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juwo
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if you would like to run a demo, please read my reply to jwecker an do contact me. (sorry for the repeat posts, but there doesnt seem to be email notifications or even highlighting of new posts).
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python_kiss
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070302-8966.html
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A peek inside Google's war chest
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volida
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http://edcorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=364
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Top 5 Mistakes Entrepreneurs make
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precipice
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http://www.crowdvine.com/
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Crowdvine: make your own social network
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python_kiss
| 1,172,942,235 |
Great link! Google has some great research publications as well that I recommened everyone checkout: http://labs.google.com/papers.html<p>They have an amazing collection of research papers based on their products. Personally, I recommend "Evaluating similarity measures: a large-scale study in the Orkut social network" as a preliminary mathematical introduction to user interfaces.
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python_kiss
| 1,172,942,453 |
Here is my comment on Mashable: None of these social networks present a viable business model to be attractive from a shareholders point of view.<p>That said, I think all similar startups should hold off until Facebook or LinkedIn go for their IPO. Bebos valuation would sufficiently increase or decrease depending on how other players in this market perform.
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python_kiss
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http://labs.google.com/papers.html#category1
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Great Research Papers by Google
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python_kiss
| 1,172,942,349 |
I am guessing Ning already has the upper hand in this niche. Perhaps if this application had launched a few months ago, it would have made similar waves as Ning.
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lucks
| 1,172,942,230 |
Perhaps some of the 12 tests/tips are. But I think there is some good stuff in there for solo or small-team projects. I myself have never used a bug tracker, but I sure have spent a lot of time coming up with some sort of solution for that problem. These solutions get pretty hodge-podge after a while (wiki's, email, white boards, notes, etc.), and I am never satisfied. His argument for a good bug-tracker is compelling and it seems like it would benefit any project.
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python_kiss
| 1,172,940,916 |
1. Automatically convert http:// text into links.
2. Use Ajax to 1up points.
3. I have 29 points on my account but I don't know where I got them from. A tracking algo would be appreciated.
4. atm, topics are promoted to front page with just 2 points. Increase this limit in order to attract more worthy content to the "top" category.<p>Let me know if you need help with any of these. They probably require less than 20 minutes to implement.
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sly
| 1,172,942,299 |
Lots of startups may be a single programmer, but my understanding is that the most successful ones have 2 to 4 (http://paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html). I posted it because I found it useful for my own software project (involving 4 people) and believe me, we're far from a Microsoft type org. Anyway, maybe the bugtracking discussion will be informative for all, no matter how big their posse is. Sera
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dfranke
| 1,172,946,976 |
There's already an official thread for feature requests: http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=363.
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jamiequint
| 1,172,947,325 | null | null | null | null | null |
http://www.expressions.be/images/Actu/gartner_hype_cycle_2006.jpg
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Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technology 2006
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precipice
| 1,172,944,197 |
It did in fact launch a while ago (not sure if it was a few months, but it was a while before Ning). But, you're right -- Ning has a lot of publicity momentum now.
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sly
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Alex3917
| 1,172,946,882 |
Does Ning only let you make social networks now? I remember during the beta test they said it was going to let you make any type of web app, from Amazon to Craigslist. I haven't really checked back since then.
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amichail
| 1,172,942,839 |
The problem with collaborative filtering is that there's a lot of magic going on that the user does not understand. Some users like to have more control over personalized recommendations and social networks can give them that control.
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python_kiss
| 1,172,945,690 |
That website has some great case studies available on recommender systems available for finding "music", "content", etc. I would much rather prefer that a computer do my work than myself. Web users have a terrible attention span so such a system would work to their benefit by eliminating the need to click-and-find content. For anyone interested, I expressed my ideas on collaborative filtering here: http://www.socialdegree.com/2007/01/15/interview-w-shuzakcom-founder-jawad-shuaib/
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Alex3917
| 1,172,946,014 |
Wow. That is one of the coolest things I've ever seen on the web.
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danielha
| 1,172,948,590 |
We are using Django for our project and it does have user-created content.<p>I can see why Django is great for publishing content (it as a newspaper app, as you mentioned), but I haven't found anything compelling that puts TurboGears over Django for user contributions. Do you have any specific examples?
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danw
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http://valleywag.com/tech/romance/how-will-this-software-get-my-users-laid-heres-how-233037.php
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How will this software get my users laid?
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Elfan
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http://moishelettvin.blogspot.com/2006/12/software-and-craftsmanship_05.html
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Software and craftsmanship
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lucks
| 1,172,948,205 |
I have not tried Django, but all of the discussions I have read have hinted that the built-in admin interface to Django is awesome, but it seems it is the only real benefit over Turbogears. The consensus was to actually learn both, and use Django when you needed a great admin interface, and Turbogears otherwise. My specific project is more on the otherwise end of things. <p>Another common theme is that Django is great for projects that don't have user-created content, but instead release a lot of content (I am guessing along the lines of the original Django newspaper app). If you don't have that type of project, people seem to advise using Turbogears.<p>But I guess the best way is to try both, so I will certainly look at the screencast you posted. Thanks!
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akkartik
| 1,172,949,474 |
Extending Zawinski's law [1] to the web: Every website expands until it becomes a social network. Websites that cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.<p>[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zawinski's_Law_of_Software_Envelopment
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danielha
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http://www.silverstripesoftware.com/blog/archives/27
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Create a minimal Wiki in Python+Django in 15 minutes (screencast)
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danielha
| 1,172,947,845 |
This supplements lucks' submission on creating a Wiki with Python+TurboGears (http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=1981)
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danielha
| 1,172,947,812 |
Was there anything that steered you from Django?<p>I just posted this screencast as well: http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=1981
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danielha
| 1,172,948,272 |
Good article. Here's a related article to that that was linked in that story:<p>http://gigaom.com/2006/12/20/earthlink-sf-milpitas/<p>Milpitas is my hometown but since I'm away for school, I haven't gotten much exposure to the city-wide WiFi. I do remember receiving WiFi signal from Earthlink in surprising places the last time I was in Milpitas. They were offering free access for a while but I think the subscription requirement has kicked in by now.<p>I love and fully support the idea of mass WiFi access. I'm unsure about municipal funding, however. Either way, it's interesting to observe where this might be going.
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nostrademons
| 1,172,951,003 |
Well, remember that he's selling bugtracking software. ;-) Many of Joel's articles are very good, but remember that they are designed to sell his product.<p>You do need *some* sort of bug tracking system, but I've never found one that I like. I've used Bugzilla, Mantis, FogBugz (Joel's product) and reported on Jira, Sun's bugtracking system, and SourceForge, but the only one I halfway-liked was Jira. At work, I use pencil & paper along with fixing bugs as they're reported. For my startup, I'll likely roll up some custom solution, as I haven't seen anything that comes close to meeting our requirements. I'll take a second look at what's out there first, though - I've heard good things about Trac, and maybe someone somewhere has come up with a decent bugtracker.
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nostrademons
| 1,172,950,537 |
Multiple founders != multiple programmers.<p>Many startups with multiple founders have one founder do most or all of the programming work. As I understand it, Reddit is like this: Steve does the coding while Alexis does all the other miscellaneous work. Sun had 4 founders, but Bill Joy did the programming. AFAIK, DHH did most of the initial programming for 37signals, though they obviously have more now. Their advice (in "Getting Real") was to start with one programmer, one designer, and one person who could do swing work - a little server admin here, a little CSS work there. This also squares with Fred Brooks's advice in Mythical Man Month - a programming team should be organized like a surgical team, with one lead programmer and 5-7 people running support so he has no distractions.<p>There're some big advantages to this structure, mostly involving communications overhead. With one programmer, you don't need to coordinate who does what. You don't need to explain what needs to be done. You don't waste time fixing broken interfaces. You can move quickly and add whatever features the customers want.<p>I've worked for two startups that have both suffered by starting with a team of 4-5 (1 founder + 3-4 employees) instead of a single founder. It's very hard to get everyone on the same page on the requirements, particularly if the employees don't know the domain well. And when startups change direction frequently, multi-programmers tend to get demoralized (because the switching costs are higher and comparatively more effort went into the previous product), while single tech leads just throw away the old code and write whatever they need.
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nostrademons
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http://paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html
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The 18 Mistakes that Kill Startups
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Elfan
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http://moishelettvin.blogspot.com/2006/11/large-companies-and-talent.html
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Large companies and 'A' talent
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amichail
| 1,172,952,062 |
A major motivation to pursue your own startup is to be your own boss. This makes finding a partner really hard. What is the likelihood that you would have two very strong willed people who can work together and compromise?
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jwecker
| 1,172,956,146 |
If the author voluntarily submits the text, it wouldn't be a problem imo. You could then/also require that any quote over 1 sentence (which could be safely covered by fair use) or maybe even any quote at all is simply a reference to the book itself- maybe even formalize the referencing system. If they are not copying the text, there is no copyright problem. Copyrights do not act like trade secrets or patents.
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juwo
| 1,172,957,530 |
I think one factor is ego. Another is how much to give up?
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dfranke
| 1,172,956,142 |
You'd better throw in some epsilon of tolerance there, or finding two people both willing to work with each other is going to be *really* hard :-)
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nostrademons
| 1,172,956,778 |
I'd amend that to "Never partner with someone who is not technically literate as you, *if* they think they are as technically literate as you or believe that technical literacy is not important."<p>It can often be very productive to partner with someone with people skills, or business skills, or finance skills. Those things *are* important, and yet you won't have spare brain cycles for them if you're doing hardcore programming. That person just needs to realize that *you* call the shots when it comes to technical decisions.<p>Warren Buffett's advice applies, as always. "It's not how much you know that matters. It's how realistically you assess what you *don't* know."
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amichail
| 1,172,952,349 |
I have been thinking some more about an idea to help people better understand their books. However, there's a chance that the information submitted by users would allow people to infer the contents of some books sufficiently such that they would not need to buy them. Would this be viewed as a copyright violation? Of course, it may turn out the other way around with the service resulting in more people buying books.
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amichail
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Is this idea prone to lawsuits?
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amichail
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Why finding a partner is hard!
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jwecker
| 1,172,955,941 |
My fortune cookie advice on the subject: _Never_ partner with someone who is not as technically literate as you (= not a programmer), even if they have the money. _Especially_ if they have the money.
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danielha
| 1,172,947,390 |
Both let you create social networks, but they're quite different. Ning seems to be more about hosting social networks that you create with your service -- your social network is standalone and is your own personal niche MySpace.<p>Crowdvine has a single community feel to it, with users joining multiple groups based on arbitrary titles ('Cool People Who Know Kati' is one example). It's more group-creating than social network-creating, which would be ideal for smaller scope congregation. Further, however, Crowdvine doesn't let you do anything once you're in a group besides read blog entries from other members.
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Alex3917
| 1,172,957,225 |
Agreed. If you're a musician and you never partner with someone who isn't as good at singing then you'll never have a band. If you're a writer and you never partner with anyone who isn't as good at writing then you'll have no editor, no publisher, and no book. <p>I don't see why a startup should be any different. You have so many tasks (design, engineering, coding, selling, fundraising, partnering, etc.) that it makes no sense to only work with people of the same skillset.
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jeremyliew
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http://lsvp.wordpress.com/2007/03/02/seven-ways-to-go-viral/
| 5 |
Seven ways that companies have built virality
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jwecker
| 1,172,957,771 |
working with != partnership. I really think it's a different beast. I've also been in bands and occasionally someone would say "I'd love to partner up with you guys and manage your band or do PR for you guys." If they had experience playing or producing music, we'd give them a chance. If they listened to the radio and fantasized about being in charge of the back-stage passes for the next big band, but had never picked up a guitar- no chance.
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jwecker
| 1,172,957,434 |
I could live with that definition, but I've had 2 partnerships now in 2 different companies where I felt the person had qualified on those grounds and while they are still great friends etc., I was a bit disappointed. If it is a tech company, I really think they both have to have real tech expertise. It has little to do with just having someone else to do the programming- in both of those partnerships the partner was more than willing to defer to me on all technical matters that they perceived to be technical matters.<p>In a tech company, though, _everything_ is a technical matter- for example- marketing. Early adopters for 99% of tech products are geeks- if you are not one then you do not understand the market (hence all those MBA lead failures of the late 90's). Finance for a tech startup usually has to tie into the product / subscriptions, etc- and is thus a tech problem. PR is to fellow geeks, etc. etc. Then there's the fact that the bulk of the work to be done is technical- if you're going to be having allnighters for the next 3 months getting a product out- there is a _big_ difference between having a partner who is right there with you in the trenches coding across the room, and a partner who comes by every day and says "well, uh, how's it going?"- you spend the next hour trying to explain the latest hangup etc. and then they say "well, let me know if the schedule changes- I've got some great customers lined up..." or whatever.<p>Sometimes that situation is unavoidable, but I guarantee it is not optimal.
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danielha
| 1,172,957,796 |
Competence is of the utmost importance, but it'd be a mistake to ignore those who don't hold the exact same skill-set as you. A startup needs a variety of talents, and it's usually the case where there is some member of the founding team who is the most brilliant hacker, or someone who's great with user interfaces, or someone who has a knack for design and testing.<p>I do agree that your partner should have a hackers' passion and be technically competent. You don't need someone that's all theoretical and won't get down and dirty with some code.
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danielha
| 1,172,958,353 |
This would not violate our copyright laws. <p>Refer to Amazon.com's product reviews as an example. There is plenty of information available on a book or movie, submitted by users -- spoilers too. As long as there isn't verbatim material provided in whole contexts, I see no problem. People review books all the time; they even summarize its entire content.<p>If I misunderstood your idea's intent, let me know.
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jwecker
| 1,172,958,772 |
True- Maybe I should add though it doesn't take all that much to be as technically competent as I am ;)
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danielha
| 1,172,957,977 |
Ego can go, but confidence stays.<p>Compromise is a complicated matter. Don't compromise on your good ideas. There will undoubtedly be conflict among founders regarding vision and method, but the best relationships will work through those.<p>If you don't disagree with your team at some point, you're not contributing enough.
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volida
| 1,172,957,582 |
thats not my motivation! thats a mistake if its your only motivation behind starting up...<p>and your argument reveals selfishness, something I would avoid when searching for a cofounder. <p>Mutual vision, trust and willing to work hard together, support and help each other is amongs the secrets when peeking cofounders. Other than that, its obvious you are searching for employees.<p>
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danielha
| 1,172,958,609 |
A couple of my favorites:<p>Limits of Anti-Phishing:
http://www.w3.org/2005/Security/usability-ws/presentations/37-google<p>How to Design a Good API:
http://lcsd05.cs.tamu.edu/slides/keynote.pdf
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dfranke
| 1,172,959,756 |
I'm trying to apply this to Reddit, but I'm drawing a blank.
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juwo
| 1,172,960,575 |
1) no way to tell which are new posts - I cant believe it didnt occur to you to color old or unread posts differently! Idea - change the color of every post title as it ages, from Yellow to black. (or light gray to black).
2) poorly organized. I had to reply individually because I wasnt sure they would see it. See here
http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=1890
3) what is showdead?
4) there seems to be a clamor of links to articles.
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amichail
| 1,172,959,924 |
People will probably copy some material verbatim even if the terms of usage policy says otherwise. And if sufficiently many people are contributing to information associated with a book, after a while those copied parts can add up to a significant portion of the book.<p>But even if material isn't copied verbatim, what happens if significant portions of the book are revealed anyway? This may not even be a summary. The contributed content may end up being larger than the book itself.
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Alex3917
| 1,172,959,294 |
The only thing I disagree with is your idea that technically literate means being a programmer. <p>Jesse James Garret, the guy who coined the term AJAX and came up with the design philosophy around it, isn't a programmer. But if I were a great programmer then he'd certainly be someone I'd want to partner with. Literacy just means the understanding of a certain discourse. Once you've taken a couple college level programming courses then you can pretty much understand everything a programmer is doing, but that doesn't mean you always know enough to do it yourself.
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imp
| 1,172,958,834 |
I've heard that story before, but never thought about how it could be applied to startups. Interesting.
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phil
| 1,172,960,971 | null | null | null | null | null |
http://gigaom.com/2007/03/03/cisco-tribe-five-across/
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Buying Tribe a "wrong bet"
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2141,
2342,
2064
] |
http://www.buxfer.com/index.php
| 32 |
New YC Startup: Buxfer
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dfranke
| 1,172,960,988 |
"There have been several businesses that successfully grew by paying both new and inviting users. The economics can make this more difficult for media models than commerce models. However, it can drive a lot of new adoption, and did for AllAdvantage and Paypal."<p>I'd hardly call AllAdvantage a success story.
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phil
| 1,172,961,236 |
if you can get enough bits of books posted to your site that publishers start to notice and want to sue you, then you would be wildly succeeding. even so, this all sounds like fair use to me.
| null | 2,035 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
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precipice
| 1,172,962,414 |
A number of people have gotten married through Flickr...<p>http://www.flickr.mud.yahoo.com/photos/matt/1424625/
| null | 2,027 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
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juwo
| 1,172,964,606 | null | null | null | null | null |
http://juwo.blogspot.com/2006/11/flatface-musings-java-has-harmed-unix.html
| 1 |
Java has harmed Unix but helped Windows win
| null | 0 |
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Alex3917
| 1,172,968,499 | null | null | null | null |
[
2098,
2076,
2114
] |
http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
| 2 |
FreeMind -- free mind mapping software
| null | 4 |
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abstractbill
| 1,172,966,578 |
Congrats to the founders for building and launching a very nice-looking site.<p>At this point though, I'm more likely to use something like wesabe for keeping track of my spending since it understands my existing online bank accounts rather than requiring me to enter transactions by hand - that seems like a killer feature to me since my spending these days is overwhelmingly electronic.<p>[disclaimer: I haven't used either tool. My opinion is based only on having seen the online demos.]
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wastedbrains
| 1,172,961,608 |
I really like the ability to just use my existing accounts, it was enough to have me take a little look around.
| null | 2,055 | null |
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] | null | null | null | null | null |
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bootload
| 1,172,965,712 |
'... Wednesday, August 09, 2000 ...'<p>Pretty sure this article was written pre fogbugz while Citydesk was still in development. Look at the date on the article posting.
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Alex3917
| 1,172,967,947 | null | null | null | null |
[
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] |
http://www.iamworththewait.org/101.html
| 1 |
101 areas where startups can create value
| null | 1 |
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Alex3917
| 1,172,962,855 |
I'm imagining two intersecting lines. The positively sloped line represents the amount of time saved increasing as transactions of this kind increase. The other negatively sloped line is the cognitive overhead of using the system, i.e. higher when the number of transactions is small. I'm trying to figure out where exactly they cross, because while I like the system in theory I can't really see myself using it, at least at the moment. <p>P.S. Congrats on launching to the founder(s).
| null | 2,055 | null |
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] | null | null | null | null | null |
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story
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msgbeepa
| 1,172,964,343 | null | null | null | null | null |
http://www.wikio.com/webinfo?id=14060965
| 1 |
Interactive Knowledge Sharing Website
| null | 0 |
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comment
|
pg
| 1,172,966,193 |
done
| null | 372 | null |
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] | null | null | null | null | null |
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juwo
| 1,172,962,585 |
If my bank allows it, can you access my bank account?
I think this is a great idea that can even upstage Quicken.
I stopped using Quicken - it is a pain to have duplication.
However I cannot annotate my transactions with my bank. (this cheque was a donation for charity http://lydiapress.com).
As a result, actually, I dont keep track of my account (shouldnt confess this here!)
Yes, it is a great idea because IF I GIVE YOU READ-ONLY ACCESS TO MY ACCOUNT, WHY SHOULD THE BANK CARE? WOW!
| null | 2,055 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
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juwo
| 1,172,968,355 |
well said, volida!
| null | 2,046 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
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amichail
| 1,172,971,578 |
For me, it's all about creativity. I love trying out new ideas.
| null | 2,079 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
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dmnd
| 1,172,969,804 |
Wow, I have a half implemented (and nowhere near as nice-looking) version of this app on my computer. I guess I should have searched a little deeper before starting to convert my finance spreadsheet to a web app... back to to brainstorming for me.<p>I suppose I better sign up, then!
| null | 2,055 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
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juwo
| 1,172,968,897 |
Yes, I am wasting a lot of time at this site.
However, I have also gotten some great advice for my situation - and who knows, I may also meet a co-founder(s) here!
| null | 943 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
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Alex3917
| 1,172,969,824 |
This software is useful for solving big problems, like writing a book or creating a business.
| null | 2,073 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
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Alex3917
| 1,172,970,071 |
Kind of a goofy list, but occasionally when I'm bored I'll glance at a few and brainstorm ways of making each activity more efficient, easy, fun, etc. Good way to stimulate creativity.
| null | 2,071 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
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rms
| 1,172,971,807 |
Entrepreneurship is the only way to transcend the class structure of American society.<p>Without college educated parents, you are born into the lower (working) class. You can move up to the upper (professional) class in a generation by getting a college education and working a professional job for a major corporation.<p>A lifetime of corporate work provides no means to advance to the ownership (ruling) class. I refer to people like Rupert Murdoch, Dick Cheney, the Waltons, and Bill Gates as uber-capitalists -- they have enough money to truly make an impact on society at large.<p>I'm starting a company now so I can be able to make a true positive impact on the world in my lifetime.
| null | 2,079 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
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amichail
| 1,172,971,421 | null | null | null | null |
[
2096,
2157,
2095,
2084,
2093,
2083,
2139,
2081,
2146,
2287,
2132,
2203,
2176,
2080,
2088,
2177,
2223,
2148,
2115,
2179,
2202
] | null | 13 |
Why do you want to pursue a startup?
| null | 24 |
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story
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reitzensteinm
| 1,172,972,592 | null | null | null | null |
[
2087
] |
http://www.tgdaily.com/2007/03/01/google_clickfraud_prevention_newsystems/
| 2 |
Google introduced new fraud measures (again)
| null | 1 |
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juwo
| 1,172,973,150 |
I'll bet the graphic artist didn't come cheap.
| null | 1,970 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
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iamelgringo
| 1,172,975,974 |
It fits who I am as a person better than anything else that I've tried. <p>I don't think I can avoid it... I've tried, but I keep coming back to the idea of starting a business. <p>I enjoy the creativity and the stimulation.<p>To solve the money problem. <p>
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dawie
| 1,172,970,469 | null | null | null | null | null |
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17030580/site/newsweek/
| 1 |
How I Became a Big Wheel
| null | 0 |
2,084 | null |
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dfranke
| 1,172,972,834 |
Two reasons, which both boil down to "freedom":<p>1. So that I can spend my time implementing my own vision rather than someone else's.<p>2. For the money, which gives me the freedom to decide who is worth impressing.
| null | 2,079 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
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Alex3917
| 1,172,972,700 |
Creating something of great value to others is the ultimate challenge. It makes everything else look like a joke.
| null | 2,079 | null |
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] | null | null | null | null | null |
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python_kiss
| 1,172,975,851 |
I read Buxfer's review on TechCrunch earlier today; congratulations to YC and the founders on getting featured there! :) The site looks great but they have some tough challenges ahead since Buxfer is coming late in this market.<p>The key is to resist the temptation of copying features off their larger competitor (Wesabe) and build something different. I think a great lesson we have all learned from Reddit is that a startup can survive in the face of tough competition merely by filling the gaps left by their larger competitor. So far Buxfer seems to have done a great job at it :)<p>- Jawad Shuaib
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juwo
| 1,172,974,416 | null | null | null | null |
[
2167
] |
http://www.amazon.com/Halo-Effect-Business-Delusions-Managers/dp/0743291255
| 1 |
"Good to Great" is NOT? The Halo Effect and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers
| null | 1 |
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danielha
| 1,172,975,985 |
I don't want to be pre-Matrix Neo.<p>Actually, the last company I interned with was a very nice place to work. The atmosphere was casual, the people were great, and I found lots of interesting things to work on. <p>Some people fear that a life comparable to Dilbert's awaits them if they get on the corporate track. Others, including me, realize that one can be creative and successful in the corporate world.<p>But that's not for me. Nothing compares to building and actualizing my own vision. I mentioned my internship earlier -- it was a great experience, but I realized that this wasn't for me. My co-founder feels very similarly and it was from this mindset that our best ideas came about.<p>Founding a company has always been one of my most consistent aspirations and there's never been a better time to go for it. And my final reason: it's fun as hell.
| null | 2,079 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
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mynameishere
| 1,172,974,882 |
Looks a little too cartoony for a financial app. Actually, umm, if Windows media player looked like this, I'd say the same thing: Too cartoony. Just to give you a baseline.
| null | 2,055 | null |
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] | null | null | null | null | null |
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reitzensteinm
| 1,172,973,199 |
What I want to know is why have they waited so long to hook up Adwords and Checkout. Instead of bidding on $x/click, someone who signed up for Checkout could instead sign up and bid on $x or y% per sale, effectively eliminating fraudulant clicks. <p>I guess the trouble with this is that you'd still be able to send a truckload of traffic at a competitor to decrease the Google cut per visitor. But it would totally eliminate people artifically increasing their Adsense clicks, and if they optimised for the Google income per Adsense view on a site by site basis, then the long tail would effectively be safe from people trying to decrease the rank of their competitors. Not to mention that the data from the long tail would give you an excellent idea of who is being hurt by artifical traffic (you could even use the data from the long tail to rank the main Google search ads which would eliminate the problem entirely, perhaps at the risk of a bit of inaccuracy).
| null | 2,082 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
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dfranke
| 1,172,974,754 |
Is this essentially different from being an incubator? I thought those died out with the bubble.
| null | 1,588 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
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JMiao
| 1,172,973,443 |
Meaningful work that inspires others.
| null | 2,079 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,093 | null |
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palish
| 1,172,975,800 |
People are forced to use tools that are inadequate or clumsy. I want to help those people.
| null | 2,079 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
2,085 | null |
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juwo
| 1,172,972,924 |
I am sorry to say it, but most Indians are conformists - they are not creative. It's the culture. The nail that sticks out is beaten down. Americans are simplistic.
| null | 1,994 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
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TryAndTry
| 1,172,975,189 |
a "subscribe to feed by email" option will help ! <p>Hardly takes any time to plug the feed to FeedBlitz/FeedBurner.
| null | 363 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
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phil
| 1,172,976,362 |
Alex, have you been using this? I'm always looking for better tools for laying my thoughts out, but I have yet to find one that feels natural enough to beat a big sheet of paper and a pencil.
| null | 2,073 | null |
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python_kiss
| 1,172,976,298 |
I am slightly biased since my favorites were the onces that were applied to social networks:
1) A social network caught in the Web.
2) Evaluating similarity measures: a large-scale study in the orkut social network.<p>I also loved this other research paper I read yesterday on collaborative intelligence, "Item-based Collaborative Filtering Recommendation Algorithms" available at http://www.paulperry.net/notes/cf.asp<p>- Jawad Shuaib
| null | 2,051 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
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python_kiss
| 1,172,976,415 | null | null | null | null |
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] |
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_alternative_search_engines_geography.php
| 2 |
California Home to Quarter of Top 100 Alt Search Engines
| null | 1 |
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python_kiss
| 1,172,976,535 |
Read/WriteWeb is a great blog. I recommend that anyone interested in startups should subscribe to Richard's rss. He usually writes analytical articles on startups (very different from TC, Mashable, GigaOm, etc). Enjoy,
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