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What makes Hacker News cool is that the link is to the actual ruling, which is far more interesting than the articles about this I've seen so far. If you just glanced at the headli…

As one of the founders involved (from Reducify), it would be great to get some feedback from the HN community on our startups!

This seems like a good first step, and I've been looking for a way to get into C. I'll check it out...

I would be tempted to agree; I've wanted at times to go and learn C, so I can know what my Ruby is really written in; but there's always more complexity underneath; I could and sho…

It's funny to read this, 'cause in many ways I started programming (flailingly) with Ruby/Rails, and then worked backwards from there. I read Peter Cooper's Ruby for Beginners book…

Go to a meetup for your language/area of expertise. I've found that having a network of other people with similar skills can often lead to people passing on job offers they don't h…

Are you on Mac? I LOVE OmniPlan.

Wow, thanks for the thoughts, everyone! This might totally change how our company goes about its business – rather than three coders who try to think about market on the side, we'l…

It sounds like all these jobs are things we can and should be doing ourselves. It sounds like a full time person once the product is "done" AND there's an opportunity for much larg…

I think we really have two options: find someone like this, or have one of our team become that person. This sounds like a good starting recipe if one of us wants to become that pe…

We've already got the front-end guy on our team getting a little SEO obsessed, so hurray! I think the big question was if it was worthwhile to have someone not completely mired in …

This sounds like awesome advice. We should be able to cover all these roles – in particular, the CEO should be doing the PM role as his main gig. Some of the engineers are already …

It appears that the survey button at the bottom is broken...like our hearts will be? jk

Hey entrepreneurasaurs: At what stage in your company's development did you decide it was worth it to have a full-time marketer on your team? We have a three-person team (all devel…

Man, taucloud is at least two times cooler than this.

(also the creator of most music you remember from Warner Bros. cartoons, and inventor of the electronium, a totally analog machine that composed its own tunes, customizable by the …

Somewhere Raymond Scott is smiling

Thank you; this is quite useful, and it confirms some of the same feedback we've been getting from other sources. We will definitely start a new iteration of this page using these …

We're open to suggestions for a better sixth question. Right you are, the beef one was suggested to us by a vegan, who pointed to some articles suggesting that red meat was a major…

I'm optimistic about our ability to develop technology that addresses climate change, and perhaps some sort of function based on increased efficiency (or the development of new tec…

Just wanted to add that we've updated three figures for average consumption of Americans based on errors you guys pointed out: - average electricity and natural gas use were mistak…

You're right – this is an error. We divided the average monthly bill by the number of people in the average household, which we needed to do; really the average is a little more th…