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Hey guys I'm not up to speed on the latest cloud offerings out there. For very simple side project ideas that are essentially static websites with a search engine component that ne…

It's all who you know? http://sivers.org/xn "Luckily, who you know is up to you, not luck."

Working in the aerospace industry for a number of years, I've seen and created all types of crazy spreadsheets to design aircraft and ensure they are safe to fly. The good thing ab…

In addition to the other reasons here, I think when it comes to lawyers and doctors, people typically want "the best". Are you willing to take a risk with your health or getting in…

You're still way up the pointy end of the business though. You are directly involved in acquiring customers. I think the OP was making the contrast more with people who try and red…

Yeah, should have been more specific. If they result in the company getting more sales done with the available time/resources then they add to revenue. The company could of course …

This is a great point. I've been trying to think of as many things programmers can do that increase revenue as possible. A/B Testing and sales funnel optimization is definitely a w…

"The price is still up 30 percent on the year but far from its 74 percent increase a few months back."

I think Twitter understands that there is a much lower barrier to leaving their service for a competitor, compared to the other social services. What data do you have in Twitter th…

Wish you guys the best of luck! As someone who has worked on and thought about location based gaming like this for a long time but failed to launch I'm really hoping you guys pull …

I always figure that the maintenance guy and probably half the staff know the master code.

[OT] Why is it that I knew he was a fellow Australian the second the video popped up and without volume? The brain is a crazy thing.

I love this concept and hope to do some remote working like this soon. Most important factor though, how good is the wifi? The world needs a website with tropical resorts rated by …

I suspect that the recent addition of automatic referencing counting will help a LOT for iOS apps.

Sure, amongst other things I've written software for use by commercial pilots and nurses. I don't think I'll end up being either of those.

It's a good point but there's a huge field of potential software and opportunity out there that we programmers are not the users of. Who should build it then?

As time goes on The Lean Startup thing is starting to look a lot like the lifecycle Agile went through doesn't it? - A good idea comes along that makes a lot of sense - Starts to g…

I've read a lot of the most well known game design books and its staggering how good this book is. League of its own.

Yeah, glad I read this before upgrading. My large collection of podcasts stored in Instacast will probably be lost straight away.

Yep and all of this because mostly business drives technology not ideological programmers. And on the rare occasion the ideological programmers are in charge, you can't get them to…

Nice! I like it. Couple of thoughts perhaps on how you could better close a sale. It wasn't immediately clear to me what exactly I'd do with this. Would I create a book for myself …

I don't disagree with you but I've seen a number of articles that simply present the fact that the top have increased their % and left it at that as proof of something bad happenin…