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Jeff, if I read you correctly, you think turning on brain system 1 and brain system 2 to insert advertising constitutes a grey or dark pattern [1]?

[1] http://wiki.darkpatterns.org/Home

Hi Chris, do you think you could extract and share your knowledge and stylesheets the way that FB Bootstrap does?

Steve Blank says: Startup teams require a Hacker, a Hustler, a Designer and a Visionary. The title of this post could be "Make sure you bring your hustle to Startup Chile!". I know we will and I thank God every day for our little hustler :)

Great concept, great creativity! Bravo. If you can effectively manage the IP battle I think you have a smash success on your hands here.

Do you think responding to email blasts would help them solve their hiring problem?

"You can probably coast your way into some me-too start-up, but if you want a good job at a company you're excited about it, you have to prove your worth by selling yourself."

Bravo! In my own experience: the worst mistake I have made in my career is not seeking out more exciting and challenging opportunities and instead taking what came easily. The best opportunities of my career have been the difficult to attain and the best challenges have been those difficult to complete.

This post proves it: email and resume blasting is not a useful method for good job hunting.

I am touched by the loss of Ilya.

Kipling's "IF" seems an appropriate addition to the discussion thread tonight. --- IF.....

IF you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, ' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch, if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

--- Thank you Ilya.

“It really takes people back to the exciting part of programming, which is building things, breaking things, and seeing how they work,” - reminds me about what I loved about playing with Legos, Logo and BASIC as a child. Way to go Codecadamy team!

I think it has to do with a perception that Groupon does not create as much of the value they take credit for.

Dropbox seems to be more focused on teams of people working together. Dropbox is more focused on having a "shared folder". Kicksend seems to be more focused on individuals sending large files to other individuals. I could see Kicksend growing fast as the barrier-to-entry seems lower and particular use more focused, and in my experience, they are attacking a particularly more painful problem: sending large files to others.

From Drew's Dropbox YC application: "# What's new about what you're doing? * Most small teams..."

Also it's great how their desktop app acts more like an email-client for large files. It might not be as cool as having a shared folder in the cloud, but it seems like a superior path to adoption if the change to people's behavior builds on the way people do things today (attach files to emails).

Another quote from Drew's Dropbox YC application: "# What are people forced to do now because what you plan to make doesn't exist yet? * Email themselves attachments. Upload stuff to online storage sites or use online drives like Xdrive, which don't work on planes."

Bravo BrowserStack team! I am using this to test IE7 on our staging environment. Your signup process was great, I was able to jump-in and start testing immediately. I think you could add better communication and assurances about security and private information. Keep up the good work.

It seems that Ward is looking for a pattern in the code and context of the web, the same way that Michelangelo was searched for the sculpture in the stone.

"Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it”. [1]

It also seems to me that he is keeping the Law of Demeter [2] in mind as well.

It's a beautiful way to be! Bravo Mr. Cunningham!

[1] http://www.michelangelo-gallery.com/quotes.aspx [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Demeter

I bet you two would like Alan Kay and Christopher Alexander. Google'm.

This is a killer product and very useful for people who travel often. Way to go! Also, thanks for sharing your code. You all seem like a class act.

Just like chat roulette... mostly dudes.

Why not? If the Chilean government can do it, I imagine government(s) in the US can make it happen. Maybe it could start in smaller cities and towns. The missing part it the meme and forward thinking. http://www.startupchile.org/

Way to go John!

However I should point out that JMG points to different root causes of "decline". His core thesis is that Peak Oil and net-energy / net-resource growth not meeting demand are the main determining factors in our shrinking economy. His hopeful response to this scenario is that although there will be far fewer jobs, there will be much more work.

In my opinion John Michael Greer's "The Long Descent" is the most realistic and most hopeful take on this vein of thinking and writing. It is also a well-written and easy to read book. The main takeaway is that our situation is not a problem with a solution, but rather a predicament or situation with various coping mechanisms.

http://www.newsociety.com/Books/L/The-Long-Descent

Great thanks Rob!

Eben is a very skilled rhetorician. Anyone trying to sell anything would do well to take notes. If he had a dash more narrative to the story, I think he'd nail it.

"Ok, that's the next 15 years of your life and mine. You're going to try to end anonymity on earth and I'm going to try to keep it. Because without anonymity the human race will not be human anymore."

"They [governments, business] are not going to be left to their devices... They are going to be left to our devices. And our devices are going to be about Freedom!"