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It is interesting to consider how many jobs (globally) have been created, or shall we say, how many people's professional life has been shaped, by the software framework that DHH released to the world. So in a way, he has created jobs. Without ever diluting his revenue from 37signals. (comments?)

Personally I really enjoyed this talk. As a business school grad who taught himself to programme and now works for a bootstrapped web startup, I still value what I learned at business school. I think DHH is a bit harsh with the 'unlearn' label. I consider the core principles learned at b-school to be very important to shaping my everyday thinking. It is the specifics (DHH's example of Porter's five forces applies here) that can be forgotten. But those specifics were a great tool for developing the overall business mindset that he also describes. I don't regret my time there whatsoever.

Perhaps it's for Apple TV. The images in the patent obviously look more like a traditional OSX desktop, but the patent does mention other types of devices.

Hmm. This looks a lot like Xero.com, only less mature. Also the top google result for "indinero" is a secure (https) page, which results in Google warning me that this site "might not be what I was looking for". I'm not sure if it is Google or the Chrome browser generating the warning, but either way it's probably not good to be on that list.

my immediate thought was 'welcome to digg'

We are proudest because construction of the rocket effectively doubled our military power. Baaa.

I think there are small/medium companies out there (similar to the one I've been working with recently with around 40 employees) that require a really simple self-hosted document management system. You might say that these companies should have a full blown CMS implemented, but often times all they want is document versioning, and CMS solutions like Sharepoint are expensive and can be confusing. There might be a market there but it would be hard to identify the individual customers amid a generally well-served market. The company that I was working with literally used a network share with documents organised in folders and renamed for each version. shudder. They were looking at Alfresco when I left, but I doubt they'll get the project off the ground - it's too big. If this was a really really simple SELF-HOSTED package, I'm sure they would go for it. Note: Self-hosted, not cloud based. It would need good backup features and the ability for clients to add their own ssl certificates.

Just an idea, based on observations without research.

They got around this with Pago in NZ (https://www.pago.co.nz/section261.aspx) by working with the banks. The money doesn't get transferred from your primary chequing account - you have a separate account which is your Pago 'wallet'. Only that money is accessible to the service, and you have to use internet banking to transfer money from your chequing account into your wallet.

Actually despite my earlier comment, this practice is also very common in New Zealand, and I too was surprised when I spent a year in Washington, DC. However, the idea of doing it via SMS has never taken off here (as per previous post).

That's what I thought when I signed up for Pago - an identical service which launced in New Zealand three years ago:

https://www.pago.co.nz/section261.aspx

It was launched by one of the major banks in co-operation with one of the major wireless providers. Still, it never took off. I certainly never found myself using it. I would've thought New Zealand was a prime test market, because we are incredibly reliant on txt messaging down here; around 85% of the population regularly use txt messaging.

I should note that when I say 'identical', it was identical. They have since shifted more toward online payments. It used to be solely for one-to-one payments. In fact one of the use cases on their original marketing website was the ability to 'split a restaurant bill'. Which is similar to the use case from the venmo website.

I think this is valid. Some of us are in the position where all of our friends are non-hackers, and we are the odd ones out. For us, meeting hacker friends is expanding our social horizons.

Personally, I enjoy working with other hackers, but I prefer to socialize/live with mostly artists, musicians or people from some profession that I don't know a lot about so that I can learn from them (living with 2 treasury economists right now). That said, living with another hacker would be awesome!