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Dear 500 Startups. We hacked passes for your passbooks last night.

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Re: Dear 500 Startups. We hacked passes for your passbooks last night.

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"Why the f*ck should you care?" If you want to use the word fuck, use the word fuck. Don't take the cowardly angle of making me think the word while dancing around saying you never actually used it.

Yeah, the vulgarity seems off to me. I love a good curse word here and there, but you have use them wisely (or else you just sound like a jackass).

Re: Dear 500 Startups. We hacked passes for your passbooks last night.

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post #2

"Why the f*ck should you care?" If you want to use the word fuck, use the word fuck. Don't take the cowardly angle of making me think the word while dancing around saying you never actually used it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnKLxDlFS5c

Re: Dear 500 Startups. We hacked passes for your passbooks last night.

#10
I find this page highly annoying.

To actually contribute to the discussion, possible reasons I find this page highly annoying:

1.) The cutesy startupish language.

2.) It doesn't actually say anything. Ok, you've got my attention. And you've wasted it, because you haven't told me why you have my attention. Oh, wait, on a second read-through, I've spotted what you were trying to say.

Frankly, it seems like they're so caught up in design that they've forgotten to make their message clear. As Aesop said, "Beware, lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow."

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