Bullshit. Luck is luck. No one can predict the future, and not everyone gets the same opportunities as everyone else.
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- Add some sparse html tags (i.e. a basic doctype/body), which can help with search engine parsing.
- You'll notice that for a few milliseconds on page load, the text is shown before the JS rendering takes over. This can probably be solved via Javascript, just find a way to cache or pre-load the pages.
Thank you for applying to intern at a YC company. Unfortunately we weren't able to find a position for you this time.
Since it's our first time matching interns with YC companies, we're beta testing the program with just a small number of companies. Based on the high volume of high quality applications (over 1600) we received, we hope to expand this program in the future. We hope you'll apply again.
Rejected again. Unfortunately I don't have the prestige of MIT, Stanford, Harvard, or other top schools to carry my application through.
I'm a technically-inclined person, but I really don't want to spend hours fiddling with torrents. The instant torrent completion is an absolutely killer feature. The UI is easy to use and dead simple. The developers regularly update the site and let us know when there are disruptions.
I'm a "broke" college student, and to be honest, out of all of the online services I pay money for, this is the one I think the least about before purchasing.
> Pick a template engine at least.
There's a great one for PHP, it's called PHP. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3821125
Sometimes there are no "lessons that can be learned from success stories like this". Believe it or not, for every Instagram, there's a hundred startups with founders that are just as smart and try just as hard, but don't make the cut. Do the founders of Instagram deserve their success? Sure! Should we pat them on the back and "celebrate the entrepreneurial spirit"? Absolutely. But let's not fall over ourselves praying to the success gods while we forget to work on our own products.
> If I could build Instagram and sell it for $1b I sure as hell would
Bullshit. Maybe you could! All you need is hard work, the skills to get there, and yes, a good amount of luck. But let's not pretend you, or the founders of Instagram, are destined for success because you're special or you "knew" your ideas would kick off. Look up hindsight bias in the dictionary.
> And yet people from around the world fly here every day to have critical surgeries performed by the world's top doctors in state of the art facilities.
People fly to many first-world countries for medical care, including "Canada and Europe". Yes, if people have vast sums of money, they can receive excellent medical treatment in the US (as they could in many countries).
However, that's not the problem though, is it. The problem is that in general, most Americans fall behind in health compared to other first-world nations.
> but there needs to be some method of exclusion when demand is high and supply is low
Are you arguing that the state of health of the majority of the country is irrelevant as long as high-income earners can receive the best medical care?
Sidenote: I saw this post in your profile, "How can I learn to code in a practical environment?" (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4326920). I'm someone that comes from the practical side of things, in terms of software engineering. Feel free to send me an email if you'd like to discuss.
This author seems personally hurt by the fact that Apple rapidly releasing new devices, as if he feels that he is being obligated to purchase the latest products as soon as they come out and doesn't want to.
Is there a small, vocal minority of the Apple fanbase that has to have the latest thing? Certainly. But the average user does not, and has no need to upgrade their Macbook Air just because a new one comes out a year later. In fact, I've had mine for a year and a half, and I have no need or desire to upgrade anytime soon.
> I didn’t jump at the iPhone 5. I wasn’t in-line on day one like I was with the iPhone 3 and iPhone 4. I am unsure why I just didn’t care anymore.
Great, you don't need to care! Before the iPhone was released, would you have stood in line for a phone at all? I know people who still use the iPhone 3G and have no issues, because they don't need a retina display or the ability to run intense games, they just want a phone that works.
Either this author:
(1) Wants to have bleeding-technology all the time but is offended by the fact that he would have to pay for it often, or (2) Is so brainwashed by the blogomania surrounding Apple that he is unsatisfied with the fact that the company keeps fairly rapid release cycles, therefore causing his products to technically be "older versions".
However, the vast majority of users don't give a half a cent about what UI framework the site is using, let alone know what a front-end toolkit is. All they notice is that it is easy for them to interact with the app, probably much easier than if the developer had coded it. In fact, the site is probably built sooner anyway since the developer didn't have to spend the time to create a UI by themselves.
Not sure if that's the intended functionality, but that's what happens in Chrome for Mac Version 20.0.1132.17 beta.
> Why show a mere 24 frames per second when we can magically build, or interpolate, new in-between frames and show 120 or even 240 frames per second?
The problem you are experiencing is "interpolation"- or, inserting extra frames that the movies was not intended to show.
The Hobbit is a movie that runs natively at 48 frames per second. Natively, as in the movie theatre will not have interpolation because 48 fps is the rate the film was originally shot in.
When I first got a high-definition plasma TV (which replaced my 20+ year old CRT), I felt the exact same way: as if all my movies were ruined, because they looked like documentaries. Now it feels like a degraded experience to watch poorer quality films. Perhaps the audiences of 2032 will feel the same about 48 fps/5k resolution.
> "The way Clojure developers work is very different than the way C developers do..."
This couldn't be more true, and makes the $200,000 investment goal a heck of lot more reasonable. Imagine the difference between developing and testing HTML5 games with Javascript and creating business CRUD apps with Rails. It's very ambitious when you think about it, which is why I'm just as eager to see how this project evolves in the next couple of months.
Light Table has a huge potential to be dynamically multilingual. Each of these languages and platforms have vibrantly unique communities, and being able to speak to all of them will be the "thing" that makes it worth using.
As justanotheratom notes, Christian Bale would probably be a much better choice. Not solely because of the fact that Bale is a far more accomplished and critically-acclaimed actor, but because he seems like he could really do well in Steve Job's role. I just can't see Ashton Kutcher in an argument with a young Bill Gates or explaining principles of design to early investors. He just hasn't proven that he's able to really own a complex character.