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Re:DON'T LET HN BE LAZY ABOUT SOPA: DO THIS NOW on Wednesday December 14, 2011 @09:17PM (#3354753)
YES! Agreed. Gotta call/email those ppl in Washington. Get the word out.
Re:Time to Get Rejected on Sunday December 11, 2011 @06:29PM (#3341493)
Totally agree with this. Feedback is the most important thing. I think the principle of this is simply to get out of your comfort zone, which may mean rejection (which may mean a learning opportunity).
Re:Lamer News on Wednesday October 26, 2011 @12:23PM (#3159257)
Great point. It'd be interesting to be transparent about rings of people who frequently upvote on the same post. I'm sure they have that info. It might actually be interesting and open up some level of transparency -- whether among the YC companies (and the ability of their job posts to somehow make it to the top) or among other subsets of the coding community like node.js I have nothing against YC companies; I'm friends with lots. I have nothing against promoting a link you post on HN.

Just would be interesting to be more transparent.

Re:Subject: We didn't think thermostats matter either on Wednesday October 26, 2011 @11:47AM (#3159056)
Totally agree. It is a great example of design. Design today is thrown around as something that looks almost Ikea-esque. But in actuality design is the user experience. Design is being thoughtful about the full process associated with a product. They thought of everything.

Laptop reflections

Posted by kfalter on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @02:39AM
from the self-post dept.

Looking at the ever shifting line that defines what is necessity and what is luxury, my relationship with my laptop has moved from luxury and a self-convinced justification that it was a necessity to actually being a necessity. There is an interesting comparison between the technological interior and the branded and glowing exterior. The idea that the lava lamp actually embodied popular culture...

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Re:What It's Really Like To Pitch Lerer Ventures on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @01:34PM (#3099481)
I tried to get their email addresses as well, but never found it... Hmm. I'll mention this to them. I know a couple of them have personal blogs with personal email addresses -- not necessarily connected to the firm.
Re:How to launch a start-up and lose everything else along the way on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @10:11PM (#3073833)
family is definitely the most important thing... and without family support is is incredibly hard to start something. best of luck Marc -- you know I'm rooting for you and your love of starting something great
Re:A response to Node.js is cancer - The Diagnosis on Sunday October 02, 2011 @11:58PM (#3064982)
there is a good post about this on stack overflow... that parallelism in nodejs is more of a hack.. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4631774/coordinating-para...
Re:Betty Weissman (mother of edw519) 1930-2011 on Wednesday September 21, 2011 @03:38PM (#3023355)
Ed... I don't know you, but as another hard working person, I can honestly say that your post has reminded me of what is important in life. It's those that love me who support my hard work and sometimes reclusiveness/introverted-ness.

Thank you for posting this. Your mother's story has had a compounded effect with your post. Her legacy lives on, and this is just one way: inspiring others on HN to cherish those who love them, which she obviously did with you.

Thanks, and I am sorry for your loss.

Re:I didn't even know how to submit to HN! That's how n00b I was. on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @11:23PM (#2998788)
I agree. Buttt... HN likes things that have to do with HN more :) got more upvotes with the word HN in it :( pretty dumb.

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