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I can't wait to see more companies getting into the desktop 3D printer space. The RepRap project is still very difficult to a novice user, and has a long way to go. Bre Pettis actu…

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Manhattan works for me.

I have to agree with this point. No, you do not have to be part of an industry to do work in it. It will certainly make the proposition very difficult however. One of my YC ideas w…

I definitely agree that a frugal attitude is essential for success. But I'm reminded of a great article on "I Will Teach You To Be Rich" called Cheap vs. Frugal. http://www.iwillte…

I do all my screen scraping with PHP, curl, and some regex. Previously I used plain PHP. I use it to scrape television listing data ( http://ktyp.com/rss/tv/ was my old site, and h…

I don't know if your referring to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=64795 as the older post, but it is only a month old. The web hosting industry is pretty cyclical, but within a…

Awesome addition, I'm sure I'll get around to turning on noprocrast sometime. ;)

I think what is equally important was their extensive use of open source packages of all types using both Java and Python. Xen, Hadoop, and Boto just are examples showing that more…

I'm going to second Trac. I'm using it primarily because of its easy integration with Subversion.

I just want to say that was a great article. I think your baseball metaphor really gets to the point. It doesn't matter that you've tried so many times. The fact you are able to go…

Intuit started a competition with the winner receiving $50,000.

You are definitely right to question the other founder's commitment at this point. Me and my cofounder had a pretty big argument over whether to incorporate or not this summer. How…

It was a great article. I think the most important part was: "Software development got cheaper but communication didn't. Pure idea/sales/marketing founders are losing value against…

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