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That's what I'd like to think but there were no follow-up posts on HN and the original post was from a while back.

Edit: and his post was from 1559 days ago - hopefully he didn't get lost ;)

Thanks! I've only had the pleasure of being in Austin, New Orleans and Nashville previously.

Definitely sound advice. I think I'll just be going to Canada to see a concert ;)

Sorry about that. I'm from New England and familiar with driving in some rough weather but I'd still be a bit concerned about traveling in the north of the country during that time of year.

Cool - I've actually JUST set something up for Denton!

Will amend the route and thanks for the scoop on it taking roughly double the Google Maps estimate!

Thanks for the tips!

I have things like Dallas/Denton the route because the actual stop is TBD but the cities are fairly close together (Dallas and Denton are about 50 minutes away from each other).

I've got a friend in Victoria so I'm stopping there for a show and to take a bit of a breather at the end of this marathon!

Cool tip! I've honestly been thinking more about getting the schedule ironed out than merch but I'll take a look at this method.

If you pay the ASCAP blanket license!

Certainly!

It's on the music + bio section of the site but I should add it to the OP:

http://housecallstour.com/about_drj

Why did I title the post this way?

Recently I found a post titled, “Ask HN: Am I crazy?” (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=801208)

The OP had laid out his desires to travel around the United States after finishing college to meet up with founders around the country and write about them. I was happy to see that the HN community encouraged him. I shot him an email at 1am the night I discovered the post asking if he ever went on the adventure. I never heard back.

Haha working on it!

I was reading about bleach shirt stencils in MAKE magazine actually: http://makezine.com/projects/bleach-shirt-stencil/

Not true. I was frustrated when indiegogo deducted money from my bank account instantly when I pledged for the Ubuntu phone. It was surprising because I had only pledged significant amounts on kickstarter previously. Honestly, for someone without much in the way of liquid assets it was frustrating to have so much money frozen for over 30 days.

This is really good because of how basic it is.

What's not so good is if you are a genre expert it doesn't do too deep of a dive.

For instance I love the roots artist Guy Clark but I know every artist that is recommended (http://ifyoudig.net/guy-clark). I like the majority of them so the suggestions aren't off by any means but it would be nice to get more obscure (but still accurate) suggestions.

HN can be like FB - highlight reels that people sometimes compare to the full view of what they are experiencing.

There are also posts about failure but I'd say they are a bit less common than the ones about success.

Sure. The most obvious one is that you can't filter by user (or at least it wasn't readily apparent that you could).

I also think the keyboard shortcuts on Asana are faster and more intuitive. Don't get me wrong - I love Trello's layout and Kanban - but it feels very light in comparison to Asana (which some probably consider a positive).

I find Trello very tough to use with a team but great for keeping track of individual process. Asana (while very different) seems to work better with our team of 5.

I was hoping Trello Gold would have offered the things that keep us from using Trello in the first place because I really do like the the Kanban method.

Wouldn't pricing a new iPhone (regardless of version) too low have a negative effect on the perceived value?

If the iPhone 5C had the same core components as the 5S I would get it instead because the plastic is probably more durable and I'd like a colorful device as a change of pace from the white and silver Apple products I own currently.

Coincidentally Blue Bottle started selling $!50 pajamas today...

http://www.bluebottlecoffee.com/products/pajamas

Unless you have a pro account there is a 20 gig/day bandwidth limit. With pro it's 200 gigs.

You misunderstand. I mean giving money back to people that paid more than $695 is a terrible idea from a fundraising perspective. It does makes sense however since the backlash could be severe.

Giving money back seems like a terrible idea from a fundraising perspective (though personally I'd be irked if I had paid over $700 and they didn't refund me). Either way, it's not a great position to be in.

edit: please don't let me be misunderstood.

True, I've never seen a campaign change rewards so much and so often but people have been very creative with rewards tiers - usually to their benefit.

I'd be surprised if even half of the people that pledged early on are able to keep up with all of the changes and updates.

I backed the project at $600. Here are some thoughts:

1. It's getting wishy-washy. I don't know any campaigns that have changed around rewards this much (both pricing and what you get) and for many people that may be a turn off. Why would someone get the phone at $695 when it could go down more? Obviously the said the price won't go down but they had said that previously when they were above $700.

2. $695 immediately withdrawn from your PayPal account prior to tha campaign succeeding is a hard pill to swallow for many even if you are refunded 100% if (when?) the goal is not reached.

3. May 2014 is a pretty long time from now and I bet the wait will end up being longer (I waited almost 1.25 years for my Leap Motion and they had significant VC backing). Too many people may not be able to think this far ahead.

Why did I back the project? Well, I liked the idea of making a custom hardware device and thought crowdfunding the creation was interesting. I've never actually used Ubuntu (or Android for that matter) but the scale of the goal and the precedent it could set for people doing very capital-intensive projects with crowdfunding was what motivated me to back it.

Dharmesh had mentioned it really wasn't that big of a difference either way. Personally I have no idea outside of a short exchange with him about it.

Nice walkthrough and +1 for using Creedence Clearwater Revival lyrics for the landing page copy! :)

I wish I had found out about this before today (I would have returned to Boston for it). I'm sure many people are in the same boat.

What did you migrate to?

Amanda Palmer got similar flack for using some of the money raised to pay off personal debts but at least she fulfilled all of her backer's rewards.

>"If I defer task X, will it become easier later?"

Delaying pain definitely creates more. Luckily for me this only extends to what's in my fridge: http://blog.ideasthenlemonade.com/post/54016639958/delaying-...

While the stunt is illegal (in many ways) and there was a likelihood of getting into serious trouble I'd say the "big fuckin' deal" is bragging about it with the plan to get lots of attention on HN. That's even more reckless than the actual stunt.