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makes him more worthy of respect From people like you perhaps. In which case, knock yourself out. I do agree that TWIST maintains a high quality of guests tho.

I'll start - groupon.com match.com pandora.com

I'm doing some research for an article and would like your help: What startups and niches use payments or subscriptions as their primary revenue model? The immediate one that comes…

I'm doing some research for an article and would like your help: What startups and niches use payments or subscriptions as their primary revenue model? The immediate one that comes…

In other news, Mr Kitty the cat took a poo in his favorite litter box, exiling 7 grains of sand from their family in the process who remained in the litter box, many now clinging t…

+1 for pulse. It reduces accounting of your cash flow to simple data entry. Just keeping in mind that at some point, you will have to hand over all the data to an accountant.

Thanks kinetic! We're planning on sending 1 daily email to each subscriber. Let's say we want to be prepared for sending 100,000+ per day. We're currently on rackspace's cloudserve…

One of the reasons I'd prefer to run it in-house is because users' emails are valuable data and we prefer to keep it with us rather than outsource to something like Aweber. Another…

My team and I are getting to close to launching our startup. We were discussing our traffic strategies today and added email to the list - basically, users can sign up for our dail…

Congrats! How much?

The only real shame in this case is that HN is becoming a place for people to air their trivial meta nonsense. You got an unwanted piece of email? Take a second to mark it as spam …

What's this guy's beef with HN? He harps against it repeatedly in various posts.

When it's your own money on the line it takes on a different aspect than dropping junior off at the gate More so than the fact that it's your own kid? I'd think that that would be …

The wired article about the craigslist redesign has got me wondering. We've all come across beautiful photography and design portfolios, but what about news and social media sites?…

Lots of Hacker News users are musicians. Citation? Not being confrontational or anything, just really curious.

Not if you realize that determination is just one factor in the path to success. A founder could push his determination to the absolute limit and still fail, since there are so man…

The average intelligence and professionalism demonstrated on this site is pretty darn high.

What's with the 'living with his mom'? Where else would you expect a 15 year old to live?

If you read the article, it says he invested heavily in Lehman Brothers.

Goldman Sachs just paid out 16 billion dollars in bonuses to their employees. If we had an extra 16 billion dollars lying around, we’d put it in the bank for a rainy day. (If Goldm…

Love it! This is precisely the kind of analytical thinking that can push a business forward.

You gotta give the guy credit for writing 3 whole pages without saying a single, solitary, concrete fact about what exactly the company does. It's almost like a challenge where he'…

The feedback button on the olark homepage directs to a getsatisfaction page set up under their previous domain name, hab.la. Aside from this, anyone else like the name hab.la much …

Annoying is putting it mildly. Downright useless is the way I'd describe it. Virtually every single post is a 'paid review' where, in return for $500, John will shill anything you …