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tikhonon Scribd says: Beat our programmers at a coding challenge

odd seeing another "tikhon" commenting about scribd.

tikhonon Bootstrapped GitHub Now Raising a Round from Andreessen Horowitz

It's not a bubble 'til my mom owns pinterest stock. Then the end is near.

tikhonon Swiftype (YC W12) Builds Site Search That Doesn’t Suck

This is so freaking awesome. I've had this problem on nearly every website and blog I've created. Also at both of my startups (Scribd and Parse -- note: Parse uses Swiftype on our documentation pages -- try it out).

I've tried google site search (which sucked and wouldn't index all the Scribd pages for example, and it wasn't good enough for the parse documentation) and I've also used lucene and sphinx (pain to set up and the marketing folks always complained about search results, speed, ordering, relevance, etc, and analytics were a pain). Swiftype is the best option by far. I love this company -- really excited they finally have launched and I can talk about them.

Think about all the sites that use google custom site search just because that's the only decent option for them up until today. Huge market here. Congrats Swiftype.

tikhonon Weebly CEO David Rusenko: It’s Time to Take Us Seriously

ask about the company culture. they have a really great and interesting one.

tikhonon AnyWall: an iOS geolocation app powered by Parse complete with tutorial

thanks!

tikhonon AnyWall: an iOS geolocation app powered by Parse complete with tutorial

also cool, but anywall is open-source and we built it for the sake of making a fun iOS tutorial

tikhonon AnyWall: an iOS geolocation app powered by Parse complete with tutorial

we actually coded this up before Caterina Fake's Pinwheel launched, but the idea is similar. see https://pinwheel.com/

tikhonon Lunch, disrupted: ZeroCater helps startups get fed

both of mine (parse.com and scribd.com) are also zerocater customers :-)

tikhonon Another EC2 outage (yet AWS dashboard says no error)

back up

tikhonon Give it five minutes

As recounted in Carnegie's classic book: When General Meade squandered a great opportunity to capture General Lee and his army after the Battle of Gettysburg, Lincoln wrote a harsh letter to Meade. The letter was found after Lincoln's death, still in his desk drawer, never sent.

http://www.lettersneversent.com/pages/about/index.php

tikhonon Justin Kan Launches Exec (YC W12) For Real-Time Mobile Jobs

I use exec all the time -- it's amazing. We use it at parse a lot as well.

tikhonon In-Depth Tutorial on iOS Push Notifications with Parse in 10 Minutes

Hi Ryan, I'm sorry we didn't respond in time. We respond to most requests in minutes, not even hours, so I'll look into what happened here. Email me -- tikhon @ parse. Thanks!

tikhonon Parse Powered iOS Table Views: Remote Data Driven Tables in Minutes

enterprise at parse :)

tikhonon Parse, The ‘Heroku For Mobile’, Raises $5.5 Million Series A

thanks suhail! :)

tikhonon Parse adds easy caching support for iOS and Android

here's a beta code for the first 50 HN readers -- 'hacker' (no quotes)

tikhonon Announcing Sightglass Bingo for iPhone To San Francisco (Open Source)

here's a parse beta code: 'sightglass' (no quotes). Great app, Kasper and Caleb!

tikhonon Parse (YC S11) – A Simple Back End for Mobile Applications

ha, thanks -- here's a beta code for the first 10 HN readers -- "hacker" (no quotes)

tikhonon Y Combinator Unloads Massive New Batch of Start-Ups

i made a beta code for you with up to 10 uses. 'hacker' no quotes

tikhonon Hipmunk now indicates which flights have Wi-Fi

so would you say hipmunk.com/blog/bleh is better than blog.hipmunk.com/bleh ? I've seen this debate before with googlers debating it.

tikhonon Harjeet: I'm a partner at Y Combinator. Ask me anything.

As an early user on anyasq (http://bit.ly/iQYjXb), I'll say anyasq already has a much better user experience than reddit AMA. The twitter integration for both questioners and submitters (and the emails when you get new questions) are key. Once they get a few prominent people on there I could really see this taking off.

tikhonon TC Cribs: Scribd office tour

ha you beat me to posting this

tikhonon Our hackday project: Readshout.com

Scribd periodically has "hackdays" where we all work on whatever interests us (think of it like google's 20% time). James Yu and I built this during one of those hackdays.

tikhonon Our hackday project: Readshout.com

yeah this is opt-in, as opposed to opt-out. you only click the bookmarklet for links that you think are interesting and worth sharing

tikhonon New Ruby on Rails Tutorial book-in-progress

This is definitely the best rails tutorial I've seen. Congrats Michael. Awesome job!

tikhonon North Korea Changes Currency

Voltaire: "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero."

tikhonon Scribd launches new platform and iPaper

it was nearly "Scribd Viewer". So, no. :-)