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did anyone else wonder why he is wasting so much time on money on stupid blinds.

so much for cash & time efficiency.

About us:

We are LeadLog, a small startup company in South Florida building lead management software. We're two biz dev guys, a ux guru and a hacker with solid business experience.

Hmm...something seems wrong about this equation...

is now a good time to ask...

'how are you going to make money?'

So when does someone cry 'But PG, it's not hacker news!'

So a guy who presumably makes his living on being a professional blogger is lamenting the lost of the personal touch in blogs... hmm

most of the advice is common knowledge, and the rest of the advice is of dubious value

So in turn, your advice would be to read random fitness forums...

Powerlifters do 'whatever works'...

huh?

In order to do olympic lifts, makes sense to go to a powerlifter -- who do have good form.

shouldn't the mentoring be for your start-up in general, and not just the YC app?

but you decided to spread it anyways (to the tech recruiters and HR who lurk here on HN)...

what was your avg dist. on the longer hikes? am curious that 15-20 lbs. was heavy on the long hikes. and where'd you store the extra gear (i imagine a lot of it was weather-related)

shampoo or a little packet of detergent.

this is one of the best traveling advice ever.

bootload, the gear in the photo wasn't enough and I needed more stuff for a four day "hut-hopping" hike: it's a long way to the enlightenment.

so, under the 37 signals great advice, this is what this guy needed for National Outdoor Leadership School, and he should have taken half?

when in reality, he needed more gear than presented here.

as usual, the signal is too weak, even if they try to filter out the noise.

great analogy for software

but how many people really need this advice for traveling?

instead of this over-generalized "half of what you need" and then "lose another half" make a short list of the bare necessities -- and why you need it.

but I guess this is advice for tourists? not sure who has three bags going down cobble stone roads.

i hope this guy is planning on launching his own start-up.

he'd be wise to read Paul Bucheit's oft-quoted advice = limited life experience + over-generalization.

while 'inspirational' it lacks the quality of reading someone who's been there and done it...

what are you working on now?

twitter:yammer = facebook: "extensible enterprise productivity suite?"

someone has got to say it...

how many donations will you get calley (ex-model right?) because people think you're hott?

Mark,

Have you heard of the phrase, stop while you're ahead.

I followed your rebuttal essentially stating that one should not lose sight of small problems for the larger ones, but your derivative spiel about charities and about Darfur is incoherent babble.

Seriously.

Darfur was a non-issue in the US/ world-media until perhaps 2006, and even now, most Americans (and perhaps Germans as well?) don't know much about Darfur, don't care, and most importantly to your argument, they don't donate time or money to the issue. So what charities exactly are benefitting by distributing the 'propaganda' about the 'war' in Darfur.

It's not war, it's genocide.

Are you one of those who also didn't believe Holocaust Germany happened? Not enough evidence for you?

Stick to a logical argument backed up by either logic and data, or please do not argue here again. I'm tired of seeing your pointless rants where you spew this ridiculous, utter, nonsense.

I guess non-hackernews is hacker news...(Maroon linked to this in his post as one of his favorite pieces of 'nonhackernews')

not necessarily, although TC definitely sources articles from hacker news, and seemingly a few alley insider articles as well.

does it matter to me one way or the other? nope. good journalists/writers find stories where they may, but more a reference to how influential hacker news is/has become

how many (and how often) of the major tech blogs are sourcing articles from hacker news?

two questions:

1. at what distance can you see the time left?

2. this still does not solve for calculating the speed necessary (for which to utilize as a benchmark if you're actually going to make it through the light).

in pedestrian crosswalk signals, ability to accelerate is probably an order of magnitude greater -- you go from walking to running to beat the signal.

not so with traffic lights, even if you have a visible countdown timer (and as i mentioned above, how will a human calculate the baseline speed at which it is necessary to drive in order to be able to safely cross).

I think it should be noted that pius is an MIT alum (in EE & CS) so is obviously biased here.

at least now you have your iterative feedback...

I must say I am surprised at some of the comments that have already been left here. I would think a community like HN would be excited to see a project come out of the woodwork like this...at least I was and heck, I've already submitted an idea and may submit a couple more.

If, as everyone opines on here constantly, ideas have little to no value, but rather it is the execution of those ideas, why not submit ideas that may have some validity, and let Google essentially play matchmaker and help find the organization, people, and talent to execute on that idea?

That's like saying to Bill Gates "you're rich, forget about the Gates foundation, just focus on making money for yourself and creating jobs." Warren Buffet, or how bout the Carnegies, Mellons, and Rockefellers.

This has got to be the least coherent analysis I've read on HN in a while. Google is an organization, yes, but one composed of people, and those people are affected by the decisions of invididuals or groups who could incrementally change the world for better or for worse.

You don't think the engineers writing JS to improve that "cloud computing model" (let's use Google Docs as an example) wouldn't benefit either directly or indirectly from some of the ideas that will come out of this project?

How are innovation and this project mutually exclusive? Google is (and has been via Google.org) trying to spearhead innovation outside of its known core competencies (i.e. search, ads, and apps) and does this project not contribute to that?

a world-changing idea does not need to be not-for-profit. this is one of the biggest misconceptions out there -- an idea that solves a problem for a sub-group of humanity, does not need to run under an NGO/non-profit umbrella.

is the product ready?

if not, great way to get iterative feedback before building product/feature set that nobody wants.

if you are US-based, get out of the country to learn more about mobile computing.

phones are getting smarter, and now their OS are now a lot more accessible, laptops on the other hand aren't getting much smarter, but rather smaller.

if you go to Korea, Japan, India, several South American & African countries, you will understand why mobile is a heckuva lot more important than laptop.

it's not a UI conundrum -- a mobile phone (with the exception of the iPhone)'s primary purpose is communication -- voice, sms, mms and now even photo & video.

not so with a laptop.

"the iPhone with a keyboard."

that's all you have to tell ordinary consumers (read: high school teenage girls and college-aged folks who absolutely OBLITERATE text messaging services and would never buy a mobile phone without a keyboard).

as a phone, iPhone rates very poorly for two things: calls (poor reception, horrible battery life, etc.) and sms.

G1 fixes one and possibly the other.

i have an iPhone, FWIW