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I can't believe noone mentioned codebase (http://www.codebasehq.com). We use it and it's great!

That's a shame. Was it easy to set up?

Looks really slick, great idea too.

We're looking for interns at Heyzap (YC09), come and join us! http://www.heyzap.com/docs/jobs

Heyzap.com (YC09) is expanding fast and we're hiring for our 4th team member (engineer) as well as interns to join us in our San Francisco office!

send us your details! - jobs@heyzap.com

More info here: http://www.heyzap.com/docs/jobs

"Treat" obesity? That makes it sound like a disease, or something outside a person's control. Now I understand that some people are more genetically predisposed to become obese, but people treating it like a disease is part of the problem.

As with any project like this, that last 20% completeness takes the most effort, and spending a couple of hours a week on it just won't be enough to take it to success. Building the product is just the first step, getting people using it and iterating is what matters to me.

I'm working with a startup now (Heyzap, YC W09), so that's where all my energy is being directed!

awesome diagram, love it

The article was meant to address transition points from django to rails not start a flamewar. I was never encouraged by anyone to "troll", this is from my personal experiences. There's no conspiracy theory here.

There are no ads on the site and I can't find a duplicate link to this Time magazine article. Check your facts.

I actually think this is a fairly good way to distract people from the media scaremongering.

It was only a matter of time before this happened! Congrats.

this is really sneaky. i like it

A little anecdote about ideas:

A few years ago, I was talking to some members of my family who had a product idea they wanted to develop. The idea was to sell travel toothbrushes with toothpaste pumps in the handle of the toothbrush, so that the paste could be stored in the toothbrush and dispensed through the head of the brush.

A few months later, I came across another couple, 5000 miles away in another country discussing the exact same idea and speaking of investing their life savings into the development.

Just last week, I heard someone speaking at a startup event about developing and working on the exact same product

The point is, somewhere right now, someone is having the EXACT SAME IDEA as you. Scratch that, 5 people are thinking about the same idea. A good idea is important, but an idea is meaningless.

Design it. Build it. Sell it. Ideas won't make you any money, and nor will complaining.

It's not all about the idea, it's about the team.

I love dropbox, but if google release basically the same thing, how are dropbox going to survive?

No

No mention yet of what's next for Immad...

"Even better, hack your family & friends"

Happy Thursday for the rest of the world.

You may have seen an example of this happening recently when Bloomberg killed off Steve Jobs:

http://gawker.com/5042795/bloomberg-runs-steve-jobs-obituary

I'd not checked out justin.tv since Justin's 24h lifestreaming event ended, but the other day I was round my brother's house (my brother is a non-techy person) and we were talking about the US Open tennis and where we should go to watch it.

"Oh I know this great site which has all the sports" he says as he loads up Justin.tv.

So basically justin.tv has loads of traffic because it is the hub of illegal sports rebroadcasting.

I think the site is great though, so I hope after all the copyright lawyers break down your doors and you are forced to go back to "legitimate" streams only, that your growth is still strong.

Another case of RAS syndrome (Redundant Acronym Syndrome)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAS_syndrome

How does this have anything to do with the Prisoner's Dilemma?

Yes the best way for people to play is to be nice, but I bet when real people play they'd still be greedy. There's a difference between humans and artificial intelligence.

It would be great if (ex)founders could share a little bit of their situation too, for context.

Bug in the URL parser?

I first heard of Go when the film Pi came out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A0_(film)#The_game_of_Go

It has conjured up visions of crazy hackers ever since.

Anyone have any mirrors for this?

Looks like they've run out of bandwidth.

Check out http://99designs.com and http://www.crowdspring.com to outsource your design.

Some people have natural talent with design. If you find you aren't one of these people, just get someone else to do it. I've had great experience with crowdspring and it is very good value for money. The best part about these two sites is, you get to choose the best design and give the designers feedback for further iterations.

TLDR

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