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I agree. They might as well have described him as 'Turing, the WW2 scientist who discovered Gaydar.'

I think the Telegraph should be capable of better journalism that this.

I liked this when you launched it here recently. I still don't understand how you're dealing with the PRS issues though. At some point, someone has to pay the artists. Can you give any insights on how you deal with this?

Best of luck with a great app.

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Just out of curiosity, how on earth does anyone work hacks like this out?

No

It's called the Air Blade and was designed by Dyson, the same guy who re-thought the vacuum cleaner so effectively: http://www.dysonairblade.co.uk/

A really helpful, valid and well thought out response. This sort of advice takes a pitch that might just work in the Burj Dubai elevator (818 m/2,684 ft - worlds tallest skyscraper) and that almost gets the point across if you're pitching to an investor who's looking for people with a background in cool CMS....into a deal maker.

@patio11 - I'm tempted to send you our elevator for analysis. Anyone interested in 'HN Elevator: Rate my pitch' ?

Timeline from live chicken to Pret a Manger Chicken Wrap? Live, dead, cooked, chopped, wrapped = 55 minutes

As an old guy '45', and an old surfer (why does there seem to be this connection - see illustration to article) and also a serial entrepreneur, this article and the HN comments made some uplifting reading. As we're applying to YC this year, we've obviously been discussing if the age and varied experiences of our team has any positive/negative influence on our application.

In our previous lives in media production, it's all about youth and energy, and seems to becoming even more so, especially in advertising where ideas are often driven by an innate understanding of the power of technology, and how it can be harnessed to create and realise ideas in completely different ways. I know many over 40's colleagues who think computers are for Googling and email (you know who you are), and that's the limit of their technological skill. These people are almost speaking a different language to the 25 year old directors they're working with, who are breaking all the so called 'rules'.

At one point, many HNer's, after years of struggle and work on projects will become 'the old guys', and still drawing on their entrepreneurial skills and drive. Some will have made that Big Deal with all the $$$, but very many will still be pushing their next idea after a series of almost made it's. I think it's important for young start-ups to project that image of themselves in the future, that they might be looking at 20 years of pushing and fighting to get the success they're striving for.

Yawn, stretch my arms, glance up from my computer and realise it's daybreak and that I've been up all night...again.

Somewhere, there's a forum full of artists arguing the finer points of programming.

Is it fightless or flightless?

...and the point I'm missing here is???

We decided to keep our project in stealth for the last two years until we had our patent filed. We thought that this plan suited our project as we have unique IP with hardly any conflicts in the patent searches. This path has meant it's taken more time to get to the point of having a demo, which is crucial of course, but means that all IP elements of our project are protected before we go live. I think in the end, it comes down to - can you afford to fight any infringement of your patent should someone try a similar product.

Your friends hate to see you disillusioned, so they let you perpetuate the self-illusion that what you're proposing in your project will work. You best friends are the ones who disillusion you.

Great, but still no decent rhymes for orange or silver.

My phone number spells : Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Where does this cyclist-fascist 'I'm holier than thou because I have carbon rims' attitude come from, seems it's endemic.

My first thought too. Strange how they went into detail about the guy scooping up shrimps to feed his fish, but almost nothing on the aircraft.

I think it falls beautifully into the romantic surrealist genre, and appauld it for doing so. I wasn't criticising banality, though I would disagree with with your commment on banality is the root of all art. What are you basing this on?

I'm a PC - not.

I'm a PC - not

It's cool. Like an ode to banality.

Personally I rate domain hacks, especially perfect ones like last.fm. I think think the dominance of the .com should be challenged, partly because how many .coms are genuine businesses, i.e. do they make any cash, or do they just lose it hand over fist - shouldn't there be a .fail TLD ?

I know there's lot's of issues with hacks like this, but still think they're worth exploring and are a neat way of bypassing the speculative purchasing of .com names.

Try www.domaintyper.com for some neat domain name choices.

It was very satirical, but written with the world weary experience of someone working professionally in the mind-numbingly 'head up your own ass' world of music promo production. The point he's making is that so many promos being produced are such rubbish, that you might as well just put the interesting bit in at 52 seconds in, the rest of the clip is pretty meaningless.

If you read his other posts, he makes some really interesting points about how the same old ideas are re-hashed, over and over and over. The director's treatment post is funny and very true. Here's an example of a verbal treatment we got once - "Err.. yeah, we're like looking for a vibe, y'know?" That was it.

Some people out there even believe the bands actually make their promos - "like wow, have you seen the new (insert band), they make such amazing videos". Go figure.

I really agree with the points raised in the article, but as most of the other replies state, you are entering into a business relatioship with them , so yes they do have to review what you submit - fair enough.

What I've never understood is how they intend to scale the review process. With about 50,000 apps so far, and 40 reviewers (I believe that's how many there are) already, it must be a pretty intense task. How are they going to deal with this when they're getting ten or a hundred times as many submissions as they are now? In terms of business, they have to scale and grow the App Store continuously, so obviously they just employ more reviewers, but is this a viable and logical route?

Surely at some point they'll have to stop the review process.

The other bit makes me think of little green men - is it a sign???

We're considering a reciprocal barter system - coding for design.

Any interest to you?

I agree wholeheartedly with this.

For anyone who's interested, my wish list is:

1. No debt

2. Index linked income stream of about $100,000 annually

3. Camper van

4. Second hand Porsche ( can't help that, I'm 45)

5. Happy, healthy family

The training I did was based on 'Sudden Attack' principles, i.e. where you're being suddenly attacked. These are the most common forms of attack, and in most cases, no amount of martial arts training is going to help you, because you probably won't see it coming, or if you do, you have almost no time to react. I know lots will disagree with me, but that's my opinion. Most attackers are looking for an easy target, even they don't want to get hurt. Reading the situation, and getting away from it, is far more useful than fighting your way out of it.

If it does get rowdy, Systema or an improvised kubotan - a pen, dining spoon, memory stick, may help you. It's always better to get out of the situation in one piece though, and get back to some nice programming that will do some good in the world.