jerryji

Interesting article! In hindsight everything is distorted and seems so natural, however, it doesn't teach you much about the _current_ reality -- how can you tell if your company is suffering from a product or marketing problem _right now_?

Why is it _impossible_ to read?

Even though I frowned at their splitting the 3 short sections into 3 pages, frowned again at their forcing opening of a new browser/tab for each section, it at least provides a (semi)decent summary of the different search engines in the market and hence stays high above the lower quadrant of the worst articles I've seen in terms of intent, content, layout, or color.

The current HN title "Why I quit eating non-vegetarian food, and why you should too." does not match the gist of the article. I'd even say it's misleading.

Pylons [ http://pylonshq.com/ ] -- a lightweight (Python) web framework emphasizing flexibility and rapid development.

Until this someone who shares your load is found, it's only a hypothesis that could be rejected.

Kudoz to Professor Gottman. However, a more relevant question is: can _you_ predict the long term relations around you just by "blinking"? I can't, hence I don't see any practical application of Malcolm's "Blink".

I second SwellJoe's advices, particular #1 -- "Don't go into debt".

During 1999 the pre/post bubble period, I committed 120% into an online game startup with a few of my friends. Even with a bit of VC funding, the business finally imploded after struggling for about two years. Not a cent of salary was paid during the second year, and since we were all fresh grads with virtually no savings back then. We all had to max out our limited credit lines even while living _very_ frugally (sleeping on my friend's couch and not paying rent, for example). The pressure of debt was suffocating every minute and finally left me life long deep scar both mentally and physically. Besides, under prolonged period of stress, I ultimately started to make crazy decisions, and startup is a fragile organism that can not afford any more mistake.

That's why now I only work on my project part-time, even though it's been almost three years with little progress.

No in depth coverage of the actual R&D that someone like me expected to read and learn from, more like a sales pitch from the BizDev department.

If they buy millions of dollar of whatever crap you sell online, would you still care about which browser they use?

"Control is a one way street" -- http://venturehacks.com/articles/one-way-control

A brilliant illustration, clear yet concise, too bad there still isn't a clear winner.

As classic as it is, I don't feel like voting up something that has not been developed for the past 12 years.

"Send it to ALL" -- when I was working for banks with (tens of) thousands of employees, I often received such carefully crafted exit emails from people/departments I had never heard of. And I considered all of them SPAM.

Question: If that is (one of) the reason(s) behind, then the correlation should be observed universally across the country, or even across the world, is that the case?

I dived in your site for 2 minutes even though I'm not single and this is how I feel --

   1. Too many questions during registration

   2. Too little hand-holding for new users

   3. The functionality seems pretty limited (upon a
      quick glance)

   4. How do you differentiate yourself from the
      numerous other dating sites?

A good reading for anyone who feels bad about being a programmer.

Damn, I previously thought LHC is the only thing that's gonna suck up the world.

Thank you very much!

Now I start to understand better why HN readers oppose CH.

n+3: gray text on dark background

n+4: pixel based layout that messes up upon (text only) zooming in

n+5: links made exactly like text

So _how_ exactly did it happen?

It's such a typical distracted and convoluted main stream news that after reading the article my brain was like a messed up Rubik's Cube and I had to twist much just to summarize only two points:

* Aggressive investment in Netbook, which is supposed to be disruptive innovation. This is fine.

* Acer is free to choose low cost parts for its laptop -- this is considerably fluffier as if its competitors are doing (trying to do) the same.

Anyone else has a better idea?

I voted you up.

But I don't fully agree with you. Maybe you didn't mean it but your tone sounds a bit too condescending to me -- like some Wall street rich guy saying if you were poor and still are poor, then it's your own problem, just get out of my sight -- not everybody has a dream job at a dream work place, in fact, I would argue most don't, regardless of industry. Should we care why many IT workers are not happy even if some individuals can't escape the blame? Shouldn't we be a bit more tolerant and listen more so that hopefully we will make the IT a better industry to work in?

Last but not the least, the Joel on Software crowd is not really drawn here with similar submissions, even though I will probably refrain from submitting similar moody articles here, wherever they are from.

Seems to be back now.

"Service Temporarily Unavailable" -- Hacker News effect?

Warning: Creepy pictures inside.

If it takes ten years to truly learn a programming language, it might as well take ten years to make a true movie.

I find myself learning nothing (other than a few high profile startups/founders' anecdotes) after reading the entire article -- maybe someone else can teach me.

Same with the "News" page.

Call up any lawyer in your area charging less than $200/hour, explain your situation in less than 15 minutes, say that you are willing to pay him/her $100 just to send that competitor a formal letter demanding them to stop the redirection or threaten further legal action.

This sometimes works, i.e., assuming your competitor is not well funded enough to afford a lawyer either. Otherwise? I don't know, do something similar to your competitor?

A list of everything is close to a list of nothing.