Developer-centric opinions are for Hacker News.

Downvote. Non-news. Why aren't you linking to your "full blog post". Why are you including the full blog post here? Why are you submitting your own articles? Why are you the only commenter on your own article? Why are you being so overtly promotional on HN?

Sorry man. We all worked hard on this and were excited to get it out; it's been well-received by our users and I wanted to post it. Did not mean to offend.

There will be some Gengo people there for sure :)

Congrats on the rebranding and tell Gareth to get back to work.

This is not necessarily bad advice. However it's kind of arrogant.

While "the point of an internship is [...] to learn what kind of work or industry you want to be in once you graduate, to try things out and live in cool places." is partly true (especially in the current economy) it's a pretty naive way of looking at yourself.

If you're doing an internship, you're probably not a fully-fledged and employable person yet. You probably aren't ready to take on a huge amount of responsibility. The internship is there to teach you some of the other aspects of working with others in a real company (not a college project) that you simply can't get from college. Most 25 year olds don't have those skills. Don't forget that.

It's a lovely job market right now in Silicon Valley, but it won't be forever. The individuals that have a bit of humility respect the fact they need to learn throughout their career, and in the long run will do better.

I don't really understand why this is on the front page, or what the point of the article is (apart from a grumble). Not saying it ain't so, but struggling to care...

Think he needs an editor to run an eye over the piece?

/jk

That's probably why it's on the front page: entertainment value

An interesting observation about Jason and the dry writing style of many tech blogs. If The Kernel can avoid this I'll be a regular reader, while taking Milo's writing with a spoonful of salt.

This theoretically true statement "There is no reasonable economic justification for a customer to offer anything but a low-ball figure. " can, in practice, be irrelevant.

So unless you are a savant, following the OP's advice in enterprise sales can result in you leaving hundreds of thousands of dollars on the table. Because customers (especially at the early stage) often have a perceived value for something that is far more than you realized, or they have a budget, and their price is the budget. Steve Blank has great examples of these situations throughout his career.

The OP's advice makes sense for consumer sales (and I think he should clarify this).

This book gives a rounded and intelligent set of tools that work in almost all situations — and will make you rethink the thoughts you thunk about pricing: http://www.amazon.com/Winning-Profit-Game-Smarter-Branding/d...

Reading this makes me feel treated like a kid. As if Asana staff will be leaning over my shoulder the whole day like creepy startup Jesuses.

Plus Donnie and Kim, peeking round the door, desperately fishing for compliments on their cooking :)

I get it, you're all lovely. But this is too much.

Best part of this for me is that I can now actually pay to watch something outside of the US from an artist I like. If you don't live outside the US or UK you probably don't realize how rare that is.

I don't want to in any way refute the referenced article or the findings of the air crash investigators, because clearly the pilots here behaved incorrectly and I am just an outsider.

However I think it's worth at least mentioning that both airlines and aircraft manufacturers have a vested interest and significantly more resources to put behind demonstrating that pilot error is the primary cause of any accident.

For instance in this case you have... • poor training (pilots unprepared for alternate law) • possibly poor UI (de-coupling of controls, insufficient communication that aircraft had lapsed to alternate law) • small-scale systems failure (pitots)

vs • incorrect response and continued failure to understand aircraft attitude (in turbulence, with no visual cues, in a situation which 'fooled' three pilots)

...which makes it an interesting one for manufacturer and airline to definitively defend, but I would guess that they can and will absolve themselves from liability.

Bad names are good for SEO. Good names have no intrinsic SEO value.

e.g. Twitter, Skype, Foursquare are all pretty good names. But have no SEO benefit.

e.g. local-activities.com is good for SEO, but I've already forgotten it, it's so generic.

So do you want to build a big business, or just a nice tickover organic traffic-based business. That's the decision. If it's the former, go for a great name. If it's the latter, go with SEO.

Thanks for your advice!! This was wxacty what I was thinking off too. Gut feels says to focus in building up the community and the world will spread online. Even if HelloWorld is already a heavily used term in programming