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Incredible how Svbtle got popular and a creator who doesn't seem to be too happy about its evolution. Good read on that http://therain.posterous.com/dustin-curtis-single-mistake-wi...

How does Trello compare to Pivotal Tracker? Any experiences?

Who said that e-books would be easy?

Impress.js is an awesome piece of tech—but I wouldn't use it for a presentation:

There's just a very fine line between over- and underdoing a presentation. It's never good just to dash off a presentation with lousy layout and design but it may not be beneficial to overdo a presentation as well. Too much FX and animations makes you at a certain point needy: "Look what I did to impress you", "Look, another animation!", "How nice, isn't it??", "And here another 3D effect, awesome isn't it? I spent the entire day to make the rotation perfect, just for you because I like you!". After the 5th animation the viewers think you are a needy guy, needing approval, spending to much time on design than content and having nothing to do.

Different with pure web presentations for a large audience, then such tools are nice, but I don't know if they convert better than a gold old landing page.

Though I am not a fan of Scoble I do not think that Google made Scoble and other to use the platform. Why? Two reasons:

1.) Scoble interest is to get traffic from everywhere. Raising awareness, brand recognition, etc. Google+ was skyrocketing at the beginning and for already known Internet celebs an opportunity to easily scale on another platform because at that time they were the first on Plus and quickly got traction through existing fans. And as known Internet addicts they cannot just ignore a platform. So it's a mutual and balanced relationship reach (for Scoble) vs content (for Google). Compare also other bloggers/publisher who spammed from day 1, e.g. Pete Cashmore from Mashable.

2.) There are lots of high, high level Google execs who never used Google+

I'd recommend freelancer.com/odesk/elance or any other dedicated market place. Freelancer.com i.e. allows very focussed searches via projects, you can specify the skills, timeline and all requirements and usually you get tons of very qualified bids in less than 24-48h.

Don't get me wrong, but this is such an ignorant comment. Try it once and then you see why Badger is different (as I said before: the domain search is awesome).

Yeah, you are right, it was rather too quick to repost—but hey that can happen when founder are enthusiastic about their product. And their were tons of redundant Godaddy SOPA posts—that can happen on a social news site, I am not angry about the repost, maybe next time they should think about a new hook but badger is a promising product with an awesome domain search—I tried it and I like it. So before snitching them try the product once.

We are all founders and if there is one who might be a bit too spammy, too pushy, too persisent, we flag, downvote him—we should hold together. Starting something, especially a domain registrar isn't easy (and there is a need!) and we should support every one of us.

Disclaimer: I've nothing to do with badger, I don't know them

Your game looks nice. Do you maybe have a blog post about the making of? Was it your first Unity3D game? What prior experience do you have in game development and in general programming, which languages? How long did the development take?

Sorry for all the questions—I'm about to dive deeper into one of the game/3D dev frameworks and an HN reader's opinion would be highly appreciated!

2. MVP in 14d is realistic and should be the goal

1. Maybe it's not the perfect way to startup something but at least he's doing something (and not just reading anymore). And who knows, maybe the IRC chat doesn't bring a team but gives him tons of new inspirations and ideas for new ventures.

Normally, I'd say it's hard to decide and I would tend to recommend to finish your studies. But in your case it's different: You are studying CS and getting an Software Engineer. You are on a market where the demand is so much higher than the offer, thus there's no need to signal your skills through a degree. Anyway, you'd learn much more and faster when doing a startup. Or in other words: many reference projects and/or a great Github record is more worth than a degree (and most good devs I know havn't a degree).

One thing I'd change: you location, Belgium seems to be nice, but you need lots of peers in physical distance. So change to a city with a vibrant tech community (Berlin).

Watermarking media can't be an answer to piracy. We already had the discussion with music years ago. Imagine, you loose your external harddrive with tons of your legally purchased media on it (all watermarked)—the founder makes a huge torrent of your media and puts it on Bittorrent for two years. What would you do then?

Watermarking could be a great way to protect IP but just this use case shows its vulnerability.

Excellent post. In particular the Android and WP7 parts—you should make a dedicated blog post out of it.

First, I thought Reddit isn't the most ugliest site on earth anymore. Then, I thought HN's CSS file is broken when I saw the darkred navbar. Finally, I thought the green and red numbers stand for raising and falling posts.

HN is my favorite site but this Chistmas version shows again PG's modest design skills. PG, I'm sure that there many HN users (including me) who would love to redesign HN—just put it on Crowdspring or 99design and insist on keeping the HN orange. I promise you'll get tons of great designs keeping Y Combinator's core/identity.

2-3 years ago I've been an huge HTC fan buying every 6 months a new HTC handset until I realized that they want you to buy new handsets all the time with their business model, Sense and reluctant update policy. The rest of the crowd (Sony, Motorola, etc.) isn't better but the case HTC feels shady—these guys shotgun tons of new phones per quarter to the market with many many variations of Sense, their drivers, witholding sources, etc. to make it impossible to update their crappy phones.

900g for a wooden case! How many did you get sold?

Really nice service—great UI.

Time for a change after 7yrs Godaddy.

What I learned about this new library afterwards: it was allowed before it got too crowded and university members couldn't get workplaces anymore (they have about 1,250 places and 30,000 students). So now, you can enter the library as a non-student, rent books but you are not allowed to use the workplaces (they check at times if your student-id is laid out on the desk but they didn't when I've been there)

Worse: I couldn't get into the WLAN (students only), so I could only use my phone's Internet connection w/384Kbit/s -- but that was good, you get so effective with such a low bandwidth (using Google's mobile client, doing only must searches etc.)

Isn't Google's staff working under NDA?

I love the open discussion about Android's weakest point and I appreciate opinions from all side, in particular those from inside Google -- but this uncoordinated communication on G+ addressing problems w/o delivering a solution damages Android's image to some extent.

Great project -- I'd like to have the time for such side-projects

Wouldn't that be too easy?

Fred and his blog are very popular -- so he is not just "a" VC, rather a strong opinion leader in the VC and startup world. I am just saying: Take Fred's words with a pinch of salt

Fred's post has an hidden agenda.

There's no clear message in the article -- except expressing a strong believe for Bitcoin or related tech. So, I guess he's trying to get some heavy co-investors on board by creating some hype on Bitcoin again. Any other ideas?

Besides: I love the Bitcoin idea and I'm sure it's not over yet (I still have Bitcoins).

Edit: Don't get me wrong, I am not into bashing Fred -- I just want to get the real message behind his post and to raise HN readers's awareness for influence by media (media manipulation). Before happily discussing a new topic by a VC celeb we should ask why is HE now posting about Bitcoin. Look: Fred and his blog have a strong reach and influence, so it should be legitimate to question his actions. More on this topic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_manipulation

Edit2: just read another reply in this thread (which is downvoted as well) about that he just want to give the Bitcoin price another bump.

Self-help books are (very) often crap. But when they're good they really push your motivation. So you don't learn a lot because learning requires always doing and failing BUT usually you get some motivation and energy to try it again, start something over--better books know how to brain wash and reframe your mind for a few days. You get a very positive mindset and that's what you need to get out of your daily routine which wears you out. Some examples which gave me this motivation push: Poke the Box from Seth Godin, Millionaire's Upgrade, Ellen Cars Stop-smoking book and some more (the ratio of good to bad books ist as the OP said: 10 to 90 to even 5 to 95. And as I wrote the motivational push keeps usually a few days only but hey, that's often enough to start something new and get traction.

But somehow I am not sure if the post is a clever way to sell the promoted book ...

"You’re going to spend several years of your life in some cold dark cubicle with a crazy boss who couldn’t program a twenty out of an ATM,"

That's the point: "but it doesn't seem to be too trendy right now" and still, it's pops up every 2nd day here on HN. I am fine with Clojure, Haskell and the new functional trend but just don't get it with Python.

Ok I must admit that my original G-Trends queries don't help a lot but give a least some tendency. Your queries have also shortcoming in giving a good context: don't forget Django is a very popular word, just check Wikipedia and remember the very popular movie among lots of meanings.

I am wondering why you are offending node.js and Ruby users. We all try to get a clue of Pythons real-world usage in this thread and you (the original poster) just brand them as hipsters (btw you could also be labeled as one of those who worship "an aging language which lost track in the web world, again and again on HN", just an example, so keep calm). Imagine some Ruby or node.js folks would offend Python, you and your learnpython site.

Through this thread I got again closer to Python and in particular Flask, so use such discussions as opportunity to educate us. Such posts that offend rather scare us that python is used by some intolerant old-school fanboys.

great comment clarifying the discussion