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An idea I will throw out there: I always wondered why anyone should be able to hold onto an idea (patent it) if they don't use it. I can't help but wonder if the best way to fix th…

I think what he is saying is that the agreement with Apple says we can't form legal agreements that include Apple's SDK and APIs, which in app purchase is apart of. This could or c…

I added this article that John Gruber at Daring Fireball had linked to analyzing the rock and hard place iOS developers are in with this patent claim: http://news.ycombinator.com/i…

They have to. How many people over 30 are willing to quit their family and community for 3 months to go live, eat and breath YC? I would love to be in a YC environment. The people …

This is a small feature but could be an indicator of very big things for Apple. If the iCloud rumors are true then there could be a huge opportunity for keeping your desktop and sm…

I think this was written up here on Hacker News a few weeks ago but it is relevant for this discussion and thought I'd link to it if anyone is interested. It is 24,000 five-letter …

Either commit completely to the vision or don't bother. I don't see how you start a company half way.

Why does any if this matter, bubble or not? The tech community has spent an inordinate amount of time discussing it. What I see is a lot of companies building businesses the right …

IBM is a services company now, though, and Apple is a products company. Those two numbers aren't really, hmm, apples to apples comparable.

That's a shame because there is some really interesting stuff happening around town.

We actually had some winners in the 90s but many of them either lost their winnings in the dot bomb or never invested in other companies. A few of those winners are guiding their s…

Excellent answer. Companies need capital and product and customers. Figure out which ones the rest of your team aren't bringing and bring it.

I'm in Portland, Oregon, and think this is actually the biggest problem with our start-up culture. There just aren't enough people who have been there/done that before that are inv…

Does anyone know what happens to video uploaded through Blogger? Google says it puts it in Google Video but there is no options for me to download the video that has been uploaded.…

Twitter is beyond the scale of most businesses. This -- whether Scala or Java or PhP or RonR or Python -- is the best choice for our code base generating millions of hits per day i…

I apologize. You are correct, the HP48gx is RPN only. Don't know why I thought otherwise. I had it in my head for some reason that 48 did both (it kind of does but not really) and …

For the record, the TI-83 is -4 and the HP48 is 4. TI-83 (or now TI-84) is the dominant calculator in US math classes.