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They had a sneaky download button to download some adware vs the download link to the actual software you wanted in the first place. Easy to confuse the two.

Archive, I think you mean achieve?

Maybe 3D print a cover for the switch...

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Old site, haven't been there in ages!

Co-founder of Sun Microsystems guy.

My favourite apple IIe game behind Wolfenstein ofcouse.

As opposed to an old school flight computer. :)

Can someone validate this source? A Canadian here trying to raise money has been much harder than the USA. I haven't seen deals or valuations anywhere what the graphs imply. Plus it says per project US but lists the amount in Euros....

Feels like a Watson ad.

The real question is do they speak Vachi and the binary language of moisture evaporators :) .

Your analogy comparing Walmart to Yahoo is weak: 1. Walmart hasn’t make any acquisitions that are out of line with there fundamental business which they later shut down.

2. People go to Walmart and Target to buy similar things, relevance doesn’t factor into the discussion.

3. I doubt many people here know who the CEO of Walmart is, whereas we are inundated with news about Marissa Mayer in Tech and Non-Tech news.

Pehaps I have to use smaller words xrange.

Thanks Dennis. I see that the quantcast graph shows a downward slope and a loss of about 8 million users per month for the last month. Extrapolating based on this trend doesn't look very good. Are they doing anything to fix this? Does anyone on HN use Yahoo regularly?

I actually have used Elance for hardware,like Arduino programming and circuit board layout. Your idea sounds a bit more collaborative. I would like to see this but expanded to prototyping machined and 3d printed parts as well. The cost to go from idea to design to part is expensive, but I think it could be a lot cheaper.

I've been developing on the .net stack since its inception and it has worked well for me. I scaled and e-commerce company to $24 million in revenue using MS commerce server and .net. I use azure to host (while I have credit via bizspark). There are legions of programmers who work on this stack day in day out. Stackoverflow is a classic example of a high traffic site built using the MS stack. Why don't I ever hear people say is Ruby on Rails on AWS a bad idea?

According to this: http://startupgenome.cc/

They have some stats that say its not a myth.

Company just has letters of intent to put up signs. I don't this they are worth much as there is nothing binding.

Good for you! Well funded means they will have to pay for rent and employees and stuff. Go and do less, better.

Check this out http://37signals.com/bootstrapped . There are people running companies without outside funding and are probably pretty happy doing so. Applying to YC is time consuming: making videos, writing bios etc.

There are a lot of visible minority founders. When I go to startup events all over the North America, I feel like Custer...holy cow look at all those ####ing Indians. :)

Note I am of Indian decent myself so I can say that. :)

If he's on windows get him a book on powershell. It great for automating tasks.

Growing up I though engineer meant making cool shit. But going to engineering school meant learning things from first pricipals and not making cool shit. I should have gone in to arts and gotten laid more while making stuff on my free time.

An average dev specialzing narrowly in the startups area would be a lot more valuable that a "rock star" generalist.

I found the article disparaged young CEO's by calling them "ridiculously young". BTW I'm 40.

Oh I wasn't knocking the need for non-developers. But the emphasis on "MBA" as requirement for these positions as from the posts above. I just thought an MBA wouldn't mean much at a place like google.

Your comment is mean spirited. It's meaningless and adds no value. Perhaps you should watch this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UacbJ72dluU It's about Paul Graham's no asshole rule.

Ask PG: PG would you consider a 10 minute phone call for a $100 donation of the charity of your choice? I can't fly out to Palo Alto.

Why would google hire lots of MBA's? Seems like an MBA wouldn't count for much at google.

Paperhater | http://www.paperhater.com (Early November) | Take a picture of a receipt, biz card or diagram from your smart phone and we will create an accounting entry, contact or visio diagram from it.

Would like to know what accounting system / contact manager / drawing program you use.

For a startup the CEO has to add a lot of value. Usually in startup mode this means creating something i.e. code. If the CEO isn't coding he better be selling.