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Ad hominem only detracts from your otherwise valid observations. Be careful with how you phrase your opinions. "obvious even to a child"

Really appreciate the feedback. You're absolutely correct about the recruiting angle. Hackathons are a great co-founder dating process until the idea gets pregnant.

I'm in a hackathon right now and the unexpected just happened: Our team's project somehow transacted over $5,000 in one day. We have very mixed feelings about this. On one side it'…

Team member here. Coded this in four days on a roadtrip... We're excited to hear the HN community's feedback on this iteration, and the overall concept of raising bounties which ar…

Software Engineer at SpaceX here. Exits like WhatsApp not only cost more than space exploration, but also make recruiting much more difficult for many companies. Our best engineers…

To anyone with doubts about going on-record about your support for Edward Snowden: This is precisely why you MUST sign it. Your nervousness in expressing an opinion different from …

Reticulating Splines!! Amazing Maxis reference, I'm sold.

Wow - any idea on why this disappeared from the front page? It's only received more votes since my last refresh here... perhaps YC is moderating to mute drama from HN? Not a bad id…

I'll decommission 10% of my botnet if you remove 10% of your followers.

Are you sure? I'd presume their API cluster is hosted independently from their public website... unless Anonymous did their research and knows their API hostnames.

+1. I'd love to see more grace in our industry. This is an overreaction on all fronts. People make mistakes. Let's rewind & keep hacking cool stuff together instead of DDoSing each…

We're deploying troll-proofs by the minute. We went live with this as an MVP. GhostOps are on their way, sticking to agile CD style for this.

Hey Fauntleroy - I'm one of the devs on the bus, trying not to get carsick while responding to all of these posts! We want to bring the fun of anonymous IRC group chat to the next …

Context: we met each other, then built it in three days on a bus from SF->Austin. We're working on it! We want to bring the fun of anonymous IRC group chat to the next generation. …

We're bringing back the fun of it. I practically grew up in IRC rooms, and miss the anonymous-ish freedom of expression it provided. We want ghostpost to be the mobile generation's…

Hey all - I'm Blake, one of the devs on the team. We met each other & built this in three days. We missed IRC's concepts of group anonymity and self-expression, wanted to bring it …

How have you been successful?

I'm a fan of Think Coffee, and Ace Hotel's lobby

Oops just noticed this comment. See my other comment (wkhtmltoimage is part of the package, allows you to render HTML+CSS into PNG, compile into x64 and place binary in your git re…

Tip: wkhtmltoimage is part of the package, allows you to render HTML+CSS into PNG. I used this for a project which needed a CSS powered image builder, which created sharable images…

Sounds like less of a war story and more of a fatal leadership mistake. There was no "war" - Rather than inspiring his team, he gave a frantic ultimatum. Sadly ironic name, hopeful…