 | Animate the loading of your site like it was web 2.0 | null | 0 |
4,278 | null | comment | python_kiss | 1,173,920,773 | It depends on how you use this site. You might've noticed how the top users tend to post articles and spark interesting discussions while new users tend to post news. As a startup founder, you are more interested in analytical articles rather than news. For news, you might be better off subscribing to other sites for a... | null | 4,266 | null | [
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4,277 | null | comment | euccastro | 1,173,920,603 | I agree, with some nuances.<p>"People know what they want, but people also want what they don't know." - Gilberto Gil<p>People know what they want- when they see it.<p>They may not be very good at telling you where their itch/pain is out of the blue. They may be taking it for granted and not even feeling it anymore. Bu... | null | 4,250 | null | [
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4,275 | null | comment | volida | 1,173,920,234 | exploiting the top comment :)<p>my only request is that my comments that received reply could have a different color so that i know they were replied because I missed reading replies on time. | null | 4,155 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
4,279 | null | comment | zaidf | 1,173,921,029 | In the last week of 2006 and couple weeks before the launch of our site, I had what I thought was a great idea(thankyou2006.com). I shared the idea with my partner, he liked it, we worked on it for a day and launched it.<p>I had to break my own promise to not work on anything else. And it made me a little nervous that ... | null | 4,235 | null | [
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4,280 | null | comment | euccastro | 1,173,921,161 | I see two challenges in this idea:<p> - to make a darcs-like tool intuitive to non tech types (lest you filter them out), and<p> - to represent such specs so the system can track them while keeping them palatable for humans. | null | 4,069 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
4,235 | null | story | ginn | 1,173,906,728 | null | null | null | null | [
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4,256 | null | story | amichail | 1,173,913,515 | null | null | null | null | [
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4,274 | null | comment | amichail | 1,173,919,859 | The way people vote on submissions and comments can be revealing as well, but you won't check those right? | null | 4,273 | null | [
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4,282 | null | comment | pg | 1,173,922,310 | Maybe it's time I finally explained the math of taking investment. You should give up n% of your company iff (not a typo) what you'll get in return for it will increase the value of the remaining (100 - n)% enough to put you net ahead.<p>So in the case of YC, you should trade us 6% of your co if you think that the mon... | null | 4,281 | null | [
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4,264 | null | story | brett | 1,173,916,765 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.burningdoor.com/askthewizard/2007/03/too_many_companies.html | 5 | Ask the Wizard: Too Many Companies?? | null | 0 |
4,284 | null | comment | reitzensteinm | 1,173,922,748 | Sounds like a great story, but what's really going on here? Surely there's a side that isn't presented. Everyone in the comments is talking about how evil the VC firm is, but the outcome wasn't exactly great for them, either. Their interests should be at least loosely coupled with those of the founders (different risk/... | null | 4,283 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
4,285 | null | story | lupin_sansei | 1,173,923,288 | null | null | null | null | null | http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vjsharp/default.aspx | 1 | Microsoft Retires Visual J# | null | 0 |
4,286 | null | comment | dawie | 1,173,923,312 | It sounds like you guys are already on your way. I guess in 6 month's time you can join YC if you need. I have always wondered if you could join YC at a later stage. When your company is already up and running | null | 4,281 | null | [
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4,283 | null | story | reitzensteinm | 1,173,922,733 | null | null | null | null | [
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4,288 | null | comment | onebeerdave | 1,173,923,403 | I wish TechCrunch commenters would read this. | null | 4,282 | null | [
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4,287 | null | comment | onebeerdave | 1,173,923,363 | true | 4,281 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | |
4,289 | null | comment | jl | 1,173,923,517 | Yes, a bunch of startups in the winter funding cycle were already up and running. | null | 4,286 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
4,290 | null | comment | pg | 1,173,924,854 | We see them; you have to if you want to catch abuses like voting rings and sockpuppets. But I can't actually remember any votes, no. | null | 4,274 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
4,292 | null | comment | gustaf | 1,173,925,540 | for us it was simpler then that, we just tried to answer the question, how do I easily add photos to my myspace-page from my mobile phone or other sources. stay tune for more exciting features though<p> | null | 3,985 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
4,294 | null | comment | gustaf | 1,173,925,662 | you mean without having a myspace account? you can always grab the embed code if you want | null | 4,093 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
4,291 | null | comment | pg | 1,173,924,968 | SQL injection? You'd need something more like alist injection. | null | 4,201 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
4,295 | null | comment | gustaf | 1,173,925,934 | thanks for your feedback! <p>1. Valid critique. We're working on it but didn't imagine many user reading it at this point.<p>2. We'd love to try OpenID but it's complicated concept for many users. You can totally create a slideshow without giving us your email, today. If you give us your email we'll auto-post it to mys... | null | 4,024 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
4,297 | null | comment | dfranke | 1,173,926,566 | That math assumes that the only two options on the table are either accept funding from YC or don't accept funding at all. The benefit you get from multiple investors is not orthogonal because you get diminishing returns from extra funding and because of the potential (for better or for worse) for interplay between in... | null | 4,282 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
4,293 | null | comment | gustaf | 1,173,925,602 | there are a couple of people who've tried this before. simplicity is key, and I'm not saying heysan is simple in every way, but we just try harder than some others | null | 3,984 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
4,296 | null | comment | brett | 1,173,925,937 | I understand the timing thing. The Y Combinator schedule is rigid, it's not always going to fit your situation perfectly. After that though, the rest of the downsides listed just seem like quibbling compared to the list of upsides. | null | 4,281 | null | [
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4,298 | null | comment | zaidf | 1,173,926,962 | I already suggested alternating row colors on all news list pages.<p>-Zaid
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4,301 | null | comment | paul | 1,173,927,333 | If Ben is serious about making his startup a success, then he should do his best to get into YC. The "downsides" he lists are all excuses that suggest he's not really that committed and isn't willing to go "all in".<p>It's also important to understand that the 6% that goes to YC will be diluted by subsequent rounds of ... | null | 4,281 | null | [
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4,299 | null | comment | r0b | 1,173,926,994 | Yes, they had 53K a year ago, and now they have over 300K<p>Doesn't that prove the post wrong? Clearly those 53K were a very powerful group... | null | 4,184 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
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