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Although I agree that we all need to unplug sometime, it sounds like he is ranting about a symptom and not the cause. My guess is he needs to work on his presentation content especially if his long winded blog post is any indication.

I think we have all experienced presenters, and ideas from those presenters, that engage us enough that we don't wander back to our "distractions".

Nice rant, good PR for yourself. I guess it would be easy for anyone to redesign this site if they threw all business and technical requirements out the window as you have.

What are you supposed to do for one way trips? What if I am booking a multi-city flight? What if its an award ticket with miles? What if I want to check first class flights only? Flights with fully refundable fares? How do I check fares for children? What if I want non-stops only? Have you tested your "when" box with users? I can guarantee some of my less technical friends and family members would have no idea what to put in that box.

If you want a simple tool, fly an airline that has simple routes. All of you who love Southwest, go fly them. No one is forcing you to fly American. If you don't think they are providing shareholder value, don't buy their shares.

Anyway, like I said, nice PR. You suckered me in.

If the video doesn't play for you it's on a number of news sites including this one: http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20090512/NEWS01/9051...

Next up on HN:

Why an Orange Can't Become an Apple: Its tough orange skin

Most meta travel sites like this get their commissions one of two ways, either a commission for booking a flight, or a click through commission to the travel site. It is in tripeedo's best interest to open as many popups as possible.

They are adding little to no value on the flight pricing. Thumbs down.

Is there any reason you can't use an unordered list with one of the pre-made jquery tree plugin's to give indentation, collapse and expand?

http://jquery.bassistance.de/treeview/demo/

Possibly. But right now many two word quips get more points than longer, well though out, responses. If karma really has no value (over the few point levels currently defined) I guess it doesn't matter. But I always assumed that in the future karma points would be used for additional features.

Perhaps the upper limit shouldn't be 10, but the total number of words in the post. So a two word quip, only gets you two points. ;)

On the flip side, I don't understand why someone should get 40 karma points for a two word witty comment, no matter how funny it was. Why isn't karma per comment limited to -1 to 10? Seems like it would limit karma bashing and karma mega-boosting.

hmmm...plane off runway, down embankment, loses an engine, cracked fuselage, large fire engulfs entire right side of fuselage partially melting over head bins, making some exits on the right side unusable...yeah I think this qualifies. I'm not sure if miraculous is the right word, but I am amazed how many "news" stations are passing this off as nothing.

Remember, they always shut down for two weeks this time of year. There are just extending it by two more weeks. This really isn't surprising or shocking.

> By the way where are you?

This is probably the most important question. Good luck getting $30 an hour in a small market, and you could certainly ask for more than $50 if you know what you are doing in New York City. So where are you?

Can I ask why you chose Flex over the Ajax approach? What features were only in Flex that you felt this was a better approach?

Thanks, I'll take a look through the forums. Have you used anyone from this forum? The prices seem to be completely random from $0.15 to $10 per post or more.

But you don't use capital letters. Is this Jerry Yang? ;)

If hiring is hard, finding a decent recruiter is even harder. My experience, with recuriters, has been signing a contract to cough up 15% of annual salary to a recruiter who does nothing more than list the ad on job sites and pass along resumes. I know there are some recruiters that actually do recruit, and add value, but they are very hard to find.

I thought he stopped blogging. Why does he pick his craziest email rants to publish online? Just to tilt the rest of us?

Are either of these even semantic products? I didn't realize parsing the body of an email itinerary and sharing it with your friends was all that was required to be in this category. This list should be renamed "websites I like in 2008!"

So, how often are you on linkedin then? every two years? Or how often do you change jobs?

Serious question: what do you do on linked in? What business value do you get?

I know several recruiters and speakers who use LinkedIn with great success. But outside of those two fields, most of the people I talk to use linkedin as a glorified rollodex and nothing more. I would be really interested in examples of what you have used it for.

> Actually it left me a bit disappointed to find that it had been "designed"

I'm disappointed it was "designed" since it looks exactly like a home-brew logo.

When I investigated a low cost solution like this before, the issue was big companies like AOL not honoring TTL's less than 24 hours. Is this still the case?

Do you have a staging/test site, a mirror of your live site? Normally you apply all the changes to the test site so that you know the upgrade works, and how long it will take. Then you can schedule downtime as required.

JERRY, THE SHIFT KEY IS NEXT TO THE LETTER Z

Pretty sure he was referring to Calacanis' horrible post on how to "save money" by buying a $3,000 to $5,000 espresso machine.

Wow, how bad was the code before you made it "too awesome" in your latest update? Sounds like you need some new programmers and three new DBAs.

I don't know about you, but when learning a new topic, I find it easier to print the content I want to read, and highlight it old-skool style with a highlighter. It helps me for reading comprehension, later referencing, and those off line meetings where you want to show something quickly out of your printed notes.

I agree, the content on techcrunch continues to tend towards random wild opinion instead of tech startup coverage. From Arrington's summer of hate for twitter, to the current sky is falling, its becoming impossible to stay interested.

Using bzr. A few months ago when evaluating bzr, git, and mercurial, the features were similar between all three, but bazaar won in the ease of use category.