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I have no specific experience with YC... but something I've observed over the years is:

[length of time to decide to apply/email reporter, incubator or vc etc] is equal or greater than [length of time to actually apply]

... make your decision after you get in. At the very least the YC questions make you formulate better elevator pitch answers.

For gaming people like yourself... why not CrowdStar?
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The concept might be to increase their usage...
PG - Quick question, Does it hurt to apply too early? like before some demos etc. are actually finished?

i.e. My idea is fleshed out but some of the project the application is for is not yet, if I submit now are you guys more or less likely to take a look at it when I re-submit with updated URL's etc.?
Many wifi passwords are trivially guessable, so the access points are already open. A more frightening question is, "how long until access points contain spyware to incriminate the owner in court?"
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Same thing works in emacs. Incremental search sets the mark at point of initiation, so you get the same effect with C-s foo C-s C-w.
Buried in this article is an interesting stat: TechCrunch, the mainstay of the online media and technology industry, has shrunk since its purchase by AOL from over 2M monthly visitors to less than 1M (Source: Compete.com)
It's a fork of CoffeeScript so it replaces your "coffee" executable. If you don't want to overwrite your normal CoffeeScript compiler just run the contracts.coffee "coffee" executable from its own directory.

I mention this briefly towards the end of the quick start section of the doc: http://disnetdev.com/contracts.coffee/#quickstart
Actually, it's probably the mobile network that's killing you. I get about a day of battery life with everyone on, and about a day of battery life with wifi and bluetooth off. But when I turn the cell phone radio off, suddenly my battery life increases to nearly a week. (I found this out by accident. I went to Sweden where my phone doesn't work, so I turned off everything except Wifi. A few days without charging later, I still had about 60% battery!)
Correct, it just makes it a hell of a lot more wicked.
Is it just me or does anyone else experience the text getting fuzzy when zooming in on the article text on their iPhone at TechCrunch?

I've experienced this for a while and it's quite annoying.

examples:

Standard Zoom:
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Zoomed in:
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But airplanes have wifi now, so you can still want the cell radio off and have the wifi on. Yup, it's complicated. The world is a complicated place.
Y Combinator is not the only option we are looking into. We have started searching for Angel investors in the area for small amounts of funding ($25k - $75k).Y Combinator is just something else that we are considering. Since lots of successful companies have come out of Y Combinator we find that the network and connections are much more valuable then the initial seed funding.

CrowdStart seems to be geared towards specific projects (or games in our case). We want to fund a company, not a product. I could be totally wrong in this case, since I have not personally used CrowdStart.

Your advice does make perfect sense, apply regardless and then if we get in we can decide if this is the correct choice or not. Another thing that we are considering is that early next year might be too late (we might have already gotten funding or moved passed considering Y Combinator).
Appreciate you spending time to write a detailed, honest feedback! Although our site is most useful for travelers who plan trips (a lot of people travel but do not actually "plan" trips), what we were trying to convey was that "even if you don't plan trips or travel, you can still use it to collect favorite restaurants or staycations." I think we have some homework to do to convey that message better.

Also, qood question: "why is it called duffel". We thought that a duffel bag is a place where you throw random stuff in when you travel or going places, and our "duffel" is place for you to collect your ideas of where to go, what to do while you're traveling. (I think I should just explain it like that in our About page :))
I've added some information to the article that I remember from when I had one of these terminals as a kid. Bought it at auction for, I think, US$5. Living near National Labs had its benefits.
Hey Prateek, fancy seeing you here :) We should catch up again soon, I'd love to see how SupportBee is coming along!
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HTML5 will let Facebook distribute mobile applications through the Facebook app, instead of going through the App Store. So Facebook can get a 30% cut through Facebook Credits when a mobile game is built on top of the mobile Facebook platform, instead of Apple getting a 30% cut when the game is distributed through the App Store. That's why people interpret this as competing with Apple.
Is it worth applying to Y Combinator if your company is already profitable? My partner and I have a company that is generating enough profits that we are able to work full-time on it, get paid a decent salary, and still have some left over to re-invest into the company at the end of every month.
>> The other thing that makes Macs easy purchases is that they retain 60-85% of their value.

Over how long? My last macbook I used until the keyboard broke, the trackpad button semi-working and the battery died. Only sold it for 10% of the price I bought it at.
Definitely wait for the 15" Macbook Air. According to Techcrunch, the rumor is the entire Macbook Pro line will be replaced by something more like the Air's.
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Sure! Congratulations on the launch. As I said in the call, I think Bushido is one of the most imaginative tech products I have checked out lately.
> to expand the product line to government applications in other countries.

... and so they have
I am not sure this analysis holds. While Red Hat threatens VMWare (or, more specifically, its proprietary products alongside KVM threaten VMWare's products) I think the threat against Red Hat comes from other Linux (OpenSolaris-derived) distros that also offer the same KVM technology coupled to somewhat simpler, open-source, management tools.

VMWare doesn't really sell virtualization tools. They sell management tools for virtualized infrastructure. The sooner they get it, the better it will be for them.
My wife also said "corky" is corny. But she also suggested I put an image of a duffel bag with smiley faces on it, so I can't tell whether she was serious.

Anyway, I agree we should show and not tell, hence the ability to create a trip without signing up. I guess that wasn't clear enough.
I'm probably utterly alone in this, but my ideal laptop is a 5-10 year old Thinkpad where all the hardware works under Linux and BSD. The latest PC laptops never do. There's always something new and flaky under the hood (wireless, suspend / resume, sound, etc).

So, I go out of my way to buy the old stuff (T40/T41/T42). These cost about $200 on Craigslist and typically last me 2-3 years.

When it dies -- or more commonly, when I kill it by doing something stupid -- I just pull the hard drive and move on to the next one. It's almost like nothing ever happened.

Macs are pretty nice of course. Carrying around an Air instead of a 6 lb Thinkpad sure sounds like a dream. But from observing folks around me, most of whom use Macs, they also seem to buy a new model every 2-3 years (spending about 10x what I do). And when something fails, or when they need to do a big upgrade, they are often really screwed. (Ie hard drive fails -> send it in -> wait a week -> get it back with everything wiped.)
Point taken. We're too poor for professional copywriter, but def will change our wording.
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I think it's inappropriate to speculate on what "good" someone is contributing to the world, period. So much of it is determined by intentions, plans, and time -- these are things that are invisible to everyone but the individual.

Instead worry about your own contributions, don't try to determine what to give based on expectations you draw from observing others (or try to force this thinking upon others) -- it's unlikely your choice will be anywhere near the truth, and it skews the act from one of generosity into one of keeping up with social standards ("keeping up with the Joneses" sort of thing).
I have no experience with Ruby template engines, including Crustache and Mustache, but of course it matters about serving clients 40x times faster. 800ms to serve me what could be had in 20ms? Amazon, Google [1][2], and others have talked extensively on speed-to-conversion ratios.

In Python land, there have huge improvements in template engines [3]. And they are not done; Jinja(2) author, Armin Ronacher, is working on a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) project [4] to speed up Django and Jinja2 templates.

[1] http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2009/06/speed-matters.htm...

[2] http://glinden.blogspot.com/2006/11/marissa-mayer-at-web-20....

[3] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1324238/what-is-the-faste...

[4] https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2011/apr/25/gsoc/
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Yeah, this is pretty much unusable without private rooms. Too bad, because it looks like fun.
When you drop instruments in it often doesn't take.

When you attempt to delete instruments it often does not.

I think it works better as a whack-a-mole variant (trying to 'x' out instruments) since there are no private rooms and strangers just wander in and drop instruments all over your board.

Cool idea though. Keep at it.

Edit: I should add that it looks very slick. Well done there.
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Got it. We did many things to remedy the issues you're talking about, but hid some of them so we can focus on getting users to actually try our tool first.
While Gadhafi what an insidious individual, I'm not sure how this is any different than any of the other tech companies selling their wares to repressive regimes. Cisco, for YEARS has been helping the Chinese with their firewalling of the outside world.

I guess the small, oil rich, dictatorships get a bit more scrutiny than a certain country that owns a fair amount of our foreign debt...
I'll let someone else explain, and let me be clear: not my bug.
Ryan Tomayko wrote a post on Ruby/C/Perl Markdown parsers and did some benchmarks a while ago:

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We do have one...actually I forgot about it. Thanks for the reminder!

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There's precedent for games purchased outside of Steam being available in steam, so there's no technical barrier to giving all existing Minecraft owners a copy of the Steam version.
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I spoke with a few YC alumni.In your case I think it would be great to apply. PG and YC partners are looking for companies they can mentor but they don't want to baby-sit you. Since you are already profitable, I suspect you already know what you are doing and you simply need some guidance. Moreover if you have a good product I think your chances to get into YC are quite good. Getting to YC is becoming harder and harder and "just having an idea" is not enough. Since you already have the product AND are profitable your chances are quite good.
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The Times isn't reporting that the "insurance" file was decrypted, which is all Assange denies with that tweet. The allegation is that the unredacted "cablegate" cables, which Assange already provided to major news outlets (all of which were given an additional layer of redaction by editorial staff) have now been published directly.
We thought that the the first homepage looked too much like "travel inspiration" site. But yeah, we're trying to encourage users to try the site before signing up.
Or maybe just believe what you want to believe.
Ummm... do you realize that what you described is exactly the function of the Quick Access toolbar?

Also, do you realize that the Ribbon is customizable in Office 2010, in the same way toolbars were customizable in Office pre-2007?
In the latest version, you can now tell it to stop warning you about the changes from a particular domain only.
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IMO, another nice side-effect of having library code in C is portability and easy code reuse, since lots of scripting languages can interface with it.
Though I agree with your sentiment, I strongly dispute putting C and Java in the same category.

If pressed, I'd suggest having this:

C/non-OO C++ (er, that is, C...)
C#/Java/ObjC/high-level C++

I'd also recommend appending:

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If you're looking for a PC and have Macbook Air envy, Intel Ultrabooks are just days away....

Lenovo, Asustek and Acer are all preparing the lightweight laptops for the autumn, after Intel announced its answer to the MacBook Air back in May.

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Intel plans to release two ranges of super-slim 18mm notebooks (with 11-inch and 13-inch screens) and 21mm-thick notebooks (with 14-inch and 17-inch screen) and, just like the MacBook Air, no optical drive

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We do have parts of the functionality you're talking about. You can copy someone's individual ideas and add them to you own duffel. But you have to sign up first, of course. :)
It is considered a social norm to comment on or assess the "personal lives" of people with, say, $US8.3B in personal wealth. As least as far as "what are said people doing with these unusual quantities of money" goes. There might be a bit of public significance in that; see also Gates and Buffett.

This isn't discussing the length of his dick, for crying out loud.

Trying to turn it around on the author is questionable, given that Andrew Sorkin would be lucky to have one thousandth part of the wealth of Steve Jobs and thus the public interest in what Sorkin is doing is quite small.
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What should I do with a bunch of domain names ending in find.com? I asked before and may have been pulled or did not submit properly - so I am trying again. It is a serious question.
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Looks interesting, but doesn't actually play any sound here. I'd guess perhaps you use Flash to play sound; a quick scan of the page source doesn't turn up any embed or object tags, but perhaps they get added from a script.

Any plans to support the HTML5 Audio Data API or something similar?
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$20K is a LOT of money. You can form an LLC for a hundred bucks, lease a server for another hundred, and do your own graphic design at the outset (or hire a student for a couple of hundred).

To hire a sales guy, just use the money from all the sales that are taking up so much of your time you need to hire someone else to handle them. That comes a little bit later...
But, if you don't know you need it, then chances are, you don't need it.

I'm afraid that attitude will doom you to only be able to work on things you can currently conceive of.
What's the problem with dual-booting Linux? Heck, Linux in Parallels/Fusion runs great for anything other than cutting edge 3d-gaming (probably not your focus if you want a Linux box). If you want a box to dev on, you have a choice of if you want it to be a Mac or not, then grab the laptop with a good screen, keyboard and SSD. For me, it was a MacBook Pro with aftermarket SSD. I dual boot MacOS and Windows and have Linux in Parallels.
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Do you think your chance of success / profitability will increase by a percentage greater than YC takes?
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We had performance issues with the HTML5 audio api, and didn't have time to troubleshoot. Ultimately I would like to support it fully, but we did what worked at the time.
Cut and pasting files would be useful, but that's about all I miss.
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I'm not sure that the relationship between types and contracts is all that tenuous.

They both work to enforce program invariants and there's a large overlap in the invariants they can express. Usually contracts are checked dynamically (as in contracts.coffee) but this is not a hard requirement (for example .net's code contracts can be statically checked [1]).

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Architects are the original programmers. They are the master builders who conceive of the built environment that no computer programmer could live without. They fulfill a basic need and (arguably) practice the highest form of art. They complete a level of education comparable to any lawyer and most doctors. Yet even an architect who runs their own successful, mid-size firm would be lucky to turn over $150,000 working 70 hour weeks. Did I mention they take on the liability of life, safety, and well-being of the general public with every decision?

Just sayin'... compensation isn't logical, and it sure as hell isn't fair.
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A blacklist-based approach seems like a bad idea for security.
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Understandable, and glad to hear that you've both tried it and that you plan to support it in the future! I look forward to trying Loopon as soon as it works without Flash, and if you need a beta-tester for the HTML5 version, let me know. :)
I dont think it is "much, much" cheaper.

GOTO Padmapper.com to take a look....
An alternative to steganography is 'chaffing and winnowing'. Ronald Rivest describes the technique in this paper: http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/Chaffing.txt
If you have to explain steps to me then it isn't working like MS are discussing here. The whole point is that no-one needs to give you steps.
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So tuition has tripled, and it's all because of the administrative budget, which is a whopping 15% of expenditures?
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So we're limited to either only exposing a dozen operations or somehow shoving 200 operations into a flat UI? This seems to be rather unrealistic.
It's funny you say that about the added technical stuff, I was looking through it hoping the that the Art dept. had done the same thing with more of the artistic/compositional technique stuff and less of the technical stuff.
I think it sounds like a wicked clever idea.

It also sounds like a recipe for bad-blood in the open source world. It emphasizes owning a repo rather than contributing to one that already exists.

It also seems to push for over utilization of resources. Once you get to say 1-10K installs a multi-tenant solution would probably make more sense. What happens then? Does bushido help you roll your customers into one big app? Even if it's not good for bushido's bottom line?

Don't get me wrong, I see a lot of good and interesting things coming from this. I just also see some sticky situations.
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It totally depends on what kind of programming you want to do.

- If you want to make web applications, then probably not.
- If you want to build web infrastructure, then probably.
- If you want to make desktop games, then probably.
- If you want to make mobile or console games, then yes.
- If you program in higher-level languages and want to exercise your brain, then yes (do it for your "one new language a year").
Blacklists are bad in authorization scenarios. But we're talking about authentication and trust.
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Have you noticed that yesterday every comment was concise, and now that applications are open, every comment is elaborate, long-winded, and footnoted?
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I'm not really comfortable with the word "need" there since obviously most successful companies don't go through YC. It's more like, "What are the situations where going through YC is a net minus?" and there are very few.

YC is a great boost in the right direction, but most people that apply won't be accepted. What should they do? Well, if they were serious in the first place, they should start their company anyway. People who want to start companies should start companies; people who just want to get into YC (and assume that they'll then be on the gilded path) shouldn't do either.
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I understand its a little buggy like everyone else is saying, but overall I had a ball using it for about ten straight minutes. It was annoying at first when random people started dropping beats in left and right, but it usually just made it even better. Thanks