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Just deleted Candy Crush myself and low reviewed them. This is ridiculous.

To put the price in perspective, HighCharts, an extremely complex charting library, only charges $90 for a single website license.

In a situation like this the picture is the seller.

From the screenshot it looks like the UI is very nice, but the picture isn't big enough for me to take it all in and reinforce what my gut is leaning toward.

For me, I just want to see bigger pictures of the actual interface and that would be enough to pick a direction.

Small screenshots, no large ones accesible to see the details, no feature list, and the only way to learn more about the app is to buy it.

It looks very interesting, but I'm not quite sold yet, though I am interested to learn more.

I lost it at making a symbol to represent a note letter -- a terrible idea. Ex. D for Dot.

One thing to understand about music is that the letters are meaningless, as learning by letters restricts you to playing in a certain fashion. For some reason letters got introduced, I don't know why, but all that matters is the distance between notes.

Not learning letters first allowed me to easily transpose into any key since the LETTER DIDN'T MATTER.

Cool idea, but has some serious limitations in real music, the obvious one being transposition.

I'd argue this is why the idea of customer support/community management is an entire department on itself. Customers in general, are not forgiving. Knowing how to deal with them properly takes social savvy, and you have to be aware how emails can turn into a PR blunder.

The customer in this case was put in a position that made him feel that he needed to publically shame. A good PR/Customer Support rep would have seen this coming and would have defused the situation earlier.

Direct link to YC spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0ApqWF3CqjgjSdE9...

(terribly hard to view in the blog post IFRAME)

A lot of articles I originally read/skimmed with Angular didn't really tout it's ability to organize large codebases... I got the impression is targeted toward smaller projects, whereas Backbone they market themselves in your face "we will clean up your large codebase".

Hey, the guy had a wife and kids. He is just trying to make a living. Come on...

Great thanks. My perception up until this comment was that Angular was more of a mini-tool for MVVM for use in little widgets, and not really able to be huge.

I wish it was advertised more what large projects using Angular and that they are actually architected completely with Angular.

How big is your Angular project? I mean I like the idea behind Angular, but my concern how Angular holds up in a huge app, let's say if Angular was written as the client of WordPress (or some blog) admin. I don't have enough experience with it to be able to judge how well it is to handle that.

Or would it be a hybrid of Backbone + Angular?

Would love to hear the opinion of someone more experienced.

The problem is the way company structures are currently set up, where founders get the majority of ownership, and employees just get the pool.

What does this mean? To me it means that the way a company structures itself needs to change. More ownership needs to be given to employees, and founders need to get less.

That how I want to start my next company. Double the options pool, and lower the founder equity. Just because your employee #1 and it was my idea doesn't mean I get to dilute your share of the company but that big of a margin. We'll all be doing a ton of work.

That being said, can someone tell me why this might be a bad idea? :)

Would love to get a PDF version of this. I'll make one once I get home but if someone beats me to it... ;)

Reading this story made me wonder, does it ever work? And if so, I wonder what the success ratio is. Clearly is must be high enough (or profitable enough despite losses) for them to keep doing it...

Congrats! How long did you spend build EasyPost before doing the initial Sep. 18th launch?

EDIT: On a feedback note, 5% or less is very vague on the pricing page... Why not explain a bit further the upper and lower limits?

When I was 25 I lost more than $20,000 of my own and FFF money investing in my own project only to have it fail. At the time I was obviously, really upset.

Fast forward to today -- looking back it was one of the greatest investments in my life so far as all the stuff I learned both emotionally, psychologically and professionally has really helped with current work and life.

I used to think losing money was a big deal, but now I realize it isn't. Investors are in a sense "buying" your time. Can you really put a value on your time? Your own life?

Sure, the memories were disappointing and frustrating, but I wouldn't have had it any other way. And yes, I plan to save and try it again.

EDIT: Just to be clear I'm not saying throw VC money around... of course you still need to be responsible.

Agreed. Part of the job of being an investor is to balance your portfolio, and losses are to be expected. Such a world doesn't exist where investments are risk free.

There are many entrepreneurs who have raised again from VCs even after they didn't make it from their first raise. As long as you tried your hardest, there isn't much else more you can do. Keep at it.

Is MongoDB certainly declared "bad" now or something? I still thought Mongo is a viable option? Why would they give you crazy looks?

I'd guess it's more like 2-20K, but if it were only that much would HN have discussed it?

This needs a start button so it will play like a slide-down movie!

If this is true it would make even more sense to drop down to 1:1 so that users would "get it" and not have to familiarize themselves with a new market.

Converting $1 = 10H might seem like a simple conversion, but you'd be surprised how difficult it can actually be for many general consumers. I've seen people bring out calculators to split a $130 bill evenly between 13 people.

I'd suggest not calling it Honey. It is too similar to the word money, and can cause confusion. Imagine in conversation...

"so you go to this website and trade your stuff in for honey."

"wait you mean money?"

"no honey. but honey is like money, you can use honey to buy stuff just like money..."

etc.

EDIT: I just looked the pricing model and it is evokes weird feelings. Any reason why you don't just do a 1:1 ratio? Why force users to compute a secondary calculation. True, it is a multiple of 10 but still a calculation and makes me feel like I'm making a foreign purchase.

Is this useful for Django 1.4.3 development? I know this is a 1.5 book so I'm not sure how much of the API/stack has changed and how relevant the book will be for me.

Having recently started Django for a small gig, I have found searching for Django documentation, tips, and practices, to be extremely difficult and confusing, especially coming from the Rails world where blog posts seem a dime a dozen.

I spent a long time looking for good info only to find outdated or poorly maintained docs, and a very little sense of "community".

I'll probably grab this book to get me jumpstarted. I'm happy, yet sad that I have to find my information this way -- says something about the community IMO (not a bash on you, but just a nag on the Django community as a whole as I feel it doesn't really like helping beginners).

When life gives you lemons make lemonade.

    1. Apple rejected the cable. To those who say "just go USB", it was
       supposed to be a seamless product and that destroys aesthetics. 
       Image is everything in product design.
 
    2. In parallel they were working on Christie Street, to solve the 
       issue of non-refunds on Kickstarter.

    3. So why not turn something bad into something good? Get some press 
       for their new site, and also issue refunds for everyone. How else 
       would they issue refunds? And how does anyone lose in this situation? 

If anything, this seems like a great and fair way to deal with the issues at hand.

Yes check out that or Blogspot. Their method of Draft->Preview in a lifecycle is more or less what people expect IMO, and also scheduling (you can schedule blog posts to be published at certain times).

"How to make a coursecraft course" course. This would be gold.

Sidenote -- the draft -> publish mechanism is very unintuitive.

Yeah. When I referred "Dispute Center" above, all the messages took place inside Paypal's internal dipsute center messaging system.

The Paypal dispute system is a joke. I had a simliar experience with a $300 laptop. The condition it came in was NOT as described. I tried to get the seller to refund, but he just ignored my messages. Unable to contact the seller, I opened a dispute case and I took photos, documented the entire thing, and even did the dispute message system (and the seller didn't respond once to my complaints within the dispute system).

After 3? weeks of no response, I clicked escalate button to firm up the dispute and push it to Paypal so they could decide. I thought I had a clear cut case -- photos, documentation, 21 days of seller not even trying to defend himself.

Seller, upon getting the final warning, finally replied with a message along the lines of "I offered a refund but buyer never contacted me" with no proof... and Paypal voted in his favor.

Fuck Paypal.

I used VLC since I was a kid to watch my "backed-up" videos in the days where codecs were rampant and confusing. Now that I have some income, it feels good to give back. Here's to the next generation of VLC!