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There are several- http://www.rentacoder.com/RentACoder/DotNet/Default.aspx

http://www.bizreef.com/Programming

I'll try to remember the other ones later, good luck!

I'd get a crew of volunteers together and torch the The World Bank & The International Monetary Fund.. just burn it to the ground. That might cost a couple hundred grand tops. With them out of the way it would be easy to implement a true Meritocracy in all governments. Presidents will get a paycheck on a sliding scale, the more wealth they are responsible for creating for their people, the better off they will do personally. I'd then use crowdsourcing to dictate what investments were made with the remaining 699 1/2 billion. We would then use the interest created by the these investments to fund all of the projects previously mentioned by the HackerNews Community.

edit I'd make sure all of the employee's were out of the buildings, of course...

So, not only did you just drop in to the HN community on a lark, with purely selfish intent.. but you are actually admitting to us that you have no plans to participate in the future? You are under the impression that this will be an effective strategy to change the world? You are about as far away from success as humanly possible.

Continue. But it might be helpful for your morale to get into the habit of referring to the other company as "friendster"..

Is it possible there is no hope for MicroSoft? It just seems that competing with Apple the way that they are is the wrong move somehow. Apple has a massively powerful emotional branding philosophy in play, shouldn't MicroSoft use it's rapidly dwindling might to chase and conquer a different market? They even seem a bit late to the cloud computing party as well, sure they are involved but they let so many other firms get a foothold. It's as if Apple and cloud computing platforms are doing to Microsoft what MicroSoft did to IBM.. Am I nuts here?

Delve deep into everything Trent Rezner does. Not only is he a master of exploiting the power of ARG's but you can see hints of his ARG mindset when he and NIN release product/content.

"So, if you won't do the code cause you don't know how and you never will, why do you think you can also do the design?"

I have good taste, thats why.

Yeah, OK, maybe.. But so what? The article, the studies and the supposed solutions seem to ignore the most brutal obstacle. The reason that there are so very few female coders is because working alone is not natural for a woman. Many adult woman who enter the fields mentioned in the article quit high paying jobs later on in life for this reason. And untold millions quit earlier or never start. The irony is that women would be great in these fields if the environment was more conducive. This book will shed some light on it.

http://www.amazon.com/Female-Brain-Louann-Brizendine/dp/0767...

A more effective solution would be to create a more nurturing CS/engineering environment to draw young women in. For instance; female only programs so girls can be girls at the same time that they are learning how to code. They could be encouraged to gossip or talk on the phone or whatever young girls do.. Also, these girls should remain clustered together when not in these classes because the streagnth of the group would overcome the conflict of the deeply singular task of coding and the female brain. I'm not really explaining it clearly but if anybody is interested in this it would be helpful for you if you read the book.

Yes, good point JoseFresco. It's possible I didn't phrase my original question perfectly as I was trying to be concise. In a perfect world there would be a budget to hire proper specialists, but for me, right now, I'm an army of one. And a cash poor army of one at that! So at this stage I've gotta do everything myself. It's tough not knowing how to write code- I'm actually quite interested in learning but I don't have the time, and I will never be any good compared to you guys. I'm building a prototype/demo so I can convey my idea properly in order to get funded, I anticipate doing most of the design myself at this early stage, and I'm assuming it will all have to be redone later for the reasons you already mentioned. Thanks so much for your input, I agree with you completely.

Looks great, the examples seem so obvious! I bookmarked the Ebook and I'll read it in it's entirety.

Thank you for taking the time to help me.. Spectacular looking books, I've got my work cut out for me.

Thanks Fiaz, I'm on it! Perhaps there is something else I should read when I finish the Steve Krug book? I'm a blank canvas..

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Because I have a soft spot in my heart for independent bookstores.

I go to a major chain bookstore, the bigger the better. I look around for something really good, when I find something I like I then take the laptop out of my bag and I look up the book at Amazon. Quite often one of Amazons recommendations ends up being more interesting to me, so at that point I'll use my mobile to call a smaller, independent bookstore and special order the book. In the several days it takes to arrive I usually just read the same blogs you guys already mentioned.

Good job Breck, I took the liberty of kicking the whole thing off for us!

   Enjoy!

He also had quite a miserable experience with the ill fated SLVR. This had to have a considerable effect on the tactics used as he got into bed with AT&T. I would imagine having his creativity vetoed by the suits at Motorola had a silver lining.