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This is the list I have been building up https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AqL8kR005z0QdENvNUJ...

It should be editable if you signed into google docs. Let me know if it's not.

It's times like this that I wish HN had a save story feature. So I can just go to my profile and see HN stories I have saved.

I know a couple of startups that have specifically chosen http://www.postgresql.org/ because of oracles acquisition of MySql. I wouldn't be surprised if this trend continues.

Yeah those were basically my thoughts as well. Thanks

I love the concept of using JQuery Templates! But does anyone have experience on how using this affects SEO and search engine crawling?

I think this will be a good addition for a lot of people.

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Well http://thefunded.com may not be the most unbiased since it runs founders institute. Just like this isn't going to be the most unbiased crowd for YC.

A recent email sent out by them to Alumni of the program claimed over a 192 companies world wide. You should also know that it's a different model and you pay to be in the program.

Personally I believe in the YC model and think they have a much better network.

I thought OMGPOP was Winter 06 by Charles Forman is that wrong?

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I already asked, I didn't get a response, partially because I think buxfer was a interesting startup.

Does the app pull directly from the spreadsheet when there are updates?

This spreadsheet is followed a lot but does have a lot of missing and wrong information. You find them in YC and the other incubators as well.

Thanks another great year at Startup School. The Airbnb after hours was good too.

I am not really sure twitter is undervalued actually, compared to risk. I believe it has potential to be huge, but they haven't cracked the revenue nut. I believe a number of smart minds including Naval Ravikant and Adam Rifkin believe if they "get it right" they can be worth much more. I agree with the potential of twitter, but I don't believe they figured it out yet. It's their current value vs risk that they'll figure it out. Facebook on the other hand is bringing in revenue with a lot of potential to bring in a lot more.

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It's basically a you build it you own it world. But at this point I do agree with webwright. It's much better if you all agree that you can pursue the idea and all give up right to each others pursuits of this matter.

This is a nice set of site congratz

This is good to know, just like startups it's better to iterate early and often

It's a good, question and api.ihackernews.com doesn't look bad

It's fast, good for prototyping and it's built in testing frameworks are better than nearly any other framework I have used. Especially native to the framework.

There are a number of things I don't like about rails, and it's more important that in most languages to do lots of unit testing because of the extremely dynamic capabilities of ruby. You'll be happy when you do gem updates

1) Just join it's better jump in the water so to speak, because if you wait a semester more than likely things won't be very different from the way they are now.

2) The is no catching up so to speak. But the closest thing you can probably is to just show up to all the events, chapter meetings, socials with sororities, and things with your pledge class. Observe and thing will start to come naturally, and don't be afraid so speak up.

If I think of the errors people make is trying to hard. Don't try too hard, if you do people will pick up one that and it will back fire.

I wasn't always very social, joined a fraternity in college(which wasn't my natural inclination) and was for the first year the only engineer in my fraternity. My senior year there were three of us out of 80 guys. I was eventually VP of my fraternity. So things can totally work out.

Honestly I think joining a fraternity can be one of the best things you do. But it's a lot like schools, girls or cars, you need the one that's right for you. Just like startups or companies the culture can be very different. Yes I said culture. Pick one where there are generally good people, there are always asholes in every organization but is almost everyone a ashole or one or two.

Just because you join a fraternity you don't have to give in to peer pressure, stand up for what you believe in ultimately when it matters, because a lot of things don't matter.

If you want to socialize your self more don't pick a academic fraternity based on what I believe your goals that you described.

Look your a hacker mean your smart, mean you can definitely figure things out. Go with the flow, RELAX and don't make a big deal of things in your head, when things don't go as smooth as you like, because in all likely hood your the only one who noticed.

Trick number one, none of the other pledges know what their doing either even if they are social don't worry about it.

Don't worry about dancing especially, guys never know what they are doing especially in college.

If you want any more advice shoot me a email, find it in my profile

It's not being ignorant. Yeah I know it's illegal, thanks. But it's what happens, there are those that are bias both against the old and young.

But honestly IF your a individual whom might be a flight risk because they were a founder, who would you work about leaving at 20 year old or a 40 year old?

These aren't my opinion, I am just speaking about what I have often seen or heard about in the industry.

I have worked with a number of people in the industry over the years and have seen a bias against startup founders, more than a desire to hire them. But on the flip side people want to hire engineers from startups. Basically being at a startup is desirable because they often think it bring good qualities (of course evaluating the position and individual too) but being a found brings the concern of them being discontent with the job and leaving to do their own thing again.

I think you have to look at the individual, their specific fit and how old they are.

I am a big fan of bootstrapping so I do what I think is a common mantra on HN is pay your self as little as possible to survive. Once the company is profitable you can start increasing your salary to market rates.

After all your a founder you here to make something successful not pull a fantastic salary. Your a owner!

Does anyone have experience with Beanstalk or has done a comparison VS rabbitMQ or other queuing technologies?

I think the book suggestions are great. But if you read enough about learning theory you need enough feed back. If you have a following ask your reader for feed back regularly to improve your writing.

Interesting question on VA's has anyone tried crowdflower?

How do you flag this as Spam?

This isn't a new idea but it's hard to pull off. Especially if you look at the details, these are supposed to be mostly artistic projects(Yes coding is artistic) but not business ones.

I know Seth Godin is a fan of this type of concept.

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2005/05/fundable_a_n...

Also here is a blog post by Kevin Kelly of wired Magazine http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/03/1000_true_fan...