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gustaf
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The Pirate Bay Making $9 Million Per Year
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horatio05
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If that's true it would be awesome, unfortunately it's not.
| null | 2 | 12 |
2007-08-03 18:14:01 UTC
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aarontait
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My startup idea: ClipArena.com - I made it in one week. What do you think?
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vuknje
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Looks gorgeous. Where's the business model? You can't have a business without a way for it to make money.
| null | 10 | 19 |
2007-08-03 18:22:47 UTC
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39,086 | 39,059 |
thomasswift
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A Guide to Micro Seed Funding (by Dan Veltri, Weebly)
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drusenko
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Great Site, can't wait to read it all.
| null | 1 | 15 |
2007-08-03 18:24:04 UTC
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39,089 | 39,054 |
mattrandle
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My startup idea: ClipArena.com - I made it in one week. What do you think?
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vuknje
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Its fantastic & very entertaining.A true testament to what can be achieved with skill, knowledge, and an idea.Well done.
| null | 6 | 19 |
2007-08-03 18:41:00 UTC
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39,090 | 38,905 |
luxiou
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[New YC startup] Listen To Your Music anywhere on the web with Anywhere.FM
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immad
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We've re-enabled using the client uploaders to bulk-upload music.
| null | 12 | 40 |
2007-08-03 18:45:57 UTC
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39,091 | 39,081 |
epi0Bauqu
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Crowds vs. Herds
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samb
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A community is just a set of people and customs. Both aspects can evolve significantly in a short amount of time unless control is asserted in one way or another to prevent this possibility.I don't think it is a sign of success or failure that communities have evolved, but just simply that they have evolved. I also don't think that every community wants to be boring eventually. In fact, many communities exert intense control so that this doesn't happen (barriers to entry for new members, moderation, etc.). It all depends on how it is set up, monitored, and controlled. Finally, I also don't think that wide adoption necessitates being boring. Plenty of communities are heavily moderated/edited/whatever and still have a wide following. Extreme examples are newspapers, movies, and tv shows. Communities crop up around them, but most people have little control over what is published. This is interestingly slowly changing though with TV shows and newspapers. Comments on stories and online fan boards are starting to influence publishing, but it is still filtered in such a way that an attempt is made to keep it distinctly not boring.
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I read Dharmesh Shah's "Lamenting the Loss of Reddit" at onstartups.com, which furter fueled a notion that's been brewing for some time now.When does the Wisdom of Crowds become Herd Mentality? And why? The easy answer is that with wider adoption it's inevitable. Early adopters are, I would propose, more interesting people, generally, than later waves of mass market users.If you're a social media startup is it an unconscious goal to make your community boring? Are Paris Hilton threads a sign of success?This is only a thought stub, put out quickly. I'm interested to know what others think about this.
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2007-08-03 18:47:09 UTC
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wensing
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Crowds vs. Herds
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samb
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If you look at Surowiecki's requirement for a wise crowd (versus a herd), you'll see that he asserts the requirement of a few things (pulled straight from http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_of_crowds):Diversity of opinion:
Each person should have private information even if it's just an eccentric interpretation of the known facts.Independence:
People's opinions aren't determined by the opinions of those around them.Decentralization:
People are able to specialize and draw on local knowledge.Aggregation:
Some mechanism exists for turning private judgments into a collective decision. I would think that for most sites the first three would be the greatest challenges. The worst part is probably that what's most popular is getting greater exposure, thus making it more popular . . .
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I read Dharmesh Shah's "Lamenting the Loss of Reddit" at onstartups.com, which furter fueled a notion that's been brewing for some time now.When does the Wisdom of Crowds become Herd Mentality? And why? The easy answer is that with wider adoption it's inevitable. Early adopters are, I would propose, more interesting people, generally, than later waves of mass market users.If you're a social media startup is it an unconscious goal to make your community boring? Are Paris Hilton threads a sign of success?This is only a thought stub, put out quickly. I'm interested to know what others think about this.
| 0 | 4 |
2007-08-03 19:06:32 UTC
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sabat
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My startup idea: ClipArena.com - I made it in one week. What do you think?
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vuknje
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I like the idea a lot. I have no idea how you vote for a clip, though. You should make that dead obvious.
| null | 9 | 19 |
2007-08-03 19:17:54 UTC
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39,102 | 38,968 |
acgourley
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Any1 working on/has a "hardware" tech startup?
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rokhayakebe
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I think a better question would be: What parts of the hardware market are suited for startups, given the various capital needs and industry landscape. I'd actually be very interested to hear from people about that.
| null | 1 | 3 |
2007-08-03 19:20:42 UTC
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dhouston
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Xobni's Facebook app replaces Facebook messaging with email
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brezina
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looks great guys!
| null | 6 | 53 |
2007-08-03 19:28:41 UTC
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39,104 | 39,097 |
epi0Bauqu
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Once and for all, What Entity and What State is best for incorporating
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mikesabat
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You may have heard different answers because it really depends on the goals & circumstances of the startup. I have a few companies at the moment, and they each are set up differently.Short answer. If you might eventually want outside investment or to go public or to have a lot of employees with stock options, you should be a corporation, though you can elect to be an S corp at first (as opposed to a C corp). If you never plan on doing any of this, you might want to be an LLC because it is easier to deal with. If you are only going to be in one state, it is easiest to just create the legal entity there.
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I have gotten so many different answers over the years. For a web startup, in what state is it best to incorporate and what type of corporate filing is best (C, S LLC, LLP).I have heard Delaware and C Corp, but I wanted to know how YC does it.
| 1 | 3 |
2007-08-03 19:30:09 UTC
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palish
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Crowds vs. Herds
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samb
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Well, one has to build the technology to maintain clusters of groups, not one big ball of people talking to each other at the same time. Sorry, I'm gonna sound like a broken record, but social groups are a hot topic, so: Read http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html :) it's a good read, you'll enjoy it. It perfectly captures all the issues between early adopters vs later adopters vs huge crowds.
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I read Dharmesh Shah's "Lamenting the Loss of Reddit" at onstartups.com, which furter fueled a notion that's been brewing for some time now.When does the Wisdom of Crowds become Herd Mentality? And why? The easy answer is that with wider adoption it's inevitable. Early adopters are, I would propose, more interesting people, generally, than later waves of mass market users.If you're a social media startup is it an unconscious goal to make your community boring? Are Paris Hilton threads a sign of success?This is only a thought stub, put out quickly. I'm interested to know what others think about this.
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2007-08-03 19:33:25 UTC
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luccastera
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Lamenting the Loss of Reddit
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Jd
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I agree that the main page of reddit has become pretty lame. However, I think that subreddits are still a good place to visit: http://programming.reddit.com/ or http://joel.reddit.com/.I think if they had more subreddits it would help but a lot of people do not seem to know about them. I've heard many people complain about the same issue that did not know the existence of these subreddits.
| null | 0 | 16 |
2007-08-03 19:35:39 UTC
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rchambers
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My startup idea: ClipArena.com - I made it in one week. What do you think?
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vuknje
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Nice layout. Easy to use. Good Luck!
| null | 5 | 19 |
2007-08-03 19:35:42 UTC
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zach
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Buxfer + Amazon = Transfer money online (Free till Aug 31)
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ashu
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Killer addition. A site where you can track expenses is cool, but if you can square them up with actual money, now we're really talking.This would be very helpful for fantasy sports, where there's a lot of money flying around for site fees and prize pools. Fantasy football season is just around the corner and $100+ entry fees for workplace leagues are not that unusual.
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With Amazon Payments, you can accrue balances in an online account (similar to your Paypal account balance). Transfers involving Amazon accounts are instantaneously processed as well. You can read more about it at:
http://www.buxfer.com/blog/2007/08/03/buxfer-amazon-settle-y...Regardless of what this means for Buxfer, we think it's a good step forward in challenging the Paypal monopoly.
| 1 | 31 |
2007-08-03 19:36:37 UTC
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39,118 | 38,967 |
zach
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Perl advocacy, smells like blub.
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edu
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Great article for the summer -- all that hand-waving created a lovely breeze while I was reading it.
| null | 2 | 5 |
2007-08-03 19:41:57 UTC
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avehn
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Web4.0 -- The Semantic Web
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nreece
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The world Godin presents is definitely scary for me. I value my feeling of privacy, but as he points out it is only an illusion. The need for this illusion of anonymity is strong in our society because people don't want to take responsibility for their actions, or are ashamed.
The kind of openness described by Godin requires a new paradigm and therefore can only be currently adopted by few.
| null | 2 | 11 |
2007-08-03 19:46:21 UTC
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henning
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Yahoo!'s bet on Hadoop
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toffer
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"But there are open source projects that are tackling important Web 2.0 problems "up the stack." Brad Fitzpatrick's LiveJournal scaling tools memcached, perlbal, and mogileFS come to mind, as well as OpenID."memcached et al date from well before the annoying, useless, vague term "Web 2.0". as does Lucene, Nutch, and other interesting work Cutting has done.collaborating on software that's only useful if you have servers that are getting tens of thousands of hits a day is hard. it automatically reduces the pool of potential participants to be very small.fuck Bill O'Reilly for wanting to turn everything into something that relates to his dumb conferences/speeches/whatever. and fuck "software as a service". jesus.
| null | 0 | 8 |
2007-08-03 19:52:20 UTC
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irrelative
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Lamenting the Loss of Reddit
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Jd
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reddit and digg, et al have often been called democratizing sites -- it seems like the tragedy of democracy in general also applies to these sites. Initially, the smartest people understand how different and better the system is than what's out there. As more people catch on, the quality decreases since new users aren't quite as interested in new, big ideas (and appear to be content with pictures of cats). Once the quality of content slips a little, the early adopters leave and find a better place for content and a downward spiral begins. (see also: wikipedia circa 2004, US politics, etc)I know for myself that Startup News has helped fill the void of interesting content I used to consistently get from reddit. Anyone know of new sites out there that might be more like old-fashioned reddit?
| null | 2 | 16 |
2007-08-03 19:54:26 UTC
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paulgb
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Serial entrepreneurs-- who succeeds & why?
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donna
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I know you just pasted the title in caps the way you found it, but it would be nice to re-type the title so it is easier to read.
| null | 0 | 6 |
2007-08-03 20:08:34 UTC
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crxnamja
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Xobni's Facebook app replaces Facebook messaging with email
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brezina
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Would this be called news ycomb spam. 42 points. yea right this is a hot story.
| null | 3 | 53 |
2007-08-03 21:13:43 UTC
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jsjenkins168
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What are the News.YC rules of startups?
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bmaier
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Everyone has their own beliefs, but in general I would say: Build something users want, release early and release often, and spend as little money as possible in the process.
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With all the lists floating around I'm interested to see what everyone thinks are the golden rules of starting up.
| 0 | 3 |
2007-08-03 21:17:20 UTC
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rkabir
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Xobni's Facebook app replaces Facebook messaging with email
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brezina
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I wonder how many page views facebook will lose if everyone uses e-mail [again] instead of facebook messages.
| null | 0 | 53 |
2007-08-03 21:34:07 UTC
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39,149 | 39,054 |
pramodbiligiri
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My startup idea: ClipArena.com - I made it in one week. What do you think?
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vuknje
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Wow, nice idea and executed excellently. One week? I gather you are a webdev in your day job then? XHTML Strict, jquery etc...A couple of suggestions: For about 20 secs I couldn't figure out what this site was. Maybe a helpful tagline close to the logo? The vertical list of arenas next to the videos jerks a bit as I hover. A little unsettling. Some extra margin or padding for those boxes should fix it.Try some viral angle - "Tell a Friend" or something. Maybe a Gabbly box to chat with anyone else who is on at the same time.Best of luck. I hope you don't get porned.
| null | 0 | 19 |
2007-08-03 21:40:52 UTC
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ivankirigin
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Lamenting the Loss of Reddit
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Jd
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Most news aggregation is a waste of time for readers. But I used to enjoy reddit much more than I do now. Another commenter's point about subreddits is totally right. I have so much fatigue when it comes to politics, that I just can't read reddit anymore.Pictures of cats are ok though. My googleReader LOL folder is pretty big :)
| null | 1 | 16 |
2007-08-03 21:47:15 UTC
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39,153 | 39,097 |
jl
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Once and for all, What Entity and What State is best for incorporating
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mikesabat
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The paperwork that YC uses is for a Delaware C Corp.
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I have gotten so many different answers over the years. For a web startup, in what state is it best to incorporate and what type of corporate filing is best (C, S LLC, LLP).I have heard Delaware and C Corp, but I wanted to know how YC does it.
| 0 | 3 |
2007-08-03 21:54:49 UTC
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39,158 | 39,054 |
codeLullaby
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My startup idea: ClipArena.com - I made it in one week. What do you think?
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vuknje
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Nice concept, nice design. Great job vuknje.But there is a bug in there. If you click multiple times fast enough(or if the same arena is opened in multiple tabs before i start voting ), it accepts each click as a valid vote. Do not depend on UI components/client side script for validation.And in UI, it says "New Arenas (1 - 10) " although it shows only 1-3 (/new.php)Hope this helps. All the best vuknje.
| null | 1 | 19 |
2007-08-03 22:09:37 UTC
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twism
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What are the News.YC rules of startups?
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bmaier
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Build something you would use too. That way, you would also have that vested interest to improve upon it.
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With all the lists floating around I'm interested to see what everyone thinks are the golden rules of starting up.
| 1 | 3 |
2007-08-03 22:13:14 UTC
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jsjenkins168
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First 3rd party native iPhone application released
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jsjenkins168
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How long do you think it will be until Apple patches the iPhone to stop this application?
| null | 0 | 6 |
2007-08-03 22:18:19 UTC
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39,168 | 39,081 |
pg
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Crowds vs. Herds
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samb
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I think to get wisdom out of really large crowds you need something like pagerank.
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I read Dharmesh Shah's "Lamenting the Loss of Reddit" at onstartups.com, which furter fueled a notion that's been brewing for some time now.When does the Wisdom of Crowds become Herd Mentality? And why? The easy answer is that with wider adoption it's inevitable. Early adopters are, I would propose, more interesting people, generally, than later waves of mass market users.If you're a social media startup is it an unconscious goal to make your community boring? Are Paris Hilton threads a sign of success?This is only a thought stub, put out quickly. I'm interested to know what others think about this.
| 2 | 4 |
2007-08-03 22:49:56 UTC
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palish
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Ka-Ching!
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rchambers
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Man.. The title is the most important part of a post. What kind of information do you get from "Ka-Ching!"? Nada.Oh, yeah.. Yay, flexible credit card service. That's awesome!
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Ever since the first Amazon Web Service was released in mid-2002, we have encouraged developers to use them to create new types of businesses.
| 0 | 6 |
2007-08-03 22:55:00 UTC
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39,171 | 39,164 |
amichail
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Anyone interested in Scala technical discussions? Do you know of a good forum for that purpose?
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amichail
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Two papers that look particularly good:http://lamp.epfl.ch/~phaller/doc/haller07coord.pdfhttp://lamp.epfl.ch/~emir/written/MatchingObjectsWithPattern...
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The papers here look quite interesting:http://www.scala-lang.org/docu/papers.html
| 0 | 1 |
2007-08-03 22:56:04 UTC
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39,173 | 39,135 |
Mistone
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What are the News.YC rules of startups?
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bmaier
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build...sell...retire (just kidding)Building a Product People Want (seems like PG's single golden rule)
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With all the lists floating around I'm interested to see what everyone thinks are the golden rules of starting up.
| 2 | 3 |
2007-08-03 23:00:46 UTC
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ivankirigin
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[New YC startup] Listen To Your Music anywhere on the web with Anywhere.FM
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immad
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When this was posted, ~50,000 songs were uploaded. Now it is at 75,800. NiceI've has some trouble uploading though.
| null | 10 | 40 |
2007-08-04 00:29:53 UTC
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39,191 | 39,180 |
palish
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Paul Buchheit: The first thing that you need to understand about humans
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paul
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This is great! Great writing Paul, thank you for examining this.
| null | 5 | 34 |
2007-08-04 00:35:43 UTC
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39,196 | 39,109 |
aswanson
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How woman entrepreneurs benefit from using a mentor
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donna
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I think this is applicable to both male and females.
| null | 0 | 3 |
2007-08-04 01:21:13 UTC
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39,206 | 39,180 |
mdakin
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Paul Buchheit: The first thing that you need to understand about humans
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paul
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Very thought provoking. And I agree with your conclusions but I get there via a different route that is contradictory to your route at least on a semantic basis.I like to assume that a person tends to act rationally within his internal mental framework. Even a "crazy" person. I might have got these ideas from Pirsig's _Lila_ but I'm not sure since I read it a long time ago. Regardless he would break down the framework into categories such as chemical, biological, social and intellectual.If you want to understand a befuddling person then you need to try to understand the framework within which he is operating. Understanding the framework of "the mass consumer" is what makes Clotaire Rapaille wealthy. If people didn't operate rationally within such a framework it would not be possible for him to make accurate predictions about consumer preferences.The more self-aware a person is the more that person consciously understands his own framework. Some people understand their frameworks very well, but many people are totally blind to them. If you talk to people who have these blinders and you take what they say at face value you will have bad data and you will draw bad conclusions.Another important related factor is that of honesty. Someone who understands his framework well does not necessarily want to reveal it and thus might obfuscate. A person who does not understand his framework might be afraid to say "I don't know" and will spew rationalizations rather than the truth.How does this relate to your examples?I don't want to speculate about what is going on in the split-brain case.Physical attractiveness is recognized by pre-rational parts of the brain (Pirsig's "biological" category). Evolution gave us that ability to help select fertile mates and healthy friends and leaders. Within this evolutionary/biological framework the favors given to an attractive person are completely "rational". The problem with the attractive criminals comes from the court making decisions at the biological level that should be made at the social and intellectual levels."The people at Chrysler" must have been dealing with self-unaware people and did not realize that fact. Rapaille knew who he was dealing with and approached the problem by trying to understand the frameworks rather than relying on the people to directly tell him what they want.The woman with the umbrella likely is not honest. She could not admit, "I don't know what I'm doing with this umbrella." And so she chose to rationalize. Whether or not this was a conscious decision depends on how well she consciously understands her own framework.(This is the second time in as many days that I've mentioned Pirsig on this site. I don't know why as I've not read or thought about the books in a long time, but it's making me want to reread them!)
| null | 0 | 34 |
2007-08-04 01:48:34 UTC
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jamongkad
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Eloquent JavaScript - An interactive online book about programming
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nickb
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I personally found this very useful. Thanks Nickb!
| null | 0 | 15 |
2007-08-04 02:02:16 UTC
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39,213 | 38,905 |
aquateen
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[New YC startup] Listen To Your Music anywhere on the web with Anywhere.FM
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immad
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Damn. I had an idea for this a year ago and never went through with it :( Even bought a .dj domain and made a javascript player. Good luck to AFM.
| null | 9 | 40 |
2007-08-04 02:08:40 UTC
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jaed
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My startup idea: ClipArena.com - I made it in one week. What do you think?
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vuknje
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Feature request: Please change the UI so it doesn't look so Web 2.Oh :-)
| null | 3 | 19 |
2007-08-04 02:15:11 UTC
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jey
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Paul Buchheit: The first thing that you need to understand about humans
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paul
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Humans are driven heavily by certain "heuristics and biases". An interesting chapter-length introduction is available at http://www.singinst.org/upload/cognitive-biases.pdf . You'll be surprised at the results, and you'll see that you've fallen victim to many or all of these biases. He cites some books for more info on the subject (but I haven't read them).Also, check out the excellent blog http://overcomingbias.com . (Warning: the blog has many authors, and some of the posters are more exciting than the others)
| null | 1 | 34 |
2007-08-04 02:19:49 UTC
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tuukkah
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Paul Buchheit: The first thing that you need to understand about humans
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paul
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This writeup connects with the video recently posted here:
"TED Talk - How to make your consumers happy - Malcom Gladwell (video)" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38839The talk was also about how people aren't able to say what they want, but it proceeded more in the direction of how to still get useful results from focus groups and surveys. Instead, Paul handles rationalization more generally, in the larger context.
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2007-08-04 02:23:18 UTC
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Alex3917
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Paul Buchheit: The first thing that you need to understand about humans
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paul
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Three people on news.yc:The first makes observations and looks for patterns. "After observing many startups, I've noticed that X is often the case."The second makes observations and looks for rules. "After observing many startups, I think it's best that founders do X and avoid Y."The third makes observations and looks for models. "After observing many startups, I've noticed that if you do X you frequently get Y."(I won't name names.)Rationality isn't so much a tool as a category of tools. Even among people who are more rational than most, there are still certain thought patterns that we fall back on again and again, even within the sphere of rationality.As for product design, I can understand treating all people as irrational. After all, all people are sometimes irrational, no one is always irrational, and some people are never rational. It's just a numbers game.
| null | 2 | 34 |
2007-08-04 02:28:29 UTC
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antirez
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Please Build Me Something Useful: A Letter To Web 2.0 Developers
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rchambers
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I agree 100% with the article.Many applications are not designed at all to be useful, because in the last months the market didn't rewarded
just useful applications, but a lot of fashionable ones.Sometimes to build something of really useful is much harder than to build something like twitter, but it's like there is no longer a connection between how well a tool will solve a long time problem and how much buzz, users, money it will get.Add to this the fact that web 2.0 users tend to be the same set of users using all the services, and trying a lot of new ones: it's ridicolous the number of people that are just happy to add a new website to the list of websites they already use everyday.Instead to look for web apps solving problems many users are looking for problems that the just-released-web-app can solve. Instead to focus on writing interesting articles for their blogs this users will spend all the day visiting analytics, feedburner, sending messages in twitter about new services, reading tons of RSS, ...Fortunately there is a parallel web 2.0 market of valuable things that save our time and make our life better. Developers seeking for a real business in the last years should look at this.It is also very important to try to improve over the useful things already released. To make a better flickr or a better delicious or a better reddit can be ways more interesting than to invent something of totally useless just to be new and original.
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have a confession to make. I have tried out hundreds of Web 2.0 applications, and there is one and only one that I use almost every day. You see, the problem with Web 2.0 is that I'm not a social person.
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2007-08-04 02:39:00 UTC
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nreece
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A Few Startup Tips from a .Net Startup
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drm237
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In my opinion, the tips are too basic. A startup is not just a web site, its a service with a lucrative edge.Now that your startup is an year old, what's your user-base and how much revenue has been earned?
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Since I develop the Club Starter Kit, a simple ASP.NET starter kit for beginners, I have come across many people that are small startups. I LOVE web startups! Mainly because EagleEnvision.NeT used to be a startup. So I'm going to fire off some tips, for those of you reading this.
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2007-08-04 03:38:57 UTC
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thomasswift
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RSS feed for newest YC News
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nreece
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I always wondered if there was a feed for New Items. Thanks for this.One question would you be able to include a link to the YC site to view or leave a comment? If not, it's still cool.
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Took 5 seconds to do with Feedity: http://www.feedity.com (a startup I founded)Newest YC News RSS: http://www.feedity.com/?xccH2xIG%252bIhCywXfu149J8ltp3V3aMhk...YC News Jobs RSS: http://www.feedity.com/?http://news.ycombinator.com/jobsBtw, I'm seeking micro seed funding or angel investment for Feedity's 2nd major iteration. The startup is based in Melbourne, Australia.
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2007-08-04 04:10:59 UTC
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henning
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Desktop apps are dead (from a desktop apps developer)
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tx
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If your app is highly data-driven, the default answer for what programming model to use is now "web application", barring special circumstances (e.g., you absolutely need to have computationally intense stuff like 3D graphics or machine learning).Common installation packages, the ones that tell you to shut down everything else and make you click next 50 times just to install one little app, suck and could be improved.I don't see how this corresponds to "the desktop is dead".If your badass uber-leet Ajax app takes 20+ seconds to load, uses up 80-140+ MB of RAM, feels slow on a Pentium 4 machine, does less than an Apple IIe app, and could go down at any time leaving you totally helpless (as happened the other day in spite of the high-speed "backup" systems those high-profile Web 2.0 sites allegedly had), you have failed. Deal with it.You can use simple reality checks here. If your clunky "rich text" editing widget thingie is crippled in ways Notepad is not, you have failed. If your spreadsheet app is maddeningly frustrating to use for more than 100 rows or if you know any keyboard shortcuts at all, you have failed. And so forth.
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2007-08-04 06:40:48 UTC
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prakash
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Startup Tip: Save bandwidth with Gzip (Eg: YC News can save upto 80% per page)
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nreece
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good point. PG: any particular reason you have not turned on compression? Is to get benefits of chunking?
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The Gzip module compresses the HTML as it sends it out. It is compatible with all major web servers and all web browsers. Using Gzip can save HUGE amounts of bandwidth, and increase the overall performance of the webserver.
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2007-08-04 06:47:35 UTC
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chaostheory
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Desktop apps are dead (from a desktop apps developer)
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tx
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Good article overall (its main message that is), but there were too many generalizations that either aren't true or just stupid:ex. "After all, people have managed to learn how not to put everything they see in their mouth, learned how to stop on red and go on green... They'll learn not to drop viruses on their desktops."ummm way easier said than done given the stats and me watching my mom's generation use computers... not to mention how it's a lot harder building something stable and secure as opposed to trying to break it (not to mention MS's general failure at building good stuff)"Do not point your finger at .NET, it is still a subset of Win32. It is built mostly on top of Win32, and it is still not available for us to use! Yes, .NET runtime is not part of the most popular Desktop out there - Windows XP."This didn't happen out of stupidity, MS wanted to bundled it. What stopped it was a thing called an anti-trust lawsuit... (.NET was made to kill Java)
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2007-08-04 06:51:21 UTC
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especkman
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Spatial data warehousing in PostgreSQL
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wensing
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I don't know about data warehousing with spatial data, but two guys I was taking two a couple of months ago were both working on web apps that worked with geospatial data. Both of them were using postgres for geospatial use and endorsed it over both mySQL and MS-SQL.
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In the very near future I will need to create a data warehouse for storing a rather large amount of data. I'm not sure what it will be in terabytes, but let's just say that it won't be huge instantly, but it will be big instantly, and need to scale to support whatever new data sets (dimensions) get thrown its way.The language will be Python (Django), but I'm waffling on the database. All of my experience is with MySQL, but I believe the out-of-the-box support for some of the software we'll be using is PostgreSQL.Do any of you have experience with data warehousing? What about a data warehouse with spatial features? And what of the trade-offs between MySQL and PostgreSQL for this task?Any information/links you can provide on any of these subjects would be fantastic.
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2007-08-04 07:22:46 UTC
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sgraham
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My startup idea: ClipArena.com - I made it in one week. What do you think?
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vuknje
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I see no way to vote. (FF2)
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2007-08-04 07:33:25 UTC
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39,273 | 39,259 |
greendestiny
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Desktop apps are dead (from a desktop apps developer)
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tx
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Hyperlinks are better than buttons. I think the blending of information and functionality in web apps is superior to desktop apps, and I'm also a desktop app developer. So many things that are inherently superior in web apps... the web browser platform is a very mature text and graphics rendering engine. Updates happen automatically and seamlessly. I could go on, but its not just .NET
| null | 1 | 16 |
2007-08-04 09:09:40 UTC
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mark-t
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does yc news filter duplicate urls?
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ordersup
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Yes. Actually, it takes you to the original thread (and upvotes it for you?).
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i was just wondering if yc filters multiple listings of the same url... because i see a lot of duplication submissions on here when a link extends beyond the first page of links.
| 1 | 2 |
2007-08-04 09:34:40 UTC
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39,277 | 33,578 |
petervandijck
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Applying to Y Combinator as an undergrad
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myoung8
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"Junky backend" - "Flickr is PHP", ahem. Flickr's backend is actually an object lesson in how to do a good backend and scale it.
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I'm seriously considering applying for Winter '08 as a rising junior.
Has anyone else applied as an undergrad (other than the guys at Loopt)?
How did they (you) fare? Thanks in advance.
| 7 | 14 |
2007-08-04 10:22:26 UTC
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mynameishere
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Paul Buchheit: The first thing that you need to understand about humans
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paul
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Well, if people actually went for "the most attractive" leader, Hitler, Stalin, and Mao could have been avoided all together.If you put me on an automotive focus group (and I'd love to be on one) I would simply point out that the 1965 mustang is many, many times better looking than any car in the last 25 years. Hell, the crappy '62 Ford Falcon shares the same characteristic. The first company that puts out a decent looking car today is going to make 50 billion dollars off of it, simply because the market is utterly starved. Hell, put a 4-banger in it--no one really cares about that.Sure, we're irrational. But even if Molly Housewife and Joe Sixpack judge people based on good looks, at least their estimations are roughly accurate. GWB is better looking than John Kerry. Who's the idiot: Molly Housewife or the DNC? The republicans went out and looked for "Mr. Electable", while the Democrats looked for...(not the "best")...but the guy with tenure and connections and 3 purple hearts. Very reasonable.
| null | 4 | 34 |
2007-08-04 10:55:07 UTC
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mynameishere
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Desktop apps are dead (from a desktop apps developer)
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tx
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I'm guessing not too many of you use MSFT outlook. I could seriously load up yahoo and google mail 10 times each before outlook is running. There's a certain performance advantage to webapps...the GUI stuff (the real code that renders graphics) is always in RAM. The full process from hitting gmail to displaying email requires very little hard drive access.
| null | 2 | 16 |
2007-08-04 11:10:45 UTC
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ryantmulligan
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Startup Tip: Save bandwidth with Gzip (Eg: YC News can save upto 80% per page)
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nreece
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currently this page is scoring an 82 on YSlow. Needs to make use of a CDN. Needs to add expires headers to external resources, and Needs to Configure ETags.
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The Gzip module compresses the HTML as it sends it out. It is compatible with all major web servers and all web browsers. Using Gzip can save HUGE amounts of bandwidth, and increase the overall performance of the webserver.
| 3 | 7 |
2007-08-04 11:15:41 UTC
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tuukkah
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does yc news filter duplicate urls?
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ordersup
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Filtering duplicate URIs isn't enough to get rid of duplicate submissions. There are often several forms of a URI for the same page, and the same writeup is published on several news sites, never mind similar takes on the issue at hand by multiple bloggers.This isn't something an algorithm can solve, but a good UI for searching old stories and annotating submissions ("this is the eyewitness take on that") could be worth it to reduce the amount of perceived redundancy.
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i was just wondering if yc filters multiple listings of the same url... because i see a lot of duplication submissions on here when a link extends beyond the first page of links.
| 0 | 2 |
2007-08-04 12:13:34 UTC
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staunch
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Startup Tip: Save bandwidth with Gzip (Eg: YC News can save upto 80% per page)
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nreece
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I'm a big advocate of gzipping the web. People should be aware that enabling gzip can cause some differences with page rendering due to the extra decompression step. It also increases CPU load on the server. There can be other minor issues too. No show-stoppers though.Also, the percentage of compression savings should not be confused with the savings in load time. An 80% reduction in the size of the response does not mean an automatic 80% reduction in page load time.
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The Gzip module compresses the HTML as it sends it out. It is compatible with all major web servers and all web browsers. Using Gzip can save HUGE amounts of bandwidth, and increase the overall performance of the webserver.
| 0 | 7 |
2007-08-04 12:49:40 UTC
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tuukkah
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Kaizen, the oldest productivity improvement tool
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nreece
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"To be effective, Kaizen needs 100 per cent participation from everyone involved." "Think, rethink and attempt Kaizen, with 100 per cent clarity and understanding;"If you happen to not see improvement, you can't blame him!
| null | 1 | 5 |
2007-08-04 13:01:26 UTC
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pg
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New protection against karma bombing, damage undone
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pg
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I'm considering adding an additional layer of protection against grumps: to only allow users as many downvotes as they've made upvotes. That way each user's net contribution to the global karma would be at least neutral.
| null | 0 | 17 |
2007-08-04 13:26:20 UTC
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Goladus
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How I saved over $4000 on software?
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nreece
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What he has listed SQL Server aren't equivalent products, and I'm pretty sure not open source, much less the "free as in freedom" standard of GNU software.VMware server is free as in cost.Here's what I'm looking for in free software:Versions of ProTools, GigaStudio, and Finale.Video editing software
| null | 0 | 6 |
2007-08-04 14:33:10 UTC
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39,315 | 39,306 |
staunch
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Inside Bebo's London Office [video]
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farmer
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I keep trying to watch the videos Kara Swisher is doing but she's so obnoxious I can't tolerate them.
| null | 0 | 3 |
2007-08-04 14:36:18 UTC
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Dauntless
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New protection against karma bombing, damage undone
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pg
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I wasn't able to downvote since I made an account. But it has its benefits; not being able to downvote or see your comments downvoted makes it a lot less stressful experience.
| null | 3 | 17 |
2007-08-04 14:54:37 UTC
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mynameishere
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New protection against karma bombing, damage undone
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pg
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Once you come up with a really, really good way to correlate karma with a user's quality of posts/comments, maybe try to come up with a purpose for karma.
| null | 2 | 17 |
2007-08-04 15:11:24 UTC
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pg
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One good professor is all it takes...
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aswanson
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Actually: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lazytom/396171564/
| null | 0 | 3 |
2007-08-04 15:16:59 UTC
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39,331 | 39,250 |
rchambers
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How do you host your startup web app?
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nreece
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My preference is either Dedicated or Custom Solution. When you're in the early phase VPS should do just fine for an affordable price. You can always upgrade with your provider and once the funding comes in move to a custom solution. Keep things in mind like how much access is needed to the server for custom application installation.
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This is a general survey.What type of a hosting environment do you use/prefer for your startup web application, regardless of the OS, web server or technologies used?Choices are:1. Shared (100+ sites per server)2. Semi-dedicated (10-50 sites per server, but resources are shared)3. Virtual Private Server (VPS)4. Dedicated5. A custom solution (eg: clustered). Please mention below.
| 0 | 2 |
2007-08-04 15:25:27 UTC
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randallsquared
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Premature Ajax-ulation
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nreece
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I must be using ajax wrong. :/ It's not clear to me how using ajax would expose functions and variables not exposed by any other form, because you still need a form; you're just building it with javascript. Right? When you use ajax, you're just saving some page loads, not throwing away server-side validation; it seems to me that you'd have to go out of your way to screw this up after you have your original non-ajax site working.
| null | 0 | 1 |
2007-08-04 15:38:41 UTC
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39,338 | 39,243 |
abstractbill
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Startup Tip: Save bandwidth with Gzip (Eg: YC News can save upto 80% per page)
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nreece
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Does anyone know if Hunchentoot can be made to do compression?
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The Gzip module compresses the HTML as it sends it out. It is compatible with all major web servers and all web browsers. Using Gzip can save HUGE amounts of bandwidth, and increase the overall performance of the webserver.
| 2 | 7 |
2007-08-04 16:11:59 UTC
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39,340 | 39,301 |
Alex3917
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New protection against karma bombing, damage undone
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pg
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As long as we're having a meta-thread, is there any way to incorporate the site traffic into the decay function. The problem currently is that if you post something off-peak, a lot of time elapses with no one around to vote. It sucks to finish writing a blog post at 7pm and have to wait until 11am the next day to post it.
| null | 1 | 17 |
2007-08-04 16:30:22 UTC
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jsjenkins168
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What after social networking startups?
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diabloernest
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The problem I see facing social networking startups in general is that they are only useful when there are others using it. You have to reach a "critical mass" to be desirable, and getting there is difficult when there are already other bigger social networks with more people. Why would someone join a new social network when they can just join facebook and be connected with more people? The new features would need to be compelling enough for the earliest users to sign up. Because people are intrinsically lazy, those features need be extremely compelling. I think the evolement in this space will stem from new ways that social networking is used rather than simply providing niche slants on existing ideas.
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If you keep up to date with startup ecosystem, then perhaps this question might have popped in your mind as well. Each day on an average 3-4 social networking startups are getting first round, and out of them some into second round funding. Is it just success copy syndrome, or they really make sense (to me, most of them do not). Why would one start a social networking startup, that is just a delta different from others?
More importantly, where is this social networking breeze going to evolve? What will we see after it?
| 1 | 5 |
2007-08-04 16:38:21 UTC
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39,344 | 39,343 |
dpapathanasiou
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Successful Entrepreneurs Know Less Than You Think
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dpapathanasiou
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Be sure to read the tea pouring anecdote: http://successfromthenest.com/content/successful-entrepreneu...
| null | 0 | 4 |
2007-08-04 16:44:35 UTC
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39,347 | 35,015 |
superpepe
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The Equity Equation
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rams
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How can you determine the improved outcome? thanks!
| null | 25 | 72 |
2007-08-04 17:11:55 UTC
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39,348 | 39,259 |
Darmani
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Desktop apps are dead (from a desktop apps developer)
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tx
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Apparently the reason Microsoft is dead is that Microsoft is suicidal. How 'bout that.
| null | 7 | 16 |
2007-08-04 17:13:06 UTC
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39,349 | 39,259 |
diabloernest
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Desktop apps are dead (from a desktop apps developer)
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tx
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each has its own pros and cons!
one thing i feel is that browsers should rethink about some features like desktop access. This is will help in more powerful apps.
| null | 9 | 16 |
2007-08-04 17:19:57 UTC
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39,362 | 39,337 |
keith_erskine
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What after social networking startups?
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diabloernest
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Social networking, like a lot of other business segments, is starting to encompass lots of other companies doing similar things. Increasingly, social networking is about finding people with similar interests, backgrounds, or personal attributes (race, religion, disease/disability) and getting them to talk/share stuff with each other. What's driving startups is that they're going after specific groups/markets in the hope of getting enough of them together so they click on an ad every once and a while on the web site. The best example I can think of that goes after a specific group is Dogster. Dogster was started as a joke by someone who created the site over a weekend (at least that's the story I heard). Much to the designer's surprise, people really wanted to talk with other people about their dogs. Dogster has since raised some money and is getting revenue from sponsorships. Woof!Increasingly, people/groups will just put these networks together themselves instead of relying on a business to do it for them. Ning has been working hard and has a bunch of social networks already up and running. They make it easy for people to put together all the components (forums, photo albums, video, etc.).Plug: Mobile Monday Boston will be having its next meeting on Sept. 17 to discuss mobile social networking. A number of companies will be presenting (including mine - padpaw.net).
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If you keep up to date with startup ecosystem, then perhaps this question might have popped in your mind as well. Each day on an average 3-4 social networking startups are getting first round, and out of them some into second round funding. Is it just success copy syndrome, or they really make sense (to me, most of them do not). Why would one start a social networking startup, that is just a delta different from others?
More importantly, where is this social networking breeze going to evolve? What will we see after it?
| 0 | 5 |
2007-08-04 18:47:49 UTC
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39,370 | 39,250 |
noel2
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How do you host your startup web app?
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nreece
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Good question...VPS to start with maybe and then upgrade to a dedicated box. It all depends on the nature of the web app actually. Clustered arch provides better redundancy and scalability for high-performance apps. Normally a VPS or a dedicated box should suffice.
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This is a general survey.What type of a hosting environment do you use/prefer for your startup web application, regardless of the OS, web server or technologies used?Choices are:1. Shared (100+ sites per server)2. Semi-dedicated (10-50 sites per server, but resources are shared)3. Virtual Private Server (VPS)4. Dedicated5. A custom solution (eg: clustered). Please mention below.
| 1 | 2 |
2007-08-04 19:26:03 UTC
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prakash
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What is a good free anti-virus software?
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rokhayakebe
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avg from grisoft
| null | 1 | 1 |
2007-08-04 19:28:34 UTC
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39,373 | 39,259 |
nreece
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Desktop apps are dead (from a desktop apps developer)
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tx
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Your OS, your web browser, your ISP's server apps etc. are all software. Software isn't dead, nor will it die too soon. It's just in a phase of transition.
| null | 8 | 16 |
2007-08-04 19:35:48 UTC
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donna
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At which point do you quit? (dumb your idea)
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rokhayakebe
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Do you have any users, yet? If so, pick that one. If not pick the one that excites your friends and family.
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Is there a point at which you feel as if you needed to quit? I am working on two projects and at times I want to quit one and focus on the other, but I do not know which one to pick. Anyways most of the time I am very very confident that I will "make something people want", but there is that 5% of doubt that hovers. When do you know you need to dumb one idea and focus on something else?
| 1 | 1 |
2007-08-04 19:53:57 UTC
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39,378 | 39,363 |
nreece
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What is a good free anti-virus software?
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rokhayakebe
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AVG is the most popular: http://free.grisoft.com/But I use Avira AntiVir: http://www.free-av.com/Also try ClamWin: http://www.clamwin.com/
| null | 0 | 1 |
2007-08-04 19:59:53 UTC
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jamiequint
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Xobni's Facebook app replaces Facebook messaging with email
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brezina
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Nice app, only issue might be the fact that this will make emails susceptible to harvesting if it gets widespread adoption, which is why Facebook probably made theirs show as an image in the first place.
| null | 2 | 53 |
2007-08-04 20:17:57 UTC
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pg
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Do Demo Day VC's/Angels sign NDA's ?
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aswanson
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No. Investors would never sign NDAs that early. So on demo day companies shouldn't say anything they really wouldn't want competitors to know.
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To protect against predation as laid out in "A Universal Theory of VC Suckage?"
| 0 | 3 |
2007-08-04 21:33:05 UTC
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augy
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Secrets of a Serial Entrepreneur
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augy
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My takeaways Starting is the hardest part.Nothing succeeds like a working demo, so find a galvanizing event =YC DEMO DAY= that forces you to get a prototype built. Otherwise you will think about it to much.There are customers that everyone else will follow zero in on them.Excel threw other peoples resources.
| null | 0 | 1 |
2007-08-04 22:02:32 UTC
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extantproject
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Being "smart" is hard work
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extantproject
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Is founding a startup looked on by non-founders as something that takes a special type of person (a "smart" person, for example) when really it's just plain old work? Physics seemed like this huge daunting thing I'd never get my arms around, until I buckled down and got to work.
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Is being a founder similar?
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2007-08-04 22:34:06 UTC
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brianmckenzie
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New protection against karma bombing, damage undone
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pg
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Why not let us see who has upvoted/downvoted our comments? It's frustrating when someone downvotes without explanation, especially if it's not an obviously stupid comment. But all posters are not created equal - what if we could consider the source? If some guy with -27 karma downvotes my comment I could care less. If it's someone like Paul Buchheit, on the other hand, I have to consider the possibility that my comment was really stupid.
| null | 4 | 17 |
2007-08-04 22:52:02 UTC
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jkush
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Don't make the Demo look Done
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nreece
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I disagree with this. You'll get so much more respect if you spend time making everything you do look easy.
| null | 2 | 18 |
2007-08-04 22:54:12 UTC
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rms
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In Silicon Valley, Millionaires Who Don't Feel Rich
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nickb
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Well, that's slightly depressing... it's reflective of the fundamental existential angst of humanity, we're just not made to be happy.
| null | 5 | 33 |
2007-08-04 22:56:17 UTC
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39,411 | 39,054 |
ed
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My startup idea: ClipArena.com - I made it in one week. What do you think?
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vuknje
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Just a thought: do the winners in each category bubble up to the top? It'd be cool to try and "challenge the #1 spot" with your own video.
| null | 2 | 19 |
2007-08-04 22:59:54 UTC
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bkrausz
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Did anyone try pay per non-click advertising? Would that result in better targeting by advertisers?
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amichail
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Interesting idea, I can see it portrayed as "you are providing us a service by targeting your ads, and therefore we want to make sure they are as targeted as possible." I don't think advertisers would like it, because it relies heavily on the quality of a site's traffic, but it sounds great for ad networks.But no, I don't believe it's been done (could be wrong though...)
| null | 0 | 2 |
2007-08-04 23:01:10 UTC
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bkrausz
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In Silicon Valley, Millionaires Who Don't Feel Rich
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nickb
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I can definitely see that, having only been in California for 3 months being an intern (i.e. having money in the bank for the first time in a while), it's hard not to spend when everyone here has cool gadgets and such (though on the scale of cell phones and monitors, not cars and houses...).
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2007-08-04 23:11:28 UTC
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pg
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Don't make the Demo look Done
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nreece
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It may be true within big companies that you should keep expectations low by making your prototypes look bad, but that's just further evidence big companies are broken.
| null | 0 | 18 |
2007-08-04 23:18:43 UTC
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ed
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Web4.0 -- The Semantic Web
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nreece
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TBL has been touting the coming of a Semantic Web for quite some time now. I love hearing about example applications but frankly I don't know how much of it I can buy into.Think back 10 years to the examples we were being given about "Surfing the Net" -- while we have some really cool apps and technology today, things didn't turn out quite as people imagined. Technology always has this habit of building alot of hype around potential, but always failing to truly deliver. Additionally the whole concept of the Semantic Web requires that everyone freely exchange their data -- a lovely idea but a bit too romantic if you ask me.My first startup began by squatting in W3C's office space, two doors down from TBL. Really, I'd love nothing more than for it to work but the guys developing the specs for the SW are so out of touch that I wonder if they really have the ability to gain mass adoption.
| null | 1 | 11 |
2007-08-04 23:37:54 UTC
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nreece
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Building a new microstartup every week
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maxtility
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http://www.isonme.com/ seems like a nice util. The Facebook integration makes it more usable.If you are selling your weekly projects (I'd hardly call them startups) then post them on http://web2.0forsale.com/ for more coverage.Good luck!
| null | 0 | 17 |
2007-08-05 00:13:24 UTC
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vlad
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Don't make the Demo look Done
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nreece
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I want to take a stab on solving the parallax between what the blog author writes (which I love) and pg's comment above (which I also love.)Most YCombinator founders (and YNews readers) are young, and venture capitalists or techcrunch readers know this. Every ounce in any skill set that shows we are competent helps sell us. Anything, be it as little as a great visual prototype, helps.On the other hand, this article discusses how the non-silicon valley customers, managers, and investors (even Microsoft) will confuse images with reality. An even bigger problem is that the author assumes all programmers will be using a desktop programming language (with no frameworks) in most articles I've seen on that web site, not realizing that web frameworks allow anybody to have something up and running within a week. I think this advice would be more true pre-Ycombinator and pre-web framework days (in 2004.)I trust that both observations are genuine; and, on a personal note, I prefer pg's attitude more, because I like hearing when people denounce or offer alternatives to "plan for the lowest denominator no matter what" type of business blog advice.
| null | 1 | 18 |
2007-08-05 00:36:16 UTC
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weeblyrocks
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In Silicon Valley, Millionaires Who Don't Feel Rich
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nickb
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This is exactly why you don't move out to Silicon Valley. Build your start-up, get out, and enjoy your life. You might even have something left to give to charity. In Silicon Valley you'll blow your money on a huge house, a plastic wife, and kids who want a BMW the moment they can drive. Oh, and don't forget the taxes.
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2007-08-05 00:37:43 UTC
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39,436 | 39,398 |
ivankirigin
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In Silicon Valley, Millionaires Who Don't Feel Rich
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nickb
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Do a back-of-the-envelope calculation for how much it would cost to do something to an extreme:
- constant tour of the world
- ultimate gaming setup
- beach bum in the tropics.Then figure out how much you'd have to work to achieve it. In most cases, it takes less than a full-time median wage 52 . 40 . 16, meaning I could do them working far less than full-time. "making it" is a state of mind. As is striving to reach an amorphous goal. Happiness research is perhaps some of the most useless work in economics because self reporting is so iffy.If people don't feel rich, it has nothing to do with their absolute level of material comfort. Almost everyone alive today is far more rich than all other humans that have ever lived.
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2007-08-05 00:40:28 UTC
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39,438 | 39,432 |
vlad
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The new wave of Silicon Valley start-ups
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rchambers
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A BBC article that didn't mention auctomatic? :o
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Silicon Valley is the southern part of San Francisco's Bay Area, stretching from the city to San Jose. This is one of the top research and development centres in the world; wherever you look someone is having a good idea.
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2007-08-05 00:43:45 UTC
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39,439 | 39,259 |
ivankirigin
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Desktop apps are dead (from a desktop apps developer)
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tx
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It would be nice if desktop apps could be write-once, run everyowhere important -- like web apps kinda are. Easy client-server communication on a desktop app for persistence between computers would also be nice.There is something to be said for really peppy interfaces, rich input mechanisms (multi-touch, joysticks, gestures through a webcam), and compiled graphics libraries that blow our minds.There is probably room for an open source system that uses a good languages, provides these capabilities, and could run everywhere. A model where monetization comes from support could probably work. Something like QT is clearly not there yet. Doesn't actually run everywhere and C++ stinks.
| null | 5 | 16 |
2007-08-05 00:45:23 UTC
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39,441 | 39,398 |
stuki
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In Silicon Valley, Millionaires Who Don't Feel Rich
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nickb
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Seems to me, people are either of the kind that's happy as long as they have a cold beer and someone to share it with, or the kind that will always be sufficiently unhappy with what they have to bust their ass in pursuit of more. I suspect Silicon Valley, like New York, is home to an over abundance of the latter kind. While at the same time, those who can't understand continuing to work like that despite having millions, are exactly those that would never have bothered putting in the effort to get millions in the first place.
| null | 0 | 33 |
2007-08-05 00:54:37 UTC
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