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TotlolRonon How To Handle Lawyers Threatening You

Take me to the cleaner. Go after everything I own. Leave me with no karma. Fight.

TotlolRonon How To Handle Lawyers Threatening You

Are you guys getting tired? Come on fighters you can do it.

TotlolRonon How To Handle Lawyers Threatening You

MOAR fighting.

TotlolRonon How To Handle Lawyers Threatening You

More. Please. Hurt me.

TotlolRonon How To Handle Lawyers Threatening You

Ah. That really hurts.

Lawyers are fighting and downvoting is spanking. Naughty boy will not say bad things about honorable professions again. I promise.

TotlolRonon How To Handle Lawyers Threatening You

> Lawyers exist to fight. That's their job.

Lawyers fight? We are not from the same hood...

TotlolRonon Is your startup a company or just a feature?

Leverage is mostly about having a place to stand on not about having a big stick.

TotlolRonon Google's Motion to Dismiss patent infringement charges granted

"A wise old owl sat in a Valley,
The more he saw, the less he believed,
The less he believed, the more he saw,

We never ask: what is the last straw?"

-- @taylorbuley in TC comments regarding something else, 2010

TotlolRonon Google "Reading Level" filter

Search for [Donkey].

Advance results bring the Equus africanus asinus from Wikipedia first. Good. Basic results bring Donkey (Shrek) from Wikipedia second. Google might be onto something here .... but wait.... what is it there at number one for the basic reader... humm... "YouTube - Donkey Rapes Man". Hummm... who are our "basic" readers? ... gota think about this feature a little more.... ;) Meanwhile, a classic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRm8okHhapU

TotlolRonon What does it feel like to be stupid? An anonymous Quora user explains.

> I need regular confirmation that some people really are slower.

Ask me daily. I'll confirm once a week.

TotlolRonon How I Screwed Up My Google Acquisition

I don't think you "screwed" anything. You can't force a relationship, and it is a waste of time to think about the email you didn't send. Had you sent it and got no reply, would you feel better? How about the email they didn't send? Maybe they are the ones who "screwed"?

"Still what could've been. Is better than what could never be at all" -- Tiffany http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LzGss9QGAk

TotlolRonon You Are a Product

Maybe you are. I'm not.

TotlolRonon “You Can’t Do It” is Powerful Motivation

"Now my body says, 'You can't do this boy' But my pride says, 'Oh, yes you can'."

-- Toby Keith, As Good As I Once Was. 2005.

TotlolRonon I just need a programmer

Naaa.

If you have an idea and you learn how to implement it you might find yourself a single founder/creator.

You know what they say about those, right?

"What's wrong with having one founder? To start with, it's a vote of no confidence. It probably means the founder couldn't talk any of his friends into starting the company with him. That's pretty alarming, because his friends are the ones who know him best." -- Paul Graham, 18 mistakes, 2006.

TotlolRonon Google responds to NY Times article by improving its algorithms

"A wise old owl sat in a Valley,
The more he saw, the less he believed,
The less he believed, the more he saw,

We never ask: what is the last straw?"

-- @taylorbuley in TC comments regarding something else, 2010

TotlolRonon Ask HN: What advice messed up your life?

Things along these lines:

As long as you've made something that a few users are ecstatic about, you're on the right track. ... It may take a while, but as long as you keep plugging away, you'll win in the end.

That's not realllllllly how it works in the valley.

TotlolRonon After 4 years of self-funded coding marathons I feel "finished", care to talk?

Paying customer number one is what makes it a product.

True. But on this net....

"as long as you can't put the relevant link into the place where people go -- then you can't even begin to compete."

TotlolRonon ‘Angry Birds’ Developer: We Have Not Sold To EA

The angry birds are angry and the pigs better watch out.

TotlolRonon How much did Twitteriffic for iOS cost to develop? Craig Hockenberry answers.

> This is unfortunate - that seems like a lot of work for a relatively simple, albeit well-done app.

It takes a lot of work to make things look simple. And even more to make them well-done.

TotlolRonon "Google bought my first startup today. I learned to make stuff here on proggit."

> How much would someone have to pay you to drown X months of development work and your entire userbase in the Deadpool?

Destruction is so much easier than creation. They don't have to pay you, they just need to send the in-house destruction team.

> How many 0s does it take to make an option that's viable into one that's desirable?

How much does it take to fix a "man barely alive" into something that is "better, stronger, faster"? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoLs0V8T5AA

TotlolRonon "Google bought my first startup today. I learned to make stuff here on proggit."

It is not about what is "real" or "unreal". Calling it an acquisition is part of the value Google is providing to the deal. It is not measured in dollars but maybe just as valuable nonetheless.

TotlolRonon Finger-Pointing, Emails, Deleted Tweets, Rage. AngelGate Is Far From Over

Fair enough. If you can't down vote for the content down vote for the guidelines violation.

TotlolRonon Finger-Pointing, Emails, Deleted Tweets, Rage. AngelGate Is Far From Over

RT: At some point in time a big earthquake will level the bay area. That's a given certainty. It might happen just because of tectonic stuff, or, maybe, it will happen because this place has lost all honor. And god is watching. Maybe. Maybe Not.

(down voting open)

TotlolRonon Status Of CrunchPad Litigation

> Saying that one "wouldn't be happy" implies that an emotional decision is being made rather than a rational decision.

What's wrong with that? Isn't the "passion" people always talk about an emotional thing?

TotlolRonon Ask HN: Why is there no competitor to the iPod Touch?

If there are two lines: read between them. If there is only one: TL;DR;

TotlolRonon Status Of CrunchPad Litigation

At some point in time a big earthquake will level the bay area. That's a given certainty. It might happen just because of tectonic stuff, or, maybe, it will happen because this place has lost all honor. And god is watching. Maybe.

TotlolRonon Ask HN: Why is there no competitor to the iPod Touch?

It wasn't sarcasm. It was a shortened version of the argument that, among other things, the iPod Touch is the most important device in the iOS product line and it has always been the case. As such, Apple carefully positioned it as that it will be as invisible as possible (for example sale numbers are bundled with iPods not iPhones) while it slowly grows to become "the one". The decoy was apparently good enough that even Google failed to notice the opportunity. They made the Nexus free from carrier but not free from phone parts. Or, it was, generally speaking, some argument along these line. But since long arguments lead to useless arguments, they may become poison to this "forum". So I avoid. Most of time. Now you owe me 8 upvotes. [sent from a Chrome browser NOT on the ChromeTouch].

TotlolRonon Ask HN: Why is there no competitor to the iPod Touch?

Great links. Can you find one with a cheat to the golden egg that does the bird piano?

[Hint: sent from my iPod Touch]

TotlolRonon Ask HN: Why is there no competitor to the iPod Touch?

Really? Can it play Angry Birds too?

TotlolRonon Ask HN: Why is there no competitor to the iPod Touch?

Easy. It is an iPod. It is just a music player. Nothing to see here. Move on competitors. Move on.