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Why can Facebook only come up with monetization strategies that take advantage of its users?

This is a risk but not a big risk at all if the engineer was "one of the best engineers in his area" because he would be able to find another job easily.

I know my comments haven't been full of praise but I enjoyed your post and it seems you have the personality that is needed for success.

Inspired, I hacked out the feature that was the answer to the flunked question and used it on the partners.

If it was such an easy feature to add and so important that you had several strong answers to the issue that required the feature, why wasn't it already part of your product?

edit: If the feature was already present in your product, it would have been almost impossible to have gone blank.

If a few days and a few thousand pounds isn't worth much to him then I understand but if resources are scarce, using them on long shots that might not even pay that much over the alternatives is not good business.

edit: punctuation, grammar

To what do you vehemently disagree? That it is a slim chance of securing the domain name? If so, why does the rest of your comment discuss how important YC is to UK programmers?

Having said that, I think that the post has a slightly angry tone which I do not like. People can ask whatever they want in exchange for their work. If they are not worth it, don't hire them. If they are, get them on board. No need to write a blog post about it though.

I wish people weren't so obsessed with celebrity.

I think that releasing software quickly is completely different to releasing a physical item quickly. You continue working on the software and update as necessary but you cannot update a physical book that is sitting on someone's coffee table.

How much time was spent on the content of the book versus the design? Is the content alone worth the price asked or is the content just a filler for the book design/marketing effort?

...Who often had little to no say in the outcome?

No Choice? If you are unhappy, find a new job.

Edit: formatting

Hope you get hold of the .com domain name soon.

http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/02/21/review-cingular-8125/ This was released over a year before the first iphone.

I think that apple's contribution was not so much innovation as it was popularisation.

I am fascinated by this statement. What evidence do you have to support it?

Get made redundant due to unforeseen shifts in the job market? Educate yourself, get a better job, work harder. Innovate, invent, think, mow your neighbors lawns. Use your brain and don't embark on a dead end career.

I agree that some social safety nets are needed for a civilized society (No one that is ill should go without out treatment if they don't have any money etc) but at the same time there are limits and I think paying for people who lose their jobs because of new technology is way past that line. We need to encourage people to be smarter, not dumber.

"People who preach personal responsibility are oblivious to the realities of the world." I live in South Africa and government handouts do nothing but keep the poor oppressed and uneducated. They are used as a tool for control by populist politicians. People will have more children just for another R250/month from the government instead of creating value. Socialism is a huge threat to everyone everywhere. It keeps the populous dumb and gives governments way too much power. Please don't preach about the realities of the world from your $200K/year+ household pedestal. Socialism is obviously working out great for you.

If I had become a fax machine expert would it be fair to charge a tax on those that began to use email to support me?

People should take responsibility for themselves and their own actions.

http://checkthis.com/sboa

I liked it until I read "fuck it" in the options when publishing.