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Could you please qualify your statement with an example.

In his essay, He has already mentioned that he considers Microwaves, TV's, ATM's as utilities and has no qualms,

>"if updating software is not a normal part of use of the device, then it is not a computer.",

So, it derives that he is OK with flying on planes (which has proprietary software but is not prone to updates like your PC software is) or maybe an MRI machine or an Xray machine of the sorts for your life threatening scenario you mentioned. These are utilities.

Sounds like a pitch to fill open positions at YC funded companies. Nothing wrong with it, just the verbiage of the post -- "surprising hack". It is a hack which feels like Sam just thought up of or made it up. Because otherwise, there is no need to correlate working for YC as a hack to get into YC.

There were other "surprising hacks" always mentioned here, have a solid product with good group, have a product which makes money, get a recommendation from other YC alumni etc.

This, this just sounds like, "hey, we want you to work for our companies. In case you ever want to start one, we will look at your app favorably then."

please put a disclaimer about quora's log in requirement shenanigans. I "signed" up using one of my gmail acct, not sure if my contacts got spammed and ended up never seeing the actual post because the pop up never closed.

I support this notion. I dont think there is any current organization which deals with patent rights + free internet etc. There is EFF but no one takes it seriously. EFF is such a joke that Google autocomplete doesnt even find it even if you type EFF!

Patents stuff is too confusing for me, but the concept of ad space on popular websites to spread the voice of Joel/Internet would be awesome. I think Reddit will participate because they have been pretty devoted so far, definitely not Facebook though. I dont think they want any of this drama..... asusal.

Yup, an editorial with out any author attribution. Go Murdoch!

It takes us to a site hosted by google.

Reddit site has started implementing their protest. It is redirecting.

Is google allowed to display its own ads in iphone? Just curious since I thought apple had some restrictions about them. I am honestly curious, I dont know a whole lot about this subject.

I own an Android phone and I have a Hacker news App made by Ronnie Roller which is ad free.

Is this news-yc Iphone app in anyways different from the one I have installed as far as the features go? Just curious...

Also the ronnieroller Android app gets installed in phone harddrive instead of sdcard. Though it only takes uo 200KB, I cant move it for some reason, I dont really like that. There are other apps for HN on android market which I need to check.

Hi,

Thanks for the response. You echoed exactly what my friend suggested, that I take a break and get my financial situation together. I agree with you. I ignored my personal life a little too long. I will take some time and rethink.

Yes, I am not a programmer. The reason I need 3-4K is for programmer and server costs. The process is semi done right now. The code is written with some bugs. But needs some more work and hardware.

Regarding the xml feed, I signed a year contract and they charged my card, so thats a loss I have to bear. I can just ask them to stop the feed so that the files dont get clogged up on their server.

But thanks again for taking time to read through rather long post and your detailed reply. I really appreciate it.