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Or at the federal level.

Webkit Nightly: 133/160

I'll believe it when I see it.

If you're looking solely at market share. Look at the profits from smartphones and Apple is dominating.

There's few entrepreneurs I look up to as much as Spencer Fry. Well written story of Carbonmade's story.

I loved the quote from David when he said selling to Fortune 500 companies takes "strippers and steaks."

Overall, great interview.

I'd love to see Jason C take on Jason Fried and DHH.

Go easy on the help tooltip pop-up things. It's unexpected and does more to startle me than help me.

The text is too long. Shorten the tooltips to a sentence.

Also, add a slight delay to the tooltips: http://snipplr.com/view/4163/highlight-menu-on-hover-with-de...

Wonder what Mr. Calacanis thinks of these logical reasons...

http://calacanis.com/2009/10/09/why-startups-shouldnt-have-t...

I agree that work needs to be done to optimize websites specifically for the iPad, but most accessible* websites I can think of now would work just fine.

* Accessible means no Flash, no unnecessary JavaScript, and clean markup practices.

Q: “What legislation, what tax incentives, do we need right now to replicate you all a million times over?”

A: Instead of taxing productivity, why not tax consumption instead? http://www.fairtax.org/

Link to HTML version of book: http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~blynn/gitmagic/book.htm...

It seems like climate scientists are more occupied with manipulating the data to suit them rather than reporting the facts.

Sample from some climate emails: "Ammann/Wahl - try and change the Received date! Don't give those skeptics something to amuse themselves with." Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870477970457455...

You guys are right. I confused myself with the wording and thought too much about it.

Thank you for correcting me.

2.1% -> 6.1% is a 290% improvement, not 190%.

Don't cut yourself short ;-)

Wow that is annoying how you have to register to download the MP3.

Also, "Subscribe in iTunes" link is no where to be found.

Their products have definitely grown, but I think they've improved rather than falling victim to feature creep.

Look at what Basecamp could've become without their constant "you can always do less" mentality: http://www.microsoft.com/project/en/us/project-professional-...

The breach definitely sounds illegal, but why the hell were they storing unencrypted passwords in the first place?

When I first learned about databases, that is the very first thing I learned never to do.

They would either have to type the date input or you could have a fallback date picker using jQuery (or whatever framework) that produces the same format as the built-in date picker.

True, but why not make the experience better for browsers that support these standards and have a decent, albeit not identical, fallback for IE?

Spencer might not agree, but why not go at it alone until you find the right person? If you're driven enough to start your own company in a space you know a lot about, you should be driven enough to do so alone, at least temporarily.

In my mind, scalability is the best problem a startup could ever have.

It means people demand your product so much that you need to concentrate on making more and more of your product. Definitely better than too little demand.

I don't like it when they say "$90 billion in repayments to the taxpayers in a week"

That makes it seem like us taxpayers will actually see some of that money as a return, but we never will.

There's no such thing as free chicken.

"Over the next two years we left them in the dust."

You're golden then. There will always be people that try to leech off your success, but you have the ability to get their first.

They are just a business trying to make a buck, and sadly, that is what makes them somewhat unique. Twitter, Facebook, YouTube are "successful" and get a ton of press, but they've yet to make a profit. 37signals isn't afraid to charge for a product they know is great.

37signals is really good at making you realize how these web companies might not be the best business to get into. Could there be a bubble slowing building that will eventually burst?

11) Start with a really low base revenue so the percentage looks huge and grabs your attention

But the person who submitted the story says otherwise:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=948793

That says a lot about startups now a days.

They could probably get away with charging 1% or 2%, but it looks like they don't take any transaction fees.

Correct. I didn't see your post. I do say continue to stage 2.

Listen to what jacquesm said and go more off the beaten path. I check Digg, Reddit and HN occasionally so your site wouldn't be particularly useful to me, but it could be with a little improvement.

Interesting idea but the URL is hard to communicate to someone in real life. Also it just looks like the top stories are all from Hacker News. Think about why would someone go to your site rather than the source (HN)? What makes you different?