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A hose is not very elegant and should be removed. It would look much cleaner to have the gasoline just squirt into the car's open gas tank. Possibly with some LEDs around the gas pump's flush-mounted nozzle to create sparkles in the gasoline stream as it arcs through the air into the gas tank fill hole. Finally, clean hands!

History says no. He was never able to build a great business with the fashionable blouses he designed. He never was able to scale his refrigerator company beyond the customer discovery phase and sold the patent to Electrolux... Google these if you think I am joking.

I prefer mine Open.

How is that an Easter Egg?

You're all wrong. It's pretty clear they had to obfuscate what she really wrote so no one could use it to "hack into the mainframe," on advice from their lawyers to avoid liability.

Funny, but this post and article feel like keyword spam to me...

Horrible horrible linkbait.

Here's the deep analysis from the article: "And as more people join Google+, more will follow, and in the end maybe Kevin Rose was worth $1 billion dollars."

The G4 was a commercial flop, but arguably a great product, not that I am looking for an argument about it..

okay, first I have to say I appreciate the point you make, about taking something and making it your own. I think you actually makes a better and more subtle point than the original quote itself does and it is not something in the linked post!

Having said that, the OP is not talking about that "quote"-- frequently attributed to Picasso, but probably from T.S. Eliot (Thanks Nancy Prager: http://nancyprager.wordpress.com/2007/05/08/good-poets-borro...) Maybe Picasso stole that too. I think people know the quote from Steve Jobs' interview (mis)attribution? to Picasso.

Anyway, I think your point is essentially then of copying something without attribution or credit to the point of destroying the original authorship, and I would have to say that that from of "stealing" is also wrong.

Your blues music is a good example of stealing, literally the use of copyrighted songs written by impoverished black artists by artists like Led Zeppelin without paying royalties.

So a clarified version of my point is: Using an idea and making your own expression or extension of it is not stealing, it is the basis of all knowledge and culture. Copying someone's expression of an idea, whether legal or not, without attribution when you know who you are copying and you are able to give attribution, is wrong.

uh. Stealing in wrong. Why would you advocate stealing? Are you using the word "steal" when you mean something else? Why not just use the right words? I mean there is inspiration, copying, using, implementing, following, quoting, learning from, etc.

If a physicist uses E=mc^2 in some research, is he stealing? Isn't everything in human culture based on something that came before? I am stealing these words by using them?

How is this not brilliant?

Like Hollywood that created the studio system and theater chains, and Music Labels that created radio promotion and recorded music sales, Y Combinator has created the cookie cutter vertical for this century's hot new tech opportunity- the Internets. And God Bless them. They invented it, this model, it works and they are going to be billionaires cause they are creating the Value.

If I could buy 7% of a the future (earnings and primary asset) of an elite college super achiever (with a proven skillset and a track record of cool hacks,) in exchange for 7 Grand, man oh man, that is a no-brainer. Like signing Marilyn Monroe to a studio contract or getting half the Beatles catalog for a ham sandwich, or whatever they were advanced by Northern Songs.

And no, I'm not being snarky, because Marilyn Monroe without the movie studios would have been a waitress or whatever, and the Beatles without the music copyright machine would have been guys who worked day jobs who had a cool weekend band that was their real passion.

Sign all the boys who can sing and dance--its Menudo Monkees Backstreet madness!! If your Johnny Bravos can fit the suit, I say sign them up! Everybody wins, except the wannabes who find a reason to complain instead of doing anything awesome because they are, in their hearts...and in their lives, afraid.

Hooray for (New) Hollywood.

Even Better: Dharmesh Shah's Startup Lessons From 17 Hard-Hitting Quotes In "Moneyball"

http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/76799/Startup-Lessons-F...

The Apple logo, designed by Rob Janoff in 1977, is based on the Fibonacci series. As interpreted by @barcelosthiago

Soooo refreshing to see a competitive feature comparison chart where the company posting the feature match ups doesn't have ALL green check boxes (and the competitors are "missing" features, of course.)

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Question for the article author: Could you explain why "piracy" is not also a nonsense metaphor?

Piracy is an act of robbery and/or criminal violence at sea.

It feels like 99% of arguments are between people who haven't clearly defined the meaning of words they are arguing over.

I believe the correct equation is:

Appsumo + Crate - $25 = 10gb lifetime account!

Criticism about price from people who aren't actually customers is worthless, particularly because you don't even know who your customer is. You'll find out when you launch something.

Price is also a way to pick your customers. You want to deal with people who have money and value your product, or critical, complaining cheapskates and ingrates? Pushing yourself to lower your price pushes you to commodify your product and strip out what might be creating all the value.

You can also A/B test your pricing on your landing pages to graph out a demand curve for your service that will let you optimize your pricing to maximize yield, but I think pricing based on value creation and cost of substitutes is a better way to go.

If you say No Child Left Behind pushed teachers to teach to a test (easy) rather than teaching critical thinking, etc. (hard) and then you say No Child Left Behind failed to deliver any statistically significant impact on test scores, aren't you just saying teachers can't even teach the easy stuff?

How do you think they can teach the hard stuff if they can't even move the needle on the easy things (in this scenario of yours)?

"Disgruntled" is a straight up ad hominem attack that doesn't address whether or not what the person says is true or not.

In what way? Steve Jobs is mentioned in literally every paragraph of the article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing%27s_Shocking okay, maybe something is.

In 1964 he predicted the concept of ape slave labor which was the basis of the plot of the novel "La planète des singes" (Planet of the Apes) by Pierre Boulle printed in 1963.

Isn't a fresnel lens really just an non-idealized boundary layer too? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresnel_lens

Thought this might be of interest to some. Descriptive text: Each fall, CS50 offers a number of seminars on topics related to or beyond the scope of the course, some of which are meant to empower students with practical skills (e.g., How to Use Vim), others of which are meant to prepare them for final projects (e.g., How to Build Facebook Apps).

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I enjoy my work. Problem solved.

you forgot to @Mortons your comment...

Awesome work. I wanted to let you know that the erase function is not working on Firefox 3.6.19 Mac. I share the image with a Safari browser and the image there is erased when I erase in FF window but the erasure doesn't show up in the FF window I erased in.