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Oh, sorry. It's even better. It's SIX books.

"New Orleans Hornets center Emeka Okafor, whose parents both hail from Nigeria, is one of the league's most accomplished fans of literature. He has finished six books this season"

Wow. THAT'S a sad state of affairs. A few hundred players, hundreds of millions of total income. Billions maybe? And "the most accomplished fan of literature" have read 8 (eight!) books this season. Well, on the other side... maybe it's better for US economy. Those people will be more willing to spend their hundreds of millions on physical goods and thus give the econome a nice push. But still... sad and disappointing.

If you want to come rarely but don't want to miss the most important stuff, this should help: http://news.ycombinator.com/best

Indeed it is. I checked in new submissions an hour or so after submitting and when I didn't see it, I resubmitted. Turns out it went through ok, it just was buried under all the submissions and could not be seen on the first page.

Well, so while Twitter "deprives TC of revenue as punishment" (can you even say this with a straight face? Really?) is a crime, but TC hurting Twitter's image is perfectly OK? I'm lost here...

Also keep in mind that providing TC with this revenue from Twitter is strictly their good will and should not be taken for granted. Do you really not see this?

What's so unusual about it? Is there any imperative to list Techcrunch and keep it listed no matter what? Even after they publish confidential information that wasn't supposed to be published at all?

If one of your friends (like in real life, you know) stole your diary and started telling all your other friends everything from that diary, would you still be obliged to be friends with him? Pretty obvious, isn't it?

And keep in mind that Twitter's aim is not to be the most objective and complete source of news, you know? They just have a list of sources they think are worth checking.

Finishing "Atlas Shrugged". While ideas and the spirit of the book have aged only slightly, the way of writing seems way too pretentious for our times. But overall the book is interesting. From historic and ideological point of view.

If you enter the promo code "LREL40", you get further discount to $5.99. Confirmed, I've just bought with that code and it's indeed $5.99.

And just yesterday or 2 days ago I wrote this under the story of TipJoy shutting down:

"The whole story seems to repeatedly wave the arms and shout:

"Hey, Twitter! Hey, Facebook! Here we are! We know how to do this! Hire us, hire us, hire us!!!".

At least that's how I read the story. And I'm quite convinced it's their intent. Which shouldn't be a bad thing too.

Well, of course customers' money is the most important thing, no doubt about it.

But it struck me that you mentioned several times in the article that you know what and how to do, you just don't have the leverage of being the main body. Why would you deny it? Is it something bad? I don't think so. Would you refuse if Twitter or Facebook approached you with a decent offer?"

And for this I was severely downmodded. Well, wasn't the part of Facebook approaching you right? In my opinion you should have made this known to give people the full picture. For them to judge and make opinions having all the facts, not some of them.

Well, of course customers' money is the most important thing, no doubt about it.

But it struck me that you mentioned several times in the article that you know what and how to do, you just don't have the leverage of being the main body. Why would you deny it? Is it something bad? I don't think so. Would you refuse if Twitter or Facebook approached you with a decent offer?

The whole story seems to repeatedly wave the arms and shout:

"Hey, Twitter! Hey, Facebook! Here we are! We know how to do this! Hire us, hire us, hire us!!!".

At least that's how I read the story. And I'm quite convinced it's their intent. Which shouldn't be a bad thing too.

I've tried a few such solutions. Worked for some time but there was one problem: too many clicks. If I want to use it often (and I do) even 1 click too many kills a feature for me. So if it's going to be easy AND effective - I'll happily use it.

Warsaw, Poland

Am I the only one who noticed that they didn't pay the promised $50? Despite multiple promises of reward.

The article didn't point out any arguments or facts to back up the theory that "you don't build a city like this", except for the opinion that "you just don't". Too much emotions, too little reason. The city may in fact be in decline but for the whole other reasons: decline in tourism and financial markets. These are the factors that influence it badly, not the way it was built. And if the city keeps declining it's because tourism, technology and finance dived too deep and weren't able to keep the city afloat, not because "it was built badly". I could understand such wording in an emotional blog post, not in anything even resembling serious journalims.

Well, for all those developers outside US it's more like 0,01% works, because unicode is always used in templates. But hopefully it'll soon be resolved.

The app looks quite nice (and useful). I'd install it instantly if it was free. But it's not. So I guess I'll just settle for my usual online access. I'm almost always near computer so it's not that crucial for me to have it on my iPhone. But for people on the ago and in need of total control - this can come in handy.

Yes, in addition to these points live no-obligation demo is very important. Unless you really have no competition... But that's hardly ever a case.

Well, I think that the whole thread is all about that "if".

* When you do something humble - is it still humble when you waste a few more hours writing about it and showing it off to the world?

* When you do something humble and it's rather unnecessary waste of time and effort - is it positively humble or genuinely pointless?

* When you want to send the frugality message to the team - do you first spend a few Ks on the blinds, then tear them down and then ruin the ceiling trying to undo what you did previously? Is that the "I'll do anything for your comfort" message?

There are million other ways to show support and make your people feel good. Pointless and unnecessary stuff is not among those ways.

I've read all of them except the last one. And I can assure that it's definitely a good stuff. And makes you think more than a little. Which is also a good stuff.