My wife is a lifelong migraine sufferer and these anti-CGRP drugs really seem to be working (fingers crossed). She'd literally tried everything and had given up. Virtual high-five to these researchers

Not anymore: SFA 77 VCU 75

Looks like that bracket called that game correctly. He's still 31/31 according to that link.

The comments here are really hitting home to me how self-aggrandizing and toxic hacker news is becoming.

This guy got off his ass and started a real business. How about a pat on the back or words of encouragement?

Here's a dose of optimism for you, OP: Good for you. You got this far, you will figure out the challenges ahead of you.

“It is not the critic who counts" has never been more true.

Wow this means a lot, thank you very much!

Durham (American Tobacco Campus) is home to TriHUG, one of the best Hadoop Users Group in the south.

There's a great crop of young, vibrant startups in Durham and Raleigh that are thriving and hiring.

It's a lot more than IBM, SAS, Microsoft and Cisco here. You just have to look a little harder.

TriDUG too, the Southeast's largest Drupal user's group outside of Atlanta.

Hadoop is much more than MapReduce. It's a fault tolerant, highly scalable file system where you can store a shitload (technical term) of data. That alone is remarkable.

Once your data is there, then you get your map/reduce on. And the best way to get started there is to look into Pig or Hive (high level map/reduce abstractions). Either of those will take you a long way.

And Justin Frankel. He and his peeps at Nullsoft cranked out some great stuff

Dunno how to interpret that. Surely the love poem would come out better than if I wrote it...

As I see it you get a working logo matched with a domain you like, even if it's not your final visual identity it's at least a start.

Isn't the "one extreme to the other" kind of the point of his post? Following his gut has obviously worked quite well for him.

It's refreshing to hear this side. And frankly, it doesn't sound like you know much about him if you're replying about "being sensible."

I don't know anything about him and I don't care. I'm drawing a line between two extremes and talking about the extremes and the middle. If he's somewhere in the middle, that's great. I would just hate for people to get the message from a post like this that legal review is a waste of time. We deal with it every week of the year and it never ends like it did in this story.

Don't worry about competition. It's a good thing. It means you picked a good market. Focus on what makes you different and better.

Sounds like you may be a single founder. If so, find a friend or mentor who can help you work through the ups and downs. You're going to be discouraged a lot starting a business.

I went through a similar situation and solicited advice. Lots of people told me "know when to quit." I didn't, and I'm glad I stuck it out.

I paid a local law firm for a TOS once. It was not cheap, and after I received it, I had to manually edit out the remnants of an unfinished search/replace of another company's name.

One more anecdote: When my service went live, I put a free t-shirt offer deep in the TOS. Only had 1 person ever try to redeem the offer.

Did you fulfill their request?

What is your site url.

Ha good sir, that is hilarious.