coglethorpe

I think what you're describing is open-source code. It's free to those who understand it. Companies provide support to those who don't.

Please tell me this (the first result in Bing) is a different Dorothy Deering :-)

http://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/directory/Faculty/Deering%...

How will you make money from this?

Sounds kind of like the "Puzzle Bot" Facebook has to grade puzzle solutions to find employment candidates.

I was diagnosed with sleep apnea and can't tell you how much a CPAP machine has helped me. I'd wake up feeling worse than when I slept, and it's hard to pay attention in that condition, which might be the ADHD connection.

The billing methods used by many ringtone providers have also caused lawsuits. They offer a deal -- "10 FREE Ringtones!" -- with subscription details about how you're going to get billed every month hidden in the fine print.

Are all those magazines published by the same company?

What you're looking at is a fake blog or "flog" and the FTC in the US is starting to zero in on this type of testimonial.

http://www.shoemoney.com/2009/03/26/bullshit-acai-berry-weig...

Not to mention the lawsuit and Oprah and "Dr. Oz" have taken against diet supplement makers for using their names without permission.

The Obama Administration has also targeted flogs that used the president's name to hook people into "stimulus" check scams.

http://www.financialreflections.com/beware-of-economic-stimu...

The flogs may go away eventually, but these sort of scams all rely on one thing: the ability to hook a consumer into a regular billing agreement while making it look like they are making a one time purchase+. Ringtones, diet pills, teeth whitening, government grant searches and more rely on that to make huge profits.

+ or enough consumers learning how to spot that type of scam (i.e. reading the fine print).

Please go on.

"Did anyone predict that I could be talking with people around the globe who share my interests, instantaneously, without leaving my bedroom?"

They had tablet PC's and the equivalent of internet blogs and forums in "Ender's Game," so I assume other authors had similar ideas.

"Scots said he experienced some itching where the band aid was, which he understood, was the larvae making their way into the blood stream.

What happens next is the hookworms then travel from the blood stream into the lungs, where once there, causes the patient to naturally cough. Patients then cough the microscopic helminthes up into the throat, then swallow them, and this is how hookworms get to the intestines, where they latch on, and they begin to mature."

That was actually kind of cool to read. Parasites hack their way into our bodies.

> Zynga

Don't get me started on my Mafia Wars addiction.

You can see an informal list of the tech startups here:

http://www.atllogos.com/

They are showing 158 right now.

It's extremely simple to use. I could go right in and play with the demo document. I also don't have this need immediately, but your site will stick in my mind in case I need it later...

"Group A drank regular orange juice, group B drank orange juice infused with caffeine."

Want this.

Great site: http://top.searchyc.com/

When I was an intern, I would ask questions to a "mentor" at my company. One day, he looked at my problem and just smiled a little, and said: "It's non-trivial, but I'm sure you'll figure it out." I took the hint, went off and indeed figured it out.

If you like the talk, read Gilbert's book "Stumbling on Happiness," which is the long version of the talk.

Maybe we have different interpetations of "revolutionary." I see something like the transistor a revolutionary discovery/invention. It rests on some pretty complex physics, but is a small and fairly straightforward concept to explain. Yet it has changed electronics and the way we live forever.

The same could be told of the discovery of DNA's structure. Everyone can imagine the double helix, but it has spawned an entire industy in bio-engineering.

I think it's "The Novelty Effect" like Steve Blank mentioned: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=603401

Opt-in would also help narrow the profiles to real photos of people. I mean, that logo for the corporate account was hot but I'm not sure if that's what you're looking for.

You'd also have fewer profiles, giving the chance for more votes for top hotties.

And you'd have a better group of people to market dating offers to... :-)

"I know php/python pretty well."

If you know Python, Django is rather well reviewed and you can leverage your current knowledge.

I've started with Ruby on Rails in spite of almost no Ruby expernience. I've found that the learning curve for the language was low (I've used PHP/Python/Java before) and the framework was rather straightforward.

Striving for leadership seemed like a path of diminishing, even negative returns for me in a corporate job. Those at the top worked twice as hard (at least) for maybe 10% more pay and were just as subject to layoffs as I was. The economics dictated that I just go with the flow.

There's also a risk in the corporate world. Bad managers see leaders as threats and terminate them. I've seen it happen too many times in my careeer.

Now I'm on an different path, where leadership is demanded and rewarded (startups), so my attitude is very different. I have a long ways to go.

Well, I didn't want to get into the details here, but yes, that's part of it. :-) He's also been criticized for not actually telling jokes when it is his material, being/attracting the worst sort of humanity, etc.

"Bit.LY is a portfolio company of Betaworks, which is also an investor in Twitter"

From the perspective of the investors, they are keeping it "in house" By pairing work of two investments, they make both a little stronger (well, bitly a lot stronger).

Glad to be your unintentional hammer.

Dane Cook is a comedian who hit it BIG, in part, due to MySpace. He's been in a couple of movies, including "Employee of the Month."

He's got millions of fans, but also a sizeable group of haters, inlcuding many of his fellow comedians. He's just another in a series of people or items that hit it big, leaving many of us wondering why.

I often end up at http://www.w3schools.com/ They have some pretty straighforward examples to get you started.

PHP has a few downsides, everything from poor naming conventions to security vulnerabilities. People around these parts are always looking for the cleanest solutions to their problems and the latest methods available. PHP's relative age and problems make it neither.

That said, I coded my first startup in PHP. It's dead simple to make a dynamic web page with PHP, but it's also dead simple to create a huge mess. In that sense, PHP reminds me of C. It's pretty simple to write an app in C, but there are 1,000 pitfalls.

Just like with C, there are definitely talented coders out there who can make PHP behave correctly. Sadly, they are a minority. Many of them move on to other languages and frameworks.

I've since moved on to Ruby (on Rails) as well as Python. Both languages offer simplicity and power. Rails, in spite of being the Dane Cook of frameworks, makes it extremely easy to create a web application.

I submitted this because I wanted to honestly see what people's views on the Mac were. Well, I guess I got my answer. :-)

What's interesting is that the Mac/Windows debate is intense enough that this still got comments and votes long after it was flagged off the front page...

Moving from Detroit to Alabama? Out of the frying pan, into the fire.