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Re: After the Deadline: Acquired

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Post by Elepsis »

mattmaroon wrote: post #21

Ironically the grammar error he cites might not be an error, depending on whether Mr Franken said that IRL or in print. If it were in print, such as on a website or email, then it was not incorrect for the New York Times (which was why I missed it, because I skip the quotes when looking for errors) to have simply transcribed Franken's error. (In that case they could put the old (sic) there, but I view that as a total…

My experience has been that journalists take the liberty of fixing "makes you sound stupid" errors like that in most cases -- sometimes they'll double check, but often times they will fix that sort of word choice issue and move on. Indeed, it's the sort of thing that would likely get flagged by a copy editor who wouldn't even know the quote came from an email.

Re: After the Deadline: Acquired

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Post by raffi »

yan wrote: post #4

Congrats! Does this mean we'll get to see the source? edit: Any details on the financials?

Hi Yan, Yes, we're planning to open source the backend. I will also try to post snippets of AtD functionality into blog posts as this will be easier to digest. As a researcher I think the ideas probably have more value than the code.

Re: After the Deadline: Acquired

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Post by ujjwalg »

mikeryan wrote: post #25
ujjwalg wrote: post #8

Finally, a story in which YC misjudged... :) Congrats...

I think you'll find that YC is littered with failures (startups missed, and those chosen that failed). That's the great thing about the model. At this scale they have the ability to do so.

I think it will be an awesome case study to have an essay on what went behind choosing every startup@YC till now and more startups can be added after every funding cycle. Then talking about the YC funded startup success/failure stories with lessons learned. So, a separate essay describing what was YCs initial thought process/criteria in choosing them, how that startup developed and lessons learned depending on success/failure

Re: After the Deadline: Acquired

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Post by rokhayakebe »

richcollins wrote: post #26

Did you make more than you would have consulting over the same time period?

I don't think he could have consulted on anything that would be used by hundreds of thousands of content producers (bloggers) around the globe. I could be wrong. But I doubt it.

Re: After the Deadline: Acquired

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Post by cperciva »

cperciva wrote: post #12

A question for the AtD folks: Do you have any concerns about being acquired by a company which builds such a famously insecure product? Speaking as someone who cares a lot about security, I'd be concerned about the reputation for poor security "rubbing off" on me.

I'm not sure why my question here is being voted down; the fact that wordpress is famously insecure is hardly controversial.

Can some downvoters please explain?

Re: After the Deadline: Acquired

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Post by jrockway »

cperciva wrote: post #37
cperciva wrote: post #12

A question for the AtD folks: Do you have any concerns about being acquired by a company which builds such a famously insecure product? Speaking as someone who cares a lot about security, I'd be concerned about the reputation for poor security "rubbing off" on me.

I'm not sure why my question here is being voted down; the fact that wordpress is famously insecure is hardly controversial. Can some downvoters please explain?

It sounds like you are whining about Wordpress, rather than just commenting on the article.

Microsoft Research did a lot of work on Haskell. Does the multitude of Windows viruses make you not want to use Haskell? Probably not. It just doesn't matter.

Re: After the Deadline: Acquired

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Post by raffi »

nearestneighbor wrote: post #39

If they have a better spell checker, why tie it to a particular editor/web site?

It's a software as a service so it isn't tied to a particular editor/web site.

I chose to support TinyMCE as the first editor because of its excellent plugin API and use in popular applications. I chose WordPress as a first application because of its excellent plugin API and infrastructure for distributing plugins to users. The fact I think it's pretty slick helped too.

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