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Cool to hear… especially in the power specs for that proc. If you don’t mind, What specs does the transcoding machine have and what’s an example of a workload it handles well?

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I had to laugh when I saw the needwant.com guys in screenshots your website. 1) Only half joking question - a) did you ask John/David for permission to use their icons? b) Are they…

It's worse in the mobile space. If you're trying to sign a jar to go on handsets, you pretty much either have to go a thawte certificate ($200), or a verisign certificate ($400) in…

It's interesting to hear an outside view on entrepreneurship at MIT. Inside of MIT, most Course VI (Computer Science) students have gone through 4 years without even having a singl…

Boston's still number 2 (behind silicon valley) in most recommendations of places to start a startup (in terms of available capital, nerds/smart people, and proximity to other grow…

Yeah - thanks for responding to my question on heyletsgo and updating the newest date for it. I'll try to make it this Thurs or next.

From this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=8830 it looks like there are other things like this going on. Anybody go to either of these and can comment on the quality…

I think it'd be interesting to hear how teams of founders work. What kinds of team dynamics they have - things like: democratic vs. dictatorship 1 technical & 1 business ...etc Woz…

I'm in. I'm co-founder of a YCombinator startup that hasn't gone public yet. I'm also an MIT student that's living in Boston until at least the end of the summer. Anyone who's inte…

I don't think it has to be organized by YC at all - this is more about Boston/other city based networking than it is about. Jessica/Paul/YCombinator are busy enough as it is - but …

The traditional claims for success/failure of companies inside/outside of the valley comes from Venture Capitalists who have years worth of statistics coming from their own investm…

One of the hardest parts of a "seed investor" is having actual successful experience in an early stage company (See PG, Trevor, and RTM in ViaWeb-Yahoo Store), and being able to us…

Hardest programming class I could take during undergrad. Spent weeks worth of sleepless nights hacking in a lounge working on a final projects. I dropped out first, started a compa…

It's not really a place you'd necessarily network at, but you can at least work in the presence of other geeks (and wannabes) at Ritual Roasters coffeeshop on 21st and Valencia. ht…

As someone who'd like to think of himself as a decent hacker, I usually think criticism is a good thing. I don't however, enjoy criticism when it's combined with insults to attract…

There were groups in past batches of founders which were non-US citizens.

I'd definitely recommend http://rimuhosting.com I know of at least 1 YComb startup that has used it in the past - and we're using it now. I've personally been hosting with them for…