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>> It's also really hard to convince people to come work for you for no money I think this may have been why his face dropped. If your pitch isn't convincing anyone to take a risk …

This article really fails to answer the question its headline poses.

Another great tool to help with this process is Pivotal Labs' LicenseFinder: https://github.com/pivotal/LicenseFinder Disclosure: I work there

I think Bostonians would take issue with your assumption: - Boston has one of the best public transportation systems in the country (ranked #4 by Us news) [1] - Boston and the surr…

I also hold the phone this way. The author's grip puts the home button halfway outside his "thumb zone" forcing an awkward claw whenever you need to multitask or return to the spri…

2014 will be the year of the ____________ . There's got to be some better alternatives. Ideas?

Good candidates should prepare for interviews. Interviews typically require that a candidates are able to reflect on previous successes and failures and provide insights so a hirin…

I'm not disagreeing with your point regarding wealth, but football is the most popular men's high school sport (by participation) in the country so your experiences aren't likely t…

You're right it's more difficult to pull off a soft launch on mobile if you're also aiming for a feature in the App Store (Apple seems to favor new-ness when selecting apps for fea…

If there really is a substantial difference in the quality of two software developers then that should play out in the amount of value delivered. The article lost me at: > Converse…

Not sure if this is what you meant, but I don't think it's fair to call The Economist "right wingers" in the American sense, and probably not in the general sense either. http://ww…

Seems curious to me that (at least by visual comparison) London looks to be about 30% larger than NYC, and NYC appears to be about the same as Paris. By population, you'd expect NY…

the ads i've seen in the subway are from wag.com, which is indeed part of a generalized delivery service.

This doesn't seem like a very fair comparison. Most browsers account for this (by default) by using a different cursor symbol for linked text vs. non-linked text. Some also show th…

It's different because prior to this change, you could make an educated decision about whether to support an older version of your API based on usage of your app. When the legacy v…

>> I'm very careful with my fingerprints. What does that even mean? You wear gloves in public all the time? You wipe down everything you touch? Which makes me wonder, aren't one's …

Priced out, but apparently also losing jobs while lower incomes gained jobs: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/up/51308385 I agree with you I don't think the income gap is the cause of lo…

On one of the Apollo missions (11), a medal commemorating Yuri's first flight was placed on the moon by the NASA astronauts. The medal was commissioned by the British government an…

My team has done similar user testing in Starbucks quite a few times. Here's my $0.02: If you're willing to be bold, walk right up to people and ask, you don't need to offer free c…

Why not add a link as the 3rd step in addition to the invite code? Once the app's installed on a user's device you can pass through the code via a custom url scheme and avoid the p…

> For zero dollar sales of apps, you will not see any transactions reported. Aren't most of the apps that AppGratis links to discounted to free for the day. Apple doesn't pay commi…

I'm not sure why press, media, futurists insist on pushing the idea that the future of user interaction is via replicating 3-dimensional physical interaction. There's a reason the …

I certainly sympathize with the stress, I've been there. But programmers are much more effective at resolving downtime in low stress situations, so the best strategy is neutralizin…

It's interesting that you'd say the downtime was relatively overwhelming. From an outsider's view HN seems like it must be a relatively low stress site to maintain. If it goes down…

well, FDR was the only President elected to more than two terms (and some pretty historically significant terms). Grover Cleveland might be more of an outlier, especially as both h…