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Mistone
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http://wsbe.unh.edu/Centers_CVR/2006pressrelease.cfm
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Angel Market Grows 10% in 2006
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DHH: we're already overloaded with connectivity
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jmtame
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I'm not sure how equity works if I have a co-founder and I'm giving him "15%." Is this in stock? Or is this annual revenues? Or am I the one who decides? What's typical?<p>I'm not studying finance at college right now, so keep that in mind. Any sites that might explain this would be helpful. Thanks
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cwilbur
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I couldn't think of anything that didn't sound trite when I first filled out the form, so I left it blank and decided to come back to it later.<p>(As far as I'm concerned it's a long shot. I don't think my idea and my goals for my business line up that well with what YC is really looking for, based on what they've don...
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http://weblog.masukomi.org/2007/3/12/you-really-don-t-want-to-become-a-programmer
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You really don't want to "become" a programmer
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erdos2
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I mentioned the discovery of a hypergeometric combinatorial enumeration formula with a useful decomposition that could be used to find a limit probability distribution for the objects I was enumerating. I edited out the following: Richard Stanley had previously derived a rational generating function for enumerating the...
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zaidf
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A HUGE chunk of motivation for a startup comes from working on YOUR thing knowing YOU own bulk of it. As soon as it is a corporation-powered thing you are an employee before anything and for me that is a huge turn-off. <p>What's wrong with the current model? If a company <i>really</i> likes smething after 3 months of Y...
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nostrademons
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Also available in extended dead-tree form: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Purely-Functional-Structures-Chris-Okasaki/dp/0521663504">http://www.amazon.com/Purely-Functional-Structures-Chris-Okasaki/dp/0521663504</a><p>I highly recommend the book if you're implementing or using a functional programming language. There'r...
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inklesspen
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Well, Paul might deserve a bit of the blame. He's written a code snippet or two of "Lisp in Python" -- unpythonic code that mimics the way Lisp does it, because he likes Lisp.<p>See: <a href="http://www.prescod.net/python/IsPythonLisp.html">http://www.prescod.net/python/IsPythonLisp.html</a>
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damien
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Sounds like a great opportunity to work with some well known hackers.
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RyanGWU82
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<i>There is a real need for offline capability for webapps; you just don't see it when you keep your eyes on 37Signals-type apps.</i><p>What kind of apps do you think are more suited for this? Just curious.
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ced
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What the author means, is that Python does not feel like Lisp. It's true, but it doesn't make Python any less able to support FP. I code strictly FP for my work (science does not have state), and Python suits me fine in that regard.
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inklesspen
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Oh, yay, DHH. The same guy who insists that you never need a multiple-column primary key.<p>I currently work for a company (yeah, yeah; the startup is gonna be next year, once I graduate) that produces software for health care agencies. We're writing the next version of our app in Rails, but the problem is that a signi...
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http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/04/more_on_carol_d.html
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domp
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http://mashable.com/2007/04/02/compete/
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run4yourlives
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He's wrong about he offline app, but he's bang on with the multiple column key. That has caused nothing but heartache for me.
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Benja
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The "test case" of DRM-free stuff that I'm most familiar with is Baen Books, who are selling DRM-free e-book versions of (almost) all their titles and -- according to themselves and their authors who are also have books published by other publishers -- "[earn] more income as a publisher and [pay their] authors more in ...
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nostrademons
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It looks like they've reimplemented CORBA.<p>Their implementation doesn't look all that bad - it's at least reasonably simple, unlike CORBA. But I think I'll stick with JSON-RPC, because it's transparent, open, simple, and available for just about every language imaginable.
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inklesspen
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Well, as I said, my company's app needs it. And if you follow the link to DHH's site, you see many people in the comments talking about their apps that need offline support; companies working with Australian ag businesses, for example.<p>Another thing might be 30Boxes or whatever favorite calendar app you have. Sure, y...
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chandrab
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http://www.businesslawadvice.com/
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randallsquared
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That's less useful for those of us who don't believe in a creator.
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felipe
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I think people in general are missing the point about rich-client web-apps. It is <i>NOT</i> about offline access, but about leveraging web-app skills (HTML, Javascript) to access hardware resources that otherwise would be blocked by the browser.<p>Web-based apps and RIA are here to stay, but there's still space for cl...
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boomstrap
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I think its always dangerous to make overarching statements that are meant encompass a whole category of applications. (this goes for multi-column keys too..)<p>I have found myself many times with my laptop in my car but unable to check my work's webmail to double check my calender because I'm offline.<p>Just to expand...
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jadams
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Ooooh, unfortunate name. My wife deals with a lot of pharmaceutical names, so we've come up with the 13-year-old boy test for product names. If your product / service / company name would make a 13 year old boy snicker, then find another name.
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Web 2.0 is vulnerable to attack (nasty AJAX/JSON exploit)
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inklesspen
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I disagree. See <a href="http://spyced.blogspot.com/2006/07/single-column-primary-keys-should-be.html">http://spyced.blogspot.com/2006/07/single-column-primary-keys-should-be.html</a><p>Particularly the three-part series.<p>Multiple-columns can be hard to deal with. But duplicate rows because you're using an autoincrem...
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damien
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A primary key is really just the combination of the unique and not-null constraints. My preferred way of handling this is to have a surrogate key as the primary key (for performance and general ease-of-use), but also apply multi-column unique constraints on the natural key to enforce data integrity. The main place wher...
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jcwentz
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http://blogs.azulsystems.com/cliff/2007/03/a_nonblocking_h.html
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A Non-Blocking Hash Table
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jadams
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What does this even mean? It sounds like something for the Enterprise Market.
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http://www.eaves.org/blog-archive/000287.html
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I got rejected by Google - woe is me
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far33d
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It would be fun to take bets on which of the 12 toolkits will fix the vulnerability first.
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mattculbreth
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I think if we had true multi-line anonymous functions we'd be in better shape. Better support for closures also I guess. Still learning Lisp as well as I knew it back in school so I'll have to decide later if macros would be a good thing to have in Python.
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anonymous
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http://onetimeline.com/
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Innovative search engine, recently launched
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domp
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http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/348-highrise-public-contact-cards-from-idea-to-feature-to-launch-in-48-hours
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Highrise public contact cards: From idea to launch in 48 hours
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far33d
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http://www.venturehacks.com/
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How to Hack Venture Capital
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dawie
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I have a startup (A) that is about to launch a product. I am the only founder. I have 2 friends that have a brilliant idea for a startup (B) and they are going to start working on it soon. They think my startup is an ok idea. They want 20% each of my startup (A) [I have to give up 40%] and they will give me 20% of thei...
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zach
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That's great. I've been waiting for a good application of timelines to make it on the net. There was some crummy one a year ago, I think. This is pretty cool.<p>But... I wouldn't quite call it a search engine.
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ClintonKarr
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http://www.vator.tv
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Vator.tv - It's YouTube for Start-Ups
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far33d
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I especially like their "since persian calendar 1386" tagline.
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dawie
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I am going to have to give up some. I think their idea is a brillaint one. Also I really need some co-founders. I have been going at it by myself and we all know what PG things of that...
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http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2007/04/02/appleemidrm/
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Lefsetz Letter - Apple/EMI/DRM - "Why the fuck should they cost more?"
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zaidf
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Honestly I don't think anyone can give you good advice not knowing much about startup A and B. <p>In most innocent sense it doesn't make sense why you would give up 40% for their 20%. Not that this means much without knowing any detail about what level each startup is in.<p>Ask yourself if their company is worth twice ...
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amichail
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http://www.slate.com/id/2152264
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Does YouTube Really Have Legal Problems? How the Bell lobby helped midwife YouTube.
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abstractbill
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http://www.pro-barcode.com/background.html
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msgbeepa
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http://www.wikio.com/webinfo?id=15988780
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New Web 2.0 Links For The New Week
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erdos2
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One of my student assistants got a Google internship this summer. They asked him how to clean a coffee maker.
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erdos2
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A good source on the economic harm of intellectual property law is the Against Monopoly blog <a href="http://www.againstmonopoly.org.">http://www.againstmonopoly.org.</a> Today's lead article mentions the EMI/Apple deal. Economist David K. Levine writes, "It will be interesting to see how many people buy the DRM versio...
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danw
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http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/04/02/irrational-exuberance-strikes-again/
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Tips to prepare yourself for Bust 2.0
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amichail
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This is a hard question. <p>First of all, ideas are not patentable. And given the sorry state of patents today, some rather obvious things might be.<p>Second, although I have published research papers, I do not have any patents. I don't know what the typical patent is like nor how it would compare to the technical cont...
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zaidf
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Hey why not lean on the optimistic side and answer yes and describe them. It is not like this will make or break your application or your patent chances. On the other hand it could lead to something good even if not a patent.
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danielha
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The article was written in reference to this: <a href="http://blogs.business2.com/business2blog/2007/03/eyeballing_the_.html">http://blogs.business2.com/business2blog/2007/03/eyeballing_the_.html</a><p>It's a flawed assessment to begin with, especially the use of Alexa. Calling it Bust 2.0 is pretty ridiculous. Those "...
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blakeross
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We're not referring to those platforms, actually. Neither has much to do with the core problems we're tackling, such as that people currently have to shuffle data between desktop and Web apps. Apollo <i>sounds</i> very similar, but it mostly solves the developer problem of "I have Web skills but want to create a deskto...
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mattculbreth
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Hey, cool for us. Thanks PG--we're building a nice spot here.
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danielha
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Equity is stock in the company. If he's a cofounder, it shouldn't really be thought of as "giving" him 15% -- that sort of implies that you're the sole founder/decision maker and he's an employee, doesn't it?
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amichail
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domp
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This is a very positive review of what's going on here. The video is pretty interesting too.
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blakeross
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I love this site; it's about the only one I check daily. But I usually just lurk :)
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brett
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Looks like it's written in lisp. The Server header comes back "Hunchentoot 0.5.1" - <a href="http://weitz.de/hunchentoot/">http://weitz.de/hunchentoot/</a>
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danielha
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news.yc takes the bulk of my web browsing (hard to believe, right?) and reddit is still great for non-startup buzz. I'll peek at digg every so often but the quality of top submissions seem to keep dropping.<p>The reviewer at CenterNetworks is right on with his observation on the quality of referral traffic. The users o...
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jsjenkins168
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Hmm.. Why not just post your business pitch on YouTube and reach a wider audience? Just curious how this site can bring anything unique to the already full YouTube table. There seems to be a lot of video posting/hosting sites that think success can be had by claiming support for a niche market when there is really litt...
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http://mashable.com/2007/04/02/facebook-diaries-2/
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pg
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News.YC isn't trying to compete with Digg and Reddit. Really; the last thing I need is to have to manage servers with that kind of traffic. The goal here is just to be the watercooler of the startup world. That is a quite small world, tens of thousands at most. I'd much rather this site had really good comments tha...
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mattculbreth
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Sorry, it's <a href="http://www.launchpad.net">http://www.launchpad.net</a><p>I tried editing it but you can't change the URL once it's submitted.
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http://www.launchpad.net
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Launchpad--Collaborate across software projects (sort of like a more modern Sourceforge)
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domp
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i-Lighter: a new competitor for Clipmarks and Google Notebook
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allen-cn
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Hi - Allen here from CN (I made the video) - can you help me understand what you don't like about it? I know the part at the beginning where I say my name is a bit off but I try to do pretty good screencasts. As soon as I can sign some more advertisers, I am going to try to buy better video equipment. But please let me...
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pageman
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Homeland Security wants the Master Key to the Internet
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MEHOM
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Regardless of the profession, good professional behavior is a must. Treating ppl with civility is a must
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allen-cn
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I agree.
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vlad
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Their videos are not very good (I apologize ahead of time if it's your web site.) But, they are the best (and only) I've seen. I think it's a good trend.
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Alex3917
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A video about which social news sites are the best to post spam on. Nice.
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ClintonKarr
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Good question - the twist on Vator.tv, as I understand it, is that each quarter the top voted video has the opportunity for VC funding.
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vlad
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Sorry, PG, but I think you are wrong in the article description. I think everybody is missing the point of the article:<p>Summary: "Offline web app access is getting too much publicity. I can't control myself. For example: if I had online access on a plane, I'd have no choice but to use it to work on my site. Cheri...
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Hmm, maybe so; I changed the title.
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I guarantee you, anything the NSA wants that Verisign has, they can get.
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domp
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don't worry about it. It's not my website. This is the only video I've seen by them. I think it's cool that they're adding video reviews though.
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MEHOM
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Indirectly it is. My methodology works with any type of collaborative and conferencing technology. Distance between each team member and the project culture of team is irrelevant..
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zkinion
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Those guys scare me alot more than the terrorists do...
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Seattle 2.0: Resources to/from Seattle's startups
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mattculbreth
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Thanks for fixing the link.
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Evolving from lists to objects: a story of ZenZui, TAT and Apple
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volida
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I believe they refer to the ideas involving what comprehends your solution to a problem (idea). It's obvious that the problem(idea) you are solving it self cannot be patented, although I think you could just refer to just the problem(idea) you are solving...<p>A patent (software patent) should never be presented as alg...
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veritas
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With that said... anyone have any invite tokens they'd like to share?
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JavaScript Vulnerabilities and How GWT Developers Can Fight Back
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Twitter Timeline for Social networking is a killer idea Every startup should have this
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Leo's Web Picks Archive: Joost 0.9 Released for Beta Testers
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vlad
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Wow, what fast tech support. Happy to post something found useful. Thank you for this web site, for accepting me to startup school, and advice to move to SF. And the articles.<p>Although David added the first sentence about offline apps to get reader attention, his whole post was about his embarrassment about not be...
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far33d
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Hah! I knew Google would be first to respond!
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xinroman
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Yep, I knew I should've looked that up before shooting my mouth off: <a href="http://cse.stanford.edu/class/cs201/projects-99-00/software-patents/amazon.html">http://cse.stanford.edu/class/cs201/projects-99-00/software-patents/amazon.html</a><p>Regardless, I still stand by my point. I also believe that most software pa...
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volida
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patents is mostly something that big companies make use of between each other, so that they exchange between them rights of use of different pantents. Microsoft has a patent on showing a message to user X when "john doe is typing..." for communication systems! <p>Microsoft would never use that patent if it couldn't act...
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xinroman
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To be honest, our answer was pretty vague. We do believe that somewhere down the road we may come up with some new tool or way of doing things that is patentable (heck, if Amazon can do it with "1-click"...) and will pursue that as it comes up.<p>In the larger picture, though, I don't think that this is going to make o...
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schoudha
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Haha, this was one of my ideas in my yc app.
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xinroman
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Yeah, but I think Joel's main point was not to outsource customer service people. There's definitely something to be said for working for someone who gives you the trust and freedom to make independent decisions, even when that means losing a customer (as someone who used to bartend, I was happy to get rid of a few) bu...
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randallsquared
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Hm. They complain that they couldn't contact Google about this, yet it only took me a minute or so to find: "To request reinclusion, log in to Google webmaster tools, click Tools, then choose the Request reinclusion link and follow the steps outlined there."<p>Perhaps they did that and just didn't mention it.
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danw
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If you want to do anything with mobile you will find yourself constantly running into obstacles created by the operators. Sometimes it would be a lot easier if you ran your own mobile phone network.<p>How about a 'web2.0' mobile operator? Lovely unlocked handsets, open apis, unrestricted pipes, etc
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mattculbreth
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No doubt. What's interesting though is that the level of discourse has been really high, and apparently we're good folks to have visiting other sites (according to this article).<p>Have you updated your traffic graphic recently? It'll be interesting to see if we can maintain good participation after Startup School an...
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