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Re: The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud

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Post by rdl »

rmoriz wrote: post #140
rdl wrote: post #139

I'd like to take this opportunity to offer PICPCReject membership to anyone rejected by the horrible elitists at PICPC. We don't have any funding yet, so we can't make any specific promises, but I hear the dumpsters behind Denny's have a wide variety of semi-rotten food available for "Tuesday dinners".

My company will offer $38 to every PICPC reject (1) as a bold signal to the industry to not undervalue the vibrant entrepreneurial spirit our community is made of! (1) requires additional investment criteria to be fulfilled, left to our descretion

Someone needs to do PICPC-T next. That was one of the oddest things of the past 18 months.

Re: The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud

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Post by cwiz »

I'm announcing microcrowdfunding flush-investment platfrom Flushstart. We all have pockets full of change by the end of the day. To participate in Flushstart you you just flush all the change down the toilet and Flushstart employees collect your investments in the sewers. You automatically get equity in all projects listed in Flushstart. I just started the platform by flushing 10 cents.

Re: The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud

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Post by downandout »

tptacek wrote: post #7

I would like to take this moment to announce PICPC-VC, which is an automatic follow-on investment, structured as uncapped convertible notes, of $50 available to any founder accepted into the PICPC program.

People seem to be missing the point. While the $37 is a gimmick, the reality is that this investment, in the form of advertising, is worth perhaps tens of thousands of dollars (I am not familiar with the intimate details of Pinboard's traffic, so I could be high or low on this). Google should adopt this model, since they have more advertising inventory than anyone and have the power to instantly propel promising startups to success. They could quickly obtain equity stakes in a vast number of startups that they deem to be promising, and throttle their "investment" based on analytics.

Re: The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud

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Post by rmc »

kanamekun wrote: post #94

Just a note on word choices... the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" was the name of the colonial empire that Japan built through conquests and occupation starting in 1940. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_East_Asia_Co-Prosperity... Not sure if this is part of a joke or not, but Japan's history of war-time brutality during World War 2 is pretty extreme.

I noticed that as well and thought it was in bad taste. It would be like using the term "Reich"

Re: The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud

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Post by lazerwalker »

wilfra wrote: post #8

I applied. Anybody have tips for the interview??? Can any alumni put in a word for me??? What if I use my product to deliver a 6-pack to one of the pinboard founders, will that improve my chances??? Please help!!!

I've developed iMaciej, a PIC-PC interview simulator. It can help you prepare for your interview by asking you the same sort of hard-hitting questions Maciej has been known to ask in previous batch interviews such as "What?" and "I don't understand" and "Where's the tea?".

Re: The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud

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Post by lazerwalker »

haldean wrote: post #96
whichdan wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unless Heroku has changed, you absolutely should not host a production site using a free account. If your site doesn't get any traffic for a certain period of time, they spin down your instance. This means that the next subsequent view will have an abnormally long load time as they wait for your EC2 instance to spin back up. The $20/mo at Rackspace (or any other provider) is well worth it.

App Engine has this problem too. The solution is to run a cronjob somewhere (App Engine has cron built in, so I've used that in the past) that hits your frontend every ~10 minutes or so. Instances never go stale, and on App Engine, you get 28 instance hours/day for free, so you can stay under the free quota as well.

On Heroku, you don't even need to manually run a cronjob or set up something that feels like you're consciously trying to game the system. If you sign up for the free tier of NewRelic that Heroku offers, it'll automatically ping your dyno often enough to prevent it being spun down.

Re: The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud

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Post by kanamekun »

jessaustin wrote: post #108
jonathanyc wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Noticed this as well... "Co-Prosperity _____" should sound hauntingly familiar to anyone with any amount of knowledge about WWII. It seems like the "Co-Prosperity Cloud" is a joke, but even if it is, it's a joke in poor taste considering the atrocities committed by Japan, and not even an especially clever one (annexation and abuse for profit is not really the same idea - I hope - that Pinboard is expressing).

Considering that > 90% of the people who witnessed said atrocities are no longer with us (and 100% don't read HN), the time for jokes has come at last. Actually there have been numerous humorous takes on WWII for decades now. In "jokes", people often state propositions that seem opposed to what we would hope they believe.

Regarding atrocities, you clearly have no idea how deeply the wartime atrocities impacted many Asian families. Many Korean families I know refuse to buy Japanese cars or products (my mom is Japanese, so I've been told this many many times). My Korean father-in-law was an orphan because of the Japanese occupation.

In any case, the above fails the first rule of jokes... they're supposed to be funny. I thought the post was funny enough. But the reference to a co-prosperity system didn't add much (any?) humor to it. Just pointing that out to the OP...

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