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These are the same people who think all digital content should be free - music, movies, games, apps, etc. No matter how technically advanced our society becomes, one axiom will alw…

The minute someone says "that's impossible, there is absolutely no way that will happen", someone else begins to devise a way to make the "impossible" scenario/product/achievement …

Jobs is also the largest Disney shareholder. Not sure if he controls a majority of voting rights though.

How about introducing viral replication qualities to the content. Instead of malicious intent, snippets of content can be deployed all over the web with some mechanism for a simple…

We had a strange bug that only surfaced on the last day of every month. One of our directors asked what we were doing to troubleshoot this bug. I responded that we were a bit more …

That's really the heart of the issue - no matter how good your social product is, people are only going to make the switch from facebook if a significant number of their "social ne…

A bit conspiracy theory-ish but perhaps the DoJ let this go through now to provide more anti-competitive ammo 3-5 years down the road.

Great story! Sure, creating the next world changing product and making millions would be awesome, but when it comes down to it, what I really want is to work on interesting challen…

If you get the chance, you should swing down to Palo Alto and check out Stanford University. It's the birthplace of silicon valley, the campus is beautiful, and if you're lucky you…

Best of luck, the bay area is awesome and you can't beat the weather, cultural diversity, and proximity to great geography (beaches, mountains, Monterey/Carmel, Mendocino, etc). Ma…

Makes sense, are you considering relocating to the bay area permanently?

One question I do have, what advantage do you feel Y Combinator gives you over going straight to round A funding? It looks like your product is fairly mature with existing traction…

Congrats on the interview! Interstate looks very cool, I can already see how the roadmap feed would improve my life and that of my developers!

Although you may be right, if the hackanery gets too bad the gov may have no choice but to step in. I wonder how long it will be before a special ops team from the newly formed Min…

There is a big difference between a manager and a leader. A manager takes the credit for things that go well and looks for people to blame when they don't. A leader understands tha…

I'm beginning to worry about Google. Companies don't make these types of changes when everything is going great.

The problem with this approach is that engineers are going to build things that other engineers like. Add up all the engineers in the world and it's not that much compared with the…

I love etsy but this article brings up many good points. I wonder if etsy needs to look at related but new businesses in order to truly scale. Perhaps they need to look more at the…

It's interesting to see Skynet posting on HN! How about a government where all citizens get to vote on all bills in real time by texting/tweeting/facebook "liking" yay or nay?

I have many friends and family members who are in k-12 education (mostly teachers but some administrators and executives). Their edu experience ranges from 10-40 years in different…

Well, you Canadians may not have Hulu, Skypein numbers, or full Netflix, but your beer does have a higher alcohol content - this may be a fair trade.

You know, that's a really good point. I may go straight to StubHub if I'm really into seeing ballgames, but am I really going to remember the hot new startups focusing on apartment…

I'm not sure how you use Craigslist but I've primarily used the site to sell a few big ticket items - and it flat out works. After listing a couple of cars on some larger, more fea…

I've always wanted to pull the following April fools prank - get into the office super early and leave some controversial whiteboard sketch in several of the conference rooms (ie m…