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Cool. I'm in a similar situation. Is it a business co-op or a housing co-op?

Stack Overflow is optimized for Q & A, while you can do more than just asking questions in a forum (i.e. actually making friends and building communities).

They are both great. Really, every forum should just have a Q & A section that implements Stack Overflow or use a similar widget.

Why don't you test it to see if it works first?

1. Post an ad on craigslist for personal delivery tasks and find people who would want you to deliver their package.

2. Post an ad on rideshare and see if someone can deliver your package.

Validate your minimum viable product first before you invest more energy in this.

"Personally I'd work hard to live in a big fancy house and drive a cool fast car even if there were no women in the world, because I just like 'em."

Why yes, isn't that a great design? You don't even need to rationalize about what attracts a mate, you just like to do it by default, and most women just happen to be attracted to that by default also.

Certainly your chance of reproducing and passing down these default settings will be much greater than someone who has to rationalize about attractions, don't you think?

The world will continue getting dumber... until we re-program our genes so that we won't perceive excess as attractive... We can also improve a few other human limitations such as keeping meaningful relationships with more than 150 people.

It's hard but it will happen eventually, or our species will die out before we get there, who knows.

Yeah, but it's always easy to do this kind of number crunching assuming you know exactly when you will sell the stock.

Of course, that's never the case in real life. Imagine the time you would spend worrying about your investment and analyzing when it will go out or go down or when to exit, etc. If you convert that into money say $20/hr, is it still worth it to invest as suppose to buy the PowerBook?

Better yet compare it to the efficiency you have gained by having a PowerBook, or if you are a hacker, how much more you'd have learned by having a computer then. How would you even go about quantifying that?

I have a bunch of ideas. I'm sure every one does. I have become less of an idea person overtime because I know they are a dime a dozen. To me it's more important to have the right people to evolve and execute an idea.

I'm imagining a process where we meet once a week, brainstorm an idea, build a mock-up/prototype, test it and iterate. My experience tells me that many ideas will get thrown out of the window.

Do you know anyone who would be interested in doing that? Or should I change the process a bit.

Cool. Which college are you studying at?

I have a bunch of ideas. I'm sure every one does. I have become less of an idea person overtime because I know they are a dime a dozen. To me it's more important to have the right people to evolve and execute an idea.

I'm imagining a process where we meet once a week, brainstorm an idea, build a mock-up/prototype, test it and iterate. My experience tells me that many ideas will get thrown out of the window.

How do you feel about that?

I was thinking the same thing.

From my knowledge, PayPal followed some what of a lean approach. Their initial product was about sending money between palm devices. When they tested it and figured out that no one would use it, they just pivoted to online money transaction, which more people found useful. That's when they started to scale.

Now that sounds pretty lean to me.

In the mind of a typical high school student, being a team captain is a known path with many known examples. Being a part of UN is not so obvious thus it's a risky path and it may take many failures before stumbling upon the right path.

Sure, the right path may be simple. But so are many successful start-ups ideas. Yet you can't just discredit the skills of the founders just because the ideas were simple. Because simple ideas usually came many iterations of bad ones

If I am an investor I'd invest in Steve because, he is, as PG once said, relentlessly resourceful.

I used to teach Physics. This is actually a misleading problem for people over-think the problem (but do not have solid understanding of Physics fundamentals).

The problem can be easily answered by using a thought experiment. Unfortunately many of such techniques are usually not taught in classes unless you are a in a Physics class for Physics majors.

Isn't this the same idea?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Beacon

That's quite interesting. Thank you for the link.

I wonder why does the US have such a high reputation in entrepreneurship. Is it because we have a higher concentration of high tech start-ups (unverified), which generate more buzz in the media?

The solution that worked for me the most:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeboxing

Plan out your schedule for the entire day (as detail as possible, i.e. when to have lunch and for how long) the day before and follow it.

The key is to get into the habit of timeboxing. Forget about tricks. There's no easy way out. You have a bad habit of procrastination. It will take much effort to undo that.

I'm sure there's an emacs mode for that ;)

I'm sure Guitar Hero players gain better rhythm over time too. However, will their musical skills be as good as someone who actually take the effort to learn guitar? Probably not.

I agree with you that the author ignored some important facts. However, the thesis still holds that many achievements (i.e. education) have been dumb down to make people feel content about being less skilled.

The problem is that we are getting better at hacking our own brains to give us more reward than we deserve.

Look at this from another angle, it is equally valid to say that the sexual oppression that exists in our society has skewed many women and men in to thinking that there is such thing has a normal set of sexual behaviors.

That's why this "porn request" thing is blown to such ridiculous proportion. If the main stream perception of sex was not skewed but rather much more open-minded, this discussion would have been as casual as a discussion about ice cream flavors.

I doubt the code is that much cleaner compare to using framework (jquery) ajax call.

Maybe it's faster to do a "img get"? Or that you can't terminate it half way as suppose to an ajax? Better browser compatibility?

I haven't test it yet. I just hope someone who has can educate me.

Cool. Thanks for the code.

What's the advantage of doing it this way as suppose to using an ajax call?

Skip to 2:40 if you are impatient.

This particular species is Schmidtea mediterranea.

As someone who's bilingual (English, Chinese) and have taught both languages before, my suggestion is:

You are focusing on the easier part of learning a language - listening and reading. All of my past students struggled far more with pronouncing and writing.

Of course recording the users' pronunciations and handwritings, and then verifying them is a lot more technically challenging, but still doable. It will surely impress a lot of people. (Maybe that's in your long term plan?)

Not saying what you made is not useful, it certainly is. But it's not where the pain is in learning a language. Depending on the curriculum, it may not make that much of a difference on each student's language ability. But then again, our current education system is not making that much of a difference either.

Sounds like you are in a great position to start your own company.

- You can make products that make money.

- You have startup experience

- You can work hard.

It's time to make yourself rich. What are you waiting for?

"Why don't adults talk like babies?" would be a more insightful question in my opinion.

Link to my previous post for signing letters to the congress.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=895121

Ok, you are smarter than me. You win.

"We take advantage of a CSS information leak. Your browser colors visited links differently than non-visited links. All we do is loop through the most popular porn sites and check the link color."

Pretty smart.

It's not. It's just another tactic to scare the general public away from the issue of net neutrality.

"Oh no, my internet fee will raise? F___ net neutrallity. I don't even know what that is."

That's such a small cost compare to loosing net neutrality.

The internet right now is a leveled playing field. Having all access to all website no matter big or small is good for the entrepreneurs.

If only the "premium" subscribers can have access to smaller websites, internet start-ups will have a much harder time reaching audiences.

I have trouble understanding how, as a start-up lawyer, you can sit there and watch big corporations eating your business away.

Here's another letter that addresses to the Congress as suppose to FCC:

https://secure.freepress.net/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&p...

melodis.com (the maker of midomi) is a lot more impressive than Shazam.

Here's a brief description about its proprietary search technology.

http://sev.prnewswire.com/multimedia-online-internet/2007012...

Here's an article that compare the features of both iPhone apps.

http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/11/05/app-app-shazam-midom...