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piuson RED is going to change the game for indie films

Lenses are usually a whole new can 'o worms. THOSE suckers cost an arm and a leg no matter r what camera you are shooting on if you want good ones.

True, indeed. :)

piuson RED is going to change the game for indie films

I gotcha. Any word if the $3000 is just for the body or if it's for an inclusive kit?

piuson Why There Aren't More Googles

They're highly valued?

piuson What I Hate About the Internet - Everyone is a "Social Media Consultant"

cf. New Media Douchebags (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSP8xm_gaK4)

piuson Poll: Unknown or expired link on YC

They've been hard restarting the server a lot lately, so the sessions are getting lost more frequently.

piuson [dead]

I wouldn't leave it to them, but I would allow them the ability to specify it. You could give users the option to only filter based on votes, if you so chose.

piuson [dead]

Do you support the "NSFW" class on links?

http://tommorris.org/profiles/nsfw

piuson Ask YC: Who do you use to print your business cards?

We went with Dallas Cardworks and used a design similar to this:

http://www.dallascardworks.com/assets/images/products/busine...

Another shop whose work I like is Eddens Letterpress (http://eddens.com/). They do very high quality work.

piuson Mash Ruby Gem - Mocking Hash for total poser objects

This is sweet. Doing some hardcore JSON stuff and this should make things a lot prettier.

piuson I built it but they wouldn't come!

Hmm. If you're right, I feel like a bit of a doofus. That's not as I remember it, but I don't have evidence to back up my point except my (probably flawed) memory. I will, however, stand by the weaker statement of being one of the first few from MIT.

And don't worry, that's not much of a parade to rain on. ;)

piuson OpenMac - $399 Leopard-capable PC

"Apple-branded" hardware.

piuson I built it but they wouldn't come!

I was one of the first couple hundred people on Facebook (and one of the first 30 people at MIT on it). Zuckerberg started it at Harvard. It spread like wildfire at Harvard because it was highly useful and then he opened it up to MIT. And then Yale. And then UPenn. And so on and so forth.

I think the takeaway there is to try niching to a manageable segment of the user population at first.

piuson OpenMac - $399 Leopard-capable PC

Reddit got it first, then News.YC and Digg.

piuson Focus on making a kickass UI, performance be damned (for now).

And Paul Graham will give those bratty NewSDK guys another 6000 boxes of instant noodles to eat if he has to, so they stay in business another three years perfecting things.

piuson OpenMac - $399 Leopard-capable PC

Nice find. We should start a pool for how many hours it will be before Apple shuts them down. I'm gonna guess 16.

piuson If You Wanna Be A Phone Company, You Can’t Go Dead

Shoulda used Erlang! :P

piuson The Cathedral and the Bazaar

It's old, but it's a classic. :)

piuson Great RoR Books?

http://toohardtopronounce.com/2008/2/7/the-three-must-have-r...

piuson The peculiarity of Malbolge is that it was designed to be the worst possible programming language

Haha. Two choice quotes about the language:

Malbolge was so difficult to understand when it arrived that it took two years for the first Malbolge program to appear. The program was not even written by a human being: it was generated by a beam search algorithm designed by Andrew Cooke and implemented in Lisp.

and

Malbolge's probably biggest piece of evilness comes from the encryption of instructions as they are executed. That encryption, fortunately, has a few weaknesses that make writing Malbolge programs feasible.

piuson Ask YC: Co founder doesn't believe in product idea

Is there merit to what he's saying? What exactly is the value that you'll be providing over the extant competitors? If you've chosen a poor market, why not find a new one?

If on the other hand his criticism is not really constructive, he's not suggesting anything new, and his spark is gone, then the situation is untenable. My experience has been that tolerating "co-founders," "partners," or "early employees" who lack passion for the product just doesn't end well. Get rid of him.

piuson Mod_rails teaser video. Are they pulling our leg or is it real?

On a random note, this is a really nice looking site design.

piuson GitHub now open to everyone. Here is the pricing.

Oh, definitely. But the GitHub guys put a really nice UI on it. It's one of those things that is easy to underestimate until you've actually used it for actively developing an open source project. I've actually met other developers through it, so I guess the proof's in the pudding.

piuson Ask YC: A site for the dying (e.g., in the spirit of Randy Pausch's last lecture)?

I think that a service catering to that wish could do well, if tastefully done. You'd have to really think critically about the customer need though -- just standing up yet another social network and saying it's for terminally ill people probably wouldn't get you far.

piuson GitHub now open to everyone. Here is the pricing.

The social networking aspect comes from the ease with which you can fork repositories and send pull requests. It makes it really easy to see what projects people are hacking and it bolsters the sense of community (and easy of code sharing) amongst folks working on the same open source projects.

piuson Illegitimate Name

Classic.

piuson We need a Wikipedia for data

http://dbpedia.org

piuson Tell YC: Summer 08 decisions out

May I ask where the web logs I should look at are?

I think he's saying that you can check the logs of your own server.

piuson Tell YC: Summer 08 decisions out

I don't think there's anything wrong with positive self-talk. A founder being confident about his or her ability to execute shouldn't make anyone else feel insecure.

piuson New Ruby news site, RubyFlow.com released

Very cool, thanks for answering. I just checked it out and found a few nice libraries there I didn't know about, so it's already earned a spot in my bookmarks. ;)

piuson New Ruby news site, RubyFlow.com released

Peter, what differentiates RubyFlow? I like RubyInside because you cherry pick relevant items and I like RubyCorner because it's comprehensive. Where does RubyFlow fit in?