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Is Facebook a billion burning machine?

I did it!!!

I'm afraid this brothers may lose all their new found money in legal fees. They signed the settlement, they should get over it. Take the money and get a life, hack something we want to use!

Ecuador is not known for its law abiding practices, it will not be smart for Mr Asange to live there. It will be easy to the government of Ecuador or anyone with some power to get him in shit trouble down there.

... While we were all sleeping.

All about the location:

http://busfeed.com/b.aspx?bi=187130409

17- Get some sleep

I grew up in a tough neighborhood, lower middle class, where we fix issues with fists fights. My dad, a tough guy, hated bullying period. He did not tolerate his child being the bully; he made us understand that is was shameful to mistreat the weak and the young. He always told us to stand our ground when attacked, he said if the attacker was stronger and bigger we could use a stick, a stone or anything that could really hurt the attacker. My dad said we should not respond to a push with a push, he thought an attack should be met with a response x times. A punch for a push; my two brothers and I were known for our fierce defense abilities, which made us safe from bullying growing up.

Today as a parent, I give the same advice to my children. We are a minority in our neighborhood and my kids go to great school. They have been through multiple attacks from bullies. My son is in middle school and so far has been able to fight back at many would be bullies. I made it clear to the principal and some parents of bullies that my children are permitted to fight back when attacked, that I will stand by them in all circumstances.

So far it has been working pretty well next year my daughter will be in high school and my son is a reputed defensive player in the basketball team.

During the signup process, if you skip adding an app there’s no way to come back. Update profile should include an option to add an app.

At least he gets to exercise carrying this box around.

How to present and sell the data is key.

I don’t think the government is big fan of open source either. They mostly worry about support.

The difference: Money

What is the story with the Founder Institute? They have about 40 companies in their portfolio already, how do they tally against YC?

In my opinion, getting a technical cofounder would have been a great asset in helping him make the right decision in the first place. Unfortunately I don’t think he have learned that because the last time I check he was still doing something similar. It has to de with the thinking and respect he has for developers in general. I think his frame of mind is still in the era in which it was widely believed outsourcing could solve all problems. My take is if you want to build a tech company, you MUST have a tech cofounder to avoid dangerous pitfalls.

A friend of mine an, MBA guy, founded a startup with almost all the coding outsourcing (the most important part of the code). His startup became well funded and he paid a heavy price for the outsourced decision.

He did not have the sourced code apparently did not bother to care about it when signing the contract because he taught once he have the money the whole thing could be rewritten easy. One thing he did not take in consideration was the downtime it will take to transition from old code to new code. The old code had serious issues and generated terrible scalability mishaps and great mistrust from customers.

By the time the code rewrite was complete the company had overspent money and had lost a truck load of customers.

What will this app do different from my current FAQ page, why should I sign up with your service?

Nice, some folks will demote you here for any reason.

Probably the longest resignation letter I’ve ever seen

Nice, I knew it.

Wow looking at the ranking page here http://www.wattvision.com/rankings Mark's House use about 10 times energy as comparable size homes. Is it a house or an open air furnace?

few of mine:

mistersafe.com

geoplorer.com

dropoutfactory.com

culturetoculture.net

Clickable: http://justinvincent.com/page/100/how-to-trump-microsoft-goo...

Golden rule for startup: do not build your entire model on the back of a giant like Twitter. Outcome: They will buy you off (rarely), they will cut your oxygen line off or they replicate your service; in most cases your screwed.

I am curious as of why this article is loosing this much steam, its rank drop from the middle of the first page in seconds.

I don’t see the irony in criticism.

The donate button seems kinda alien to me, why would you be asking for money at the same time your are asking someone to signup to know more about what you are doing? I think people donate money when they see something and are impressed about it.

I’m very impressed by mailfinch, the idea that someone will upload a file and address let you print and mail it still blow my mind. Now you’re making money on it, Great job guys!

… My advice, stay clear of putting your business interest in the hands of countries like Libya. These guys are still decades from simple notions as the rule of law, no direct offense to Libya and Libyans.

[EDIT] It may be hard for everyone to understand my point because of cultural differences, BUT I lived in similar country, I’m talking from experience not common sense.

Personally I will not build a business at the mercy of the Libyan government.