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I am so sorry you have to go through this. I hope you hang in there, one moment, one breath at a time. I will hold you in my thoughts tonight.

If you loved the book Selfish Gene, I recommend listening to the story of George Price. http://www.radiolab.org/2010/dec/14/ It is both depressing and enlightening.

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The quote from the article The reality is that there seems to be a significant deficit of modern, high quality, software solutions in many, if not most, markets and furthermore, th…

Peldi has been a long time HN user(balsamiq). Most at HN (including me) have nothing but great things to say about him and his company.

Cause is usually defined as willful failure or refusal to perform duties that continues after notice and an opportunity to cure, misappropriation or misuse of company trade secrets…

More often, startups fire employees under the disguise of performance. I am not sure what constitutes non-performance but it has been used countless times as an excuse for getting …

You hit the nail on the head. In a bad economy/tech market like 2001, the recruiters were rude, unreachable and acted like Gods. After 9/11 2001, a recruiter sent me resume of few …

I've read the chapter in the book lean startup and again here. I fail to grasp the Minimum viability in that chapter. Drew built a product with considerable reverse engineering bef…

I can only guess but you definitely are not in your 30's yet. I held the same exact sentiments in my 20's. Then I got to my 30s and I realized I haven't done all that I wanted to d…

You sir, are an inspiration.

I've never been impressed by any of the startups that are released in the last few years (YC or other wise). Including my own products. I find them run of the mill, meh kind. The l…

I ain't no SEO expert but patio11 who is an expert mentioned it as the reason for picking 'appointmentreminder.org' for his project.

That article is a great example on a startup providing a compelling story for coverage by media. I don't doubt that they used the 400$ given by YC for Grouper but the 400$ probably…

I have read 2 entries on your blog. I don't know the details of how bad things went but I can tell you this, Boy, can you write well. Keep writing regularly and good luck.

In the circle that I move around, everyone wants an ecommerce store for their business that can generate sales even when they are sleeping. I tell them I am busy with my own stuff …

For those of us who are not aware of lokpal or what the bill contains to reduce corruption in India, can someone provide a brief summary?

Are you really set on keeping it a single page site? I can understand the simplicity of it but if you know small business men, they want ease of use and a lot of control too. I can…

Quite a few of the companies mentioned have traction and that is pretty impressive. I haven't seen anyone else say it but kicksend looks a lot like getcrate from sahil lavingia wit…

May be I've become cynical but 90% of the email I get in my personal account is from people/startups/companies selling me stuff. 90% of the twitter stream is people pimping their w…

A cousin passed away few years back with cancer. It wasn't sudden but wasn't expected either. (He was 37 and responding well to treatment). His wife was completely uninterested wit…

Thanks for the info. Any tools you use for animating the dots and displaying the stats? Or is it plain javascript?

Looking at the source, it seems to be built with jquery isotope plugin. I couldn't see any similar examples at isotope site. Any one else know more details on the implementation? A…

The best answer so far is at quora: http://www.quora.com/How-is-Color-doing-since-launch

Anyone else interested in running or keeping commitments should definitely read Haruki Murakami's book 'What I talk about when I talk about running. http://www.amazon.com/What-Talk…