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I was just surprised to receive an SMS text message "Your Google verification code is xxxxxx". I didn't do a password reset, I don't use 2-step verification, and I can't figure out…

For 50k they take 10% equity, valuing your startup at a tiny 500k, plus you have to leave the country. You give up a lot. Why not just pitch to Dave McClure's 500Startups? You can …

I am a two-spacer too.

Prediction: ScienceLeaks will be taken down within 1 week. The only reason it wouldn't be shut down is if nobody uses it. The copyright holders for academic journals have a huge fi…

Perhaps claims of arsenate-based DNA will go the way of "cold fusion" when some control experiments (as described in the blog post) show the bacteria had phosphate-based DNA after …

I agree with your comment about jurisdictional arbitrage (lovely phrase). Look at Google, Microsoft, and Linkedin using Ireland as a tax haven. Not only do they play arbitrage, the…

Waiter: Here is the wine list. Please let me know if you'd like any help with your wine selection. (later) Have you selected a wine? This common example uses "select" (correctly) w…

A quick look at their pricing suggests 6 cents a page, but a $60 setup fee. For 10 books at 100 pages each, that is effectively 12 cents a page (averaging in the setup fee). Self-p…

super cute!

Can you have a puppy and a startup?

After following your suggestion, I dove into the WordPress index.php and followed the flow for how it routes you to a particular page. I found that I can insert my own PHP code to …

In WordPress, ... in addition to your (blog) "Posts" you can create a "Page". The typical example would be an "About" page. In my case, I created a paged called "app". What is nice…

I tried that, and it gets me part way there, but the internals of the WordPress index.php come into play to prevent this being a solution. 1. WordPress wants the "Page" name to com…

I am seeking a geek with expert knowledge in WordPress 3.0.1 and Apache2 mod_rewrite syntax (.htaccess) to help me get past a roadblock in deploying my web app (with a WordPress fr…

WTF?

Except, if I don't use 400GB of transfer, I still pay $40, right? So then, my CPU+RAM+HD doesn't seem free anymore.

I received email from someone at MoneyBookers. Apparently they can do a Bank Transfer to a US or Canadian bank for a flat fee of 1.80 Euro (about $2.40). Just in case anyone else w…

I have a small online business. Most customers are in North America and pay using PayPal. I have an inquiry from someone in Egypt, where they use Moneybookers and PayPal is not ava…

Has anyone had experience to be able to comment on the pros and cons of: Slicehost or Rackspace?

Where do you host your startup? I am looking for a solution that is cost-effective. I want to keep costs very low to start, but I can pay-as-I-grow for increased resources. Imagine…

I was surprised to see the death rate for swine flu is not much different from the regular seasonal flu (according to the stats given). wow! the avian flu is incredibly lethal, but…

What is your favour free app for offline viewing of HTML and PDF? I am looking for a simple solution to be used for several hundred students, most have an iPod Touch, and some have…

Wow! What a stinging rebuke. ... and well-deserved, it seems. Considering Google's influence and reputation, it's really important the PHP Team took the time and effort to respond …