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Maciej Cegłowski's ongoing twitter commentary on these things is priceless.

Words of wisdom: https://twitter.com/Pinboard

It's easy to write trivializing one-liners when you haven't bothered to learn anything about the companies or the problems they are solving.

I assume s/he's going for humour rather than communicating any useful information, which is perfectly reasonable.

"And now an online community especially for women! They even got the domain. Please don’t let it be pink. Please don’t let it be pink." ... "@Pinboard Spoiler: it's pink."

Made me giggle - so op success?

Wisdom? Here are some words of wisdom: “I doubt you can understand the magnitude of the stupidity in your statement”

I looked this guy up. Pinboard?

This guys is making fun of startups that are fighting HIV and cancer and he's working on a bookmarking site? If the word social was on his resume more, it would be a parody in itself.

This guy is a good example of a washed up dev who think he's smart because he can be mean.

Whats also fascinating is this guy is implying the his version of silicon valley is somehow 'true' and these startups who have managed to get users, launched product and revenue are 'hyped'.

Please maciej, leave the valley. You're right - too much hype and purists like yourself shouldn't be tainted with products that actually get users and make money.

Also, look forward to pinboard being the next big thing.

Immunity Project and BlockScore are my favorites. Both appear to be solving real problems at the right level of scope (rather than providing feature support for a niche, for ex.).

I was really fascinated by Beep. They are basically providing the platform to turn your house into the Enterprise. :)

Immunity Project- This product sounds amazing.

The Immunity Project pitch was truly moving. I wish they had a picture of it. I really really hope they make their goal.

Did they talk about how they would make money, or is it a non-profit that YC is funding?

It's a non-profit.

If they're successful they should probably include a line-item in their budgets for Nobel prize money.

neptune.io's seems to be providing the solution that someone didn't fix during the day whenever an alert fires.

out of disk space -> clean up your disks (e.g. logrotate)

process crash -> should be using a process supervisor

low cpu utilization -> autoscaling

Do you know of any existing solutions that do this automatically ?

What type of quantum computer is Rigetti building?

Just based off this google search: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=rigetti&btnG=&as_s...

I'm going to guess it's Josephson Junction based. Possibly similar to D-Wave in that it's based on adiabatic computing and focused on specific optimization problems. Details from the horse's mouth have been super sparse though.

with respect to neptune.io : What are some of the existing products that are capable of remediation ? Cant products like Whatsup gold do this ?

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