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Sennheiser HD 380 Pro.

I use them every day at the office to muffle out background noise/conversations. They're also great when traveling, I commute into Boston once a month and they muffle out the engine noise of the bus pretty well.

A site crawler that collects meta, title, and open graph tags from pages on a site. Primarily targeted towards sites that don't have an inbuilt capability to report on this data (particularly legacy, non-CMS powered sites).

+1 for Salesforce.com.

About two years ago I worked on a Salesforce implementation for a political organization. Prior to SF.com, everything lived in Excel spreadsheets on network shares. After some research we went all-in on a SF.com implementation. 65 'sales' staff used it (all with 'unlimited' licenses), with between 200-300 users on an in house application at any given time pushing data into SF via the API. Overall, I was quite happy with SF.com.

The dashboards and reports are generally quite powerful, and AppExchange is great for hooking into 3rd party apps. If an app isn't available on AppExchange, you can always write custom code and deploy it to SF.com - which we did quite a bit of. SF also has campaign functionality built in - so if you have 250 hot leads you want to work through, you can dump them into a new campaign and just assign calls from that.

I recommend getting a SF.com developer account (they're free and you don't need to talk to a salesperson) and trying out some of the functionality. It'll have test data already in there so you can get a feel for how SF envisions you using their product.

I think that an ebook covering the process, start to finish, of configuring and securing a web server would be helpful.

I find it interesting to see the major carriers jumping into the prepaid game. For me, a person who doesn't need "unlimited" data/voice or cell coverage everywhere I go, prepaid plans are a great value.

Prepaid is even more attractive now with most of the carriers offering smartphones (and pretty good ones, at that).

How are you integrating with mail services? Are you able to connect to Exchange 2007?

Do you support sending text messages natively, or is that covered as a 3rd party webhook/service?

Are you able to read subject lines and take action based on them?

Photoshop is still pretty popular in web agencies.

Another nice thing is that Zend Studio is pretty tightly integrated with Zend Framework. It's particularly nice when you're dealing with large ZF projects.

This is great news. The iPhone interface was woefully inadequate on the iPad.

Do you have a link to that report? I'd be interested in reading it.

If you're on a laptop, and the trackpad stops working after upgrading, try one of these solutions in the terminal:

synclient TouchpadOff = 0

or

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/touchpad.conf and in that file type "options psmouse proto=imps" (no quotes).

The second solution worked on my Lenovo T510. Credit goes to Hopper122 here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1479286

On the slow client problem, how did you tighten up your business process to remedy this?

I'm using the Eclipse color theme plugin[1]. Changing the color theme from the default white to Zenburn made writing code for several hours easier on my eyes.

[1] http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/eclipse-color-theme

Have you considered including code for linking up to popular payment gateways? You should also take a look at the SaaS starter kit for rails [1] - it seems to be similar to what you're doing and might give you some new ideas.

[1] http://railskits.com/saas/

I use Voip.ms for this purpose. I had a number through AT&T, which I then ported over to these guys for $25. I then set up call forwarding to my primary phone, which costs $0.0205 per minute.

What about "number of clients referred" or "potential to generate new business"?

If you form an LLC outside of MA, and that entity carries out business inside MA, you will most likely need to register as a foreign LLC with the SOTS [1] - which costs $500.

Not a lawyer, but I've been through this before.

[1] http://www.sec.state.ma.us/cor/corpweb/corfllc/fllcinf.htm#a...

4.3.2 worked for me (iPad 1). Perhaps you have a previous version?

Which country are you located in?

I signed up for Pinboard[1] to manage interesting links I find. All links I save get tagged with meaningful tags so they're easier to find later.

[1] http://www.pinboard.in

How accurate is the OCR?

Hacker Monthly is basically an HN wrapper, and seems to be doing well - 5,000 subscribers as of a few months ago[2].

[1] http://hackermonthly.com/ [2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2445314

Looks like the NYPost is just sniffing the user agent. You can circumvent this with something like Mercury browser[1] by changing the user agent.

[1] http://itunes.apple.com/app/mercury-web-browser-pro-the/id34...

Have you checked out Offensive Politics[1][2]? A lot of good tutorials on doing voter modeling with R.

[1] http://offensivepolitics.net/blog/ [2] http://github.com/offensivepolitics

It depends on the degree of control you exercise over the individual, if the individual is offering their services to the public, if the individual furnishes their own tools to perform services, if the individual performs services in their own facilities or yours, among other factors[1] weighted differently in each situation.

PDF warning: [1] http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-utl/x-26-07.pdf see pages 3-5

This would be interesting - although I wonder if there would be any negative reaction from redditors. Posterous tried this out last year[1].

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1309403

This reminds me of the Heritage School [1], which teaches people skills such as blacksmithing, knifemaking, working with Damascus steel, and woodworking. I think it's great these skills haven't completely died out.

[1] http://www.bc3.edu/heritage-school/about-heritage-school.asp

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Some translations are better than others, but I have found The Emperor's Handbook[1] to be the best so far.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/dp/0743233832/

If you do decide to drop out, keep in mind that without a degree many professional opportunities will be closed off to you. You'll need to work several times harder than degree holders to prove you know your stuff (or are willing to learn).

Often times, people/organizations will pay money when performing a particular task is outside their core business and/or they have nobody on staff with the requisite domain knowledge.

It may seem cheaper to grab a copy of wordpress and host it myself, but then who will manage backups and updates (especially if myself or my staff aren't familiar with wordpress)? It may make more sense for me to spend $49 a month on a host which takes care of the details, so I can simply push content onto the site.