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I notice a few people using "guy" to refer to the writer here ... unless I'm missing something, I believe she is a woman (Tina).

There are 13" unibody Macbooks (not Pro). I have one.

http://www.apple.com/macbook/

Haha, yes, absolutely. I always like to have something to distract my hands. Rubber erasers are heaven for this.

Slightly off-topic, but I tend to highlight text as I read it, and I find it very annoying how they seem to automatically save the text snippet that you highlight whenever you highlight it. The progress bar constantly updates and it's quite distracting.

Sounds like a "recipe" for disaster (excuse the pun).

Part of success is learning to strike a balance that allows you to spend a lot of time on your product but also leave time for maintaining your personal health and sanity. You can't go full force, full time for very long without burning out. The pitfalls have been discussed here a lot.

Cooking can be excellent opportunity to take a break from your work to refresh and nourish your mind, and also learn a new and valuable skill in the process.

I've been an FD customer for 3 years and I am pretty impressed with their operation as well. The usability of their site is very good and they have a lot of innovative ways of doing business.

- Their sliced meats and cheeses usually have a sticker on them containing the slicer's number and an e-mail address asking for feedback on the slicing.

- They recently switched their egg carton packaging from a plastic bag with foam sheets to shredded, recycled cardboard.

- Their delivery trucks recently switched to all use biodiesel only.

- As this article states, they've cut down their packing and boxing materials and I expect it to get better as they switch to the returnable plastic containers.

- Throughout all of this they remain very competitive in terms of produce quality and pricing. It's cheaper and better quality than the grocery stores in my area.

When I was a teenager, and even when still in college, I had the same attitude, mainly because I had no money and I had lots of time (relatively speaking).

Now that I'm older I have a job, disposable income, and responsibilities that take up my time. I also have an appreciation for the work it takes to create anything of quality. So I am happy to give these people money if they satisfy a need I have and they satisfy it well.

As a developer myself, I think it also has to do with the fact that I hope people have the same attitude towards my product and are willing to pay for my product if they find it useful to them.

A similar example is music - I used to pirate 100% of it, but now that I understand that there is a person and a struggle behind each track, I happily purchase songs from iTunes and Amazon just to support the artist and keep them motivated to do more.

The domain may be difficult for your users to access or remember. The dashes and the .me could easily be forgotten or mistyped, as well as "tutorial" vs "tutorials".

When trying to generate a domain I like the "say it out loud" test so I can see how potential users may try to explain it to someone if they're recommending the service in person. Lots of "dashes" is a red flag .

Just a suggestion, I see that myfreetutorials.com and even freetutorialsfor.me is available. May want to check those out.

I also wonder where these figures came from: "Computer hardware and software, semiconductors, communication, and biotechnology account for 81 percent of all venture capital dollars, and 72 percent of the companies that got VC money over the past 15 or so years."

I see a lot of these types of statistics in articles about startup financing. As far as I know, there's no publicly available database of VC transactions.

Anyone know where these numbers could be coming from?

I appreciate the explanations. I was not familiar with the fact that the "overlords" joke was overused in hacker circles, so I can see how it is played out. I'm just a big Simpsons fan.

Really? It was an innocuous joke on a quite off-topic submission. Is HN the "right place" for this article?

Ouch. No one got the Simpsons reference?

I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords.

A similar example is how Google renders the histograms on the Google Stock Screener - they use tables instead of an image.

http://www.google.com/finance/stockscreener

What are you referring to when you say the NBA is conservative? Play calling? Refereeing?

There's no such thing as a free lunch (or dinner or breakfast) - these costs are factored into salaries.

Here's a relevant HN post that came to the top of Google results when I searched for 'spreedly vs amazon fps': http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=526517

In addition to jQuery, check out YUI. It is incredibly well documented and featured. I see it overtaking the other JS platforms soon.

I pay for Backpack and Basecamp, and will start paying for GoToMeeting once we have more use for it.

Make sure you save up a lot of cash if you're going to be staying in NYC!

It's not a clear cut win-win to me because, even though I may be richer, I may hate working with these people and my life may be miserable for that period of time. And the 'richer' argument is only in the short term -- what is one year of high salary followed by nothing compared to steady gains in pretty good salary over time?

Exactly. My biggest fear is that they will try to assert control where they do not have expertise. If they gave me the control I need to build the software correctly -- instead of just saying I have control but then making unreasonable demands later -- I would feel good about it.

Perhaps I was being a bit dramatic in that I have no faith in the idea or people -- it is more that the idea is so ambiguous that I am weary of trusting it.

If the idea eventually resolves to a more solid plan, I would certainly be committed to it. Thanks for the feedback.

Thanks for the feedback ... the idea that these folks haven't thought things through as much as I would in their situation is scary but I guess not a deal-breaker as long as they can lead.