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Not necessarily. You can insert a new row with a field named ‘deleted’ or similar set to ‘true’. This is how you would implement soft deletes in an append-only table.

Yes, and the expected value is positive. Unfortunately for us, the banks that underwrite the IPO choose who to allocate the shares to, and they would prefer to allocate them to clients that have a history of not dumping the stock and/or lending shares out for shorts.

Curious which places are at the top of your list?

As an avid user and supporter of Flow I'm pretty sure this is a step in the wrong direction. The effort it takes to launch another offer in this already competitive market distracts them from some much needed updates to justify their price.

I was happy to pay the $10/mo for what looked like a promising service, but with other task management apps making real progress towards helping me manage my tasks and MetaLab focusing on monetization, I'm not sure I'll renew.

"2. I think the issue just comes down to online retailers dragging their feet because they want to enjoy their advantage as long as possible."

I wish it were that simple. This bill would have effectively shut down my small business (we're an online retailer). The overhead of paying taxes across many different states and municipalities is, frankly, impossible for smaller teams / startups to deal with. Even if we could outsource this, it would effectively reduce our margins to the point where we couldn't compete with brick & mortar. We already collect taxes and pay them to the states we operate in. This bill wouldn't cause us to pay more tax (we're based in California, so we'd probably pay less taxes as a result), but instead seems like it's more a result of anti-competitive lobbying efforts from B&M retailers.

I, for one, am excited to see Delicious under the control of some capable people again. I used to use it all the time.

I'll echo "refusing to quit" being a key driver of success. I also won't claim to know all the tricks, but it seems like pg's standing assertion that founders' determination is the highest correlating factor to success is true, at least in my experience.

The American Express gift card doesn't get you a discount and (as you pointed out) skims some credit card fees from the top.

Agreed. There are advantages to an HTML5 PDF reader. Aside from just being more accessible, I could see how sharing and collaboration tools become more effective with an in-browser solution.

PDF viewing isn't natively supported by any browser as far as I'm aware-- plugins/extensions are required, which makes the content significantly less accessible.

Perhaps... although there may be little or no correlation between where one chooses to go to school and how good of an engineer they'll be.

Yup, not a talent acquisition. Matt and I have both moved on to other things. I'm working on a retail initiative at http://www.propersuit.com if anyone's interested.

Comparing mobile internet "growth" to desktop internet growth is a little misleading. It's like comparing DVD player growth to VCR growth. Obviously DVD players grew much faster because the infrastructure (having a TV set) and comfortability with the technology was already there.

Desktop internet growth was closely tied to the overall growth of the internet-- as the net became more useful, more people started using it. A lot of what makes mobile internet useful, on the other hand, was already created.

Awesomesauce. The more Heroku Add-ons the better.

Awesome guys. Good work

I'm not sure I agree that an API is that different from a UI. Try working with the Windows API in C#. Lack of default parameters means that for every API call I have to explicitly set about 30 options (29 of which I'm usually not using).

It sounds like the point you're making is that, if well-organized, marginal features can add value without encumbering users that aren't interfacing with them. That makes a lot of sense, and I agree with your approach over the 37signals approach. Marginal features can be core features to some users. It's just important that we keep the interface/API organized in a thoughtful manner, so that unused features don't distract people.

Yup, that's him. And being his YC classmate I'll also testify the guy is walking talent.

Sorry to hear that. Would you mind emailing me the CSV file at steve@datamarketplace.com? I'll try and recreate the problem and let you know when it's fixed.

Yeah, it's true. We definitely felt like we were playing catch-up from day 1. Not that its a competition, but I think companies benefit more from YC having a working product earlier on.

Ditto to TC doing any sort of grammar checking.

One company I recently purchased from (www.bonobos.com) has had some success marketing via rewarding consumers for attention. Their various strategies got people a little more involved than just listening and calling a phone line, but I think it's an interesting concept.

All my sites are down too. I am not happy about this.

Lots of brands have been putting text or characters in favicons-- Facebook, Twitter, and Y-Combinator, to name a few. I think it makes the brand more recognizable.