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How is it that the word 'hubris' failed to appear in any of the 177 comments?

How is it that the word 'hubris' failed to appear in any of the 177 comments?

Put a counter on it so I have a reminder to complete challenges each day. I like this low-friction making as encouraging an attitudinal shift.

Who's going to write 'Privilege 101' for HN? touches nose [don't make me do it, 'cause I'll do it if you make me.]

This is one of the best bits of tutorial writing on the internet. It almost never sacrifices correctness for didactic purposes, and when it does, it lets the reader know. I find it…

Neat. Maybe I'll write a script to scrape my Google calendar and automatically send birthday cards. Can see companies using this to send a personal note to their best customers.

I also sent a card to my mom. Next I'm going to send a card to some people who hosted me while I visited Canada. The difference between this and postcards (and postagrams) is that …

Transmedia reification.

Yeah, it's useful for both checking revisions of a contract and for comparing an initial contract vs a 'standard' template contract to see the initial pressure points.

This is great. And there are obvious paths to export games for mobile devices so this could be the best cross-platform development environment for 2D games. The hardest and most ti…

It's cool that Netflix pulled that off, but it seems like a company (like Dotcloud) that could prevent you from building infrastructure on top of infrastructure would be a boon.

Again, you're totally allowed to sell your company for $20 million dollars (or less) when the offer comes. If you're thinking about exits at all at the SEED FUNDING STAGE of your c…

Dude, it was in all caps for comedic effect. It's the most melodramatic WOO MONEY AND STARTUPS phrase in my article. Was that an Earthbound reference? I'll give you some points for…

And you're right that it was a little absurd for me to wind up in Silicon Valley doing a startup. I'd be glad to write a follow-up post about how that all happened.

Your comment: "All I want to do is solve a real problem for some segment of a large market and make their lives a little easier." My article: "That drive to make a part of the cons…

You're right – I used colorful, imprecise language. Yes, you should try to make your company profitable. I'm speaking in the context of exits.

Hey I think we've met IRL in an apartment on McKinley Ave. You know where I live and that it is not glamorous. I kind of hoped the text on the sidebar wherein I'm begging for money…

Bingo. If you go in looking for an exit, you're going to fall on your face. I'm not at all against starting lifestyle businesses; those also do not have exits.

I'm broke and my company is not growing. I believe that a large contributing factor to the failure of my company was that we went in to it with an exit in mind instead of a love fo…

The site looks fantastic, and those are all A+ companies to apply to. I especially like that their roadmap involves developing intelligent ways to search for new jobs (like by lang…

I was one of the beta-testers of the WakeMate, so it's been a part of my life for about a month now. Prior to using the WakeMate, I had two choices regarding sleep: establishing a …

This is cool – there were two back-to-back one hour lectures on application states at WWDC. Absorbing this graphic is obviously faster and easier.

TL;DR Microsoft needs to stop assuming that people care enough to read paragraphs of marketing-speak. It's ludicrous that it took them 1500 words to say that they're a faster versi…

Ignoring Paul Graham is a bad idea because PG is extremely sharp, reasonable, and has a keen grasp of where his expertise lies. If he says something I disagree with, I'll happily e…