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attack··on Hire Family People

I suppose the ss people don't measure based on wage? Interesting.

attack··on Amazon Introduces WebStore

Yeah, that's what I said.

attack··on Instant messaging meets Yahoo! Answers

That's exactly what IRC was to many people. With the death of IRC, that problem is again unsolved.

attack··on How to Make Convincing Fake-Gold Bars

I'd superglue my hands.

attack··on Hire Family People

I bet that I'll be in that exact same position in 10 years. All of us will.

attack··on [dead]

http://github.com/nex3/arc/tree/f06375c697f5fb0698174e04ae58...

Almost done piecing it all together myself. Have a look.

attack··on [dead]

And you just about can't recover because no one can see your stuff to vote it up... I don't think that this harsh behavior was the intended scenario so that's why I file this under "bug".

attack··on Amazon Introduces WebStore

They take 7% of your profit as a commission or you keep 7%? I'm guessing the former.

attack··on IETester is a free web browser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE

Co-linux should have a smaller footprint. Then run ie4linux on that.

attack··on Ask HN: One page site/app + advertising revenue?

It takes two months(!!!) to get money from Adsense, for example, anyway.

attack··on Work Visas: Lose the Lottery

This puts an interesting twist in the debate.

attack··on YC Analysis: "37signals/DHH style" companies?

You could generally get 100 million free users for every 2000 40/month customers. Price curves, check them out!

Very, very, hard. See my 1% comment.

attack··on Startup School, DHH, and the Missing Marketing Piece

He was definitely making it out to be "obviously" way easier. It's not.

attack··on Ask YC: Best ways to pick up chicks?

This is like trying to teach martial arts through text:)

Hmmm.

attack··on Ask YC: Best ways to pick up chicks?

Smaller==better right?

attack··on Startup School, DHH, and the Missing Marketing Piece

That numbers game he was playing is equivalent to the classic flawed thinking:

> If we just get 1% market share of this billion dollar industry then we'll be rich! 1%, that's tiny! This will be so EASY!

Just 500 customers! How easy! Give me a (*(&#$ break...

attack··on Startup School, DHH, and the Missing Marketing Piece

The idea of charging for web apps has been tried to DEATH. This "revolutionary idea" has come and gone 50 times over. It is extremely hard to make _more_ from this model than through advertising, being strategically aquired, or just about any other model. I personally have tried, hard.

If people aren't in the spending mode when they go to your site then just forget it.

attack··on Poll: Best speaker at Startup School 2008?

This suggests that if you listened to enough advice then you'd be able to form one big unified theory of everything startups. Not so, too much advice directly conflicts. Too much is based on improbable anecdotes.

Where is this level beyond which more advice is no longer worth it? I think this line exists. Hmm

attack··on How Do You Think of Problems to Solve?

When I solve my own problems, I end up creating the next "emacs" for the problem area. It is awesome. But people on the web don't want emacs' they want notepads.

So don't do that I guess.

attack··on My Life on Facebook as a Woman and Why Social Network Advertising Doesn't Work

Doesn't work? This feels like revealing Santa Claus to a kid... Sex still sells. Really, really sells. Just how are you measuring advertising effectiveness from which you can say that these ads aren't working?

I guess you do have an interesting point about giving the users more control over the ads they see. This seems to be a semi-hot startup area right now, in case you haven't seen this.

attack··on Be Good

Don't forget gambling, copyright infringement, harming for entertainment, tricking for gain.

attack··on David Heinemeier Hansson's Speech about Making Money at SS2008

HUGE if's.

attack··on David Heinemeier Hansson's Speech about Making Money at SS2008

Those don't "solve" the problem. Those don't even give you a wage as good as many of your peers.

attack··on David Heinemeier Hansson's Speech about Making Money at SS2008

Well, anecdote != data:)

attack··on Poll: Best speaker at Startup School 2008?

The guy with those motivation comments was badass. In these long preceding years, all the general advice that could be given has been given. Now, the only words remaining that can really help are those that make people act.

attack··on Ask YC: How do you lose weight?

Actually, I saw quite a few fat people on the trails today. Not making good time, well that's physics.

attack··on Ask YC: How do you lose weight?

No, in fact you are wrong for exercise like intense weight lifting.

Of course proper diet does have a huge effect in weight loss though.

attack··on Ask YC: How do you lose weight?

Excess, significant -- numbers? I'll tell you what puts stress on your body, being fat.

Huge numbers of people have being-fat related diseases. Never have I heard of someone succumbing to this protein myth.

attack··on Founders: live with cofounders or not?

I've been there and it worked great. That was for same gender and while single though.

So, depends. No pressure either way.

attack··on Ask YC: How do you lose weight?

Protein digestion causes your body to produce more heat. This thermal effect causes greater idle calorie loss.

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