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jwinter

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jwinter··on Apple kills off DRM for whole iTunes music catalog
Amazon mp3 supports Linux. It added full album downloads via Linux a few months ago.
jwinter··on Ask HN: you're rich, now what?
If it's your zoo, you can eat there.
jwinter··on YC is a cult
If you read closely, you'll find that's 18 hours a week.
jwinter··on YC Startup Going into Beta: Reble.FM Music Sharing
You can't find a particular song from your friend's collection via Anywhere.fm. You can only listen to their playlists and skip at most 3 times.
jwinter··on New YC clone planned in Philadelphia
No PG is a big drawback, but you're wrong about Philly.

Philly's got lots of great restaurants most of which are BYOB, plenty of cool live music spots, great bars, cheap taxis, way more affordable downtown housing, etc. A friend of mine pays what I'm paying in rent: he lives in a spacious apartment overlooking the waterfront in Philly; I live in a tiny third-floor walk-up a mile away from the closest T stop outside Davis Square. Crime is starting to become a problem there again, but other than that it's a great place to live.

jwinter··on Why to Move to a Startup Hub
> And yet whatever argument you use to prove that startups don't need to move from London to Silicon Valley could equally well be used to prove startups don't need to move from smaller towns to London.

Well, what if it isn't the raw number that makes a city a startup hub, but having a certain minimum amount of startups? That argument would then account for small towns not being as startup-friendly as London, but London (or Boston or New York) being an equal to Silicon Valley. Maybe the startup friendliness of a town looks more like a logarithmic graph than a linear one.

jwinter··on Desktop vs Web for email
For reading, maybe, but for writing emails (or anything else) nothing beats emacs.
jwinter··on Anywhere.fm = 1.4 Millions songs uploaded.
Do users pay for space? Will it be ad-supported?
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