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The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkings. (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Selfish_Gene)

The idea that organisms evolved to be survival vehicles for our genes totally inverted and simplified my view of life. It gave me a plausible explanation for how we came to be, and put the final nail in religion's coffin (for me).

Your government (I'm assuming you live in the USA || Canada) supports "Houses of Worship" through tax exemptions. I'd feel like I was finally getting some value out of a church if a conference was held there.

edit: Added Canada; we do the same.

I wish I didn't give a shit about this whole situation. It really doesn't affect me in anyway. However, when I do think about it, this is what comes to mind:

1. John and Dan started the podcast together

2. John came up with the name

3. Something happend between the two of them

4. John leaves, taking the show with him.

From a business perspective, I'm shocked at both John and Dan. John took the whole brand and said it was his and started monitizing it right away, presumably cutting Dan out of any revenue. Dan, is just letting that slide. Doesn't he have a right to half?

Johnny Ive can't simply walk away and use the iPhone design because he came up with the idea.

...anyway, like I said, I really shouldn't give a shit about this whole situations. I just think it stinks.

I worked with a guy that complained to me one day about taking his car to a full-service hand car wash. They did a crappy job. I asked if complained and he said it was no use, he just wasn't going to go there again...this pisses me off to no END! Fine, don't go back, but you know who gets screwed over? The next guy in line!! Go back for him, if not yourself.

It's the same reason we prosecute criminals. The dollar costs of prosecuting a petty thief is several orders of magnitude more than the stolen chocolate bar. But it has to be done.

The idea tha AT&T will learn because people are "voting with their dollar" is a joke.

Thanks. Did you change your standard of living to to follow your dream? If so, to what extent? Are you now eating raman? Also, do you have any dependents (wife, children)? Oh, and how old are you?

Sorry, I know you are really interested in sharing your product but many of us want to know what people are willing to give up to chase their dreams.

Thanks again.

Nice idea. I'd be interested to know (and if you're willing to share with the community):

1. What was your job.

2. How much did you get paid.

3. How much savings(runway) do you have to support this product.

Thanks!

I don't see it as nasty, just an observation of various facts that lead me to believe (perhaps incorrectly) that the post has ulterior motives. But since you ask, this is what lead me to comment how I did.

- HN is about sharing and opinions, so I decide to share mine.

- The poster opened an HN account 4 days ago and the startup was launched 5 days ago.

- "Open Letter" titled posts almost always leads to someone bashing a product or individual. Imagine how relieved HN will be when they see that it is indeed a "heart warming" thank you letter...did you feel good reading this?

- Without the product the startup wouldn't be here. All credit goes to Balsamiq while conveniently encouraging you to view the startup.

- And, as a software developer (who has one more than once been NOT paid for services rendered) this one really raises my suspicion. The poster received the software 8 monts ago and will get the $79 to Balsamic ASAP.

Anyway, right or wrong, that is how I came to my original comment. I'll take my down votes if necessary.

edit: formatting

It shouldn't be hard to hear. If it's not true then who cares what I think. Like I said, I probably just be cynical.

I think this "open letter" is a little disingenuous. A nice heartwarming letter of thanks by a poster that signed up to HN 4 days ago. Maybe I'm cynical, but this seems like astro-turfing.

The most important feature (for me) that any music library is missing is podcast support. Just a thought.

WTF people!?! RMS is guilty of bad taste. Let's move on.

Crass and insensitive but in line with everything I've ever heard him profess to believe. He's never strayed from his goal in making great software available to millions of people around the world, and he's never given a shit why it shouldn't or couldn't be done his way...damn, that sounds familiar.

I could see this argument if an article was titled "Client side scripting (JavaScript) is Dead. Long live client side scripting (Ruby)" ...assuming one of the browsers yanked JavaScript in favor of Ruby.

Very different. There can only be one king.

Working my way thru it now. His Einstein biography was fantastic.

How about "I'm in North America" rather than having Canada "included with USA". Sorry for being picky.

Is this relevant to the broader HN community?

That is quite possibly the worst "VS" wiki I have ever seen. Where are the comparisons? Why should I want to use TMux over screen? What are the pros and cons?

What I learned from the article:

1. They use different licenses

2. TMux has a client/server architecture

3. One uses ctrl-a and the other uses ctrl-b as the control key

4. The goals for TMux performance is to be "relatively fast"

I believe Steve Gibson said he would "Kick the ass of the next person" that spreads this horrible lie. OK, he didn't say it, but come on, it'd be fun to watch him do it.

Seriously? Of the 33 million Canadians: How many know what Skype is. Of those that do, how many know what a Skype-in number is? Of those, how many care if they have a Skype-in number?

Admittedly, the number is pulled out of a hat, but I would guess maybe 5000 Canadians.

I'd be more interested in knowing why he quit McDonald's. I had (teenage) friends who busted their asses there...many say it was the toughest job they had.

Sounds like he wanted to experience life as part of the proletariat, but discovered that "American Beauty" was well, just a really good movie.

Home, work, bus, car, bathroom, grocery store...everywhere. For better or worse, it my primary means of consuming education, entertainment and (mostly tech) news. I can't get enough. Sadly my iPod Touch died and android doesn't have double speed podcast playback. There's now 50% less time in my day.

While somewhat shocking to see this, it's a practical and efficient means of disposing of a body where it's often hard to find burning material or a section of land in which a grave can be easily dug.

To those who will only read the headline: The "Letter from Apple Regarding iPhone 4" says "...we were stunned to find that the formula we use to calculate how many bars of signal strength to display is totally wrong."

This headline reads like they were inflating on purpose.

Great idea. Punish the poor people who are forced into using IE6. A significant portion of the users would assume that there is something wrong with their vision rather than the browser.

I suggest an alert saying "Your browser is old. Please upgrade or contact your IT department."

To be fair, the poster didn't say anything about smart phone policies.

I'm pretty sure you don't need to let the HN community know that Linux is a great alternative.

Please share links of interest to the community. Don't use HN to make inane statements...it's just a waste of time.

Sorry dude, not looking for validation. Just looking for stories of people not in their twenties, and becoming a success.

I agree with the others. There are too many variable to the situation to simply assume that you can't trust Google. Now, I don't doubt that have dropped emails as you suggest, but at a rate that is worse than Exchange or any other calendaring applications?

Perhaps your title should be "Google Calendar is not perfect" and we could all respond with "What is?"

Give each developer a hardware budget equal to the value of a top of the line MacBook Pro 17"....but each developer 'chooses' the 'laptop' he wants to buy (be it OS X, Windows, or Linux).

- the developer gets the hardware he wants to work with

- the developer feels a sense of 'ownership'

- the developer respects you for allowing him to choose

Mandate laptops because you super-awesome-change-the-world startup is going to inspire your developers to work hours outside of the office, even if you do mandate 8-5 office day.

Every developer gets two monitors, no exception.

You can't encourage a person to be an Olympic rower by simply providing a stool and a stick to paddle with.