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Congrats Raffi - glad to see the progress since we talked on the train ride from TS4AD Boston.

Android, BlackBerry, iPhone and a Treo - we do a lot of mobile development.

In Soviet Russia, .su buy you.

There are outliers, Zynga for instance has people paying for fake poker chips.

Painful to watch how long the 'four' went unedited to '4'.

$6,000/founder and as many 0.375 FTE slaves as they can round up - MBAs around the globe rejoice, TechStars has solved the "I've got this amazing idea, if only I could find some developers" problem.

If they want to reply with the fact that they don't want to partner with us, that's fine. We simply wanted to add the feature to our enterprise application and were ready to pay licensing for 2000 users (and growing daily). The problem is, they didn't even respond with that - so my assumption is the bizdev email is being forwarded to /dev/null at the moment.

If you're posting a bizdev email, I would just assume you would respond, even if it's with a "Sorry, we're heads down on other stuff" response.

3 weeks without a response makes me think they don't even bother reading it.

Does Dropbox ever check their bizdev email address? We've emailed them trying to partner, and our users would all be paying users. Guess they don't like revenue.

Damn, I'm stuck at another party that night, keep me posted on future meetups.

Thanks!

TechStars requested videos this year, before YC's latest application opened, which also requested videos - are we to now start saying YC copied TS? Get over it.

Zillow hardly makes the role of a real estate agent obsolete - first off, their Zestimates are no where near correct in a lot of markets especially Today with all of the foreclosures and short sales. Second, the process of purchasing or selling your home isn't any easier because of zillow - only marketing a home is easier.

A consumer friendly solution is needed - when we purchased our home last year, the amount of times I needed to initial and sign documents and then sign again after changes and again when the conditions were met, and again when we removed the contingencies, etc - and each time Scan & Email or Fax it back to the sellers or a third party; it was just annoying. With all of the e-sign technologies and document collaboration, there has got to be a way to make this process easier, smoother and less archaic.

We got our home for a great price, and used a real estate agent, I could care less whether or not the realtor was removed from the process. What I want removed from the process is the pain.

From Jim Weirich, of Rake fame:

http://github.com/jimweirich/emacs-setup/tree/master

Also, a starter emacs kit for rubyists:

http://github.com/jimweirich/emacs-starter-kit/tree/master

Congrats on the soon-to-be newborn. But, I'm saddened by Boston being removed from the rotation.

It's been a few years since I've spoken French on a daily basis, and I've always talked slang (from a francophone part of New Brunswick), but shouldn't you leave off the 'le'?

We do, but for enterprise apps only - there may be decent sales for consumers with the Storm, but the BB will almost always be an Enterprise Play.

My wife and I met on match as well - I'd gladly do a commercial for it.

This is a very frequent discussion in my circle of hackers - to comment or not to comment. I'm on the "not to comment" side of things; either your tests or your code should speak for itself, if it's so complex that you need to leave a comment - you're doing it wrong.

I haven't seen this discussion on HN yet - so I wanted to get the opinion of so many people that write code day in and day out and may be responsible for maintaining code they haven't written themselves.

Considering one of the first rounds of money that a startup takes is usually friends & family, I would suggest not sacrificing them.

You can maintain a healthy social life, or marriage, or keeping in touch with family, and still succeed. Read Balsamiq's story: http://www.balsamiq.com/blog/?p=79 - It's not the largest sample size, but he's not the only one doing it.

Your family and friends should support you. My wife understands the life, she understands that when I'm in "the zone" to put my dinner in the fridge and I'll reheat it later. I gave my wife 12 hours notice that 3 other rails hackers would be in our house for a weekend for RailsRumble - she went out and bought groceries and cooked for us. When the internet went down that weekend, her father came to our rescue and opened his lawfirm's office for us to work from - the end result, we won RailsRumble 2008 - and we did it with the support of our families.

The fact that I have obligations (Mortgage, Student Loans, Car Payment) keeps me focused.

Fred Wilson has had spelling mistakes or simply used the wrong word in some instances on his blog - I don't think you can really use it as an accurate measure.

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I'm not sure I could force myself to fall asleep after drinking some caffeine, especially when I have a kitchen timer staring my in the face with 15 minutes left on it.

I've always believed in the power of a nap when you start losing focus or are stumped on a particular problem. I've put a futon in my office for that exact purpose.

Maybe hackerweek - the 48 hour constraint was a bit too tight for anything with decent scope. I'm happy with what our team cranked out, but looking back, I wish we would have had more time to iterate the views further.

Either way - count me.

I'm 26, married with a mortgage, car payment, student loans, etc. The economy isn't going to stop me - my wife is willing to sell our house at the drop of a hat if we have to, move to another city if we have to, etc. You sacrifice short term for the long term gain, and if you're married to someone that supports you, they ride the roller coaster with you.

Not a very good one - the site is slow as hell right now.

I wrote one for AT&T that got deployed to ~1M PCs and lost my luster for client apps when Microsoft released Vista & XP SP2, both of which resulted in months of patch work just to get things working again before we could focus on newness again.

I'm sure some day I'll love Client Apps again, maybe when Microsoft isn't killing the little guy.

3rd acquisition for the 2007 cycle - not bad results so far. It may be a small sample size, but 8/10 (I believe) received funding and now 3/10 acquired and the 2008 cycle has fairly good traction already with their funding.