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Yes! I have many customers who run events with anything from 50-1000 people and nobody wants to be bothered with scanning, even with the obvious advantages it provides.

I'm honestly not sure about this concept, but props to Ticketleap for innovating and trying something new. Good work!

Well, that might be genuinely interesting and useful :)

Life lessons from Command & Conquer: Red Alert.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R6xCWcf_VU

Congrats Paul & team :)

SaaS as a business model, not as a technology. Webmail was a feature, not the entire business, for the most part. I'm sure you can find examples of SaaS before 37signals, but that doesn't detract from the fact that they were amongst the first to build an entire company from the business model.

Wow, as one of the "pioneers" of the SaaS model, and a highly successful bootstrapped startup for 10+ years, I would have to say... yes, I would imagine you are one of very few people in this community who would have never heard of 37signals.

I think this post, and indeed the OP, has flown over some of our American friends heads ;)

The study was not peer reviewed, and is nothing more than an interesting experiment, not deserving of the factual assertion of the headline.

That's fascinating, thanks! I also didn't know about Pitcairn Island and them being descendants of the HMS Bounty mutineers.

Since when is a 375 person class massive?

I'm all for what Udacity, Coursera, and others are trying to do, but there have been proper online universities such as the Open University doing this for years with hundreds of types of degrees, and with bigger classes.

Let's put the "massive" back in "MooC".

Also, $7k? I can get a on-campus CS masters in a world top 100 university here in Ireland for that price. I guess education in the US must be ultra expensive.

I used to use it but had to disable it because I find myself regularly working at 2 or 3am and being tired would be a terrible idea...

Thanks, didn't know that.

What? Perl is about 10 years older than PHP.

In fact it would make more sense reversed.

PHP: Perl is a kludge.

Because that's what PHP mostly replaced - Perl.

Do you not find massive pushback from employers who require that CVs be in Word format so that they can be uploaded to whatever applicant tracking system is being used?

And I think it's naive to think that startups aren't using ATS when there's lots of free or open source systems available.

In what way is it insulting?

Also... the entire game is tongue-in-cheek.

Yes, it's quite a fun game, similar to Game Dev Tycoon if you've played that.

There were crashes in the first release but it seems to be fixed now.

Alternating days: How did that work out for you?

I looked through the site and watched the video - I think you don't handle the logistics of it?

One of the things that most appealed about Sold is that they send you a box, you put the thing in it, and that's it. For me, that's the biggest pain point.

Is that something you're looking to do?

Also unfamiliar with it till now, just watched the video and wow... it looked like an awesome service. I wouldn't have been able to use it, as I'm in Ireland, but if selling was that simple it could really disrupt the likes of Craigslist.

I guess as its an acquihire maybe the vision couldn't become a reality though :(

That "Yeehaw" terrified me.

As a developer, that's awesome. As a citizen.. I would guess not so much.

I love RescueTime - for myself. I'd absolutely recommend that my employees use it, but with the caveat that I would never ask for the results. They can use it personally to improve their productivity, but it's just not right for someone else to be analysing their reports.

Funnily enough, I came to the exact same conclusion last week while visiting London, from Dublin.

€30 return flights and it's faster than Barcelona, 1hr flights (and you can show up 45 mins before flight leaves for IE->UK).

Even using Hotel Tonight while I was in London, accommodation was €200+ on a Tuesday night.

*startups and investors :) Unless you're finding investors in investors, inception style.

I've been using it for about a year and it works well, haven't gotten any false positives yet.

It can do keyword checking as well as standard ping + port connect.

That's about all it does, which is fine by me.

It's free and it works.

I'm Irish. They provide 2000 jobs here in Dublin, and that has the potential to double even in the next few years.

The fact of them being here is a direct reason Facebook, LinkedIn, and a load of other companies are also here.

They're indirectly responsible for, I would guess, about 10,000 jobs.

I couldn't care less if they don't pay 12.5% corporation tax - they've provided massive social value even without it.

Bit of a stretch, no? I agree that any removal of privacy features isn't good, but what Zuckerberg did was stop someone else cashing in on his name/reputation.

Not entirely about privacy.

I'm heading along to that, from Dublin, and I'm thinking I might stay an extra day in order to go to this meetup.

Yes! If he goes through her likes, I can almost guarantee that AT&T will be in there.

Most of the complaints around the "Facebook says my friends liked X and they didn't" in the news feed are because they didn't like it at that particular point in time - they liked it at some stage in the past.

This would make sense to call it out if the newsfeed was sorted chronologically, i.e. it was a real time stream... but it's not, and hasn't been for at least two years.

The newsfeed algorithm surfaces the stories it thinks you will find most relevant from the friends you interact with the most, rather than presenting the stream real-time.