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This is hardly used in the US because a lot of things depend on the city and county of a property. And sometimes one zip code overlaps several counties or cities. Besides, everybody insists on using the city/state/zip entry pattern.

Very impressive

I just found out I am following 27 people I have no idea who they are or why Google choose to make me follow them. I didn't even sign up for this Buzz thing. Google - this is really messed up!

Reminds me of this statement (Braveheart):

"The problem with Scotland, is that it's full of Scots"

For real. You really don't need those features.

"Android is an orphan; Google doesn't really care about it"

Couldn't agree more.

The documentation is incomplete, support is horrible and there is no way to even view my Android 2.0 app without a DROID.

This sounds just like my last start-up. It went to hell. We had a perfectly great (SaaS) product and a great team (5 employees - 1 founder, 1 programmer & myself, 1 salesperson/marketing, 1 human resources/finance.).

Things were great until after the second round of funding: The board basically took over: - They forced us to increase to about 20 employees (within a few months). - We hired former "big time" CEO/Presidents/Vice Presidents as our EVP's to help us grow fast. - We were basically working 12 - 16 hours a day. I slept many times at work during data migration (which took for ever) - We were taking more customers than we could handle which resulted in lawsuits because we could not deliver on time (even after postponement).

Finally (after 2 years) the board fired the founder, brought in a new CEO from "big time" company. Needless to say employee moral died and I and the original employees were forced to resign (I was personally already on my way out). Two months later at the collapse of the financial system, unable to get more funding, they filled for chapter 11 . Everybody got fired and also lost their shares, health insurance etc.

I now run my personal consulting firm and I am loving it. I actually get to see my son everyday.

Same here. Can you imagine if we had waited around for Comcast or At&T to come out with a viable search engine?

The US will be behind in technology and inovation. But now after seeing Google take the lead, they want to control the internet.

IMHO, Android has one of the worst mainstream APIs

While working as a software consultant for the federal government here in DC, I noticed something very strange ... consulting firms don't have any idea what Peer Review is. Actually, they don't even care, all they want to do is complete a project with as little money, and as fast as possible so they can move onto the next contract while billing the government millions.

you beat me to it

The one who gets extremely rich is the one whole suppliers beer & liquor to all the bars (& w houses)

My story exactly. I get more issues, how to-s etc. in support email and site forum from people using the "Free Version" of my software

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

- Benjamin Disraeli

So HFCS has nothing to do with it?

HFSC - High Fructose Corn Syrup

Charts are great especially when you know what you are looking at.

So Oracle owns VirtualBox?

And InnoDB

Back in Moscow, there used to be a lot of Students from UAE and Saudi. They were very rich (free scholarships), always drunk, never went to class and refused to graduate (even if they could) because they didn't want to go back home.

That's why Microsoft lost to Google

Discrete math helps you think logically - i.e. how to solve problems

Configuration items are not hard coded ... they are stored in configuration files (e.g. app.config, settings.ini, app.xml etc.)

That's funny because the moment you put programmers in warehouse everyone of them puts on headphones - as such no communication is increased.

Having been to Douala myselft, I could'nt agree more. There is so much money going around but the city (which happens to be one of the most expensive in the world) is in ruins.

This is because of the centralized governments that France instituted in its African colonies. Before a road is contructed/repaired, you must first get authorization from central command (Yaounde)

I just checked it out. Its still there.

You'll be surprised by the kind of people scammed up in this mess ... preachers, accountants, soccer moms etc..

Nos. 3,4 & 5 - Sounds just like the current startup I work for... Time to jump ship!

You pay an employee to do a job ... not for his imagination, except he is on a professional contract for you 24/7