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If you have a shitty product, it doesn't matter if you hang out with Arrington, Kevin Rose, Paul Graham. your product will still suck. Yet if you build a great product with real users/customers everyone will flock towards you.

It wont accept my card. It keeps saying there is a problem

The difference is that YC has invested in Coinbase, which automatically gives them tons of credibility.

I was going to build a Pay What You Want platform but decided not to.

Expand internationally. I'm willing to put up with PayPal because I can accept sellers from around the world.

I dont know about that 75%. Considering that more and more people are using Nodejs. Just take a look at some of the companies using Express. http://expressjs.com/applications.html

So basically a desktop pc with "Social gaming features" and onLive?

eBay owns x.com

Touchscreen, digitizer..ect. Also when you detach the keyboard it has the tablet form factor. So you can easily use it on the couch or whatever.

Agreed. I never said that the Surface is a perfect device, it has its problems but its a step in the right direction. For me at least.

I want to see the consolidation of tablets and laptops. I dont care who does it. If iOS and Android become good enough for me to replace my laptop then great!

I've only played around with the surface in the stores.

To me this is the first iteration of a brand new form factor. Of course it has problems. But the great thing is that the other companies like Lenovo, ASUS,HP..ect will look at this and hopefully see its problems and iterate on it. Also the new intel CPU is aimed at this form factor, which is suppose to cut heat and battery use to "near" ARM levels.

For me it will be amazing to have 1 product for everything. Ubuntu on my tablet? sure! hook up to external monitor, write on it, type on the screen, type on the mini keyboard, type on a full keyboard? all possible.

This is for people who want tablet + laptop but dont want carry+charge+pay for 2 devices. It's really not that difficult to understand, I dont know why HN has such a hard time understanding this.

"But the iPad is a better tablet!!!", yeh but the surface is a full system. "But the air is better laptop!!" yeh but the surface has tablet capabilities. "Buy an Air + iPad!!" I dont want to pay extra plus its a hassle to carry + manage 2 devices

HBO 11th and SpaceX not even on the list...

Metro's root is in Zune.

God Complex. It's impossible to narrow down the cause of today's complex society to the work of marketers.

I didn't. Its a person with too many first world problems and a dash of conspiracy theories. ( high level marketers created the world we live in...ect)

I take that back. This is actualy very useful!

You can't clone the Network Effect.

This is cool but dont most laptop come with media keys?

Stackexchange and quora are totally different. You dont really go on Quora to ask about that crazy bug in ur code.

I though it was a joke.. Was it a joke?? I mean really.. Whitehouse petition for an API.

Not a fan of the design of the site it self. Waaayyy too many layers.

Lean Launch works for only products that have customers ready to use it.

Other cases when your ready to blast 1k emails, your site better be complete or people will visit once and never visit again.

Timbuk2 Bags are amazing quality.

Degrees are useless. It's turned into a piece of paper that everybody has to have.

These days having a degree doesn't mean you actually know anything about the field that you have studied in. It just means that you have a degree thus you are allowed to get a job that doesn't require manual labor. This isn't just America, it's everywhere.

All marketplaces a fraud issue. You can always solve it via reputation points and/or proof.

Even in the media they always say "Reliable source". With this marketplace the "source" can provide information to anyone.

I always wanted to see a marketplace for valuable information. Think of all the leaks that we hear about and think about all the ones that we don't hear about.

You would go on it. List your information for sale and then blogs, newspapers and/or whoever may be interested can purchase it from you.

Tumblr was valued at $800Million last year.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020483130457659...

I had an idea of Reddit style local deals.

Merchant submits deal to their local section, when people buy the deal it would rise in the section.