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What exactly are they overstating and undersupporting? The video that sparked a lot of this dialogue has a lot of the reasoning and thought behind what he claimed in his post.

Its the fact that so many people find it so hard to believe that they don't want to sell.

If you look at the HN thread of the TWiST video, many were claiming they're just gassing the potential buyers up by saying they're not for sale.

I don't get why its really that hard to believe. Loving what you do is the thing I strive for, and they seem to have found it. Why mess with it?

People can say you can flip it and start anew, but 37signals has (according to DHH) enough to not worry financially and if they have a great new startup idea, why would they start a new company to do it? They have a company that they own and have the freedom to implement and launch products that they think are great.

For the Rubyists out there, here is a Ruby library based off of the same blog post: http://github.com/jamesgolick/friendly

Here are some other links: http://wiki.github.com/tobeytailor/gordon/demos

On the contrary, I don't think Flash/Air will ever be on the iPhone.

They have the upper hand over the whole situation and have invested a lot in Flash alternatives including HTML5 (via WebKit) and video with MP4. In addition, the battery suck will ruin the (already short) battery life, and I don't think they will compromise the user experience for Flash

I agree completely. I don't think it should be how many hours you put into a side project or how much time you spend coding something outside of work. It comes down to whether the person really enjoys tinkering with (new) technologies.

It shouldn't matter if you don't code outside of work and it isn't your employers business. But if you do code outside of work, it definitely says a lot about your character and how you regard technology.

My coworker said to me once, "There are those who do technology as a job, and there are those who do it as a passion. We want the latter"

While it's true that we can see how poorly the American system is run, how does it compare to the rest of the world?

I don't know much about the subject, so I'm hoping to get a bit more insight into this.

I suspect that even if our system isn't great and as good as it could be, it's still has a leg up on most education systems out there

Related article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=867803

thank you! http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01iX26kP-Mw3LIHJuwD4jJOQ==...

anyone care to share their screenrc? heres mine: http://github.com/bdotdub/dotfiles/blob/master/screenrc

It's released under the MIT license. Sounds like an opportunity to me :)

Amen. Once you get the hang of it, you won't know how you lived without it :)

In fact, it'll start taking over in how you interact with your whole coputer. I find that I type "<ESC>:wq" in chat windows, comment boxes, etc..

I think a lot of people who buy Macs are the opposite of hardware geeks and case modders. I bought my MBP because I got tired of dealing with hardware, picking out parts, etc. I just wanted a nicely designed and built computer that let me do what I wanted (in my case, programming).

To me, having to deal with hardware just gets in the way of letting me do what I want, which I feel many people can relate to.

Indeed! Things like this are so inspirational

My partner and his sister ran around the city for 10 weeks checking and rechecking! http://exitstrategynyc.com/story.html

definitely. we were unexpected forced to launch (because of some press) so we were scrambling all over the place to get the website together :)

Wow thanks for the great words :)

The second paragraph really nails it. Thanks for summing it up so concisely!

Glad you like it! :) It's saved me a bunch of time already and I hope it does for you too

Ooh, good idea ;) Thanks for the tip!

Will do! I always enjoy "the numbers" type posts so I'd love to share when we gather a bit more data

Hey Vincent, thanks for the questions.

1. If that becomes the case, we'll be rich ;)

2. Do you mean because you're running to catch a train? Usually I find myself pacing back and forth not knowing where to stand.

3. The data for this app is not publicly available so my partner and his sister had to run around the city to every station and mark down every exit and stairwell. The whole process of checking, rechecking, and confirming took them ~2 months

re: website. We hadn't planned on releasing this just yet but a major newspaper had a blog post that ran early this morning so we had to hack this together :) It'll get better in time!

Glad you like the idea! Hopefully we will get one in future versions. The MTA has some weird licensing for all of their trademarks so we'll have to work it out with them ;)

Hi HN! My buddy and I just released an app in the App Store for all you NYC Subway hackers.

If you like saving a few seconds to a few minutes on your subway rides, take a peek at our app :)

We figured some of you here in NYC love little hacks to save time so we thought we'd share and here your thoughts. I always love the discussion here on HN so I'd love to hear some feedback if you have any!

Yeah, he even has some sort of disclaimer in his footer

    This site is mostly written by chx, one of the core developers of the PHP-based Drupal project. It's not meant to be a bashing of PHP or its authors.

er i'm pretty sure this rubygem is poking fun at the "enterprise" and not a really for the enterprise

This is such a joke. I can't tell what is sadder, the fact users have been messed with so much that its "something nice" that at&t is gouging more money from them for MMS (its usually the same price of sms on every phone) or that at&t is so bad that its notable when they dont charge more for something that costs them fractions of a penny to send.

Favicon is the default drupal one and the "About us" is a 404. whoops

The difference is that you're the target demographic for those database archiving tools: people who know how to use a command line.

Most likely the potential customers buying the app he built are people who don't know what a command line is.

Not sure about abyssknight, but they block random random things here at work (corporate america!). They've got weird rules and/or regexes for this stuff. Some of it makes no sense whatsoever