lemonysnicket

so much for cash & time efficiency.

We are LeadLog, a small startup company in South Florida building lead management software. We're two biz dev guys, a ux guru and a hacker with solid business experience.

Hmm...something seems wrong about this equation...

'how are you going to make money?'

So in turn, your advice would be to read random fitness forums...

huh?

In order to do olympic lifts, makes sense to go to a powerlifter -- who do have good form.

this is one of the best traveling advice ever.

so, under the 37 signals great advice, this is what this guy needed for National Outdoor Leadership School, and he should have taken half?

when in reality, he needed more gear than presented here.

as usual, the signal is too weak, even if they try to filter out the noise.

but how many people really need this advice for traveling?

instead of this over-generalized "half of what you need" and then "lose another half" make a short list of the bare necessities -- and why you need it.

but I guess this is advice for tourists? not sure who has three bags going down cobble stone roads.

he'd be wise to read Paul Bucheit's oft-quoted advice = limited life experience + over-generalization.

while 'inspirational' it lacks the quality of reading someone who's been there and done it...

how many donations will you get calley (ex-model right?) because people think you're hott?

Have you heard of the phrase, stop while you're ahead.

I followed your rebuttal essentially stating that one should not lose sight of small problems for the larger ones, but your derivative spiel about charities and about Darfur is incoherent babble.

Seriously.

Darfur was a non-issue in the US/ world-media until perhaps 2006, and even now, most Americans (and perhaps Germans as well?) don't know much about Darfur, don't care, and most importantly to your argument, they don't donate time or money to the issue. So what charities exactly are benefitting by distributing the 'propaganda' about the 'war' in Darfur.

It's not war, it's genocide.

Are you one of those who also didn't believe Holocaust Germany happened? Not enough evidence for you?

Stick to a logical argument backed up by either logic and data, or please do not argue here again. I'm tired of seeing your pointless rants where you spew this ridiculous, utter, nonsense.

does it matter to me one way or the other? nope. good journalists/writers find stories where they may, but more a reference to how influential hacker news is/has become

1. at what distance can you see the time left?

2. this still does not solve for calculating the speed necessary (for which to utilize as a benchmark if you're actually going to make it through the light).

in pedestrian crosswalk signals, ability to accelerate is probably an order of magnitude greater -- you go from walking to running to beat the signal.

not so with traffic lights, even if you have a visible countdown timer (and as i mentioned above, how will a human calculate the baseline speed at which it is necessary to drive in order to be able to safely cross).

If, as everyone opines on here constantly, ideas have little to no value, but rather it is the execution of those ideas, why not submit ideas that may have some validity, and let Google essentially play matchmaker and help find the organization, people, and talent to execute on that idea?

This has got to be the least coherent analysis I've read on HN in a while. Google is an organization, yes, but one composed of people, and those people are affected by the decisions of invididuals or groups who could incrementally change the world for better or for worse.

You don't think the engineers writing JS to improve that "cloud computing model" (let's use Google Docs as an example) wouldn't benefit either directly or indirectly from some of the ideas that will come out of this project?

How are innovation and this project mutually exclusive? Google is (and has been via Google.org) trying to spearhead innovation outside of its known core competencies (i.e. search, ads, and apps) and does this project not contribute to that?

if not, great way to get iterative feedback before building product/feature set that nobody wants.

phones are getting smarter, and now their OS are now a lot more accessible, laptops on the other hand aren't getting much smarter, but rather smaller.

if you go to Korea, Japan, India, several South American & African countries, you will understand why mobile is a heckuva lot more important than laptop.

it's not a UI conundrum -- a mobile phone (with the exception of the iPhone)'s primary purpose is communication -- voice, sms, mms and now even photo & video.

not so with a laptop.

that's all you have to tell ordinary consumers (read: high school teenage girls and college-aged folks who absolutely OBLITERATE text messaging services and would never buy a mobile phone without a keyboard).

as a phone, iPhone rates very poorly for two things: calls (poor reception, horrible battery life, etc.) and sms.

G1 fixes one and possibly the other.

i have an iPhone, FWIW