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pc
"2007-02-19T18:38:08"
SpikeSource, CA-based startup, becomes Ubuntu commercial support provider for US
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http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS7616991195.html
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pg
"2007-02-19T18:40:49"
Dutch Sharewire Taking Mobile Content Off Deck
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http://www.thealarmclock.com/euro/archives/2007/02/dutch_sharewire_taki.html#Permalink
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pc
"2007-02-19T18:43:09"
Screencast of DabbleDB -- web-based DBMS coded in Smalltalk
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http://dabbledb.com/explore/7minutedemo/
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emmett
"2007-02-19T18:47:28"
Google acquires advertising startup
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/16/google-to-buy-adscape-for-23-million/
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farmer
"2007-02-19T18:51:02"
Founders: The involved vs. the committed
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http://onstartups.com/home/tabid/3339/bid/1204/Startup-Founders-The-Involved-vs-The-Committed.aspx
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justin
"2007-02-19T19:33:42"
new fantasy movie league startup
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/16/amazon-funds-fantasy-movies-league/
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justin
"2007-02-19T19:36:04"
teqlo: yahoo pipes competitor allows you to make your own apps online
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http://mashable.com/2007/02/18/teqlo/
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story
gautam
"2007-02-19T19:49:47"
How much control should our users have?
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http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2007/02/how_much_contro.html
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casey
"2007-02-19T19:54:01"
Social-Networking Sites Open Up
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http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2007/tc20070213_172619.htm
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story
matt
"2007-02-19T20:03:20"
Do YOU have the balls to try? Part I
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http://james.hotornot.com/2007/01/do-you-have-balls-to-try-part-i.html
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[ 247 ]
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matt
"2007-02-19T20:04:27"
On Having Balls, Part II: Staying Hungry
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http://james.hotornot.com/2007/02/on-having-balls-part-ii-staying-hungry.html
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matt
"2007-02-19T20:06:43"
Add a little more random to your product
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http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2007/01/add_a_little_mo.html
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eric
"2007-02-19T20:12:41"
unusual business: multiethnic wedding cake figurines
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http://uncommonbusiness.blogspot.com/2007/02/wacky-business-idea-multiethnic-wedding.html
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casey
"2007-02-19T20:16:10"
Isolating Causality: Bad Market or Bad Company
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http://willprice.blogspot.com/2007/02/isolating-causality-bad-market-or-bad.html
3
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eric
"2007-02-19T20:16:13"
startup lessons for 2007
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http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/6_startup_lessons_2007.php
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eric
"2007-02-19T20:25:25"
maps mashups just got easier: GeoKit
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http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2007/2/16/google-maps-with-rails-and-ajax
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mwseibel
"2007-02-19T20:26:51"
What's good for users is what is good for the business... who knew?
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http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2007/02/test.html
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mwseibel
"2007-02-19T20:42:43"
The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint
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http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2005/12/the_102030_rule.html
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story
mwseibel
"2007-02-19T20:42:55"
Presenting to VCs
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http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2005/12/the_102030_rule.html
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mwseibel
"2007-02-19T20:51:43"
The Web 2.0 Video
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http://battellemedia.com/archives/003342.php
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mwseibel
"2007-02-19T20:55:35"
Finally mobile flash video
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http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/16680147.htm
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pg
"2007-02-19T22:05:40"
Hard disc test surprises Google
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6376021.stm
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beau
"2007-02-19T22:19:36"
Seven steps to remarkable customer service
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http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/customerservice.html
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beau
"2007-02-19T22:21:13"
Design Quotations: "And if in fact you do know the exact cost and the exact schedule, chances are that the technology is obsolete."
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http://design.caltech.edu/erik/Misc/design_quotes.html
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herdrick
"2007-02-19T22:44:06"
Startup news link submission site.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/
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pg
"2007-02-19T22:45:26"
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very funny, ethan
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farmer
"2007-02-19T23:32:16"
Make a claim with OpenID on Jyte
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/19/make-a-claim-with-openid-on-jyte/
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ninwa
"2007-02-20T00:06:04"
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I absolutely agree with his thoughts on the power of admitting fault. It's a matter of taking responsibility for ones self and it shows character. If only everyone took this advice. PS: nice reddit-esque dealio you have going on here :)
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danny
"2007-02-20T00:17:11"
User Interface Design For Programmers
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http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/fog0000000249.html
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perler
"2007-02-20T00:38:21"
Snipshot "the best" online photo editor
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http://pulse2.com/2007/02/19/snipshot-steals-online-photo-pic-a-nik-baskets/
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mattc58
"2007-02-20T01:42:55"
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Looks good. Probably BaseCamp 2.0. I've really gotten to like Trac though, and I've used most of the tools out there. Trac just gets it done. I think the biggest plus is the Wiki.
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wastedbrains
"2007-02-20T02:21:25"
Start up doing what? That's right, we really don't know.
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http://blog.pretheory.com/arch/000398.php
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zach
"2007-02-20T03:12:36"
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Fascinating. I'm at a startup that's an S-corp too and wonder about stuff like this for the future.
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greendestiny
"2007-02-20T03:46:08"
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Well its not a totally useless link submission, gives people a chance to comment on the site. I really like the idea of this site, it was the entrepreneurial stuff that brought me to reddit in the first place. It seems like a missed opportunity for reddit though...
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bosky101
"2007-02-20T03:56:18"
Adding Idempotent Event Handling to your Javascript Toolkit
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http://bosky101.blogspot.com/2007/02/adding-idempotent-event-handling-to.html
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bosky101
"2007-02-20T03:58:07"
The Startup Blog : The Next Wave of Education - Grooming Entrepreneur...
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http://thestartupblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/next-wave-of-education-grooming.html
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rtm
"2007-02-20T04:42:30"
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I wonder what this means for practical system design. Do people currently build assumptions about hard drive failure patterns into their systems, in a way that they should change? I suppose independent failure (i.e. copying data to two drives is better than storing it on just one) is the main assumption behind e.g. RAID; I wonder whether Google has any new insight there.
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xyzzy
"2007-02-20T05:23:38"
NYT on Meraki Mesh Network Startup
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http://www.hendersonvillenews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070204/ZNYT01/702040375/1170/BUSINESS
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tuber
"2007-02-20T05:41:47"
Web2.0 Deals and Finance
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http://bankys.com/
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akkartik
"2007-02-20T06:09:33"
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It's cool and all that clicking on the up arrow instantly resorts submissions, but it's also annoying when one is trying to read items in a certain order. I suggest simply removing the triangle. My top feature request: being able to see my own voting history over time.
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herdrick
"2007-02-20T06:19:39"
Shopping sites BrowseGoods and BlackDogAir: Visualizations of product relationships.
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/19/browsegoods-blackdogair-2-new-ways-to-view-shopping/
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timg
"2007-02-20T06:19:53"
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news.ycombinator should let us redesign arc.
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Dauntless
"2007-02-20T06:25:12"
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Some problems: 1. There is no direct link back to the main page from the discussion area. 2. Voting seems to be irremediable, if you vote by accident you can’t unvote.
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Dauntless
"2007-02-20T06:26:31"
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3. You can't delete your comment if you posted by accident twice.
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Dauntless
"2007-02-20T06:26:37"
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3. You can't delete your comment if you posted by accident twice.
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Dauntless
"2007-02-20T06:26:45"
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3. You can't delete your comment if you posted by accident twice.
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story
herdrick
"2007-02-20T07:33:29"
A look at eight multi-person SMS services
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/09/27/a-look-at-eight-multi-person-sms-services/
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google
"2007-02-20T07:50:49"
Best gossip social site on the web
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http://teenwag.com
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cuteoverload
"2007-02-20T07:52:49"
Cutest pups, cats, babies - hotornot for babies, pups,
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http://www.morecute.com
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cuteoverload
"2007-02-20T07:54:01"
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I think teqlo is all buzz and no useful stuff ;)
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cuteoverload
"2007-02-20T07:56:06"
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http://morecute.com they are giving Hotornot run for their money
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cuteoverload
"2007-02-20T07:56:49"
null
Searchmash is awesome
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cuteoverload
"2007-02-20T07:58:40"
null
Fedora is far better than ubuntu
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rockstar
"2007-02-20T08:00:28"
Real celebs join Social networks driving huge teen audience to Teen social networking startup
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http://www.teenwag.com/profile?friendid=326
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rockstar
"2007-02-20T08:00:38"
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Alyson Rosalina DiMeco Naked Brothers Band on Teenwag!
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ashu
"2007-02-20T08:00:59"
null
Wow, this thing is seriously cool...
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gustaf
"2007-02-20T08:12:32"
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great work, I've been waiting for this! features that would be cool: * real user-profiles * rss-feed * startup-wiki for general discussions
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perspex
"2007-02-20T08:19:11"
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rockstar
"2007-02-20T08:19:54"
Gossip search engine Teenwag launches competing with Clusty, Technorati and google!
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http://www.teenwag.com/search?q=&btn=Search
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rockstar
"2007-02-20T08:20:18"
Powerset power hype
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http://www.teenwag.com/search?q=britney
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story
rockstar
"2007-02-20T08:21:25"
Did Paul graham really use Arc to make News or is it CLISP?
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http://lisp.teenwag.com
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wicked
"2007-02-20T08:34:32"
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I like the idea of a wiki. After interesting discussions it would be possible to clean it up and store it in an accessible format.
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jessica
"2007-02-20T09:07:50"
What happens when you let kevin Federline do you inside out Britney is mad and bald
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http://teenwag.com/search?q=britney
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boris
"2007-02-20T09:10:33"
How to market to smart people (2007)
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http://codesynthesis.com/~boris/blog/2007/01/30/how-to-market-to-smart-people/
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fairlyodd
"2007-02-20T09:59:34"
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Nice site. I've always believed that focussed social networks are the ones that work out in the end. However functionality-wise, the site is still very primitive. Lots of improvements are needed. Basic functionality like saving an article is absent. Anyway, I know those are on their way.
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jbert
"2007-02-20T10:01:46"
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You should be able to improve over naive RAID by pairing a relatively-high-probability-of-failure drive with a low prob one. i.e. what you *shouldn't* do is the common practice of putting two new drives in a mirror, since they are both in the infant mortality part of the failure curve. What this data suggests is that you'll get a smaller chance of losing data (via simultaneous failure) if you pair a new drive with an older "proven" one (but not one so old that it is nearing end of life).
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xyzzy
"2007-02-20T10:09:38"
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It's not so clear to me that a PhD is much use at a start-up in general; you'd probably learn more relevant technical skills at a regular programming job, and the mental habits you're likely to learn in graduate school will actively hurt you at a start-up. Unless you are lucky or careful about who you work with and on what.
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nickhac
"2007-02-20T10:36:46"
The original news.ycombinator.com -- VC News Central :P
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http://www.vcnewscentral.com/
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xyzzy
"2007-02-20T11:01:15"
Web 2.0 is a bubble for 3 reasons
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http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116679843912957776-fF7CtrdMDTE4n1h5Ju5pv0HKhgM_20071227.html
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google
"2007-02-20T11:06:04"
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And why is he banning articles that are not favorable to him???
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google
"2007-02-20T11:06:40"
Hot celebrities and gossip
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http://web2.teenwag.com
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ecuzzillo
"2007-02-20T11:31:57"
null
Disclaimer: I don't have the book. Grr! Linebreaks do not appear in the comment text! The premise of the book seems to be that you're going to learn about how to run a startup by reading about successful ones-- that is, you're going to look at a bunch of successful startups, and say Hmm, what makes for a successful startup? Another way to put it is that you're trying to train a classifier-- how do you tell whether a startup is going to succeed? Well, if it has a, b, and c qualities in x, y, and z amounts. However, a key part in training classifiers is having negative as well as positive examples. It seems that from reading *just* about successful startups, you could incorrectly infer a bunch of necessary qualities for successful startups, when in fact those are qualities of all startups, or those are just qualities of the sample taken, and focusing on them is bogus. Having no direct experience in the matter, I can't give good examples, but it seems like you could fall victim to a breakdancing chicken problem: (made up example) all the interviewed startups wrote software, so writing software is an important step towards having a successful startups. Well, no, but it just happened that the interviewer focused on software startups. If you had examples of failed startups, you'd see that there was just sampling bias to
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kenshi
"2007-02-20T11:46:41"
DeepsList - finding trusted tradesmen
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http://deepslist.com
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kenshi
"2007-02-20T11:48:18"
DeepsList - finding trusted tradesmen
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http://deepslist.com
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staunch
"2007-02-20T12:18:23"
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A bit of a different perspective to some of what Joel wrote. http://positivesharing.com/2006/07/why-the-customer-is-always-right-results-in-bad-customer-service)
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staunch
"2007-02-20T12:21:04"
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Apparently not even if you post it three times!
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jsvaughan
"2007-02-20T13:39:24"
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I've read it. I'm pretty clued up on the history of IT and the various backgrounds of those involved, but I still found that it had a lot of original, inspiring content. I would definitely recommend it.
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byrneseyeview
"2007-02-20T14:52:11"
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There is some sampling bias in terms of what's discussed, but you can still get good information about the good moves and missteps each company has taken. I suspect that mistakes like "Didn't listen to users" are valid mistakes whether you're talking about Infogami disappearing or about Intel's Pentium II bug. That said, there's definitely sampling bias -- but these are more fun to read because it's hard for failed founders to be honest about what was their fault.
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beau
"2007-02-20T16:02:21"
Odeo up for sale
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http://blog.obvious.com/2007/02/looking-for-odeos-new-home.html
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casey
"2007-02-20T16:44:29"
DUPLICATE, vote up beau's instead
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http://blog.obvious.com/2007/02/looking-for-odeos-new-home.html
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BioGeek
"2007-02-20T16:46:26"
The Idiot Startup (like the The Daily WTF, but for entrepreneurs rather than programmers)
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http://idiotstartup.com/
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byrneseyeview
"2007-02-20T16:56:58"
A Lesson on Elementary Worldly Wisdom
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http://ycombinator.com/munger.html
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avibryant
"2007-02-20T17:16:52"
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Thanks! There's another neat screencast here with more recent features: http://dabbledb.com/explore/screencasts/maps-and-charts/
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__
"2007-02-20T17:53:33"
Why software sucks
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http://www.scottberkun.com/essays/essay46.htm
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__
"2007-02-20T17:55:58"
Fixing Venture Capital
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http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/VC.html
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__
"2007-02-20T18:00:23"
Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine
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http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0504.html?printable=1
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BioGeek
"2007-02-20T18:07:50"
Entrepreneurship In Europe
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akkartik
"2007-02-20T18:58:35"
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All valid, but notice that Joel makes no comment about feature feedback from customers, only bugfix requests.
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pg
"2007-02-20T20:21:43"
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Thanks for the suggestion. If anyone else has suggestions, let us know in the comments on this thread.
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"2007-02-20T21:32:37"
Why we made this site
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http://ycombinator.com/announcingnews.html
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farmer
"2007-02-20T21:36:43"
Interview with Michael Wesch (Web 2.0 video maker)
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http://battellemedia.com/archives/003386.php
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perler
"2007-02-20T21:38:33"
BBC News: The mash-up future of the web
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6375525.stm
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farmer
"2007-02-20T22:16:37"
MindMeister: new web-based collaboration startup
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http://www.mindmeister.com/
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amichail
"2007-02-20T22:24:11"
GWT app that is a url tracker, feed reader, and social network -- thus giving you personalized news with url tracking
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http://forwardingtree.com
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jmzachary
"2007-02-20T22:33:51"
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Thanks for the rationale. I'm most interested in the ARC aspect of the site.
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jdroid
"2007-02-20T22:36:52"
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You've filled a hole reddit was starting to dig(g) in my life. Thanks!
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jmzachary
"2007-02-20T22:37:13"
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I don't know if it's the best, but it's the only one I use. It's simple interface is what I find most useful about it. If I need more (which is rare), I use the GIMP.
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Elfan
"2007-02-20T22:39:10"
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Is there going to be some way to downvote/mark as read or otherwise clear links we don't want to view right now?
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Elfan
"2007-02-20T22:42:40"
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Companies would be interested in saving on cooling costs if its not providing any significant benefit.
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Zak
"2007-02-20T22:48:33"
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I don't think the fact that the site is written in Arc makes the site itself any more interesting. Arc is interesting, as is the fact that it's to the point where it could be used to make this site.
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