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Of course I said " lost much of its meaning" not "all of its meaning".

Of course I see progress, but the question was "what idea hasn't been taken far enough."

Probably one of the most promising ideas that has lost much of its meaning....We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

How much of a risk is it to not follow a career that you don't like (he's says he wasn't passionate about football in his comments)? I'd say that was the appropriate decision, not risky.

"5. Put in every dime I owned into Less Everything so Steve and I could change our piece of the internet."

OK, maybe, but answer the following questions and then we can ascertain the amount of risk taken:

1. approximately how much money?

2. how old were you?

3. did you have a mortgage

4. were you married at the time

5. did you have children?

I applaud his success, but we’re not really talking “Sell your parent’s farm for a 1 in a million chance” level of risk here, are we?

I'm actually concerned about the graphic design of my startup. There is a pay-for-service component to it, and I have this feeling that if it doesn't look professional, no one will trust it. Anyone think that is a valid concern?

Doesn't look like it works in 64bit mode. Mine still complains about (libkern/kext) link errors in MacFuse.

Here is the video of this presentation. Excellent, actually. http://carsonified.com/blog/web-apps/now-is-the-time-to-cash...

Sadly, I couldn't agree more.

And that's why "Improving Government Transparency" is a good place to put your vote.

I hate having a car. I would love to see autonomous vehicles...but 40,000 deaths with 3 million injuries is not a big enough target when 3 Billion people on this planet live on less that $2.50/day. We have bigger problems to solve. I put my vote on improving "Government Transparency".

Don't think of Online Banking as something that just allows you to not go into the bank, if you do, you're thinking in terms of a first world experience. There are billions of people in this world who have no access to banks, or would not dare trust their money to unregulated and corrupt individuals that head these so called banks. Heck, I have in-laws that keep the bulk of their money in a stove on their balcony of their apartment...and that's in Kiev, Ukraine!

Definitely not GoldStar. Reminds me of the third rate electronics company (notorious for cheap products). That being said, they did become LG. Good luck!

Seriously dude, all your fame and wealth will mean nothing as you take your last breath. Neither will your friends and family, but there is a better chance they will be around to comfort you as you transition into the void (or where ever you believe are going).

I derive a tremendous amount of courage and strength from my wife, I wouldn't have been able to achieve what I have with out her.

I don't give a shit about peoples' opinions. I want to know how it affects someone's ability to code, not how someone THINKS it might affect one's ability to code. Also, I don't want to assume that it's negative, so I like my question better than yours.

Only 2% of users know what a CVT Transmission is, do we need to rethink the 'powertrain' game?

As a Canadian, health insurance isn't an issue. However, it doesn't cover prescription drugs or permanent/long term disability....the latter being the most important. Also, make sure the insurance covers your current occupation appropriately. "Works with computers" might mean your claim is denied because you could still do data entry at 8 bucks an hour...even though 8 of your fingers have been severed.

I want to experience innovation without advertisements.

I'd like to know about the technology on the back end. Judging by the output, it looks like someone just did a "Print to PDF" on OS X and then ran it through Acrobat Pro for the OCR.

I'm your man! If hired, my remuneration should be $100.000 a year/25% bonus/matching 401k contributions/limousine service/catered lunch/flexible work hours/office with window/personal secretary. But really, the $100,000/year is fine too.

I'd like a screen that resize correctly on a Mac, a car that gets 100MPG, and I want women to love me NOT for my great looks.

Not interesting problems to solve? Probably because they don't directly affect you. Find something that MATTERS TO YOU and solve that....oh, and don't give up after only a week of brainstorming.

Great idea! Now we can finally, with accuracy, determine what portion of the internet population uses the click-drag technique when reading long blog posts. Yeah!

Let's be clear on one thing. I didn't "essentially" call him a hypocrite, I "really" called him a hypocrite.

I would. Joel is doing exactly what Sun is doing...saturating your mind with key words/phrases. It's Branding/Marketing.

How many times does "Joel on Software" show up on this blog entry? I count 5 times, including the Title and email address. Pot...kettle...black.

err...that should read... "... most anything NOT projected by my 24"...".

"We rarely regret the things we do in life, we almost always regret what we don't do in life." - my next door neighbor...he said this to me when I told him I was quiting my job to work on a personal project that was certain to fail. It doesn't matter how the project turned out, but he was right.

"The thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life more refined, with a bleak capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me. - Einstein

I think most people on HN could relate to this quote. Like it or not, as professional developers, we rarely create, but simply refine. It was fun at the start of my career, but now my professional life seems rather unimaginative.

Cool idea, but...

1. It's very slow (HN effect?), speed it up 2. Domain Name isn't great 3. I can't jump to a letter via hyperlink 4. I see something called Regex search...what is that? 5. I'd like to see 100 or 500 names per page since there are 256,000+ pages

Honestly, you'll likely never make too much money off ads since the demographic of your audience is technical enough that they probably have an ad blocker installed or they have trained themselves not to click on ads.

Instead of clicking to the whois information, link to some registrar that has an affiliate program.

That's what he said!

You didn't find it informative? That's unfortunate.

What is the audience of this forum. Looking through your list of submitted articles reveals no indication. For instance, your last submission was "Japanese Convenience Stores Thrive Despite Economic Downturn."

Foreign languages are very hard to learn. I know, I speak three. I didn't say anything about managing a foreign dev team, just that you should learn a new language. The world is flattening and I don't always want to speak English.

I don't know how 10 years of OOP correlates to a "juicy" blog post. All I can say is that in 13 hour, with close to 3500 unique visits, some people found it interesting.