cornellwright

Per their SLA (http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/terms/sla.html) if it's out for more than 45 minutes (0.1% of January) biz users get 3 free days. Yay?

One of the ways I like to think about good start-up ideas is find a business stuck in the '90s and bring it to the '00s using this decade's tech that's already been invented.

"Magic seeds" only get you so far. Farming is a production optimization problem like anything else, it just takes place outside and is subject to many more variables than your garden variety manufacturing line.

Currently the way farmers know what's happening in their fields is they send guys (called scouts) to go and check. This may seem like a good idea until you think about how long it would take to cover 1000 acres on a four wheeler (or even on foot). So yes, despite "magic seeds" farmers need more information to make better decisions. Evil or not, Monsanto's acquisition of Climate Corp absolutely makes business sense.

There are other issues with infinite scrolling (such as not being able to re-find your place, etc), however dissatisfaction is not one I experience. Maybe it's because I don't usually finish things for the sake of finishing. I'm more inclined to keep reading something until I get bored or want to do something else. I usually don't make it to the bottom of the front page of Hacker News or all the way through about 3/4 of news articles.

I think this more comes to figuring out who the right early adopters are. You need to have something sufficiently better than what's out there to overcome inertia and get people to try your product. If you target (in the project management case) people who use every feature of that project management software, then you need all those features plus yours, or your new feature has to be so good that they're willing to throw away all those. If you target the person who does not yet use/need project management software you have a lot less to overcome.

My first thought was why would one want their currency to be Turing-complete? It's actually a cool concept though. Being able to have your money make decisions opens all kinds of possibilities.

Can cable companies really do this? I don't think they have the bandwidth. Doesn't Aereo give you the data from the antenna you rented? For n people watching the Super Bowl a cable company wanting to take advantage of the "Aereo loophole" would have to actually send n copies down the wire, requiring quite a bit of compression at best.

Pittsburgh, PA. There's still a surplus in housing from the steel days, so you can buy or rent for next to nothing. Carnegie Mellon along with 5 or 6 other colleges are there, so there are plenty of smart people. The city is making a nice turnaround from the old steel days to be a technology and medical research center.