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It's fun (and a valuable experience) to pitch. But in some ways, people sometimes get more out of the 54 hours when there's none of the emotional pre-attachment to your own idea, a…

So why isn't Google better at search? Seriously. They're like tax legislators, constantly surprised that people game the system. Only they have less excuse, because there's no tran…

It'd be nice to put in another curve for 'value of HN comments in shaping startups.' Do those peaks feed periods of frenzied success (inspiring people to do better stuff faster)? O…

If you spend your life watching the waves, you're never going to catch one let alone make one. But if the first time you've seen the sea was when you ran into it with a brand new b…

I'd like to see some posts on practical experiences in cases where there's enough perceived benefit in switching from LAMP to justify the effort. I have experience a generation bac…

The eye-opener to me, visiting Mobile World Congress, was that it's fully plausible that smartphones can hit 80% of developed world phone shipments in 2-3 years. I'd have laughed i…

I don't think this piece has taken into account the fact that Nokia isn't jumping onto the "ice cold" Windows Phone right now, but a software iteration downstream. It looks to me a…

StackOverflow works beautifully - it's hit that "this just feels RIGHT" stage. It's less clear right now that the StackExchange / Area51 model is working. The process of selecting …

I was at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week. Believe me, tablets are taking off big time. Not least because while lots of people like Apple products, no-one but Apple lik…

The day-to-day experience gain of a tablet should be that it's way more available. I'm not convinced the iPad form factor fully achieves that, but it's at least a great proof of co…