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Nope, that doesn't make any sense. Keep the shops open now and infection grows exponentially. Overwhelm the ICU capacity = MORE people will die. MORE people dead = less consumption = less people paying rent, etc.

There is no good solution :(

Unlike all other times before, our economy is over-leveraged like never seen before. The COVID-19 shut down of main street mom-and-pop stores will trigger a snowball effect onto wall street. However, cutting rates to zero and Trump throwing his last cards in will only kick up a temporary fix. In reality it is adding more fuel to the fire by further extending the leveraging, and thereby, volatility of the market, until this all crash into a giant complete free fall.

So disappointing. I really wanted to think he was just misquoted. But the attempt to cover up after-the-fact just made it worse -- "Hey, ladies, don't ask for a raise coz you should trust the system. But oh, btw, the system is broken, we should fix it." Either the system is working or not. Make up your mind before asking ppl to trust it.

Agreed, but I'd argue that striving for perfection in every detail is a bit of first world problem, and it also assumes availability of infinite resources. Starve a man for enough days, then give him a steak on a stick and I'll guarantee that he'll be happy just to tear the meat apart with his teeth caveman style, forget the formalities of napkin, plate and utensils. Same goes for software, esp. startups, where the first challenge is to get to having something that will do a right job however imperfectly, than the wrong job, however perfectly.

Conversely, don't write a whole essay. The point is to explain succinctly why anyone should pay attention to your first message / email to them.

All in the name of science. :)

Awesome to see crowd funding getting leveraged for such great potential. The team's been at this for a while and making good progress. Great to see the new name!

P.S., Mom, please buy a Mac. I don't know how to use WindowsXP anymore... :P

Mailbox icon (4th icon from top right). Either check the drop down list or if you click through, look for the invitations tab.

It's convenient to just blame LinkedIn for a friendship you evidently didn't have to start with. Nothing stops you from writing an email to the person first or immediately after you hit the "connect" button. Don't blame your own laziness on a tool.

Not directly, but can support related projects: microryza.com

As the non-tech person on the team, the greatest value I see is how fast it got us up and running. it was like a dream come true when jaigouk showed off how we can see live transactions appear in real time on our dashboard, making tracking activities a breeze, above all, it make proactively predicting when we should reach out to our users possible, which helped a lot in helping some of our users along in their transaction.

"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning" - Bill Gates

I don't think taste conflicts with problem solving skills. They can coexist - because design is choosing which solution to apply to a problem, and the choice reflects your taste / stylist preference. Rarely is there only one answer to a problem. Agreement in taste is important else it will be hard for you and your designer to move any design decision forward to implementation.

Yes, good design is how it works. We aren't against skeuomorphism and don't think flat is opposite of it either. In fact there can even be flat skeumorphism. I think Layervault's post on flat interface design, and Sacha Grief's flat pixels post are the best out there to read up on what IS flat design. Or Almost flat design. http://layervault.tumblr.com/post/32267022219/flat-interface... http://sachagreif.com/flat-pixels/

VCs might not need this (yet). But I can see this selling like hotcake to the impending ballooning new group investors in the startups scene enabled by the ranks of wefunder.com, fundersclub.com, etc. Go Danielle and team!

Thanks for the note and the constructive suggestion. We will continue to improve. One pixel at a time. :)

The image based collections threw me at first - I like textual information in lists, not tiles. But then I saw the phone pad like icon (top right hand corner). Tiles for image collections and lists for articles - w00t! :D

Good points. With the abundance of services like Wufoo forms, Shopify, Weebly, and other "make your stuff without code" products out there, it is easier now than ever before to pull together a MVP, even if it means to take care of things behind the scenes manually. See how nastygal.com made it big with a humble start from an ebay store. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/25/technology/nasty-gal-an-on...

The list view works better for articles than the default tile view. I find myself creating two different types of collections: 1. lists of articles (bookmarks), and 2. collection of images (pinterest). Since I use them differently (1 for targeted search, 2 for visual inspiration), the different views work well for their respective purposes.

There is also a little hidden notes feature that lets me write simple mental notes. Good-bye clonky Evernote, too-much-distraction Pinterest, and out-of-sync browse bookmarks. Kippt FTW!

Given recent events, we definitely need more real data and research to understand what can make each of us safer, and if there is a need for more comprehensive policy overhauls. We should all support this research effort!

And the site is down. Ops.

Go CMU! #1, 4 and 8 of the top 10 best colleges for your bank account as measured by highest salary!

However, while this can be a statistic to be proud about, I hope parents and kids don't use it as a yardstick to measure success. If any amount of money is to be used as a proxy for success, lifetime earnings should be the metric, not the highest starting salary.

A high starting salary may be sexy, but at what opportunity cost? When companies are willing to fork out such tremendous amounts in salary, it only means that you are worth so much more. For the new graduates from CMU - I hope you will think about WHY you are so valuable, and ask if maybe your time can be better spent elsewhere (at say, realizing your own dreams, or building your own startup) than to slave away for a paycheck.

Wow.. I guess I am late to this thread. But have any haters here actually tried to use Makr at all? I second Koji - when you're not just passively watching, but contributing is when the real fun begins! You become part of a conversation, almost a little competitive fun to outdo your friends. Not something you will find in random cat picture sites.

It's a joke that in this day and age the funding process that seeds silicon valley startups is only legal offline and to the privileged rich. Democratized access to small equity investments in germinating companies that may one day be giants, is exactly what is necessary to help the non-rich get richer too. The social and economical benefits of the need for this democratized access is real. Even if the SEC ruling does not go in favor of it next week, the US government should not and can not deny its citizens such benefits for much longer. It's clear that Funders Club has got the right idea of what needs to be in place to enable this change in history.

Thank you Cindy!

Thank you! The right designer for the right project is exactly what we strive towards.

Quite different from Dribbble, our focus is on connecting customers to designers for projects, not show and tell among designers. Meer.li seems closer to Dribbble in that it appears to focus more on connecting mobile designers to mobile designers too.

Thank you so much! We understand and believe that design is integral to your product's success so we do everything we can to make sure we deliver the design you're looking for.