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why should they want to scale?

the point of YC is quality over quantity...if they go after quantity, they are just diluting what they have to offer.

If they have 1000 startups, how much support can they really offer?
Everything you said is absolutely correct in theory but realistically flawed. Every designer wants to be disciplined and master all those roles, but that takes decades of experience. And to expect that type of person to come work for your startup is like expecting to seduce a senior programmer from Google to come join your startup.

To achieve those God-like design skills that include everything from being a good artist (which everyone is NOT) to creating good logos and understanding branding and identity (which is difficult to master) to front end coding including css+xhtml+javascript+jquery is ludicrous. You might as well ask that your designer do the back-end of the site, incorporate your company, and handle your taxes and bookkeeping. At some point people have to realize that we can't do it all. Designers that CAN do it all, are freelancing and getting paid a ton of more money doing interesting and different things every month /OR/ starting their own companies with their skills and getting paid a crap load more with 100% complete creative control and freedom. Why would they want to commit themselves to working at the same company working on the same problems?

Being "educated" in all disciplines is possible. I can correctly choose fonts, logos, icons and graphics. But I'm not specialized in producing those from scratch. To be specialized in that is a whole other career path that takes years to learn and master. Digital Art.

So yes I do eventually wish to become the senior designer that you described. And in 10-20 years I'm sure I'll acheive that level of understanding. But that's the problem. It'll take 10-20 years.
Except he wasn't lying about his own personal life, he was accused of lying about previous employers, places that employ others who may have an interest in not seeing their companies' names dragged through mud.
I took my intro to CS/programming class in fall 2010. I kind of regret not starting sooner (I'm 27), but thems the breaks. Either way, I feel like I've been fairly successful for someone who has been programming for less than 2 years.
well, it's a tough one... Intellectually, I agree with you, but it's sort of a gut feeling. The issue is that as a start-up you are limited in resources. So how many campaigns can we run? How many friends can we nag to use our service time and time again? etc. You don't want to exhaust your resources at the beginning.
Of course we will launch and iterate, but this is just a fear. Is it rational? Maybe not. I hope not :-)
Create an organization for your project, make pages for that organization. Or just create another repo.
Nice to see mid-career shifts into open-source development
Ironically enough, that is exactly the reason most people buy it. However, I believe you underestimate the criticality of support.

If you're a tech-savvy startup, then sure, you just put a few guys on staff, but if you are most other kinds of businesses, then you'll employ some 'good-enough' administrators for the day to day operations, but you won't be able to necessarily employ a full team for something that isn't core to your business.

Another common scenario is in government, or large companies. Especially in government, we, as tax-payers, would consider it wasteful if the gov were hiring top notch tech engineers to maintain their file shares and directory servers. They are also completely unwilling to put a system in place with a company that not only will be available for same-day support on critical systems, but will also have to be relatively certain that company will be around in 10 years when they are still running those systems.

In short, support is probably more important than you're giving it credit for, but even for customers where it isn't, RH's credibility has opened the doors for every other Linux distribution and their ability to do work inside the Enterprise.
Almost the same as r4vik:

Django, Python, nginx, Postgres, Ubuntu. Vim in a terminal, and ssh to my Linode.
I have never used the Dropbox API, but I'm surprised that /delta wasn't available before this update. That seems like a great feature.
I suppose it is super broad. I really have no idea to be honest, again I am still quite new to coding.

I'll check out what you've recommended. I want to be pulling prices from here:
http://www.metalprices.com/FreeSite/metals/al/al.asp
NPR didn't mention the prior conviction had anything to do with a deadly weapon. If he's got that kind of background, I'm not sure what the outrage is for at all.
I did a similar thing, and ended up going with Zoho. My main reason was that they offered push email through their Exchange service, meaning push email on my phone. I've been super happy with them so far (about 2 months)
And oif your readme.md is merely:

"GPL Licensed"

The preview page will be much less impressive. As it is the preview page has enough lorem ipsum to give the user a feel for the theme.
People have done simple word frequency analysis in various domains, and it's been effective -- from (housing listings, resumes, car listings) the takeaway I have is specific, quantifiable things seem to raise value, vague or weasel terms tend to lower value. I think the #1 word for housing listing value is "granite" (as in granite countertops), and various hedge/weasel words like "cozy, comfortable, ..." lower it.

Naively, I'd assume the same might be true of something like a YC app. Harj has said in many places that he turns to the "impressive achievements" section first (http://askolo.com/harj#4f74bc2be6c38a8e50000077). I'd assume that's fairly similar to a resume and would have the same statistical properties.
Are you using Juggernaut for the node.js/real-time piece?
I found the Nixon letter somehow ironic, actually--ragenwald's character was resigning out of ethical conviction, whereas Nixon resigned as a consequence of his own unethical behavior.
OK, I call uncle. I can't find that text. It's not on the page titled "waiting for a signal", which seems like the obvious candidate. Nor is it in "signals and threads", which would have been my second choice. Nor "That's not everything!". Enlighten me with a link?
The melodrama around this seems a little absurd. Superheroes? Comic book villains? Perhaps he should take the aphorism to heart "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."
It is scary because all the talk is about how 1080p is the minimum requirement for a new console (see the article). Heck it is claimed to be the minimum requirement for the new consoles.

What the Wii/Netflix usage shows is that many people don't care about 1080p or even 720p, they don't even connect video via digital. Even the audio is analog! (In my opinion audio fidelity is more important than picture fidelity.)
> or worse

Well, I'm running for election this November, so I suppose I could show them my campaign site.
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Nope, just Express.js, redis, and socket.io: http://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/tree/master/node
I find it interesting that articles always point to AirBnB and DropBox but rarely mention Heroku... YC's largest exit to-date.
When it comes to the applications and the fear of missing good startups, I think the biggest bottleneck is how many groups they can interview.

If I'm not mistaken, for W2012 they interviewed 180 groups and accepted 65. That's 36% acceptance rate, but it shouldn't distribute evenly. If the applications were properly graded and the acceptance rate didn't get very low for the lowest graded applicants who were interviewed, then they need to increase the number of groups they interview. I guess that's the case, since pg previously commented that for S2012 they'd probably interview 270 groups. The "problem" is that for every new batch they probably get more applications (and most likely of higher quality), so this might be just playing catch up.

Maybe one day an Anybot robot will perform a preliminary interview so they can scale :)
Marijn has an elegant way of scaling his thoughts to the rhythm and measure of whatever medium he happens to be writing in, a quality which makes him consistently good to read.

His response to the workflow prompt is especially good. I'd like to reproduce it here as a way of flagging it for people who might not otherwise read the entire thing:

My approach to writing software is embarrassingly unstructured. I'm not sure I can claim to have something that merits the term 'workflow'. One thing that is very important for me, and that, had I figured it out earlier, would probably have saved some past projects from dying, is to never have a system in a half-refactored, non-functional state for longer than an hour or so. A lot of momentum and motivation comes from having a working program in front of me. This sometimes means I have to split up big changes in a number of more indirect, trivial steps, and resist the temptation to start hammering out my big change in one go (which, even when seems straightforward in my head, will always hit some complications during implementation).

Also, really learning git in depth has had a big influence on how I code. Once you really understand that changes (if you bother to commit often and with care) can be reverted and picked at will, and that branches are cheap and easy to create and maintain, you start to see a codebase differently. I often take multiple shots at making a tricky change — if it feels like my first approach is not working out, I simply commit it, back up, and start again, knowing that if the new approach doesn't work out, I can simply flip back to the old one again. Knowing that this is theoretically possible is not enough—you need to have actually done it, often, to start applying it properly.
Lots of radioactivity, but little risk in oceans, seafood near Fukushima
Yahoo has talent, and YUI was the best library out there

No not really, and not it wasn't. Yahoo's UI library didn't really offer any radically new concepts. It was a recap of other libraries. For example instead of TinyMCE you could use YUI's editor which did almost the same thing, instead of jQuery you could use YUI's dom code, and so on.

I didn't really expect anything amazing from Yahoo. They'd need to come out with something truly extraordinary to make me pay attention. And given their webpage hasn't changed since 1998 I doubt that will ever happen.
grubwithus is one of the most fun "social" things I've done in the past year. The YC applicant dinners are particularly fun (it's 1-4 alumni and any applicants who care to go). The other really fun one was a VC from August Capital (who I actually ran into the next day at another restaurant) -- it was a great way to pick his brain on things outside a formal pitching environment.

I didn't really enjoy the non-themed dinners as much, though, but maybe that was particular to Silicon Valley. They turned into a weird almost dating type thing, with a really skewed M/F ratio.

So maybe the key is to have some common Internet-communicated interest, then meet up in real life. It can't be all online (or it is sterile and boring), but it can't be totally random, either (I avoid talking to people in elevators, my neighbors, etc.)
This one has "lean" in the name, therefore superior.
When unemployment skyrockets and employers may begin colluding to wield all the indirect coercion they like, because threatening homelessness and possibly starvation is somehow more ethical than threatening violence, that's a libertarian policy towards non-state power.
I forgot to ask another really important question: What dev enviroment?

Obviously I'm using Visual Studio 2010.
"... If he's choosing to air his dirty laundry in public, it's expected that people are going to comment on it. ..."

These comments on this topic are disturbing.

Google is a public company. It's first priority is to shareholders. Google is also hierarchical despite what anyone claims. So it's more than likely that employees like @michaelochurch claim, are minced up in the bureaucracy. Start here, "Why Google Employees Quit" (2009) ~ http://techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/why-google-employees-quit/
"... The problem with relying upon intelligence for evidential purposes is that you can often expose the handlers, assets or sources involved in a public trial. ..."

Excellent point.
Are you sure? In that picture it specifically looks like only one hose end is attached to the pump while the other is dangling and emptying out into the tank.

edit: They've even zip tied it to that PVC to keep it from coming loose, which wouldn't be an issue if it was in fact attached to the pump.
The stress and the straddle
Because I spend 30% of my time developing in cars, planes, and coffee shops without free wifi. Because, unless I'm learning a new framework, I'm often more productive in those spaces.

Because every second I can't work because of something beyond my control is agonizing. I put one of the biggest reasons for Github's success is that it uses Git, which is intentionally not dependent on a central repo.

Because people who think "the cloud" is the answer to everything are jokes.

Because there isn't even a problem. Set up a VM which mirrors your prod environment and give it to your developers. Done.

Because any cloud-based system which is powerful enough to support some of the applications I've developed isn't going to be any easier to configure than just setting up my own VM.

Because paying to develop is stupid. It's a disincentive to trying new projects.
"Hacking" Skrill/Moneybookers, Bitbucket, Github, Heroku etc
Surely you mean iOS. In which case, I'm not sure why you would be spending much time worrying about signals.
The grid plugin for Compiz on Linux also works for this.
I clicked "show full page", but I think it's on page 3

http://www.linuxprogrammingblog.com/all-about-linux-signals?...
That is excellent. Like everything Jon Stewart says.
8 Reasons To Choose A Startup Over A Corporate Job
OK, I give up. What's a RNCH?
I love these kind of responses! Help support your local exploit developer and use a non-free operating systems and browsers!
Your comment is extremely inappropriate.
Er, no, thank you, I very much do not mean iOS. I mean OS X, which, irrespective of your (obnoxiously communicated) opinion of it, is rather popular amongst Unix developers and it tends to be a good idea to write your Unix code to support it.
Do we want another Manhattan Project?
Grapeshot search engine built by Porter (stemming algorithm)
I'm waiting for "StartupAdvisor", a program written in Arc and trained on paulgraham.com/articles.html

Office Hours will consist of chatting with the program and (if necessary) pushing the "Request a Bag of Mostly Water" button if it reaches its (temporary) limits.
How Much Is a Professor Worth?
Impossible Objects and Scenes: What's wrong with these pictures?
Alright fine, you just sold me a copy of Octave! Thanks for releasing this.
Research shows that sexy hips = sexy brains
As another current applicant patiently awaiting the yay/nay email I wish you luck! I know it's got to be difficult for them to sort through all of the applications with so many great teams/companies. I tried to condense mine to make it easier on them but if you do the math (Number of questions * 180 Words) they still come out 3-4k words each! Now I know not all of the questions will fill 180 limit however it's still a lot of reading.
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So??? This is how things work in Clojure. And that's just fine.

I guess I just don't understand where you are coming from. It's been pointed out to you that Clojure hackers don't mind importing the generic functions. You replied that then your worry is that it would be hard to preserve type information in a statically typed language that works like Clojure. I mentioned that Cecil is statically typed and preserves type information, with a multi-method system that is somewhat similar to Clojure's. At least as I understand it.

If your entire worry is that you have to import every generic function you want to use, then I guess you and I just don't worry about the same things at all. To me, importing the functions that you use is a feature, not a bug! In fact, when I program in Python, I generally program a lot more with functions than with classes, and yes, in every module I explicitly import every single externally defined function that that module needs. Again, I consider this a feature, not a bug.

What I would object to is having to explicitly import all the method definitions that implement the generic functions used in a multi-method system. That would be insanity, but that's a moot point, as that is never required, as far as I am aware.

Also, common generic functions, however, such as map(), could clearly be automatically imported by the language. E.g., in Predef in Scala, or in built-ins in Python. In fact, in Python, map() is in built-ins, and you don't have to import it. Though, in Python's case, map() doesn't preserve the original container type
50+ years? Really? We have 7 univac hackers here?
Yes. I consider this a feature, not a bug.
Yup, I built a nuclear fusion reactor
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My point is that it doesn't matter to anyone. It might be entirely legal, but they'll be happy to bankrupt you while you attempt to prove it.

See also: patent trolls
Heroku is a B2B startup, unlike AirBnB and Dropbox.

B2C startups will always be more sexy and interesting to the wider Techcrunch audience.
I think the hatred for Facebook [...] has waned and people like it again.

I think that there are a couple important reasons for this. Google+, a big alternative to Facebook, wasn't a viable option for most people, so they recognized the comfort of Facebook's features. Also, Facebook implemented a bunch of new features that made Facebook more lively (friend lists, timeline, ticker, etc.).

Google had a great opportunity, but they really missed out. Games could have been a great factor in getting more users, but I think that the fundamental issue lies with the actual sharing and interaction mechanisms! Not being able to write on someone's profile was a huge mistake for familiarizing Facebook users with the site, and getting new users. The circling and filtering behaviors still haven't changed. Pinterest came along and did sharing the right way: users posting categories of posts that other people can choose to voluntarily follow. Google+ isn't useful to me because the signal/noise ratio is through the roof because of this fundamental flaw. And there is still no way to exclude individuals from seeing a post.

In many ways, Pinterest is wiping the floor with Google+... an actual content-sharing network, with a well-designed intuitive sharing mechanism. An actual companion to Facebook rather than competitor. Making people choose between the two (Google+/Facebook) was far too large of a challenge.
GWT has quite a learning curve. I'm 5 months into GWT/GAE, not counting preliminary research/learning, and am only now starting to see a return on my time investment. Looking back, I'm glad I decided to roll my own small framework for GWT/GAE; everything else just seemed inflexible, overkill, and too proprietary. I recommend taking a look at http://www.gwtapps.com/ which has been very helpful through my journey, even if it's somewhat dated.

There's practically zero support for Maven in the GWT documentation, and it's a shame because it seems much more elegant than just Ant. Ant is probably what I hate most about GWT, but beyond the initial setup, I haven't dealt with it much other than simply running "ant build" and "ant devmode".

My honest advice is unless you really like working with Java or are already past the learning curve, just go the HTML5, Backbone.js, Bootstrap/LESS, and Coffeescript route. GWT's worth the investment but the web standards it's built on will still leak through on sufficiently complex projects. Also, I couldn't see myself doing GWT if I wasn't also doing Java GAE, because GWT-RPC makes AJAX so painless.
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I was referencing the fact that the user was actively looking up the details of the other user.
I would have bought it this right now! .. had it not been for the use of CoffeeScript! - Is there not one commercial coherent Video Manual that does without excess knowledge to get a NodeJS application up
http://www.linuxprogrammingblog.com/all-about-linux-signals?...

http://www.linuxprogrammingblog.com/code-examples/signalfd

I just wish freebsd and linux folks agree on a standard instead of dealing with multiple ways to handle async events via different poller implementations and hacks.
If you firmly believe so, could you please post what you think would be better solutions to some of those problems listed on the wiki? Namely electronic circuit design and plant floor layouts.
John Cook (http://www.geekwire.com/) has been covering the Seattle startup and tech scene for quite a while. Madrona is the go-to VC in Seattle so their portfolio (http://www.madrona.com/venture-capital-investments/) is a good place to start.
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That's quite interesting. I'm in a non-US market where deals have traditionally tended to be not that attractive, perhaps because of product import costs and perhaps because of a captive-market situation, and I'm wondering if the pestering-salesperson approach is the right one to induce more businesses to open up to the possibility of offering good deals.

We have group-buying (Groupon-style) deals, which has opened up the way somewhat, but I'm playing around with a more traditional deal-listing model that doesn't push merchants as hard. Do you think salespeople is the only way to keep merchants offering deals, for a listing model? It seems costly but also the only way to keep merchants listing deals even when the revenue outcomes of previous outings haven't been that spectacular.

I appreciate any thoughts you or anyone else might have on the issue - thanks!
You got what you asked for.
I love lean domain search. I found (almost) metainbox.com there, which was an awesome name for my app.

(I actually missed it and stumbled upon it on my own, but I went back and it was there. There are just so many options!)
I worked from home for a startup (as a contractor, wasn't invested in the business at all) that had no office. In this case, the owner and other programmer were in the same metro area but, after a few initial meetings, I met with them in person less than once a month, on average. I can't say its ideal, it did annoy me having to always be on the phone with him, etc but he had a somewhat abrasive way of dealing with people to get his way so I'm not sure that this sort of setup would necessarily preclude success.
This idea actually came up in our discussions.

Requests will have a set of request-level adapters which will let you define the protocol you're speaking, whereas urllib3 aspires to have connection-level adapters which let you define the transport you're using.

So, hypothetically once we make this a reality, you could have a ZMQ connection transport which has a JSON request adapter and happily use Requests with whatever made up scenario you like. :)
The valuations of both AirBnB and Dropbox are >5x that of the exit value of Heroku, and are still in play.

It's entirely possible either (or both) could be $10b companies (yes, this seems crazy to me at some level too, but it's consistent with economic reality as it currently exists). If AirBnB totally disrupts the hotel industry, it could be bigger still. If Dropbox totally takes over as how documents are stored, edited, and managed, of course it would be bigger.