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sunnydaynowon Google ate my email address

Very bad, at least in our case (small company). They reply mostly with templates. When one issue would have taken a bit more time to solve (Thunderbird IMAP issue with ONE of our user names) they simply stopped responding after a while.

AND: You can NOT go back to the free service, at least not easily! Talk about lock-in...

sunnydaynowon Growl fork maintainer banned from Growl mailinglist after fixing bugs

I disagree. Is SAP deceptive just because one popular organization prefers another definition of open source? The OSI did not invent the term "open source". The term "open source" itself should not imply a specific license.

sunnydaynowon Monitors.txt - lazy webapp monitoring

Nice idea. The monitors.txt should/could also contain selenium or imacros scripts for transaction monitoring, for use by monitoring services like alertfox or browsermob.

sunnydaynowon "Patent trolls could be the end of Silicon Valley" says Tim O'Reilly

Yes. Like in most of Europe, whoever looses the case should have to pay BOTH sides legal fees.

sunnydaynowon DuckDuckGo included in Opera

That makes it double impressive. This market really needs competition, so all the best.

sunnydaynowon DuckDuckGo included in Opera

Did they use their new funding to pay for this?

sunnydaynowon Paul Graham, Dropbox and The Single Founder Exception

The 25-year old knows that if his startup fails he can easily find a first (or new) job at Google etc two years later. That does not apply to 45+ year olds. The risk is much higher.

sunnydaynowon Paul Graham, Dropbox and The Single Founder Exception

Yeah, right. You forget: That is easy in college, but actually much more difficult later in life when all your friends have jobs and family. In other words, works in some way as a nicely worded age discrimination. Not that it affects me, but getting older makes you more sensitive for these things ;)

sunnydaynowon Dropbox Said No To “Nine-Digit” Acquisition Offer From Steve Jobs

The main purpose of this site is to promote YC backed startups (same as TechCrunch).

I still learn a lot from this site, so I don't really mind. Although I wish it would be different.

At least they are motivated to maintain it well!

sunnydaynowon For Steve Jobs's Biological Father, the Reunion Never Came

Islamophobia OR anti-Semitism? I do not understand...

sunnydaynowon Why Germany seems not to want a quick fix for the euro crisis

"The vast majority of financial transactions, he told fellow finance ministers in a closed meeting earlier this month, “do not serve the real economy”. When markets go astray the answer is not to make the taxpayer step in once more, but to introduce better regulation."

Spot on!

sunnydaynowon VC Decries Airbnb’s Recent Funding for Founder Control and Cashout

>It's about entrepreneurs screwing early-employees,

Yes, that surprised me a lot! Especially from founders that are somewhat "famous" and are connected to YC. I expected they don't play these tricks. Greed?

Anyone knows how their employees reacted to this news? If I would have worked 50+ hours for year(s) and then read this... :(