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this article fails to mention that Obama has spent a lot of time talking about how small businesses and startups are the driving force of our economy, and his tax plan shows that he believes it.

Fail ABCNews.

I think it's actually pretty hilarious. Ever since the Microsoft "I'm a PC" ads came out I've wondered what it meant for the Apple ads, I guess now we know. Apple has them coming and going, there really isn't much they can do.

Gizmodo had a similar reaction to many of you, that it's a pissing match and normal people don't care, but actually I think it's the opposite. People LOVE the Mac ads, even people who don't use a Mac think they are funny. This is another instance of the Techie echo-camber getting in the way, so what if some hardcore techies don't like them because Linux is superior, btw it's not, the market at large loves the ads and it's getting them to take a better look at Apple computers, end of story.

I definitely got this vibe from the proceedings as well. Especially from the Macbook video that is all Ive. It's sad to see him go but good to know that it will be a slow transition.

Yes! Mining the Sky was an amazing book. http://www.amazon.com/Mining-Sky-Untold-Asteroids-Planets/dp...

If you need 23 essential tools then you're doing something wrong. When the article says "5 essential tools" then I'll be interested.

How much? I want to hack it.

Yes they are! It's good to hear at least one other person who agrees.

I didn't get to ask all the questions but it was a really great time. I'll write it up on my blog and then post it here for people to read over.

yeah I'm locked out.

"but don’t worry, your account data and messages are safe. Our engineers are working to resolve this issue."

Haha I had the same problem the first time I set my Ruby crawler loose. Within 5 minutes I had crashed a "large electronics retailer's site". I'm omitting the name to protect the guilty.

haha, well I could be, if it gets me funding. ;)

While this article is funny it also just pisses me off. Who are these morons that are getting all this VC money?

After a long fight I've finally decided to believe PG. It does matter where you start your startup, you're not going to get funding in Tulsa OK. Apparently you can be an idiot and get funding in Canada though, maybe I should move there.

The only hope is our elitist comment trolls. Also the fact that HN has far fewer users makes it much easier to deal with the problem. http://siteanalytics.compete.com/digg.com+reddit.com+news.yc...

Very nice.. I'll try to mention this one.

Yeah me too! I'm really excited to see where all the magic happens.

Haven't they done the water car already?

hahah... touche

Nice, I like that one. Maybe they could do a show set in Roman era myths.... just have to come up with a few more.

Steganography has always interested me but using it in this way never really occurred to me. It would be cool to see someone do the same kind of thing with hCard info. You could embed your hCard in a profile picture and then by just dragging, or saving, the picture you would have their contact info.

Ah-ha a Freebase competitor.

Okay we get it, newspapers are dying, ads are moving to the web. It seems like Techcrunch doesn't have much to write about lately so they just keep coming up with ways to say the same thing, over and over.

I'm really not that impressed by it. There is nothing there that is any more impressive than Dojo, MooTools, or jQuery.

I would suppose that the Touch will stay at it's current price but get a size increase right after that "Buy a Mac get an iPod" deal runs out.

Very well said. This is why it's great that Microsoft walked away.

Mobiln looks pretty interesting as well. http://www.moblin.org/

Built on Intel's Atom platform

Very nice find, Thanks!

If you're looking to search an existing MYSQL DB I hear Sphinx is a good option. I personally use Ferret but everyone seems to think it sucks horribly so I'm sure you'll hear that from people. I have had no problems with Ferret at all however. Sphinx and Ferret are both Ruby based.

Solr is also an option but it tends to be slower than Ferret and require more resources.

Here is a recent post of mine that gives a quick comparison of Ferret and Solr. http://www.embought.com/blog/show/10?t=SOLR-vs-Ferret-as-a-S...

One BILLION dollars!

When did Techcrunch become a gossip rag? I understand that reporters need to follow leads but their posts on Yahoo are starting to sound more and more like Valleywag.

Exactly. This picture just keeps popping up on all the 'social news' sites. I guess it's time to move to a new community that hasn't been "topless chicks with unix book roll'd"