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Because he intentionally made the reference to PE to pick up on PE's context. He "sampled" PE, he didn't "sample" Thomas N. Todd.

> better than 20/20

If I could improve to better than 20/20, I might have to start wearing glasses. What are the best glasses to give super vision?

Yes but how many children did she have!

What would you say are HP's top 5 most valuable pieces of infrastructure?

Awesome! Congrats on launching :)

I would prefer to use http://browserling.com/ all day. The home page design is way more awesome.

Classic symptom of what Nassim Taleb call the "Fat Tony" problem. You deflected a 40% drop but your users aren't coming back to your service. Gosh.

When I thought about using your service for my business, I was so disgusted with the disingenuity of not showing your prices on the homepage (I had to email support, who sounded annoyed -- and not at all apologetic -- to query the price points), I decided to not even give you guys a shot.

Here's my medicine. Buy a Netflix subscription. Watch Breaking Bad. You'll feel better.

For those who are late to the party, Breaking Bad is now available on Netflix streaming, in case you didn't cancel your subscription in moral outrage over Quikstergate.

Search is just one of those things where power users will always rule, because in an information economy whoever has best access to information becomes dominant, and the copycats follow in order to keep up. So a search engine has to cater to power users.

I use ZH to keep my pulse on the market and HN to learn tech market fundamentals.

Elliott Wave much?

Don't normal people who score within 1 or 2 standard deviations of mean IQ deserve some entertainment too?

1) facebook OWNS spotify. their testimonial, "spotify rocks" - mark zuckerberg, is proof that they bow to mz and are catering to his audience (most of the world, thx Goldman Sachs).

2) it's very smart for facebook to own music and therefore, emotion (Twitter hedge fund? FORGET THAT, I'm going to start a SPOTIFY hedge fund.)

3) the number one reason i use spotify is social: i like being able to listen to a friend's playlist (i have chosen him as an arbiter of cool music...)

4) i still use youtube to search out esoteric sounds that aren't available on itunes/amazon/spotify

>I'd like to see more CEOs put their money where their mouth is and take the majority of their salary in options, and I think the board should require that.

That simply incentivizes CEOs to pump stock prices and not create long term shareholder value; moreover, the market can be unpredictable and if the stock price gets manipulated by dear Mr. Bernanke, why should the CEO be punished?

I'm glad somebody finds this as amusing and inspiring as I do.

It's very fashionable to have high-functioning autism these days.

nothing cuban writes in public is going to be honest, it's fundamentally self serving and it's good PR.

If somebody compiles the history books into an Amazon shopping list, I would gladly use your affiliate link. I haven't read any of them, which is shameful.

Inappropriately applied dichotomy, my brotha. "Figure it out yourself and lead" vs. "Manipulate someone else into doing it for me" ---- a lot of people would rather do it themselves if it were easy enough.

Have you read Sex at Dawn?

Any other entrepreneurs integrating this into their standard employee training manual?

Hacker News is my biggest guilty pleasure. I know what I should be doing ... but I like to feel involved in a community, so I post here. Picking up little bits of information is a bonus.

Is TechCrunch still going to give priority scoops to YCombinator startups? Is YC's stock going to rise or plummet because of this? Will Arrington still have Aol investing in his new fund? Will Arrington be eager to invest in YC companies?

I disagree. The c-level people are responsible for Yahoo!'s problems, not the middle managers. The C-level people set the company culture and create the incent-structures for the middle managers to do their work.

Congrats!

Incidentally, anyone have an idea how I can profile my Node app to see where I'm using up memory and CPU resources?

It's a lot easier to criticize someone AFTER you receive data. Hindsight bias.

Dunning-Kruger, hello?

Easy market: do lookups on silicon valley individual's estimated networth. Creepy as hell, but inexpensive to engineer.

I suspect they lack vision and knowledge of how scrappy technology hacks can provide massive value. They have no idea how every most developers on Hacker News are capable of inventing "simple machines" with <5kloc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_machine

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