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like most people who post here you need to read Paul Graham's early work. professionalism is harmful to quality of work and especially so in startups. professionalism is an artifac…

If people didn't like Techcrunch, they wouldn't go to the site. If Techcrunch was irrelevant, they wouldn't generate massive leads for pet projects that people create. these points…

html fail arrrgh

TechCrunch is awful, but there's no excuse for the spit in the face incident. that's silly. I swallowed some water but there was a fly in the water somehow, it was wriggling, so I …

there you have it in a nutshell

why the hell would the judges die with a hard-on? that doesn't even make sense.

that's interesting but why is it on hacker news? what has it got to do with anything hacker newsy?

thank you! to get posting rights on Y Combinator, you should have to answer a quiz, and there should be questions about this Shirky post on it. this and the one about micropayments…

API

ok, you know how all my posts about Hacker News being doomed rocket to the top spot on the site? and this question isn't even on the front page? THAT is why Hacker News is doomed. …

or, to put it another way, why not an API?

can we get an API?

We get all these ideas about why not do X, why not do Y, etc. Let's just let these people implement their ideas. In the Rails world web apps are set up to have APIs by default. Tha…

No matter how small you try to make it, it's always there. If you try to make it smaller you'll just push part of it below your conscious perception. Then it's a big freaking icebe…

I wouldn't mind a link to my blog but I never fill out profiles in any level of detail beyond that.

I posted on casual encounters that I wanted to meet a chick to get busy in a Burger King bathroom because I love that Humpty Hump song and got a bunch of responses. Some included n…

Yes it's wonderful to leverage community but the way to get hired is A) find people who are hiring; B) develop skills which are in demand, and/or advertize that you have them; or C…

this belongs on Reddit, not Hacker News. hate to say I told you so. :-p

Python Paradox. You whippersnappers need to read Paul Graham's best stuff!

you know when the Christians bail, they say, "professionally, we are fucking OVER."

who didn't see this coming? it all goes tribal. all of it. read "here comes everybody" and "snow crash."

orange name == massive design flaw

google "clay shirky micropayments", kids.

design flaw.

I totally disagree with this. First of all, Joel is an idiot. I think this is fact. I think we all know this, and those of us who don't know yet will find out sooner or later. More…