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Great way to end it:

"If you’re not part of the intended audience and are very very mad that a stranger on the Internet has a different opinion than you, I encourage you to direct your energy into an alternative argument that a young person might benefit from reading."

Car2Go is an amazing idea! I really hope they don't raise their prices as well since it's actually cheaper than Lyft or Sidecar + you get to drive!

I was mostly commenting on the state of commenting on hackernews.

Somebody comes out with an idea to drastically transform the way that we consume food + the top comment, at the time, was about one small detail in his vid.

Is it wrong to ridicule that kind of comment?

Very true. They need a nuticionist on the team

Really?? From all the comments about this idea/execution/etc, this is what you chose to focus your attention on?!

Most people don't realize that they too have gluten issues.

I thought I didn't have any issues with gluten until I stopped eating it for a month. Now if I eat gluten I get a headache almost immediately afterwards.

I just started the paleo diet and lost 10 lbs this last month.

Overwhelmingly I've been amazed to see that most people seem to have no regard whatsoever for their nutrition. Things go into their body but it often has 0 nutricional value.

Also - it's actually really really hard to eat well. Since so many restaurants cater to what people are familiar with, there's next to no alternative for people trying to eat nutritious food.

What even worse is the cultures where you throw another type of hello/goodbye gesture into the mix.

Take Montreal, Canada: Half of the population there says goodbye via two air kisses, half hug, then you got the formal handshakes into the mix. Nobody announces what they're doing when they go in, so it's not uncommon to get the hug + two air kisses, which feels a little sexual to me.

To add to the complexity, you have people of different cultures in the city. Arab men for example kiss on the cheek but don't kiss the women. So you need to size a person's culture, sex + the level of the relationship up whenever saying hello or goodbye to people.

Etsy is pretty aggressive. Try contacting any of their members with a request. They'll shut down your account without warning.

Apparently there were some recent changed to the H1B which actually allow people on this visa to start their own companies. you should look into it.

If you only want job creators to come to the country - how about just creating a visa to only allow that. On this visa, you can come to the US to consult, open a barber shop, found a startup, etc but you cannot work for anyone else.

Right. Because the only immigrants you want are people willing to pay crazy amounts for a visa.

A solution like this would have kept a good chunk of all the famous immigrant entrepreneurs from ever coming to the US.

A lot of this difference of opinion comes from people with different backgrounds looking at a problem.

Some people are visionaries and spend their days trying to connect the the dots that other people haven't yet connected to push the boundaries. Steve Jobs was like this.

Most developers are implementers. Since developers spend their days working through the details of any particular spec, they think of the details much more than the visionaries. Woz was like this.

Both types of people are crucial for any product to be a success and both types can really help each other in crafting something up if they would both listen to each other.

Unfortunately this rarely happens...

This is genius - great job! Also props for having the discipline to code it up from a ski resort!

For those of us who don't have ipads I would love the ability to custom send hand written cards from the web. I'd be fine with even somebody else writing them.

Thanks for breaking these things down. I don't really agree with them but I appreciate how a different reading on things could conclude that an intelligent person could have made those decisions.

There are similar accounts on quora citing that bush is extremely intelligent.

The challenging things about all these accounts is that not only in public did he seem like an idiot but the decisions that he made in office were similarly inept.

To cite a few: - Spending increases while incurring tax cuts - The Iraq War + the willful deceiving of the public - The lack of remorse of any decision made in office

Malcolm Gladwell cites that (in life) the people who really excel aren't just the ones who are the most intelligent but the ones who posses other factors as well which make them a success. Perhaps this provides some of the explanation for the discrepancy between the personal accounts and the actions of his administration.

Hey guys - congrats on the product launch! I'm really confused though. How is this better than an email form?

I swore that I would never make a Facebook app 2 years ago when Facebook broke my app without any reason or explanation 3 times.

Check out the bug tracking system on their developer portal, there are tons of bugs which they just ignore.

There was a recent study which discussed the way that freelancers find work.

They were: - Referrals (27%) - word of mouth (24%) - Personal and professional networks (17%)

Beautiful design! :)

The challenge with the US is that all talk of immigration focusses on illegal immigrants, rather than highly skilled and educated immigrants.

It's unfortunate that the Obama administration won't separate these two kinds of immigrants since they fear in doing so, they won't be able to get comprehensive immigration reform passed.

Other countries recognize the value of highly educated immigrants who want to create companies. Canada, for example, just announced it's startup visa specifically targeting immigrants who want to move to the country to start a company.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/1/4170022/canada-startup-visa...

I've been wanting to see social networking for business conferences really take off for a while.

Anyone know why Lanyrd doesn't have more traction? For any given conference, I find that it's rare for more than 10% to signal that they are going to the conference.

Hmmm... but this is bad PR.

The PR read that Yahoo is acquiring a company but shutting down its product and getting only 2 of their engineers for 30 million dollars. PR like that gets Yahoo's name in the press but does nothing to improve the image that Yahoo has no idea what it's doing.

Interesting but confused on the conclusion...

If the real story is that Yahoo bought the technology to summarize articles from SRI International, who partly owned Summly -> why did Summly's owners make 30 million?

Just looked at all the videos. I wanted to like this but I'm really unimpressed. I don't understand why anyone would install this.

All my friends seem to be using Facebook less and less and this seems to be another way to lock me into Facebook's ecosystem. While they could easily allow you to contact your friends in all the ways which you normally communicate with them - SMS, Email, Phone, the only thing they integrated in was Facebook messages.

By making this, they are basically saying that people want something in their hand which provides them random information they can swipe to. People want this random info soo sooo much, they we've made it the home screen + doing anything in apps is the exception.

The other problem with california is the state tax. You can make 10% less in Washington + take the same amount home.

Fantastic post. Thanks for the great breakdown :)

You can. This is another sophisticated way to cheat. People are using their smartphones to count cards for them which will get them kicked out.

Press works pretty well as does posting to Facebook.

About press - you need to pitch people. Start with smaller blogs and work your way up from there. Guess reporter's email addresses and try to find a way in by being helpful first.

That's how I got my first customers for http://www.artsumo.com.

This seems to be 37 Signal's model case and point. It's been doing pretty well for them.