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I had no idea dessert bars were so dangerous.

akcon Jopwell (YC S15) Is Building the Missing “Pipeline” of Diverse Candidates

that "place" you refer to - are you speaking about your early days in Russia, or the US? Because I assure you discrimination is alive and well in both places.

akcon Ask HN: My startup has concealed from me that it raised funding. What to do?

How does one go about finding an attorney in these situations?

akcon Show HN: I rendered the Go gopher using Go

What do rendering times in Go look like, compared to a similar C implementation?

akcon The greatest bug I never fixed (2010)

So you're saying it's a lossy format.

akcon Quora collects $80 million in funding

what's your site?

akcon If you were building a startup today, what would you use?

I for one didn't know about Digital Ocean before I put this survey out, and now I do, and am really grateful as a result.

akcon If you were building a startup today, what would you use?

maybe you've heard of quora ;-)

akcon If you were building a startup today, what would you use?

tabulated results https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApqmTkgH6Ua_dEZ...

akcon If you were building a startup today, what would you use?

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akcon If you were building a startup today, what would you use?

results: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1fKVsAFT3nRVvlcJ74p0ZI2uqwDq...

akcon Introducing Quip

I'm curious as to how they were able to line up the NYT coverage http://t.co/qCFneXpJwV with the launch announcement. Any idea who reps them, PR-wise?

akcon Game of Checkins: Mayorships + Google Earth = your own Game of Thrones intro

This was a quick project I cooked up. Amazed at how much 3D geometry is made available in Google Earth.

akcon The Amazing iOS 6 Maps

Tijs, come to NY some time to see how bad it can get. :-)

akcon At 92, Movie Bootlegger Is Soldiers’ Hero

was this musician John Tesh, by any chance.

akcon Tumblr's anti-censorship message generated 87,834 phone calls to representatives

Did they use tropo?

akcon Poll: You and Mobile Development

Yeah, give it time. It usually takes the BlackBerry people a few years to catch up to the present.

akcon How RIM BlackBerry works with loyal app developers

I can corroborate with the author's story. I'm developing the BB app for a cross-platform group messaging app and I've also hit a wall of silence from RIM. I can confirm that they are deliberately not giving us access to certain parts of RIM's infrastructure that would make things a lot easier for us. Oh well, guess we'll have to engineer our way around those roadblocks and then open source it!

akcon How A 26-Year-Old Built A $100 Million Net Worth

I used to work at Yahoo. This guy was a tool. A cursory search on Google explains all.

http://images.google.com/images?oq=gurb&sourceid=chrome&...

akcon Cool Augmented Reality App for Fixing Cars

neato. I did some work in his lab 10 years ago. Back then the AR getup looked something like the Ghostbusters backpack.

akcon Ask HN: Review my startup, GetPlaylists

3 points for 2 cents:

1. I didn't get within 10 seconds what you offer. Work on that.

2. I agree with some of the other commenters; curated lists (from a trusted source) would be a great idea, if thats the direction you want to head in.

3. It would be great if I could buy a track without having to create an account. You'd probably make more money too.

akcon A 20-Something Makes a Mint (and Sells It to Intuit)

word on the street is he took on his last round of financing at an extremely high valuation in order to drive the asking price of Mint up. Sounds like the investors in the last round got screwed!

akcon Apple's Mistake

Speaking from personal experience, their approval process is not lengthy at all. On their site they say 8-10 business days and sure enough I got approved on day 8.

I was at the BB Dev Con last week and their tech lead explained the approval process: "they load it, make sure it doesn't crash the phone, then sign off on it."