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You're right, this is strictly an attempt at prevention, not a cure. But it might be interesting to attack a problem like this on multiple fronts. Right now, however, most of the f…

I'm relatively new to this community, but I've thought for a while that the problem with any points-based system is the inherent competitive nature. One of the interesting things I…

This is a logical, well-thought out argument that I largely agree with. The one thing I wonder is if, as brand advertising is increasingly transferred to the internet and those dol…

I'm not a coder/hacker/tech person and largely ignorant of the issues that are being discussed in this post. But, I'm curious: is some of this similar to the (mostly light-hearted)…

I don't know what OS you're using, but I believe this is possible with Fluid, an SSB app generator for Mac OS X that uses Webkit. I quit FB a while ago, but use it for other sites …

I'd like to highly recommend the Rhodia Meeting Book[1]. The front side of each page is broken up asymmetrically into three sections: a general date/description field, a notes sect…

This is possibly the single best blog post about entrepreneurship I've read in the last...I can't even remember. Thanks.

I've been doing some research into the business of social gaming and have collected some "data" from Google but since the industry is both relatively new and mostly private, it's h…

I'm currently using this to learn programming and couldn't agree more.

It's not just more access. This is a case where FB has, for some reason, signalled that they want to work with YC companies, and specifically YC companies. As some people pointed o…

What I find interesting is how this is going to change the types of YC companies that will be funded, especially in the short term. One of the things I've noticed about past YC com…

Snow Crash and In the Beginning was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson both introduced me to tech culture in different ways with the same result: it got me more excited about tech…

A few things: 1) The intro video is amateurish and uncompelling -- nobody wants to see a deck poorly animated with black bars on the side. 2) The web design needs some work. I'd re…

And yet the $70 a month you spent was funding shows like Mad Men. Advertising is such a small part of revenues but since it's the only side the consumer sees (well, DVD sales) we s…

1. DON'T write it down 2. Think about it for weeks and months and years. 3. Tell my various entrepreneurial friends about it and bask in the glow of their compliments. 4. Congratul…

Tyler Cowen of Marginal Revolution has an interesting real-world analogue when he has to deal with q&a during his public speaking event. He believes that people are behaving in sta…

A bunch of cash from the conference. They're making a ton off these events.

I agree from what I have heard from people working with similar YT stars. What is surprising is the incredible amount of cross promotion done between seemingly unaffiliated stars i…

...there isn't anything fundamentally wrong about this form" I think the only way to definitively prove either of my points is with A/B testing, etc. But one way I can try to make …

Interesting. I'm somewhat inclined to agree with you w/r/t HN, because the UX of HN is great, though at this point we may be disagreeing definitionally over "design." As for the tr…

Ha, yeah I completely agree. I wish I'd picked a different example.

I should have been more clear. My point is not that it's a bad design per se; as you point out HN isn't the best designed site in the world either. My point is more that these indu…

Consumer packaged goods.

I come from a similar situation and faced similar challenges, especially after trying to launch a web startup with no financing and no developers on board. It failed. I'm determine…

So one of the major cake mix companies spent millions of dollars developing a no-mix no-stir cake mix product that, though a great product, ended up being a terrible failure largel…