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They also have "hyper spectral" eyes that detect light using 12 different color receptors. Compare that with 3 color receptors in human eyes (plus rods).

I just learned about them listening to RadioLab last week: http://www.radiolab.org/2012/may/21/

VB6 is a nice prototyping/quick app language. It's not suited for every job but you can optimize around many weaknesses and it complemented early ASP projects well.

Microsoft just dropped the ball by making it too hard to upgrade to VB.Net. For some projects, you could port to a different language for the same effort.

At my first company, I freaked when we got a major competitor. The CEO smiled and said it was the first sign of a good market. He was concerned about the lack of competition up to that point.

It's like rods and cones in our eyes. So very cool!

Sorry to hear about your loss. Stuff like that can make you paranoid.

Have you looked at www.crashplan.com? It works on Mac/Win/Lin as a P2P backup tool and it's free for non-commercial use.

I like the idea of retiring drives (or a healthy clone) every year.

Monetize your social network enough to defend against threats like this. Otherwise, someone is going to steal your lunch.

You must test your backups. I used a commercial backup service that sent daily status emails. It seemed great for months until I realized it had a bug and there was nothing in the archive.

1. Notepad and Textedit since they are already installed. 2. Very old MS Developer Studio since I'm a creature of habit and I like it. 3. Other IDE editors for specific domains.

This reminds me of the BadAstronomy writeup about Jobs and the resolution of the iPhone 4: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/06/10/re...

BTW, this would be an awesome event. Everyone camps in a desert with a 2CV (or collection of parts) take a week and have a race/parade back to some location.

It looks like it would perform very poorly (a bit like a recumbent tricycle project I abandoned.) It has a really long wheelbase and a lot of weight up high. I bet the steering was less than ideal too.

I wonder if he would have been better off keeping the front axle/engine assembly intact and adding a single trailing wheel.

I have to admit, I had a shred of doubt. Though I can see myself doing this exact project. I would absolutely add the kick stand and license plate. He probably also wanted to make it look cool.

Camping in the desert isn't outrageous either. Anyone that's spent a week at Burning Man tinkering with art cars and construction projects can appreciate the challenge. You're there with a partial tool kit, enough water for 10-12 days, and appetite for a creative project. The one thing out of my comfort is the "war zone".

Nice article. Years ago I liked "Peopleware" enough that I got my boss to buy a copy for each person in the department.

Great writing! I've known about this hardware for years but it still sold me. (at least until the 20 year payoff calculation.)

I would switch to survival mode and land on your feet. It's hard to deal with being rejected.

Take time to honestly assess if you could have done things better. Try to resolve your emotions with the situation as quickly and cleanly as you can to get your thinking straight and take care of your financial situation.

Dealing with lawyers seems like a distraction unless there are contracts with your name on them or loans/financing.

I would probably pay $250 without thinking twice. I'm happy using a really old version because it does everything I need AND it runs faster than the new versions.

If Gimp had a UI more similar to Photoshop, I would have switched over a decade ago.

$30,000/year was the point at which I felt like I made enough to not worry about personal finances.

Why does it feel like buying a car from an airport parking lot?

I would do as much research as possible on the companies and domain and be prepared to spend if you really want. I think there is 60 days after it expires while it is owned by the current registrar and so the last owner can renew. Then it drops to whomever has the fastest computer to snap it up. I usually recommend clients look for another domain unless it's perfect. (Please correct me if I am wrong or out of date.)

This is basically my experience over 10 years:

I turned down hundred dollar offers and bought the domain for $8 from a registrar.

I let a less ideal one expire without saying anything and bought it from a registrar.

I had multiple companies offering "exclusive" sale of the same domain (different prices). I put in offers and lost in auction.

I went to the domain owner and asked if they would sell it directly. They renewed for 5 years and refused to sell.

We bought an ideal domain for $1200 where the domain was available when we started and weeks later was registered by someone else. It seemed unlucky and a little suspicious.

I sold a domain for $375 once. The guy seemed nice but I was surprised when a corporate website went up soon after.

I tried to buy a domain and they said "20". I was excited until they said "$20,000".

I was stubborn and tried to like autocorrect for a long time. My partner laughed when I gave in because she turned it off within 20 minutes of getting her new phone.

I found that autocorrect was intrusive and would interrupt my flow of words. The final straw was a few emails where I fought with it to get the word I wanted. I could have hit the X to cancel a change, but this required attention and it seemed hard to click in the right spot. It's easier to look for red underlines before I send an email.

After 2-3 years, I turned autocorrect off on my phone and wish I had done so sooner.

On Southwest Airlines I often sit on the plane waiting for baggage loading.

That's no assigned seats + more checked baggage since it's free.

A nice thing about uneven splits is people can live within their own budget. An idea like this assumes everyone spends a comparable amount and is OK with it.

Wow... It felt like using Google 10 years ago. I think you are onto something.

I have seen something similar and it didn't end well. Though the partners brought very different things to the table. People also invest energy in cycles so it could just be "founders doubt" or "burnout".

Make sure you are both still having fun...and use all of the lessons you can from dating and marriage. This could be like the business version of "seven year itch".

Have the difficult conversation now before you have "kids".

It looks like a movie I would watch. Though I know it is a metaphor, but sand melts around 1600C. A penny would melt around 425C.

1. Write our own profiling code: Lots of conventional wisdom doesn't stand up to running your own tests.

2. Use XML/XSL for a rendering/template engine: After 10 years, it is the cleanest and largest part of the code base.

Try "Free Memory"... I looked for a solution to this problem a few months ago. My computer runs better if I free the memory every few days. For example, resuming a parallels virtual machine drops from 30 seconds down to 3-4. Note, this is a 4GB Core 2 Duo with SSD.