Just remember everyone...

The difference between a sell-out and a not-sell-out is the presence of a buyer.

:-)

"Now, when coding, I try to think: 'how can I write this such that if people saw my code, they’d be amazed at how little there is and how little it does'."

golden. i've been trying to pound this concept into my head lately, and this is a very well-stated version of it.

I am deeply impressed at the depth and subtlety of this joke. All the worst excesses of HTML 2.0, rendered in perfectly valid, well-structured, completely readable HTML 5.

It's not the language you use, folks. It's what you do with it. Bravo!

Not to take anything away from Bill Gates, but he always had a million dollar trust fund to fall back on.

(Source: http://philip.greenspun.com/bg/)

It's true that you rarely have to work fast because the world will leave you behind otherwise (though that has occasionally been the case with startups we've funded). The reason you have to work fast is that your initial idea is probably wrong, and you have to iterate till you get it right.

Who killed the link to the primary source non-subscriber content with actual numbers?

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/10/19results.html

Agree. For most people todays OS is 20 years ago's BIOS boot code.

20 years ago the BIOS was there to startup the OS so we could run all our desktop apps.

Now, the OS is there to start the browser so we can get to all our websites/apps.

What a crock. The first sentence:

Principles of cognitive neuroscience and time management can be applied to attain conversational fluency (here defined as 95%+ comprehension and 100% expressive abilities) in 1-3 months.

(a) is bullshit; (b) isn't even given an attempt at substantiation; (c) is barely connected to the gobbledygook of the rest of the post.

Flickr's not a backup service, and from the quoted TOS:

> Your photos are not removed from Flickr, only from the list of your photos.

Right. You can't browse your old photos. Links to those photos work, but your list no longer contains them.

Web 2.0 really has spoiled people. If I stop paying AT&T, they cut my iPhone service. If I stop paying for Basecamp, they cut my number of active projects (presumably, haven't checked the actual consequence.)

But if you stop paying for Flickr, they still let you use up all the drive space and bandwidth you want, they just limit the number of photos they list on your account page. This somehow isn't good enough for some folks.

It validates! http://html5.validator.nu/?doc=http%3A%2F%2Fgeocitieslycostr...

Management theory was mostly invented in the 19th century on the basis that you have a bunch of smart, ambitious people (management) overseeing a bunch of dumb, physically more able people (labour). The weirdness is that suddenly what Marx would call "the factors of production" have to be smart. Not only that but how smart they are, rather than how strong they are, is the basis of their productivity.

Invariably, they end up being smarter than the people overseeing them, and that's the source of the weirdness.

One other saying is: Get rich to get wealthy. If you can get enough in the bank to not worry about money, and at a young age that's not a whole lot, you can focus on going for the homerun next time. A successful first time exit could be considered a "blank check" in this industry:

a) You are secure. You don't need to worry about funds to pay yourself ramen money.

b) You probably have enough to have people help you build a prototype, so that gets rid of the friends/family cash crunch.

c) You've done it successfully before, so angels+VCs are much more likely to write you a check.

d) You've done it successfully before, so people are likely to join your team. The equity you're offering has value due to past success ie- don't believe me? I've done it once and I made the last guys who believed in me make some damn good money

I hope that guy will never ever have a job again.

It takes a lot for me to develop a strong disliking for someone that I've never ever met but Darl McBride has definitely managed a permanent spot near the top of my shit list.

He's the exact opposite of a role model.