mishmax

Anyone know how this compares to the instructions at dnstunnel.de, which uses ozymandns perl scripts? I've been using this method, and though it works, it is horrendously slow (takes a minute or more to load gmail...)

Just save the webpage as html, and send the html file. (I find safari does the best job here)

I use a combination of Stickies on OSX and sending emails to myself in GMail.

I don't get what's unique about this. splashup.com and picnik have similar services.

And that's why I bought Apple today!

Amazon is insanely paranoid about running A/B tests on its front page and optimizing it for the bottom line.

And what do they find? This "cluttered" design makes people buy more stuff. It's hard to argue with $$ numbers.

Where is Saudi Arabia on this chart? SA is both wealthy and religious. It seems like another outlier. And where does Israel fall? Maybe there's some selection bias in the data shown.

"just duck duck it" sounds marketable to me. similar to "just google it"

I've been in this situation for six months or so and it worked well for me.

My best advice is to surround yourself with people who are excited about your product and can give you feedback.

In my case, I had a customer who was very excited about the product, technical peers who I would bounce ideas off of, and a supportive family that wants me to succeed.

Plus, you need to have the drive to make the startup a reality. If you don't have drive, nothing will get done.

Fez, Morocco -- I believe the UN marked it as the oldest intact and thriving medieval city in the world.

I hear ya. I don't drink either.

I have flashblock installed (Firefox 2), and when the site first loads up the flash box is offscreen on the right. I had to scroll to the right, press "play", and then the box went to the right location.

I had a similar experience at Amazon.com. I was at an internal conference brainstorming "the next big thing" at Amazon. Google's perks were brought up constantly as needed for retaining employees.

Jeff Bezos responded that the reason Google got so much attention and talent was not because of the perks, it was because they were the "Agenda Setters" of the day, and Agenda Setters come and go.

It seems like I'm a little slow today, because I don't get it. I can buy DRM-free music from Amazon and play it on my iPod, so what's the problem? How is the music industry stopping people from buying iPods and forcing them to buy devices with DRM?

"What do you look for in entrepreneurs? First and foremost, they need to be magnets. For talent. For money. For attention. And for much more."

Do you guys think that hackers actually have this "magnet" quality?