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Hi all - Ben, one of the podcast hosts here.

A few folks asked us to ungate this Acquired x Gary Tan LP show episode for the YC community so we went ahead and did that.

One fun thing from this episode: I never realized that before Initialized when Garry was a partner at YC, he was designing early homepages for companies in the batch… including HelloSign and GOAT :)

"Postproduction was mostly refining creative choices that we were not able to finalize on the set in a way that we deemed photo-real."

Does anyone know how they were able to swap out the in-camera version of the background originally shown on the LED wall with something more convincing later? Seems like it'd be tough since it's not a green screen!

http://itsthisforthat.com (2010)

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Berkeley, you're nuts. This is super cool.

After hearing about this for awhile and now playing with the product for the first time, I was super pumped to guess (and be right!) that the arrow keys could be used to help navigate sections. Nice touch, guys :)

Yep, agreed. Snap only has 1900 employees.

Space noob here: why is it that just after liftoff, the rocket swings out to the right, and corrects. Is this intentional?

https://youtu.be/9pillaOxGCo?t=55

You'd then take that money and then do anything other than putting it into a high-growth tech company.

Yep, that's one way to hedge :)

I guess the main thing I was getting at is - is there any high-growth tech company that you could start that has more opportunity in a bubble burst?

Jobs, conceptually articulating what would become the Internet in 1985:

"The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it into a nationwide communications network. We’re just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people—as remarkable as the telephone."

Man, it's going to be really hard to search the Internet to troubleshoot this.

Search: "Hack Anonymous Function" Search: "Hack Background Process"

There were 135[1] Space Shuttle missions with 2 resulting in human casualties (Challenger and Columbia disasters).

Thus, a failure with loss of vehicle and of human life of 1.48 in 100.

The estimates range from roughly 1 in 100 to 1 in 100,000. The higher figures come from the working engineers, and the very low figures from management.

The reality was even more dangerous than the engineers had predicted, and far more dangerous than management had.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_shuttle_missions

Test comment for http://hackerfollow.com

Yep, it is built in, but many (including myself) disable it. It's pretty common that I accidentally open a message, but I don't have a response / a chance to respond yet, and I don't want the person to think I'm ignoring them.

There is a hilarious amount of Silicon Valley culture in the organization of this article. Particularly in pimping your biggest name early adopters.

"Oh, someone from Stripe is using it! I'll bite!"

Probably just propagation delay in the App Store. I'd be surprised if it wasn't searchable in a few hours or less.

Got it, thanks!

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Much appreciated!

I'd love to see it - been considering them myself.

Full time undergrad student.

Side projects: http://seizethedayapp.com - simple to-do iPhone app with reminders http://hackerfollow.com - "Twitterizes" Hacker News, allowing you to follow users

Another to add to the list:

10xelerator.com was launched last week for this summer in Columbus, OH. It's $20k, and grant-based w/ no equity stake.

Pretty scary feeling: search your gmail inbox for your default password.

Sounds like founders taking cash off the table to me.

Pretty wild that apple came up with a case that truly would be the tipping point for some (maybe even myself) iPad 1 owners to make the switch. Try pitching that in your next product concept or product marketing meeting.

I mean, yeah.

But come on, TechCrunch. Let the whole Calacanis thing go.

You can check out all of your applications to see if you're running any PowerPC software. System Profiler -> Applications -> sort by Kind. Only culprit on my system is some random CS4 stuff.

It's exactly this issue though. Where's the line on what Apple will "let slide"? When is something part of the core service of a product?

It's kind of funny that they built their (very similar-looking) iAd with HTML5, and then went ahead with a Flash marketing site. Seems like there could have been some shared resources there.

Wow, this is excellent. Great work. Does this expose access to Gmail Tasks too?

I'm doing it as well, and have seen similar results. Not as drastic, but very impressed. It's all about a lifestyle change for me, just needed a little kick in the pants. Excited to read your blog post.

Planning on taking more? $200k seems a bit low for a crapload :)