Support for Grooveshark?

Quick typo fix: 'forcast' should be 'forecast'.

Watched the commercial on Hulu. Hated it. Went straight to HN to see if I was the only one. It was the top news story. Guess I'm not.

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...or just delete your account.

So your answer isn't 'no'. It's 'If you've shown significant effort on your own, then yes; otherwise, no.'

Isn't it slightly contradictory to not have a 'buzz this' button at the end of your essay?

Very much so. I just added it, thanks. As I said, I really just switched.

Writing with Style - the best book I've ever read on writing.

http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Style-Conversations-Art-2nd/dp...

I like your essay, but you're way off-base in your latest analysis of Paul Graham's essay. Your conclusion that 'Paul Graham's wrong on the value of a hacker culture (sadly)' can be contradicted with a single word. Software.

You make a great argument, but Apple is not in the software business.

This distinction between being in the "hardware business" or the "software business" is what much of the rest of the industry follows and, as a result, has allowed Apple many of its inroads in the last decade. People want and buy products, and good high-tech products are a result of good software running on good hardware.