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Tom, I admire your strength on here during this terrible time. My condolences to you and to Dan's friends and family. A great loss.

Can you substantiate that comment? Are you referring to salary/bonus growth being slower in leaner years? Is there a significant difference over a 40 year work life?

Isn't their "way" simply: "brilliant" product plus price = profit? Seems sensible to me.

You have to approach it objectively, not personally. You have to have the determination and perseverance to take some flak and keep going. And you need to be open to changing your idea if you realise the criticism is justified.

I was hoping for an insight into some cool algorithm they use, instead I get a piece of puffery.

It’s not a matter of which you believe – that’s not good science. Both theories need to be tested and peer reviewed until the evidence of one outweighs the other. The overarching principle is that no theory is infallible – they can always be overthrown by new evidence.

I’m part of a team of 3 guys with an idea, at prototype stage. With a wife, 3 kids and a mortgage, the first concern if/when we all commit full-time, is continuing to keep up with all of these responsibilities. My wife’s supportive of what we want to achieve, but we’ll see what happens if/when reality bites. It’s an extra hurdle to leap, but it’s manageable.

The days of carriers locking users into 2 year contracts are numbered. It's encouraging that both Google and Apple are considering breaking this uncompetitive market up.

Putting aside the future predictions, the first hurdle for Android is to match the iPhone mobile web browsing experience. I hope they succeed, because opening up the handset market, and moving smartphones from early adopters to mature users will be critical in helping make some of Rubin’s predictions come true.

Agreed - on both points. I guess I took the removal of Prakash's submission from the front page to mean: point taken, let's move on.

The creation of a non-hacker news site seems a bit knee-jerk. Would it not have been better to have waited a few days to see how the recent debate has affected the quality of submissions?

This is more a story of one nation’s sensibilities and attitudes to free speech. Nice understated response from the Dawkins site – the introduction of a simple “Banned in Turkey” banner.

I thought I'd need a cofounder with Django/Python experience - I found some developers to contact either on the djangoproject website or djangogigs - they were listed by geographic region - and made contact from there

Stronger substitutes would appear to be a significant factor. For example, the erosion of IE’s dominance following the introduction of Firefox and others (although the barrier of IE being pre-loaded onto the majority of personal computers means this dominance will continue for some time). In this case not necessarily new tech, but better tech.

But not in the way they wanted, I'm sure. The ads are supposed to inspire consumers to reconnect with the brand, rather than be a couple of slightly amusing odd couple skits.

Whilst excessive risk taking is probably the root cause of the recent financial collapses, I think it’s also worth noting the role hedge funds have played in stirring up investor panic by short selling highly geared or mortgage exposed companies around the world. Britain’s largest mortgage lender, HBOS, had 30% wiped off its value yesterday, attributed to short selling - http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article6277.html

I agree that personal incentives are part of the problem. I’d also suggest that going public is another significant part of the problem. The public company becomes beholden to its shareholders and is pressured/incentivised to continually deliver growth in the value of the company or dividends, often in mature markets, which in turn can lead to the implementation of riskier strategies for delivering growth.

I found the apology in the last paragraph to be an important shift in approach