kappaknight

There's really no benefit to glorifying "busy."

With the amount of technology and automation we have, and how productive we have become, we should be heading towards 4 day weeks, and month long vacations.

No shame in taking a break at all here. Also, work to live, don't live to work; or you'll miss out on everything important.

We just need to get more businesses to accept it. If Amazon accepted Bitcoin, HELLO BUBBLE 2!

You're probably not a good candidate for day trading.

I'm in a similar boat as you though so... dem feels.

Do you have Montessori schools near where you live? Look into those... =)

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^^^ This is a good point. I knew he'd fail at the first line when he claimed to know everything. That's not a good attitude to jump into any situation.

Funniest title I've read today. Thanks for the LOL's

...for the price of 4 Instagrams.

Great blog post... but the grammatical errors were a huge distraction.

The web has always had different screen sizes and very different capabilities of machines. Heck, having to code for IE6 should trump any difficulties faced in mobile.

Did you submit a bug to Apple?

I concur. It's much easier to plug in functionality and DB objects into a finished UI/UX than the other way around. Also, it allows the hacker to just work on the core functionalities instead of worrying about how their code is supposed to output to fit into an unpainted canvas.

Obviously if you're working on an API, this doesn't apply - but you'd be surprised at how fast the hacking sprint can get when you know exactly where to plug your code into.

Maybe politically correct people don't think others are stupid, but smart or not, there are definitely some morons out there.

I for one, do not need to be PC to be smart. I don't claim to know everything, but that doesn't mean there aren't people who know less who also decided a long time ago to stop learning/embracing new ideas.

Finding life will be the prequel to finding intelligent life. You're right that finding life itself won't change the views of people who choose to close their minds, but it will be the start of many realizing we're nothing special, but rather, something very common.

Also, I'm almost certain there are life in other planets in our solar system. It'll just take a few (relatively speaking) more years to prove it.

You can be religious but not have it dictate everything you do in life. Sorry, but that was the distinction I was trying to convey.

I don't know about that... as a kid, I would usually jump off the walls for about 30 minutes after watching Jackie Chan flicks.

Luckily, he only fights bad guys. =)

You're right - they have been able to spin things to their advantage. However, to my understanding, many are still based on the geocentric view of the universe and that we are a very special exception to every other planet we've observed w/o life.

We are just now discovering that planets are actually abundant and are all around us. A thought that seemed alien just years ago when we thought every other star lacked planets.

While I can't predict what aliens will be able to teach/tell us when they arrive (or when we find them), I do feel that a real "first contact" will change or make a lot of people rethink what they really think they know.

For those that think they can control EVERYTHING their children will ever see, hear and experience - I have news for you, you're going to fail. Not only will you fail in your attempt, your children will most likely be handicapped living in your bubble that lacks critical thinking.

Also, while you may be a Christian/religious person here on Earth, I don't see how that applies to a future with aliens, other planets, etc. With the way things are going, it's almost guaranteed that religious power will be a thing of the past as soon as we can prove other life/civilizations exist besides the one here on Earth.

One obviously does not need religion to have good morals or good values. Different doesn't mean wrong, and certainly not in this case. Homosexuality, polygamy, asexuality, and natural gender change (clown fish) already exists here on Earth in one form or another. It's not hard to conceive that these behaviors also exist on other planets even if we don't get to witness it firsthand today.

Anyway, if you want to live in a bubble, make yourself blind and deaf and just don't buy anything. If you choose to interact with the growing, ever changing world, expect to learn something new when you do it.

This is just http://www.youtube.com/coachella ?

Why are you in stealth mode? Is there technology that is hard to duplicate, or too easy to duplicate? Building in a bubble is not a good sign whether you have competitors or not.

> Most startups die due to suicide, not murder.

This is true, and it could easily happen to you (the OP) too.

You never said "how" you lost your account...

On a side note, it's sh*t like this that make law makers create crazy laws that would stop poor support like this.

I for one would almost want government intervention to make sure when cloud services cut you off, they don't take hostage of your data and history too. I recognize it's a terrible/horrible solution, but if the companies themselves can't do the right thing, government mandate would have to be next. Cause in this case, it's not like we can vote with our wallets to make it go away when the stuff is free.

Also, imagine the number of jobs Google could create if they hired and trained a support staff for all their products? There's a lot of stuff that would still benefit from a human touch.

Everyone is different. I know a ton of people who always browse with 80+ tabs open. I find I fall into that weird trap sometimes too. Though because I have iChat and Twitter open, my browser is usually never full screen.

I still like Plex over Apple TV, but I also use a mini as my HTPC. Maybe Apple will buy them.

Hrmm, it'd be much easier (better) to just do it for a fee. Considering most startups fail, and they'd have to setup their corporate structure a certain way to give stocks to more than 75 investors, this may or may not be worth building.

The programming aspect of this concept is easy enough, it's the legal aspect that you guys should do more research on.

Using a thin font + small font + gray on white font = hard to read.

There's a better math joke in there somewhere...

Are you actually building something that Kiva and Kickstarter may have overlooked, or is failing on? If not, then why are you building it?

I can see why you want to do this, but this just makes people send 2 requests instead of 1 for each number they look up.

Not sure if this is the better way.

The idea matters a bit, even if it's not the top priority. If the idea doesn't matter at all, why not just take your team of gifted programmers and start a consulting company hacking and finishing all client requests in 72 hours or less? If such a company existed, they can probably charge six figures for every project they take on.

While I agree execution is important, so is the process of coming up with a good idea.

This post is essentially asking PG to come up with an idea for them.

"Help test our new signup process"

I see what you're doing there... =)