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Great website, very interesting topics. I will definitely check those podcasts out. Thanks.

You sound quite promotional, but that's ok. I trust you HNers ;-)

jessoron Ask HN: Loosing Faith - the startup killer

If you have a prototype a customer wants then you will be excited. Set some deadlines, targets, goals, and really execute on it.

Yeah. Find ways to generate excitement on your side and actively seek it on a regular basis.

For me, in this phase I'm in, it's talking to entrepeneurs which really does help. I guess it's also about a supportive environment. Family and friends, people who believe in you and lift you up.

jessoron Ask HN: If I gave you $20.00 US, What would you buy?

http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ I feel bad for getting the ebook with a "getting real filetype:pdf" google query just today.

jessoron The new way the feds take over websites

So the basic formula appears to be this – the US Government felt the sites in question were illegal and since they were accessible from the US, they should do something about them. On its part, ICANN has no problem cooperating with the Government and is happy to act on terms of use violations either by domain owners or domain registrars.

That's quite disturbing.

(source: http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-and-megaupload-escape-dom...)

jessoron HN yellow pages (Google docs)

miss the country field greatly, too!

jessoron Demo about mixing HTML5, CSS3, WebGL

Because it's easier to support multiple platforms and everything is always available from wherever one accesses the web.

jessoron Thesis and the GPL

A lot of interesting discussion about this topic went down here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1516361

EDIT: I'm with spacemonkey (referring to how joomla manages it): http://apeatling.wordpress.com/2010/07/14/thesis-and-the-gpl...

jessoron Ask HN: How many of you post just to gain karma?

I second that. Though I have to confess, as I'm not quite there yet, I sometimes have to resist the tempation to post karmabait comments.

jessoron Bandcamp to launch their revenue share model

I can't help but feel very sympathetic to bandcamp itself and how they operate. Best of luck you guys, bandcamp's awesome!

jessoron An Entrepreneur Who Took a Chance on Herself

Maybe I value my time more than my net worth. Maybe my fear of boredom outweighs my fear of failure. Or, maybe I have an irrational belief that I will succeed against all odds. Whatever it is, I find the risk of entrepreneurship to be not only worthwhile but also necessary for fulfillment. Work is no longer work. It is life, and a good one.

Is it just me or do those last paragraphes sound like beautiful poetry?

jessoron Top Blogs about Startups and Entrepreneurship

http://www.hackerblogs.com/ (via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1491875, 3 days ago)

http://buyersvote.com/categories/the-best-books-for-entrepre... (via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1490365, 4 days ago)

jessoron Multiuser Sketchpad

You should definitely build something around this.

jessoron PasswordCard

The problem I see is: it's still a bit complicated (i.e. too complicated for the "usual" folks). I see a lot of the security stuff failing for most people because it's just not easy enough.

In this sense, Lastpass (passwords stored online) or Roboform (passwords stored locally) is imho better in that it makes it easy to use secure, one-time passwords for each website.

jessoron Multiuser Sketchpad

It's actually pretty neat. Enjoying it for 15 minutes. Now if only there were a tad less penis and vandalism guys awake...

jessoron Exploiting security holes in Flash Player for Android to jailbreak

i wonder if someone smells the business model in this.

jessoron 1995: The Internet? Bah

"So how come my local mall does more business in an afternoon than the entire Internet handles in a month?"

good times.

jessoron Ask HN: How will it impact my webapp if it is written in Python instead of PHP.

A friend of mine always says "it just doesn't matter" in his startup, meaning just chose a language instead of constantly debating over which is better, which will scale better, which sounds more awesome...

It's probably more important to just getting something done in the first place. You can probably rewrite when you get some revenue.

jessoron Programming is an easy way to procrastinate

Interestingly enough, this goes somewhat against the PG essays "How to do what you love" and "Good and Bad Procrastination" which I just recently read.

I guess he has a point in that there are problems that have to be dealt with and you should go peak into unknown areas from time to time, but generally, I think I have to disagree based on the stuff I learned from PG. Finding someone that loves doing what oneself is avoiding (procrastinating) should be a better solution than self-punishment (I second virtualmice's comment.)

Also, I don't like his tone. It's not quite written as a rant but sure sounds like one.

jessoron Why I'm running a bootstrapping conference in Vienna, Austria

i so hope i can grab a ticket!

jessoron Ask HN: I really want to start a startup but I don't know what to do.

I'm in exactly the same spot. What I did for the last 6 months or so was hanging out here on hacker news (taking the air in), bouncing ideas off with a friend and collecting and refining ideas on a password-protected wiki page.

With a bit of luck there'll come a startup with said friend out of this later this year.

jessoron Is it Now Acceptable to Require JavaScript?

XSS should be noted here, too.

jessoron Toronto HackLab member arrested by G20 security forces

Watch your karma if you're active on full disclosure: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Jun/391

He wrote this a few days before the bust.

jessoron Forrst: Stack Overflow Meets Tumblr

The first guy who is willing to spend an invite to me gets a free hug! email in my profile :)

jessoron Cryp.sr - the next step

heh, confused me for a second, too.

anyways, it's super cool to see this expand into a really useful webapp. keep going!

jessoron After 15 years of practice..

Reminds me of Malcom Gladwell's 10,000 hours rule (he wrote about it in Outliers).

jessoron HBO miniseries: Game of Thrones

woah, hbo stands for quality miniseries. this will certainly be good.

jessoron Review my startup: Mixlr

Great idea. You're solving a problem for quite a bunch of people. It looks pretty cool, too.

> Sorry, Windows and Linux users: we definitely have you in mind, but we want to get our Mac application perfect before we release for other platforms.

Only theoretically yet, though, since linux users probably feel the greatest pain there.

Anyways, best of luck! I'll be testing when a linux client is available :-)

jessoron Microsoft's Web-based Office goes live

Well, interesting. Less features than Google Docs has, but I'm afraid people will like it simply because it looks more like their Office 2007/2010 :(

They'll have much less work than Google Docs in convincing users to use it. meh.

jessoron Myspace is still the place every music artist needs to be.

True, sadly. I'd donate money just to see this giant spamhole gone, better: replaced by a successor.

Every bit of value a myspace profile might have is destroyed by a crappy design, misused fields, "thanks for the add" messages and just plain advertisement anywhere else.

We have nice stuff out there already, Soundcloud (nice player), Last.fm (band info), Bandcamp (most awesome sales platform)... I'm unexpressable eager to see someone creating the myspace killer with them.

jessoron Hacker Monthly #1 is here

Very nice. I'll subscribe when MagCloud ships to Germany.