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Agree with OP. Heroku really needs to add a billing status screen. If you host a free app it's confusing when they will start charging you for usage and how much it will be. You can look at past invoices which shows your how many dyno hours you used, but as far as I can tell there is no place to view this information for the current month until your bill arrives.

I live here in Seattle and would love an alternative to comcast, however, I don't think this is it. I googled them, looked at their website and see nothing about pricing, how to sign up and their links under "Services" on their homepage don't even work.

What useful things are people actually using 3d printers for? Yes, I've heard all the hype about prototyping and you can print "anything". But honestly whenever I look at things people are printing its just a bunch of cheap looking plastic toys I would never want. Convince me I need one of these!

It makes sense that the free apps are making more when you think about it. They're getting the most money out of each customer. Every customer is not worth 99 cents. Some are worth a LOT more. Just like when you go overseas and the locals have on cheap price for locals and a much higher price for the rich foreigners.

There have to be other ways of achieving the same end goal however without the constant nagging. Has anyone tried a game where people pay by the hour for instance? First hour free?

No free chapter?

This. Programming is skilled labor which is why they make more than the guys that work at McDonalds but there's still a ton of programmers out there. There's a lot fewer people out there that know what to create, when to create it and how to get the right team together to accomplish it than there are people who know how to program. For every Elon Musk how many aerospace engineers are there out there?

Yeah and in the mean time he'll be paid 60 mil a year to ride Steve Jobs' coattails.

Tried it out for a bit. It's a little confusing and not a great way to learn shortcuts IMO. The first time I tried it I had no idea what was going on and got every one wrong despite knowing the shortcuts. These results were then saved and I'm not sure how to delete them after I figured out how it worked. Interface looks nice though and you obviously spent a lot of time on this.

You said: The owner(s) of the company only gets paid at the IPO. That's the only time he gets money from the stock market (unless and until the company issues more stock later).

This is totally false. They get paid anytime they sell stock. They sell some stock at IPO and get paid some then. It's by no means the only time they ever sell stock and definitely not the only time they get paid by the market.

What? This is completely wrong. The owners don't completely cash out at the IPO. I don't know exactly how much Zuck ended up selling at the IPO, but after some quick googling I found an article from a couple of weeks ago stating

Zuckerberg, who holds a total of 533.8 million shares, would sell 30.2 million shares in the IPO — garnering about $1.05 billion in cash at the high end of the proposed price range of $28- $35 for the sale of shares.

So in otherwords Zuckerberg is worth $1 billion in cash and has 534 million shares of FB. If FB goes to zero before he sells the rest of his stock on the market, his net worth drops by something like $19 billion.

Here's the text and slides to the talk. I'm sure the video will come out eventually.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101628527

I think it's pretty ridiculous TED would not post this video. They really shouldn't be censoring things like this unless someone is just completely making things up in their talk in which case they did a poor job of picking their speaker.

This is becoming increasingly common in recent years. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230359240457736... It's not just having to pay extra tax every year, the mere act of filing a return abroad is headache enough and if you make a mistake you might see jail time.

There's so many legal ways this guy could make just as much money with his skills. I never understood why someone is willing to put his freedom at risk when that is the case.

I guess he's just lazy or thinks he's incapable of making as much as easily legally, maybe he likes the thrill and challenge of it all, maybe he thinks he's invincible and there's zero chance of him getting caught. Either way he's very foolish for continuing to do this especially if he has no endgame in sight.

Sorry but you need to take responsibility for forgetting to ask for the bonus at the end of six months while you were still employed by Miso. If you had remembered in all likelihood you would have been paid in full and all would have been well.

As it is, you left the company on bad terms and decide to publicly shame them. You will have trouble getting future employment as a result. Your future earnings has just potentially decreased by substantially more than $10k. How would you feel if after someone fired you they blogged about all the mistakes you made on the job publicly referring to you by name? You just don't do this. It's bad for business.

I hate the whole ethical argument when it comes to copyright infringement. The fact is an unenforceable law is pointless and should not be law. I don't know what the solution is -- and I wish people would spend more time debating and talking about a workable solution rather than complaining, but blocking sites that link or illegally host copyrighted content will not solve a thing. Remember when illegal music downloads stopped after napster got shutdown? Oh wait, a hundred more files sharing clients just took it's place.

This article explains what exactly happened much better. It was much more than just "contemplating to collude." http://money.cnn.com/2012/04/11/technology/apple-doj-ebooks/...

Amazon forced publishers to sell most books at $9.99 -- a price that came in below the cost of the books.

According to the DOJ, booksellers were unnerved by the discounted e-book price structure Amazon launched in 2007. The publishers went to Apple in late 2009 to find a way to force Amazon to raise its prices. The iPad proved to be the perfect tool to accomplish that.

The alleged conspiracy placed many books at so-called "agency pricing," putting them on the market for about $12.99 and giving Apple a 30% cut. About three days later, Amazon allowed publishers to set their own prices, resulting in higher prices on the Kindle as well.

The idea of this has been around for a LONG time and is not a new one. I think the term for this type of society is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopian_socialism or a socialist utopia.

New jobs always pop up though. The problem with this logic is that because all of today's jobs will likely be automated in the future you think everyone will be unemployed, but in reality you just can't fathom what the jobs of the future will look like. Can you imagine trying to describe to someone that lives in 1900 your job description? You write code for a living? You're a computer scientist? Wtf is that? They pay you to just sit there all day and press buttons?

For me the most annoying thing about learning xcode/objective-c is apple tries to force you into buying a Mac.

Two suggestions:

1. It should endlessly scroll. Clicking load more is annoying.

2. The top part requesting my e-mail is annoying. It should not permanently stay there and take up valuable screen real estate when I'm trying to scroll down and read content.

Isn't this a case of the small app developers not iterating quickly enough? If you look at the side by side screen shots the Zynga graphics DO look significantly better than the original game. Isn't the lesson here that if you do somehow manage to make a hit game you better reinvest as much as you can as quickly as you can back into future versions of the game to keep it as fresh and good looking as possible?

How many updates has angry birds made since their first release? They're always releasing new levels and updates.

I'm not defending what Zynga does in any way, but success brings copycats and first to market does not guarantee dominance of that market by any means.

Why doesn't he just charge the kids' parents a small fee for the service he is providing?

You should replace "K" with ,000 it's not clear that you're talking about dollars and not # of signatures or something.

They should do this for the top .1% and show that 90% of them are in finance.