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That is not what the illustrations show in this model. Electricity is generated at the node of each wing and transmitted down link.

We all know the % of success stories from accepted companies. How does YC know it made scientifically sound decisions to reject companies that then went onto succeed via other means? How can YC know the quality of decisions are getting better without this data?

Yes, thank you!

I have held Zynga throughout the year. The extent of leadership fail here is unprecedented. n number of remediation tactics should have taken hold early to prevent where we are now. Here is a copy of my e-mail to Pincus (still gone unanswered):

"Mark -

Can we have a man-to-man? Seriously, please explain to me, a small shareholder in Zynga, exactly what the fuck you have been doing with my investment? Clearly, the answer is not building value in any meaningful way. Any third year entrepreneur will have trouble seeing your performance this year amounting to anything other than a collected check, a leveraged office, a leased plane ($3K a wet flight hour?!? What is that a fucking citation X?!?) and an overpaid security team. If the plan is to ride this thing to the nines, let me know so that I can pull out and forget any thoughts of a really well integrated ecosystem of gaming.

BTW: If you see the OMGPOP/Draw Something team, tell them to get the fuck off of their asses (if they're still around) and do something about long-tail gamification model if they want to do something about user retention.

That's all, k thx bye drops mic."

And...this is why I refused to complete purchase of my WP at home try on and went straight to CS.

I remember collecting and playing with mercury from thermometers (here in the US), probably why I can't recite PI to anything more than 6 places :)

We have a corp policy now but when I first started out I did pick up E&O as well as a couple other little coverages. Contracts (larger ones) require them and conducting events (trade shows, conferences) do as well. Shouldn't cost too much.

All is fun and games until the embassy decides to upcharge $10 and provide the right document on demand. Crash goes the model.

Valuation, sure. If the numbers ever get out, be seated at the time. It's a very lucrative product.

Chargify.com works well for us.

Very cool. Some sites, like the Google 10,000 house article are blocking pages rendered in frames. Perhaps there is a way to do DIVs?

Just wrapped up drinks with a CTO of a large enterprise, he's feeling the vibe after a hearty SOPA chat and has committed to move their portfolio of over 1,700 domains off GoDaddy by year's end. Their expenditure is over 20K/year and with a discount code floating around here (thanks guys!), he's putting the savings into bonuses

Huge believer of voting with your pocket. We have just submitted to have the last 247 GoDaddy domains transferred.

Download Terra, which lets you spoof headers as FF or whatever you want.

Firms do not usually take stances on legislative matters their own. SOPA's passage significantly benefits firms' activity levels and in turn the revenue produced in the furtherance of protecting their clients' rights. While outward facing corporate positions may take a neutral or negative stance on SOPA, many overt and implicit stances are taken by their respective counsel. SOPA claims made via premptive cease and desist letters or active litigation may or may not claim SOPA in their position statements to prevent drawing clear relationships between their clients and SOPA. Most agreements come with gag clauses to further protect and guarantee the cat doesn't get out of the bag. Unfortunately, firms are notoriously good for keeping secrets, so I am not expecting Wikipedia like bombshells connecting brand X to SOPA support.

Our startup, HireShot.com is. We are in the middle of a build and expect to have first version to beta users in January. Sign up is on the site if you're interested. http://www.HireShot.com

NyPost is killing content delivery and monetization by not making that article accessible through Safari on iOS.

Wear it in good health.

Good to know!

Matt, neither my code nor design will ever match someone who specializes in these areas. So I feel you're kind of missing the point. I never claimed to be a great anything so I wouldn't go jumping to conclusions. I simply do a little of everything. Kudos to your HN detective skills, Cookbuk was a weekend project hacked together playing with CI. Full blast reviews of missing or nested DIVs are a waste of your time that could be better spent on your startup. If you're looking for UI help on your corp or other products (which could use a refresher), lets chat.

Good points and fitting as right now a large portion of my personal income is consultant based.

I have about 14 years into my career as a web guy who can code (front to back), design killer UI and create, execute and grow business strategy.

What that being set! "being" a generalist is not for everyone.

There are some things to note:

1. Keeping up with all three is a LOT of work. Understanding the latest javascript libraries, deployment tech, UI tools and successful business models take a ton of time. I roughly spend 15-30 hrs a week trying new things our, designing or running spreadsheets not to mention the meetups and whatnot.

2. Every startup is looking for this person because they can enable so many parts of the success equation in one, self-contained shot. They add more value per square inch at critical phases of business growth that is a considerable asset. As a startup grows, this is personality turns into an optimal product lead, who can drive major decisions and participate in meaningful discussions with teams, investors and press.

3. Large corporations are not tuned to need or understand your services, unless you are accomplished in mid- to senior-level management positions.

4. You can visualize and eval business ideas quickly, then be able to communicate them to specialists with ease. I can't tell you the number of times being able to verbalized the need for a linked list or onHover whatever has made communcation easier with people who I bring to help me execute. This makes you a better implementer who is respected by counterparts and team members. Business folk quickly grasp CLV and burn margins when deciding to invest or advise.

4. You don't necessarily become an expert in everything. In fact, it's near impossible. I've had to focus of two or three major activities and fine tune my skills. This could mean I will be specializing in the future.

5. You don't get rest. The world is moving quickly, technology even faster. There are millions of able and hungry people willing to execute on their great ideas every single day. That means I have to keep moving or lose my flow. I can probably point to 7 or so ideas that were launched in the time I was evaluating the opportunity with 3 that have gone onto real growth.

cloudy drinks heinies, lol

Try merging two or more public data sources and doing analysis on that and publishing the site.

Cool. I would opine that a good 50% of the internet money made out there is very unsexy, hidden and underground. The people behind the businesses have absolutely no incentive to draw attention to themselves but occasionally they do slip through the cracks.

SaaS can be awesome. Unfortunately this isn't a matter of optimal, it's just unusable. I hope they take notice.

There are significant and notable cases where design is the major or one of the handful of value-driving engines of product (apple was a startup, people found value in design, jawbone, airbnb as a better experience in relation to VRBO, etc). It looks like your seemingly deriding view is of web app startups. To put this into perspective: we spend nearly 105K a year on Salesforce licenses on behalf of our company and clients. I personally think Salesforce is a particularly SHITTY, low value product because of the design. If competition gives me SF with a great UI, I find value I'm that and will pay handsomely. Value can be created by design explicitly.

And looking back on the posters comment history, I would tend to agree. There is tons of absolutes, argumentation and quite a lack of tact.

"Works on all devices

Trello works on everything! It’s web based and made to go mobile if you need to. Nothing to install. Nothing to update."

Not true, iPad safari looks like sh*t.

Probably related and to be announced with the latest updates to Basecamp.