Mark_B

If nothing else, be sure to check out the Ken Perlin's homepage (he's the guy behind the second font). http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/

What city is the company in? More metro = higher cost of living.

This seems to be the most reasonable to me. Likely more towards the lower end.

Despite the business the company is in, seems like real-world salaries apply to the other positions.

"He who controls the Spice controls the universe"

My work's internet firewall just picked up the "side benefit" of your site and blocked it for the following reason:

Your request was denied because of its content categorization: "Proxy Avoidance"

Agreed!!! I was recently heartbroken when, upon receiving my new computer at work, I found that my tried-and-true PS/2 that I had been using for years no longer had a port to connect to. Switching to the new keyboard was not fun.

For that price, if you want to have an office out in the garden, build a gazebo and REALLY enjoy your office being outdoors.

Lev Andropov: It's stuck, yes?

Watts: Back off! You don't know the components!

Lev Andropov: [annoyed] Components. American components, Russian Components, ALL MADE IN TAIWAN!

This is a totally exciting and great idea, but the down side the cynic inside of me sees coming is the spam/ads saying "Work from home as an author and make $$$" and junk Kindle-only books flooding Amazon.

Ah, but what's interesting though is that his @reply counts just as much as yours or mine. To even notice Bill's reply, they'd have to sift through all the @replies that they get every day.

"Discovered" or "finally made public" after 17 years. Security holes are in a lot of things, but I can't believe that this wasn't found sooner by people who would use it for nefarious purposes and kept under wraps.

The internet is filled with trolls. Period. Sadly, even in "intelligent" circles.

Naturally, the couch-potato YouTubers will appreciate the features, but assuming that the Apple Tablet "just works" and does what it needs to do with minimal frustration, I don't see why the idea would be so far fetched.

My first impulse was "must be fake" so had to go find some more: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/photogalleri... WOW!!!

This is bizarre - works just peachy in Vista under IE7. Go figure!

I have to wonder - does the high profile guy like Chris go though the same rigorous Google interview process that they are so famous for or is it a "simply hired" scenario?

Huh! I wonder why they just don't call the Que something like "Nook XL". Seriously, why the two brands?

Absolutely. Imagine the backlash in a "vi is better than emacs" thread.

Encrypted or not, the fact that a company is able to send you your original password shows that they are not playing with a full deck.

While a public voting record may work for members of congress, I can't see how that would help. If anything else, I would be strongly discouraged from voting on any submission if it might result in my being judged because of it.

I'm working on http://www.peekmaps.com/ Lots of fun!

Better yet - offer the service free-to-use with some trivially low amount of space (like 5MB) and then charge per year on amount of space ($10/yr = 50MB, etc).

Pretty much! :-)

Also, I can confirm that the whole thing is indeed completely legit. The Open Source projects listed really are benefited from the proceeds and in return you get bad code offset cards in the mail.

I fail to understand how I benefit from connecting my Twitter/Facebook/etc. accounts to my Google profile for the simple sake of being able to search them.

Could be just me, but some of the data looks a bit...wonky.

For example: on the front page now is a listing for "Download Meter"

51 minutes ago, the price dropped from $2.99 to $1.99.

Then, 50 minutes ago, the price increased back to $2.99.

Is this right?

The thing that kills me is the websites that slurp this data and then will spit back info for literally hundreds of dollars.

Agreed. Also, adjusting street positions is somehow very addictive.

I get the idea behind seasteading, but this "first step" looks more like an art project to me.

I clicked on the tour and noticed the graphing feature - this should be on the front page. To me, seeing progress / time is more useful than a stopwatch app by itself.

There's a bug at exactly one minute, ten seconds.

150 0.6 1:10.5

149 0.5 1:010.0 <- This one.

148 0.6 1:09.4