mrchess

I think the Kindle light is a great idea. I just scooped one myself. I rarely used the keyboard on my original Kindle, plus this one is much slimmer and compact -- awesome. Can't wait for the light to come in.

Personally I think a touchpad Kindle with eink is overkill. The touchpad is nice, but I don't see why I would ever need it if I'm just casually reading. That plus I'm a sucker for slimness and the added dimensions killed it for me :)

OK! Well, check this out:

http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/63010/Raising-Money-On-...

If you can get 1 key investor or endorser, you're pretty much in. How do you get that key? Usually from networking in person, or by having stellar metrics that people can't turn down at least talking to you.

I feel like you haven't even done any research on AL at all. Have even opened it up in a browser or read a little about it? You say you want to go the "old fashioned" way through networking... well AL is networking -- it is a social-network for investors.

You should read more about AL. But in short, yes, you should use it. It is much easier to find investors, and if you win one over, it is easier to extend out from their personal networks as well. I'd also recommend you start reading venturehacks.com.

I stopped using Groupon because businesses [in MA] were becoming mean. In most of the food deals I cashed in on, once I mentioned I was using a Groupon, their faces would go sour and it would make me feel cheap... something about the entire atmosphere would change. Anyway, I stopped using Groupons because now they just make me uncomfortable.

fonts aren't working in chrome 13.0.782.112. you only see partial names and some are missing names completely. screen: http://i.imgur.com/mbrfe.jpg

I think you linked to the wrong post ;)

Is it really necessary to upvote every single article about this EJ incident? I think we all know by now...

FYI Click the fixed button in the top right of the window for the demo. Took me a while to catch that one.

My experience with G+ is a lot like Google Wave. It was fun for 20 minutes, then the novelty wore off and I found it cumbersome. For example Circles... my father has 3 e-mail addresses, and I need to add them ALL to the Family circle, thus duplicating him 3 times.

With facebook, individuals are one-to-one, but on G+ it is possible for them to be one-to-many.

As much as I hate to say, I'd rather use what I already have, and what all my friends have... facebook.

Same experience for me -- twice in two settings.

1) I used a Groupon at a korean restaurant in Cambridge, MA. When I went with my friend the waitress was delighted, but once I mentioned the Groupon her enthusiasm completely faded and she became much more rude.

2) I used another restaurant Groupon at a pizza place on Newbury St. in Boston, MA. Ordered the pizza but once I pulled out the Groupon she had a sour look.

I don't understand why these friggin' business do Groupon if they are just going to assholes. Argh, just reminiscing and writing about these experiences pisses me off.

Just follow your heart, seriously. You only have one life so live it.

If you are really that critical I would give them a month notice which is more than enough time to find a replacement. That is the best you can do. If you give them plenty of notice, they will have no reason to think you are screwing them. You'd be screwing them if you just quit and left the next day.

I don't know why so many of you are looking for an official response from pg. Just because he invested in the company doesn't mean he can or will make statements on their behalf.

Honestly pg just probably invested, said good luck, and just went his own way checking up occasionally to chat. The guy has like 500 other things on his plate why would he micromanage airbnb?

It's their business, not pg's, so let them run it how they want to.

This might be a stupid question but what do you do after you secure such a large series of funding? Go on mass expansion? Would anyone mind telling me how startups typically use this kind of money (closing Series with 100+mil)?

"With only a $200 camera and no filming experience, we determined that filming documentary style yields the best picture and sound quality."

Not trying to pick a fight here but if you don't have any filming experience at all who are you to argue that this style is the best? But anyway, I hear you, and you're right, to each his own :).

One last suggestion is you switch to youtube. It's unfortunate you can't skip directly to a sections of video due to the limitations of the vimeo player.

Not a fan of this interviewing format. To me it seems terribly awkward when the person asking questions isn't even on the same screen.

Any chance you can put this on the Kindle store? Not sure how easy it is, but I'm sure myself and many others would like to buy a Kindle copy :)

Yup, exactly. The entire world of PR is cutthroat. If facebook doesn't play, they will get beat.

Not sure what the big deal is here. Big companies run negative PR campaigns against other companies ALL the time -- running negative PR campaigns is a very common strategy in the large market. But I supposed they usually run try to run them in secret, so it is a bit unfortunate that they got caught.

If anything an article like this makes me lose face for techcrunch, who acts like this kind of PR tactic has never happened before.

If you don't believe me read Toxic Sludge, which is a book about the PR industry.

Is prop('value') faster than val() now for reading dynamic input?

One thing that always bugged me about the criticism of the Diaspora release was that people criticize it like it is production software when they clearly stated it was a "pre-alpha developer preview". Who cares if they didn't have security checks? They could have been just waiting till later to add them all in.

I know when I build I like getting the scaffold/mvp up as quickly as possible ignoring security because hey, this thing isn't out in the wild, and do my due diligence on security after I am happy with the prototype.

Cool stuff. FYI the link to the app in the first paragraph is dead.

Yeah I should have been more clear.

I did like tracking my own data, but I got annoyed that every day I would have to type the same tags again in order to do it:

M: [exercise][ate late][shower] Tu: [exericise][tv before bed] Wed: [tv before bed][shower] Th.. etc

It's maintainable after a few days but after a week or so you just get sick of typing it over and over.

I stopped using my wakemate after maybe 3 weeks mostly out of frustration. I was never able to score higher than 65 despite sleeping for long hours, short hours, etc. (is my sleeping really that bad every day?). The other thing that frustrated me is all the data is useless unless you tag it and create your own trends to follow, i.e. I sleep better when I [exercise]. I sleep worse when I [ate before bed].

The thing that really got me though is that every time you have to type in the same tags over again, you can't pick from previous tags, which got old fast.

Oh, they also never sent me back a charger after they told us to throw it out (first batches of Wakemates had faulty chargers) :(

You're right, and I have no idea why a thread like this still makes it to the frontpage. It is unfortunate that you need x karma to downvote threads because even us who have been here for a while still don't have the ability to assist with content control.

I see, so there is a SyncPad server program for enterprise use. Neat.

Anyone know more details about SyncPad technology stack? The demo is over the same network which means... an iPad acts as server? But then it says all you need to do is connect to the internet... and then...? Long polling? Or socket?

In regards to your comment about their recruiting speed, I wanted to chip in. While not Google, I interviewed with meebo and went through three phone screens as well within 1 week, and they flew me to Mountain View within 2 weeks -- by far THE most efficient interview I have been through. Great people.

I cannot emphasize enough how much more awesome it makes your company look when you have a streamlined recruiting process!

I actually made synchtube -- thanks for the shout. Was thinking about putting in a voting mechanism eventually. Nice to see frozenhot implemented it.

Ironically I also did a Show HN today (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2344151) today as well but only got 1 point :(

Around this area: 239 8th Street, San Francisco, California, United States.

I have since learned that it is the norm and possibly fact for locals to realize this area is a bit more sketchy. But like I said, I'm not from Cali!

I'm always wary of free labor, mostly because I did some before so I know what it can feel like.

When you work for free, you never feel obligated to deliever or perform at your best because nobody is paying you, so if you get fed up you can just leave -- why put up with the bad environment? Sure it might be fun for a week or two, but people get bored, and it is usually monetary of personal incentives that keep us going. Working for free provides neither of these. It isn't my project, nor am I getting anything in exchange.

Now I'm not saying that he will be like this, but this flipside of mentality is definitely something to consider when you hire "free" labor.