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As you said Bill Gates coming from a rich background which makes it even more amazing that how much he spends on charity (as a person who has never been poor)

Simple: A product which will be understood in the long term.

Try to use a very simple product and then switch to a complex one, you'll hate the complex one.

Complex: A product which will attract the buyer on the paper. When you compare features it'll be always on the top.

So if there is a product with WOM involved simple will won in the long term otherwise end user will choose features over simplicity as they don't know whether it's stupidly simple of awesomely simple.

I lived in Turkey for a while and almost every house has one normal toilet and one old school toilets (hole in the floor) which hasn't got a place to sit so you have to squat.

AFAIK also muslims prefer squating over sitting as it's the suggested practice, also they don't pee standing up (I think this is due to health reasons as well but can be about being clean,not sure).

I always prefer squating over sitting however when you get old generally you need to sit as squatting is literally requires effort, many elderly people sits due to this.

I can't imagine squating in a normal sit toilet, that's just dangerous.

Real reason is ridiculously simple as most of the men don't care about if the color of their great hat matches with their nice boots, most of the women are not geek.

I don't think many got a great state of mind before they blew themselves off.

This is true and mostly because a news in HN triggers an idea in the reader and instead of writing a comment which will be missed by masses they write a blog post and submit to HN, I think it's good but I wish there was a way to link these discussion so new comers to that topic knew what the hell the blog post was talking about.

The biggest question has unanswered in this article

"What's the avg. switch time?"

When can I get back to my speed of QWERTY, 3 days, 1 month?

> That said, the Linux gaming market might be too small to be worth supporting :/

I think that's exactly the reason, Mac market is much bigger than 3 years ago but we got at least 5 years more for a decent linux gaming market.

What round? In a small startup you don't have rounds. You are ramen profitable in your first year which is generally not more than $5K-$30K per month (depending on the size) and then you stay alive, you don't get huge or big or massive and generally you don't care. $5-10K per month is good salary for a (co-)founder.

These small startups funded by their customers after 3 months to 1 year, after a year if they are not ramen profitable then it's generally end of the game. In the long term it gets bigger and in which case you are already big which means either someone is going to acquire you or you can fund yourself and keep getting bigger and bigger.

I understand that some startups need load of money and stuff but many don't.

Well if you are 2 people who runs a startup for $1000-5000 per month what's going to happen? In 1999 1 chair of a startup was $1500

I think VCs need to understand that not all startups want to be a billionaire hence they don't need baby sitters and they can take care of themselves.

:) That challenges box awfully looks like "missing plugin"

about:config FTW!

Read it all is sort of bullshit, it's good to read but "read it all" even about only one subject is impossible, blogs, tweets, books, slides, presentations, gathering there is just too much to observe. If you don't cheerypick and try to read all you are being unrealistic not an entrepreneur, entrepreneurs should use time wisely.

It might be that author was trying to say "read different opinions", which makes sense. Which is way different than "read it all, don't cheerypick" advice

Except potentially all those photos will be crap and then you'll end up with a really mediocre photo selling website and business will scarred for life.

Please tell me this is not real and website feels like spammy ebook sale websites, especially the colour scheme, use a theme from or CSS template to fix it quickly.