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You’re 30, you have your whole life ahead of you and you greatest achievements are likely going to come from work you haven’t even thought of yet. Identify what you truly enjoy, pe…

Pretty poor analysis of today's events. 1. Misunderstands the 1st rule of breakthrough consumer internet companies. The challenge is always getting users and almost never monetizin…

I highly encourage you to matriculate to Uchicago, you will learn and grow more in your 1st year at college than coming to Silicon Valley straight out of high school. There's no ru…

Wow, great call by YC and patience by the founders.

Sam, did you guys raise any additional money besides what's listed in Crunchbase? It says you guys were backed by Maverick capital as well? Congrats on the sale!

You don't have to use Windows. The best way to protest is by using another product. Claiming that you have the moral authority to pirate it is just wrong, doing so re-enforces the …

As soon as you start doing calculations like this to determine how many co-founders you should have it's almost a guaranteed you're not going to be successful. Build something peop…

Nice, my first credit on hacker news :)

Google's goal: 1 Query => 1 visit Facebook's goal: 1 visit => 1000 page views This statistic is meaningless when put in context of the function of the two sites.

I doubt Justin.TV sees this as a solution, it's piracy.

Use Chrome man. http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/eula_dev.html?dl=unstab...

This break the economic model for books. It works with libraries because of limited quantity. This could work if we had a fixed number of digital library books per a zip code.

5mbps, encoded at 720p, with a decent h264 decoder will far exceed DVD quality with audio and video. Apple TV is a good example of this. 10mbps will approach blu-ray.

I intern'd at Apple and I would say that Apple's engineering talent is a level below Microsoft and Google. Apple combines good (but not incredible) engineering with the best produc…

No, the answer is not both. Google has organic results and ad results, they are clearly distinguished in the UI and are generated by two distinct systems.

oh man. I love the idea of iteration but I think there are times in which it's time to move on to a new idea.

Loopt needs to look to be acquired or abandon the idea of a mobile only social network and focus on leveraging services like Facebook connect. Although there level of funding might…

Joel, why didn't you beat Google's offer? Seems like it's worth it based on your article.

Being profitable doesn't mean you not should raise money. If anything it's an opportunity to raise money on favorable terms as you don't need VCs.

"Those VP jobs just don’t exist at startups, and the few VPs they have are the founders and a key early hire or two. Not you." That's probably not fair. Successful startups are loo…

Let's be glad you're not head of product development at Apple.

Interestingly, Kevin Rose recommends keeping your job. He also recommends outsourcing development though :/

Yes, Scribd has had great success and everyone in the HN community should be happy for them. However, there's a legitimate criticism to the direction Scribd is taking - it's arguab…

Do people find the iPhone/iPod touch inadequate for browsing the web? I can see he value of a large form iPod for digital book reading, but for basic web consumption the netbook is…

I interned at Apple Summer of 2006. I got great reviews and they even asked me to work part-time during the school year, I agreed and mentioned that we can figure out the whole ful…