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I'm loving the author's repeated statements in the comments, "To be clear, this is a concept, not a real game."

I just sent this out to a friend who was trying to figure out whether to build his simple app in ruby vs. php. Think it made up his mind.

I really liked this, until I used the shared HN one and it got really laggy / Chrome kill button came up

In high school US history, there was a daily homework assignment where we had to turn in a 1 page paper on some historical topic (for example, the battle of antietam in the civil w…

This is pretty dope. The design is particularly excellent. Nice work

Its really ridiculous how many sites still store passwords that way. SurveyMonkey still sends forgot password requests in plaintext email. You'd think with $100M of funding they'd …

I haven't been managing our email messaging, but this seems considerably cheaper than Sendgrid which charges something exorbitant (I mean, its like $80 a month, but they're f*cking…

Sure, he could just run it like Swoopo.com and charge people for each bid they make

I don't know much about photo editing, but I've used Gimp for a little while along with Inkscape for editing. I use it for simple stuff- drop shadows, minor logo work, etc. Is ther…

They make money for three reasons: 1. Their music is excellent and consistent. Dave Matthews is one of the best songwriters of this generation. 2. They constantly make concerts exc…

I think it is a bit shortsighted to imply that every sector of the web besides small businesses has been conquered.

African Americans and Asians Americans are people. I heard that Finland has people (though I'm not really sure). So, their school systems seem comparable. Because after 1st generat…

I was actually talking about the colors to the side of the font-- the blues, oranges, and reds that shaded the outside of the black. It turns out that most type in my mac shows up …

I'm looking at some of the fonts on this page and trying to figure out why they look so much nicer than my regular ones in HTML. So, couple questions: 1. How do I get that colored …

Alex- if you're interested in the work, drop me an email and we can talk

We've got an extremely simple iPhone app we need developed to go accompany our website. My co-founder and I are too swamped with rails / android coding to do it ourselves. We've go…

Agreed, thats a miniscule share of the equity. i know people who have joined companies with 20+ employees and gotten that much or more

Pretty sure Joe gets more equity here. Joe had the idea, wrote the initial code, and has stuff up and running. I'd guess the split here should be 75/25 if Joe worked on it full tim…

All sorts of problems can crop up if you don't resolve the equity situation up front. Its good you're trying to resolve it as soon as possible. Depending on how much thought leader…

I agree that competition validates a market, but as an entrepreneur I'm still hesitant to launch a competing product that I had an idea for. Here's why: 1. My competitors may be ah…

Really enjoyed this- the best customer acquisition strategy is building a compelling user experience.

Agreed that its generally backwards looking and at times just strange (urban entrepreneur?? really?), but there were a few points that resonated with me: 1) Conway's point that UI/…

If you're dedicated to being an entrepreneur for "love of the game", there's value in doing diligence on the vertical/idea that you might spend your next 1-4 years in