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It's my first of his novels, I'll check out the others. I can see the point on length, I wonder how much of that is a function of translation and of the desire to create the sensation of having lived that year. I just finished, so it'll take me some time to gain a better perspective on it.

1Q84. True "literature" without feeling like it. I wish I could read the original Japenese. Also, too bizarre to really describe accurately.

I'm not sure this is correct. I believe courts have ruled that you can make copies for personal/backup reasons, but someone with more knowledge would have to back me up here.

You don't even need to speak Korean to understand it's satire. The very opening visual is something you could analyze for a high school English essay. Not saying it's terribly deep, but it is satire.

This is probably the most correct and verifiable answer. To check: search for any stocks that have had significant appreciation in the last few years and see how they've done lately versus stocks that have been flat during the same period (msft, for example).

FYI - You missed one occurrence of the domain.

Anyone have an idea how much could these domains go for or how they could be monetized legally?

On Android, you can just hold the search button to bring up voice search and say "navigate to $address" and google maps navigation will guide you to the address, no need to type anything. You can even say "navigate to $business_name" and it will lead you to the closest one.

You want to be very careful with this, as you can end up classified a money transmitter and have to comply with a whole bunch of painful regulations. Just search for PayPal chained payments or Amazon's equivalent, it will do exactly what you need.

I think it can't hurt. I work in a more conservative industry and I sent thank-you emails the day after an interview (I got hired, obviously not only because of the follow up). I would avoid physical mail because it will take too long to reach the recipient and I would keep it short (2 or 3 sentences).

If everyone does it, you'll only stand out by not doing it and in a bad way. If no one does it, you have the possibility of appearing more professional.

Just signed up. If the service is as awesome as this looks, this will be my new default registrar. I take it since you're new, there's no API, is there? I've been looking into using name.com's for a new project.

To answer your last point, the constitution only protects from government restrictions on free speech, it says nothing about what private parties may require from their employees at work.

I think the book is Freakonomics (don't have it here to check).

Without knowing anything else, 90 days sounds like the amount of time sellers extend credit to Apple (30 and 60 days are also common). Usually such terms come with slight discount for early payment. Good cash management practice requires that they pay on the last day they get a discount or wait until the last day to pay.

Not having grown up around animals, I'm constantly amazed by the intelligence behind some of the things my dog does. She has given me a much greater appreciation of nonhuman intelligence, and I've grown to one stories like this.

I agree with you, but I did wait around a decade or so before I just got curious one day. It's a fairly uncommon last name and the domain would just be for personal use. Oh well.

I'm on the same boat. In my case, I even attempted to contact using the "make an offer" form and never received a reply. Strange way to do business.

I should have been clearer. My idea would be to offer services that hackers/web business would be interested in. Basically, if you work as a consultant or freelancers and read this site, your service is very likely what I would try to promote.

Thanks! I definitely agree with you about the chicken/egg thing. I won't launch unless I can build a big enough interest. Haven't bothered with a domain/design for this reason :)

To start the discussion, from my view current offerings have some combination of the following drawbacks:

- Hosted solutions seem too simplistic/limited, whereas self-hosted solutions tend to be overly complex

- Complex pricing (almost universally)

I'm wondering if there would be interest in something aimed at people who know what they are doing, but at the same time don't want to code everything from scratch.

There's also http://www.rgraph.net/

I read the article and skimmed the front page of the site, but had to click away- this kind of stuff is infuriating and depressing at the same time.

Warren Buffet is a one case, for the most part.

I looked into this a while ago, but if I were to fully outsource it, it didn't make sense financially. Out of curiosity, do you use your own money in the machine and service it yourself? Do you own the machine or lease?

I would definitely be interested in buying something like this, or even smaller as long as it was something of decent quality. There should be a marketplace for lifestyle- midsize businesses that wasn't full of junk like flippa.