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Consider Australia as the 51st state of America, except everything is extremely expensive in Australian dollars. Developers there don't charge pennies, if that's what you're asking.

If you're really looking for outsourcing, check out high quality Indian companies. They're a lot cheaper than what you'd find around the country and they're excellent at what they do.

My biggest horror with all this new W3C tech, is that in reality: it's really old. Because of Microsoft's stupid mistakes while reigning power over the browser world, we've been in this 10 year period of stagnation in which we've go nowhere.

There's no real laws you can put against Microsoft, but if this were a real world situation, we'd be trying them for crimes against humanity. They have effectively ceased innovation for an incredible amount of time, and I would go ahead and say that they've slowed down the exceedingly fast development of the last decade.

CSS3, Javascript 2, HTML 5, XHTML 2, etc. should've came out years ago. Possibly in different forms, but nonetheless this monopolization over a browser market has killed _everything_.

I am glad that Google is getting into this game. Not only because it will definitely give Microsoft a run for its money, but we will finally have new innovation that before seemed to take years to implement.

With $1-6 CPM on a video that has been seen over 1-100 million times--not very long. I'm excited that YouTube is finally effectively monetizing. This is the future. Specially now that content can be uploaded in 1280x720 HD, there is no limits to what YouTube can do. I can't wait to see where we are in 4 years, or even 1.

Socialism at its finest.

Is the revenue substantial for something semi-passive?

There are a billion and a half different "upload" sites out there. How do you market?

Stanford have a full course online for free:

http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/index.php

You should also look at these tutorials:

http://icodeblog.com/category/iphone-programming-tutorials/ http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/iphone-application-and-webs...

Sorry, I should've defined "work". In the web world, work is the designs you've done, the projects you've developed, and the communities you've helped. I'm sure building a financial library would fit perfectly in that category.

I wonder who started it? Pretty amazing. I see it in every country I visit.

I was about to buy a Roku last night, but with this I'm definitely getting an Apple TV.

My thoughts exactly. Problem with a lot of inexperienced startups is their failure to look at people's potential and not their credentials. While a degree helps, people are more likely to prove their quality through great work and amazing reliability. When I start hiring--which hopefully is soon--I'm not going to give a rat's ass about people's credentials, I'll know they're good when I see their work and how they work.

Wow, even the introduction is incredible.

"Python 3.0 (a.k.a. "Python 3000" or "Py3k") is a new version of the language that is incompatible with the 2.x line of releases. The language is mostly the same, but many details, especially how built-in objects like dictionaries and strings work, have changed considerably, and a lot of deprecated features have finally been removed. Also, the standard library has been reorganized in a few prominent places."

I have never seen a release for a new language be so clear and straightforward. That's awesome.

But it costs a lot more time and money to create Facebook than it does a sandwich. You could roughly build Twitter in the time that it takes to make a good Ruben or grilled cheese.

This would be extremely useful. PG, please add it.

You could set one up for yourself at shopify.com.

Could someone write down the list? I don't get SlideShare at work.

It was probably a concept. A lot of marketers say, "I developed this product", when really they should've said, "I thought it up on a Sunday afternoon, wrote it down, showed it to about 10 people on IM, and thought about working on it later this week."

I really don't get it. What username? Do I actually have to sign up for another site? From my impressions, I thought I could just enter in any username and see a location of a friend from data collected from other networks. Now that would be cool.

use the google translate API. It's magical.

Quite a brave step walking out into the abyss that no other has gone before. Charles has a great head on his shoulders--even if he is an a-hole--and I can't wait to see where he takes his extremely unique and well executed product.

Now that the mainstream knows that this is some type of gold rush, we'll see a lot more crap being thrown at the app store.

Leaving Halo Wars for a Chess game? I guess that works.

Must've taken 4 hours for the DNS to switch over.

I'm not entirely sure about them, but I use S3 and EC2 with SQS so that the user can upload the file, it will be encoded while waiting in a queue, then place itself back into storage. That way nothing ever touches my production server.

I'm not sure why anyone needs to be convinced on why SAAS will win. Charging for a product is one of the most basic and successful things a company can do. Its 2000+ years of positive growth speaks for itself.

Both the G1 and the iPhone support video capture. The problem is there is not software to support it. Qik and other applications like it have been able to develop video streaming from the iPhone, which means that any talented developer could ultimately create a video capture application.

I had no idea they still made the client. I think they're trying to push for a fully immersed web experience that no one has been able to offer as of yet. The only thing they're missing now is Gears in Gmail.

Read the Tipping Point. You'll understand him within the first chapter.

Your problem is, you're thinking up ideas everyone else has thought up. I find when I'm demotivated, I'm really working on something I know will fail. If you don't believe in your product, you're going to fall short of any motivation very early into development.

Here's the tip, work small, but think big.

Focus on a niche, not the entire world. A dating site is nice and all, but, you've got eharmony.com, match.com, singles.com, and you're real big competitor, plentyoffish.com. A social network is nice and all, but you've got Facebook.

It sounds like your taste exceeds your skills. I know the feeling, and trust me it's the worst thing in the world. But if you want success, channel that frustration and make it work for you. Learn the fundamentals, and just try and try and try. Before you know it, you've gotten better. And as time progresses, you've become the best in your industry.

So three things. ONE: Be innovative. TWO: Be small. THREE: Hustle your face off.

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Oh yeah, another thing. Don't get caught up in the little things. If you really want to be an entrepreneur FOCUS ON THE BIG PICTURE. If you like programming, but feel like you're getting lost in all the fiddly bits, then find a framework or language that doesn't cost you time. If you like designing, but feel like you're wasting your time trying to figure out where elements go, find a great design and understand what makes it great. Look to others to show you the way so that you understand the bottom line. Time == motivation. Motivation == success. Success == Awesomeness.

I must be apart of the minority, but I still need to play this game. Added to my list of "things to do after I've made bank".