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What are you using to do translations?

Yeah I agree it would be nice to not be limited to Slack. I plan on offering it to Microsoft Teams, Discord and other popular chat services.

I have never seen ZenHub before. Thanks for sharing. I just checked it out and it looks like it's a browser extension. I've thought about doing something related to a browser extension but thought that would be more development for me and I'm not sure how cool companies are with an extension that could read your Github. I'll dig deeper on it.

Yeah I was going to offer email as an option as well.

Thanks for sharing all this =)

1. I've heard the death-by-slack-notification complaint many times hehe. My way to combat this was to offer scheduled digests that could be daily/weekly or whatever frequency. It doesn't have to be slack it could be sent to email. 2. :-) 3. That's true. I think a lot depends on having the right amount of notifications...nothing more, nothing less. Unfortunately the native github/slack integration does very generic things that it's not that useful. That is why I am trying to be more specific.

I appreciate your response. Thanks a lot :-)

Hi Michael,

Thanks for doing this!

My question is: How can we make a better environment for discovering cures/vaccines? Can we create a almost like a "YC" for research of biological sciences.

Although, I don't know much about this area, I feel there needs to be a better way to allow the most intelligent people have the resources they need to discover cures/vaccines etc, with no external barriers. Thank you.

T H I S I S E P I C !!!!!

Hey Tevlon. I feel a bit the same. I just graduated (2.5 late). I have $27K USD in student debt. Spent a year working on my startup idea and it barely is generating revenue.

We've all been there. If you feel not a part of society, go out to some meetups of stuff you are interested in. There have to be some groups that meet weekly/monthly. Hang out and meet new people.

You are not a quitter. You are about to finish your masters! That's big achievement.

I say:

1) Find out something that will make you happy (job, traveling,etc) 2) Go out there and start working towards getting that.

Hope this helps. Hang in there!

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It has nothing to do with popular vote. It has to do with qualifications. EC is intended to keep out unqualified candidates -> As Alexander Hamilton writes in “The Federalist Papers,” the Constitution is designed to ensure “that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.”

And if that were to happen (Clinton victory w/ Trump popular vote win), trump would say the election was rigged and fuel fires to an uprising.

Not sure I follow what you are arguing for. But what I am trying to say is that the EC is designed to protect us from people EXACTLY like trump. That is its purpose. It has nothing to do with Hillary getting the popular vote, although that does add to the argument.

As Alexander Hamilton writes in “The Federalist Papers,” the Constitution is designed to ensure “that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.”

Do I guess hosts can kill guests by stabbing them instead?

YUGE INTRO

You should make it so that the purchaser can have an option to sell their logo if someone else wants it more than them. Take a cut from the transaction

Can you start by making Stripe mobile friendly lol :P my clock reads 2016.

Great Job Kim!

CEO needs to go to Jail. I hope you and Penny make sure that happens.

"It’s kinda like having 10 Facebooks to simultaneously look through, then make sense of. Actually, no, its worse. Facebook isn’t about returning back to, its about relaxed consumption of content. Slack on the other hand is meant to be about getting things done and being there to respond."

Love it!

"then you're obviously not entering/creating a new market, nor you are attempting to find a product/market fit, are you?"

Yeah, and if you were entering/creating a new market, usually people do not understand why they need the product you are creating and thus the original analogy still does not work.

Overall I just feel the brick analogy is not great because there are no low hanging fruits anymore. If a problem is so painful, there must exist a competitor OR a home made solution.

Agree with the rest of your statements.

"If you handed them a brick they would still grab it and try to hit themselves on the head to put out the fire. You need to find problems so dire that users are willing try half-baked, v1, imperfect solutions."

this kind of falls into line with Reid Hoffman's famous quote:

"If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late."

I think these statements paint a wide brush and fail particularly for products whose main value prop is ease of use.

If your product's core value prop is UI/UX/ease of use, you cannot deliver that with a buggy half finished product. And if you cannot deliver the value you intend to provide, then you are shooting yourself in the foot, spooking users losing their trust in your ability to deliver.

Obviously each product is different, but I think specifically for this type, these methodologies should be omitted. Because the most likely case is that your customer is already solving the problem with a "brick", whether that is your competition or a home made solution that they have created. Handing them another brick will not suffice.

Another Rails is good/bad post. Just like the rest....

I just think it is scary going that speed in a tube. To be a terrorist all you would have to do is like stick a beer bottle in the tube and when a train comes a 700mph shit going to start happening