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The trick to speaking well is practice. Talk through your arguments in a safe calm environment, speak freeform without stopping, record and watch your practice sessions. If that sounds like too much work, try Toastmasters.

Smart design, quality video production and badges. Treehouse looks solid. Good luck!

Our goal was to efficiently prepare a bright non-programmer to an entry level .NET support job. Python and Ruby are great (I hack in both daily) but each is a diversion from the stated goal. By contrast, K&R is only 228 pages and is a good introduction to C#.

I love this part: "Creativity and drudgery are not mutually exclusive, Richards deduced as he toiled away. Instead, they enable each other. A good idea can come from anywhere. Expressing it in a way that jumps off the page—fresh, elegant, exciting—requires, first and foremost, relentless hard work."

Ashton was pure. Deeply moving, insightful, perfect delivery. I loved the Carl Fisher story.

You are ignoring most of the reasons wheels gave you. He said an e-book is harder for sharing, cannot be stored in a physical location and requires a theft prone device that makes the owner look nerdy. He also said he prefers the sensory experience of a book to that of a device. Your evangelism addresses only the last point and your premise - wheels is unfamiliar with modern e-readers - appears without basis.

In my opinion the site looks thrown together and incongruent.

The groupon starburst is trite (as are groupon clones but that is another matter). You obviously stole this artwork which strikes me as sleazy. That said, you are selling knockoffs so maybe it helps you.

I would kill the fixed green div in the corner. It distracts from your main content and it is redundant.

The shift from starburst background to #fff is a visual shock. I would soften the light bulb and add some borders.

When I opened the site in Firefox I got prompted to install missing plugins. Drop whatever is causing that. And whatever c.mouseflow.com is it's killing your load time.

The headline is worded well but the big serif font on that stark background is a bit painful. Go smaller and softer if you can.

Try moving the video player and the text around until you can fit everything into the center space. Right now the player is shifted off that canvas and that looks weird.

I would showcase the example website. Right now it's in an iframe, and the resultant UX is confusing.

Congrats on launch. The instant price calculator is slick.

I notice it's on Rails. Shoot for an API and a Wordpress plugin. Both could be jets for this type of business.

It's because you're running OS X 10.6+ and your browser supports the HTML5 GeoLocation API. Snow Leopard introduced the CoreLocation API which periodically sends Apple the network addresses and strengths of all the WiFi routers near your mac, which returns your triangulated position.

They pay testers via PayPal: https://www.gazehawk.com/tester/signup/

"David Heinemeier Hansson gave up a dangerous drug addiction we funded."

You have submitted over 70 links to that blog in the past 3 months. Please share only your best hacker relevant posts.

No, Case-Mate is speculating about the next iPhone design and is collecting the email addresses of credulous hipsters.

You have submitted over 70 bgr.com links in the past 3 months. Why are you spamming HN?

I think points 6 - 8 cover the trends you mention.

Breathtaking design. Minor suggestions...

Tighten the headline: "Instantly change your mouse precision."

On the Support page: 1) respell "Suppport" 2) add a space to "FinalTouchsupport" 3) shorten "Adobe CS1 [...]" to "Adobe CS3+" and 4) drop the ".php"

Maybe so, but he should also probably revise his website starting with the confusing and grammatically bad copy:

"MicroMaximus is a simple on-demand service designed to assist Reward Checking Account holders' to supplement their monthly transaction requirements. MicroMaximus users will be able to schedule $1.00 transactions online quickly and securely enabling a higher rate of return."

"Why are the tutorials presented in reverse order?"

Probably because it's a WordPress site and the author didn't get around to adding

  query_posts($query_string."&order=ASC");

to index.php before the if(have_posts()) logic.

I stand corrected.

You and your PhD wife do not sound average, which serves my point that buying a house is a gamble on future earnings. You both are investing in yourselves, improving your assets and generating wealth. The average American watches 4 hours of television a day, he isn't prudent.

> Maybe most people shouldn't live paycheck to paycheck.

Strike "maybe most" and I agree with you.

> it’s cheaper to buy a home than to rent in 74% of America’s 50 largest cities

This "statistic" wouldn't happen to come from a company that earns its revenue primarily through the buying and selling of houses, would it?

Most Americans should rent, especially in today's dark economy. The average American is unskilled, has not saved for retirement and lives paycheck to paycheck. Such a person should avoid big purchases because accumulating debt is a gamble on future earnings.

Ok I thought you were talking about a physical card that you could swipe in meat space. Narrowing scope to the internet makes your bank idea easier though it would still take a ton of work.

How familiar are you with the regulations guarding the banking industry?

How do you plan to solve the chicken-egg adoption problem? Most vendors offer 3 to 5 credit card brands, and they won't want to adulterate their payment forms with strange unproven options. I wonder if collaborating with companies that build shopping cart plugins is the way to go or if you would have to fly solo for awhile before the established shopping cart players would take you seriously.

How many people are clamoring for such a financial account? If my credit card account gets comprised, the most I'm liable for is $50 or something like that. I check my transaction log for unusual activity, which I do with any financial account. Even companies that have purchasing cards reconcile the transactions. Apart from not having to pay $50 if my card ever gets compromised, what benefit would your bank serve to me?

That already exists. It's called a corporate purchasing card. I used to sell new Fortune 500 accounts when I worked at American Express, so I'm quite familiar with them.

You can set myriad fine-grained controls like "only permit Office Depot purchases of paper reams, Monday thru Friday, in zip code 94304, $40 maximum per use." Stuff like that.

The account administrator gets a granular data feed with all the purchases pre-categorized, and reconciliation and reporting software.

The trouble competitors have is gathering the data at the point of sale. American Express blows away the competition on data, primarily because of card readers. Many American Express merchants have a separate card reader which can be programmed to force the merchant to filter transactions based on the controls set on the cardholder's account. Many companies won't buy from suppliers who aren't fully set up for American Express purchasing cards, which is why so many suppliers go through the trouble of uploading their product database and paying the high transaction fees.

Whatever you do, go deep. Be an expert in something. Learn a trade. Don't be "the idea guy." Can your ideas can be prefaced with "this detailed plan would definitely be very profitable"? If yes then...work the plan. Otherwise you might want to consider sales, consulting or meta tech stuff like documentation. Strike commentary off your list: the web is awash with tech bloggers. (Just my two cents)

Check your math. $16.9 billion * (29.2% - 21.5%) = $1.30 billion.

As to the additional revenues Buffett wants from the 236,883 richest households, if we assume the average of those households had taxable income of $5 million and if we raise their rates by 10% we get $118 billion.

> I've attempted to 'argue' Austrian style economics here before

Careful what you claim. Your account is brand new and shows no such comment history.

You said "Considering the damage the US government has done to the industry..."

Jonathan is an executive at a marketing shop that launched in March. They list Starbucks second among 16 clients. Their chief strategy officer is a Wharton School senior fellow. When these guys launch a mobile equity -- er Mobiquity -- campaign it isn't a weekend project. From Mobiquity's homepage infer that Starbucks pays Mobiquity "to identify new revenue and ROI opportunities" and "capture real-time behavioral insights through analytics, profiling and modeling." Call me jaded, call you credulous. Either way it's brilliant publicity.

Speed and reliability. Take open source. You could manually find, download, untar, configure, make, install and track dependencies. A good package manager lets you do that in one command e.g.:

  $ brew install package_name

OSX includes a package manager for proprietary packages blessed by Apple. It's fast and reliable but its curators forbid most open source and proprietary packages. It's called App Store.

I bet they judge men who watch television more favorably.

I have never encountered a situation when beating a defenseless person seemed like the reasonable thing to do.

The law should be changed.