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hackernews | 2,007 | Why Good Strategies Fail | 4 |
hackernews | 2,007 | A PhD is really a lot of grind especially at the end. I don't think you can really do both a startup and a PhD well at the same time. You can't really do either without a reasonable level of commitment so if your heart is with the start-up I say go with it.
As for the chicks... I've gotta say they dig the title Dr.... | 76 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Ruby on Rails? Check.
Rounded corners? Check.
prototype.js? Check.
Buzzwords? Check.
Home page includes a blog? Check.
Yep, it's Web 2.0. | 40 |
hackernews | 2,007 | underscore_consulting on building a successful Web 2.0 startup [video] | 17 |
hackernews | 2,007 | It's a little unfair to chalk it up *just* to balls. I've got one of those cushy, fat, boring Java jobs, because I have a wife and three kids, and it turns out they like eating. And wearing clothes.
So, for the time-being, I'm working at night on the tools and technologies that I think I want to use, so that I'll be... | 144 |
hackernews | 2,007 | _ | 1 |
hackernews | 2,007 | A more visible footer on this page? Just so I can tell if it actually finished loading.
Also, at least being able to have paragraphs would be great. | 33 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I've gotten used to using submit to find the reddit discussion for a page. Turns out there's no duplication-detection here on news.yc yet. Apologies.
Nice that they allow editing the title. | 42 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I suspect that startups are for more creative people. So you need to decide whether to pursue an analytical phd or a more creative startup. BTW, you might find this discussion interesting: http://weblog.fortnow.com/2006/07/science-and-art-of-computation.html | 61 |
hackernews | 2,007 | bullshit/business_plan == INF | 6 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I'm extremely excited about this site. Startup stuff has always been by far my biggest interest in Reddit since it launched. As Reddit has grown my interest has faded considerably. Long live YC News! | 40 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Web2.0 HOW-TO design style guide | 10 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Hang in there.
I've been there. It gets better. | 15 |
hackernews | 2,007 | web 2.0 and web s.3xy
...well sort of ;) | 17 |
hackernews | 2,007 | How and Why AJAX, Not Java, Became the Favored Technology for RIAs | 16 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I agree entirely. I am just out of undergrad, and working is a major step down socially. If it weren't for my Customer Service job I would probably interact with no more than 5 people a day (in order: my wife, boss, coworkers, wife.) (Unless you count here and Reddit.) It seems to me that he was just using his girl... | 88 |
hackernews | 2,007 | HaHa! Yes thank you Paul, I was just about to swear off of Reddit for good, and this is the tipping point. I will probably still visit there to get my inane fun for the day, but I wont spend time looking through 4-5 pages of backlogs for the good articles. | 65 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Archive of Google Papers. Interesting, but technical. | 10 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Husband and Wife bootstrapped startup | 8 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Apache Performance Tuning Tips | 5 |
hackernews | 2,007 | SF Beta | 2 |
hackernews | 2,007 | The Game is Afoot - Classic from Eric Sink | 10 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Nothing with such a dumb name will ever catch on but it might be good buyout-bait. | 20 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Startup.com - the movie | 5 |
hackernews | 2,007 | This has got to make PG nervous. How many people's life is he affecting? :-)
He's definitely had an impact on my priorities in a very big and positive way. I hope everyone who makes changes based on his inspiration and motivation does it with a clear head and can take responsiblity for the decision and outcome. | 67 |
hackernews | 2,007 | awesome! thanks so much | 6 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Whoah! Give me a little more credit than that! Octopart is a startup which we've only been working on for three months- we're no where close to being done. So far as my comments about women and society go, I think they will resonate with physics grad students and probably a few others. Otherwise, I agree, they don't ma... | 75 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I saw him and JL tonight and they were pretty freaked out. It's cool though- I got a nice t-shirt out of it. | 29 |
hackernews | 2,007 | At no disrespect to Evan Williams, I think the nail went into the coffin for Odeo when its own creators weren't its best users, i.e. they didn't podcast themselves, so their podcasting tools failed to deliver for the rest of the podcasting community.
Coming out of college, I had a few friends ask if I wanted to join... | 175 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Digg to support OpenID | 6 |
hackernews | 2,007 | 20 ways to Secure your Apache Configuration | 7 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Attack of the mini-Googles! | 9 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Ten rules for web startups | 5 |
hackernews | 2,007 | And There Goes The First Month | 6 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Log on, drop out, cash in | 8 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Marketplace wanted for websites | 5 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Feature Bloat: The Product Manager's Dilemma | 11 |
hackernews | 2,007 | A PhD in physics today opens up some opportunities in the one very specific field that you studied. Getting post-doctoral positions is hard; there isn't that much money floating around. I know that I'm dropping out soon. | 46 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Hints for proposing deals . . . (or, "My word, this inbox is a mess") | 24 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I often wonder if there are good opportunities for (non-web) startups in physics/science. The state of programming in there is abysmal, in my experience. There must be thousands of Fortran implementations of finite element codes out there, each with dozens of non-trivial bugs. It's absurd that physicists do so much low... | 75 |
hackernews | 2,007 | How to Interview a Programmer | 5 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Since community-building is part of the goal of this site, could you include an optional "location" field in the profile? I'm interested in getting in touch personally with other people in my area. | 44 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Rocky climb for mobile IM | 6 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Creativity rules everywhere. A good Ph.D. from a good school requires tons of creativity. | 19 |
hackernews | 2,007 | VoIM interop startup: lets you make free calls between Yahoo, MSN, GTalk and SIP | 21 |
hackernews | 2,007 | That movie is really great -- the title is perfect. I think it's basically a lesson in what not to do. Two non-hackers start a company and skip the make-a-great-product stage completely. Watching them it feels like borderline fraud.
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I bought Spolsky's "Aardvark" documentary and enjoyed it a lot, but I... | 136 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I up-voted a comment by mistake and there doesn't seem to be a way to remove my vote.
One of the main reasons I was visiting Reddit in the beggining, was the high probability to find start-up articles and a place for discussion. So, this site is defenetely going to be my new point of reference, and for lots of other... | 76 |
hackernews | 2,007 | As someone who did a PhD in a creative kind of computer science field and felt frustrated by the success of those who choose more trodden PhD paths - I was going to agree with this. But in start-ups as well as PhDs success is defined by the number of people you give value to not how creative you were. | 65 |
hackernews | 2,007 | O'Reilly 2003 classic: "Piracy is Progressive Taxation" | 21 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Where is the Freshbooks of Accounting? | 8 |
hackernews | 2,007 | "At the last YC dinner Joe Krauss talked about..."
Okay, that's just not fair. Paul Graham _AND_ Joe Kraus? That's like cheating. How much do I have to pay to have these dinners recorded and published on Google Video? I can't be alone in being willing to pay. (Yeah..I know this is one of the big features of ... | 96 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Facebook's little digital gift | 5 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Three Hypotheses of Human Interface Design | 8 |
hackernews | 2,007 | For those based in Switzerland, one resource could be venturelab.ch - I haven't used it myself, but a quick browse of the website leaves me with some mixed feelings. The business-focus of the site seems to underline the sentiment in the article of the anti-startup attitude in Europe. On the other hand, the "succe... | 122 |
hackernews | 2,007 | The scriggler application is awesome. I have wanted someone to make something like that for years. Good-bye paper mailing lists at my shows. | 30 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Georgia Business Launch 2007--$100k cash prize for winning startup business | 16 |
hackernews | 2,007 | The Fall of Modernity | 5 |
hackernews | 2,007 | The deadline for the first entry has passed, but it's still a cool program that the local technical networking group and a state-funded technology group are doing. | 31 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Freeze 'condemned Neanderthals' | 11 |
hackernews | 2,007 | List of Venture Capitalist Blogs | 6 |
hackernews | 2,007 | dot.com vs web 2.0 | 8 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Couldn't you have taken a sabbatical? I mean, did you just totally walk away from it? I took a sabbatical for a year from a PhD in CS to pursue some medical science ideas, then went back when they didn't go far enough to make a living on. Not flaming, just curious. | 65 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Absolutely! Creativity is as important, if not more so, than technical skill. | 17 |
hackernews | 2,007 | There are different forms of creativity, some more open-ended than others. Most research done in scientific fields is not what I would call open-ended creativity. BTW, the most creative idea I have seen recently actually came from the Univ of Washington & Microsoft Research: http://labs.live.com/photosynth/. The most c... | 138 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Acorn - Develop your ideas online | 7 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Quick way to recommend links to friends | 7 |
hackernews | 2,007 | A few months ago I was in the same boat as the author. I can vouch that you encounter incredulous looks and disbelief, but that sort of thing can happen when start with a good team (as opposed to starting with a good idea). | 50 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Finding your Inner Entrepreneur | 4 |
hackernews | 2,007 | hiring good hackers - joel on software | 9 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Cross train your brain - secrets of greatness | 8 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Start up review - case studies of succesful internet startups | 11 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Startupping - a community for Internet entrepreneurs | 8 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Why don;t you make this invite only - if it truly reflects the values of Y's and their friends who are starting up why not do that. That way you preserve the signal to noise ratio. I'm only on here cos Kulveer and Harj are doing Y combinator - meaning that other UK young entrepreneurs who are good can get on it. | 72 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I don't think that this movie is free (as in speech) to distribute. It came out in 2001 and is still being sold by retailers*. On that note, thanks for bringing it to my attention, now I may buy it! (* http://preview.tinyurl.com/2w6tob ) | 65 |
hackernews | 2,007 | How is this any different than e-mail? What I would enjoy is a way to browse, categorize, and rate everybody's ideas. Ideas are neat to read about even if they're terrible. The only problem with such a facility is that potentially businesses could come and steal an idea and perhaps even profit from it. | 64 |
hackernews | 2,007 | As a former employee of Lands' End, I can attest to the quality of their customer service. (The quality of the internal employee care is less good than it used to be, since back when I started there in 1998, but I could just be bitter after the I/S department layoffs! :-)
Anyway, the whole customer service area is s... | 258 |
hackernews | 2,007 | For international users:
S-corp: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_corporation<br/>
C-corp: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_corporation
Not terms I was familiar with [edit] doesn't seem to be recognising line breaks. | 59 |
hackernews | 2,007 | For international users:
S-corp: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_corporation
C-corp: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_corporation
Not terms I was familiar with. | 41 |
hackernews | 2,007 | For international users:
S-corp: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_corporation
C-corp: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_corporation
Not terms I was familiar with. | 41 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I think the purpose of this site is (partially) to get a better idea of who to invite to things like Startup School and YC interviews. Making it invite only would be contrary to that goal. I think the S/N ratio will stay pretty high simply due to the nature of the people YC attracts. | 64 |
hackernews | 2,007 | It is free for people to distribute, it's just that you have guilt about it, but feel free to live within your own code. | 28 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Amazingly, Kaleil is now selling business advice at his personal website. http://www.kaleil.com/
Aardvark sounds like an interesting doc -- so far can't find it online though.
Indeed, they had no product... and 233 employees. | 55 |
hackernews | 2,007 | An excellent example of how to use technology to make a system seamless and intuitive. We would all do well to understand that it doesn't matter if the system is written in ab programming language, using the xyz framework and rst database; it is the fact that it usable and available that makes it a successfull applica... | 64 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Scaling web apps (sets of slides by Flickr architect) | 11 |
hackernews | 2,007 | This is a pretty cool site to keep track of, thanks. | 13 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Oh WOW. This is an absolute gold mine. Case studies of dozens of them. They even have the CEOs of Rotten Tomatoes posting there in response. This is great. Thank you so much. | 46 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Fairly awesome!
Thanks for the unique resource. If I could I probably would like to put most of these links in my personal bookmark.
Nice interface. Nice change. It's good to hear that Arc is coming along also. :-) | 48 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Yeah, also its quite interesting to see the commonalities between the successful startups in different industries - stuff like focusing on cheap distribution first then monetisation, and also seeing how team dynamics and business models evolve. In addition to founders at work - essential reading. | 52 |
hackernews | 2,007 | And Cal Henderson is a Brit too ;) | 8 |
hackernews | 2,007 | How to compete with your customers | 6 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Klipboardz Blog - Bringing social media to IPTV | 12 |
hackernews | 2,007 | The Best and Worst Decisions of Founders | 9 |
hackernews | 2,007 | seven habits of highly effective programmers | 6 |
hackernews | 2,007 | VC Valuations Are On The Rise | 7 |
hackernews | 2,007 | SeekSift Tracks Syndicated Content | 7 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Just a little bit of graphic design wouldn't hurt, really. In any case, congratulations on the launch and I'm sure it will become an interesting hub. | 32 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Disclosure: my company (a software firm in NYC) is behind SeekSift. | 17 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Tech IPOs Are Coming Back | 6 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I really respect your decision. Good luck and I hope to hear great things. | 16 |
hackernews | 2,007 | 2007, the year of the tech IPO? | 10 |
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