guildchatter

If you like dragons -- Dragonflight

If you like sci-fi -- The Rowan

I was a big fan of her stories when I was younger.

May she rest in peace.

http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=11565

It looks like many other bad SSL certs were issued.

Anybody want to start a YC or HN league?

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Maybe I should pivot my personal blog/website...

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I'm rooting for Augmented Reality eyeglasses and contact lenses.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_Reality

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HN study group?

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I think that people enjoy listening to short, straightforward stories, without a long preface going into every single gory detail before actually reaching the main part of the story.

Zuckerberg isn't in a court of law, so I'm guessing he's skipping details and bending the truth (or lying) to make his story simpler and easier to understand. He's also probably glossing over things to make his story sound more dramatic and impressive.

Sorry to hear about your history with him though. That sucks. =T

Is it bad if we're both?

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I hope the two-pronged defense works.

1) Apple tries to shield the iOS developers using its previous licensing agreement.

2) Someone else tries to get the patents invalidated. Several companies whose clients were targeted by Lodsys have filed preemptive lawsuits requesting declaratory judgements that Lodsys' patents are invalid, and some independent developers led by former Apple engineer Mike Lee have formed a legal defense fund to fight Lodsys and other patent trolls. Even if Apple believes the patents wouldn't stand up to reexamination, it is suspected that the secret terms of the license agreement with Intellectual Ventures prohibits Apple from attempting to have the patents invalidated.

It's definitely going to be the blame game, especially with Obama's re-election campaign coming up.

sigh

Anybody here use Celery on their production system? Is it reliable/stable? Any weird problems?

After all this negative press, I'm really curious how much of a pop Groupon's IPO will have.

I think this is a great response to what happened.

I hope EJ's third blog post is more positive.

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I dusted off my old copy of Diablo 2 last summer and played for a little while. The entire multi-player experience was dominated by bots spamming ads or bots that instantly pick up any rare items that dropped.

The botting was completely out of control.

I chatted with another player who used bots to farm for rare items and he claimed to have 24+ instances of the game running 24/7 split across several machines. He would check once a day to see if any of his bots managed to get a really, really rare item.

Kinda crazy... =]

This will be interesting.

Especially after someone figures out how to dupe (duplicate) items in-game.

Ah... Fond memories of duping items in the original Diablo game -- Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac, Godly Plate of the Whale, King's Sword of Haste...

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Does anyone actually know the "real" story? I feel like Airbnb/YC is saying one thing, and EJ is saying something else.

Is this a case of miscommunications that got blown out of proportion?

I skimmed the article and it says in at least two places:

"And it’s not just Microsoft who you can blame."

"It’s not all Microsoft’s fault."

It also happened to be a "fundig."

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Disclaimer: I'm a drchrono employee.

Thanks for the link.

I especially liked these two sections:

"One of the most interesting things we've discovered from working on Y Combinator is that founders are more motivated by the fear of looking bad than by the hope of getting millions of dollars. So if you want to get millions of dollars, put yourself in a position where failure will be public and humiliating."

"I like Paul Buchheit's suggestion of trying to make something that at least someone really loves. As long as you've made something that a few users are ecstatic about, you're on the right track. It will be good for your morale to have even a handful of users who really love you, and startups run on morale. But also it will tell you what to focus on. What is it about you that they love? Can you do more of that? Where can you find more people who love that sort of thing? As long as you have some core of users who love you, all you have to do is expand it. It may take a while, but as long as you keep plugging away, you'll win in the end. Both Blogger and Delicious did that. Both took years to succeed. But both began with a core of fanatically devoted users, and all Evan and Joshua had to do was grow that core incrementally. Wufoo is on the same trajectory now."

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Sweet! I <3 Linode.

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He wasn't kissing his own son...

I'm in the same boat as you.

Websites usually have tutorials specifically tailored for GoDaddy.

Also, whenever I call their customer support, they've always been friendly and helpful.

Man, my karma is already negative. It's gonna plummet now...

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Dear Garry,

I've been clicking on the G+ invite you sent me days ago to no avail.

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Grats Garry!

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I'll forgive you... this time...

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