muffinman2010

hmm didn't know the founder worked for RIM, this got a little interesting

The probability of me picking up girls just increased...

What a bitch move RIM, there will be more UofT students filling up RIM now...

explains the crappy games...

There is a new site up by the guys/girls who created kiva.org: https://www.profounder.com/

I think you would be a good fit for it.

Looks great, but scrolling is choppy on my computer

Please, lets not enter an age of programmers that act like kanye west. I really hope programmers don't adopt this point of view, I go to an "ivy league" cs uni, and I'm seeing my peers adopt this douchie ego - were they think they control the world. I don't completely agree with this article its taking a very startup / silicon valley approach to the whole argument, the bigger the company gets the easier it becomes to afford more programmers, I know it may be hard to believe but there are programmers outside silicon valley, and most third world countries, india, china, Indonesia , Dubai have ramped up their post secondary programs, every industry has its bubbles, cs is now, a year ago it was accountants, its completly normal, doesn't mean we're gonna rule the world.

RIM has been increasing its market share, just because RIM isn't the only smart mobile on the market, doesn't mean it's going to turn into the next palm. RIM has been doing a good job differentiating itself as a business solution. I don't they are going to die anytime soon, but they're slow pace of innovation, software updates are hurting their consumer market....but then again apple can come out with a phone with a broken antenna and expect to sell millions, RIM has a far more corporate audience, so they need to be careful how they expand. All in all, it may seem like rim is dying for a consumer perspective, but I think they may still have a chance, although with a smaller market share.

Just wondering if the 4 hour work week is actually a good book, I read like the first chapter, I was very disappointed, no in content and very wordy. Does it get better?

I'm in Canada so not sure if I can do the same, my service would require you to at least create a playlist like thing, so in essence you can find our how many plays have been made from youtube. Youtube really needs to write better guidelines for their youtube api for music. I'm still contemplating whether I should do it or not, my site would also be free to use...but have a lawsuit during my school semester would really get in the way.

What do you guys in HN think about the issue? Can we use youtube api to freely grab music videos? Can we store index to the url (for playlists?)

Hey Jonathan I was thinking about getting youtube music videos, but I got scared off when I read about http://www.muziic.com/ getting in legal problems my music studios : http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/20/muziic/

I was wondering what your thoughts are on that? I'm still young and in University atm, but our profs scare us like hell when talking about law suits, and they can ruin your entire life...etc etc, so I've been to scared to act on the youtube music api. Can you guys drop your thoughts on the issue?

My respect for Mark Pincus Suddenly dropped to 0. Especially since he noted as saying, in the "Facebook Effect," that he (as well as Matt) bought the patent to social networking so he could make it free and independent, away from the big corporations, and talked about how patents hinder innovation... clearly that was all BS!