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Re:Tell HN: San Francisco Amazon Mechanical Turk Meetup on Friday May 22, 2009 @10:34PM (#623063)
this should be a lot of fun. they have a great space and i heard they have a whole line-up of awesome, top-notch people coming. not one to miss.

Literally Random Pricing on Thawte Certs Right Now?

Posted by zellunit on Tuesday April 14, 2009 @06:53PM
from the self-post dept.

Thawte.com for SSL certificates is either going haywire or is split testing prices as we speak. Literally, in the same 30 seconds, I was able to see a multitude if different price-points and claimed 'XXX off' discounts.See these pics:http://picpaste.com/high.png http://picpaste.com/lowest-low.png http://picpaste.com/lowest.pngOr check it our for...

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Re:Social Applications are Social Networks on Thursday April 09, 2009 @02:27PM (#554873)
jfarmer, pretty cool analysis. i am curious, though, if there is there any way you would approach building a standalone social network differently then just building an app? or is it literally just a wider scope of the exact same principles?
Re:Noah Kagan: How the Top Social Networks got their Start on Wednesday May 21, 2008 @09:26PM (#196771)
succinct and interesting.
Re:Those Xobni guys are ballsy on Wednesday May 07, 2008 @02:53PM (#183705)
of course it was. per your post i added the (joke acknowledged) in case people took that to heart. :)
Re:Those Xobni guys are ballsy on Wednesday May 07, 2008 @02:19PM (#183638)
yea completely agreed. but keep in mind they can wean them off it it since they have access to all the data, and they can instantly port it over. they could even let you use their client and your existing client in the interim, or just use each in different cases. obviously this poses new technical challenges, but not out of the realm of possibility.
Re:Ask YC: Accepted YC and regret it? on Wednesday May 07, 2008 @02:11PM (#183617)
Completely agree. At worst you fail, but you learned how to work hard, you gained access to some awesome tech circles, and you will be better off next time. As long as you fail fast and learn from your mistakes there's absolutely no downside.

In the best case, you're Xobni or Loopt or Reddit or Scribd. Seems like a no-brainer.

(Summer 07)

Re:Would you sell life equity? on Tuesday April 22, 2008 @06:10PM (#171048)
Wow thats awesome. Thanks.
Re:Andrew Chen: Moving to SF and joining the startup community - lesso... on Tuesday April 22, 2008 @06:08PM (#171045)
I feel like there is a lot you should do to solidify your network, your resources, your outlook, your team, your understanding of markets, and your philosophies on product before you even build one so I think he is spot on.

Sitting down and just building something cool without the above is generally a recipe for disaster.

Re:Would you sell life equity? on Tuesday April 22, 2008 @02:10PM (#170783)
Yea really it is a great question. The valuation is one aspect. The other is the fact that your incentive to succeed goes down once you get money so the very moment you get it, you're expected future earnings go down.

It's fascinating to think about though.

Re:What's your definition of 'winning'? on Friday March 21, 2008 @04:18PM (#142747)
yea for sure there are different kinds of people out there and i do acknowledge that, i am just asking from a strictly professional sense how you should approach career and so forth?

SF JavaScript Meetup - lots of hackers, YC people, JS experts

Posted by zellunit on Thursday March 20, 2008 @02:29PM
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Hey all,We're getting together a JavaScript meetup in downtown San Francisco at 7PM on April 16th. Specific location TBA but it will be somewhere in or near SOMA. We've got a number of YC companies represented, other startups, lots of awesome front-end hackers, and some huge names in the JS community.It will be a lot of fun and you won't want to miss it so register and RSVP...

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