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They have given a number of talks about using Rsubyfor some of their stuff and have open sourced other Ruby libraries. They have been a pretty active contributor to the Ruby community.

There have been to many things that try to just take hot or not and bring it to a new network. This might be a short lived fad, but I think people that really enjoyed this would end up using something like hotornot in the long run. I could be wrong but I am not sure of the staying power of the site.

I also agree with others it needs to be opt-in

I am a big fan of Anonymous, it is currently my emacs code font.

http://www.ms-studio.com/FontSales/anonymous.html

* Have a co-founder (or founders)

* Have some ideas

* Have some savings (I quit with above 1 year or rent)

* Have equipment, backup drive, laptop, and ec2 (servers)

* Setup some ways to quickly get moving Wiki, Blog, Github, Ticking System

* Have a layer to help you incorporate and deal with anything that comes up.

We quit having a few ideas and not knowing which we would start with. I guess if you aren't in a rush I wouldn't quit until you had the idea you really wanted to start working on.

Congrats to the team. Their how it works page is great. One of the best technical explonations written to cleanly and quickly explain a complex issue.

Princing is pretty straight forward as well.

I bought half life 2 this year, I am helping by buying really old games... hooray!

We both were health young guys with no families that needed to be covered and just ended up getting Tonik health insurance.

During hiring we mentioned that we would cover up to X amount of personal health insurance. Since our hire had a family though we are now looking at getting a group plan even though the company only has 3 people, the man reason was getting family plans is much harder to get cheap personal plans while the group plans have better benefits for families.

That is an interesting option but after looking at convotrack I think I will just wait for MovableType to be supported.

I really don't like the hovering javascript buttons and I think the side panel is is kind of a distracting option. It doesn't feel well integrated allowing the comments to flow naturally as if they are just a part of the blog comment system.

Thanks for the link though.

Any thoughts on a movable type plugin?

Awesome I have been waiting for someone to do this for awhile now. This looks great. I will integrate it into my blog soon after learning a bit more.

Congrats to the teams this will fill a huge need for bloggers who aren't able to follow the discussion they themselves start.

How is it more complicated than ending prohibition?

I agree with all the comments on things being done iteratively and slowly makes sense as well.

I think it would be harder to stop the near infinite loops / long running calls than it would be to make it secure in terms of file access and user escalation.

Paying for GitHub, AWS (Ec2, SimpleDB, S3), LightHouse, Vonage, DreamHost.

Um everyone mentions that the money isn't the real value of TS or YC. This lets hackers that didn't get accepted into the program get many of the benefits. They get to meet the mentors, see some of the presentations, spend time working with and getting to know the community. I don't see how that is considered so much worse of a deal than the actual program. Consider hackers still in school, hackers not ready to make the leap and start their own companies...

It seems like an interesting way to become involved and learn a ton about the start up process.

(disclosure I was part of Techstars 08)

Um it isn't blatant copyright violation. Are you just not informed of all the bandwidth shaping that Comcast does? Comcast tried to block many legit uses of broadband. Also falsely claiming unlimited data while limiting both total data and you data speeds to be less than advertised.

I can't even run bit torrent to legal files with out my connection dropping speed or failing to connect to the torrent entirely.

I also don't think my internet provider should be looking at my packets at all so they shouldn't be aware of copyright or not, I demand and get privacy in my real mail, why can't I expect it online. Open others mail is a felony, but sharing my packets with filters from the RIAA so they can accuse people?

I wish I had another option but Comcast is really the only option around me. What have others done to try to get on a respectable broadband connection?

it seem to be a little similar to Ping.fm but that is mostly focused on twitter like services.

I think with most of the groups you know the basics of the offer ahead of time.

This happened with us, We applied to 3 groups and were accepted into two and asked to interview at YC. All the seed groups were pretty cool about it.

The first groups deadline was so early, we wouldn't have known about offers from the two other seed groups. After giving us an offer extended our decision period, by over 2 weeks. The second groups deadline was towards the end of that time and actually told us we were accepted slightly early so we could make a decision between the two groups.

YC invited us out for and interview, but that was going to be so much later that we didn't think we could put off the decision that long. PG was great about giving us his thoughts on the matter and talked on the phone with us some about the situation.

In the end we made our decision to accept one of the offers and not do the YC interview. It worked out well for us, but it was a bit stressful and complicated.

One problem is that the programs start at different times and really out of timing need to make decisions earlier. One of the programs we applied to started a week after the YC interviews and obviously by that time they need to know who is going to be showing up. It would be great if they could all sync up the timing a bit more like college semesters are roughly at the same times.

There seems to be a lot of game sites coming out lately. I guess they all seem very much like kongregate to me. This one seems to be more focused on multi player though which is nice.

Wonder if they will go for traditional games like chess, pictionary, etc at all.

bad headline since it is only talking about paying users.

I actually quit using stumbleupon but I had heard that it wasn't getting updates that frequently and that their growth rate has been slowing down a lot. Doing a quick search I didn't see anyone stating bad things about it, so I don't have anything to point to but I recall hearing it discussed.

I ended up giving a nickname to a coworker like that "destroyer of worlds" Then I got him bumped to a another team for awhile. Then he ended up back on my team and I eventually quit. In my exit interview I mentioned him.I am sorry but keeping an employee around that is pushed from project to project because no one wants him on his team is bad for the entire company. So I honestly would bring attention to it eventually.

Isn't StubleUpon doing pretty poorly now a days anyway?

great that was my only complaint on an otherwise very nice looking feature.

Great post, you discovered a bunch of the gotchas faster than we did on our first rails site. I wish I would have had a post like that a year ago. Thanks

damn I was loving boxee and if people request out, then you will loose the all in one media experience

I had this through nuevasync.com which was pretty awesome. I want to support them as a startup but this is all they did, and so what if they did it 2 months ago, google now does it and I am far less worried about google disappearing than I am a tiny startup.

I hope they come up with something else it was an awesome product.

What differences did you find?

You got that right!

Not new at all, I was always confused that it took so long for all the media companies to realize you could do the 'exact same' advertising for online video as you did with TV. Just let people watch when ever they want on demand and it would be far superior to cable.

It only took them like 5 years since streaming video quality was decent to figure it out... hehe