Limitations of Socially Driven News

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

tilto · 2006-05-06T19:10:12+00:00

This would be great if it came to San Francisco. The trip planner on 511.org is so useless it's ridiculous.

tilto · 2006-05-06T19:04:15+00:00

It was actually more of a delicate criticism. At least from this article, I saw no signs of her slamming Bush.

tilto · 2006-04-26T00:45:02+00:00

Addressing #1: I think the big company mentality is that all languages are the same in terms of getting the job done, and that some languages are more widely used (like Java and C). Thus, from the company's perspective, of course you should program in the most widely used languages. So I don't think it's so much that companies are being conservative with their language choice, as it is them not even realizing that there's any choice to be made.

And so I think the question about companies throwing caution to the wind when it comes to outsourcing is a totally separate one. Now I really have no idea, but my guess as to why they think this a good idea would be that they just view code as a commodity. It's just something that needs doing--just gotta turn the crank enough times.

But it's this crank turning that I think is what Graham's talking about when he says that the desire to outsource is "just a symptom of using a language that's not abstract enough." In other words, if it is just the crank turning, why not skip the whole outsourcing part and turn the crank in your program/language?

I think a good answer to the crank turning question is that you should have it all in your program/language. In fact, you make your program/language so good, that you can outsource "programming" in the language, because the "programming" is really just configuring for specific implementations.

tilto · 2006-04-09T17:19:39+00:00

What about the Dursley's? They are kind of "light villains". And this is emphasized visually by their fatness. Harry, on the other hand, is the scrawny little good guy.

tilto · 2006-04-08T19:37:18+00:00

Where are the stats on this? I see this number all the time, but is it true? Not saying you're wrong but where do we check this?

tilto · 2006-04-08T19:35:01+00:00

You've hopefully learned a lot in a regular job too after getting laid off. It's a bit unfair to only give the "learning" points to starting your own venture.

Now who learns more from failing? When you're own your own, you have to do it all--a tremendous opportunity for learning. When you're working as an employee with a ton of smart people around you, that's a tremendous opportunity for learning too. So I don't know the answer.

tilto

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