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Makes me wonder how many of these companies are actually offered the "standard deal" of 120k for 7%. Would love for YC to release some stats on this.

But what's your budget though?

"Its not poverty changes brain, its your parents mindset change your brain." Which is not at all influenced by poverty, right?

What if it's the other way around? What if the smart and passionate folks at Facebook really do just want to get the internet to the rest of the world, and this is the way they can…

Related: If you haven't seen John Oliver's segment on civil asset forfeiture, you should really check it out - https://youtu.be/3kEpZWGgJks

I feel like he missed a big opportunity here to say, "iQuit". Just sayin'.

A fun read, but I'm not convinced the reason for all the orange and blue is rooted in trendiness, as the article makes it seem. It suggests that this color combination "might not b…

I first tried to view this article on my mobile device and saw this: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/117695213/static/larseid... To me, this is already revealing. A critique of…

Sounds like it's quite the artful balance between procedurally generated and manually curated content. A bit (but just a little) more information can be found here: http://www.thes…

Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7385634

Doesn't this method of including dynamic data in the index.html page prevent it being served from a CDN? When serving a web application, I'm generally more worried about the time i…

How to become a millionaire web developer? See web development as more than a means to an end.

Is a streamed/recorded song really considered a 'performance'? Isn't it just one performance? If one performance is recorded and replayed 14k times, how does that turn into 14k per…

Tables for one... you mean desks? They're eating on desks?

According to Mozilla Developer Docs is non-standard and deprecated. RIP blink tag. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/bl...

Not being cynical about its incontrovertible success. I'm being cynical about the context of the statement -- Acquia is a company heavily invested in PHP / Drupal. What else would …

"That 80% marketshare is not going anywhere anytime soon." Whatever helps you sleep at night.

I also enjoyed this presentation: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Timelines-Twitter It goes into more depth about how they handle timelines.

Get him a blue beanie.

This is an interesting metric, often forgotten. Companies are just people. What better way to gauge future success than by the mood in the room?

Where does he get off talking about sweet potatoes like that? The nerve of some people!

Good points, but I can't help but feel like these issues should be considered and addressed during the early development of a service. You're right, you can get into some serious t…

I hate to be 'that guy', but is caching really considered 'premature optimization'?

When I was watching NBC the morning of the Watertown incident, during a phone interview, one of their 'chief investigative correspondents' said, he wouldn't say who, but a Brown Un…