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I hope you don't think I was ridiculing you. Believe it or not, I actually upmodded your original post because provided an alternative point of view. I may disagree with it, but it…

I take exception to most of this statement. My story: At 25 years old, I took every penny I had in savings (about $300k) and started a company. I "created" 7 well-paying jobs. I pu…

Considering you signed up to post this gushing post, you wouldn't happen to work for them would you?

Tangent: "Startup founders are mostly hackers, and hackers are much more constrained by gentlemen's agreements than regulations. If they shake your hand on a promise, they'll keep …

"i can understand her optimism, but how are they going to take market share away from google?" That's what everyone said about Apple before Jobs came back too. It's amazing how an …

I'd be curious to know if pg and gang do exit surveys to find out what founders thought was valuable and what they thought could be done different/better.

The keyword is "incoming": "Twitter and Bell have agreed that Bell customers on the company's text messaging bundles will be able to receive unlimited incoming Twitter SMS messages…

Fair enough. I apologize. No more political comments from me.

Just wanted to throw something out there as food for thought/discussion starter. In my opinion, the current argument that people demand free content and will not pay seems to me to…

This post was down-modded so far I shouldn't even respond, but I'm going to anyway. While you seem to blame Republicans for every thing that ails you, keep in mind that the "loosen…

IMHO, the best thing they could do was keep this thing secret while they figured out a way to solve the problem. Not that I think the whole problem was fixed, but this specific pro…

There are and they are quite popular here in Alaska, where the "cooling off" of heated water is obviously quite a challenge. Problem is they are not widely adopted because of the v…

Maybe instead of an asterisk we could use orange names.

That's awesome. Problem is I use Chrome, or I'd jump on it in a heartbeat. Thanks though.

I agree. I'm in Alaska, so I'm pretty much behind everybody. I'm usually posting while you all are asleep. I'm screwed.

As a recent "idiot" (sarcasm) who has read HN for over a year now, and just signed up to participate, I have a thought. I chose to reply to this particular post of yours with my th…

On the contrary, I would (be calculating enough). I typically won't make a comment to a thread that is over two hours old, because shelf-life on here is so short, and because I don…

Counterpoint: I read the thread to which you refer, and while I didn't agree necessarily with some of what you said, or some of what the others said, it was insightful to me to see…

I have to agree that the "orange names" are ripe for potential abuse. As someone who has read HN for over a year now, and just signed up to actively participate, the "orange names"…

Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works were responsible for some of the most innovative aircraft designs from WWII. These were the 14 rules put in place at the birth of the Skunk Works. Loo…

I started with post-it notes, but kept losing them too. Now I use Freemind, and have a really big whiteboard (of the manual variety) on the wall in my office. You mentioned you're …