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donna on Neighborhoods for moving to SF or near SF?

only during the summer month July to August.. built in air conditioning. ;-D

donna on Neighborhoods for moving to SF or near SF?

I'm in the inner sunset district near UCSF. Foggy but cheaper because of the fog. Excellent lite rail public transportation access to anywhere in the city. Mission district is more of an art community. Depends if you want to be near the GG park or pavement.

donna on Ask HN: I'm looking for a KickAss VOIP provider.

http://www.sonictalk.net/ I just signed up, loved their DSL service.

donna on Ask HN: I have a great idea, but nobody likes it. So here it is.

It's unclear to me the pain you are solving that has value and will pull money from my and thousands of others wallets. Clarify is this the problem???? ... for people who are too proud to directly say things to their family and close friends, or things that would embarrass or humiliate someone if you just told them. Who is the competition that has a revenue stream?

donna on Ask HN: How did you learn marketing?

Must read : Geoffrey Moore crossing the chasm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Chasm

donna on Ask HN: How do I come up with an idea?

Pick something you dislike about something you consume, and imagine how you would fix it.

donna on Obama Wants Kids To Make Video Games

I love it! I was part of the "where in the world is Carmen" team. What a fantastic way to motivate kids in science, technology, engineering, and math.

donna on Ask HN: Looking for input re Orrick Law Firm...

thanks PG really appreciate the inpute.

donna on Ask HN: best-written engineer job posting

Truly helpful thank you. I was considering posting images of the GUI. What do you think?

donna on Open Graph protocol

...also, google's not going to take this lying down ;)
Why I say that... Open Graph is part of Facebook's strategy to use its 400M-user social network as leverage to take over indexing and navigation of the web, and serve ads with it.
Navigation of the web has been almost entirely Google's territory, because of Search (which also equals 90% of their revenue, from AdWords ads).
Therefore, Google has to counter Open Graph somehow...

donna on Ask HN: Best place for business cards?

Moo's great, quick, easy.

donna on Transparency Begins at Home

I'm an advocate of keeping the team in the loop. However my business partner has some trepidations because his father's employees went mutiny by taking all his clients and starting their own recruiting firm.

donna on Carrots, Sticks and Lower Premiums

I've been brainstorming a new app idea for helping create lifestyle health wellness changes - “pay for prevention”.
If anyone is interested in developing in this area connect up with me; I'd be interested in hearing from you.
We are a team of two and have some prototype code. donna (at) genuus (dot) com

donna on Ask HN: How would you invest $50,000?

I'd ask myself how much time I'd want to spend in growing the $50K. An angel requires time to help cultivate an idea. Do you have time?

donna on Tell HN: Here's how my team got to the YC interview stage

Congratulations Trevor. Generous reflection you've shared. Much appreciated.

donna on When is a right time to start monetizing a web app?

My suggestion would be to introduce payment by 1) allow a set of usage free (e.g. up to 10 forms) 2) create individual small payments for each use (e.g. after cost 3¢ ea. initial start charge is $20 until $20 is used up) 3) offer monthly subscription based on unlimited usage
Treat it similar to the Virtual Goods model.

donna on Ask HN: How should we seek a funding partner?

What is the deal you are offering to an investor? How many customers? Do they pay a monthly subscription?

donna on Ask HN: Recommend chair to comfortably support my hacker ass for 12+ hours a day?

This was a chair developed by an entrepreneur who pitched at the Big Success in SF and won the business pitch to be on CBS5. He was fantastic, as was his chair. http://www.GymyGym.com/

donna on Ask HN: Anyone use GoGrid? Cloud Competitor Cheaper than Amazon?

GoGrid is a great company to work with. Here's a link to another AWS posting. http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=422225

donna on Anxiety, Depression, Technology, and Me

I appreciate the paragraph, and punctuation suggestions. ;-D

donna on Anxiety, Depression, Technology, and Me

It is unfortunate re the negative point. My story shared was to expose a distraction from focusing on being depressed.. find a another point-of-view. I intended to share the possibility of how one can focus on the negative or the positive aspects of one's day in every moment. Reflect and find balance during your day. Start by noticing and articulating the positive moments in your day, what did fill you up? Start with simple things. Did that toast for breakfast taste wonderful. Did you look out the window and see the sky.. beautiful or amazing. Learn a new language. Re-program your thought patterns. Re-compile how you see your day. It is not always about the BIG goals and changes. Aiming for BIG all the time will deplete you and leave you emptied. Take the time to find balance in seeing life, life has tiny moments too. Like writing code one character at a time... just might add up to a more fulling life.

donna on Anxiety, Depression, Technology, and Me

A feral kitten came to a friend of mine after asking the universe to help her get rid of the voles in her garden. She name the kitten Quito, befriended him, showed him how to get in and out of the house through the doggy doors. Introduced him to the other animals in the house. This took about 2 months. Quito vole hunts during the day, and comes inside to sleep on a tower pole of carpet at night. He watches with a proud smile on his face, full of himself after doing a marvelous job vole hunting in the garden. The other day I visited my friend. I watched Quito hunt and amuse himself during the day, and at night I would walk by him and whisper to him stories. The night before i was leaving, Quito was laying in the chair I usually sat in. I sat beside him, he turned belly up, like a U, tail between his legs, paws wrapped around his tail.. GAWD.. soo cute. I told him the story of his beautiful successful day with this one particular special moment, about a hole in the tree. Quito was up in the tree eating the bark, and noticed a hole. The hole said, "Quito eat me". Quito replied, "I cannot eat you, you are a hole, you are empty...it will not fill me up." The hole replied.. but, I am infinitely filled-up inside... eat me." I made sounds of popping the hole into my mouth, and Quito took his paw and quickly tapped my lips, awww Quito tried to eat the hole, but he could not. The story distracted and satisfied Quito, he jumped down back to his tower and slept, most likely dreaming of the hole that is infinitely filled-up.

donna on (Another) Graphical User Interface Timeline

My first computer was this 1984: Apple Macintosh. I still have it in the attic along with it's system floppy. $3,000 used. We've come a long way baby!

donna on Warren Buffett says economy fell off a cliff

Thomas Freidman said it all in the Sunday NYT:
We have created a system for growth that depended on our building more and more stores to sell more and more stuff made in more and more factories in China, powered by more and more coal that would cause more and more climate change but earn China more and more dollars to buy more and more U.S. T-bills so America would have more and more money to build more and more stores and sell more and more stuff that would employ more and more Chinese...
All the links begin to break...

donna on Ask HN: Favorite Technology Company Superbowl Ads?

I LOL and i still remember their name, so money well spent.
Super Bowl Ad (2000) E*Trade - "Out of the Whazoo!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0_tfoTTGOQ

donna on Never Get Tattoos

blue is the new red shirt character http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshirt_(character)

donna on Does Amazon S3 really save money?

just be aware because you're on a shared host, they may kick you off to a more expensive machine if you start using all that bandwidth.

donna on Does Amazon S3 really save money?

With AWS i don't have to buy, set up, maintain or upgrade the hardware... or manage employees who do. Nor do i own the hardware. Nor do i have to travel to and from a datacenter.
For that service, the cost is very reasonable.

donna on Craig's List founder Craig Newmark live interview

Case Western also did an interview http://www.case.edu/magazine/fallwinter2008/craignewmark.htm...

donna on Designs of the Week: The Movie Theater Experience

I'd loved to have a movie experience that excludes cell phone calls, getting coughed and sneezed on, grandma talking out loud asking "what did they say?"... arg