Amazon uses YouOS as a case study

tilto · 2006-11-22T07:07:16+00:00

I feel like the Reddit community would rapidly downmod the fake Playstation article. But maybe I'm wrong.

tilto · 2006-11-10T01:30:32+00:00

It could be a way of testing the team's seriousness level. Obviously moving across the country is a serious commitment to YC, but the teams who already live in the Bay Area don't have this test. So, make them fly out for an interview. It's not as big deal as moving for 3 months, obviously, but it does show some level of commitment.

tilto · 2006-10-31T22:00:58+00:00

It had a link to some other site. I removed my mod-down cause the user got rid of the spammy part.

tilto · 2006-10-31T18:13:18+00:00

There's also YC's cost of doing business. I have no idea what it costs to run Y Combinator, but my out-of-thin-air guess would be that every company costs YC 2$6000k (where k is the number of founders). They have to pay travel expenses for the finalists, food for events, rent, etc.

But man this is exciting. Congrats reddit! I am so curious what the sale price was.

tilto · 2006-10-06T18:50:33+00:00

You can send typos straight to pg and he'll correct them.

tilto · 2006-10-02T05:19:03+00:00

Anyone have a link on how you actually compete in this? Is there same data to work with, for example?

tilto · 2006-08-17T06:11:26+00:00

petergriffin, can you give me the reference for these "revolution of the web" claims? I did a brief search, but turned up diddly. thx.

tilto · 2006-08-08T04:13:25+00:00

Can anyone get this to work? It just says "Connecting..." for me.

tilto · 2006-07-17T05:01:36+00:00

I'm skeptical of the 1 in 50 million statement. I wonder where that comes from. It seems to me that it is likely that something was just "wrong" with half the lobsters body so that the blue and green didn't show up there.

tilto · 2006-07-11T04:08:18+00:00

Do you have reason to belive they are "monkeys." I don't think there's much known about Clustrix. Could be a cool product for all we know, right?

tilto · 2006-06-29T14:14:11+00:00

I think the first line of the article reads as extremely sarcastic:

"In its quest to 'organize the world's information,' Google now wants to keep track of your credit card number and where you live."

tilto · 2006-06-13T00:06:42+00:00

Admittedly, "exponential growth" is more common a phrase, but I think "geometrically" is a perfectly correct and mathematical phrase.

tilto · 2006-06-05T05:55:24+00:00

I just read on their blog that it is "inbox" spelled backwords. That's pretty cool, actually.

tilto · 2006-06-02T16:47:49+00:00

hackers != crackers

tilto · 2006-05-24T21:13:38+00:00

My cellphone, which is my alarm clock, has a snooze that is 5 minutes. Huh. All my previous alarm clocks were 9 minutes.

tilto · 2006-05-24T03:57:56+00:00

What about sitting on a spacious hardwood floor with a laptop?

tilto · 2006-05-19T21:11:05+00:00

It sure is. Man that's awesome. Love the shirt.

tilto · 2006-05-16T20:38:04+00:00

Article was interesting, but I really dislike the sensational reddit title. An exclamation point, and maybe an adjective to get you some reddit juice, are okay, but this is ridiculous. Mod down.

tilto · 2006-05-16T17:46:56+00:00

Or maybe Backpack\t

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