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I just tried it. I created a box over the line/arrow. Hitting the back for the box, you can't select the arrow. Selecting the arrow and bringing it front, it works ok.

UX suggestion: allow me to use the mouse scroll to change the size of the hovered/selected element, maintaining the scale.

Maybe you should just use what makes the job best for you?

I will not compare Google and Microsoft, but Microsoft has a long tradition of "coming late to the party and remain the last man standing" i.e. Google has a reason to worry in the long term if Microsoft decided to take search seriously.

Neither Bing. Whatever that means.

Funny because of what I remember Java applets were running inside the browser in 1995.

Hopefully this time, someone will stop this madness.

How can someone patent something so abstract? And embeddable objects (OLE 1.0 anyone?!) have been in existence since 1990. How come it defers if they were embedded through an interpreted or a compiled application? Visual Basic was interpreted anyhow long before JavaScript or ActionScript.

Zooming-in in Europe, it appears that they don't have any license for maps outside the US.

here is two links what it looks like

http://www.pushpin.com/api/1.3/docs/tabs.html http://www.pushpin.com/api/1.3/docs/maptype.html

The title given on HN is different from the original which is "Why Do Some Online Services Thrive?".

Sorry, I was typing a bit fast. This should be ok.

  window.onload= function() {  
	setTimeout( "myHotDog.getCondiments();", 3000);
  };

Sorry, I wasn't clear enough. I didn't mean what you are explaining is wrong.

if you dont use prototype the function will not belong το the new object you create, therefore you will not be able το call the function from settimeout, which was the problem the author assumed το have.

This article is wrong. You need to use prototype when defining your functions.

Here is how to do it:

  <html>
  <head>
  <script>

  function HotDog () {
	this.name=arguments[0];
  } 

  HotDog.prototype.name=null;

  HotDog.prototype.getCondiments= function () { 
	document.getElementById('test').innerHTML='started...'  +this.name;
  };
  var myHotDog = new HotDog('test 001');

  window.onload= function() {
	setTimeout(30, myHotDog.getCondiments());
  };

  </script>

  </head>
  <body>
  <div id=test>loading...</div>
  </body>
  </html>

Like Zev pointed out, I am willing to do so.

only 55 points?! this is the best thing I've seen in 2009!

I like the integration with HN comments. Seems like the level of the discussion found here is growing in reputation. Wonder what will happen when more blogs begin doing this.

I don't think the quality of comments will drop because people avoid saying something stupid. What do you think PG?

One important difference I noticed, is the focus on the team of Sequoia responsible for each company.

He/She spent 15 minutes to explain his thoughts. How's that insulting?

If he used that word alone then probably you could assume it's insulting.

now it's offending because people say "sigh"?

Obviously we agree. The "linked list" is the metaphor here. You always should hire the best person that will respond to the needs of his/her role.

"under pressure and time constraints"

Isn't that the situation during a startup and some companies?

If someone is not able to use a linked list, how are you going to trust them think of/implement something new and harder?

And I never said mistakes are unacceptable.

I had T9 activated and it automatically choose the Greek word.

you want me το believe that someone who "blows up" a linked list is a programmer? He may be able το serve other tasks but a programmer he/she is not.

probably you could use Amazon Mechanical Turk

I find this to be a confusing article. So, I couldn't resist to spend "10 minutes" to point these mistakes:

"10 minutes to come up with something amazing"

It's impossible to think of something amazing in 10 minutes.

"We aren't rich because we have cheap ideas, or can develop easily, we are rich because we have friends and support. "

This is conflicting to the title of the article and in any message attempted to be addressed.

"We will never succeed with selfless promotion, so don't do it!"

Who said a startup is about self promotion? If you are doing a startup for that, you are doing it already for a wrong reason. Of course you can be proud but the difficulties will really keep you rather silent and in need for focus on the real issues.

"Build something fun, not serious at all, that has no tool or function that people can use."

the world would be a big Disneyland if everything built is not serious, fun and had no function whatsoever!

"But if you have something great, make it sound like it's for the masses."

what do you consider great? and since when great things are targeted for the masses. Probably the best "toys" are exclusive to those with more money.

"Otherwise, if you have no crazy educational background, awards, job positions at big companies, nobody takes you seriously."

Again, expecting approval is the wrong way to go. Feedback is good, but if you are in need of approval to go after something, it's probably because you are not ready yet (lack of desire, lack of expertise or belief in your abilities etc).

"Development is pretty easy as well"

since when? If you are not building something new yes it probably is. But then you'll probably wont be a startup.

Also, the article began saying he will not share experience and the article is full of "advice" derived from personal experience, which may not complete yet, therefore there will be wrong conclusions that are not helpful for most. The only thing I somewhat agree is:

"Don't go out to places like Hackernews, TechCrunch, Mashable, etc hoping to pitch your idea."

Of course you should know your audience and what you are building.

If ideas were cheap and everyone was able to think of something "amazing" the article wouldn't be full of confusion.

"This isn't an article about my experience"

There are many other mistakes. But to conclude I'll just say that the author began saying that it's not about his experience when the whole article is based on them, from which someone can see that these are current/already expired point of views which will change accordingly if more experience is gained.

Yes, ideas are cheap judging from the whole article. Otherwise, the article would be filled with correct ideas.

Continuing flow of ideas and execution is what is hard.

hey George. Good luck.

You've done great job with the Greek OpenCoffee so far.

how many users is the 5%?

life is too short to hate anyone.

YouTube was acquired after the 18 months you are reffering to.

Touch screen is a very broad concept. It has been applied in numerous devices.

In the meaning of being available in a mobile, yes iPhone may lead currently, but I wouldn't consider a phone that has a price tag 900 euro to be considered mainstream, just because 17 million people (as zimbabwe sais above) have bought it.

My point of view is that in mobile phones, Nokia will be the one to take it mainstream as their strategy has always been various phones models and cheap ones.

However, since Windows will be supporting touch screen and Windows is 90% of the market, obviously Microsoft will put touch screen in a lot more hands than Apple.

Since no one can predict what will happen, this remains just speculation. But my point is you can't consider mainstream something that only few can access, at least currently.