MisterMerkin

How did Facebook make it to now without this controversy- or did they?

Did you just use the words 'Facebook' and 'coolness' in the same sentence?

Ah like grouphug.us. I like your seven sins angle though.

Just curious, are we calling anchors hashtags now?

I like how you cite 'Anonymous Coward' as if there is only one. :)

I was wondering how he had 3 B.S.'s and was a drop out. And then I saw the next line. He dropped out of the Ph.D. program. At 19.

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Hats off.

Thanks.

Thank you for coming forth with a statement on this. I don't remember seeing one from you when this issue first cropped up, which really didn't look good. A lot of people referenced your "founders should push the envelope" phrase in your absence to explain it, which in my opinion made it look even worse. I value your word a lot more than I do theirs since they don't have a known reputation (with me). Culpable or not, that incident still left a bad taste in my mouth.

You've got to be kidding me. Are you not aware of AirBnB's history and how they built their userbase?

How ironic given that they built the business on spamming craigslist and circumventing users' requests to not be solicited.

>EDIT: Since comment scores are not visible, I will note that this is being upvoted, downvoted, upvoted, downvoted. I would be curious as to what is so seemingly controversial. Any thoughts?

Show me a parent who doesn't think their kid is "gifted".

I don't play it, but Tarn really deserves more support as it sounds like he and his brother skate by on very little.

CCP has two in-house economists.

Source: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/07/monocles.ars

Look if you want to level attacks at someone, level them at the administration. They gave this guy the catch-22 that led him to give up.

I dare you to make a logo for any org with the name chirp at the root of its name with anything other than a bird.

They did buy lala to transition iTunes into a cloud-based service.. So try they will it would seem.

Did you read the article? The reason he had to sell his portion of the business for a pittance was because the buyer knew he was desperate for cash which was caused by the divorce.

Zap the stylesheets.

https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/zap.html

These have been linked and passed around on the internet for a long time. They just ripped them off the Internet. For an ad campaign that is celebrating creativity, it actually has none.

Why don't you enlighten us then.

I'm sure they really care.

It was following that episode that I lost all respect for 37signals.

Some people are just born with the linkbait gene.

C'mon RTFA for once. Gah.

The amount of kiss-assery in this post is disgusting. No offense, pg. smooch smooch smooch

Well, everyone else here is beating around the bush and trying hard to be nice so I'll be the one to do you a favor and just straight up tell you. It's either A. that YC liked your idea, but didn't like you- instead liking both the idea AND the other people. Or B. YC didn't like your idea or you enough but really liked the other people. I hope that helps and good luck proving them wrong.

So Zuckerberg, under the auspices of world peace and progress, opens up it's users' private data to multinational corporate businesspersons, who are also there under the guise of world peace and progress. That's genius. Evil genius.

If I told someone that in real life and they replied by asking, "Is at least one a boy?", I would probably back away very, very slowly.

The main point is that given the way Atwood asked the question the correct answer is 50% which wasn't the answer he intended to discuss and indicates he himself didn't fully understand the subject he was writing about. It wouldn't be the first time either.

I'd pay 5 bucks for it. The last time I sprung for a game, The Ship, it was $5.

That Buck guy is the most annoying thing I've ever seen. The fact that so many people watch his videos make me scared for America. Are these the same people that read Perez Hilton and National Enquirer?