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They're going for the smartphone crowd with those annoying QR codes. Geeks. Grilled cheese sure was popular at SXSW this year.

You don't know me at all; how can you make that claim? I don't think that's at all true about me. I spend a lot of effort involved in improving the emotional welfare of other people.

Moreover, I think it's ridiculous to commend and "respect" villagers for having to endure unnecessary hardships; it's as if the commender attains a stance of moral superiority for valuing "what really matters". It's not clear to me that:

1) Living rurally is actually net worse for a human being

2) If living rurally is indeed net worse for a human being, that commending and respecting them is a good thing - perhaps such a situation should be held in contempt in order to promote a more radical advance in technology

3) I think effort and willpower deserve respect -- merely having to endure hardship, while unfortunate, is not necessarily worthy of my respect.

P.S. As a friendly FYI, "Smurk" is not a word.

That game was maddeningly difficult, though probably good for my developing brain.

Let's all give ourselves a pat on the back for respecting those people.

Out of a total of how many professions? That's a misleading statistic.

Actually I think it sucks when you consider that you're much more likely to die on the job as a CHP officer than as a programmer.

WePay needs to transform into something that say, Linode can offer as a payment option.

Is anyone here hosting their Node app with Heroku ? Right now I'm using Linode but could do with a little bit more memory. of course, the price is right $19.95/month)

well, that was quick.

It's somewhat different, but I always thought they had a neat idea and product! I love NLP

Hmm... it's not adioso. If you think about it could you come back to this thread and let me know?

I guess the question is Cost of Customer Acquisition going to be cheaper LTV?

I wonder what the economics of travel commissions are... If you get 5% of whatever it costs to book a vacation... and people are booking $1000 vacations ... that's $50.

And assume that 1% of visitors who visit the site end up using us to book a vacation thats 50 cents a user.

And I think you can target YUPpies on Facebook for around that

Of course, if the product's design is really compelling (crucial), it will be social/viral, people will use it when they're bored.

by the way, this made me think of another idea.

Vacation Discovery....like StumbleUpon, but shows awesome places you can go within a certain budget..

maybe categories "Castles" "East Asia" "Tropical" "Waterfalls" "Jungles" "Deserts"

It would have to be:

1) Very picture-oriented, so you can fantasize and browse (escapism)

2) Able to filter by price easily, and include airfare

Good business model, fun to use, win win win.

Great Video. In my YC application I will be sure to pre-answer these questions: Who in the world needs you the most and... what's special about you?

People will seek out something they desperately need

One mechanism to evaluate opportunity appeal: f(how bad they need you, how fast they move)

the founders of grouptalent would be prescient to advance sociometer usage - i'm going to blog about this in the next few days, but basically, you can determine electronically when groupthink conditions arise, typically within 30 seconds.

there's an IE11?

or you think it's IE7 with a windows 7 theme on?

i thought this was just an auxiliary service to other google services.. not really a competitor to s3?

I don't think it's that flawed.

Would you elaborate?

Is Node.js the new Python (2004)?

Why did they reject it?

Can you explain the technology behind the potential implementation?

please send me an email

http://www.amazon.com/Black-Swan-Impact-Highly-Improbable/dp... have a field day

fear of centralized access to personal information? is there a _secure_ easy voip solution ?

GitHub makes using version control fun.

The fact that people are shivering in reaction is actually very useful for potential users of this software, though I agree that it's not constructive for the author.

When are we gonna see more advanced math covered on KA? It would be great to see Fourier transform or even music theory!

You're right.

The good news is that I care enough to say what I really think despite the definite collateral damage to my reputation by saying something negative and going against the grain of what everyone here is saying?

The social consequences to my statement make me think of pandas and lobsters - http://ifindkarma.posterous.com/pandas-and-lobsters-why-goog...

and I was eager to hear responses to my comment - perhaps related:

http://cognitivesocialweb.com/home/2010/12/19/on-facebook-an...

btw I've been rejected by YCombinator multiple times