I'll just say that I read HN every day and find it VERY valuable. Even the stuff from (or responding to) Joel. I'm extremely busy, and this community filter hel

I'll just say that I read HN every day and find it VERY valuable. Even the stuff from (or responding to) Joel. I'm extremely busy, and this community filter helps me use my limited reading time much more efficiently than I'd be able to do otherwise. The comment: "d). How to start a startup. Just friggin start it man. NASA was started with a lot of engineers and astronomers who had no clue how how to put anything together, but people still figured out how to do it. All you need is the determination and the rest will work itself out." strikes me as simultaneously very ignorant and arrogant. With that attitude, he's unlikely to have tried to start anything, and unlikely to succeed if he does. Successful entrepreneurs try to actively learn how to increase their odds for success; ignoring the hard-won learnings of the entire community of entrepreneurs is merely stupid.