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I have the exact same views.

In one of the discussion on building the structure, I was amazed to find that people do not think in terms of API.

As for me, I have always thought of having 3 different layers/servers independent of each other. Front-end, Back-end and Database

I am not a big fan of peer to peer system, but will give it a look.

Food is an absolute must. Unfortunately, HN does not have that. :(

BTW, what do you generally like in food discussions? Is it good pics of food dishes, or recipes or something else?

Helpful points here.. - Replies to multiple posts - Easy linking to last comment/post

As about moot, lets see if that happens?

Point taken.

We are already having thoughts on the automation of tagging, grouping or categorization of comments. However, before we start working on it, we are validating on how important or necessary this feature would be.

What if, we spend a few days making an awesome automation to do what you mentioned, but no one really gives a st about it. :)

Completely agree. I had read this someplace, and I go by this statement.

"A good design is something which takes care of both extreme users, and not just a center large portion."

The user feature of a website should be such that, they should feel to interact either as real identity (gets them social karma) or as an anonymous user (without any concerns)

Yes. HN or forums do have this advantage and it has solved the issue of troll to a large extent.

Quora on the other hand, has this feature of being able to ask or answer questions as anonymous, and this has resulted in an avalanche of stupid questions and unrelated answers.

We are somewhere in between, while we like to give a real identity like Quora has, we also believe, anonymity is an important feature to have, for many different reasons.

Have not really liked 4chan, but I will give it a re-look now.

We are having a few things in mind. One of them being applying categories or tags to comments, along with the nested comments.

We believe, each discussion essentially has multiple parallel threads running, and each thread should have its own structure.

The other thought is about users able to post as anonymous, but with certain restrictions.

Absolutely.

The original idea for a better discussion platform came after using fb group for 2.5 years and feeling the pain. We had started the Bangalore Startups group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/blrstartups/)...

Although we keep getting new users fairly well, control and structuring discussions is completely missing..

What do you feel about anonymous user handle? Is it a must? Or discussion platform should not have anonymous users, as it leads to trolling.

That is an interesting point.

It remains to be seen if two users are actually agreeing to the third person, or still continue to argue with their points

Yes, we like discourse to a great extent ...

however, one problem which we always face is following thru the comments on HN or reddit .. once the comments cross 100 ... or even 50

Discourse does not solve that either ... Is that a problem for others?

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DMCA has often been used to suppress free-speech. It is high time, this rule is re-visited and some of the context is set right.

I was actually expecting Microsoft to launch gesture control in their tablet .....

May be some day in near future.... I am sure very soon, they will integrate kinect and windows, and then ..... well everything changes ...

and rightly said ... iPad is a toy and for kids ... Surface is a gadget and for the grown ups ...

If you are planning to startup in future, would suggest you to join the startup. The payment is any ways good, and when you factor the taxes and all, your take home will hardly be any different.

Plus, working on a startup will enable you to learn a whole lot more, you may get to meet the investors and talk and build a rapport.

Working in Big Companies will not give you the skills required to startup. They train you to adhere to processes. :)

Amazon might be different than other Indian companies, then again the bosses and the managers will be coming from Indian companies. ;)

How long do you want to wait before you want to startup? 18 months in India, and then depending on availablity and assuming the HR is telling the truth, 1 more year in SV? Still you might not get to learn much about startups during that period.