Met this guy sitting outside of Facebook a few months ago. Nice kid, smart, savvy. We chatted about Greplin and it sounded like he was making good progress... Let's hope he keeps it going...
How a 19-Year-Old Raised $5 Million to Revolutionize Search
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#12Daniel, if you're on HN, I'd love to know how the visa/immigration situation worked out for you in this case (if you can publicly talk about it, I know that this is not always the case).
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#13I thought this was a cool article until I read this line:
"But regardless of how successful Greplin is, say, even if we go public someday, my parents won't be satisfied unless I get a degree. They won't speak to me."
That's pretty sad, actually :(
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#14easy to click Greplin Programming Challenge: http://challenge.greplin.com/ Anyone managed to pass level 1? I am stuck at level 1. Please share the logic.
What a crock - the second challenge requires calling a USA phone number.
Color me unimpressed.
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#15Daniel, if you're on HN, I'd love to know how the visa/immigration situation worked out for you in this case (if you can publicly talk about it, I know that this is not always the case).
I actually emailed him for this about a year ago and he told me that he was an American citizen.
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#16easy to click Greplin Programming Challenge: http://challenge.greplin.com/ Anyone managed to pass level 1? I am stuck at level 1. Please share the logic.
If you finish you're prompted to submit your code along with your resume for employment consideration. Keep that in mind as you move on to each next step. Had to piece together one of my solutions into a single solution.
https://www.greplin.com/jobs Here is the source of the challenge link which gives you a heads up it's for a job contest.
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#17Traditional media and established blogs have sympathy for small startups that take on giants like Google, etc. especially if they are founded by someone under 20.
btw, where is cuil now?
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#18Traditional media and established blogs have sympathy for small startups that take on giants like Google, etc. especially if they are founded by someone under 20. btw, where is cuil now?
My thoughts exactly, also that of story reminds me of many articles published in the bubble era, as do many valuation and funding stories lately.
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#19easy to click Greplin Programming Challenge: http://challenge.greplin.com/ Anyone managed to pass level 1? I am stuck at level 1. Please share the logic.
here is a naive but working way to do it in ruby : https://gist.github.com/849625
Python:
max((s[start:end] for start in xrange(len(s)) for end in xrange(start, len(s)) if s[start:end]==s[start:end][::-1]), key=len)
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#20It looks like he's using APIs, which means that he can only index as much data as the services are willing to provide. They can squeeze him out of business by shutting down or reducing access to the data whenever they please. Or just add to their API TOS that keeping a cached copy of the data is a no go.
The service would lose a lot of relevance if suddenly one of the main players like Facebook decided that they don't want to be indexed by Greplin anymore. Without long-term partnerships or contracts with all the stakeholders, I wouldn't bet on that horse.