robertgaal

I hope somebody (Jason?) starts doing shorter 10m summary videos of this.

"Wanna be a VC? Just follow Techcrunch!"

Too bad he said he made it in "under an hour", which you can also see in the profile mockup: no hover on icons, awkward positioning. If he would've spent a day on it, it would probably look even better. Plus: it would signal a bigger commitment than this one.

In the CEO's defense: he just broke the screen, not the whole phone. I guess.

In! I'm in Amsterdam.

+1

There's already a W3C standard for this, so I would bet on more widespread adoption in the future.

http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-3d-transforms/

I'm doing a project that could use the Webkit 3D abilities that have now been added to the nightly. Finally, yay! How long till this shows up in Safari though? What's the regular release pattern for these kinds of additions?

Aaand you're down.

When linking to a PDF: please put this in the title. I hate 'em.

All very good submissions! No real winner yet thought, and not all are available domain names.

This is the best time to start. Marketing is easier then ever, servers are cheap, opportunities are still here. Go for it!

Gaming via the process play you say!? Wow.

Fuck no. You're overreacting. Cut the drama and go find a forum to hang out on.

How cool, a Dutch minister on news.YC. Must be a cold day in hell today.

We've been with Rails Machine for over a year and loving it. If you need some extra support and sysadmin knowledge (aka more hands-on then Slicehost) Rails Machine is absolutely the best we could wish for.

And of course additionally we also use EC2 and other AWS services.

Fall on your ass many, many times :)

A lot of people hang out in #startups now because of this thread. Add yourself to the wiki if you want: http://ircstartups.pbwiki.com/

Yep, we got one too. Idiots.

Ah, looks like I saw this one coming :) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=62976

The talk itself was awesome and the questions afterwards where fun. What I didn't quite get was why Ryan Carson claimed startups can happen everywhere, while PG took a more Valley-based standpoint. Kind of like a slap in the face or something?

DC? Try doing a startup in Europe. Now there's a challenge...

Hm, I'm not so sure. Rails doesn't do that well with shared setups at the moment.

Are you looking for a Rails host or...?

Pirates of Silicon Valley ofcourse :)

I'd recommend Railsmachine. I wrote a post about it here: http://blog.wakoopa.com/archives/how-we-got-hosted-the-rails-way

Rails

I actually know a Dutch social network that killed of their Spanish audience by targeting more on national events. It all depends on strategy I guess.

This is a problem I have right now in my current start-up, Wakoopa.

We're currently working on a thematic social site, which will launch in about a month. We've had a small investor gives us some seed money, which could last us for about a year. We both have our personal laptops to develop it. I use a 17" Acer, my partner has a 13" Macbook. He sometimes uses an extra screen, property of another company at our shared office, a 20". This ofcourse saves him a lot of stress and lets him develop somewhat faster.

We'd like to buy him an extra screen of course, but is this really fitting for a small start-up that isn't earning money yet? We've got the budget, but should it be tapped into? And of course: who pays for this thing? Should we just order it through our company and forget about it, or do we hold it in on my partners (very modest) salary?

This all has to do with your personal guidelines and budget, but what do you guys think? Buy the thing and be done with it, or be more thoughtful of what you spend in such an early stage?

If you've got this feeling that says: "why do I need somebody else? I can build/do everything myself", then I know what you're talking about. But if you only look at the fact that there are only 24 hours in one day, and that everybody can make an honoust mistake easily spotted by another person, it's a neccasity :)