arc, b, c, dylan, erlang, franz lisp, goo, haskell, interlisp, jscheme, kawa, lisp 1.5, maclisp, newlisp, ocaml, perl, qi, ratfor, scheme, t, uci lisp, verilog, waterloo basic, xlisp, yacc, zetalisp

(Being a language bigot doesn't constrain you too much if your favorite language is a language-family.)

What you're talking about is roughly what I'm thinking of starting.

Sorry to sound negative, but this company is so dead. Their PR people (you know it's the work of PR people when you see a lot of stories about something that hasn't launched yet) are just making things worse, by raising everyone's expectations.

Why does the number of calls make it non-scalable? Google search does thousands of RPCs and it seems to scale ok.

Writing this now from my iPhone. The Edge really isn't bad, and the WiFi is great. It really is a nice Internet platform.

I'm not sure which is worse.. How mean you are or that people are upvoting you. At least he's trying, and he just wanted a little support. From the sound of it, he's a single founder, so it can get pretty harsh.

This was a fantastic read. Thanks.

That's actually their YC interview photo. We take photos of everyone so we can remember them. Jessica just happened to get into this one, because she was watching David give a demo.

My prediction: this search engine will be a failure in terms of popularity but the company will likely be acquired by a major search player anyway.

Really? I thought Reddit went downhill about year and a half ago. More users = diluted content.

I was almost surprised when I saw a Paris Hilton story hit the top not too long ago. I'm eagerly awaiting PG's new news site.

Hints at some interesting stuff but doesn't say too much outright. If Amazon claims databases are the way of the past, I'm not sure what the way of the future is. Hashtables stored in flash memory?

Well heck, if Charlie Munger recommends her, she's got to be pretty smart. Seriously. If she's doing operations, meeting numbers, all that stuff, that should make Wall Street happier.

But Jerry's in the hot seat here. He's got to find the right things to focus on for the future, in a company that does a lot of stuff already.

By the way, here in LA there's already some wringing of hands in the business press about how the Santa Monica office may be losing some of its movie-producer types and their projects now that Semel's out. Not sure it will happen, but it doesn't sound tragic to me.

This is one of the rare cases where reddit does worse than digg. Digg's frontpage ranking algorithm (newest-first rather than bubble-up) means they have to have a way to bury stories. Reddit doesn't. But that means it's vulnerable to a group of a few hundred ultra-dedicated zealots.

I have some ideas about how to fix this (without digg censorship). The news sites we have now are still only version 1s.

I agree. This sounds like a tough schedule. I once tried to write a book at the same time as having a 9-5 job, and I was dismayed at how little time was left over from the job. When you add in travel to and from work, the day's practically shot.

Constant Bush-Hating "Progressive" links and conspiracy theories are how reddit became crappy.

Sub-sites suck. Add tags, problem solved.

"Traf-O-Data used the device to process the paper tapes generated by traffic counting boxes and produced some revenue. Eventually, the State of Washington offered free traffic processing services, ending this revenue."

And he's been against free and open standards ever since.

The real tragedy about Casnochas is that there are probably many people near his age who are great entrepreneurs -- but smart teenagers are bad at playing by stupid rules, so they end up not bragging because bragging could get them in serious trouble. I bet there's a 16-year-old with twice Casnochas' net worth and a much more insightful view of business -- who can't brag about it because his business is selling drugs.