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"Microsoft would be incredibly stupid to tell all their customers that they now have to use web versions."

Yes, they would. But they'd also be stupid NOT to do what Google Docs is doing.

1) Offer a web-based set of apps that do most of what the desktop versions do and also facilitate sharing.
2) Make it easy to tie those in with desktop versions of Office (see Google Cloud Connect).

This lets them capture the desktop-only people, the web-only people, and those stuck in the middle.

If they don't do this, they're pushing everyone but the desktop-only people away.

The question is whether they will do it well enough to keep their customers, or whether their hesitance to lose the OS lock-in will make them do a hemigluteal job on their web app, in which case people will go with Google Docs or Zoho anyway.
They can be found for around $30/oz; the first google shopping result for "conductive pen" is 9 grams (0.317 oz) for ~$10. It seems to be the same one you linked to on amazon (is that the mobile version, by the way? Because there's practically no information on that page and it looks horrible).
It is. It will be on all Google's properties. You won't see anything about Google+ on it until you get an invite or it goes public, though.
I have used the Koala gem recently for working with Facebook's Graph API and I am a huge fan.
Facebook: Introducing the Graph API explorer
Yeah, they are. They wrote a post about these changes; see http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/evolving-google-desig...
Turning Stress into an Asset
You should watch a ted talk by Stefan Sagmeister on Sabbaticals.

He nicely explains the often overlooked value of time off and shows the innovative projects inspired by his time in Bali.

Hopefully , it would help you getting a perspective for focusing on what can be done in sabbatical & help you choosing a place based on it.
There's no real mention of how the game mechanics are integrated. It's not really risk if it's simply "the most checkins wins." No element of chance. Could still be early in the game however.
Social game platform with multiple profiles? Friendster? It's already a bizarre morning.
This page is unviewable in Chrome. All I get on my screen is corrupt garbage, like what you'd see on an old Atari when it crashes.
Sure. Obviously you need a graphic artist for the visual assets, but that you can start small too.

First determine the game's flow. Typically I see: App Icon (click) -> Splash Screen (wait) -> Top Level Menu (click) -> Low Level Menu (click) -> Game Play (up to you)

If you want to get comfortable with your dev resources, start by giving a graphics designer an overview of the project and say you want a splash screen, app icon, and top level menu, with more work to come.

Here you'll need to help the designer understand who your target market is. Do some research into your market so you can guide your designer. For instance a dungeon game for teens might be dark and edgy, whereas a game with Puppies Pillow Fighting&trade; might use light pastel colors and look cartoon like.

Then get a coder to create a shell of an app using those elements. Sure there's no game play yet, but it will get you started with short money.

Now you have an app that can be tested, it has an icon, pauses on a splash screen and then displays a menu. After that, you should have a good feel for how to interact with your resources. Are they responsive to communication? Did they deliver what you asked for? Did they meet their own budget and time estimates? Were the deliverable work?

Again, be upfront with budget. For the dev resources, you should know how much they charge per hour. Then ask how long it should take to develop the assets. Make it clear that they're only to bill you up to the estimated amount.

Then give them check-in points where they stop work and contact you for feedback. For instance, tell the designer to start with the splash screen and show you a rough draft along with the amount of time spent developing it (so you know how much of your budget is left).

This limits your loss if you don't like them, their concept, or their work. After four hours you can decide if they're heading down the right path.

Developers are more difficult because partial software doesn't do anything. So, get your designer working first, while that's going on you should be finding a developer. Once you have the assets from the designer get the developer to create a shell of an app using them.

Now for minimal money you should have an app that loads on your phone and a set of dev resources that you've proven you can work with. From there you just keep the overlapping dev cycle going. Designer is working on cycle 2, while the developer is working on cycle 1, and so on. At the end of each cycle you should have a working app with which you can judge their work.

This method is slower and perhaps slightly more expensive in the long run, but it can be less risky than handing over 20-40K to one company and hoping you get what you want in the end.
I wonder if they'd do better to totally rebrand the site and shrug off the stink of "abandoned social networking website".
This right is why I don't see a constructive solution ever coming from you. Buying something with intent to profit is bad faith. That's bullshit, plain and simple. We live in a capitalist society. We buy things with the intent to profit all the time. That's what our whole society is BUILT ON. We spend money on labor and capital in hopes of earning a greater return.

You twist this idea by saying someone has registered it with the bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of an entrepreneur looking to create a service. Goodwill doesn't exist until it is created. It's been show time and time again that you cannot buy something in bad faith before something exists. That's just not possible. How can you simply assume it's blocking something to be created for the public as well? You make way too many broad and wrong assumptions to try and reach a conclusion you simply want for your own selfish reasons disguised as a greater good.
It is linkbait because the article doesn't actually argue for his point in any meaningful way or suggest any alternatives, its just a headline written to catch attention, which we both admittedly fell for given our comments here.

The article suggests we can only determine market cap by a larger percentage sale of the company. I think this is a poor argument for a number of reasons:

1) Bid ask pricing is a very well established economic model. In active market, which I would argue Facebook has due to SecondMarket et al, it tends to closely approximate the value of the asset. Certainly there are market or sector wide bubbles, but that is an entirely different argument.

2) The counterexample used is poor. He uses the example of Digg which was almost completely illiquid at the time of that article. Additionally, had Kevin Rose actually wanted to sell Digg at that point in time he probably could have actually garnered that price. The 37signals $100Bn valuation is a straw man argument that is not based in reality at all.
I thought this article would be about which one of the two (local food or less meat) is better for you health wise, with data.
It talks about carbon footprint of each source.
It does that because the alternative is even worse: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2004/11/10/25504...
> Drinking happens in New York every day, except Saturday. On Saturday people try to hide as those people that only go out on week-ends take over. Life resumes on Sunday night.

So true
As good as the author's logic is, he's trying to refute a point that locavores haven't even really been emphasising.

See for yourself: http://www.locavores.com/how/why.php

Energy conservation is only one of 12 reasons to buy locally, and saving transportation costs is only a minor subpoint. The main energy conservation argument is to not buy from farms relying heavily on fossil fuels.
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If your interpretation is correct, how about "When trying to use compression with old versions of openssl, return/throw an error"? Or, if no error happens, maybe "Make trying to use compression with old versions of openssl a no-op" would do.
I'm one of the developers who worked on the project. We actually have been discussing open sourcing the project for this reason.

The biggest challenge is setting up the neighborhood constraints and getting the checkins to map correctly to those constraints. But it's on our radar, and we're open to any ideas people have.
There is no way this sale, or any of the recent ones were not common stock.
I think some of you are misunderstanding the idea DHH is advocating. This is just part of 37signals' campaign to recognize profit as the primary measure of business success, as opposed to valuation.

It's more of a common sense understanding of business, and it involves less hand waving. Pretend you know nothing about stock markets. How do you become rich from running a business? Simple: take in a lot more money than you spend. If you don't do that, any secondary estimates of your "wealth" are in danger of collapsing.
"The idea that New York cost of living is much higher is just false. You can sacrifice a bit of space and maybe the location and pay the same amount as you’re paying now."

Or I could do that HERE and pay less, too. So it's -true-.
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This struck me as non-novel since the CircuitWorks pens have been around for a while. But the ability to write on a flexible medium and bend it etc is the news here.

There are a number of uses for something like this, if its economical. I hope they can commercialize it.
You could use mechanical turk to rephrase each message. ugh that is so like Vinge's focus.
I recently ran android 2.2 on my asus eee 701 512mb ram. Blimey it's fast! My next project is to convert my eee into a tablet.
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The most interesting part in that is that in the UK, both Verizon and AT&T were strong and public proponents of local loop unbundling. When asked about it for the US, they say it is terrible and will hurt consumers.
3 ways angel investors differ from venture capital
Could someone explain how this is different from a regular web forum, IRC, Usenet, or pretty much any other form of communication that doesn't require you to reveal your real identity?
I mean I wouldn't make technical decisions dogmatically.
Heres a few UK based companies who can handle both the design and development of iOS applications

http://www.intohand.com (Disclaimer I founded this company 5 years ago)
http://www.futureplatforms.com
http://www.futureworkshops.com/
Too late. Trillions of dollars have been spent by the various stakeholders branding .com into the minds of the global audience. You cannot simply undo that.

As per my other comment, you're not interested in finding a potential solution. You've got one specific interest and aren't interested in hearing why your solution isn't viable. You simply are waiting for agreement, not a discussion. Here's a solution for startups, use a less than perfect domain until they've proven their worth, got more money and buy a better name. Or, use a lesser extension/subdomain. New gTLDs are around the corner, go pay the 185k fee and get .startup or .beta and create an official startup tld and regulate how you see fit. Let it compete, like a startup should.
Supply of Apple's white MacBook severely constrained ahead of Lion debut
Dealing with this crap on people's computers is so infuriating that I've often wished the government would just green light CIA hits on the perpetrators in Russia. But realistically, it's VISA and Mastercard's fault.
that is definitely true. I think a major part of developing this type of discussion space is generating user trust. Besides trusting us, we also need users to trust each other, to keep comments responsible. It's a big task no doubt.
Combating latency, jitter, and packet loss for VoIP and Video
1) Believe it or not "Effortlessly" is a very confusion way to say "Easily"

2) "With our iphone app and web app". Maybe "Using your Iphone"

3) It says selling something, but I am not sure if this is a digital locker or an app allowing me to sell something.

Overall simplify your copy and tell the user what it does. I am saying this because the screenshot shows a nice interface, and there seems to be something interesting here. Only problem is I cannot put my finger on it.
Tips for selling to small business?
I'm researching the market for a web based product whose target market is small, local and public facing businesses, such as restaurants, bars, retail shops, dry cleaners and the like.

Does anyone have any experience selling to customers like this? In particular, do you have any advice as far as:

* pricing (ie. price points, annual, monthly, etc)

* sales tactics and strategies

* do promotions like free trials work or backfire?

* what sort of gotchas or issues might I run into?
"The most recent investors would not have bought the stock if they had assumed that their investment would be worth less in the future,"

This is true.

"therefore, yes, they are valuing the company at $80bil or whatever the number is."

But this does not follow. They are valuing their investment at the price they paid. They aren't (necessarily) valuing the rest of the company at all.

For instance, they could believe that Facebook's total value will crash to nothing in the next couple of years, but that (due to demand for Facebook stock) they will be able to make a 500% profit by selling off their investment beforehand.

That's an extreme example, but illustrates a problem with extrapolating a company's value from the sale of a small percentage.

I'm sure others have studied this, but intuitively something like a rolling average seems to make more sense for that sort of extrapolation.
Ask HN: Motivation Anyone?
Motivation's really important, isn't it? How do you get inspired/motivated? I didn't think I needed much, but recently I'm beginning to think otherwise.
Frankly I've become less and less motivated through high school, my grades are slowly slipping. I think this isn't as much a personal problem as a generic one, most of the people in my school seem to be the same way. I had no problems till the 10th grade, then it just came about, I'm now in my senior year. I'm still interested in coding, and I've released an iphone app, but I just can't sit and hack anymore!
Perhaps it's due to a need for a social life or some other unimportant thing like that, I've become very frayed by all this, any advice?
I don't know how legitimate this is, but I used an interesting AdWords strategy to gather users. The normal strategy is to use a minimal bid in a certain area, and create an attractive ad that gets people to click. However, this costs money, as you pay based on a per-click basis.

What I wanted to do, was generate a lot of awareness. When people are aware of your product and see it advertised everywhere, it's more likely they'll check you out. If they happen to check you out after hearing from a friend, it won't even be an ad-referral, and it won't cost you a cent. How do you create awareness without using money?

I have no basis for saying this, and my only proof is a very successful campaign that I ran doing this. Since I've shut my project down, the trade secret isn't very useful anymore. I think there's an innate appeal for certain ads. A lot of ads make it blatantly obvious that they're there, but just doesn't make you want to click. Not because the product looks bad - but I just don't want to click some ads. I know a lot of friends also have this feeling, and a small study I conducted confirmed this.

My strategy was this: Bid minimal amounts after researching bids in certain areas, and create an ad that shoves its name, and possibly basic idea into an user's face. However, do not provide any incentive to click - at all. In fact, make it ugly, but not ugly enough to make your product or service seem bad. This is tricky, and takes some getting used to. The end result is a very LOW conversion rate (usually considered as a failure) - which is exactly what we want. I've gotten a bunch of repeat impressions onto users, without having to pay for them. If they happen to hear about it from a friend, they're now much more likely to check it out, because they're familiar with the name.

I've come up with a bunch of strategies like this, and I really wish I wrote them all down so I could share them. Maybe they're terrible... feel free to tell me it's a terrible idea. It may not work in all business areas, and I'd love to get some feedback.
They seem to be different. They have predefined circles (e.g. Family, Friends) and you can create others. However I don't see a Create a Circle from a Contacts Group.

I'm not sure if I would want that as I normally don't update my Contacts groups.
provisional +1 for when you release the source on gitHub, looks like a brilliant idea though
Yeah! according to my count, Facebook should earn $110 - $170 per user to worth 85 billion. Look that we are not counting just the active users. I really would like to know how they achieve this value.
I love this kind of attempt at innovation. I hope you are able to stick with this enough to find a userbase for it.
I remember back in the day, when friendster was first starting up. Some users like to have what you could refer to as 'gag' accounts, named things like "Root of All Evil". The people of friendster really didn't like that, and tried to squash all those accounts. I think it kind of streisanded them a little bit all those years ago.
There's a pretty good Javascript-based modelling tool called wwwsqldesigner[1]. The demo installation is little hard to get to from that project page, so look here[2]. I use it for all my ER diagrams.

[1]: http://code.google.com/p/wwwsqldesigner/

[2]: http://ondras.zarovi.cz/sql/demo/
I've added the talk videos to Lanyrd, so you can now browse them by the full talk description and speaker information:

http://lanyrd.com/2011/djangocon-europe/schedule/

We have writeups and slides for a lot of the talks as well. Here's an example of a talk with slides, notes and a video: http://lanyrd.com/2011/djangocon-europe/sfmzk/
HackerNews HD : hacker news reader for android tablets (honeycomb).

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.sl2v.HackerNewsHD
Most of us don't care about that though.

If Twitter goes under, I'm not going to want my tweets back or my friendlist back. I'm going to want Twitter back.
That's a good point. In law school, a whole year was spent taking classes on subjects I would never use, like criminal and family law.

Maybe they should break down the legal education to allow a degree in a certain topic and limit the law license to that.

Or, allow certifications in certain topics that non-lawyers could receive, like divorce.
Will market apps be able to run on x86 since it's ARM code?
Try this instead: http://lanyrd.com/2011/djangocon-europe/schedule/
I'm mentioning this from a point of complete ignorance but why can't this sort of proposal be used for cable operators as well (both for broadband and television)? Getting to choose from several competitors on who gets my tv and broadband service would I expect create better plans than the current "pay for 100 channels but only use 3" that most if not all US consumers currently get.
On one hand, more government regulation brings things like Sarbanes-Oxley. On the other hand, you get faster, cheaper Internet access, and arguably more jobs from that.

This is why I cannot bring myself to identify with a political party.
You will always a job in any city, state or country. Even if you suck, there will always be someone to hire you because the market of software engineers is hot and the numbers play in your favor

As someone who has tried to figure out how to live in the area I grew up (northwestern Minnesota) instead of New York or the Bay area, this isn't quite accurate. In many (most?) flyover states software jobs pay 1/5-1/3 what you would make in NYC. The only technology needed is .NET or sometimes Java - the last 5 years of "scaling Ruby" or whatever you were doing, are more like a five year gap in your resume. The number of available positions are orders of magnitude less than NYC or the Bay. Often, you can get paid more and have an easier time getting work if you're an IT dude, rather than a software developer. The other option is being a remote worker for someplace cool but you usually need to have a career somewhere else for a few years to make connections. Of course, the American outback might be a good place to hole up and work on your own software startup for a while, but as soon as you need to hire you'll have to move again.

If you want to be able to throw a dart at a map and pick up high paying work wherever you want, the answer is still being an MD. The worst MD in North Dakota can make what the best software engineer in Manhattan makes. In a weird inversion of most employment reality, doctors can often make far more in a rural setting than they can in a mid-sided metro, due to "hardship post" style compensation. The career that is a close second for job mobility is "physicians assistant" - they make 80 grand no matter where they live.
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Yes, it is true. It is also true that the opportunities to be had in New York, don't exist anywhere else ... which explains the higher demand/price. Everything is always at equilibrium, everywhere. If you're paying more, there's a reason.
Mozilla doesn't want to do something? Shocking!

This is the same organization that feels that producing a MSI installer for Windows or providing some other way to customize the installation/patching experience is a waste of time.
You'd need to run it through a non-deterministic model for that to work. Maybe select a couple languages at random to run it through, rather than the same one every time.
In this case, you have full knowledge of the pool of people you are talking to. It wouldn't be a 'regular' forum or IRC, but rather... say you and 5 and your friends all signed into a single IRC channel (so only the 6 of you), but all with randomized names, so you don't know exactly who you're talking to.

As for how the interaction would differ? Depends completely on the people involved.
i wonder if you could repeat with different languages and take some kind of semantic median? interesting problem.

[just to clarify, given the replies - i am talking about repeating in parallel, not in series. the idea being that errors might cancel out, rather than accumulate]
Well, my program was a native desktop program, so the choice between JS and C++ didn't have much impact - for a lot of people this would not be an option though. I do love the idea of making your app work on various tablets - seems like the kind of interface that would be very nicely suited to a touch-centric device.

It was a homemade system I made for a spreadsheet-like application. I never released it though, I should polish it a little and release it sometime when I have some spare time. The interface was very much inspired by SynthMaker[1], a little by LabView and Max/MSP, and of course JP Morrison's work[2].

[1] http://synthmaker.co.uk/

[2] http://www.jpaulmorrison.com/fbp/index.shtml