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The name sounded familiar. This company is a bit spammy anyway.

I am part of the Silicon Valley Java User Groups meetup. I got this e-mail from one of their employee in early March:

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Hey fellow Dev's,

I'm a ux designer who just joined the community and I wanted to share info about a great service that seems super relevant for this crew - FounderDating (no, it's not romantic). FounderDating (FD) is an invite-only, online network for entrepreneurs to connect with cofounders. Why FD?

High Quality - members are carefully screened for quality and readiness (no recruiters, etc.) Applications and members’ identities are confidential, but a few of the folks who are part of the network are former founders or early employees from: stackmob, Salesforce, Zynga, Loggly and Gilt just to name a few.

Balanced - 50% engineering & 50% non-engineering

Reach- FD’s online network allows you to connect with people in your city and beyond to share ideas and begin building something you’re passionate about.

No Idea Necessary - FD is about the people, so you don’t need to have an idea, just be ready to work on a serious side project

The deadline is April 8th, so apply now. http://members.founder[redacted].com/application

Cheers and feel free to reach out to me off-list with questions, Abby

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BTW, this is "Abby's" meetup page: http://www.meetup.com/sv-jug/members/8035133/. Not sure if she also goes by another name (Gail) or what. Let's give her the benefit of doubt.

Who joins a new meetup and right away sends plugs for their own project? At least, I don't think that's the norm.

;-).

I am at VMware now.

Yay, we (Pattern Insight) finally made it to Techcrunch.... not that we tried too hard. Our focus was primarily on getting and keeping our customers happy.

I read it -- a while back actually. I ended up getting to it by following a link for some other interview that Ravi had posted on LinkedIn.

BTW, my actions might be biased: I like reading. If I had an option between reading and listening, I would pick reading most of the time.

I got my PhD under Indy. Besides being incredibly intelligent and resourceful, he is one of the nicest advisor one could wish for. He lives a balanced life (this includes things like hosting a 2-hour weekly radio show prior to getting tenure) and, as such, that kind of lifestyle transfers on to his students. Furthermore, he was always available. This combination of characteristics is the rare amongst young professors. I thoroughly cherished it.

If you are thinking of doing a PhD in distributed systems, I would strongly recommend you to consider him.

I agree with you from the perspective of people of France (or anyone outside the area). And that point is not lost on me.

I am talking about the credibility of the author. The line referenced in the article is written by the author. They are not words attributed to others in a quote. If it's not in a quote, the author takes on the responsibility with respect to the correctness of the fact. If the author can't verify this simple fact, I don't know if I can trust the article with all the one-sided claims presented.

A factual error is a factual error. Definitely lowers the credibility of the article for me.

Nicely done. Really.

Nice way to differentiate and monetize yourself from the competition.

Would it not be good to be able to assign a one-off task to a concierge (a la Exec)? Alternatively, have a "roll over" for unused tasks.

Nit: a quintile is a 5th of the population. The upper quintile would be the 20 people. You probably mean the upper vigintile (top 20th) if you want to limit it to 4-5 people.

even in california, it is highly recommended that one not use work-provided resources for your side projects if you have even the smallest intentions of commercialising them.

I doubt it would be "game over for eBay". If that were the case, TaoBao would already be here.

What other countries does TaoBao operate in? eBay and Amazon both operate in dozens on countries.

What works only in China works there only for a reason! Government protectionism.

He is refering to paid-only (or mostly-paid) SaaS a la 37Signals products, etc.

45% cash, 55% stock according to LinkedIn press release: http://press.linkedin.com/node/1191

Congratulations to Splunk! Operational Analytics is an exteremely interesting area rich with many complex problems: performance (processing complex queries over very large data sets), prediction (proactive diagnostics), and visualization (packing dense information in a human-friendly manner).

We at Pattern Insight are currently working on the next generation of logging software, called Log Insight. If you are a Splunk customer or thinking of buying them, take a look at at our product page [http://patterninsight.com/products/log-insight/] for information on a more sophisticated and complete solution.

Don't hesitate to contact me if you are on the job market and want to work on interesting data-mining problems (full-time only please).

$250,000 revenue. $1 billion valuation. W - T - F. This better be a bloody joke.

The more I read the article, the more it seems that the article is definitely masterful PR from CloudFare. K.M. Cutler either took the bait hook-line-and-sinker (comparing vanity metrics for a proxy service to service sites, etc.) or the bubble is way worse than I imagined.

Great timing on the article. Easter is here... good way to acquire new customers in the "festive" mood.

As the cliché goes: "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade."

Mountain View, CA. Both Full-time and Interns. http://patterninsight.com/company/careers/

Pattern Insight is a booming startup making code and log analysis tools for a customer base that includes many titans of the tech industry. The data mining and static analysis technologies present in our product have strong research roots, as we grew out of PhD research done at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Relatedly, our core engineering team has a strong academic background, and as a whole, published over 100+ articles in peer reviewed journals and conferences.

We are looking to expand our engineering team in sunny California. As stated above, we are also looking for a handful of interns. For more specific requirements, please see our career page: http://patterninsight.com/company/careers/

Come join us, we are still tiny and looking for people ready and willing to make decisions that shape our future.

Mountain View, CA. Both Full-time and Interns. http://patterninsight.com/company/careers/

Pattern Insight - a booming startup making code and log analysis tools for a customer base that includes many titans of the tech industry - is hiring software engineers and interns in sunny California. (Relocation options available for full-time positions).

We are looking to expand our engineering team by hiring both developers (both systems and application) and QA. For job-specific skills, please see our career page: http://patterninsight.com/company/careers/

Our data mining and static analysis technologies have strong research roots, as we grew out of research done at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Relatedly, our core engineering team is extremely strong, and as a whole, published over 100+ articles in peer reviewed journals and conferences.

Come join us, we are still tiny and looking for people ready and willing to make decisions for our future.

Coda's public response: http://codahale.com/the-rest-of-the-story/

(mentions hacker news as a place for "nerd fights".)

They have not implemented seamless conversion from hg repos to git repos. However, there exist tools to do that: http://hedonismbot.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/hg-fast-export-c...

Slide 38 says: "No custom statuses. This one decision defines Sifter."

What does "No custom statuses" mean? Can you please elaborate?

PS: Thanks for sharing. Great slide deck.

This behavior is unconscionable when there is such an obviously trivial technical solution to this problem.

Here is my quick and dirty technical solution.

(1) Place a restriction: only allow users who have uploaded a given file to download that file. In essence, keep an "uploaded" flag for each file/user.

(2) Challenge-response to validate local copy of a globally-known file: To continue receiving the benefits of de-dup, don't actually upload an already globally-known file, but perform a challenge-response with the client on the contents of the actual file. This will still leverage most of the benefits of de-dup w.r.t bandwidth savings.

I never saw a link to Sebastian's blog in your original article. So, yes, maybe I missed it. However, it was not "inspired". It was a verbatim copy without any indication of it being so.

I am glad you edited the article to explicitly give credit where it is due.

Part of your blog is a verbatim duplicate of http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/we-dont-get-out-of-bed-for-...

For someone who values original ideas highly, this is a theft of the highest order. Wouldn't you agree?

As you said, they are likely to be only cut off if they meet "success". If that happens, they will have leverage.

Any way, at this point, they must have their blinders on. If they got preoccupied with figuring out solutions to tentative risk, they'll never take the first step (i.e., to be successful enough to be blocked).

And yeah, these are paid.

One of the positions we are looking for is a Cloud Operations Engineer Intern. This position comes with loads of responsibilities. So please pass on the word to any students looking for impactful work this summer.

Please feel free to ask me any questions that you may have.

Why only 500? Why not 5000? Or even 50,000 accelerators?

After all, as the author simply claims that, "it depends" if 500 accelerators can actually succeed.

And if we are going bet, let's bet high. No point playing Roulette and betting on black or red. Let's go with the double 0s. So, I propose that "America" launches 500,000 accelerators. (Each unemployed person in the city of Los Angeles can be made a CEO.) Since, "it depends".

I am glad you found the comments helpful.

I think your response here helps develop the position more clearly. Nevertheless, I think you bring out a good point yourself, "HN is a more technical crowd", and as such, another reason for a poor response to the opening maybe a poor fit for this community. You may need to locate a better channel to acquire your acquirer.

Sure, every startup needs users.

However, Carwoo is a marketplace (for buying and selling cars), which differentiates it from other consumer-facing web startups. A web-based marketplace is scalable only if it reaches a critical mass. Without a critical mass, it will stagnate or worse, become irrelevant. As such, any service that creates a new marketplace needs to think of initial customer acquisition as a core value-add. Because, without the critical mass, it is not going too far.

Further, getting to a critical mass is the biggest thing that will differentiate CarWoo from any competitor, as making a functional clone of CarWoo (the web site) is arguably trivial.