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my god, you may have inadvertently had a great idea. There's a lot of cool things that could open up. For instance, i believe right now it is not kosher to scrape google results. However an open source distributed engine would be totally kosher.

Search results could potentially be more relevant... there would be millions of computers instead of hundreds of thousands. people could play with ranking algorithms... this is a cool thought.

sorry I have only a little value to add... but Toscanini's is some of the best ice cream you can get in Boston.

My last company made that tool. Their business model was setup around providing custom implementations. (The tool will get you 90% of the way there, they consulted the other 10%)

How did you first connect with the customer?

I'm actually surprised... I thought the number would be far larger than 7%

I was under the impression the LHC was down until 2012 while some changes were being made.

I wonder if its as much trying to improve internal combustion as someone made an advancement in lasers, and is applying it to a practical purpose?

Prediction: Groupon will eventually become old news, and irrelevant. A "Copy-Cat" will focus on developing a customer base consisting of quality niche customers, and become the dominate player.

I think they're actually quite different circumstances (though your point is valid, that a storage company should own their own storage solution). Yahoo never thought of themselves as a search company. I think they considered search to be a commodity... as long as it works thats all that matters, and thought the value of the advertising should be their focus.

I was to be under the impression a great deal of Reddits issues were linked to Amazon.

I thought he died in a skydiving accident?

Thanks! this actually answers many of my questions.

How do I transfer my coins from one computer to another? I found digging through my application data to find the wallet.dat file is unintuitive.. along those same lines, how many less technical users have lost extremely important data because they never made a backup? Additionally what if I want one wallet so I can go to a physical store, and use my phone to pay? The shuffle seems very inefficient to me. Perhaps people could setup servers to host their own wallet... however that creates another barrier of entry to less technical users.

Look at this crazy shit: http://www.stronggames.com/bitcoin if I want to buy a game I have to somehow obtain 40 bitcoins (the markets are great for speculators, but its not 2 buttons simple for people who just want some coin) after I somehow obtain the bitcoins I need to tell them about it...

In the form that it is in today, this is a currency for geeks. Awesome? (hell yeah!) but sometimes you need to do business with non geeks, and its just not ready yet for them.

Bitcoin is pretty sweet, but its extremely confusing. I barely understand it, and i'm an extremely technical user. I think people need to work harder on bringing down the complexity.

This is exactly what I was thinking of doing! I was looking at Costa Rica. The one problem, is I can't see this working well with a b2b type business that requires a lot of travelling.

As someone who lives in Boston, Cool site! (its always so frustrating that San Francisco gets all the cool things haha)

I while ago I wrote a web app for keeping track of the items in your kitchen. I also wrote a web crawler/search algorithm for matching recipes to those items. It worked great, but I found the process of adding items to your inventory was tedious so i put it down for a few months.

Recently I picked it back up, and I'm now solving the problem by developing an android (if it works there will be an iphone client too) client. The goal is to have users take a picture of the item, which will automatically be uploaded, and a description will be found through machine intelligence. Thanks to (http://www.iqengines.com/) who just let me into their alpha, I have a lot of confidence this is going to solve the issue!

My first year programming job I made ~50k though I was a contractor, and did a bunch of overtime so it was likely quite a bit more.

I think it was pretty good considering I had not graduated college... so I was getting paid to learn.

I started at $25 an hour. I quickly learned the business, and realized I could make it better. So i spent my nights building an app to do it better. They loved it, became the new thing we used. 6 months later my contract ended. I asked for more... and oh yeah did I mention I was a junior programmer (the code was exactly what you would expect, so I had some good leverage) to me $27 an hour was pretty good. I was 19, and making more than my Dad (he always said this is the benchmark I'm supposed to pass).

about 4 years later I'm now making $77k with about 5k or 6k bonus. I moved to Boston, so I think without a degree, its reasonable but I would definitely be making quite a bit more had I finished college.

I'm Hoping to quit my job soon, and start off on my own. The project I did for a $2/hr raise after 6 months could've been worth millions... and I'm sure I could do it again, seeing better ways to do things is kind of my thing.

How often do you need something from the menu bar on a web browser? Very rarely is probably the answer. I think Chrome understood this, and optimized their interface around the features most commonly used. Screen real estate is as valuable as private islands, there's no reason to waste an inch at the top of the screen, when you can condense it to half an inch, and get the same functionality.

I respect that it works well, but there's a difference between using a style as inspiration, and outright ripping it off. This strikes me more as the later.

I think this is a great direction for Google, but it certainly is not a direction most other companies with equivalent growth can pursue. I think one of the unique aspects of Google, is the type of engineer they pursue.

Self taught programmer here. I would like to think I have at least a bit of knowledge about each of these topics (though definitely not an expertise in most) I would say the one I know the least about is Machine learning, but i'm actively working on changing that :) I just bought this book (and enjoying it!) http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262013193

It's "Cash" for the web. Currently if you want to do business on the web, your options are accept payments via a private entity, and give them some percentage of your revenue, or work for free. This aims to solve that issue.

I think it also puts us in the right direction in terms of globalization. There are many problems with doing business internationally. The first of which is foreign exchange rates, if we all accepted one currency international transactions become simpler

Personally I don't think it solves the problem in an optimal manner, but if it starts a movement, then I'm all for it.

This is awesome! I personally can't think of a need for the service, but I'm glad to see Bitcoins being used. I don't care how it materializes, but an open source virtual currency needs to flourish.

This irked me, Google has contributed quite a bit to the open source world.

I had the idea of suggesting to Reddit a while ago that they should start their own currency (i would name it the Karmarian)

Reddit is a very large closely nit community, that is world wide. If the internet has a chance of forming its own open form digital currency, its going to need the backing of a large community such as Reddit or 4chan.

Personally I'd really wish something would take off. It pisses me off that the only way to do business online is via another private business. It would be awesome if our government created digital cash for online transactions, and it would be even better if a non government entity created a world currency to handle digital transactions.

Fuck this guy, and everything about him. I can program in Assembly, C, C++, Java, and Lisp fairly competently, but frankly I like C# because I can see results almost as fast as I can imagine them. It has an amazing tool set. Does it really make those other programmers better than me because they prefer needless complexity?

If I need a 1.7oz hamburger, I'll use one of those other tools. But 99% of the time 1.6oz is just fine.

Just throwing it out there, if any of you are looking to get into the gay business I'm the owner of MeatGalore.com and it is looking for a good home.

:( it was the bastard child of to much beer.

As a stupid, but determined person this gives me hope :D

I wonder how much of this deal was made with the intention of acquiring T-Mobiles spectrum rights? I'm under the impression that GSM was mainly a technology focused in the time domain, and the newer 4G technologies seem like they're more centered around the frequency domain. It occurs to me that if lack of spectrum is a problem for 1 it is probably a problem for the other, so it would make sense for both carriers to merge?

In complete seriousness, if the author is on this site... were you by any chance sitting in the table next to me at Cambridge Brewing Company a few days ago :) I was literally just talking about working on something like this with my girlfriend after a long terrible day of trying to buy a shirt ;)

I always find it fascinating how sometimes ideas can go a long time untouched, but when someone finally decides to work on it, it seems like 20 other people had the same idea at once.