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Wait, Paul Graham didn't write this? Do not want.

How do I undo a close board?

+1 Someone knowledgeable needs to take all of this write, "Startups: How To Not Get Screwed"

This is awesome! And it texted to my South African number! Which SMS gateway are you using?

The border and the distance separating the icon from the text makes it look like two distinct buttons. Don't make me think: remove the unnecessary design element.

If it's true, this is so genius.

A temporary 6-month employment contract with a permanent employment option by the end of the probationary period is common practice here in South Africa.

No. Build a prototype first. Don't be like Color.

Weak brands dilute the core brand in saturated markets.

Perfect branding lies in the sweet spot between unique and recognizable (or self-explanatory for domains, see my post on this http://t.co/ecbsWcp), but it depends on mindshare.

"GMail" is in the sweet spot between the faceless title "Google Mail" and the unrecognisable "Jabberwocky". YouTube won the mindshare landrush for consumer video and became a household brand name. Rebranding it would be dumb.

Picasa, on the other hand, is similar to "Google Reader" in that it solves a smaller problem in a highly crowded market. Smaller brands with multiple competitors strengthen the core "Google" brand by living under the umbrella as "GPhoto", "Google Brush" or "Google Reader", for example.

Would like to hear counter-points.

Biased, self-selecting poll. Meaningless.

This is hilarious! Looks just like my little sister's Facebook feed.

This is the same argument as "the Internet is bad because it makes us lazy."

That aside, any blogger that tries to convey their opinion by starting with "Don't get me wrong," should be dragged online and shot. But not before asking about the appropriate type of buckshot on the Guns SE.

And Video! I would pay for this.

Where is the evidence that it ever was?

-1 post it when it's ready, not when you're ready to start promoting it.

Hacker News needs a Meta HN.

I used Migrator.NET for a long time with no problems and I'll probably still use it. But if you can afford it, SQL Source Control by Red Gate is awesome and integrates with your code repository, e.g. Mercurial.

Fluent NHibernate solved all my problems. I asked a similar (strangely, downvoted) question on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5522590/rapid-orm-for-pai..., which prompted me to check out Fluent NHibernate.

Before that I was using LINQ-to-SQL with a repository layer and StructureMap, but I spent way too much time writing repository methods and mapping columns manually. Do yourself a favour and try NHibernate without the XML mappings.

Bullshit, linkbait post. After reading the whole thing, I would gladly spend karma to downvote this.

Tip: Get really attractive people to wear them, first.

How do I downvote paparazzi stories with linkbait titles?

My biggest weakness is too many tabs. I tend to have 200+ tabs open in Chrome stuffed with my primary procrastination implement: must-read technology news. If I start picking through them to close/mark for later reading, I inevitably start reading and simply reboot the procrastination cycle.

My best antidote: have your IDE ready to work and close all your browser tabs at once.

P.S. You know you read too much Hacker News when you wake up from a dream in which PG rejected both your startup ideas for funding.

What is this built in?

Awesome.

@Sony, just drop the case. I hate to rant, but this is bad press. I am a developer and an early adopter; your attempts to make an example out of Hotz has further soured an opinion still bathed in the lukewarm wake of your infamous rootkit. If and when I have time to play games, I will do so on an XBox.

Unless your product can really benefit from a strong network effect in the open-source community without compromising your competitive edge, I wouldn't do it.

However, if you feel the potential to gain traction outweighs the threat of losing an edge (or a paying customer, since they can just use your code), open-source the engine, but hold back on the parts that are unique to your offering and/or make your engine easy to work with (like a GUI, simplified wrappers or builds for different platforms), though this depends on the nature of your product.

Are your paying clients the same people clamouring for open-source?

Based on the website landing page and the beautifully produced video, is this more than a glorified todo list?

Big 404 after trying to "buy" Rails for Zombies. Hopefully just the HN effect setting in. Ah, worked after a few tries.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

- Howard Aiken