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Caffeine in short.

Actually, yes. Does that sound crazy? I'm not talking about bad servers, I'm talking about good servers. Also, servers let me ask questions and help me discover new food I would probably not try. That's just me though, maybe I'm special.

I don't go to a restaurant just to eat. It's a social event. I go to hang out with friends, people watch, and just be around people. You can order in if you really hate human interaction that much.

Yeh, uWink. I think it went bankrupt.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UWink

I agree with you. I'm not sure why email, with a few added features, can't just replace dropbox completely. I have more space in gmail (and unlimited space on yahoo) than I do on dropbox, for free. Email syncs better than dropbox on every machine I have because I don't need additional software. The only other limitation is sharing but I think this is where something like "wave" would have worked.

Just my thoughts.

As far as legal action, Google employees violated Mocality 's Terms & Condition so maybe legal action is possible.

Doesn't infinite scroll take away from potential advertising?

I would say it probably has something to do with the devices. It used to be you pirate songs and videos to play them on your computer. These days, however, it's smart phones and ipads/tablets. Not as easy to get that content on those devices. Much easier to stream than copy over.

Can someone explain what the benefits of the case are in your pocket? In his video, it's like the main focus. Can't it still fly out if you're dancing just as easily as any other case?

Sorry, if I came off as defensive. There is no such thing as absolute. My point was that don't get caught up in trying to find a cofounder to get yourself started. That's it. No trust issues, no hate, no absolutes.

haha I really do believe that is true.

I would disagree with you on this part. Noise is the social. The lack of "noise" is what made G+ sooo boring for so many. I know once I added the noise of HN circle on G+, even though I didn't know any of these people, I enjoyed G+ tremendously more.

This was a really long, enjoyable article. My question is, how does the company that he works for manage to pay him enough to buy a 90k flat? Are they shaddy like the other companies he described? Is he shaddy and not paying his taxes? How did his employer manage to do it and why can't he just follow that path?

It's experience. 18 years worth it.

utensil is the solo founder. Prior to that, they needed their hands only.

Who's to say your cofounder is going to be as committed as you are when times get hard? When it really comes down to it, you can't trust anyone to be as committed as you to your company except yourself.

I use Rhapsody (piror Yahoo Music) and I love it. I also use MuvAudio.

Customers don't care about "free stuff" or even prices. They care about service. This is my point. GroupOn may help bring in the customers with the coupons but customers don't go back because of prices (not so much). If the experience sucks, it sucks and that's it.

I was basically almost in the same spot as you're in now. I was doing a lot of coding for stuff that, to say the least, did not inspire me. I quit.

Quitting is not easy if you don't have backup. I had backup so it was a bit easier.

I would suggest you spend your evenings learning other code or even do freelance stuff. Freelance stuff forces you to learn other things and also gives you extra income to get you a step closer to quitting.

Was money the problem before for hiring or the lack of support from the parent company (Conde Nast)? I don't know if they suddenly made more money and as a result were able to hire.

Edit: http://blog.reddit.com/2010/11/thank-you-mr-nast-may-we-have...

That's true. I think the shipping on Amazon is pretty good without Prime so maybe it doesn't stand out as much for me. You do get free movies and a few other perks that I never use.

That's incredible. Congrats!! :)

Are we allowed to ask how/if they're making money?

Why would Twilio kill AT&T before Skype does?

Here is my take on the whole Groupon thing. Every small business should give customers, especially first time customers, a discount. We used to print in the local news paper "buy 1 get 1 free ciagar" specials and pay the paper $250 for that ad. It wasn't really worth it but we did it every month because our competitor was doing it.

This is what I see is happening with a lot of small businesses. I don't think the issue is really Groupon so much as it is the businesses not understanding what to do with these new customers. If they're just in there for the deal, they won't come back after they get the deal. This is from first hand experience.

We got customers coming back because the deal was just to bring them in. That was all. It wasn't even to find new customers. We just wanted traffic. Once we got the customers, each of us who worked there had a responsibility to get the customers excited about coming back. We were masters at it. These small business lack that skill and it has nothing to do with Groupon or any other deal advertising platform (including newspapers).

Amazing to me how a company can gross $1.1B and end up at a loss at the end of that. Almost feels pointless.

I was going to make fun of the name but then decided to try it and same exact reaction. It's so damn awesome and easy to use. I think this is something I'd even consider paying for. Nice work Ifttt team!

For me, I find myself spending a lot more time on G+. I'm having more discussions and really finding G+ so much more awesome overall.

I've shopped at macys.com several times because of the awesome deals on there but every time, I've returned everything that arrived. I also shop Zappos a lot and almost never return anything. For me, I think the site is really lacking on general product information through media (pictures/videos). Most of the products I click on usually have 1 picture (zappos has at least 4 and a video) and the picture doesn't even really help at all (ie: the shirt is tucked into the jeans so you can't see the fit).

What are your thoughts on this? I know you guys have a gang of products but I figure if you have to setup a photo shoot for 1 angel, might as well get every angel. I admit that I don't know what i'm talking about when it comes to this stuff (I'm just using Zappos as a reference).

Camtasia and Smoothdraw http://www.khanacademy.org/about/faq#equipment

I just checked your personal site. All I gotta say is you're pretty fucken badass. :)