dbrush | 14 years ago | on: The startup world, ranked and visualized
At the moment no. This was one dataset we used to get started but, we intend to incorporate data from Angel List and other sources as well.
dbrush's comments
dbrush | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN: Will my target audience reject a .net solution?
I've found that a lot less people care what you develop something with than whether what you developed is something they want to use.
dbrush | 16 years ago | on: A new Erlang docs repository
It would be much better if there were actually a discussion for each posted item.
dbrush | 16 years ago | on: Why is 65% of all music sold in the U.S. via compact disc?
Perhaps to play in vehicles?
dbrush | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN: Asperger Syndrome common in tech but a killer for startup founders?
Not if you're solving a problem you yourself have encountered. And, a cofounder can help with the difficulty in seeing the perspectives of others, although Asperger's Syndrome has more to do with difficulty in social interaction than being able to observe why something sucks and requires fixing.
dbrush | 16 years ago | on: Tesla Motors' history, according to Elon Musk
Reusing great paperwork just makes sense.
dbrush | 17 years ago | on: College Is A Waste. Replace It With Y Combinator
This article reminds me that I've never even been asked if I graduated high school. Not having a college education has never been a problem for me either.
dbrush | 17 years ago | on: Ask HN: Favorite true story tech book?
Tesla: Man Out of Time touches a bit on the race between Edison and Tesla. A very good book as well.
dbrush | 17 years ago | on: Ask HN: Favorite true story tech book?
Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
dbrush | 17 years ago | on: Ask HN: Favorite true story tech book?
Excellent book. I've long since lost my copy, but I think I'll try to procure another today.
dbrush | 17 years ago | on: Adobe and Facebook Drive Next Generation of Social Applications
Correlation does not imply causation.
dbrush | 17 years ago | on: How 4chan hacked ReCAPTCHA to win the TIME 100 Poll
I very much doubt that the gaming of the poll was merely an exercise in autodidacticism.
dbrush | 17 years ago | on: Electric Unicycle (not Trevor Blackwell's version)
Trevor Blackwell made the unicycle you attribute to Paul.
dbrush | 17 years ago | on: Tell HN: took full slashdot effect to my 4$/mo server no problems
The traffic they send is not.
dbrush | 17 years ago | on: Agile Certification: Love it or hate it, but deal with it
What is a Scrum Master?...
dbrush | 17 years ago | on: Content Stealing Jerks
One could argue that propagating(copying) the content across disparate site removes the inconvenience of finding the original content while still not rewarding the creator of the work.
dbrush | 17 years ago | on: Congrats, Dropbox (YC S07)
The first and largest obligation that Dropbox has is to their users, not to one of the many partnership emails they probably get constantly.
Really, your last sentence there is unnecessary.
dbrush | 17 years ago | on: Advice to Summer YC Applicants
This happened to me in early summer of 2007. I was actually at the airport to join another program when I followed my gut and took a chance with my Y Combinator application instead. I was subsequently interviewed and accepted, so it worked quite well for me. I would, however, encourage everyone to weigh their options before following their guts as in the end you may get no offers by taking a risk like I did.
Probably part of what prompted my decision was how much integrity this other program didn't have relative to Y Combinator (offering perks and having integrity are sometimes inversely proportional).
dbrush | 17 years ago | on: Major Book Publishers Start Turning To Scribd
Principle probably doesn't come into play when the majority of people want to consume or share information in the form of text, video and imagery. Using Scribd or Youtube is very much a proof that people have found an easy way to share their information. It seems you're confusing "don't know how" with "aren't doing it while abiding by the principles they should have".
I agree with what you wrote yesterday concerning weights and measures. "Leave people to use what they want to use."
dbrush | 17 years ago | on: Major Book Publishers Start Turning To Scribd
Can you click a button and make Google index new content on your site?
Do you use Google video search before you use Youtube?
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